Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Champakali hai udaas
Posted on: September 23, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I came across this gem of a sweet song of sadness today, and have simply fallen in love with it. Very simple words, very simple composition, and such effortless but impressive rendering by a voice that should merited to be known and heard more than it actually is.
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“Sabak” (1950) is a movie that was produced by Sadiq Productions and directed by M Sadiq. This movie had Karan Dewan,Munawwar Sultana, Om Prakash,Jaageerdaar, Jillo etc in it.
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Kab tak niraasha ki andhiyaari
Posted on: September 22, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Music has always been an enchanting appeal for me, since my childhood. Having grown up on a listening diet of radio programs on AIR and Radio Ceylon, the music of Hindi films has been the best charm for me. In the eighties, fresh out of college, and into my first job, the earnings meant that now I could buy music that I wanted to listen. Cassette tapes were the popular media in those days, and making copies of music from records was a rampant cottage industry.
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Here is a song from “Sabak” (1950). It is sung by Surinder Kaur. D N Madhok is the lyricist. Music is composed by A R Qureshi.
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“Raat Ki Raani” (1949) was a J S Pictures presentation.Jagdish Sethi, who was the owner of the J S Pictures was also the director of this movie. He in fact acted in this movie too. The movie had Munawwar Sultana, Shyam, Sulochana Chatterji, Madan Puri, Jagdish Sethi, Om Prakash, Chaman Puri etc in it.
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When we discuss old songs of 1930s and 1940s, we tend to believe that those songs were all serious songs. That is not really the case. In all generations of music one can find light hearted songs as well.
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Ambuwaa ke ped suhaane
Posted on: September 20, 2011
“Sabak” (1950) is a movie which was produced by Sadiq Productions and directed by its owner, namely M Sadiq. The movie had Karan Dewan,Munawwar Sultana,Om Prakash,Jagirdaar,jillo etc in it.
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is a movie that came as a critic juncture in the annals of Hindi movie music and it determined the course of action that Hindi movie music was to take. Songs of this movie as well as the other movies with music by Naushad were based on folk music. It was a major departure from earlier music which was based on classical rag based music. Music lovers loved this folk music based music. The classical music based songs too continued to be composed but it became clear that the key to win the public over was through folk music based songs.
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“Khamosh Sipaahi” (1950) is a movie which was produced by Mansarowar Pictures. Ram Kamlani was the director and this movie had David Abraham, Sohan, Nigar Sultana, Gope etc in it.
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Panchhi tu jaa re
Posted on: September 19, 2011
Here is a song that is extremely rare and obscure even by the standards of this blog where rare songs are discussed on a regular basis. And a song like this cannot be discovered just by stumbling against them in some site. One needs to consciously search for songs like this by name. I had got a lead somewhere that there was a music director called Pt Govardhna Prasad who was the father of Khemchand Prakash. Pt Govardhan Prasad worked as a music director in only one movie and that movie was called “Ismat”. With this minute bit of information, I set out to search for the songs of this movie.
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