Archive for the ‘Songs of 1930s (1931 to 1940)’ Category
Baba man ki aankhen khol
Posted on: March 21, 2009
“Dhoop Chaaon” (1935) was a milestone movie for Bollywood. It was the first movie where playback singing was used, though it was not the same as playback singing as it is known today. It then only meant that the actor could concentrate on acting during picturisation and he would get the song recorded earlier or later. The actor himself/ herself needed to sing of course.
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Main ban ki chidiya
Posted on: March 21, 2009
Even those who do not think much of old songs may have heard of this song or at least this movie. This movie called “Achhut Kanya” (untouchable girl) produced in 1936 was obviously made on a topic that was too far ahead of its time and the makers of this movie did a great social service by making a movie on this topic. It was the first out of only two movie that Mahatma Gandhi is reported to have seen, the other movie being “Ram Rajya”.
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Chane Jor Garam Babu
Posted on: March 13, 2009
This song is as much as 70 years old, and I am listening to this song for the first time just now.
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Pyaari pyaari sooraton
Posted on: March 13, 2009
It is unbelievable, but this song is from a movie 70 years old. Yes, “Dushman” (1939) was released 70 years ago. How time fhas flown. It seems just a few days ago ( but was actually 40 years ago) when I used to scoff at such songs though such songs were just 30 years old at that time.
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Ek Raaje ka beta
Posted on: March 12, 2009
Here is a poignant K L Saigal song from “President” (1937).
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Jeewan been madhur na baaje
Posted on: March 6, 2009
Here is a K L Saigal song from the 1938 movie called “Street Singer”. It is not the most popular song from this movie, but still this song is a nice song to listen to.
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Prem nagar mein basaaungi ghar main
Posted on: March 1, 2009
In my series of K L Saigal, here is another song. This is one of the ealiest song (1934) for a movie called “Chandidas”.
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Karoon kyaa aas niraas bhai
Posted on: February 23, 2009
Here is another evergreen K L Saigal classic. This song is from a 1939 movie called “Dushman”. When I first heard the Radio Ceylon announcement that the song was from “Dushman” , I half expected a song from Rajesh Khanna’s “Dushman” (1971) and was mightily disappointed.
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Duniya rang rangeeli baba
Posted on: February 21, 2009
In the series of K L Saigal songs that I am posting everyday, today I post a song sung by three singers.
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