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Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category

“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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“Jogan” (1950) is full of songs. In fact there are so many songs in it that there may not be much room for normal dialogues in this movies, I think. I have read somewhere that as many as 12 songs in this movie were sung by Geeta Dutt alone !
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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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“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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“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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This deewaali (26th october 2011) is the fourth deewaali for this blog. Yes, it is unbelievable, but true to realise that this blog is celebrating its fourth deewaali today.
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“Daroga Jee”(1949) is a movie which was produced by Nargis Pictures,home production of Nargis which was apparently set up mainly to launch the career of Nargis.
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“Dil Ki Basti” (1949) is an obscure movie which was produced by Aaina Pictures and directed by Wahid Qureshi. The movie had Masood, Nigar Sultana, Amar, Urmila, Lalita Pawar, Tiwari etc in it.
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I just stumbled upon this rare song from an unheard of movie called “Saudaamini” (1950). On checking up, this movie is a National Screen production and it was directed by P C Joshi. The movie had Cuckoo, Leela Chitnis, P. Joshi, Sona Chatterji, Bikram Kapoor, Zubeida etc in it.
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Among poor section of society, especially in rural areas, being a policeman is the ultimate dream of unemployed youths. They want to become policemen because to them policeman symbolises unlimited power and authority, which enables them to bully and harass ordinary public. Whenever there are recruitments for policemen there are thousands of aspirants for a limited number of posts. And all these aspirants look dreamy eyed at the policeman and wish- “Only if I can somehow become a policeman. Then see what I will do.” I have actually heard a desperate aspirant utter such words in a police recruitment drive. 🙂
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