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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

A voice, that is as soft and pleasing as cool breeze. And a singing that is most natural, with no efforts for any artificial embellishments to the rendition.  A voice that is not formally trained. And yet, this voice and the persona behind it, have become synonymous with being the first lady of Bangla cinema.

Remembering Kaanan Devi on her remembrance day. She passed away this day (17th July) in 1992.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

‘Shehzaadi’ (1947) is a film about which not much information is available online except that it was produced under the banner of Shalimar Pictures owned by WZ Ahmed and the film belonged to the costume drama genre. I had searched extensively on the internet about the star cast and the director but drew a blank. Earlier, I had even a doubt whether the film was actually released.
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“Aarsi”(1947) was directed by Daaud Chand for Jeewan Pictures,Lahore. There movie had Meena, Al Nasir, Ajmal, Asha Posle, Ramlal, Zahoor Shah, Kamla, Iqbal, P N Bali, Chandrashekhar, Bheemsen, Kukku, Pran etc. in it. The Meena most likely was Meena Shorey.
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“Gaurav”(1947) was directed by K J Parmar for Mukti Productions, Bombay. This obscure “social” movie had Zeenat, Ghanshyam, Raj Mehra, Munshi Khanjar, Charubala, Shobharani, O P Gaud, Baby Rajni, Hira Date, D Babulal, Pinakin Shah, Pratap Ojha, Anant Acharya etc in it.
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“Kaun Pardesi”(1947) was ws directed by J U Trivedi for Shree Vishwakala Movietone, Bombay. This “social” movie had Yashwant Dave, Kathana, Samson, P D Lal, Pt Iqbal, Haridas, R Karan singh, Pt Kaul, Mumtaz Begam, Kanta, Ram Pyari, Khursheed Akhtar, Flora etc in it.
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“Bhool Na Jaana”(1947) was directed by A E Charlie for Brij Prakash Productions, Bombay. The movie had Brijmala, Fazlu, Kamal Krishn, Shahida, Mehrunnisaa, Sharief, Rajkumari, Samson, Radha, Gouli Moth etc in it.
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“Mitti” (1947) was directed by Ravindra Jaykar. The movie had Khursheed, Sadiq Ali, Revashankar, S Ahmed, Bhagwan Das etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

This article is the 13200th song post in the blog.

With this post, the blog has now clocked thirteen thousand two hundred unique songs. It may be so that these century milestone are now an expected regularity. But then, it is these (now) minor milestones, that come together and collectively put together and characterize the larger milestones – A journey of a thousand steps is made up of a thousand steps.
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“Mohan”(1947), a forgotten movie by now, was directed by Anadinath Bannerji for Famous Pictures, Bombay. It had Hemawati, dev Anand, Alka Achrekar, Vimla Vashisht, But Kashar, Gokhle, Rane, Karadkar, Mishra etc in it.
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“Bhanwar”(1947) was directed by Madhu Patel for Chitra Bharati Limited, Bombay. This obscure movie had Shameem, Balwant Singh, Nirupa Roy, Maya Devi, Majid, Masaood etc in it. HFGK mentions mukhdas of eight songs and leaves gaps indicating that there were more songs in the movie whose details are not available.
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