Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Tod na dena dil jod ke
Posted on: June 21, 2026
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.
| Blog Day : | 6547 | Post No. : | 20375 |
Today’s song is from the social film Albeli-1945.
There were 3 Same Title films in 1945, 1955 and 1974. To match it, there were 4 films titled Albela in 1851, 1971, 1990 and 2001. There was also Albela mastana in 1967.
This was a Talwar production, Calcutta film. Directed by its owner R.C.Talwar, it had music by G.A. Chishti. There were 2 lyricists – Shanti Swarup ‘Kaif’ and Chishti himself. HGFK, however, does not credit any song to any Lyricist or any singer. Thus, one has to depend upon his own judgement about the singer or believe the uploader’s mention.
The cast of the film was Ramola, Rooplekha, Manorama, Usha, Sunder, Heeralal and others. Film Albeli’s review came in the March – 46 issue of Film India magazine. As usual, Baburao Patel had nothing good to say about this film. The film’s story centred around the love affair of a street girl and a Gypsy boy, who is loved by two more girls. The film was released on 22-12-1945 at Central Cinema, Bombay. The story was by Talwar himself. Dialogues and Screenplay was by J.S.Casshyap. The film’s hero was Satish.
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.
| Blog Day : | 6543 | Post No. : | 20359 |
Today’s song is from an obscure film called Paigham aka Message-1941.
The film was made by Chimanlal Desai’s banner Amar Pictures, Bombay. This Chimanlal Desai was the same person who had established Sagar movietone, along with Dr. Ambadas patel. In its time, Sagar was a famous studio, making several hit films. Chimanlal lost Sagar due this habit of gambling. The film was directed by his son Surendra Desai. Amar Pictures was named after the son of Surendra desai-Amar. Just being the son of a producer does not make one a good director. Surendra was an average director. His elder brother Virendra Desai was a good director, but he spoiled his own as well as Nalini Jaywant’s life, when he married the 16 year old Nalini. He was already married and had 2 children also.
Film Paigham 1941 had music by Gyan Dutt. The cast of the film included Sadhana Bose, Surendra, Anil Kumar, Protima Devi, Ansari, Sulochana Chaterjee and others. There were 11 songs in the film, written by Pt. Indra, Safdar Aah and Balam. There were 3 solos of Surendra and 3 duets with Sadhana Bose, 2 solos of Sadhana, 1 solo of Bulo C.Rani and 2 duets of Bulo C.Rani.
Aaye re piya chamak damak
Posted on: June 16, 2026
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.
| Blog Day : | 6542 | Post No. : | 20356 |
Today’s song is from a Bilingual film (Hindi and Marathi) – Paisa-1941.
The film was made for Jeevan Pictures, Bombay. It was directed by G.P. aka Ganapatrao Pawar. He was the second husband of Lalita Pawar. The music was by C.Balaji. The cast of the film was Kanta Kumari, Madhav Kale, Indira Wadkar, Shakuntala Paranjape (it was her last Hindi film), Vimal Ghaisas (a renowned stage actress), Omkar Devaskar, Raja Pandit ( he was an actor, director and producer. He was the husband of actress Ratnamala. Thay had a son-Jai) and a few others.
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.
| Blog Day : | 6540 | Post No. : | 20349 |
#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
The song under discussion is from the movie ‘Bhishm Pratigya’ or ‘Bheeshm Pratigya’. This movie Bheeshm Pratigya-1950’ made its debut on the blog on 13.01.2014 with its song ‘pagle manwaa ab rotaa hai kyun’ sung by Geeta Roy/Dutt. Second song from this movie ‘dhhal gayaa aashaa kaa sooraj’ in the voice of Asha Bhonsle was posted on this blog on 13.02.2020. And the third song from this movie was posted on 27.08.2025. This was the song ‘dekho dekho ghoonghat kee oat se’ in the voice of Sulochana Kadam. That means we have so far covered three female solo songs from this movie on the blog.
‘Bheeshm Pratigya’, a mythological movie, was directed by Vasant Rao Painter for Vishal Chitra, Bombay. It had Nargis, Shahu Modak, Mishra, Mahipal, Poornima, Nimbalkar, H. Prakash, Kamlakant, Moti Beena, Kumar, Meenakshi, Kusum Thakur and others. This movie has seven songs composed by S.K. Pal and lyrics writer for this movie was Manohar Khanna. The singers for this movie are Geeta Roy, Sulochana Kadam and Asha Bhonsle. Geet Kosh doesn’t mention singers’ names for three individual songs. Singers for the other four songs are Geeta Roy (two songs), Sulochana Kadam (one song) and Asha Bhonsle (one song).
Sajanwa preet kee reet nibhaa
Posted on: June 13, 2026
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.
| Blog Day : | 6539 | Post No. : | 20346 |
#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
Today’s song is from an obscure movie ‘Caravan’1944. This ‘stunt movie’ was directed by Aspi for Ranjeet Movietone, Bombay. It had Arun, Kamala Chatterjee, Rani, Premlata, Keshri and others.
Geet Kosh lists as many as fifteen songs for this movie including one two version song. There were four lyricists in this movie viz. Swami Ramanand, Munshi Aziz, Pandit Indra and Sharma. Music was composed by Bulo C Rani. The playback singers for this movie are Ameerbai Karnataki, Bhola, Arun, and Zohrabai Ambalewali.
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.
| Blog Day : | 6539 | Post No. : | 20345 |
Today’s song is a Parody song from the film Refugee aka Sharanarthi-1948. The film was produced by Harishchandra Rao Kadam for his own banner Harishchandra Pictures, Bombay.
This film was a “First time” for 3 persons.
First was the producer and lead actor of the film- Harishchandra Rao Kadam himself. He was basically a “C” grade action and stunt film producer. This was his first ‘Social film, which was also his last social film, as he then returned to his comfort zone of stunt films.
Second was the MD of the film Ajit Merchant. This was his first film as an Independent Music Director. So far he was an assistant to Ashok Ghosh and then Anil Biswas. The third was the singer Sulochana Kadam. She acted in this film for the first time. Later she did one more film.
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