Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Kishore Kumar made his debut as a playback singer in 1948 when he sang for Dev Anand in “Ziddi” (1948). For nearly two decades after that, he remained a marginal singer who only sang for himself and occasionally for others (read Dev Anand).
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Miyaan jee chori chori
Posted on: November 14, 2010
“Parda” (1949) was a K pictures presentation. It was directed by A G Soorma. This movie had Rehana, Chand, Amar, Kusum Thakur, Ansari etc in it.
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There were two movies called “Doosri Shaadi” that were produced in 1940s. One was released in 1947 and the other one in 1949. Both these movies had different teams.
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Dil hi to hai tadap gayaa
Posted on: November 13, 2010
Most of the songs discussed in these pages are “normal” songs in the sense that these songs were released normally, viz they were included in the movie and were released on records as well.
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Party songs, where a female singer sings and dances became standard fares in mainstream Hindi movies of 1950s.
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I have discussed as many as 37 songs composed by Sajjad Hussain in Hindi movies. Finding the remaining songs composed by him (he composed about 100 such songs) is proving to be a tall order, as these songs are rare songs, which are not easy to find.
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From the name, this movie “Shree Ganesh Mahima” (1950) appears a B grade small budget movie and indeed that is what it was. The musical team of this movie consisted of S N Tripathi as music director and Anjum Jaipuri as the lyricist.
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I have noticed that older Hindi movies (early 1950s and before) were far more liberal and open minded than the movies that followed. For instance, many scenes that began to be looked down upon as against Indian culture (viz kissing, swimming etc) were quite common in earlier movies. Not just that, hypocritical stands like heroines refusing to do swimming scenes is a recent phenomenon of 1970s because it was considered “exposing” their bodies. The fact that the heroines who took such stand did not have exposable may also have influenced their stand.
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Most “deepawali” festival songs are sad/ cynical songs, but there are happy “deepawali” songs as well. Here is one such song.
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Though Deewali is one of the most important festivals in India, Hindi movies do not have adequate number of Deewali songs in them. This is in sharp contrast to the songs for another major Indian festival, viz Holi. There are many more “Holi” songs than we have “Deewali” songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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