Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Dard kyun uthhtaa hai dil mein
Posted on: April 27, 2011
“Birhaa Ki Raat” (1950), which is an obscure movie by now, had actors like Dev Anand, Nargis, Madan Puri, Snehprabha Pradhan, Omprakash etc in it. Dev Anand and Nargis paired together ? I never knew that a movie like this existed.
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Ye kaun aayaa re
Posted on: April 27, 2011
“Ziddi” (1948) is the first movie of Kishore Kumar as a solo playback singer. He had earlier sang as part of chorus in “Aath Din” (1946).
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Meri jholi mein hain mere chor
Posted on: April 27, 2011
“Mehmaan”(1942) was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi for Ranjit Movietone, Bombay. The movie had Madhuri, Ishwarlal, Shamim, Rama Sukul, Mubarak, Kesari, Dharpure, Bhagwandas, Indira etc in it.
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My readers may have noticed my absence from the blog for the last few days. The reason was I was travelling for much of the time in the last few days and I was unable to get hold of internet. At the end of all this journey, now I have ended up at a place where things that I took for granted are a luxury. Electricity itself comes and goes quite frequently here and the less said about internet connectivity, the better. Wireless modem, which works in small towns elsewhere does not work here. Still, I have managed to rig myself an internet connection. The catch is, it works only if there is electicity. I will try and get myself active on the blog again, electicity permitting.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Minerva Movietone is the renowned flagship company that was launched and nurtured by the great Sohrab Modi. He has given such powerful historical epics to the Indian cinema as Pukar, Sikandar, Prithvi Vallabh, Jhansi Ki Rani, and many other great creations like Mirza Ghalib, Nausehrvan-e-Adil, Kundan, Jailor and Raaj Hatth. His films carry a message of strong commitment to social and national issues. A whole generation’s image of Indian history and Indian society is based on his films. Not all of his movies were commercial successes, but each of them has an indelible imprint of Sohrab Modi’s uncompromising quality and classic cinema.
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Charan tumhaare phool hamaare
Posted on: April 18, 2011
“Narsimha Avtaar” (1949), as the name suggests, was a religious/ mythological movie. This movie was produced by Minerva Movietone. It was directed by Sohrab Modi and it had actors like Laxman, Niranjan Sharma, Shobhana Samarth, Mahipal, Tiwari, Madan Mohan,Hari Shivdasani, Kamal etc in it.
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Kidhar hai tu ae meri tamanna
Posted on: April 17, 2011
There have been several Hindi movies called “Kurukshetra” and almost all of these movies ended up as obscure movies.
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Jeene ke dhang sikhaaye jaa
Posted on: April 17, 2011
“Parwaanaa” (1947) is a movie which had K L Saigal, the then reigning K L Saigal acting opposite the then rising star Suraiyya. And both of them had sung their own songs, of course.
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Madhur madhur gaa re manwaa
Posted on: April 17, 2011
Hindi movies prior to independence are movies which had actors about whom very little is known today. Except some well known names of those days, others have been forgotten.
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Here is a rare song from an obscure movie that I heard for the first time only recently. Though the song is more than six decades old, it sounds so refreshing and timeless even today.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs
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