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Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category


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5443 Post No. : 17840

“Director”(1947) was directed by S Shafaqat, MA for Don Films, Punjab. The movie had Salim, Raza, Zeb Qureshi, Zahoor Raja, Arif, Mohini Das, Hafiz etc in it.
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5443 Post No. : 17839

“Din Raat”(1945) was directed by Shori Daulatavi for the banner of Navyug Chitrapat Ltd, Bombay. The movie had Snehparbha Pradhan, Paresh Bannerji, Sulochana Chatterjee, Vasant Thengadi, Firoza, Dar Kashmiri etc in it.
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5443 Post No. : 17838

Today’s song is from an extremely obscure film Bombay-1949.

This film is so obscure that the names associated with this film, from the production House – National Artists, Bombay – to names from other heads like the Director. Music Directors (4 MDs), the Lyricists to its cast members (except Shashikala, Mirza Musharraf and Bhudo Advani) all are almost never heard of and are least known !
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5442 Post No. : 17836

“Laakhon Mein Ek”(1947) was produced by Chandulal Shah and directed by Taimur Behramsha (making his debut as a director) for Ranjit Movietone, Bombay. The movie had Khursheed Jr. (Meenakumari’s elder sister), Nirupa Roy, Ghulam Mohammed, Bipin Gupta etc in it.
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5442 Post No. : 17835

“Laaj”(1946) was directed by Shahzada Ayyaz, Saiyyad Munawwar H Qasim for Ayyaz Productions, Bombay. This social movie had Shamim, Radharani, Ramesh, H Prakash, Rajan, Rehana, Gadagkar, Master Nisar, Madhurika, Mumtaz, Moti etc in it.
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5442 Post No. : 17834

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2013-2023) – Song No.131
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On this date ten years ago (12 June 2013), five songs from five different movies were covered in the blog. Here are the details:-
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5438 Post No. : 17827

If one looks at the details of “Milan”(1946) in HFGK part 2, we get the information that it is a “Social” movie that was directed by Nitin Bose for Bombay Talkies, Bombay. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Meera Mishra, Ranjana, Pahadi Sanyal,Moni Chattterjee, Sham Laha,S Nazeer. HFGK mentions eight songs in this movie. Four songs each were penned by Aarzoo Lucknowi and P L Santoshi. HFGK mentions the name of singers in five songs and record numbers in six songs. Details of singers and record numbers are not given for two songs.
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5436 Post No. : 17824

In one of my recent posts, I had mentioned that Hindi movies typically have the same kind of songs, no matter what the genre of the song. What is more, the title of the movie, which indicates (or supposed to indicate) genre of the movie can often be misleading.
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5435 Post No. : 17823

It was somewhere in the middle of may 2023 (17 may 2023, to be exact) that plans to have a meeting of blog regulars at Mumbai began to be explored. The idea began to take shape when Sudir jee, alongwith Bakshish Singh jee planned to visit Mumbai for one week towards the end of May till first week of June ( week beginning 29 may 2023 and ending on 4 June 2023).
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5434 Post No. : 17821

During 1930s and 1940s, when India was a desperately poor country, literacy level was very low. Even males were largely unlettered. The less said about the literacy of women, the better. So under those circumstances, an educated woman, who was also a workng woman, was a source of great curiousity among common folk. One can imagine how it must be like in 1940s. Basic literacy is one thing. To become educated in the medical field was obviously way tougher.
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