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


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4400 Post No. : 15783

I cut my HFM teeth in late 1960s when old order was giving way to new. Old order meant Rafi as the male playback singer of choice, Shammi Kapoor as the heart throb, and Shankar Jaikishan as the music directors of choice for big banners. In a matter of a few years or so, the musical order was turned upside down. When the dus settled, we found Shammi Kapoor being replaced by Rajesh Khanna, Rafi by Kishore Kumar and Shankar Jaikishan by R D Burman.

I became a young music lover sometime in mid to late 1960s. From being used to Rafi voice blaring from loudspeakers, I found a new male voice beginning to blare out of loudspeakers. Alongwith rest of the population, I too was mesmerised by this voice. The very first time I listened to the voice of Kishore Kumar, i loved it. the song was the iconic “Padosan”(1968) song-“mere saamne waali khidki”.
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4400 Post No. : 15782

Today (4 August 2020) is the 91st birth anniversary of Kishore Kumar (4 August 1929- 13 october 1987). And incidentally, today is the 4400th day for the blog !

Three articles from three regulars discussing Kishore Kumar have already appeared on the blog today. It is interesting to note that all the three regulars decided to discuss three songs from the decade of 1980s.

The golden era of HFM, which began in 1949, ended in 1980. People who lived through the golden era can notice a palpable lack of overall quality in HFM after 1980. There were quite a few reasons for that. I have given this matter some thought and I have come up with some interesting observations. I will use those observations some other time in some other article. Here I will mention it in brief that the golden era of HFM began when Indian classical base (melody based) was wedded with western classical base (symphony based). This marriage, which gave us the best of both the worlds, got dissolved in 1980. Western symphony was replaced by western cacophony while lyrics of the songs were dispensed with.
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4400 Post No. : 15781 Movie Count :

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Remembering Kishore Kumar on his 91st Birth Anniversary :

teri gali main aata sanam
naghma wafa ka gaata sanam
tujhse suna na jaata sanam
phir aa jidhar aaya hoon magar
ye kehne main deewaana
khatm bas aaj ye wehshat hogi
aaj rusva teri galiyon mein muhabbat hogi
mere mehboob

Abhas Kumar Ganguly (born 4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987), became the famed Kishore Kumar of Hindi film world. Being a Bengali but born and brought up in hindi heartland and settling down to work in Bombay film industry to follow the footsteps of big brother, must have helped form a cosmopolitan outlook in his attitudes. I have just read the Wikipedia page on Kishore Kumar and found it enlightening in many ways. Some of the eccentric behavior described in the page, are funny and not so funny at the same time.
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4400 Post No. : 15780 Movie Count :

4394

Hullo Atuldom

4th August. A day that is important for Kishore Kumar fans. He would have 91.

Almost as a ritual all channels will show some movie were we see the best side of KK. His wonderful singing, his comic timing. His weird dancing. We will be treated to either Padosan or Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi or any other popular movie. But we in this blog are unique, in the sense we dig out a new song for every occasion/ post. We also strive to find a different facet of the artist.
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4400 Post No. : 15779

Less than a week ago, we were commemorating the death anniversary of Rafisaab on this blog. And here we are today to discuss another singing legend, this time on his birth anniversary. Of course, it’s none other than Kishore Kumar, another much-loved personality in the Hindi film industry.
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4399 Post No. : 15778

Today (3 august 2020) happens to be the festival of Raakhi. Seeing that we are in the grips of a pandemic, most festivals in India are coming and going without much celebration. Things are not what they used to be till last year. Hopefully, we will be able to overcome this pandemic and will be able to celebrate all festivals and all other occasions of get together with the same kind of impunity that was taken for granted till a few months ago.
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4399 Post No. : 15777

Today’s song is from the film Bhaijaan-1945. It was made by United films, Lahore. Directed by S.Khalil, it had music by Shyam Sundar. The songs were by Partau Lukhnavi. The film had 9 songs. The cast of the films was Noorjehan, Shahnawaz, Meena, Karan Dewan, Anis khatoon, Ansari, Nazir Kashmiri and others.Some of the songs shot on Noorjehan were sung by Nurjehan in the film, but the 78 RPM records of these songs were by Zeenat Begum. There are 4 such songs. This information is from the recordist Anant Thakur, as mentioned in HFGK. Anant Thakur is the same person whose name appeared as the Director of film Chori Chori-56, in later years.
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4399 Post No. : 15776

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2010-2020) – Song No.49
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In my younger days, I remember to have watched Marathi film ‘Kunku’ (1937) on Bombay Doordarshan (now ‘Sahyadri’ Channel). At that time, I was not aware that ‘Duniya Na Maane’ (1937) was its Hindi version. Even it did not occur to me that the subject chosen for the film was very bold. I have no much recollections of the songs of the film but Shanta Apte’s performance has remained in my mind as it was quite different as compared with the theatrical acting by most of the actors of that time. Even her song renditions were looking natural as against the ‘fixed gaze’ style of song renditions witnessed in most of the films at that time.
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4398 Post No. : 15775

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2010-2020) – Song No. 48
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One movie which is eligible for ‘Blog Ten-Year Challenge’ today (2 august 2020)is the ‘1954’ movie ‘Baraati’.

The other movies represented on the blog ten years back on this day were ‘Anand-1970’, ‘Ek Dil Sau Afsaane-1963’, ‘Dekh Kabeeraa Roya-1957’, ‘Halaaku-1956’, and ‘Singaar-1949’ in their descending order of posting of songs. All of them have already been YIPPEED.

So, we can see that six songs were posted on 01.08.2010 maintaining the ‘six posts per day’ average very well. 🙂

The songs represented on 01.08.2010 on the blog were as follows;

Song Movie title-Year Remarks
Naa jiyaa laage naa Anand-1970 All songs covered
Door ke o chandaa aa meri baahon mein aa Ek Dil Sau Afsaane-1963 All songs covered
Hamse aayaa naa gayaa tumse bulaayaa naa gayaa Dekh Kabeeraa Royaa-1957 All songs covered
Bol mere maalik teraa kyaa yahi hai insaaf Halaaku-1956 All songs covered
Kahin door koyaliyaa gaaye re Baraati -1954 05 songs posted
Ae dard e muhabbat tune mujhe deewaanaa banaakar chhod diyaa Singaar-1949 All songs covered

‘Baraati-1954’ was directed by J.K. Nanda for Kardar Productions, Bombay. It had Chand Usmani, Peace Kanwal, Agha, Om Prakash, Shyam Kumar, Leela Mishra, Baby Sheela, Darpan, Johny Walker, Abbas, Rajan Haksar, Heera Sawant, Agha Miraj, Kathana, Ameer Ali, Agha Mirza and others.
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4397 Post No. : 15774

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2010-2020) – Song No. 47
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Today’s song is from the ‘1967’ movie ‘Naunihaal’ which is eligible for ‘Blog ten-years challenge’ of today, as its song was posted on this day on the blog ten years back.

There were six posts on that day on the blog and that was well going with the average posts per day on the blog then.

The songs represented on 01.08.2010 on the blog were as follows;

Song Movie title-Year Remarks
Raat suhaani jaag rahi hai Jigri Dost-1969 All songs covered
Zulf bikhraati chali aayi ho Ek Kali Muskaayi-1968 All songs covered
Aasmaan se aaya farishtaa pyaar ka sabak sikhlaane An Evening In Paris-1967 All songs covered
Meri aawaaz suno Naunihaal-1967 04 songs posted
Tere mere sapne ab ek rang hain Guide-1965 All songs covered
Dekhi zamaane ki yaari bichhde sabhi baari baari Kaaghaz Ke Phool-1959 All songs covered

Out of the six movies represented then five movies viz. ‘Jigri Dost-1969’, ‘Ek Kali Muskaayi-1968’, ‘An Evening In Paris-1967’, ‘Guide-1965’ and ‘Kaaghaz Ke Phool-1959’ have already covered with all their songs posted on the blog and have attained ‘Yippeeeeee’ status on the blog.
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