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


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5712 Post No. : 18230

A very Happy MAHASHIVRATRI to all our readers.

On this auspicious occasion, I am presenting a Shiv bhajan from the film Swami Vivekanand-1955.

There were two Hindi movies made on Swami ji. One was made and released in 1955 and the other was made in 1994 (released in 1998). There was also the movie The Light : Swami Vivekanand in 2013. It was made in Hindi, Bangla, Tamil and English. There were movies in Telugu and of course in Bangla also. Today’s film was made by Amar Mullick Production. It was produced by actress Bharati Devi (Amar Mullick’s wife) and Phani Mullick (Amar’s brother). The film was directed by Amar Mullick himself. The film was made simultaneously in Bangla and Hindi. All artistes were from Bengal. The Music Director was Rai Chand Boral.
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5711 Post No. : 18229

“Aansoo Aur Muskaan”(1970) was directed by P Madhvan for Screen Gems, Bombay. This “social” movie had Hema Malini, Ajay Sahni, Wonder child Bobby, Jagdeep, David, Suresh, Maruti,Birbal, Prem Kumar, Sadan, Swaraj Kumar, Subba Rao, Raghaviah, Anand, Behari, Pandey, Babu, Kiran, Bindu, Shabnam, Tuntun, Kanakadurga, Shyamala, Udayalakshmi and Om Prakash in it. Kishore Kumar had made a special appearance whereas Padmini and Man Mohan had made guest appearances in the movie.
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5710 Post No. : 18228

Today’s song is from an old film Paak Daman-1940.

Actually, I need not have written ” from an old film”, because my name is now firmly connected with old films only. This is in spite of my posts on a fair number of films and songs from 1970 to 2016 also. However branding and the label has stuck to me pucca.
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5709 Post No. : 18227 Movie Count :

4959

Every year, hundreds of Hindi feature films are certified by Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Just for a sample check, I found that for the years 1951-1980, on an average, 100-120 Hindi features films had been certified/released. I am sure the number of Hindi films certified/released in the subsequent decades must have increased significantly. There were many Hindi feature films which had been shot but got shelved or remained incomplete or if completed, remained unreleased. I checked on the websites of Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association (IMPPA) and Producers Guild of India (GUILD) for the list of such films. Unfortunately, no such information is available on the website. It is one more example of the poor upkeep of film related statistics.
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5708 Post No. : 18226

Today’s song is from an almost unknown film Daku Bhupat-1960.

This was a dubbed film, originally made in Telugu as ” Raja Nandini”-1958. The system of spelling the proper nouns in Southern languages is different from most western or North Indian languages. I believe it all depends on the type of alphabet a language has. Some alphabets which are present in Devanagari script languages (like Marathi or Hindi for example) are not present in southern languages. So sounds like T and TH are both spelled as th. Thus Lalita in Hindi becomes Lalitha in south.
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5707 Post No. : 18225

“Khyber” (1954) was produced and directed by Kamal Kapoor for Kapil Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Kamal Kapoor and Nigar Sultana in lead roles. The movie also had Naaz, Tiwari, Niranjan Sharma, BM Vyas, Chaman Puri, Nand Kishore, Dev Raj, Rajan Kapoor, Dichhoo Kumar (Jr.), Roop Kumar, Baby Ratan, Chiman Lal, Charanjit Kumar, Indu Pal etc in it.
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5706 Post No. : 18224

Today’s song is from an obscure film Vakil Saheb-1943.

The second world war started in 1939 and ended in 1945. The effects of wartime started being felt to people in the world, whether involved or not in the war. Shortages of essentials due to transport restrictions and Petrol shortages were acute when the war continued unabated and spread to almost every part of the world. Major powers like England , Japan, Europe, Russia and America dragged countries which were under their rule or influence and those who were friendly to them. This included India too.
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5705 Post No. : 18223 Movie Count :

4958

‘Chaahat’ (1996) was produced by Robin Bhatt and Viral Lakhia under the banner of Bhatt Productions and was directed by Mahesh Bhatt. The cast included Shah Rukh Khan, Pooja Bhatt, Ramya Krishnan, Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Avtar Gill, Mushtaq Khan, Tiku Talsania, Pankaj Berry, Anant Jog, Razak Khan, Shrivallabh Vyas, Rajni Bala, Amrit Patel, Alia Bhatt (as a child artist) etc.
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5704 Post No. : 18222

Today’s song is from a film made almost 90 years ago….Maaya-1936.

This was a presentation of New Theatres, Calcutta, founded by its owner B.N.Sircar on 10th February 1931. In a span of just 24 years, it had made 150 films in Bangla, Hindi and some other languages. New Theatres actually was like an Academy for training film industry personnel in the Indian subcontinent. B.N.Sircar, though the owner of the company, had a very restricted role in its film making, once it started shooting. After the story was approved and the required finance was provided, he never interfered in the making of the film, rarely even visiting the shooting floors. This freedom helped many talented composers, directors, actors and the technical staff to learn how to face problems and solve them. There was a “Family” feeling among the workers.
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5703 Post No. : 18221

‘Toofaan Mein Pyaar Kahaan’ (1966) was produced by S H Munshi and was directed by Phani Majumdar. Ashok Kumar and Nalini Jaywant were in the lead roles, supported by Jayshree Gadkar, Sailej Prakash, Lata Sinha, Madhumati, Achala Sachdev, Tarun Bose, Tiwari, Sundar, Bhagwan Sinha etc. This was the last film of Nalini Jaywant as a lead actor after which she had a long hiatus of about 15 years to reappear as a character actor in ‘Bandish’ (1980) and ‘Naastik’ (1983).
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