Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Wo chaand ban muskuraa rahe hain
Posted on: March 9, 2013
“Vish Kanya” (1943) a Ranjit Production movie. The movie was directed by Kidar Sharma. It had Surendra, Sadhana Bose, Prithviraj Kapoor, Kamla, Leela Mishra, Sulochana, Brijmala etc in it.
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Aa aa aankhon mein aa
Posted on: March 9, 2013
“Nargis” (1946) is an obscure movie by now. Hardly any information is available about this movie. This movie had Nargis, Shahnawaz, Alka Achrekar, Pratima Devi etc in it from the little information I can gather from internet.
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Hamen maar gayee re
Posted on: March 9, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regulkar contributor to this blog.
Folk music has played an important role in popularising Hindi film songs. The films’ producers and more so the music directors knew that folk music based film songs bring instant connectivity with the cine goers especially in the semi-urban and rural areas. The beats and rhythms of most of the folk music are good inspirations for music directors to customise the Hindi film songs accordingly. In the early years of Hindi film music following the advent of talkies, songs were mostly based on classical and semi-classical tunes which included the traditional devotional music. The earliest Hindi film songs recorded on a folk based tune as per my search of the Hindi film songs on the internet was a song bande naav ka langar chhod from ‘Kangan’ (1939) which appears to be based on a bhatiali ( boat man’s) folk song of Bengal. There may be a few more Hindi film songs in the 30s based on folk music.
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Tum jabse milkar chhoot gaye
Posted on: March 8, 2013
“Bebus” (1951) was a Chitravani Productions movie. It was directed by Bhagwan Hajela. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Chandrashekhar, Purnima etc in it.. The Director was Bhagwan Hajela and the Music was scored by S. K Pal and Ganpat Rao.
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Ae baad e sabaa ithhlaati na aa
Posted on: March 3, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
We missed a major anniversary three days ago. Remembering (belatedly) the litterateur, and the famous poet and lyricist, Pt. Narendra Sharma. 28th February, 2013, is the 100th birth anniversary of this illustrious man of letters. Narendra ji was born in 1913 in the village called Jehaangirpuri, in the vicinity of Bulandshehar in Uttar Pradesh, in a Brahmin Gaud family. He was a bright student. Despite losing his father at a very young age, he continued his education, while doing part time work to support himself. In 1936, he completed his Masters in Hindi Literature from Allahabad University.
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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.
Recently, I listened to a song ‘is dil se teri yaad bhulaayi nahi jaati’ on YT sung by Mohammed Rafi. The song sounded familiar to me. My first impression was that this song was from an old film. But the uploader of the audio clip mentioned that it was a NFS composed by Hansraj Bahl. I never knew that Mohammed Rafi had sung any NFS under the baton of Hansraj Bahl. One of the regulars on YT whom I consider to be fairly reliable has mentioned that this song was written by Rajinder Krishan as he had heard his name being mentioned by the announcer on Radio Ceylon while playing this song. Since the composition as well as rendition of this song gave me an impression of a filmy song, I searched for other audio clips of the same song and got my hand on an audio clip where the uploader had claimed that the song was from the film ‘Kaneez’ (1949). The film had two music director – Ghulam Haider and Hansraj Bahl and the song was accredited by the uploader to Ghulam Haider-Hansraj Bahl.
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Main hoon kali matwaali
Posted on: March 2, 2013
“Panghat” (1943) was a produced by Vijay Bhatt and directed by Mahesh Chandra and K J Parmar. The movie had Alaknanda, Sushil Kumar, Leela Pawar, Rajkumari Shukla, Umakant according to imdb, but then this site also mentions Ramesh Gupta and Pt Indra as the playback singers of this movie !
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O paagal premi
Posted on: March 2, 2013
“Saudaamini” (1950) was a National Screen Production. It was directed by P C Joshi. The movie had Cuckoo, Leela Chitnis, P. Joshi, Sona Chatterji, Bikram Kapoor, Zubeida etc in it.
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