Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs


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5883 Post No. : 18467

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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Today on 26th August’2024 the country is celebrating the festival of ‘Janmashtami’ i.e. the festival of birth of Lord Krishna. As Atul ji would like to put it in his words this is the ‘seventeenth’ ‘janmashtami’ festival for the blog which started in the year 2008. And ‘2008’ was the first ‘janmashtami year’ for this blog. Every year on this occasion we feature here songs related to Lord Krishna. I will be presenting couple of songs on this occasion here.
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5882 Post No. : 18466

This article is his 1400th contribution in the blog as a guest poster.

This is my 1400th post on this Blog. For me, it is like a big dream. I feel I will wake up and find that this figure was only a dream figure ! But looks like it is all real.

While I am glad for this new Milestone, it is still a mystery how it has happened. When I retired from my service in 1998 and later from all professional activities in 2010, I was thinking what to do now. Then one day I remembered about my old notebooks in which I had written about the old films which I saw in my younger days and I opened those Pandora’s boxes. A new world opened before me. I bought a Laptop and learnt how to operate it from my grandchildren, who seemed to be born with that knowledge ! I was 71 years old then.
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5881 Post No. : 18465

Today’s song is from the film ‘Beti’ (1941).

This film was made by Ranjit Movietone and it was directed by Jayant Desai. The music was by Gyan Dutt. The film cast consisted of Khursheed, Vasanti, Arun Ahuja, E Bilimorea, Ghori, Kesari, Khatoon, Nagendra, Rewa Shankar etc. 1941 was the beginning of the second decade of the talkie films. Many actors, singers, MDs and directors who rolled over to talkie films from the silent era, slowly started retiring and the new generation took over slowly. Actors like Nagendra, Rewa Shankar, Ghori, Kesari, Khatoon, and Bilimorea who were in this film ended their careers in the next few years.
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5880 Post No. : 18464

Today, 23rd August is the 80th birthday of actress Saira Banu. We pray to the Lord to grant her a healthy long life.

However, today I would like to introduce a master percussionist, composer, live musical performer, record producer, Assistant Music Director and above all a brilliant drummer and Congo/Bongo player, who had no equal in the 1970s and 1980s.
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5880 Post No. : 18463

Today’s song is from the film Manmani-1947.

The film was made by Patel productions. It was directed by Sarvottam Badami and the music was composed by the great one from Bengal – Kamal Dasgupta. Kamal Dasgupta earned fame when he composed many NFS in Hindi and Bengali in the mid 1930 and the 1940s. These became very popular, but somehow his Hindi film music was not that popular, except for the films Jawab-1942 and Hospital-1943, out of the 16 Hindi films for which he gave music. His best song for which he will always be remembered was ” Ye duniya Toofan mail” from the film Jawab-1942. Kamal Dasgupta could not impress with his other film songs in Hindi. 1947 was, in any case, a testing period due to the commotion prevailing in the film industry of Bombay which was affected the most.
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5879 Post No. : 18462

Today’s song is from the film Badi Maa-1945.

The second world war had affected the British Raj very badly. There was Rationing of essential commodities and food items such as Rice and Sugar as well as other necessities like petrol, Kerosene etc. The film industry was hit greatly because the main ingredient of films- The Raw film- was put under Rationing. Small filmmakers were hit badly and the big ones got a limited quota based on their average production of the last 5 years. Like other items of rationing, even Raw film was available in Black market at an exorbitant price.
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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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5878 Post No. : 18461

Today’s song is from a very old film- Janmabhoomi-1936.

During the British Raj, film makers had to be very careful in making a film to ensure that nothing derogatory or against the Raj was found in the film. Making a Patriotic film was a risky business and hence hardly any direct patriotic dialogue or songs could be found which would incite the Censor Board to hold their film for issuance of the Censor Certificate.
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5877 Post No. : 18460

Today’s song is a duet from a very old film-almost 90 year old- Gramophone Singer-1938.

From the 19th century till the beginning years of the 20th Century, the only means of public entertainment was stage dramas and local folk dances pertaining to each demographic region individually. The first gramophone recording took place in India when 2 Nautch Girls- Sashi Mukhi and Feni Bala from Amarendra Dutta’s classical Theatre sang songs in Calcutta on 8-11-1902, Saturday, for a recording.
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5876 Post No. : 18459 Movie Count :

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#The Decade of Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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(Khayyam Saab’s Sixth ‘Remembrance Day’ 19th August’2024)

Today 19th of August’2024 is the fifth ‘Remembrance anniversary’ of legendary music director Mohammed Zahur “Khayyam” Hashmi Saab. He was born on 18th February 1927 and passed away on 19th August’2019.

As a tribute to him today, we are covering songs composed by him today on this blog. So far four songs have been discussed today.
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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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5876 Post No. : 18458

#The Decade of Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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(Khayyam Saab’s Sixth ‘Remembrance Day’ 19th August’2024)

‘Sawaal’ 1982 was produced by Yash Chopra under his own banner of ‘Yash Raj films’. It was directed by Ramesh Talwar. Music of this film was by Khayyam Saab and the lyrics were penned by Majrooh Saab. It had an impressive star cast including Waheeda Rehman, Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Poonam Dhillon, Prem Chopra, Helen, Padma Khanna , Kalpana Iyer, Jagdish Raj, Yunus Parvez, Mac Mohan, Gautam Sarin, Vikas Anand, Harjeet, Ranveer Raj, Avtar Gill, Anjan Shrivastava and others.
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