Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Main hoon ek khalaasi
Posted on: January 22, 2010
Among the major contributors in the development of Bollywood mov ie music, C Ramchandra’s name will always figure very prominently. The kind of music that he came up with is simply mind boggling. On the one hand he composed songs based on classical music as well as Indian folk music, and on the other hand he also composed songs based on western music.
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Dil jaltaa hai to jalne de
Posted on: January 3, 2010
All these days, I thought that I had already posted this song. It is only just now that I have realised that this song is still missing.
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Hamen chhod piyaa kis des gaye
Posted on: December 28, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Do Bhai” (1947) in this blog. It is in this movie that Geeta Roy (later Geeta Dutt) made her debut as a playback singer. It is in this movie that she sang the well known “mera sundar sapna beet gayaa”.
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Aji preet ka naataa toot gayaa
Posted on: December 11, 2009
I have posted several songs from “Do Bhai” (1947). It is this movie where Geeta Ray (as Geeta Dutt was then known) first came to limelight with her “mera sundar sapna beet gayaa”. I have since come across other Geeta Dutt songs from this movie which I liked even more.
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Kabootar aajaa aajaa re
Posted on: December 8, 2009
“Manglaa” (1950) was the second Hindi movie made by Gemini pictures, who till then were mainly producers of South Indian language movies. Like in their earlier effort, this movie too was made in Tamil and then dubbed into Hindi. The songs however were re recorded using singers and lyricists of Hindi movies.
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Manbhaawan saawan aayaa
Posted on: December 8, 2009
I generally describe the songs in this blog as Bollywood movie songs, using “Bollywood movie” as a catchall phrase to describe all Hindi movies. Bollywood was a term that was coined for Bombay’s Hindi movies industry. But in reality, Bombay was not the only place where such movies were made. Places like Lahore (before 1947), Calcutta, Poona also had thriving Hindi movies industry there.
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Tum mere dil mein chale aate ho
Posted on: December 8, 2009
“Dilruba” (1950) is a movie that has largely been forgotten. This movie had Dev Anand, Rehana, Yaaqoob, Cuckoo, Balam, Achala Sachdev and Gogiya Pasha in lead roles.
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Mere piyaa to base pardes re
Posted on: December 4, 2009
In 1944 Naushad had introduced folk music based tunes to bollywood movies with “Rattan” (1944). One day when S D Burman went to his kitchen, he found his cook singing a song from Rattan (“jab tumhi chale pardes”) with great relish-“jhoom jhoom ke”.
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I love posting old songs in this blog. Here is a song that is old even by the standards of this blog. This song is from “Laal Haweli” (1944). Those were the days when the actors sang their sons themselves and the recordings were often live.
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There are several movies called Dillagi, but the earliest movie of this name that I am awre of is “Dillagi” (1949). This movie had Shyam,Suraiyya, Amar, Sharda, Amir Bano etc in it.
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