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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is a movie that came as a critic juncture in the annals of Hindi movie music and it determined the course of action that Hindi movie music was to take. Songs of this movie as well as the other movies with music by Naushad were based on folk music. It was a major departure from earlier music which was based on classical rag based music. Music lovers loved this folk music based music. The classical music based songs too continued to be composed but it became clear that the key to win the public over was through folk music based songs.
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is a movie produced by A R Kardar. This movie had Wasti, Shamim, Jeewan, Anwar Hussain etc in it.
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There are rare sings that one can come across just by stumbling against them while browsing sites like YT. But there are rare songs that cannot be discovered this way. You can find them only when you specifically look for them by the name of the movie, lyricist etc. And such songs may not even be available on YT, that is how rare they are.
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Bheegee bheegee palken hain
Posted on: August 21, 2011
“Bela” (1947) is a by now obscure movie. This movie had actors like Nigar, Jairaj, S N Tripathi (same as the music director), Krishna Kumari,B R Sharma (same person who was a lyricist as well) etc in it. Others are rather unknown names for me.
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“Ham Ek Hain” (1946) is today remembered for being the debut movie of Dev Anand,Rehman and Rehana. But they were not the lead actors in this movie. The lead actors were Ram Singh,Kamla Kotnis and Durga Khote.
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Saamne galli mein mera ghar hai
Posted on: June 21, 2011
There have been many movies, Hindi as well as Punjabi on the story of Mirza Sahiban. One of the first such Hindi movie was “Mirza Sahiban” (1947). I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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Rumjhum barse baadarwaa
Posted on: June 21, 2011
In Hindi movies, the rainy season is the season of love. And this rainy season has countless songs in Hindi movies in its various sub themes, viz Saawan, jhoola, phuhaar, rimjhim, full fledged rains etc.
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I have been discussing the songs of “Parbat Pe Apna Deraa” (1944) these days. and what wonderful songs this movie has ! It is a treasure trove of gems.
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Miyaan jee chori chori
Posted on: November 14, 2010
“Parda” (1949) was a K pictures presentation. It was directed by A G Soorma. This movie had Rehana, Chand, Amar, Kusum Thakur, Ansari etc in it.
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There were two movies called “Doosri Shaadi” that were produced in 1940s. One was released in 1947 and the other one in 1949. Both these movies had different teams.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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