Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
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5570 | Post No. : | 18042 |
Today’s song is a qawwali from the film Nazare-1949.
When Talkie films started in 1931, the filmmakers and the audience were so excited to have songs in the films that the number of songs per film in 1931 and 1932, on an average were 13.8 ( 6 films’ details not available) and 12.6 (10 films’ details not available). In 1932, films like Indrasabha had 69 songs, Chatra Bakavali had 49 songs and Gulru Zarina had 33 songs !
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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5568 | Post No. : | 18038 |
Today’s song is from the film Sasural-1941.
Films with the same title were made in 1941, 1961 and 1984. This was a romantic comedy film involving a mistaken identity. Now, can you recall how many films have you seen about mistaken identity (with or without knowledge) ?. Mostly, such stories are based on ‘Look alikes’, like films Don, Chandralekha, Angoor, Chacha Chaudhary, Do dooni chaar, Milan(46) etc. Some films were, where the identity of the Hero was mistaken intentionally. Today’s film Sasural-1941 falls under this category. This same theme was repeated in films Panghat-1943 and Chitchor-1976.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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5565 | Post No. : | 18033 |
Today’s song is from the film Sipahiya-1949.
When India got independence in 1947 and the British Rule ended, the Indian public breathed a sigh of relief. Especially, the film industry felt like coming out of a prison. During British rule, there were so many restrictions, specially during the war period, on the filmmaking – like, you can’t show the British in bad light, you can’t speak about Independence openly, you can’t criticise Government policies etc etc. Even the wordings of songs and dialogues were under a sharp lens. The best example of this oppression was the song in the film ” Kismet”-1943, ‘Aaj Himalay ki choti se ‘ written by Kavi Pradeep. He had to go underground to avoid arrest for this song !
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Lehron se khele chandaa
Posted on: October 8, 2023
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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5560 | Post No. : | 18027 |
Today’s song is from the film Aahuti-1950.
I have not seen this film and I could not get any details of this film like its story etc from any source, so I do not know what kind of ‘ sacrifice ‘(aahuti) this film was about. From some of the songs, this film Aahuti aka Anokhi qurbani seems to be a film about Independence struggle or on conditions soon after India’s independence. This also looks like having a love story in the background.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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5558 | Post No. : | 18023 |
Today’s song is from the historic film Prithvi Vallabh-1943.
This is a real Historic story on which there was also a Silent movie “Prithvi Vallabh aka The Lord of Love and Power”, made by Ashoka Pictures, Baroda (Gujarat) in 1925. Its story was the same as today’s film. The film was important because India’s first woman Director and Producer Fatima Begum had acted in it, along with 2 of her 3 daughters-Zubeida and Sultana. Zubeida went on to become the Heroine of India’s first Talkie film Aalam Ara-1931. After 18 years of the silent movie, Sohrab Modi’s Minerva Movietone made this film again in 1943.
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So jaa mere dulaare
Posted on: September 10, 2023
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5532 | Post No. : | 17988 |
“Shanti”(1947) was directed by S U Sunny for Firdaus Art Productions, Bombay. The movie had Vijayalaxmi, Jeevan, Afzal, Latika, Sunalini Devi, Pratima Devi,Sharada, Shabnam, Munees Begum, Mustafa, Amir, A.R.Kashmiri, Master Ratan, Suleman etc in it.
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Jaam uthhaa le peene waale
Posted on: September 2, 2023
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5524 | Post No. : | 17973 |
Today’s song is from the film Aaj aur Kal (1947).
This was actually an unique film having an unusual storyline in which was shown a City Of Future i.e. a city of the year 2047 ! Hindi film industry is not known to make films based on scientific or science fiction stories. 99.99 % filmmakers did not dare make such films for fear of losing money if the film fails. However, its not that such films were not made at all, but their number would not fill even the number of fingers on both hands !
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Taqdeer mein rona hai
Posted on: August 17, 2023
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5508 | Post No. : | 17952 |
‘Shanti’ (1947) was directed by SU Sunny for Firdaus Art Productions, Bombay. The movie had Vijayalaxmi, Jeevan, Afzal, Lathika, Sunalini Devi, Prathima Devi, Sharada, Shabnam, Munees Begum, Mustafa, Amir, AR Kashmiri, Master Ratan, Suleman etc in it.
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