Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Bahut mukhtsar hai hamaari kahaani
Posted on: April 18, 2013
“Sharbati Aankhen” (1945) is a forgotten movie by now. When I decided to discuss a song from this movie, I looked for its details on internet and failed to find much. Then I noticed that a post of this blog is also listed by google as a source of information for this movie. I clicked that link, I found that we in this blog have discussed two songs from this movie and our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh has shared information about this movie with us which remains the most comprehensive and detailed information available on this movie on internet. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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Madhuban mein mat jaa re bhanwra
Posted on: April 18, 2013
“Bharthari” (1944) is by now a forgotten movie with hardly any information available on it. Thankfully we have our own inhouse encyclopaedia to look up to in the form of Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh. Here is what he has to say about this movie:-
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Panchhi udd jaa
Posted on: April 18, 2013
“Darshan” (1941) was directed by Chimanlal Luhar. The movie had Prem Adib, Jyoti, Bhudo Advani etc in it.
Two songs from this movie have been discussed in the past. Here is the third song from this movie. This song is sung by Sheetal Ghosh. From the name of the singer, I expected to listen to a sweet female voice. But I found myself listening to a masculine voice instead. 🙂
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Pardesi babu aate jaate rehna
Posted on: April 17, 2013
The world of Hindi movie music is like a vast ocean containing treasures within it. Popular and well known songs are like treasures that are known to everyone. Then there are lesser known treasures that one can come across easily enough in ankle deep shallow portion of the ocean. But there are treasures that are lying hidden far out and deep into this ocean and the only way one can discover them is by going into great depth and diving repeatedly and patiently to come up with goodies.
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Kabhi na himmat haar bande
Posted on: April 17, 2013
“Station Master” (1942) is a very old movie. Little information was available on internet about this movie till we began to discuss songs from this movie in the blog. And then our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh shared all the information about this movie that one may be interested in.
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Laakh karo chaturaayi
Posted on: April 16, 2013
“Magadh Raj” (1946) must be one of the most obscure Hindi movies of all time. Hardly any information is available about this movie. Songs from this movie are not available on YT either. One can come across songs like this only in one’s own offline collection if any and there too one needs to search specifically for these songs.
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Khushi ki aas rahi dil ko
Posted on: April 15, 2013
“Saawan Aaya Re” (1949) was a Hindustan Chitra Production. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Pratima Devi, Ramola, Sofia, Mohana, Gulab, Anant Prabhu, Promoth Bose, David Abraham, Ramesh Gupta etc in it.
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“Majboor” (1948) was a Bombay Talkies Production. It was directed by Nazir Ajmeri. The movie had Shyam, Sohan, Amir Banu, Munawwar Sultana, Indu, Shivraj 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.
When the system of playback singing started in Hindi films in early 30s it paved the way for playback singers like Rajkumari, Amirbai Karnataki, Zohrabai Ambalewaali and Shamshad Begum in becoming the top playback singers by 40s. With the emergence of new playback singers in the late 40s like Geeta Dutt and Lata Mangeshkar, demand for playback singers with heavy and high throated voices were on the decline, relegating them to the background. The only exception to this trend was Shamshad Begum who weathered the ‘onslaught’ of Mangeshkars in the 50s and remained fairly active up to early 60s.
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I am delighted to find this song from Humaayun (1945), suggested by Kamath Sir. This is exactly the type of desert songs that I love. Since I have seen very few movies from the 40s, the chance of discovering such songs is very remote.
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