Archive for the ‘Songs of 1947’ Category
Mere mundere na bol jaa kaagaa
Posted on: September 21, 2010
“Parwaanaa” (1947) was a movie starring K L Saigal and Suraiyya. I have posted three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Hamko tumhaaraa hi aasraa
Posted on: September 10, 2010
Rafi is today a legend of Hindi movie music but he too was a struggler for much of 1940s. It was only from 1946 onwards that he began to get songs to sing.
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Here is a superb sentimental song from “Do Bhai” (1947). This is one of the earliest songs sung by Geeta Dutt that went on to become her calling card (the other such song being Mera sundar sapna beet gaya from the same movie).
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I had never heard this song before. And I cannot be blamed either for not having heard this song before. This song is from an old and forgotten film called “Tohfaa” (1947). This film had actors like Rehman,Anuradha(?) , Mishra (?), Nawab (?),Veera (?) etc etc.
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Aayenge aayenge aayenge re
Posted on: May 18, 2010
This song is from a very old movie called “Dil Ki Rani” (1947). Most people involved in the creation of this song are now household names, but at the time of creation of this song, they were newcomers. In fact the names by which they were then known are not the names by which they are known today.
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Beech bhanwar mein aan phansi hai
Posted on: April 1, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Dard” (1947) in the past, including the iconic “afsaana likh rahi hoon” from this movie.
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Hamen chhod piyaa kis des gaye
Posted on: December 28, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Do Bhai” (1947) in this blog. It is in this movie that Geeta Roy (later Geeta Dutt) made her debut as a playback singer. It is in this movie that she sang the well known “mera sundar sapna beet gayaa”.
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Aji preet ka naataa toot gayaa
Posted on: December 11, 2009
I have posted several songs from “Do Bhai” (1947). It is this movie where Geeta Ray (as Geeta Dutt was then known) first came to limelight with her “mera sundar sapna beet gayaa”. I have since come across other Geeta Dutt songs from this movie which I liked even more.
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Bollywood movie songs of 1940s are of considerable importance and interest, because the singing legends of later decades were taking their first tentative steps in their singing careers at that time. For instance, Rafi was just two movies old as a playback singer when 1947 began. In 1947, he sang in “Do Bhai” and “Jugnu”. The “Jugnu” song-“Yahaan badla wafaa ka bewafaayi ke siwaa kyaa hai” proved to be the first major hit of his singing career.
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When one talks of “Dard” (1947), one is mostly reminded on the immortal song “Afsaana likh rahi hoon dile bekaraar ka” which took the nation by storm. It was sung by Umadevi (later known as Tuntun) and picturised on Munawwar Sultana.
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