Archive for the ‘Songs of 1930s (1931 to 1940)’ Category
Saajan sun sapne kee baat
Posted on: June 8, 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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6169 | Post No. : | 19043 |
Today’s song is from an 88 year old film- Premveer-1937. It was made by Huns Pictures, Kolhapur by the owner, producer and the director of this film – Master Vinayak.
It was just 6 years ago that India had entered the Talkie film era, with Alam Ara-1931. Initially films were based on Mythology, folk stories and historical figures. Soon the talented filmmakers like V.Shantaram, Master Vinayak, Baburao Painter, Sohrab Modi, Himanshu Rai, B.C.Sircar, S.S.Vasan and others realised that the Talkie films have to be handled differently that the Silent films. Being a novelty, the moving pictures or the Silent films were in a sellers’ market – which meant that whatever was produced was sold. But now that the films had started talking, story content, music, acting, direction and the themes needed to be accepted by the audience. This meant that new filmmakers were in Buyers’ market and they needed to make what had a demand from the audience.
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Meree mehandee rang le aayee
Posted on: May 8, 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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6138 | Post No. : | 18973 |
Today’s song is from an 85 year old film, Ghar ki Rani-1940.
The film Ghar ki Rani-1940 was made by Huns Pictures of master Vinayak. It was directed by him. This was a Bi-lingual film, made in Marathi as Ardhangi( अर्धांगी ) or Better half and in Hindi. The cast was Leela Chitnis, Vinayak, Meenakshi, Kusum Deshpande, Baburao Pendharkar, Damuanna Malvankar, Dada Salvi etc. The music was by Dada Chandekar.
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Uss Har ko man bhool na jaanaa
Posted on: March 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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6100 | Post No. : | 18909 |
Today’s song is from the film Sunehra Sansar-1936.
The film was made by the East India Film Company, Calcutta. It was directed by Debaki Bose. Music was by K.C.Dey. The Lyricist was Vijay Kumar, B.A. , who was also the Hero of this film. The cast included Vijay Kumar, Ram Pyari, Menaka Devi ( making her Debut in a Calcutta film as an actress and a singer), Gul Hamid, Kamla Jharia, Mazhar Khan, Azurie, K.N.Singh (Debut in films) and others.
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Maalaniyaa ban aaun ban mein
Posted on: March 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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6099 | Post No. : | 18907 |
भारतीय नववर्ष की शुभ कामनायें l
Today’s song is from the film Rikshawala-1938.
The film was made by Ranjit Film company, Bombay and it was directed by Ezra Mir, Music was by Gyan Dutt for the lyrics by P.L.Santoshi. The cast of the film included Mazhar Khan, Ila Devi, Charlie, Wasti, Waheedan Bai, Dixit and Ghory, Indubala, Tarabai etc.
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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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6098 | Post No. : | 18905 |
Today’s song is from the film Maaya-1936.
The film was made by New Theatres, Calcutta, which was a leading filmmaking studio in India. The film was directed by P.C.Barua. The lyricist was Asghar Hussain Shor and the music directors were R.C.Boral and Pankaj Mullick. There were only 6 songs in this film, whereas the average number of songs in the period 1931 to 1940 was 9 songs/film. A total of 931 films were made in this decade, with an average of 9.3 films/yr. Total 8247 songs were in these films. Incidentally the lowest average of songs was 4.6 songs/film in the period 2011-2020 ( as per the statistics provided by Shri Girdharilal Vishwakarma ji in RMIM in January 2022.) I find that the number of songs in Hindi films made in Bengal were less compared to films made at other centres. This was apart from melody and popularity resting with Calcutta made films, on an All India Basis for the same period.
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Pyaare Mohan aao
Posted on: March 26, 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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6095 | Post No. : | 18901 |
Today’s song is from a very old film- Dharmveer-1937.
The producer and director was Master Vinayak, who was the owner of the banner, Huns Pictures- Bombay which had made this film. The music was by Annasaheb Mainkar and for this film, his assistant was the old time composer- B.S.Hoogan aka Balwant Singh Hoogan. The cast of the film was Baburao Pendharkar, Master Vinayak, Ratnaprabha, Jawadekar, Bhaurao Datar, Indira Wadkar and others. It had story, dialogues and screenplay by the famous Marathi writer-P.K.Atre aka Acharya Atre aka Pralhad Keshav Atre. This film was the beginning of an effective partnership in making comedy films by Huns Pictures.
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Aan basey pardes sajan hum
Posted on: March 23, 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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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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Meree sejon ka mehmaan naadaan
Posted on: February 27, 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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6068 | Post No. : | 18855 |
Today’s song is from the film Ladies Only-1939.
The year was 1939 and the British Government had declared war against Germany and Japan, as soon as the WW II began. All countries ruled by Britain were – willingly or unwillingly, drawn into the war efforts and its effects. The war began in the month of September and soon various restrictions came into operation – like rationing, blackouts, shortages etc. The film industry which was still under its development stage suffered. It also realised the importance of remaining united as one industry. However, all that came after 1 or 2 years. In 1939 there was not much effect seen on the film industry.
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