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The history of Lahore film industry is as old as the era of silent films. When talkies started getting produced from early 1930s, the Lahore film industry seems to have lost the race to Bombay (Mumbai) and Calcutta (Kolkata) in producing Hindi/Urdu films. Many film artists based in Lahore started migrating to Calcutta and Bombay looking for greener pastures. But the decade of 1940s saw two prominent Lahore based film productions companies holding their own against the big production houses of Bombay and Calcutta viz. Bombay based Ranjit Movietone and Bombay Talkies and Calcutta based New Theatres. They were Pancholi Art Pictures of Dalsukh Pancholi and Shorey Pictures of Roop K Shorey.
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“Kaise Kahoon”(1945) was directed by Moti B Gidwani for Pancholi Art Pictures, Lahore. The movie had Raagini, Jageerdaar, Akhtar, Najam, G N Butt, Durga Mota etc in it.
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“Ramayani”(1945) was directed by Sarvottam Badami for Poornima Pictures, Bombay. This obscure movie had Nargis, Pahadi Sanyal, Rose, Chandramohan, Ameerbai karnataki, Kanhaiyalal , Moni Chatterji etc in it.
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We have already discussed nearly 50 % of all the Rafi songs that he has sung in HFM. But we continue to find lots and lots of great Rafi songs that are not yet covered in the blog.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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.

This is an interesting song composed by C Ramchandra, for the film Saajan-47. It is sung by Mohd.Rafi, Geeta Roy and Lalita Deulkar. The lyricist was Rammurty Chaturvedi.
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“Devdaasi”(1945) was directed by C S Bose for New Maharashtra Production, Bombay. This movie had Prithviraj Kapoor, Monika Desai, K C Dey, Vikram Kapoor, Suman, Kamla, Dar Kashmiri (Jeewan), G L Vaid, Arbind Sen, Prasann Kumar, Ashbela, Muma Tagore, Dubey etc in it.
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“Valmiki”(1946) was directed by Bhal Jee Pendharkar for Prabhakar Pictures, Bombay. This pauranik (mythological) movie about the author of Ramayana had Shanta apte, Prithviraj Kapoor, Leela, Baburao Pendharkar, Vinay Kale, Jaishankar, Raj Kapoor, Pratima Devi, Bhimrao Kale etc in it.
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“Dil”(1946) was directed by S F Hasnain for Fazlli brothers, Bombay.. The movie had Noorjahaan, Abdul Latif, Baby Zubaida, Amina, A M Khan, Kamal, Geeta Bose, Ghory, Bhudo Advani, Anwari, Razi, Anees etc in it. etc in it.
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“Phool Aur Kaante”(1948) was directed by Achyut Ranade for Navyug Chitrapat, Bombay.

The movie had Lalita Pawar, Salvi, Saroj Borkar, Mohan Sahgal, Master Ratan, Swaroop Sahgal, Tulsi Bai, Shalini, Chaube etc in it.
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Debaki Bose (1898 – 1971) is regarded as one of the pioneers in the field of film direction along with P C Barua, V Shantaram and Nitin Bose. After the production of talkie films started in 1931, Debaki Bose joined New Theatres and got his first chance to show his directorial skills in ‘Puran Bhagat’ (1933). This film is regarded as a turning point in the realm of talkie films. For the first time, the dialogue deliveries by actors were made more like natural talk than in the loud voices with theatrical gestures which was carried over to the films from the theatres. Debaki Bose also used expressions of the actors to supplement the dialogues.
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