Archive for the ‘Songs of 1930s (1931 to 1940)’ Category
Ae ho dhoye Mahobe ghaat
Posted on: September 30, 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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6283 | Post No. : | 19445 |
Today’s song is from the film Pukar-1939.
The film was made by Minerva Movietone, Bombay. It was directed by the owner of the banner, Sohrab Modi himself. The lyricist was Syed Amir Hyder Kamaal Amrohi or simply Kamaal Amrohi, who became famous as a producer, director and a poet in later years. One of the points of his fame was that he had married Meena kumari. His surname was actually Naqvi which he never used and opted for highlighting his home town Amroha. he was also a screenplay writer, a Dialogue and storywriter. His famous films were Mahal-1949 and Pakeezah-1972. Meena Kumari- his 3rd wife died soon after the film Pakeezah was made. They had already separated in 1964 after 12 years of married life.
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Jab se laage morey nainaa
Posted on: September 21, 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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6274 | Post No. : | 19416 |
Today’s song is from a very old film, His Highness-1937.
The film was made by Prakash Pictures, Bombay, who were intomaking B and C grade stunt and costume films, till they made Mythological films, starting with ” Bharat Milap”-1942 and their luck changed. This film, based on a Ramayana story became a Hit and Prakash Pictures found a Gold Mine !. They made another film on Ramayana – Ram-Rajya-1943 and this became a blockbuster, breaking many records all over India. The pair of Prem Adib as Ram and Shobhana Samarth as Seeta became All India famous and Prakash changed their production stance. They started making social and religious films which made them a successful film company.
The film His Highness-1937 was a Costume film. It had nothing new in the story except that along with the human star cast it also used animals like Dogs (Tiger and Tommy) and a Horse (Bahadur), which made some difference. Hitherto only the Wadia Movietone had used different types of animals in their stunt films. The film was directed by Balwant Bhatt. He was the elder brother of director Nanabhai Bhatt.
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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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6273 | Post No. : | 19413 |
Today’s song is from an 88 year old film- Duniya Na Mane-1937.
The film was made by the Prabhat Film Company, Poona. It was directed by a 36 year old ambitious and capable actor/director V.Shantaram. Music was provided by a veteran of prabhat-Keshav Rao Bhole, for songs written by Munshi Aziz. The cast included Shanta Apte, Keshav Rao Datey, Shakuntala Paranjpye (mother of Sayee Paranjpye, director), Raja Nene, Gauri, Vasanti, Vimla Vashishtha, Master Chhotu, Parshuram and others.
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Badlee oat chhip chhip jaaye
Posted on: September 10, 2025
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6263 | Post No. : | 19382 |
Today’s song is from a film from the early era of the first decade of the Talkie films – Postman aka Abhilasha-1938. First of all, let us take a look at what was happening in 1938, in the Hindi film industry….
1938 was an interesting year in the early life of the Talkie films. The film making studios had firm footing with a studio system and they tried a variety of subjects in their films. In the 88 Hindi films produced in 1938, one finds almost every Genre of film subjects, except perhaps the usual Folk stories and Historical themes. Comedy, Tragedy, Fiction, Jungle stories, Costume, Socials, Musicals, Mythologicals, you name it and you had it. Content and technical expertise had improved as films on famous novels were made.
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Tadpat hai man haay haay
Posted on: September 9, 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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6262 | Post No. : | 19378 |
Today’s song is from a very old film- 87 year old- Baaghbaan-1938.
The film was directed by A.R.Kardar, for whom it was his first film as a director, in Bombay. The film had music by Mushtaq Hussain, who had an assistant called Naushad Ali from Lucknow. In the later years Naushad became a successful and very famous composer. Baaghbaan-38 had music by Mushtaq Hussain, who was considered an Ustaad in Classical Music in those days. Naushad, who became a well known Music Director later was assistant to Mushtaq Hussain in Baaghbaan and Industrial India-1938. Hussain started with Aurat ka pyar-1933 and went on to give music to films like, Step Mother, Balaa ki Raat, Zalzalaa, Bhedi trishul, Baaghbaan, Industrial India, Pati patni, Kkanyadaan etc, a total of about 30 films. His last film as Music Director was Bombay-1949. Hussain’s forte was Semi-classical songs, Thumaris and ghazals.
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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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6257 | Post No. : | 19354 |
Today’s song is from a comedy film- Aap ki Marzi-1939.
This was a film from Sudama Productions, Bombay. It was directed by Sarvottam Badami, well known in those times, for comedy film The music was by the veteran Gyan Dutt and the cast included Sabita Devi, Motilal, Vasanti, Mazhar, Khurshid, Sunalini Devi, K.N.Singh, Jagdish Sethi and others. This comedy film was based on the popular Hollywood film “Paradise for 3 “-1938.
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Koi naheen hai gair baaba
Posted on: September 2, 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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6255 | Post No. : | 19345 |
Today’s song is from a Costume film- Jai Bharat-1936.
It was a Wadia Movietone film. It was produced by JBH Wadia and directed by his brother, Homi Wadia who also wrote the story and screenplay. The dialogues were written by Munshi Sarfarash. Music was by Master Mohammed, who also acted in this film. There were just 6 songs in this film, much less compared to the average of 9 songs per film for the period 1931 to 1940. 5 songs were written by Pt. Gyan Chander and today’s song was by Azeem. Gyan Chander mostly wrote for Wadia films. From 1936 to 1940, he wrote about 30 songs in 15 films.
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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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6254 | Post No. : | 19342 |
Today’s song is from a film which is almost 90 years old – Chhaaya-1936.
This was the first Marathi/Hindi bilingual film made by Huns Pictures, Bombay – a banner owned by master Vinayak along with 2 others. The other partners were Baburao Pendharkar (actor/director) and Pandurang Naik (ace Cinematographer). The film was directed by Master Vinayak. Music was by Dhamman Khan. The film story, dialogues were translated by Pt. Indra, who also acted in this film. He wrote all the 14 songs of the Hindi version.
This was the period of tragic films by Saigal. His famous film Devdas, based on a story by Sharat Babu, became famous and popular all over the Indian subcontinent. This led to a trend in other languages to make tragedy films, in which the Hero dies. In the original Bangla language film, P.C.Barua had acted as Devdas. K.L.Saigal acted in its Hindi and Tamil version, singing 2 songs in the Tamil version. Barua directed the Bangla, Hindi and Assamese versions.
Film Chhaya-1936 was also based on this pattern, where the hero dies. Initially it was thought that such tragic films would not succeed, but film Chhaya became a Hit film. It won accolades from the public and the critics equally. It won many awards too. The cast of the film was Vinayak, Leela Chitnis, Ratnaprabha, Baburao Pendharkar, Indira Wadkar, Pt, Indra, Anant Marathe etc.
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Aisa baagh lagaaya
Posted on: August 31, 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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6253 | Post No. : | 19339 |
Today’s song is from a film of the first decade of Talkie films in India – Moti ka Haar aka Pearl Necklace-1937.
The year 1937 was a year of Revolution for the newly started Talkie Film. Initially the films were mainly based on Folk tales, Parsi dramas and Mythological stories. 1937 was a year in which the Film industry was trying to drop its old skin and don a New Avtar. From this year, a variety of subjects were used to make films. If we briefly look at some path breaking, landmark films using Novel themes, we will understand how the film industry was attempting to change itself.
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