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

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


“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 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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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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