Archive for the ‘Song of 1938’ Category
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Who was the first female music director in Hindi film Industry? The answer to this question has changed thrice during the last few years.
It was believed that Saraswati Devi (real name: Khorshed Minocher-Homji) was the first female music director who composed songs for ‘Jawaani Ki Hawa’ (1935), produced under the banner of Bombay Talkies. Subsequently, it was established that Jaddanbai, who composed the songs for ‘Talaash-e-Haq’ (1935) was the first female music director, her film having been released earlier than ‘Jawaani Ki Hawa’. It will be interesting to know as to which of the songs from these two films were recorded first on the respective film’s sound track.
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Kyon toone ki naadaani
Posted on: May 10, 2016
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
THE SECRETARY (1938) was produced under the banner of Ranjit Movietone and it was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The star cast included Madhuri, Trilok Kapoor, Charlie, Kalyani, Begg, Wahidan Bai, Rajkumari etc. The film was based on a story written by Gunvantrai Acharya, one of the most prolific novelists in Gujarati language. By the way, I observe that Gunvantrai Acharya wrote story and screen play for films directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi for Ranjit Movietone like Gorakh Aaya (1938), Musaafir (1940) and Sasural (1941). Both came to Ranjit Movietone after their stints with journalism in Gujarati newspapers. Incidentally, all the three films and the film under discussion had Gyan Dutt as the music director.
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Pyaara phool aankhon ka taara
Posted on: November 5, 2015
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“Street Singer” (1938) was directed by Phani Majumdar for New Theatres. The movie brought together K L Saigal and Kanan Devi together for the first time. This movie had thirteeen songs in it. As many as ten songs from this movie have been covered in the blog.
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The Wonderful Sounds of 1930s – 8
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An absolute gem. A duet song from 1938 about which almost no information is available. Just that the film is ‘Baanke Saanwariya’ and the name of the music director is Damodar Sharma. I even checked the actual 78 rpm record of this song, which is available with my friend. Even the names of the singers is not mentioned.
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Ae ri sajni rain hai beeti jaay
Posted on: April 19, 2015
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One of the 8 films made and released in 1938 from the ‘factory’ of Ranjit Movietone was an obscure movie PROFESSOR WAMAN, M.Sc. (1938). The film, belonging to the genre of crime and mystery, was directed by Manibhai Vyas who made his debut as a director with this film. The star cast included E. Billimoria, Mazhar Khan, Sunita Devi, Beg, Sitara Devi, Rajkumari, Waheedan Bai etc. The film had 8 songs written by P L Santoshi and were set to music by Gyan Dutt. The film was released on 10th December 1938.
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Jal bin kaise bujhegi pyaas
Posted on: November 25, 2014
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“Abhaagin”(1938) was a New Theatres movie. The movie had Vijay Kumar, Molina Devi, Prithwiraj kapoor, Trilok Kapoor, Bikram Kapoor (father of Meena Kapoor the singer), Devbala, Kamala Jharia, Chaman Puri(his Debut film), Menaka (wife of Kamran and sister of Honey Irani and Daisy Irani Shukla) Nemo etc in it.
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“Abhaagin”(1938) was a New Theatres movie. The details of this movie were provided by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhoise encyclopaedia, in the past. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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Aakhir wo din aaya aaj
Posted on: November 12, 2014
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“Dharti Mata”(1938) was directed by Nitin Bose for New Theatres, Calcutta. The movie had K L Saigal, Jagdeesh Sethi, Kamlesh Kumari, Nemo, Nawab, K C Dey, Uma Shashi, Vikram Kapoor, Shaam Laha etc in it.
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