Archive for the ‘Wedding song’ Category
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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6330 | Post No. : | 19604 |
Today’s song is from the film Bhakta Dhruva-1947.
It was a film by Prakash Pictures, which had become famous for religious films, after their blockbuster film Ram Rajya-1943. The film Bhakta Dhruva-1947 was directed by Shanti Kumar and the music was by the veteran Shankar Rao Vyas, who tuned the lyrics by Pt. Indra and Moti, B.A. ( he was actually M.A.).
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Chaar dinon kee athhkheliyaan
Posted on: November 1, 2025
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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6315 | Post No. : | 19553 |
Today’s song is from the film Aahuti-1950.
This unknown film was made by Sansar Movietone, Bombay. Produced by L.Shankar, it was directed by Kulbhushan. The story, screenplay and the dialogues were by a team of H.C.Jaiswal, G.Saran and L.Shankar. The music for the 12 songs of the film was given by D.C.Dutt. There is not much information available about D.C.Dutta, not even what the initials D.C. stand for.
All of us know that Lata Mangeshkar had to struggle very hard in her initial attempts to get into Playback singing in Hindi films. In her early struggle, 3 Duttas helped her. The first was of course Datta Davjekar who gave her the first opportunity to sing a Playback song for his film Aapki sewa mein-1947. The second was K.Datta or Datta Korgaonkar, who, after his favourite singer Noorjehan left India, took Lata under his wings and gave her songs. The third Dutta was this-D.C.Dutt. No information is available about him whatsoever, except what is printed in HFGK and its duplication in Pankaj Raag’s book “Dhunon ki Yatra”. Thanks to this, we know that his debut was through the film Sona Chandi-1946. Out of 12 songs of the film, only two were his and one of them was by Lata Mangeshkar.
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Main Punjabi Hindustani
Posted on: August 30, 2025
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6252 | Post No. : | 19337 | Movie Count : |
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‘Baat Ban Jaaye’ (1986) was produced by Anil Hanspal and Nitin Manmohan which was directed by Bharat Rungachary. The cast included Sanjeev Kumar, Zeenat Aman, Utpal Dutt, Mithun Chakraborty, Raj Babbar, Amol Palekar, Aruna Irani, Jalal Agha, Shakti Kapoor, Adi Irani, Imtiaz Khan, Jagdeep, Prema Narayan, Viju Khote etc. The film belongs to the family comedy genre. It was the first film for Nitin Manmohan (son of actor, Manmohan) as a producer and second film as a director for Bharat Rungachary. Sanjeev Kumar passed away before the release of the film. However, he had completed all his work for the film.
The credit title of the film did not mention the names of the actors. Probably director felt that that since each actor in the film had his share of comedy, to present the film as a collective efforts of the entire cast in creating a family comedy film rather than showcasing the individual actors by mentioning their names. Incidentally, Sanjeev Kumar, Amol Palekar, Raj Babbar and Mithun Chakraborty were in the role of the prospective bridegrooms for the wealthy businesswoman, Zeenat Aman in the film.
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6245 | Post No. : | 19315 | Movie Count : |
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‘Rachna’ (1983) was produced by Girdhar Bhatia and Pravin Paul and was directed by Satish who also wrote story and screenplay. The cast included Anil Kapoor and Beena in lead roles supported by Deepak Shankar (debutant), Pravin Paul, Nazir Hussain, Shivraj, Birbal, Lalita Kumari, Indira Bansal, Tabassum, Gufi Paintal, Savita Bajaj with the friendly appearances of Iftekhar, Chandrashekhar, Shammi, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee and Jagdeep. It was Anil Kapoor’s first released film in a lead role though he had signed first for a lead role in ‘Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya’ (1986) which had a delayed release. This was the only lead role Beena had performed in her entire Hindi film career. Incidentally, in ‘Lovers’ (1983) which was released in the same year, Beena had played the role of the mother to Kumar Gaurav.
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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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6245 | Post No. : | 19313 |
Today’s song is from the ” Kam sune – Unsune ” film Pensioner-1954.
When you say that ‘Colgate is No. 1 Toothpaste’, it does not mean that everyone in India uses Colgate. It only means that the majority of people use Colgate and hence it is called No. 1 toothpaste. The decade of the 1950s was known as’ The Golden Era of Film Music’. It did not mean that there were no films with mediocre or poor music. It only means maximum films had wonderful music. In this decade there were few – only few – films whose music was not famous, for whatever reasons. Today’s film was one such film.
In the war period from 1939 to 1945, the British Government in India had coaxed the filmmakers to make films which would help the war efforts. These were called ‘ Propaganda Films’ and the Government gave special subsidies and other concessions ( like extra quota of Raw Film at control rates) to the producer. During the 1950s the Indian Government wanted to boost the ‘Small Savings’ habit among the citizens. Some films were made upholding this scheme. Today’s film Pensioner-1954 was one such film.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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6237 | Post No. : | 19283 |
उर्मिले त्रिवार वंदन तुला (Urmile trivaar vandan tulaa) is a Marathi non-film bhajan rendered by Ram Phatak which I used to listen on the radio in my younger days. The meaning of the first line is ‘hey Urmila, my thrice salute to you’. The salutation by the poet is because she was an unsung character in Ramayan. She was the wife of Lakshman and younger sister of Seeta. When Ram was exiled along with Seeta for 14 years, Lakshaman decided to accompany Ram and Seeta to protect them during the exile. Urmila also wanted to join Lakshman. But she was asked by Lakshman to stay back and take care of his aged parents in Ayodhya during their absence. During those 14 years, Urmila is said to have slept continuously so that Lakshman can remain awake to protect Ram and Seeta.
I had forgotten about this Marathi song for a long time. While I was researching on Khayyam for writing a tributary article on the occasion of his 6thth Remembrance Day on August 19, 2025, I realised that his wife, Jagjit Kaur was the ‘Urmila’ in his life who sacrificed her aristocratic life to marry a struggling music director. While the selflessness of Urmila cannot be strictly comparable as Jagjit Kaur and her husband Khayyam spent their life together. But, apart from her aristocratic comfort, she sacrificed her playback singing career after her marriage with Khayyam sometime in 1954 in her own volition as she had said in her interviews. She did not seek playback singing assignments either from her husband or from others. Instead, she decided to assist her husband in whatever manner – either professionally or on the domestic front. She had said in an interview as late as 2019 that she recorded the song under Khayyam only because the scheduled playback singers did not turn up for recording the songs or the producers/directors of the films suggested her name for the songs.
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Do dilon mein hamesha mohabbat rahe
Posted on: July 28, 2025
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6219 | Post No. : | 19218 |
“Achcha Bura”(1972) was directed by Mohammad Hussain for Upkar Productions, Bombay. This “social” movie had Anupama, Dev Dutt, Dev Kumar, N A Ansari, Neelam, Sushma, Tuntun, Meena T, Mohan Choti, Praveen Pal, Sham Kumar, Polson, Shefali, V Gopal, P S Khan, Shammo, Ridku, Baby Yasmeen, Asit Sen, Bela Bose, Madhumati, Rajni etc in it.
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Mere dil ko pakad lo haaye
Posted on: June 9, 2025
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6170 | Post No. : | 19048 |
Hullo Atuldom
Wishing our in-house Encyclopedia, whom I love to address as GURUJI, otherwise called Shri. Arunkumar Deshmukh a very Happy BirthdayEmojiEmoji. May he continue to enlighten us with his painstakingly researched knowledge about all things connected with Indian Films as a WHOLE. He loves South Indian films as well as Made-In-South films possibly because of having been in Hyderabad in his formative years.
May his zeal to write posts never dim. Posts, that have a definite content, form and buildup leading to the featured film, artists and songs contained in the film. Posts that are not necessarily about the golden oldies or the middle generation films. I like what he says, “it is not necessary that only old songs are melodious, there are good songs in the later decades too”.
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Mera maikaa ho ya sasuraal
Posted on: February 13, 2025
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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6054 | Post No. : | 18834 |
Today’s song is from the first film of Nargis as a Hindi film heroine – Taqdeer-1943.
The film was made by Mehboob Khan for his banner, Mehboob productions, Bombay.
In the history of Hindi Cinema, Mehboob Khan’s name would be written prominently as one of the great directors, who rose from scratch to a height attained by few other directors. Mehboob Khan directed 8 films for Sagar, 3 films for National and 11 films for Mehboob productions.
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