Archive for the ‘Songs of 1930s (1931 to 1940)’ Category
Aaj hamen ban behad bhaataa
Posted on: July 19, 2010
I became aware of this movie called “Amar Jyoti” (1936) thanks to the review of this movie by Greta (memsaab). When I searched for the songs of this movie, I came across a few songs from this movie. Considering that the sound recording technology was in its infancy and the actors themselves had to record the songs live, the quality of the songs were not particularly great at least in the first two songs of this movie that I came across. But when I heard the third song, I sat up and took notice.
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I have posted a song from “Kapaal Kundalaa” (1939) in the past. Here is another song from the same movie.
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Piyaa milan ko jaanaa
Posted on: June 24, 2010
When I was a kid, I liked new songs and scoffed at old songs, especially the songs that were played in Radio Ceylon’s “Puraani Filmon Ke Geet” between 7-30 AM to 8 AM. I wondered why the old singers could not sing like the new singers. I had no sense of history to realise that there would be no new singers but for the older singers.
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Prem ka naataa chhootaa
Posted on: April 9, 2010
“Nartaki” (1940) is a very old movie, which was released just a few years after the first Hindi Bollywood was produced in early 1930s. The technologies associated with this new medium of entertainment were primitive and were evolving.
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Man darpan hai
Posted on: March 28, 2009
Here is an interesting song from “Dushman” (1939) sung by K L Saigal.
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Teri gathhri mein laaga chor
Posted on: March 22, 2009
I have posted one superb song from “Dhoop Chhaon” (1935) that was sung by K C Dey that went “Baba, man ki aankhel khol”.
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