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This article is written by Dr PradeepKumar Shetty, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6285 Post No. : 19451

We know that S D Burman sang about 150 Bengali NFSs in the beginning of his career. Most of them became very popular. In Hindi, the number is about 25. We have 5 of them on the blog.

Today on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, here is a lesser known SDB song. I couldn’t get much detail. Looks like it must have been recorded in the year 1948, in the days following Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. However some sources on internet mention the year as 1960 for this. Also this seems to be album containing more songs and titled as ‘Gun Dhaam Hamaare Gandhi jee’. I would request knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this song and its details please.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6280 Post No. : 19436

Today’s song is from the film Hamari Beti-1950.

The film was produced and directed by Shobhana Samarth, for her own banner ‘Shobhana Pictures’ Bombay. Music was by Snehal Bhatkar. Vasudev G. Bhatkar was working with H.M.V. and he had recorded some of his own songs as a singer. Impressed, Sudhir Phadke joined hands with him to give music to filmm “Rukmini Swayamvar”-1946. Being in service with HMV, Bhatkar could not use his real name, hence the pair was named as Vasudev-Sudhir. For more films, he used different names like B.Vasudev, V.G.Bhatkar and Snehal. In 1949, he left HMV to become a full time Music Director.

His first film was Hamari Beti-1950, for which he used the name Snehal Bhatkar- which continued till his last Hindi film, Sehme hue Sitare-1994. Snehal was his daughter’s name.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6276 Post No. : 19423

Today’s song is from an 84 year old film Charnon ki Dasi-1941.

1941 was the first year in the second decade of the Talkie Era and it was the beginning of the emergence of a New film industry. When Talkie started in 1931, for many years after that, the films were made by the people who had done work in the Silent films. These films had a spill over for the silent era artistes. Once the films started talking,most silent artists who could not speak Hindi or Urdu automatically disappeared. Thus started the influx of new actors who could speak Hindi and sing songs, in whatever way they could. Intelligent directors like V Shantaram,Bhavnani, Sohrab Modi, Chandulal Shah, Himanshu Rai, B N Sircar, L V Prasad and a host of Gujarati directors understood that the Talkie needs a different treatment than silent films. Music directors from stage dramas tried their hand in composing film music.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6275 Post No. : 19420

Today’s song is from the film Akela-1941.

Produced by Kikubhai Desai for his own banner Great India Pictures, it was directed by Pesi Karani. Music was given by Khan Mastana, who was basically a singer. Songs were written by P.L.Santoshi. The cast of the film included Mazhar Khan, Bibbo, E, Billimoria, Miss Moti, Hadi, Bose, Pratima Devi and others.

There were 3 films with the same title, made in 1941, 1963 and 1991. Then there were variations like Akeli, Akele Hum Akele tum, Akeli Ladki and Akeli mat Jaiyo (last film made by Ranjit Studios in 1963).
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6270 Post No. : 19404

“Aai Bahaar”(1946) was directed by Shankar Mehta for Ganga productions, Bombay. This obscure movie had Irshad, Ajmal, Om, Asha, Romesh, Bhaag Singh, Anant Bahri, Charlie, Roofi, Shrimati Atta etc in it.

The movie had eleven songs in it. Two songs from the movie have been covered in the past.
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6269 Post No. : 19401

“Abla”(1941) was directed by R N Vaidya for Bharat Photophones Limited, Bombay. This highly obscure movie had Heeralal, Shyam Narayan, Dar Kashmiri, Akbar Khan, Ghulam Mohammad, Sunder, Raja Babu, Chandrika, Suryakumari, Dev Kumari, Sheela, Gulzar etc in it.
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6267 Post No. : 19394

“Nayee Duniya”(1942) was produced by Naushad and directed by A R Kardar for CIRCO (Cine Industries Recording Company) productions. The movie had Shobhana Samarth,Mazhar Khan, Jairaj, Wasti, Azurie, Jeevan, Ram Awtar etc. in it.

“Nayi Duniya”(1942) had 11 songs in it. Nine songs have been covered in the past. The movie made its debut in the blog on 21 december 2013 with the song Aaj mera man doley and the ninth song, bolo chhoom chhanananana chhai was covered in 2019. So the last song from this movie was covered six years ago.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6263 Post No. : 19383

#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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‘Dushmani-1950’ was directed by S. Upendra for ‘Manju Films, Bombay’. As per HFGK Vol-II (1941-1950) it was a stunt movie. It had Bhagwan, Arvind Kumar, Habib, Hari Mohan, Madan Jeet, Khushi Mulwani, Sarla Devi, Usha Shukla, Shaikh and others. Geet Kosh lists six songs for this movie sung by Shaikh, Sulochana Kadam, Khan Mastana and Vinod. For one song the singer’s name is not mentioned.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6260 Post No. : 19363

#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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Today we add one more song to the tally of singer Sulochana Kadam songs. This song is from the movie ‘Bombay-1949’. This movie ‘Bombay-1949’ had thirteen (13) songs in it. Sulochana Kadam had sung as many as eight (08) songs in this movie including six solo songs.

The movie “Bombay-1949” was directed by C.R. Bajaj for National Artist, Bombay. It had Shashikala, Ram Singh, Uday Kumar, Suraiyya Chaudhary, S. Nazeer, Mirza Musharraf, Ratan Gaurang, Rekha, Pittoo, Shanti Madhok, Bhudo Advani, Mukri and others. Geet Kosh lists thirteen songs in this movie. These thirteen songs have been contributed by two lyricist viz. Kamalnayan and C.R. Bajaj. Music for this movie was composed by Mushtaq Hussain, Chetumal, N. Bhattacharya and Raja Miyan.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6256 Post No. : 19349

Today’s song is from an unknown film of 1948 – Adalat-1948.

1948 was an year when the filmmakers breathed a sigh of relief, because now there was no restriction on making films openly on our Independence efforts or having songs of patriotism and Indian culture.
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