Archive for the ‘Songs of 1942’ Category
Rasiyaa aa aa jaa rasiyaa
Posted on: September 5, 2013
“Fariyaad” (1942) was produced by Ranjit Movietone and directed by Jayant Desai. The movie had Ishwarlal, Shamim, Mubarak etc in it.
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“Chaandni” (1942), by now an obscure movie, was a Ranjit Production movie. It was directed by Jayant Desai. This movie had Ishwarlal and Khursheed in lead roles, with Dixit, Noorjahaan and Baby Kamla etc being the other actors.
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Suno suno mora mann kuchh boley
Posted on: June 21, 2013
“Chaandni” (1942), by now an obscure movie, was a Ranjit Production movie. It was directed by Jayant Desai. This movie had Ishwarlal and Khursheed in lead roles, with Dixit, Noorjahaan and Baby Kamla etc being the other actors.
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O maina mastaani o pinjre ki raani
Posted on: April 25, 2013
“Jungle Princess” (1942) was a Wadia Movietone Presentation. It had Nadia playing a female version of Tarzan who gets raised among lions. The movie also had John Cawas, Hari Shivdasani, S K Hasan, Radharani, Sardar Mansoor, Mithhu Miyaan, Baby Madhuri etc in it.
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Lo chaand bhi jalne lagaa
Posted on: April 24, 2013
“Jungle Princess” (1942) was a Wadia Movietone Production. This movie had Nadia playing a female version of Tarzan. Unlike Tarzan, who gets raised by monkeys, here Nadia (playing Mala) is raised by Lions, no less. :). She has two lion cubs as her companions at childhood and then all three grow up. Watching a grown up Nadia flanked by two grown up lions is a great sight to behold. Our beloved Memsaab has written a wonderful review of this movie here and I keep revisiting this page every time I have to discuss a song from this movie.
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Main chaand hoon ya chaandni
Posted on: April 21, 2013
When one talks of a movie called “Chaandni”, one normally means the Vinod Khanna, Sri Devi starrer movie of 1989.
It turns out that a movie of this title was released as far back as in 1942 as well.
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“Jungle Princess” (1942) was a Wadia Movietone production. This movie had Nadia in title role. John Cawas, Shehzaadi,Sardar Mansoor, Hari Shivdasani etc were the other actors in it. One detailed review of this movie is available at Memsaab’s blog.
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Kabhi na himmat haar bande
Posted on: April 17, 2013
“Station Master” (1942) is a very old movie. Little information was available on internet about this movie till we began to discuss songs from this movie in the blog. And then our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh shared all the information about this movie that one may be interested in.
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