Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Panghat ko chali panihaari
Posted on: April 27, 2013
“Panghat” (1943) is a Prakash pictures movie which was produced by Vijay Bhatt and directed by K J Parmar and Mahesh Chandra. There was not much known about this movie, but thanks to Mr Arunkumar’s comments about this movie in another song of “Panghat”, we now have a good idea about the story of this movie as well as about the actors.
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“Veena” (1948) was a Jagt Pictures Production. This movie had Rehman, Hemavati, Veera, Sulochana Chatterji, Leela Misra, Yakub, Girdhari etc in it.
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When I came to know that Shamshad Begam (14 april 1919- 23 april 2013) was no more, I decided to discuss some rare songs sung by her. Accordingly, I some rare songs sung by Shamshad Begam were discussed yesterday (24 april 2013). Those songs were rare, but their links were still available. It was only in one case that the link available contained incompele song and so I uploaded a complete version of the song to enable me to discuss that.
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Shamshad Begam (14 april 1919 – 23 april 2013) left for her heavenly abode at the night of 23 april 2013. We in this blog discussed some rare Shamshad Begam songs as our tributes to her yesterday.
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O maina mastaani o pinjre ki raani
Posted on: April 25, 2013
“Jungle Princess” (1942) was a Wadia Movietone Presentation. It had Nadia playing a female version of Tarzan who gets raised among lions. The movie also had John Cawas, Hari Shivdasani, S K Hasan, Radharani, Sardar Mansoor, Mithhu Miyaan, Baby Madhuri etc in it.
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Baansuriya haay toot gayi man ki
Posted on: April 24, 2013
“Dekho Ji” (1947) is as obscure a movie as any. Hardly any information about this movie is available on line.
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Ae falak yoon hi sataata jaayegaa
Posted on: April 24, 2013
“But Taraash” (1947), forgotten movie by now had an interesting history behind it.
Here is what Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia has to say about this movie:
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Shamshad Begam (14 april 1919- 23 april 2013) is no more. She was the seniormost among all the survivors from the earliest days of Hindi movie music. She in fact was senior to all the legends of the golden era of Hindi movie music. She was more or less a contemporary of the likes of K L Saigal, Khursheed, Amirbai Karnataki etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Door Koi Gaaye. . .”
The voice of these words has now gone away very far from us, to probably sing at and regale the ‘mehfils’ in heavens.
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Qismat ne hamen majboor kiyaa
Posted on: April 24, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of this blog.
Long ago during weddings in the family, couple of my aunts who were fond of singing, would start this singing session, among ladies. There were a few peppy songs, but I am remmbering a couple of songs now like ‘chhod baabul ka ghar mohe pi ke nagar’ from Baabul’ (1950) and ‘baalam se milan hogaa sharmaane ke din aaye’ from ‘ Chaudhvi ka chand ‘. They would sing it in chorus in Shamshad Begum style. They probabaly had no inkling that the song from Baabul is a sad song, and song from ‘Chaudhvi ka chand’ is by Geeta Dutt.
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