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


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5808 Post No. : 18343 Movie Count :

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Mukesh and His Composers – 31

Continuing with the series, we introduce the works of composer Madholal Damodar Master’s association with Mukesh. Well, the composer’s name doesn’t seem to be very familiar, but he has his own place, fame and history in the annals of pioneering days of HFM.
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5799 Post No. : 18333

“Panna Dai”(1945) was produced by Kamalabai Mangalorekar and directed by Ram Daryani for Pradeep Pictures. The movie had Panna Dai (title role), Chandramohan, M Ismail, Master Vithal, Meenakshi, Mubarak, Gope, Azurie, Gulab, Vasant Pehalwan, Leela Mishra etc in it.
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5797 Post No. : 18331

“Pandit Jee”(1946) was directed by G R Durrani for Rukhsana Pictures, Bombay. This movie had Surekha, Agha Jaan, Suraiyya Zulfi, Ghulam Rasool, Alaknanda, Maya Devi, Mumtaz Begam, Sadiq, Nawaz, Ansari etc in it.
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5796 Post No. : 18330

“Mehndi”(1947) was directed by Sibtain Fazli for Fazli Films, Bombay. The movie had Nargis, Begam Para, Murad, Ghori, Jillobai, Jaani babu, Protima Devi, Chacha Premi, Anwari, Zaki, Baby Shyama etc in it.
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5786 Post No. : 18317

Today’s song is a rare Bhajan from the film Jai Hanuman-1948.

A few days back, I got a message from our friend Gajendra Khanna ji, along with this song. He suggested that I write a post on it. This song was given to him long ago by Suman Chaurasia ji who had got it from Girdharilal Vishwakarma ji. When I heard this song, I was very much impressed with its tune, music and melody. Since the song was in MP3 format, I requested Sadanand Kamath ji to upload this song, so that I could use it for my post. However, Sadanand ji found that this song was already posted recently by the Saregama company. He sent me its link.
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5785 Post No. : 18316

Saga Of Sleepless Nights – 10
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raat bhar muaa sone naa de. . .

This snippet line is from a song that has not made it on the blog as yet. The film is ‘Vidhaata’ from 1982. This snippet line is from the naughty song “Saat Saheliaan Khadi Khadi, Fariyaad Sunaayen Ghadi Ghadi” (YT link). The song is kind of an item song that is performed on screen by a bearded and plump Shammi Kapoor lip syncing the voice of Kishore Kumar, with a harmonium in front of him, as he leads a local get together into a sort of celebration song. I am sure most readers will be familiar with this song. The lyrics are kind of raunchy, penned by Anand Bakshi. The song tells of the plight of seven friends whose husbands are in different professions. Each ‘saheli‘ tells of her woes as to how her husband does not let her sleep all night.

Rewind back 33 years earlier, to 1949. Another song that tells a similar story – the lady has the same complain, that her companion did not let her sleep all night. That the entire night was spent tossing and turning, and the night passed in this uljhan only.
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5785 Post No. : 18315

An obscure film ‘Ranee’ (1943), which was a bi-lingual film made by Calcutta’s Barua Productions.

The film was produced and directed by PC Barua for Barua Productions, Calcutta. The music was by Kamal Dasgupta. Barring a few big movies, the Hindi-Bangla bilingual films did not become as successful as their Bangla versions. I feel the reasons were mainly two. One was that the cast of such films consisted of most names, with which the Hindi audience was not familiar. The second point was the style of acting and the dialogue delivery of the Bangla actors was deemed strange in Hindi belt. The Hindi used in films made in Bengal was too pure to be of the liking of people who were used to Hindustani language. The audience preferred ‘pyar‘ or ‘muhabbat‘ to ‘prem‘, for example.
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5784 Post No. : 18314

“Rekha” (1943) was directed by Mahendra Thakur for Ramnik Productions, Bombay. The movie had Leela Chitnis, Harish, Maya Banerjee, Sankata Prasad, Moni Chatterjee, Padma Banerjee, Ram Krishn etc in it.
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5780 Post No. : 18307

“Chhamiya” (1945) was produced and directed by Protima Dasgupta for Protima Dasgupta Films. The movie had Begum Para, Arif, Protima Dasgupta, David, Azoorie, Gulab, Dixit etc.
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5764 Post No. : 18289

Today’s song is from the film Ek Roz-1947.

How many readers will know that a record number of films were made in 1947 in Hindi till then ? 181 Films ! It took another almost 40 years to cross this number. In the year 1985, the number of films made was 185.

Why was it that in 1947 alone such a high number of Hindi films were made ? The answer is – Partition of India in 1947 and the subsequent migration of Muslim film artistes to the newly created nation on the basis of Religion – Pakistan. Partition of India was the biggest blow to India, which had remained One Nation for thousands of years, despite having many religions thriving in it. Anyway, that is not the topic here.
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