Archive for the ‘Song of 1939’ Category
Preet mein hai jeewan jokhan
Posted on: May 17, 2011
“Dushman” (1939) is a movie that had K L Saigal, Kamlesh Kumari, Nawab, Najmul, Prithviraj Kapoor, Nimmo, Devbala, Leela Das etc.
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Loot liyo mandheer
Posted on: February 23, 2011
A few hours ago, I came across a lovely song from a very old movie. Here is this song, which is sung by Kanan Devi, and I guess that this song is picturised on her as well. Aarzoo Lucknowi is the lyricist and music is composed by R C Boral.
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Very little is known Hindi movie songs from the earlier days, viz 1930s and 1940s. Those were the days when actors themselves sang for themselves. Sound reecording technology was in its infancy and producing decent quality records was a technological challenge. The fact that films and records quickly degraded meant that preservation of these items was a Herculean task as well.
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Geet suno wo geet sainyya
Posted on: December 22, 2010
“Pukaar” (1939) made by Sohrab Modi is regarded as a landmark movie in the history of Hindi movies. I as a pre teen kid was never impreessed by such talk of old movies being landmak movies. I never watched this movie nor bothered to listen to its songs. And now, this movie as well as its songs have become too rare to find.
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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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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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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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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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