Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Movies called “Taqdeer” have been produced from time to time. I have discussed three songs from “Taqdeer”(1967). Now I find that movies of these titles were produced in 1958 as well as in 1943.
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“Khel” (1950) was a Shaheen pictures presentation. This movie was directed by S M Nawab. The movie had Dev Anand, Nigar Sultana, Nargis, Hafiz Jehan, Anwar, Neelam, Murad etc in it.
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Jiya mora doley
Posted on: November 11, 2011
“Namoona” (1949) was an M & T productions movie. It was directed by Hira Singh. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Dev Anand, Kamini Kaushal, Pratima Devi, Cuckoo, Leela Chitnis, Gulab, Madan Puri, Hira Singh, Shyama, Shanti Madhok etc in it.
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Sun lo sajan meri baat
Posted on: November 10, 2011
“Lahore” (1949) was a nice movie which was based on the aftermath of India’s partition following independence. This movie was a Jaimini Dewan production and it was directed by M L Anand. The movie had Karan Dewan, Nargis, Kanan Devi, Om Prakash, Randhir, Balakram, Ram Avtaar etc in it.
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“Khel” (1950) was a Shaheen pictures presentation. This movie was directed by S M Nawab. The movie had Dev Anand, Nigar Sultana, Nargis, Hafiz Jehan, Anwar, Neelam, Murad etc in it.
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“Village Girl” (1945) also known as “Gaaon Ki Gori”, is a movie which was a Ramneek Productions movie. It was directed by K Amarnath, who had also written the story and the screenplay of the movie. The star cast of the movie included names like Noorjehan, Nazir, Jagdish Sethi, Mishra, Shanta Patel, Ibrahim, Nawaz, Chandrika, Ghosh, Durga Khote, Rama Shukul, Ananth Marathe,Rajkumari Shukla, Bikram Kapoor, Geeta Nizami, Rajkumari Kapoor, Ghulam Rasool, M.A. Khan etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Presenting the song in response to the farmaish posted by Arun ji Deshmukh.
I am sure the number of folks would be very few, those who have not heard the iconic song, ‘Mere Piyaa Gaye Rangoon’ . The film Patanaga comes from the year 1949, which is considered as a watershed year in the annals of Hindi film music. So many wonderful movies with great music and great songs were released in this year, that it became a memorable year in terms of rising popularity of film music in India. The film is produced under the banner of Verma Films, Bombay and is directed by the distinguished Harnam Singh Rawail.
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Film “Dharam”(1945) was produced by Rattan Bai for Star Productions. Little information is available about this obscure movie. Various internet sources (all copying from the same source material) mention that this movie had seven songs in it. While the titles of songs are known and names of singers are also mentioned, lyricists of these songs are not known. The music was composed by Sajjad Hussain.
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“Khel” (1950) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a Shaheen Pictures production and it was directed by S M Nawab. The movie had Dev Anand,Nigar Sultana, Nargis, Hafiz Jehan, , Anwar, Neelam , Murad etc as far as one can tell.
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Sajjad Hussain, described as the only original music director of Hindi movie had a chequered career and during his three decades long career he only worked in 17 movies and composed about 100 songs. I would dearly love to discuss all the songs that Sajjad Hussain composed. I have so far discussed as many as 66 of his compositions.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs
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