Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
These days I have been posting songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946). In this series, here is the seventh song from this movie.
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Tera khilaunaa tootaa baalak
Posted on: September 6, 2010
I have been posting songs from “Anmol Ghadi”(1946) these days. This movie was a monster hit during its time and its songs are popular even today. In this movie, most of the songs were sung by Noorjehaan, Suraiyya and Surendra (the three leading actors in the movie), but there were also songs sung by other singers viz Shamshad Begam and Zohrabai Ambalewaali.
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Udan khatole pe ud jaaun
Posted on: September 5, 2010
In Hindi movies, Kids are supposed to be a straight line extention of grown ups, so they are shown behaving like grown ups. Lead actors who are shown in love with each other in their grown up age are shown to be in love with each other even in their childhood in case their childhood is depicted in the movie.
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Ab kaun hai meraa
Posted on: September 4, 2010
“Anmol Ghadi” (1946) was the biggest hit of the year 1946 and this movie in fact must be regarded as a landmark movie in the Hindi movie industry. The movie had Noorjehaan, Surendra and Suraiyya in lead roles. These three in fact sang their own songs. There was no dearth of songs in this movie. There were as many as 12 songs in it and they all became very popular.
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I have posted a few songs from “Doctor” (1941) in this blog. As a kid, I was not much into old movie songs like this one, but now I realise that it was movies like this, that helped build the foundation of Hindi movie industry.
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Sakhi ri chitchor nahin aaye
Posted on: August 22, 2010
I have posted one immortal bhajan from “Jogan” (Ghoonghat ke pat khol re )in this blog in the past. That song was a Meera Bhajan sung by Geeta Dutt (then Geeta Roy). This movie in fact has several fantastic songs sung by Geeta Dutt.
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I have mentioned in the past that “Ratan” (1944), officially known as “Rattan” revolutioned the creation of music composition in Hindi movies. From classical music base, music began to draw inspiration from folk music and that enabled the “aam aadmi” to feel attached and attracted to the music.
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Milke bichhad gayin ankhiyaan
Posted on: August 21, 2010
“Ratan”(1944), or ‘Rattan” as it is mentioned in old posters, was a turning point in Hindi movie music. Before this movie, the movie music was based on classical music. But the music of this movie broke new grounds and introduced music based on folk music. And the folks (ordinary public) lapped up this music. And soon, every other music director jumped onto the band wagon and Hindi movie music began to enjoy much higher level of popularity among public.
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Ae kaale baadal bol
Posted on: August 20, 2010
Here is a “Jhoola” song from an old and largely forgotten movie called “Dahej” (1950).
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