Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
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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“Caravan” (1944) is a movie produced by Ranjit Movietone and directed by Aspi Irani. The movie had actors like Kesari, Sylvie St Clair, Premlata etc.
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Maahi o dupatta mera de de
Posted on: November 3, 2011
“Meena Baazaar” (1950) is a Pancholi Productions movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Shyam, Nargis, Kuldip Kaur, Gope, Sapru, Kanhaiyalal, Bhudo Advani, Chandabai, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Meri ro ro ankhiyaan laal huyin
Posted on: November 3, 2011
“Caravan” (1944) is a by now obscue and forgotten movie. I have discussed two rare songs from this movie in the past.
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I have been discussing songs from “Daroga jee” (1949) and it is very interesting to find one song after another, all of them meant to be female solos,meant to be picturised on Nargis. I wonder if the hero of this movie, namely P Jairaj too had any songs in to lip sync or whether he was just a glorified extra in it.
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“Daroga jee” (1949) has lots a lots of nice songs in it. I have already discussed as many as eight songs from this movie.
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“Rasiya” (1950) is a movie that never saw the light of the day as it was shelved midway. A few songs of this movie were already recorded by them and they had become popular as well.
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“Daroga jee” (1949) was a one woman show all the way. This movie, produced by Nargis Arts (Nargis’ home production) was meant to show Nargis’ ability to sing all kinds of songs. So far as many as seven songs picturised on Nargis have been discussed in this blog, in which she was shown singing romantic song, broken heart song, bullying shopkeepers song, etc etc.
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“Rasiya” (1950) is a movie that was never released. This movie, which had Bharat Bhushan and Nirupa Roy in lead roles had a few songs recorded and released though.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs
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