Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Jo mujhe bhulaake chale gaye
Posted on: September 7, 2011
“Sangeeta” (1950) is a movie produced by Sudha Pictures and directed by Ramanlal Desai. This movie had Shyam, Suraiyya, Nigar Sultana, Mumtaz Ali, Pran, Ram Singh, Radakrishnan etc in it.
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“Zeenat” (1945) is a movie that is directed by Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. This movie had Noorjahaan, Zohrabai Ambalewaali, Cuckoo, Shashikala (then a child), Baby Khursheed (later known as Shyama) etc. In fact, this movie seems to be a movie with mainly female actors . : D All the eight songs of this movie have been sung only by female singers, and that includes an all female qawwaali (Aahen na bharin shiqwe na kiye ).
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“Zameendaar” (1942) is a movie that had Shanta Apte, Manorama, Ghulam Mohammad,S D Narang,M Esmail etc in it. This movie, though forgotten along with its music has some wonderful songs in it.
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“Aadhi Raat” (1950) is a movie starring Ashok Kumar and Nargis, no less ! I never knew that this duo ever worked in a movie together. Not only did they work together, they even lip synced a duet in the movie. And that too a duet sung by Lata and Rafi.
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“Tansen” (1943) is a movie in which K L Saigal had played the title role and he had sung some outstanding songs. all those songs have already been discussed in this blog.
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Chali sajan ghar jaaye
Posted on: September 4, 2011
“Shaadi Se Pehle” (1947) was a movie produced by Raja Nene Productions, Bombay It had actors like Ranjna,Rajan,Vasant Thengri,Raja Nene, Leela Gadkar,Gokhale,Dixit,Bargir,Jivaji Kulkarni etc in it.
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Ud jaa ud jaa panchhi
Posted on: September 4, 2011
“Khandan” (1942) ,a Dalsukh Pancholi production, was one of the biggest movies in Hindi movie industry when it was released in 1942. This movie was inspired from the movie “East Lynne” (1931) which in turn was based on a 1861 novel of the same name written by Ellen Wood. This movie dealt with a topic that was considered quite sensational at that time.
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“Saawan Aaya Re” (1949) is a movie starring Kishore Sahu, Ramola Devi, David Abraham, Pratima Devi, Ramesh Gupta etc. Kishore Sahu himself is the director of this movie.
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Maati ka but bhaa gayaa
Posted on: September 3, 2011
“Do Dil” (1947) is a movie directed by Jagdish Sethi. This movie had Motilal,Suraiyya,Karan Dewan,Badri Prasad,Gulab etc in it.
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