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6298 Post No. : 19491

“Imtihaan”(1949) was directed by Mohan Sinha for Veena Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Surendra, Madhubala, Gulab, Sajjan, Munshi Khanjar, Rekha, Madan Puri, Y n Joshi, Jugnu, Cuckoo etc n it.

This social movie had ten songs in it that were penned by four lyricists.
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6209 Post No. : 19169

If one looks at professions, we find that different professions have enjoyed popularity during different times. As new inventions were made, new professions came about. The profession of film actors, technicians etc were created when film making started. Singers have been there in the past as well but they typically used to be patronised in royal court. with the invention of gramophone recording, singers’ songs could be recorded and played even at remote locations where the singer would never go. That way this invention revolutionised the spread of music. As Radio was invented, these records could be played on radio stations and the same songs could reach a vast audience who did not need to possess these records themselves. So Radio, along with records, enabled dissemination of music, as well as news etc at a level that was revolutionary in human history.
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6170 Post No. : 19045

Today’s song is from the film Comrades-1939.

The title of the film was highly misleading. The general meaning of the word Comrades is a Communist Party Member. I was surprised how this title was given to a film, that too when the second world war had just begun. But this title was used to indicate the intimacy and friendship of 2 boys and 1 girl from their childhood. This was a Love triangle naturally, when 2 boys and 1 girl are involved.
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6165 Post No. : 19034

Today’s song is from the Mythological film Maya Machhindra-1951.

Made by Super Pictures, it was directed by the owner of the banner, Aspy Irani. The MD was Premnath and the songs were written by Manohar Khanna (father of Music Director Usha Khanna), Neelkanth Tiwari and Ram Murthy. The cast included Surendra, Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Usha kiran, Parshuram, Rajni, Ameerbai, Child artiste Master Vinod (who became a Hero in his adulthood, known as Vinod Mehra) and others.
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6092 Post No. : 18896

Today’s song is from a very old film Comrades-1939.

The title of this film is somewhat misleading. Comrades was the common word used for Communist members. I too was confused with this title, but then I realised that a film on Communist ideology was not possible in British India. The film happens to be a story of three friends, 2 Boys and 1 girl. The film could have been titled Friends or Dosti or some similar title. Wish I was there to make this suggestion to the owners of Sagar Movietone !
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6051 Post No. : 18829

Today’s song is from the film Vishwas-1943, made by the divided Wadia Movietone, Bombay.

Wadia Movietone was a noted Indian film production company and studio based in Mumbai, established in 1933 by Wadia brothers J. B. H. Wadia and Homi Wadia. It was most known for stunt, fantasy and mythological films, including Hunterwali (1935).
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5981 Post No. : 18660

Today’s song is from the film Gramophone Singer-1938.

In the early part of the 20th Century, the means of entertainment for the common man were stage dramas, song mehfils, silent films from 1913 onwards, Radio from around 1923, traditional festivals, folk songs and dances, and in addition the local variations of different arts from door to door etc.
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5937 Post No. : 18562

Today’s song is from a very old film of the first decade of the Talkie films – Village Girl aka Gram Kanya-1936.

There were 3 films with the same title. The first one was made as a Silent film, with Sulochana in the lead opposite Raja Sandow. The film was made by Imperial Film Company, Bombay and it was directed by Mohan Bhavnani. He later married actress Enakshi Rama Rau in 1931. The second film was in 1936, today’s film and the third was made in 1945 with singer and actress Nurjahan. It had excellent songs composed by Music Director Shyam Sunder. It was for this film that Mohd. Rafi recorded his first Hindi song in 1944. He sang in the Chorus and the lead singer was G.M.Durrani. However, when the times changed, Rafi was the lead singer and Durrani in the Chorus for a song in K.Asif’s film Laila Majnu !
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5877 Post No. : 18460

Today’s song is a duet from a very old film-almost 90 year old- Gramophone Singer-1938.

From the 19th century till the beginning years of the 20th Century, the only means of public entertainment was stage dramas and local folk dances pertaining to each demographic region individually. The first gramophone recording took place in India when 2 Nautch Girls- Sashi Mukhi and Feni Bala from Amarendra Dutta’s classical Theatre sang songs in Calcutta on 8-11-1902, Saturday, for a recording.
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5833 Post No. : 18376

Today’s song is from a special film from the early era of the Hindi Talkie films – Mahageet-1937.

In 1645, German Mathematician Ethonius Kircher, during his usual work, accidentally found that unmoving pictures, if seen quickly in a chronicled manner could give the feel of movement. He made a box for this and named it ” Kircher Magic Lamp” aka Kitoscope. This is considered as the birth of the idea of the films. Over a period of 250 years, Edison made his first prototype Kinetoscope in 1891. Its improved version was exhibited on 14-4-1894. However, the French Lumier Brothers made a Cinematograph and it was commercially presented on 28-12-1895. By a strange coincidence, it was done in an ” Indian Salon” in the Grand Cafe Hotel in Paris.
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