Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
“Dulaari” (1949) is a movie which is today fondly remembered as the movie that helped Rafi break into the big league with the song Suhaani raat dhal chuki. Till then, Rafi’s style of singing had few takers in the Hindi movie music and with this movie it became the new style of singing. It was a paradigm shift which few people at that time may have realised. In fact the management term “Paradigm Shift” itself was not coined at that time.
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“Samadhi” (1950) is a movie which was produced by Filmistan. Ramesh Saigal was its director. Starcast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Badri Prasad, Mubarak, N. Kabir, David Abraham, Kanta Kumari, Shyam, Kuldip, Colin Pal, S. L. Puri, Shashi Kapoor etc.
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Kaise baje dil ke sitaar
Posted on: February 18, 2012
“Chaandni Raat” (1949) is a Taj Mahal Pictures presentation. It was directed by M Ehsan. Starcast of the movie included names like Shyam, Naseem, Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Ulhas, Parvin, David Abraham etc.
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Mera jeewan saathi bichhad gaya
Posted on: February 17, 2012
“Baabul” (1950) was a Sunny Art Production. This movie was produced and directed by S U Sunny. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Munawwar Sultana, Amar, A. Shah, Jankidas etc in it.
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Ek teer chala dil pe lagaa
Posted on: February 15, 2012
“Mahal” (1949) is a landmark movie in several ways, including its music. We in this blog have discussed as many as four songs from this movie.
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Here is another song of the genre “how come this song was not posted earlier”. 🙂 And like always, my excuse is the same. I thought this song was already discussed but I was wrong.
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“Patanga”(1949) was a Varma Films production. It was directed by H S Rawail and the starcast had names like Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Cuckoo, Yakub, Gope, Purnima, Randhir, Mohana, Ramesh Sinha, Shyama, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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“Rattan” (1944) was a movie whose songs were based on folk music instead of classical music as was the norm those days. That helped ordinary folks to identify with and connect with the music of this music. The result was unprecedented. The producer of this movie earned more money through the music rights than through the screening of the movie.
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