Archive for the ‘Songs of 1930s (1931 to 1940)’ Category
Ab maine jaana hai
Posted on: October 12, 2012
“Amar Jyoti” (1936) was a Prabhat Production. It was directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Chandramohan, Durga Khote, Shanta Apte, Vasanti, Vasant Desai etc in it. This movie was the first Indian movie to be screened at the Venice Film Festival.
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Ye kooch ke waqt kaisee aawaaz
Posted on: October 11, 2012
Two K L Saigal songs from “Kaarwaan e Hayaat” (1935) have been discussed in the past during the memorable days of 2011 when we were discussing one K L Saigal songs every day in this blog.
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When one looks at the yearwise list of songs in this blog. One finds that the oldest songs that we have in this blog are from 1933. Though Hindi talkies began to be produced in 1931 itself but the records of songs of these movies were not produced. It was only in 1932 that the idea of issuing gramophone records for songs was thought about. But as happens with most new ideas, the potential behind this concept was not immediately realised and only a few movie makers opted to have records of songs of their movies issued.
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Surya wahi Chandra wahi
Posted on: October 1, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
When film making started in India, the film makers made films on mythological stories, for the simple reason that In India mythology has a great impact on peoples’ life and anything that is mythological is accepted unconditionally.
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Jaao sidhaaro fateh paao
Posted on: September 30, 2012
Today (30 september) is the birth anniversary of Pt Feroz Dastoor (30 september 1919 – 9 may 2008). Very little information is available about him today but I came across a very informative article on him here.
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Jeet jyot tez chamak raha hai
Posted on: September 22, 2012
Today (22 september) is the death anniversary of Durga Khote (14 january 1905 -22 september 1991). Many younger day movie watchers may associate her with mother and grandmother roles, but she was one of the earliest leading lady of Hindi movies and one of those who paved the entry of women from respectable background to Hindi movies.
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Ham to albele mazdoor
Posted on: September 15, 2012
“Bandhan”(1940) was a Bombay Talkies production. It had Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis in lead roles in this movie.
As many as four songs from this movie have been discussed in the past.
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Hari basey sakal sansaara
Posted on: September 12, 2012
“Achhoot Kanya” (1936) was a Bombay Talkies Production. It was produced by Himanshu Rai and directed by Franz Osten. The movie had Ashok Kumar and Devika Rani in lead roles.
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Udi hawaa mein jaati hai
Posted on: September 11, 2012
“Achhoot Kanya” (1936) was made at an era far far removed from the present day. It was produced by Bombay Talkies. Its producer was Himanshu Rai and it was directed by a German director called Franz Osten. It was a case of an indophile German directing a Hindi movie on a sensitive topic like untouchability and doing a great job. And those were the days when India was under British occupation too. And Ashok Kumar, a lab assistant with Bombay Talkies found himself being made the hero of the movie when the heroine Devika Rani eloped with the original hero, only to come back subsequently. And she was the wife of Himanshu Rai ! And the music director of this movie, a Parsi lady faced stiff resistance from members of her community who were against her decision of joining the film line as a music director.
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