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6249 Post No. : 19327

Today’s song is from the film Shri Rambhakta Hanuman-1948.

The film was produced and directed by Homi Wadia for his own banner Basant Pictures. The film story was adapted from Valmiki Ramayan by Shivram Vashikar and the dialogues were by P.C. Joshi- who had also acted in the film in the role of Lakshman. The film starred Trilok Kapoor (Shri Ram), Prabhas Joshi (Lakshman), Sona Chaterjee (Seeta), Niranjan Sharma (Ravan), S.N.Tripathi (Hanuman), Dalpat Joshi, Amarnath and many others.The music was by S.N.Tripathi. This was his first role as Hanuman. He went on to do Hanuman’s role 6 more times.

Film Shri Rambhakta Hanuman-48 was the first of the Mythological films Homi Wadia’s Basant Pictures had made. Due to the extraordinary success of religious films from Prakash Pictures, suddenly there was a spurt in making Mythological films. Though Prakash Pictures made hit films like Bharat Milap-42 and Ram Rajya-43, in their films, the entire focus was on Shri Ram and Seeta Mai. They did not give any importance to Hanuman in their films. When I checked the credits of these two films yesterday, I found that Hanuman’s name was not there in the credits and we do not know who did that role ! Sensing this as an opportunity, the business minded Wadia made a film on Hanuman as the central character.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6228 Post No. : 19255

#The Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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(Celebrating Saawan-2025-8)
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If one takes a look at the number of saawan songs’ on the blog saawan songs from the decades of 1930s through 1970s that are yet to be represented here. This year we are posting some songs from this category under the ‘celebrating saawan-2025’ series. Today’s song is the eighth song in this series.

The song under discussion is from the 1948 movie ‘Gopinath’. It was directed by Mahesh Kaul for Shanti Lokchitra, Bombay. It was a “social” movie. The cast of this movie had Raj Kapoor, Trupti Mitra, Latika, Nand Kishore, Sachin Ghosh, Randheer, Anwari Bai, Feroz, Mahesh Kaul, Bay Zubeida, Niranjan Tiwari and others. This movie has nine songs written by Ram Murty – five songs, and four bhajans which are attributed to Surdas and Meerabai two bhajans each. The singers for this movie are Meena Kapoor, Ninu Mazumdar, and Shamshad Begam.
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6219 Post No. : 19214

“Chanda Ki Chaandni” (1948) was directed by Dwarka Khosla for I.A. Patel Productions, Bombay. This “social” movie had Rehana, Jairaj, Veera, Bilimoria, Shanta, Neelkanth Tiwari, Moni Chatterjee, Pandey, Keshri, Ameer Banu etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6184 Post No. : 19095

Today’s song is from the film Shahnaaz-1948.

This film was directed by a Comedian- Shaikh and the music was by Singer/Actress Amirbai Karnataki. The cast of the film was Begum Para, Altaf, Nihal, Shanta Patel, Gulnar, Shama Dulari, Basheer , Shaikh and others. Most of the cast, except Begum Para and Altaf, was from C grade action films.

One of the interesting riddles the new “Old Film” lovers chew with interest is, who was the first woman Music Director in Hindi films. Time and again it has been proven, told, written and accepted that Bibbo aka Isharat Sultana was the First woman M.D., but still it is raised every now and then and the debate continues unabated.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6152 Post No. : 19001

Today’s song is from a C grade action/jungle film, labelled as a Costume film – Mala The Mighty-1948. Made by Basant Pictures, Bombay, owned by Homi Wadia, it was directed by John Cavas, who was also the Hero of this film. The others in the cast were Leela, Dalpat, Azeem, Shyamsunder, Saleem, kareem etc. Lyricist Shyam Hindi wrote the songs which were composed by the Melody Master Chitragupta.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6123 Post No. : 18946

Today’s song is from an ‘Unique’ film, Shahnaz-1948. Made by Wahab productions, Bombay, this Costume film was directed by a Comedian – Sheikh.

Sheikh was a Comedy actor in the 40s, 50s and the 60s. He has acted in 170 films,as per Muvyz stats. He sang 10 songs in 8 films as per HFGK (Daulat ki duniya-47, Fifty Fifty-UR, Nakli Baap-49, Jiya Raja-49, Dushman-50, Simba-51, Hatimtai-56 and Naagmani-57).
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6120 Post No. : 18941

Today’s song is from the Historical film Padmini-1948. Made by Punjab Film Corporation, it was produced and directed by its owner Wali Saheb. All the 11 songs of this film were also written by Wali Saheb. The cast of the film was Mumtaz Shanti ( wife of Wali Saheb), Ashok Kumar, Mumtaz Ali, Samson, Maya devi, neelam, Sultana, A. Shah and others.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6083 Post No. : 18876

Today’s song is from the Historical film Padmini-1948.

This film has a historical value, in the sense that this was one of the last films of Music Director Ghulam Haider in India. He had recorded his last song of Lata for his film. The film was made by Punjab Film Corporation, Bombay. It was owned by Wali Saheb, who was the Lyricist and the director of this film. By the way his wife Mumtaz Shanti was the Heroine in this film. The Music Director was Ghulam Haider. The cast of the film included Mumtaz Shanti, Ashok Kumar, Mumtaz Ali, Maya Devi, Neelam, Sultana and many others.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6062 Post No. : 18845

Today’s song is from an almost unknown film- Refugee-1948.

This film was made by Harishchandra Rao Kadam, for his banner Harishchandra Films, Bombay. He had also acted in this film. The film was directed by Harish and the music was by a Debutante- Ajit Merchant. The cast included Urmila, Harishchandra rao, Hamid (called ‘Ajit’ in later films ), Majnu, Dalpat and debutante actress Sulochana Kadam, , Kesarbai (eldest aunt of actress Hansa Wadkar) and others. Sulocahan Kadam had also acted in another film, Krishna Sudama-1947. However her film Refugee got delayed and was released after Krishna Sudama. Anyway, after these 2 films, she quit acting and concentrated only on singing.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6018 Post No. : 18747

Today’s song is from the film Ghar Ki Izzat-1948. This is the last song of the film. The film will be now YIPPEED.
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