Archive for the ‘Songs of 1947’ Category
Suno suno hey nar naari
Posted on: July 25, 2012
Today (25 july) is the birth anniversary of Sudhir Phadke. He got very few opportunities to give music in Hindi movies. As a result, most of his musical creations are in Marathi, where he is a legend as a music composer as well as a singer.
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Allah nigehbaan tera
Posted on: July 23, 2012
“Elaan” (1947) was a Mehboob Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Surendra, Munawwar Sultana, Zebunissa, Agha, Shahnawaz, W. M. Khan, Leela Mishra, Rita, Shaheda, Subhasini, Reehan, Mohammad Afzal etc in it.
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“Dard” (1947) was a Kardar Production movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suraiya, Shyam Kumar, Munawwar Sultana, Nusrat, Badri Prasad, Husn Banu, Pratima Devi etc in it.
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Ye afsaana nahin zaalim
Posted on: July 17, 2012
“Dard” (1947) was a Kardar Productions movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suraiya, Munawar Sultana, Nusrat, Husn Banoo, Badri Prasad, Protima Devi, Shyam Kumar, Amir Ali, Lakshman, Noor Mahal etc in it.
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Wo apni yaad dilaane ko
Posted on: July 1, 2012
“Jugnu” (1947) was a breakthrough movie for Dilip Kumar. The success of this movie transformed Dilip Kumar from a struggler to an established actor.
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Dilwaaley dilwaaley
Posted on: June 1, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Mention of the name Uma Devi, almost invariably brings to mind the peerless melody – ‘Afsaana Likh Rahin Hoon Dil e Beqaraar Ka’ from the film Dard (1947). And then, in the current memory, there is very little else that emerges from depth of yesteryears. But the fact is that Uma Devi (later also known as the comedienne Tun Tun) was fairly active as a playback singer in the 40s and early 50s. And there is a fairly good number of memorable songs that she has rendered during her short career as a playback singer.
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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.
In my younger days, my uncle used to play M S Subbulakshmi’s (MS) LPs of Venkateshwara Suprabhatam or Vishnu Sahastranamam early morning every day which I used to resent as it became virtually a wake-up alarm for me. But as days passed, I not only started liking her renditions, some of its verses got stored in my mind.
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Paapi papeeha re pi pi na bol
Posted on: March 21, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During my younger days, I got acquainted with some of the popular music directors of the pre-partition days mainly through listening to some of their bench-mark songs on Radio Ceylon. Khwaja Khurshid Anwar is one of those names.
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“Leela” (1947) is an obscure movie by now. Little information is available about this movie.
I have discussed one song from this movie in the past. Here is another song from the movie.
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