Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

Archive for the ‘Songs of 1930s (1931 to 1940)’ Category


We have been discussing one K L Saigal song a day in this blog for the last 40 odd days and now we have notched up a healthy number of K L Saigal songs ( 71) in this blog. K L Saigal sang around 104 Hindi movie songs and another 30 odd non movie songs in this language. We will cover all the K L Saigal songs that are available.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The poetry rendered to life by Saigal saab, is limited and yet infinite. By all accounts, the total recordings available of the songs and ghazals sung by him is less than 200. And yet, the presence of these countable offerings is infinite in themselves. Every time I pick up a recording to listen, it sounds new, fresh, and with new meanings and inflections. Such is the depth and range of this divine voice, that it is impossible to fathom it fully, no matter how many times one listens.
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In the series of K L Saigal songs that we have undertaken in this blog, here is another remarkable song. This song is from K L Saigal’s earliest movie, viz “Pooran Bhagat” (1933).As many as four songs from this movie have been discussed, including three K L Saigal songs, and all of them are immortal songs. And this song is no different.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim “Zauq” is considered as a leading light amongst the Urdu poets across all ages in the subcontinent. Born in 1789, he was the son of a lowly placed soldier in the Mughal Army. He was educated in the ‘maktab’ (elementary religious school) under the tutelage of Hafiz Ghulam Rasool. Hafiz saab was a poet himself, and used to write ghazals under the pen name of ‘shauk’. Under this influence, Muhammad Ibrahim got addicted to poetry, and himself started to write under the pen name of ‘Zauq’.
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I have discussed songs from a 1959 movie called “Kangan”. It turns out that there was another movie of the same name that was released exactly two decades before this movie. This older movie, viz “Kangan” (1939) had Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis in lead roles.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

A ghazal that epitomizes in parts the sufi philosophy of life, this probably is the only poetry of the famous poet Seemaab Akbarabadi that has been rendered by Saigal saab. This is a non filmi offering, and like all other songs / ghazals sung by him, this one too is steeped in a profound philosophy. The ghazal expounds the nature of life and its interpretation by the poet. The poet alludes to the ephemeral quality of what life is, and advances the thesis of detachment from this world.
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