Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
“Room no. 9” (1946) must be among one of the most obscure Hindi movies by now. The movie as well as its songs have been forgotten with time. From the little information that I have been able to dig up about this movie, it seems that this movie was directed by Vedi (?). The movie had Shyam, Geeta, Nizami, K N Singh, Saroj Borkar etc in it.
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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.
A few days back, I came across a song ‘taqdeer ne hansa ke hamen phir rulaa diyaa’ from the film ‘SHAHNAAZ (1948). The song was composed and sung by Ameerbai Karnataki. Until now, I had not heard the name of the film. In fact, except for Ameerbai Karnataki and Mohammed Rafi, most of other names associated with this film are new to me.
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Tim tima tim tim tima tim taare
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Har Har Mahadev” (1950) was produced and directed by Jayant Desai. the movie had Trilok Kapoor and Nirupa Roy in lead roles with Misra, Durga Khote, Shanta Kanwar, Jeevan, Niranjan Sharma, Vicky Kapoor etc also there in the movie.
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Aa jawaan aa aaj beet jaayegi
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Sawaal” (1943), by now an obscure movie, was directed by Niranjan. The movie had Ulhas, Mumtaz Shanti, Radha Rani, Agha, Badri Prasad etc in it.
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Man re mat ro mat ro
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Prem Sangeet” (1943) was a Shalimar Pictures production. It was directed by W Z Ahmad. Th movie had Jairaj, Neena, Tiwari etc in it. Very little information is available on internet about this obscure movie.
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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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