Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
O varsha ke pehle baadal
Posted on: March 21, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the 30s and 40s, legendary singers like K C Dey, K L Saigal and Pankaj Mullick with their Hindi film and non-film songs mesmerized not only the people of Bengal but the whole of India. In fact,it was the K L Saigal-Pankaj Mullick duo who ruled the music scene in Calcutta (Kolkatta) in the 1940s. It was during this time that a new singer emerged in Calcutta who, with his solo song ‘o varsha ke pehle baadal meraa sandesaa le jaana’ in the film MEGHDOOT (1945) impressed the listeners very much. This song became the most popular song of the film. The singer was none other than Jagmohan Sursagar, born as Jaganmoy Mitra. The popularity of this song resulted in a collaboration of Jagmohan-Faiyyaz Hashmi-Kamal Das Gupta trio in bringing out some of the finest non-film Hindi songs which became even more popular than their filmy songs.
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Aaj kar le jee bhar ke singaar
Posted on: March 21, 2013
“Maa Baap” (1944) is a movie about which very little is known today, no matter if there are sites that claim to give you “All about Maa Baap (1944),view video clips, reviews, story, stills, trailers, songs, wallpapers, synopsis, user comments, news,cast,crew..” about the movie. All that I have been able to gather about this movie is that it had Nazir Khan, Veena, Rajkumari Shukla, Yakub in it.
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Mere chhail chhabeele
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Neki Aur Badi” (1949) was an Oriental Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Geeta Bali, Pesi Patel, Nazira, Madhubala, Kidar Sharma, Uma Dutt etc in it.
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“Anmol Ratan” (1950) was a Dewan Productions movie. It was directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Karan Dewan, Meena Kumari, Gope, Gulab, Nirmala, Madan Puri etc in it.
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Chaand hansaa aakaash pe
Posted on: March 19, 2013
“Neki Aur Badi” (1949) was an Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. This movie had Geeta Bali, Pesi Patel, Nazira, Madhubala, Kidar Sharma, Uma Dutt etc in it.
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“Sawaal” (1943) was directed by Niranjan. The movie had Ulhas, Mumtaz Shanti, Radha Rani, Agha, Badri Prasad etc in it.
One song from this movie has been discussed in the past. Here is another song from the movie.
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Dil e naadaan tujhe huaa kyaa hai
Posted on: March 18, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In recent years, there has been a trend in Hindi film industry to make sequels of the box office hit films. Sequel films are said to be comparatively risk free as the success formula has already been tested. The earliest sequel film that I spotted on the internet was ‘Hunterwali Ki Beti’ (1943) which was supposed to be a follow-up of ‘Hunterwali’ (1935). I doubt whether the maker (Wadia brothers) of these two films ever thought in terms of a sequel but the story of the later film seems to be a follow up of the first film. Fearless Nadia (real name Marry Ann Evans) the first stunt heroine in the Indian film industry, John Cawas and Bhoman Shroff were part of the cast in both these films which were box office hits.
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Mera tan naache mera man naache
Posted on: March 15, 2013
“Badalti Duniya” (1943) was a Murari Pictures production. It was directed by Mohan Sinha. The movie had Trilok Kapoor, Mumtaz Shanti, K C Dey, Rajkumari Shukla ( actress, who is different from the singer Rajkumari Dubey, who sang in this movie), Badri Prasad, Shahzaadi, Waskar etc. in it.
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Man baat na meri maane
Posted on: March 15, 2013
“Rangeen Kahaani” was an N R Art Pictures production. It was directed by Anjum Hussain. The movie had S Irshad, Parvez, S Ahmad, Bibijaan, Khurshid, Surekha, Dulaari, Agha etc in it.
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Sur ki gati main kyaa jaanoon
Posted on: March 14, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In a book ‘Vedanta Treatise’ I have with me, four types of yogas have been prescribed for attainment of salvation. They are Bhakti (devotion), Gyaana (knowledge), Karma (activity) and Hata (compulsion). It is generally believed that devotion is the mother of all other yogas. Without devotion, all other yogas would be incomplete for attaining the objective. In this context, I recall an introduction by late C Rajagopalichari on a LP of M S Subbulaxmi’s immortal ‘Bhaj Govindam-Vishnu Shashtranamavali and I quote a part of it from the CD I have with me:
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