Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
“Shaadi” (1941) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie was produced by Jayant Desai for Ranjit Films. It had Khurshid, Ishwarlal, Madhuri, Motilal, Ghori etc in it.
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Agar tum na milte agar tum na aate
Posted on: March 26, 2013
“Beete Din” (1947) was directed by Ezra Mir. The movie had Motilal, Vanmala, Rekha S, Nazir, Solanki, L Ramesh, Baby Shyama, Sheela, Bibijan etc in it.
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Morey dwaar khule hain
Posted on: March 25, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had mentioned in one of my earlier write-ups that all the songs from the film ANMOL RATAN (1950) were very rare to get in the 70s even with the individual collectors. Though the film failed miserably at the box office, all the songs from this film were the forgotten ‘ratans’ (gems). We are fortunate that majority of the songs from this film are now available on the internet as audio clips. There are 11 songs in the film of which 5 songs have been discussed in this blog.
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Ek baar muskuraa do
Posted on: March 25, 2013
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Recently our Mr. Sadanand Kamath has posted on this Blog two superb numbers by Jaganmoy Mitra, better known as Jagmohan Sursagar, together with rich information (and links) on this veritable ocean of melody. They are: O varsha ke pehle baadal from Meghdoot (1945), and a non-filmy song Mat kar saaj-singaar sundari.
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Aa tu aa ab na sata
Posted on: March 25, 2013
“Police” (1944) is by now a forgotten movie. The only thing that I have been able to find about this movie was that it was a Prakash Pictures production. It was produced by Vijay Bhatt. I have no idea about its director and the actors.
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“Nargis” (1946), an obscure movie by now, had Nargis, Shahnawaz, Alka Achrekar, Pratima Devi , Rehman, David, Amirbai Karnataki, Bhagwan, Tabassum etc in it.
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Shaam huyi o panchhi aa
Posted on: March 23, 2013
“Maa Baap” (1944) had Nazir Khan, Veena, Rajkumari Shukla, Yakub in it. One song from this by now obscure movie has been discussed in the past.
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“Nargis” (1946), an obscure movie by now, had Nargis, Shahnawaz, Alka Achrekar, Pratima Devi , Rehman, David, Amirbai Karnataki, Bhagwan, Tabassum etc in it.
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Mat kar saaj singaar sundari
Posted on: March 22, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Jagmohan Sursagar was known mostly for his non-filmy songs whether in Bengali or Hindi. After the success of his songs in ‘Meghdoot’ (1945), he collaborated with Faiyyaz Hashmi and Kamal Das Gupta for recording many non-filmy Hindi songs which became very popular. Faiyyaz Hashmi was a full time employee of EMI (HMV) at Calcutta. After bifurcation of British India, Faiyyaz Hashmi was transferred to Dhaka in 1947 and to Lahore a year thereafter to strengthen the office which was affected by the migration of many of its artists to India. With this, the collaboration of these trios virtually came to an end. Thereafter, Jagmohan Sursagar recorded some more Hindi non-film songs with different lyricists such as B C Madhur, Madhuraj, Rajinder Krishan etc. But most of these songs are silent on the name of the composer. It is believed that during this period, Jagmohan himself may have composed the music for most of his non-filmy songs.
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“Veena” (1948) was a Jagat Pictures Production. It was directed by J P Advani. The movie had Rehman, Hemavati, Veera, Sulochana Chatterji, Leela Misra, Yakub, Girdhari etc in it.
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