Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category

This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

I like to do things methodically. Whenever I have to write an article on a song, I first go through all the comments on the already posted songs of that film, if any, so that I do not repeat what has already been said. Further, if needed, I can quote from those comments. If it is a singer, actor or a film, I try to go through the available material-on the Blog or Net etc, to make my write up exclusive and I also ensure that whatever statements I make in my articles are defendable with evidence-if and whenever challenged. All this can add to the quality and credibility of the material provided and avoids repetition so that the article may not end up as an ” Also Ran “.
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“Lahore” (1949) was a Jaimini Dewan Production movie. It was produced by Jaimini Dewan and directed by M L Anand. The movie had Karan Diwan, Nargis, Kuldeep Kaur, Pratima Devi, Om Prakash, Gulab, Randhir, Balak Ram etc in it.
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“Nadiya Ke Paar” (1948) was a Filmistan production. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Hari Shivdasani, Maya Banerji, S. L. Puri, Samson, Ranibala, Tiwari, David Abraham, Kanta Kumari etc in it.
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this article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

In the last few days, I have been looking for songs composed by Shyam Sundar, the forgotten music director of 40s and early 50s. Whenever I think of him, the name of another forgotten music director Sajjad Hussain creeps in my mind. If Shyam Sundar was called a genius music director, Sajjad Hussain was called an original music director by none other than Anil Biswas, the ‘Bheeshm Pitaamah’ of Hindi film music. Despite these superlatives against their names, Shyam Sundar and Sajjad Hussain composed music for only 20 and 17 Hindi films respectively in their careers. This works out to on an average 2 films per year for Shyam Sunder (1943 to 1953) and less than 1 film per year for Sajjad Hussain ( 1944 to 1977). One common reason attributed for their musical output not being commensurate with their talents was that both were short tempered and perfectionist to the extent that they were uncompromising which was not to the liking of producers/directors of the films.
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Hindi movie titles are often like comets that visits us at periodical intervals. For instance, the title “Dost” seems to get repeated once every decade. We have had movies with this title in 1944, 1954 and 1974. We did not have a movie of the title “Dost” in 1964, but we had “Dosti” in 1964 !
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

I must really thank ATUL JI for providing us all,a platform to share our information/knowledge and enjoy the best of Hindi Film and Non Film music.
But for him, it would not have been possible.
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“Naatak” (1947) was produced by AR Kardar and directed by S U Sunny under the banner of Kardar Productions. The movie had Suraiyaa, Amar, Sofia, Kanwar, Sham Kumar, Pratima Devi, Nazir Bedi, Amir Ali, Suleiman, Murtaza, Nazir Ahmed, Nawab etc. in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

ARABIAN NIGHTS-1946 was a ” Triveni Sangam ” of artists from Bengal in a Bombay film. Kanan Devi, Kamal Dasgupta and Faiyaz Hashmi came together to make music for this Fantasy film. This film,incidentally, is also making its debut on this Blog.
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“Beqasoor” (1950) was a Madhukar Pictures production. It was produced by M R Navalkar and directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Ajit, Madhubala, Pramila, Yakub, Mangla, Gope, Geeta Nizami, Ramesh, Durga Khote etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog

There are only 2 types of movie watchers-

1. Those who can watch Tragedy films and

2. Those who can not watch tragedy films.
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