Archive for the ‘Songs of 1944’ Category
Aaja kahin door chalen
Posted on: October 16, 2011
There are various ways by which I come to know about songs that I am not aware of. One of these ways is through the farmaishes of songs by readers. Seeing the backlog of pending farmaishes, it is obvious how much knowledge I have gained about songs that I knew nothing about. 🙂
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“Caravan” (1944) is a Ranjit Movietone movie . It was produced by Chandulal Shah and it was directed by aspi Irani. The movie had actors like Arunkumar,Kesari,Kamala Chatterjee(Chatopadhyaya),Premlata,Sylvie st.Clair etc. in it.
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“Pagli Duniya” (1944) is a movie that can qualify for the category of the most obscure movies today. Hardly any information is available about this movie. This movie had actors like Motilal, Mumtaz Shanti, Sheikh Mukhtaar, Kanhaiyalal, Pratima Devi etc in it.
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is a movie that came as a critic juncture in the annals of Hindi movie music and it determined the course of action that Hindi movie music was to take. Songs of this movie as well as the other movies with music by Naushad were based on folk music. It was a major departure from earlier music which was based on classical rag based music. Music lovers loved this folk music based music. The classical music based songs too continued to be composed but it became clear that the key to win the public over was through folk music based songs.
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Panchhi tu jaa re
Posted on: September 19, 2011
Here is a song that is extremely rare and obscure even by the standards of this blog where rare songs are discussed on a regular basis. And a song like this cannot be discovered just by stumbling against them in some site. One needs to consciously search for songs like this by name. I had got a lead somewhere that there was a music director called Pt Govardhna Prasad who was the father of Khemchand Prakash. Pt Govardhan Prasad worked as a music director in only one movie and that movie was called “Ismat”. With this minute bit of information, I set out to search for the songs of this movie.
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) was one of those early movies which decided the course of action that future Hindi movie music was to take. This movie, like other movies where Naushad was the music director, had its music based on folk music, and that enabled public to readily connect and identify with this music.
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“Anban” (1944) is as obscure a movie as a movie ever can be. Hardly any information is available about this movie now. This movie was directed by N Lahiri. Its star cast included names like Shah Nawaz, David Abraham, Mubarak , Pahari Sanyal, Nargis , Jagirdar , Shobhana Samarth etc.
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is a movie produced by A R Kardar. This movie had Wasti, Shamim, Jeewan, Anwar Hussain etc in it.
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