Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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.

The legend of Deepak Raag is inseparable from the story and life of Miyaan Tansen. The entire life of Tansen is the stuff that legend and folk tales are made of.
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“Amar Kahaani” (1949) is a by now obscure movie which had actors like Jairaj,Suraiyya,Ranjana,Jagdish Mehta etc in it.
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“Bhakt Surdas” (1942) a rich source of K L Saigal songs. I have so far discussed as many as 8 songs from this movie, and majority of these songs have been in the voice of K L Saigal in them.
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I have recently come across the songs of “Aadhi Raat” (1950) and I have discovered that this movie boasts of some wonderful songs. I have already discussed three songs from this movie.
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“Shakuntala”(1943) is a mythological movie that had actors like Chandra Mohan, Jayshree, Ameena, Nimbalkar, Nana Palsikar etc in it. This story was based on Sasnkrit story “Aabhigyan Shakuntalam” written by the great Sanskrit author Kalidas.
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I have reached such a stage in discussing K L Saigal songs that now very few youtube videos involving K L Saigal songs have been left untouched. Very few of the remaining songs of K L Saigal may be available on youtube.
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“Aadhi Raat” (1950) is an obscure movie, but this movie has some awesome songs in it, as I have discovered while discussing the songs from this movie. I have so far discussed two songs from this movie.
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I have discussed one song from “Grihasthhi” (1948) in the past. From the comments by our experts, I came to know that this movie had actors like Masood,Sulochana Chatterji,Pran,Sharada,Shyama,Kuldeep kaur,Faizi,Rajni,Yakub, Lalita Pawar,Mirza Musharraf etc in it.
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“Shakuntala” (1943) is a movie where Jayshree had played the title role. She sang her own songs in this movie. I have already discussed one such song from this movie.
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Most Hindi movie songs have been written by lyricists who were around at the time when these songs were composed. But there are some cases where the lyricists lived in an earlier era and they were dead and buried/cremated long before their creations were used in Hindi movie songs. For instance, Hindi movies have used songs written by Ghalib,Meera bai etc who lived in the 19th century and 15th century respectively. In fact, in one case, an Hindi movie has used a poetry of an English poet who lived in the 19th century.
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