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

This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Taansen (1943), a Ranjit Movietone productions, is rated as one of the major hit movies of Saigal Saab, right up there with Devdas, Yahudi Ki Ladki an Street Singer. True to the primary subject, this film is a musical bonanza of the first order. Directed by Jayant Desai, the film carried music compositions by the great Khemchand Prakash. There are 13 songs in this film, and the lyrics are shared between DN Madhok and Pt. Indra.
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When I look up at the farmaish page, I find that the oldest farmaishes are from one year back and they are about a few songs of K C Dey. Now that I have located those songs, I will try and clear the backlog of these songs as quickly as I can.
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“Kaajal” (1948) is a by now obscure movie. This movie had actors like Wasti,Suraiyya,Jayant,amir Bano,Gope,Ram Kamlani,Cuckoo,Sharda etc in it.
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“Grihasthhi” (1948) is by now an obscure movie. It had actors like Faizi , Kuldip , Sulochana Chatterji, Masood , Sharda , Yakub , Shyama , Mirza Musharaf, Pran , Lalita Pawar etc in it.
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Every “new” K L Saigal songs that are being discussed these days are like going into unchartered waters, because we are now discussing those K L saigal songs which are not all that commonly known. These are songs that were not played much during Radio Ceylon’s “Puraani filmon ke geet” programme, and these songs are not yet available on youtube.
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We have come a long way in discussing K L Saigal songs. We have already discussed 85 out of 130 odd K L Saigal songs available. In addition,K L Saigal also sang in a few other languages, but that is beyond the scope of this blog.
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When one blogs from the comforts of home, one tends to take many things for granted. It is only when one moves out that one may realise that the things that are extremely essential such as internet connectivity is not all that freeely available. Even then, I am feeling a strong urge to blog today, because today this blog celebrates its third anniversary.
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I have discussed a song from “Kaajal” (1948) in the past, where I had mentioned that Wasti, Suraiyya and Jayant were the actors in this movie.
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K L Saigal had less than thirty songs in the blog two months ago. Thanks to the conscious decision to discuss one K L Saigal song a day, we now have as many as 82 K L Saigal songs in this blog. And hopefully we will have a century of K L Saigal songs by the next month.
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I am aware with a movie called “Kaajal” (1965) and I have discussed a few songs from this movie. It turns out that there was another older movie of the same name that was released in 1948.
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