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Kaanee kudbee ek ustaanee

Posted by: Atul on: September 27, 2025

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Today’s song is from the film Hamari Beti-1950.

The film was produced and directed by Shobhana Samarth, for her own banner ‘Shobhana Pictures’ Bombay. Music was by Snehal Bhatkar. Vasudev G. Bhatkar was working with H.M.V. and he had recorded some of his own songs as a singer. Impressed, Sudhir Phadke joined hands with him to give music to filmm “Rukmini Swayamvar”-1946. Being in service with HMV, Bhatkar could not use his real name, hence the pair was named as Vasudev-Sudhir. For more films, he used different names like B.Vasudev, V.G.Bhatkar and Snehal. In 1949, he left HMV to become a full time Music Director.

His first film was Hamari Beti-1950, for which he used the name Snehal Bhatkar- which continued till his last Hindi film, Sehme hue Sitare-1994. Snehal was his daughter’s name.
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Tags: 1950, Hamari Beti, Snehal Bhatkar

Main to jaaoongee haan haan jaaoongee

Posted by: Atul on: September 23, 2025

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19423

Today’s song is from an 84 year old film Charnon ki Dasi-1941.

1941 was the first year in the second decade of the Talkie Era and it was the beginning of the emergence of a New film industry. When Talkie started in 1931, for many years after that, the films were made by the people who had done work in the Silent films. These films had a spill over for the silent era artistes. Once the films started talking,most silent artists who could not speak Hindi or Urdu automatically disappeared. Thus started the influx of new actors who could speak Hindi and sing songs, in whatever way they could. Intelligent directors like V Shantaram,Bhavnani, Sohrab Modi, Chandulal Shah, Himanshu Rai, B N Sircar, L V Prasad and a host of Gujarati directors understood that the Talkie needs a different treatment than silent films. Music directors from stage dramas tried their hand in composing film music.
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Tags: 1941, Annasaheb Mainkar, Charnon Ki Daasi, Master Avinash, Pt Anand Kumar, Saraswati Rane

Main maina aazaad ban mein udne waalee

Posted by: Atul on: September 22, 2025

In: Actor-Singer song | Bibbo Solo Songs | Bibbo Songs | Bird songs | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Introduction song | Maina songs | Post by Arunkumar Deshmukh | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1941 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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6275

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19420

Today’s song is from the film Akela-1941.

Produced by Kikubhai Desai for his own banner Great India Pictures, it was directed by Pesi Karani. Music was given by Khan Mastana, who was basically a singer. Songs were written by P.L.Santoshi. The cast of the film included Mazhar Khan, Bibbo, E, Billimoria, Miss Moti, Hadi, Bose, Pratima Devi and others.

There were 3 films with the same title, made in 1941, 1963 and 1991. Then there were variations like Akeli, Akele Hum Akele tum, Akeli Ladki and Akeli mat Jaiyo (last film made by Ranjit Studios in 1963).
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Tags: 1941, Actor-Singer, Akela, Bibbo, Khan Mastana, P L santoshi

Ae dard bhare dil tujhe ab kaun sambhaale

Posted by: Atul on: September 17, 2025

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6270

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19404

“Aai Bahaar”(1946) was directed by Shankar Mehta for Ganga productions, Bombay. This obscure movie had Irshad, Ajmal, Om, Asha, Romesh, Bhaag Singh, Anant Bahri, Charlie, Roofi, Shrimati Atta etc in it.

The movie had eleven songs in it. Two songs from the movie have been covered in the past.
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Tags: 1946, Aai Bahaar, D N Madhok, Munawwar Sultana (singer), Pt Amarnath

Chaltee phirtee jag kee maayaa

Posted by: Atul on: September 16, 2025

In: Fakir song | philosophical song | Rare song | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1941 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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6269

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19401

“Abla”(1941) was directed by R N Vaidya for Bharat Photophones Limited, Bombay. This highly obscure movie had Heeralal, Shyam Narayan, Dar Kashmiri, Akbar Khan, Ghulam Mohammad, Sunder, Raja Babu, Chandrika, Suryakumari, Dev Kumari, Sheela, Gulzar etc in it.
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Tags: 1941, Abla, Akbar Khan Durrani Peshawari, Khursheed Khan, Pt Gyan Chandra

Prem ke geet sunaayen

Posted by: Atul on: September 14, 2025

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6267

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19394

“Nayee Duniya”(1942) was produced by Naushad and directed by A R Kardar for CIRCO (Cine Industries Recording Company) productions. The movie had Shobhana Samarth,Mazhar Khan, Jairaj, Wasti, Azurie, Jeevan, Ram Awtar etc. in it.

“Nayi Duniya”(1942) had 11 songs in it. Nine songs have been covered in the past. The movie made its debut in the blog on 21 december 2013 with the song Aaj mera man doley and the ninth song, bolo chhoom chhanananana chhai was covered in 2019. So the last song from this movie was covered six years ago.
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Tags: 1942, Naushad, Nayi Duniya, Rajkumari, Tanveer Naqvi

Ambuva pe koyal kaalee shor machaaye re

Posted by: Atul on: September 10, 2025

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#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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‘Dushmani-1950’ was directed by S. Upendra for ‘Manju Films, Bombay’. As per HFGK Vol-II (1941-1950) it was a stunt movie. It had Bhagwan, Arvind Kumar, Habib, Hari Mohan, Madan Jeet, Khushi Mulwani, Sarla Devi, Usha Shukla, Shaikh and others. Geet Kosh lists six songs for this movie sung by Shaikh, Sulochana Kadam, Khan Mastana and Vinod. For one song the singer’s name is not mentioned.
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Tags: 1950, Dushmani, Khan Mastana, Kuldeep Talwar, Sulochana Kadam, V Ramnath

Jeete jee mar jaana dil na kisee se lagaana

Posted by: Atul on: September 7, 2025

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19363

#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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Today we add one more song to the tally of singer Sulochana Kadam songs. This song is from the movie ‘Bombay-1949’. This movie ‘Bombay-1949’ had thirteen (13) songs in it. Sulochana Kadam had sung as many as eight (08) songs in this movie including six solo songs.

The movie “Bombay-1949” was directed by C.R. Bajaj for National Artist, Bombay. It had Shashikala, Ram Singh, Uday Kumar, Suraiyya Chaudhary, S. Nazeer, Mirza Musharraf, Ratan Gaurang, Rekha, Pittoo, Shanti Madhok, Bhudo Advani, Mukri and others. Geet Kosh lists thirteen songs in this movie. These thirteen songs have been contributed by two lyricist viz. Kamalnayan and C.R. Bajaj. Music for this movie was composed by Mushtaq Hussain, Chetumal, N. Bhattacharya and Raja Miyan.
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Tags: 1949, Bombay, Chetumal-N Bhattacharya, Kamalnayan, Sulochana Kadam

Beet gaya beet gaya Prabhu Raam ka raaj re

Posted by: Atul on: September 3, 2025

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Today’s song is from an unknown film of 1948 – Adalat-1948.

1948 was an year when the filmmakers breathed a sigh of relief, because now there was no restriction on making films openly on our Independence efforts or having songs of patriotism and Indian culture.

Film Shaheed made by Filmistan was based on the 1942 Quit India Movement. This was Dilip Kumar’s first Hit film.

Bombay Talkies made Majboor on the exit of the British from India. There was a song also describing it.

Internationally famous dancer Uday Shankar made ‘Kalpana’ glorifying different dances of india. It ran well in Calcutta, but other places it had a lukewarm reception.

Suhag Raat by Kidar Sharma -his best in career- presented Geeta Bali (who resembled his wife Kamla Chaterjee), as a Heroine for the first time. She too did justice to her role.

Raj Kapoor established his RK Studio and made Aag with 3 heroines- Nargis, Kamini Kaushal and Nigar Sultana. He did not match them, but managed well with good songs.

Another Dilip film Mela was full of melodious songs. Suraiya’s Pyar ki jeet too was a musical.

Chandralekha from the South created history with its impressive challenge to Hindi films. Lavishly made and released with over 600 prints all over India at the same time it indicated the future competition from southern films !

Dev Anand’s Vidya and Ziddi made an impression.

Kishore Kumar sang his first song in Ziddi. Asha Bhosle sang her first solo in Chunaria.

Anokhi Ada with veteran Naseem and Surendra was successful.

Grihasthi, Pagdi, Gopinath, Nadiya ke Paar etc were other notable films.

Among these famous and hit films, a film made with artists who were unknown to Hindi film audiences had no chance to succeed. Additionally, the film had nothing unusual about it…story, music, songs or anything else It was the first film with this title. Later on came the more famous and successful film Adalat in 1958 and then Adalat in 1976.

This film was produced by Mangal Pictures. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar and the music was provided by Datta Davjekar, for songs written by Mahipal and Narendra Sharma. Yes, he is the same Mahipal who became a regular feature in 131 Hindi Stunt, Action, Costume, Historical and Mythological films. Incidentally, Adalat-48 was Mahipal’s last film as a Lyricist. he wrote 13 songs in 4 Hindi films.

The cast of the film was Baburao Pendharkar (brother of Bhalji Pendharkar),Salvi, Jog, Madgulkar, Jaysingh, Saroj Borkar, Sudha Apte, Nalini Dhere, Shalini and Rajan (Jawale). The cast, MD, Director all singers except Mohd.Rafi were Marathi people. Most of them are unknown to Hindi audiences.

Jaysingh was the son of director Bhalji Pendharkar, from his first wife. From his second wife(Miss Leela aka Leela Chandragiri) he got another son Prabhakar. Combining the names of these two sons, Bhalji named his new studio “Jayprabha” at Kolhapur. During the riots against the Bramhins, after the murder of Gandhi, this studio was burnt, because Bhalji Pendharkar was a Brahmin. The studio was rebuilt. It was later purchased by Lata Mangeshkar,only to get embroiled in court cases with the Maharashtra Government, for a long time.

Actor Rajan (Jawle) was a Marathi actor. He is the person who lived with and looked after actress Hansa Wadkar in her later bad days in her life, till she died. Actress Nalini Dhere was a Marathi actress but had done few Hindi films like Nagad Narayan-43 etc. In Hindi film industry, at some or the other times, there were as many as 8 Nalini’s operating as actresses and singers – Nalini Tarkhad, Nalini Jaywant, Nalini Nagpurkar, Nalini Gupte, Nalini Dhere, Nalini Saraf (who became Seema Deo-wife of actor Ramesh Deo), Nalini Chonkar and Nalini Korgaonkar (singer-Jail Yatra-47).

Our film industry is full of ungrateful people. There is nothing like true friendship here. So called friends do not hesitate to cut the throat of others for selfish purposes. There are hundreds of such instances here. However for every rule there is an exception and there was ONE friendship which was used as an example here. That is the friendship of Vasant Joglekar and Ashok Kumar. They were true friends and their friendship ended only when Joglekar died.

Vasant Joglekar, actor-by compulsion and producer/Director-by choice was born on the Christmas day, 25th September 1914 at Nagpur. He started his filmi career as asstt. to Master Vinayak in 1942. In the struggling days he met Ashok Kumar and they became friends forever.

Starting with Aap ki seva mein-47, in which Lata Mangeshkar sang her first Hindi film solo, Joglekar produced 10 films and directed 20 films ( 11 Hindi and 9 Marathi). In one of the Marathi films directed by this young man-Vasant Joglekar, actress Sumati Gupte was acting in it. They fell in love and soon got married in 1943. Sumati became Sumati Gupte Joglekar. In due course, the couple had 3 daughters- Meera, Chanda and Madhushri.

In almost all his films Ashok Kumar was a fixture. There was a time when Ashok kumar was involved in 30 films at one time,still the 31st film was that of Joglekar. The only condition Dadamuni used to put was that Joglekar’s wife, actress/housewife Sumati Gupte Joglekar should provide him food Tiffin cooked by her own hands, at the shooting place ! . He was very fond of her cooking. No wonder, Sumati was a CKP by birth-a fish eater and Bangali babu liked Fish dishes very much !

Joglekar’s Filmography as a Director in Hindi films – Aap ki sewa mein-47, Adalat-48, Nand Kishore-51, Jeet Kiski-52, Firdaus-53, Samaj-54, Karigar-58, Aanchal-60, Aaj aur kal-63, Ek Kali Muskayee-68 and last film Prarthana-69. Vasant Joglekar tried to promote his daughter Meera as a Heroine in Hindi films, with the film Ek Kali Muskayee-68. However, she was not successful and the film was a flop. Vasant Joglekar died on 13-1-1993.

One of the cast members was G.D.Madgulkar. Though this name is unknown to most Hindi film lovers, he has contributed to films in a substantial way In marathi literature and films, his name is taken with respect. Gajanan Digambar Madguḷkar (1 October 1919 – 14 December 1977) was a Marathi poet, lyricist, writer and actor. He was born in village Shetphal, Atpadi Taluka, Sangli district in Maharashtra. His family hailed from village Madgule in the same Taluka.

He is popularly known in his home state of Maharashtra by just his initials as Ga Di Ma (गदिमा). He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1951 and Padma Shri in 1969. He has written 157 screen plays and over 2000 songs in his career. He was called Adhunik Valmiki (the modern Valmiki) of the current era due to his composition of Geet Ramayan ( Ramayana in Songs) as the most notable work. 2019 was celebrated as his Birth Century year. The Government of Maharashtra hosted various events and festivals to grace the occasion.

Madgulkar wrote poetry, short stories, novels, autobiographies and scripts, dialogues and lyrics for Marathi as well as Hindi movies. His poems have been adapted to a wide range of musical forms such as Sugam-Sangeet (light music), Bhav-Geet (emotional songs), Bhakti-Geet (devotional songs), and Lawani (a genre of folk songs in Maharashtra). Madgulkar entered the world of movies in 1938 at Kolhāpur. He contributed to 157 Marathi and 25 Hindi movies. He was also an artist. He loved to draw nature scenes. Special mention must be made for the films, Jeewan Jyoti-53-S/play and dialogues, Toofan aur Diya-56- story, and Do aankhen barah haath-57-Story, S/play and dialogues.

A noteworthy fact about Madgulkar is that during his peak period in Marathi films, he created a World Record. He teamed up with Music Director Sudhir Phadke and director Raja Paranjape. Together, as a team, they gave a total of 11 Hit films,in a row in 18 years- from 1948 to 1966 … a record for a Team.

He had knowledge of 10 languages including Marathi, Hindi, English, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu.

Madgulkar was married to Vidya (Padma Patankar, Kolhapur) and they had 3 sons (Shridhar, Anand, Sharad Kumar) and 4 daughters (Varsha, Kalpalata, Deepa, Shubhada). The popular Marathi writer, Vyankatesh Madgulkar was his younger brother.

His home in Pune (‘Panchavati Bungalow’) has become a place of attraction for his fans.

I was based in Poona during the period 1974 to 1976. In this period one of my local friends took me to Madgulkar’s bungalow and introduced me. When Madgulkar came to know that I hailed from Hyderabad, he was very excited and asked me several questions. I spent about 4-5 hours with him and had lunch also with him, on his repeated insistence. He was a good conversionist and loved to talk and listen. I will never forget this meeting. Those days he was not keeping good health.

I have not seen this film, but I know that this was a film based on a Love marriage which goes sour ending up in a family court for a divorce. However, the skillful judge tries and the couple reunite with greater love and return to their sweet home happily.

Here is a 77 year old song, sung by V.S.Jog. This must be his first song on this Blog. V.S. Jog was a notable Indian actor, primarily known for his work in Marathi films and theatre, with notable films including Pratibha (1937), Lagna Pahave Karun (1940), and Amrit (1941). He was involved in the Marathi theatre scene, particularly in a period when naturalism was gaining prominence, with connections to the Natyamanwantar group and actor-writer K. Narayan Kale.

He made a comedy pair with Damuanna Malavankar. He also was ‘Gundyabhau’ in some films of a known popular character ‘Chimanrao’, along with Damuanna Malavankar.
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Song- Beet gaya beet gaya Prabhu Raam ka raaj re (Adalat)(1948) Singer- V S Jog, Lyricist- Mahipal, MD- Datta Davjekar

Lyrics

Beet gaya aa aa aa aa
beet gaya aa aa aa

Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
kalah ka Raavan ghar ghar janma
kalah ka Raavan ghar ghar janma
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
nasht bhaye sab kaaj re
Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Ram ka raaj re
Prabhu Ram ka raaj re

dukh ke madir(??) baraabar bikhre
dukh ke madir(??) baraabar bikhre
aaj sanehee sanehee ko bisre
dukh ke madir(??) baraabar bikhre
aaj sanehee sanehee ko bisre
palat gaye patwaaar
palat gaye patwaar
samajh ke
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
ulta beech(?) jahaaj re
Beet gaya
Beet gaya
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re
Prabhu Raam ka raaj re

Danav ka avtaran hua hai
Danav ka avtaran hua hai
Seeta maa ka haran hua hai ae ae
Seeta maa ka haran hua hai
koi upaay karo Prabhu aisa
koi upaay karo Prabhu aisa
Lanka dahan ho aaj re
Lanka dahan ho aaj re
Lanka dahan ho aaj re
Lanka dahan ho aaj re ae ae ae

Tags: 1948, Actor-Singer, Adalat, Datta Davjekar, Mahipal, V S Jog

Bhaj lo Ram Ram Siyaram

Posted by: Atul on: August 27, 2025

In: Bhajan | Guest posts | Lord Ram related songs | Post by Arunkumar Deshmukh | Rafi solo | Rafi songs | Ram bhajan | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1948
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Blog Day :

6249

Post No. :

19327

Today’s song is from the film Shri Rambhakta Hanuman-1948.

The film was produced and directed by Homi Wadia for his own banner Basant Pictures. The film story was adapted from Valmiki Ramayan by Shivram Vashikar and the dialogues were by P.C. Joshi- who had also acted in the film in the role of Lakshman. The film starred Trilok Kapoor (Shri Ram), Prabhas Joshi (Lakshman), Sona Chaterjee (Seeta), Niranjan Sharma (Ravan), S.N.Tripathi (Hanuman), Dalpat Joshi, Amarnath and many others.The music was by S.N.Tripathi. This was his first role as Hanuman. He went on to do Hanuman’s role 6 more times.

Film Shri Rambhakta Hanuman-48 was the first of the Mythological films Homi Wadia’s Basant Pictures had made. Due to the extraordinary success of religious films from Prakash Pictures, suddenly there was a spurt in making Mythological films. Though Prakash Pictures made hit films like Bharat Milap-42 and Ram Rajya-43, in their films, the entire focus was on Shri Ram and Seeta Mai. They did not give any importance to Hanuman in their films. When I checked the credits of these two films yesterday, I found that Hanuman’s name was not there in the credits and we do not know who did that role ! Sensing this as an opportunity, the business minded Wadia made a film on Hanuman as the central character.
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Tags: 1948, Pt Indra Chandra, Rafi, S N Tripathi, ShriRam bhakt Hanuman

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Kaanee kudbee ek ustaanee

Main maina aazaad ban mein udne waalee

Ae dard bhare dil tujhe ab kaun sambhaale

Chaltee phirtee jag kee maayaa

Prem ke geet sunaayen

Ambuva pe koyal kaalee shor machaaye re

Jeete jee mar jaana dil na kisee se lagaana

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