Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
“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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“Sindoor” (1947) was produced by Filmistan studio. Kishore Sahu was its director. He himself was the hero of this movie. This movie had Kishore Sahu, Paro, Shamim, Gulab, Rajendra, Mehmood, Pratima Devi, Sushil Sahu etc in it.
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Phir hamen koi yaad aaye hain
Posted on: August 27, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Do Dil” which was released in 1965. Now I find that there was another movie of the same name which was released in 1947.
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Ye shokh sitaare
Posted on: August 27, 2011
“Ek Thi Ladki” (1949) is a movie starring Motilal and Meena Shorey. This movie is famous for the iconic song Laara lappa laara lappa laai rakhdaa(Ek Thi Ladki). I have discussed as many as four songs from this movie, and all these songs are just outstanding.
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Mil mil ke gaayenge do dil yahaan
Posted on: August 27, 2011
“Dulaari” (1949) is a movie that starred Suresh, Geeta Bali, Madhubala etc. This movie is today known as the movie that launched the career of Rafi as a playback singer with the song Suhaani raat dhal chuki na jaane tum kab aaoge.
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Main to Dilli se dulhan laayaa re
Posted on: August 27, 2011
There are a few milestones in this blog that I eagerly look forward to. One of them is the obvious milestone of century songs. Every song that marks the completion of a century is a special song for this blog and we celebrate it by discussing a special song on that occasion. There have been 44 such occasions for this blog.
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Chalo paniyaa bharan ko chalen
Posted on: August 27, 2011
There have been at least two movies called “Khaandaan”. One of them was released in 1965 and it had Sunil Dutt and Nutan in lead roles. But there was another movie of the same name that was released as far back as 1942.
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“Baazaar” (1949) is a movie that starred Nigar Sultana, Shyam, Gope,Yaqoob,Kukku etc in it. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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We have been discussing one K L Saigal song as the first song of this blog for the last three months, and now we have reached a stage when we have almost exhausted all K L Saigal movie songs to be discussed. Now only the non movie songs (about 20 odd) are yet to be discussed. Within one month, we can expect to have all the available K L Saigal songs to be covered in this blog. And this is something we can really be proud of.
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