Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
“Shahnaaz” (1948) was a Wahab Production movie. It was directed by S Hassan. The movie had Nihar, Begum Para, Sheikh, Shanta Patel, Shyama, Gulzar, Altaf etc in it.
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Nanha sa dil deti hoon
Posted on: March 14, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The year is 1957. The time in the Hindi film industry when the big name banners prominently ruled, and the success and recognition of film music was the domain of the high profile music directors. An era with a lot of stories of how Filmfare awards were influenced, and how the privileged songs were made to climb to the top of Binaca Geetmala list. In such a time and such an era, an ‘unprivileged’ song rapidly climbed the charts of popularity, completely defying the set commercial conventions, and confounding the hold of hierarchical tradition of established big names in the industry, it became the no. 1 song of 1957 at the top of Binaca Geetmala charts. The film – an unimpressive and an unremarkable socio-religious drama by the name of ‘Janam Janam Ke Phere’. The song – an unmatchable and a very endearing duet by Rafi Sb and Lata Mangeshkar – “Zaraa Saamne To Aa O Chhaliye”, an unlikely song of a human being’s search for the Almighty. The deep and impressive words of Bharat Vyas tuned to a lovely melody by a master craftsman of classical and folk genre – Shrinath Tripathi, better known as SN Tripathi.
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Ud jaa re ud jaa papeehe
Posted on: March 14, 2013
“Vish Kanya” (1943) was 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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Musaafir hansi khushi ho paar
Posted on: March 13, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The year 1942 was an important and eventful year in the Hindi Film Industry History.The whole industry was overhauled,as many of the stalwarts in Production, Direction and Acting, established their own Institutions.
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Jiya mora bal bal jaaye re
Posted on: March 13, 2013
“Room No. 9″(1946) must be among the most obscure movies of all time. Tis movie was directed by Vedi. The movie had Shyam, Geeta Nizami, K N Singh, Saroj Borkar etc in it.
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“Samrat Chandragupta” (1945) was produced and directed by Jayant Desai. The movie had Ishwar Lal, Renuka Devi, Nayam Pally, Suraiya, Mubarak, Sulochana Chatterjee etc in it.
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Main shabaab hoon
Posted on: March 13, 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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Preet ki jyot jalaakar chup hai
Posted on: March 12, 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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Raat ki malka ban thhan ke
Posted on: March 12, 2013
“Ismat” (1944) was an extremely obscure movie. Hardly any information was available about this movie.
I have discussed one song from this movie in the past. The comments by our knowledgeable readers, namely our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh as well as another reader, Mr Sami, on that post has given us some rare information about this movie. Now we know that this movie was produced by Fazli brothers and directed by Sibtain Fazli. The movie had Nargis and Jaani Babu in the lead,supported by Mehtab, Nandrekar, Bhudo Advani, Pratima Devi, Irshad, Ghori etc. The story had an interesting Muslim social story whereby Nandrekar the hero is married to Mehtab and then remarries to Nargis as second wife.
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Kyun tumne hamko daraaya
Posted on: March 12, 2013
“Prem Sangeet” (1943) was a Shalimar Pictures production. It was directed by W Z Ahmed. The movie had Jairaj, Neena, Tiwari etc in it. In oother words, little is known about this by now forgotten movie.
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