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A voice, that is as soft and pleasing as cool breeze. And a singing that is most natural, with no efforts for any artificial embellishments to the rendition.  A voice that is not formally trained. And yet, this voice and the persona behind it, have become synonymous with being the first lady of Bangla cinema.

Remembering Kaanan Devi on her remembrance day. She passed away this day (17th July) in 1992.
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“Toote Taare”(1948) was directed by Harish for Omar Khayyam Films, Bombay. The movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Shamim, Kanhaiya Lal, Mridula, Putlibai, Murad, Sudhir, Babu, S Ghosh, Sultan, Sharif, Kanchan Kumar, Anwaribai, Laddan, Agha Dehlavi etc in it.
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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.

‘Shehzaadi’ (1947) is a film about which not much information is available online except that it was produced under the banner of Shalimar Pictures owned by WZ Ahmed and the film belonged to the costume drama genre. I had searched extensively on the internet about the star cast and the director but drew a blank. Earlier, I had even a doubt whether the film was actually released.
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“Garib”(1942) was directed by Ramchandra Thakur for National Studios, Bombay. This movie had Surendra, Rose, Baby Meena, Veena Kumari, Santaka, N A Ansari, Agha, Pesi Patel etc in it.
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“Raat Ki Raani” (1949) was directed by Jagdish Sethi for J S Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Munawwar Sultana, Shyam, Sulochana Chatterji, Madan Puri, Jagdish Sethi, Om Prakash, Chaman Puri etc in it.
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It is an interesting exercise to find out what well known HFM personalities did on their debut.

Based on their achievements, one may well think that people started succeeding right from the beginning of their careers. In most cases, that is hardly the case, though.
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I am quite interested in looking up at songs related statistics in the blog. Seeing that we have notched quite a good number of songs in the blog, we have some good statistics to discuss.
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“Khamosh Sipaahi” (1950) was directed by Ram Kamlani for Mansarowar Pictures under the supervision of D N Madhok. The movie had David Abraham, Sohan, Nigar Sultana, Gope etc in it.
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“Lekh”(1949) was directed by G Rakesh for Liberty Art Productions, Bombay. The movie had Suraiyya, Sitara, Motilal, Ishu Jaagirdaar, Cuckoo, Anand Pal, Suraiyya Chaudhry, Sudhir, Gurudasram, Chamam Puri, Ameena Bai, Rekha, Sarita Veer, Kanwal, Vats, Pittoo, Atma Prakash etc in it.
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“Maang” (1950) was directed by Saghir Usmani for New Light Film production, Bombay. The movie had Zia, Wasti, Mubarak, Ramola, Amar, Pratima, Malhotra, Leela Pande, Basu, Hemlata etc in it. This by now forgotten movie had ten songs in it. Four songs from the movie have been covered in the blog in the past.
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