Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Baras gayi Raam badariya kaari
Posted on: September 1, 2011
In olden days, becoming a train driver was a fond dream of every kid. And those who actually became one were looked upon with awe by his near and dear one’s. During the British days, most drivers in Indian Railways used to be Anglo Indians and that showed their status in society.
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Kaise kate ratiyaan baalam
Posted on: September 1, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today’s write up is different from the normal format / content of Saigal Saab’s songs, that we are discussing on this blog. (I am in travel today, and have limited access to resources and time. I shall be back tomorrow.)
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When one has to find details about Hindi movie songs, especially old songs, one has to be quite wary of the authenticity of the information. There are information about old songs that are incorrect. If such an information appears in one site, then it is faithfully cut and pasted by all other sites, and with time it becomes Gospel.
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These days, I love to listen to the songs sung by female singers of 1930s and 1940s. And one singer that I have discovered only just recently is Nirmala Devi. today, she is known to people more as the mother of actor Govinda, but to me she is a star in her own right.
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Jiyaa doley jiyaa doley
Posted on: August 30, 2011
There was a time when I ran away a mile at the prospects of having to listen to old songs. But now I especially like to listen to the songs of past singers who are not all that well known these days.
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Present day movie watchers may associate the title “Khiladi” with Akshay Kumar, but a title like this has been used in Hindi movies for a long time. For example, there was a movie called ‘Khiladi” as far back as 1950. This movie had Ashok Kumar, Suraiyya, Sundar, Indu, Kukku etc in it.
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Pyaar karna hi padega ek din
Posted on: August 29, 2011
“Sharbati Aankhen” (1945) is by now an extremely obscure movie and very little information is available about this movie. The information that I have been able to gather (and it may be outright wrong too) is that this movie was directed by Ramchandra Thakur and this movie had actors like Vanmala, Ishwarlal, Agha etc.
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Beech bhanwar mori naao
Posted on: August 28, 2011
“Shaarda” (1942) is a movie that was produced by A R Kardar. This movie had actors like Arun Kumar Ahuja, Shyam Kumar, Badriprasad, Baburao Sansare, Nirmala Devi, Amir Bano, Mehtab etc.
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“Kanchan” (1941) is a movie about which not much is known today, except that this movie had Leela Chitnis in it.
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Wo teekhi nazron se mere dil par
Posted on: August 27, 2011
“Veena” (1948) is a by now obscure movie. This movie had actors like Rahman, Yaqub, Sulochana Chaterjee, Veera, Hemawati etc in it and most of these names ring no bells in my mind.
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