Archive for the ‘Songs of 1930s (1931 to 1940)’ Category
Haan qaidi
Posted on: November 1, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This write up contains hard to find details on this obscure movie. This is the 400th obscure movie whose details have been provided by him in this blog.
I was very fond of seeing movies and listening to the songs since childhood. Those days, children were not allowed to see films, unlike today (only the other day I saw my neighbour taking his family of wife and 2 sons aged 10 and 14 to see the film “The Dirty picture”. I became sqeamish, but these are current trends). If at all a film was to be seen, the children had to go with their mother, aunt, grandmother or some such female relative and the film would invariably be “Ram Ravan Yudh” or “Bakasur ki Maut”.
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Kaahe akela dolat baadal
Posted on: October 26, 2012
In olden days, professions like “Gramophone Singer”, “Station Master”, “Taxi Driver”,”Trolly Driver” etc were quite coveted ones. We in fact have Hindi movies with such titles. So far we have discussed songs from “Station Master” (1942), “Taxi Driver” (1954) and “Trolly Driver” (1958) in the blog. Here is a song from “Gramophone Singer” (1938).
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“Deccan Queen”(1936) was not a movie about a train, but about a mysterious lady. This suspense movie was directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Surendra, Aruna Devi, Ramchandra, Pande, Pesi Patel, Bhudo Advani etc.
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Ahankaar kar ke
Posted on: October 23, 2012
“Madhuri” (1932), which was released just one year after “Alam Ara” (1931), the first Hindi movie ever, has the distinction of becoming the first movie to release records of its songs.
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Parmukh bani tu Kamla
Posted on: October 20, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
MUSIC is an inseparable part of Indian culture.
From the Vedic periods, music has been in use. Many Mantras and Richas are to be recited in musical notes. It was believed that sound waves have special powers.
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The tale of Tarzan was used in Hindi movies beginning from 1937. The original Hindi Tarzan movie was called “Toofaani Tarzan” (1937). This movie was a Wadia Movietone production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had John Cawas in the title role. The starcast of the movie had John Cawas, Gulshan, Boman Shroff, Chandrashekhar, Nazira, Dalpat, Ahmed Dilwar etc. A wonderful review of this movie is available in Memsaab’s blog.
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“Vidyapati” (1937) was directed by Debaki Bose. This movie had Pahadi Sanyal in the title role with Kanan Devi acting opposite him. This movie also had Prithviraj Kapoor, Chhaya Devi, K C Dey, Kidar Sharma and Leela Desai.
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Bhooli huyi yaad aayee kahaani
Posted on: October 15, 2012
While most Hindi movies of the early days used stories from Indian mythological tales, there were a few movie makers who looked westward into Arabian/ Persian tales. Then there were a few who looked even further into tales of Western world and used them.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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