Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
There have been atleast three movies called “Sanjog” which were released in 1943, 1960 and 1971 respectively. I have discussed songs from all these movies in this blog.
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Movies of 1930s and 1940s are obviously movies far too old for anyone of us. Hardly any information is available about movies and actors of that era. The generation who followed these movies are also no longer there with us. So, with passage of time, the music of that era is getting forgotten.
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I keep stumbling against unknown and unheard of gems almost every day. Look what I discovered just now !
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Though Suraiyya sang majority of her songs for herself, she famously did playback singing for Mehtab during early 1940s, when Mehtab was 17-18 years of age and Suraiyya herself was barely 13-14.
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Chaley ranz dekar
Posted on: February 21, 2011
Here is a song that I had never heard before. Of course there is nothing new in that. There are so many songs that I have never heard before.
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Aaj koi hai aanewaalaa
Posted on: February 21, 2011
“Shair” (1949) is a movie starring Suraiyya and Dev Anand. The movie did well at the box office. This movie was a musical blockbuster. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie in these pages in the past.
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Suraiyya, who made her debut in Hindi movies as a child artist in 1942, began to get the roles of heroines from 1946 onwards. In “Parwaanaa” (1947), she got to act opposite K L Saigal, then the reigning superstar of the time.
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Udte huye panchhi
Posted on: February 21, 2011
Suraiyya sang her first playback song for another actress at the age of 13. That was for Mehtab who was then 17 years of age. Mehtab (who incidentally was K Asif’s wife), on finding that her playback was being given by a 13 year old kid, got mad at her producers.
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Most of the songs that Suraiyya sang in her career were picturised on herself. But there was a stage, in the beginning of her career,where she sang for other actresses too. It was during early 1940s.
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Saajan ghar aaye
Posted on: February 20, 2011
“Station Master” (1942) is a movie that had Prem Adeeb and Ratnamala in lead roles. It was in this movie that Suraiyya, then 13 years of age, made her Hindi movie debut under the name of Baby Suraiyya. It was in this movie that she got to sung her first song, which was picturised on herself.
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