Archive for the ‘Songs of 1945’ Category
Itna bhi na wo samjha ke gaye
Posted on: April 20, 2013
The film “Moorti” was a Ranjit Movietone production. The film was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Khursheed, Motilal, Padma Bannerjee, Yashwant Dave, Kamal Zamindaar, Kaneez, Tara Bai, PD Laal, Chakram etc in it.
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Bahut mukhtsar hai hamaari kahaani
Posted on: April 18, 2013
“Sharbati Aankhen” (1945) is a forgotten movie by now. When I decided to discuss a song from this movie, I looked for its details on internet and failed to find much. Then I noticed that a post of this blog is also listed by google as a source of information for this movie. I clicked that link, I found that we in this blog have discussed two songs from this movie and our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh has shared information about this movie with us which remains the most comprehensive and detailed information available on this movie on internet. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When the system of playback singing started in Hindi films in early 30s it paved the way for playback singers like Rajkumari, Amirbai Karnataki, Zohrabai Ambalewaali and Shamshad Begum in becoming the top playback singers by 40s. With the emergence of new playback singers in the late 40s like Geeta Dutt and Lata Mangeshkar, demand for playback singers with heavy and high throated voices were on the decline, relegating them to the background. The only exception to this trend was Shamshad Begum who weathered the ‘onslaught’ of Mangeshkars in the 50s and remained fairly active up to early 60s.
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I am delighted to find this song from Humaayun (1945), suggested by Kamath Sir. This is exactly the type of desert songs that I love. Since I have seen very few movies from the 40s, the chance of discovering such songs is very remote.
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Ab na been bajaa
Posted on: April 13, 2013
“Sharbati Aankhen” (1945) is a very obscure movie by now and little information is avaialble on this movie. The most comprehensive information on this movie is available in this blog, thanks to our own beloved inhouse encyclopaedia, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Traditionally, ghazals are supposed to be rendered in a soft voice and in a slow tempo to make the listeners understand the deep meaning behind each words. Ghazals rendered in an appropriate mood can awaken emotional feelings even in a stone-hearted person. Perhaps it was in these context that ghazals were sung in thumri style in the early 20th century, creating a melancholic mood and offering the opportunity for singers to emphasise on some specific words in the ghazals which were important in understanding the meaning in the ghazals. Singers like Begum Akhtar, Kamala Jharia, Master Madan, K C Dey, K L Saigal etc sang ghazals mostly in thumri style.
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O varsha ke pehle baadal
Posted on: March 21, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the 30s and 40s, legendary singers like K C Dey, K L Saigal and Pankaj Mullick with their Hindi film and non-film songs mesmerized not only the people of Bengal but the whole of India. In fact,it was the K L Saigal-Pankaj Mullick duo who ruled the music scene in Calcutta (Kolkatta) in the 1940s. It was during this time that a new singer emerged in Calcutta who, with his solo song ‘o varsha ke pehle baadal meraa sandesaa le jaana’ in the film MEGHDOOT (1945) impressed the listeners very much. This song became the most popular song of the film. The singer was none other than Jagmohan Sursagar, born as Jaganmoy Mitra. The popularity of this song resulted in a collaboration of Jagmohan-Faiyyaz Hashmi-Kamal Das Gupta trio in bringing out some of the finest non-film Hindi songs which became even more popular than their filmy songs.
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“Samrat Chandragupta” (1945) was produced and directed by Jayant Desai. The movie had Ishwar Lal, Renuka Devi, Nayam Pally, Suraiya, Mubarak, Sulochana Chatterjee etc in it.
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Jhoom rahi baaghon mein
Posted on: February 2, 2013
“Yateem” (1945) is an obscure movie and not much information is available about this movie.
Here is a song from “Yateem” (1945). This song is a duet which is sung by Rajkumari and G M Durrani. Zia Sarhadi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Khurshid Anwar.
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Haaye re duniya
Posted on: December 27, 2012
“Zeenat” (1945) was produced by Sheth Shiraz Ali Hakim and Ramzanali S Lakhani and directed by Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. This movie had Noorjahaan, Karan Dewan, Yakub, Dixit, Majid, Himalaywala, Naseem Jr, Agha Salim Raza, Leela Mishra etc.
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