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

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The first line of this song is identical to the “Dil Hi To Hai” (1963) song (Nigaahen milaane ko jee chahta hai(Dil hi to hai)), but this song is an entirely different song. This song is from an earlier movie, namely “Paraayi Aag” (1948).
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In old days, when we did not have all these shopping complexes, baazaar, especially Meena Baazar was the ultimate in shopping experience. As a kid, it was my dream to go visit a Meena Bazar.
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I have posted three songs from “Daastaan”(1950) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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“Daastaan” (1950) was a movie starring Suraiyya, Raj Kapoor, Suresh,Veena, Shakeela etc. The movie had some nice songs in it.
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I have so far posted 11 songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) and I wondered if there was any worthwhile song left from this movie that needed to be posted. Of course there was ! Here is this delightful song sung by Suraiyya which I had never heard before till now !
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In Hindi movies, actors do not remember God when the going is good. At that time they are busy running around the trees singing romantic songs, but as soon as the good times end, the characters (especially female characters) would suddenly remember God and she will start singing a Bhajan. In some cases, when the lady feels especially short changed, she will not even bother to sing a Bhajan, rather she would accuse God of being harsh on her.
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“Bazaar” (1949) was a movie with Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Gope, Yaqoob, Kukku etc in it. This movie may have been forgotten by now, but this movie has some nice songs in it.
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Rafi is today a legend of Hindi movie music but he too was a struggler for much of 1940s. It was only from 1946 onwards that he began to get songs to sing.
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I have so far posted nine songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) in this blog. And there are still quite a few songs from this movie that are yet to be posted ! Seriously !
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I have been posting songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) these days. So far, all the songs posted by me (all 8 of them) have been centred around Noorjahaan and Surendra, but this movie als had Suraiyya in it. And naturally, she too sang songs in this movie.
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