Archive for the ‘Songs of 1942’ Category
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my native place in Mangalore district (and perhaps other places in India specially in villages), it was a tradition in almost every house that all family members would assemble in the Pooja Room soon after the dusk for singing some devotional songs. In a joint family system, this tradition also worked as a means of creating bonding among large family members. After shifting to Mumbai in early 50s, with a nuclear family and a city culture, this tradition slowly got discontinued. But my mother would sing at least a couple of devotional songs every day after dusk while doing her kitchen chores. One of the devotional songs which I had often heard in my childhood was in the Konkani language, my mother tongue. I was very much impressed by the lyrics and the tune of the song.
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Kuchh yaad rahe to sun kar jaa
Posted on: March 7, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
One of the remembrances of my childhood days of early 50s was a song ‘kuchh yaad rahe to sun kar jaa’ which my mother used to sing quite often. It would not be an exaggeration to say that I grew up with this song. Those days, I did not remember the beginning line of this song but one line from this song – ‘tu haan kar jaa yaa naa kar jaa’ remained embedded in my mind. I had no inkling at that time that it was a filmy song.
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Chupke chupke bol maina
Posted on: March 4, 2012
Most music lovers,including me, are aware of the music composed in Hindi movies, but only a small fraction of these music lovers have been exposed to NFS that were also created during the same era.
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“Station Master” (1942) is a very old movie indeed. This movie had actors like Jagdish Sethi, Jeewan, Amirbai Karnataki, Baby Suraiyya (same person who grew up to be Suraiyya), Gulab, Kaushalya, Prem Adib, Ratnamala, Shakir, Umakant etc.
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“Zameendaar” (1942) is a movie that had Shanta Apte, Manorama, Ghulam Mohammad,S D Narang,M Esmail etc in it. This movie, though forgotten along with its music has some wonderful songs in it.
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Ud jaa ud jaa panchhi
Posted on: September 4, 2011
“Khandan” (1942) ,a Dalsukh Pancholi production, was one of the biggest movies in Hindi movie industry when it was released in 1942. This movie was inspired from the movie “East Lynne” (1931) which in turn was based on a 1861 novel of the same name written by Ellen Wood. This movie dealt with a topic that was considered quite sensational at that time.
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Baras gayi Raam badariya kaari
Posted on: September 1, 2011
In olden days, becoming a train driver was a fond dream of every kid. And those who actually became one were looked upon with awe by his near and dear one’s. During the British days, most drivers in Indian Railways used to be Anglo Indians and that showed their status in society.
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Beech bhanwar mori naao
Posted on: August 28, 2011
“Shaarda” (1942) is a movie that was produced by A R Kardar. This movie had actors like Arun Kumar Ahuja, Shyam Kumar, Badriprasad, Baburao Sansare, Nirmala Devi, Amir Bano, Mehtab etc.
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Chalo paniyaa bharan ko chalen
Posted on: August 27, 2011
There have been at least two movies called “Khaandaan”. One of them was released in 1965 and it had Sunil Dutt and Nutan in lead roles. But there was another movie of the same name that was released as far back as 1942.
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