Archive for the ‘Song of 1939’ Category
Chali pawan harson
Posted on: July 17, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
July 17th is the death anniversary of Kanan Devi (22/04/1916-17/07/1992). I had written an article for this blog on her last birth anniversary. So I will not go into her profile. She was one of the most beautiful and graceful actors of her time. She brought respectability to female actors. It is said that she was the highest paid film actors of her time and in one film, ‘Chandrashekhar'(1948), she was paid one rupee more than the remuneration paid to her lead actor Ashok Kumar. Sahir Ludhianvi, probably took a hint from her when he started demanding one rupee more than that paid to the music directors.
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Kyun baje hriday veena ke taar
Posted on: July 14, 2012
Today (14 july) is the death anniversary of Leela Chitnis (9 september 1909- 14 july 2003). She was one of the pioneers of Hindi cimema during its early days. She was a well educated lady from a respectable family who entered movie world which was till then considered the preserve of courtesans. Her association with Bombay Talkies, where she forged a popular pair with Ashok Kumar gave us some memorable movies as well as memorable songs.
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During the discussions of a few old songs in this blog, the mention of “Aadmi” (1939) has been made a few times. This movie was a landmark movie in the annals of Hindi as well as Indian cinema.
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Asha sukh ke khel khilaaye
Posted on: August 31, 2011
“Meri Aankhen” (1939) is such an old and obscure movie that there may not be too much information available about this movie on internet. I have not been able to gather any information about this movie. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on this movie.
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As long back as 1939, there was a fun movie called “Brandy Ki Bottle” . In this movie, a man (Master Vinayak) is asked by his boss to bring a bottle of Brandy to cure the illness of his boss’ kid. This man is not aware what is Brandy, and that leads to hilarious scenes throughout the movie.
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The more I learn about “Kangan” (1939), the more I get impressed. This movie must have been quite a sensation in its time.
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“Kangan” (1939) is a movie starring Ashok Kumar, Leela Chitnis,Mubarak, Vasant Desai (who later became a well known music director) etc.
This movie apparently had two music directors who composed a few songs each. They were Ramchandra Pal and Saraswati Devi. In the past, I have discussed one song from this movie which was composed by Ramchandra Pal.
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Radha Radha pyaari Radha
Posted on: July 2, 2011
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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