Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Naana se kehti thhi naani hamaari
Posted on: June 29, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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The Many Colors of Love #4 — Romance in Golden Years
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And so wrote the scribe. . .
These first four words make an instant identification to this fabulous song that needs absolutely no introductions. The song made immortal, not just by Sahir-Ravi-Manna Da, but more so by the performance of Balraj Sahni (as Lala Kedarnath) on screen, with a coy Achla Sachdev (as Laxmi Kedarnath) getting all bashful and pink in face, realizing what a display of romanticism has been unleashed by ‘Lalaji’. A song that eventually became the signature performance for Balraj Sahni. And over the decades, the song has steadily grown on the collective minds of the people and assumed a cult status as the banner song for golden age romance. Yes, I hear this song played often at silver and golden anniversaries of marriages.
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Ik aisa geet sunaavo
Posted on: June 23, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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The Voice of Mukesh #21
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The year 1947 was very good for Mukesh, till then the best so far in his seven years career. In this year, he recorded a total of 21 songs in 10 films. We have so far covered 17 of his songs from this year, including all the songs from the film ‘Do Dil’ in which he sang as many as six songs.
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Suno suno mora mann kuchh boley
Posted on: June 21, 2013
“Chaandni” (1942), by now an obscure movie, was a Ranjit Production movie. It was directed by Jayant Desai. This movie had Ishwarlal and Khursheed in lead roles, with Dixit, Noorjahaan and Baby Kamla etc being the other actors.
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Fariyaad na kar aansoo na bahaa
Posted on: June 20, 2013
We all are aware of the movie called “Ghar” (1978). It turns out that anotther movie with the same title was released as far back as in 1945. It was a Sunrise Production movie. It was directed by V M Vyas. The movie had Jamuna, Nawab, Molina, Yakub, Kalyani, Dulari, Iftikar, W. M. Khan, Mohan, Mirza Musharaff etc in it.
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Bahut be takalluf huye ja rahe hain
Posted on: June 19, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Recently I watched GHAR KI IZZAT (1948) on YT. The film was produced under the banner of Murli Movietone and directed by Ram Daryani. The star cast included Dilip Kumar and Mumtaz Shanti in the lead role with Gope, Manorama, Dixit, Jeewan, Gulab, Suleman etc in the supporting roles. The melodramatic story of the film reminded me of some of the Hindi films produced from the South in the 50s and 60s.
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Tere bin din naahin beete re
Posted on: June 17, 2013
“Do Dil” (1947) was a Jamuna Productions movie. It was directed by Jagdish Sethi. The movie had Motilal, Suraiyyaa, Karan Dewan, Badri Prasad, Gulab, Ram Singh, Shabnam, Sudhir, S Baburao, Khalil etc in it.
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Aata hai dil pe pyaar kyun
Posted on: June 17, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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The Many Colors of Love #2
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लिखने वाला लिख गया है. . .
(and so the scribe has written. . .)
“Mohabbat Aisi Dhadhkan Hai Jo Samjhaayi Nahin Jaati”.
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Chanda ki chaandni mein haay raama
Posted on: June 16, 2013
“Do Dil” (1947) was a Jamuna Productions movie. It was directed by Jagdish Sethi. The movie had Motilal, Suraiyya, Karan Dewan, Badri Prasad, Gulab, Ram Singh, Shabnam, Sudhir, S Baburao, Khalil etc in it.
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Jam jam rahe meharbaan
Posted on: June 15, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sajjaad Hussain – the enigmatic genius of the industry. A self trained composer par excellence, for whom the venerated Anil Biswas has used the epithet of the “only original composer” in Hindi films. An artist whose composition have the capacity to surprise you and confound you at the same time. No other music director comes even close to creating the fusion of the spoken sound and the music so seamlessly and so beautifully, and one is left wondering at the depth of this genius as he will move from one arrangement to another one, as the song moves from one antaraa to the next one.
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Phir nain baawre bhar bhar aaye
Posted on: June 15, 2013
“Do Dil” (1947) was a Jamuna Productions movie and it was directed by Jagdish Sethi. The movie had Motilal, Suraiyyaa, Karan Dewan, Badri Prasad, Gulab, Ram Singh, Shabnam, Sudhir, S Baburao, Khalil etc in it.
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