Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Bhool jaanaa chaahti hoon
Posted on: June 11, 2011
“Jwaar Bhaata” (1944) is today remembered as Dilip Kumar’s debut movie. This movie also had Shamim, Arun Kumar,Vikram Kapoor, Mridula,Agha Jaan etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
As with many movies of that era, I saw Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahaani (1946) on Doordarshan as a child. Sometimes, I am thankful for the times and the circumstances I grew up in. As teenagers, we did never have enough pocket money to spend on visits to the cinema halls. Our cinematic excursions were limited to view the weekly movie on DD, that too at a friend’s home. There was a time, many others would also remember, the weekly movie was actually shown partly on Saturday and partly on Sunday. I can recall a long list of movies from the 30s to the 50s thus viewed. This was before the time cable took over, and a black and white showing on the TV screen became a rarity. And the movies watched then, had a lasting impression and influence on my mind. The life and times were simpler; the movies and its people meant a value in social and traditional terms, and money was not the name of the game.
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“Magroor” (1950) is quite a nice and wonderful movie. I became aware of this movie thanks to its review in Memsaab’s blog. I loved this movie.
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Jeewan ki naao na doley
Posted on: June 9, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
1943 saw the coming together of director-producer V Shantaram, and composer Vasant Desai for the first time. Shantaram had been active now for many years in the industry, with Prabhat Studios, and then with Rajkamal Kalamandir. For Vasant Desai, it was the second or third movie of his career, having composed music for the movie Shobha in 1942. This association was to last for a very long time, till 1966, and Vasant Desai composed music for many movies by V Shantaram, from Parbat Pe Apna Dera (1944) and Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahaani (1946) down to Ladki Sahyadri Ki (1966).
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Teri is do rangi duniyaa mein
Posted on: June 9, 2011
“Saawan Bhaado” (1949) is an by now obsure movie. It was produced by Prakash pictures. The movie was directed by Kishore Sahu, but publicity materials showed the movie as directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Ram Singh, Munawwar Sultana, Om Prakash, Randhir, Indu, Jankidas, Raj Adeeb etc in this movie.
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Baag lagaa doon sajni
Posted on: June 9, 2011
“Tansen” (1943) is a movie that had K L Saigal in title role of Tansen. So naturally it follows that this movie has some nice K L Saigal songs in it.
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Mere ghoonghar waale baal ho raja
Posted on: June 8, 2011
From late 1950s onwards, we had Helen as the dancing sensation. Before her, we had Cuckoo. In a way, Cuckoo was the fore runner of Helen.
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I am aware of the movie “Saawan Bhaado”(1970) which was the debut movie of Rekha and Navin Nischol. But there was another movie of this name that was released as far back as in 1949.
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Main kismat ka maaraa Bhagwan
Posted on: June 7, 2011
While looking for K L Saigal songs, I came across this quintessentially K L Saigal song from “Tadbeer” (1945). It is a movie that I know little about, though.
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I have remarked in the past that “Bhakt Surdas” (1942) is a treasure of great K L Saigal songs. Correction- It has great songs, not just by the great man, but also by the female lead of the movie. Yes, Khurshid, the female lead of this movie also shines with her singing in this movie.
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