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5927 Post No. : 18543

Today’s song (in two parts) is from the ‘C’ grade costume film – Al Hilal-1958 aka Judgement of Allah.

My first encounter with the film Al Hilal was when I read that this was the first film in 1935, which was directed by Mehboob Khan. This film had an interesting history too. Mehboob Khan started his acting career with the Imperial Film Company, as an extra. Ardeshir irani was impressed with this young man’s earnestness in work and thought of making a hero in one of his Silent films. At the last minute E. Billimoria was taken as that film’s Hero and Mehboob Khan lost his first chance. When Irani thought of making a Talkie film Alam Ara, he again decided to make Mehboob as its Hero. His costumes were also stitched with his measurements and Mehboob Khan was excited. However, as advised by some experts,an existing popular Hero Master Vithal was taken as its hero and Mehboob lost his second chance. Third time it was decided to make him the hero opposite Sabita Devi for the film Shehar ka Jaadu, but luck played a ball again and a New entrant Motilal was given that role.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5900 Post No. : 18497

Today’s song is from the film Paak Daman-1957.

This was a Muslim social film.

I have already written at length about Muslim Social films made in India since 1931 in my last post on a song from film Ismat-1944. But that was all for such films before Independence.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5898 Post No. : 18494

Today’s song is a qawwali from the film Bade Bhaiya-1951.

The film was made by Super Pictures. produced and directed by the Banner owner- Aspy Irani, who was the husband of actress Husn Banu, daughter of yesteryear actress Shareefa. Aspy Irani was Aspindiar Hormusji Irani, an expert famous for handling Action films and C grade movies. From 1936 to 1986 he directed 55 films. Some of his known films were Johnny Walker’s Naya Paisa, Qaidi No. 911, Shabnam, Baadal etc. One day he left his home for work on 23-11-1986 and simply disappeared into thin air ! Rigorous searching by the Bombay Police did not succeed and he was declared a “missing person” forever !
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5874 Post No. : 18448

“Grihasthhi”(1948) was directed by S M Yousuf for Aaina Pictures, Bombay. This “social” movie had Sulochana Chatterjee, Kuldeep, Yakub, Pran, Masood, Mirza Musharraf, Mehrunissa, Rekha, Rajni, Chamcha, Abu Bakar, Bhaga Bai, Lalita Pawar, Pandit Kaul etc in it.
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5870 Post No. : 18442

Today’s song is from the film Ek tha Raja-1951. The film was made by Jupiter Pictures, Madras and it was directed by K.Ramanathan. The Music was by C.R Subbaraman. The cast was M.G.Ramachandran, Anjali Devi, Madhuri Devi, Pandhari Bai and many other Tamil artistes. It was a Dubbed film, from the original film ” Marmayogi’-1951.
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5868 Post No. : 18440

“Grihasthhi”(1948) was directed by S M Yousuf for Aaina Pictures, Bombay. This “social” movie had Sulochana Chatterjee, Kuldeep, Yakub, Pran, Masood, Mirza Musharraf, Mehrunissa, Rekha, Rajni, Chamcha, Abu Bakar, Bhaga Bai, Lalita Pawar, Pandit Kaul etc in it.
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5859 Post No. : 18421

Today’s song is from the film Taqdeer-1943.

I have been seeing films and listening to film songs from quite an early age. That is such an age that your experience is less and opinions are firm. From the beginning, I liked songs by Shamshad Begum and Kishore kumar. As far as Shamshad was concerned her peak period of songs was 1947 to 1955. Maybe I heard her best songs and that too composed by the top class composers like C.Ramchandra and Naushad. Kishore kumar, of course, was shining from 1952 to 1960. I believe firmly that his best songs were in this period. Many people may not agree to this, but then age makes a lot of difference in likes and dislikes.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5857 Post No. : 18412

Today’s song is from the film ‘Ghar ki Izzat'(1948).

India got Independence in 1947 and there was a huge exchange of people between India and the newly created religion based Pakistan. This affected the film industry in India extensively as the majority of Muslim artistes from all the departments of film making lined up for migration. As soon as the final announcement of Partition was made and the date of Independence was announced, the film industry worked extra time to finish the projects on hand before the migration, causing damage to the quality of films made in 1947 in the latter half. Though this resulted in creating a record number of films made in 1947 (181 in Hindi and 100 in other languages), most films could get a release only in 1948.
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5797 Post No. : 18331

“Pandit Jee”(1946) was directed by G R Durrani for Rukhsana Pictures, Bombay. This movie had Surekha, Agha Jaan, Suraiyya Zulfi, Ghulam Rasool, Alaknanda, Maya Devi, Mumtaz Begam, Sadiq, Nawaz, Ansari etc in it.
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5761 Post No. : 18286

Today’s song is from a well known film of 1952-Bewafa.

The film was not famous for its story, but because two big stars – Raj Kapoor and Ashok Kumar – were acting together in it. Raj Kapoor was young and only three years old in films, with 20 films, whereas Ashok Kumar was a senior actor with 16 years’ experience and 41 films under his belt. Raj was already shining as an actor and a Director Of 3 successful films. Ashok Kumar had done a variety of films and even now, at the age of 41 years, he was still in much demand as a Hero.
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