Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Thukra rahi hai duniyaa
Posted on: July 18, 2011
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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Taaron bhari raat hai par tu nahin
Posted on: July 17, 2011
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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Though the concept of playback singing was introduced in 1930s itself, but actors continued to sing their own songs till late 1940s. It was only in 1950s that the concept of singing actors finally gave way and playback singing finally became the norm.
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“Bholi”(1949) is an obsure movie by now. This movie had actors like Prem Adeeb,Geeta Bali, Shashikala, Jeewan, Gope,Gulab etc. in it.
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Dil toot ke bolaa
Posted on: July 14, 2011
I was aware of a movie called “Hanste Zakhm” but not “Hanste Aansoo” . It turns out that this movie called “Hanste Aansoo” (1950) had the “distinction” of becoming the first ever Hindi movie to get an “Adults” certificate for this movie. 🙂
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Ye bhi hai koi reet anokhi
Posted on: July 13, 2011
Here is a song that has to be regarded as a wonderful find. This song is a highly obscure song from a highly obscure movie. The artists who are involved in this song are less known, and even unknown to most music lovers. But what a gem they have created !
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I have just come across this obscure song from an obscure movie called “Maang” (1950). This movie which was directed by Saghir Usmani, had actors like Zia,Wasti,Mubarak,Ramola,Amar,Pratima,Malhotra,Leela Pandey,Basu,Hemlata etc.Most of these names hardly ring any bells, obviously.
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Ham apna unhen banaa na sakey
Posted on: July 13, 2011
“Bhanwraa” (1944) is among the lesser known movies of K L Saigal as far as I am concerned. Of course, even lesser known movies of those days used to have wonderful music in them, and the songs of this movie are no exception.
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Meri aayin hain teen bhaabhiyaan
Posted on: July 12, 2011
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In my teen and pre teen days, I was a cricket enthusiast. In addition to doing the usual thing line playing it and listening to its radio commentary, I was also into maintaining cricket records. Personal computers were obviously not invented them, and I kept my records manually on registers. I had several thick registers with me, and the scores of all test matches played til them was available with me, and I had collected all these records by painstakingly culling records from many publications. When a new test match began (that was the only form of international cricket back then), I already knew what record was likely to get made in that match. Those were the days when centuries, especially centuries by Indian cricketers were rare. Also, hitting sixes was a rare phenomenon. One Indian player called Salim Durrani had hit a six sometime in 1972 and based on that one six, he was touted in Indian magazines as Mr Sixer.
These days, I no longer maintain cricket records. We already have such records being maintained by professional cricket sites. But I find that these days I am maintaining similar records for Hindi movie songs that I am discussing. And the suggestion for maintaining these song statistics came from Raja, who also grew up with similar passion for cricket and Hindi movies in a neighbouring state in the eastern parts of the country those days.
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As rare songs go, this song is rarest of the rare, as they say in legal parlance. 🙂 So rare in fact that very little information is available on this song. What I know for sure is that this song is from “Tilasmi Duniya” (1946). Another information that is exciting for music lovers is that Sajjad Hussain is the music director !
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