Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Rain gayi ab huaa saweraa
Posted on: July 12, 2011
During old days (1950s to 1980s), a K L Saigal song was played as the last song of the programme “Puraani Filmon ke geet” in the Hindi service of Radio Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) broadcast from 7-30 AM to 8-00 AM. But they were under no obligatio to broadcast different K L Saigal songs every day. So the same few songs were constantly recycled in that programme.
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Ik teri nazar ik meri nazar
Posted on: July 11, 2011
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I had never heard of this movie called “Kanchan” (1955) before. I came across this lovely song from “Kanchan” (1955) a little while ago.
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Dil ka sahaaraa toot na jaaye
Posted on: July 11, 2011
“Paaras” (1949) is a movie starring Kamini Kaushal, Rehman, Murad, Madhubala, K N Singh,Cuckoo etc.
I have so far discussed four songs from this movie.
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We have so far discussed as many as ten songs from “Bhakt Surdas”(1942) and that includes lots and lots of K L Saigal songs. Talking of K L Saigal songs, we have been discussing one K L Saigal song daily for the last six weeks and so far we have discussed as many as 75 K L Saigal songs. If we continue to discuss one K L Saigal song a day, then we will reach the century of K L Saigal songs in a month’s time.
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Ek taraf jal rahaa deepak
Posted on: July 9, 2011
“Preet Ka Geet” (1950) is a movie that I became aware of only a few hours ago, when I discovered this song from this movie. Naturally, I became aware of the song too only just then. And what a lovely song it is !
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Though most Hindi movies have their titles in Hindi/Urdu, there are cases when their titles are in pure English. Most of these movies tended to be B grade movies.
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Baithhi hoon main nain bichhaaye
Posted on: July 8, 2011
When one watches Hindi movies of the past, including their songs, and compare them with the present time, one notices that people back then had too much of time and patience. Means of instant communications were not there. People (namely the lady or parents) who will have their beloved husband/son gone to a distant place for work,will not hear from him for years, and they will patiently wait. One can not imagine people to have this kind of time and patience in today’s world.
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Main panchhi aazaad
Posted on: July 8, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This wonderful song is from the film Tadbeer (1945). The film was produced and directed by Jayant Desai, and featured KL Saigal, Suraiyyaa, Mubarak, Rehana, Jillo, Salvi, Reva Shankar, Shalini, and Shashi Kapoor as a child actor. Born in 1938, Shashi would be just seven years when this film was released. It is possible that this could be his debut movie or definitely one of the very first few movies that he acted in. (I have not been able to track specific information on this).
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In Hindi movies, there used to be a case where a character would decide to leave his/her family/neighbours/friends for ever, not knowing where he/she would go. I call such songs as “chal ud ja re panchhi” song, in honour of the iconic song from “Bhaabhi” (1957) that depicted this scenario.
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Here is an absolute gem of a song that has been lying hidden all these decades.
This song is from “Nayi Kahaani” (1943). I am not only surprised that music lovers have forgotten this song, I am even more surprised at the fact that the print of this movie is still available and that too in a reasonably pristine condition, going by the print quality of this picturisation. So kudos to the people who have preserved the print of this movie in such a good condition.
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