Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
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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“Daroga Ji” (1949) was produced by Nargis Arts, the home production of Nargis and the movie was meant to promote the then nascent acting career of Nargis. The songs (almost all of them female solo songs picturised on Nargis) were meant to showcase Nargis’ acting talent in different moods.
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Ik din ik armaan bharaa dil
Posted on: October 28, 2011
“Gareebi” (1949) is a movie about which very little information is available on internet. Fortunately, we have our own encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, who was not only around when these movies were released, but on many cases he even watched such movies and took notes.
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Aayi deewaali deep jalaa jaa
Posted on: October 26, 2011
“Pugree” (1948) was an “All India Pictures” presentation. This movie was directed by Anant Thakur. The cast of the movie included names like Wasti, Amar,Pratima Devi, Kamini Kaushal, Gope, Dixit, Ram Avtaar etc.
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