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


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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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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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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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4397 Post No. : 15773

In Memory of Meena Kumari :

Mehjabeen Bano, who gained name, fame and huge popularity as Meena Kumari, was born on 1st August 1932. Child artist, tragedy queen, poet and singer, are the various attributes to her name. Had she lived to see this day, she would have been 88 today i.e. the two fat ladies of housie. Really, she was just 40 when she left this world, her temporary abode.

Honestly, I have not seen many of her movies. Some of the earlier movies like “Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam” and “Chiraag kahan aur roshni kahan” I have seen on TV longback. The unforgettable “Dil Apna aur preet praayi” and “Ghazal”, “Kaajal” , “Mere apne” and “Bahu Begum” also on TV. “Pakeeza” is the only film I have seen on the big screen and revisited in recent times. The songs of ‘Pakeeza” are embedded in mind from early childhood, even before I am conscious of listening to radio.
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4396 Post No. : 15772

Songs Repeated in Hindi Films – 22
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I present here a repeat song that is quite different from the string of songs in this series so far. I shall begin by introducing the original song.

The original song is from the 1953 film – ‘Hamdard’. The song has been written by Majrooh Sultanpuri, and the music composition is by Anil Biswas. The original song is in the voice of Manna Dey, and it is already posted on the blog a good eight years ago. That post can be viewed at “Tera Haath Haath Mein Aa Gaya”.

The repeat song, this time appearing in the film ‘Tu Nahin Aur Sahi’ from 1960. The song is the same, but for the latter film, it has been re-recorded. The music director of the latter film is Ravi. The second recording is different, both with regards to the composition, as well as the singing voice. The latter song has been recorded in the voice of Rafi Sb, in a tune that is quite different from the original.
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4396 Post No. : 15771

Today is 31 july 2020. It is the 40th anniversary of the passing away of Mohammad Rafi ( 24 december 1924-31 july 1980) as all HFM lovers are only too aware. 31 july 1980 is a day which is still fresh in the minds of music lovers who were around at that time.

31 july 1880, a date exactly 100 years prior to 31 july 1980 was also an important day. It was on this day that Dhanpat Rai was born, who would later be known as Munshi Premchand (31 july 1880-8 october 1936), one of the most influential Urdu-Hindi author in modern Indian literature.
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4396 Post No. : 15770

Songs Repeated in Hindi Films – 21
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OK, yes, this one too.

And I am very sure most of us would not have heard, or even heard of, the third stanza in this song. Ah yes, that is the wonderful bonus we have from the repeat use of this song. I was not even aware of the existence of a third stanza of this song, before my dear friend Ahsaan Bhai (of Hapur) introduced me to this repeat song in the 1978 film ‘Nasbandi’. That was a few months ago. In wayward manner, i.e. without any proper identification etc., this song is available on you tube. And unless one is aware of what one is looking for, one is bound to miss it.
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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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4396 Post No. : 15769

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2010-2020) – Song No. 46
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In the ‘Blog Ten-Year Challenge’ for today (31st July 2020) we have one eligible movie – ‘Aahistaa Aahistaa-1981’.

Another movie ‘Swaami-1977’ though officially YIPPEED with all the four known songs of the movie covered may spring some ‘surprise’in future hence it is marked as ‘all songs covered*’ (with a ‘star’ 🙂 ).

As noted in the earlier posts the blog was in its ‘full swing’ ten years back during these days when it saw an average of over six posts per day appearing on the blog.

In today’s case also, on this day ten years back we had six songs posted on the blog as per details given below;

Song Movie title-Year Remarks
Kabhi kisi ko muqqammal jahaan nahin miltaa Aahistaa Aaahista -1981 02 songs posted
Pal bhar mein ye kyaa ho gayaa Swami-1977 All songs covered*
Main shaayar badnaam Namak Haram-1973 All songs covered
Na tum bewafaa ho na ham bewafaa hain Ek Kali Muskaayi-1968 All songs covered
Nainon waali ne haay meraa dil lootaa Mera Saayaa-1966 All songs covered
Aay haay dilrubaa Dr Vidya-1962 All songs covered

Today we are going to enjoy a song from the movie ‘Aahistaa Aahistaa-1981’ where the music was composed by the genius music director who had given us many timeless classics – Khayyam Saab.
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4396 Post No. : 15768

Hullo Atuldom

“Lafange” (1975) was a movie produced and directed by Harmesh Malhotra. It had five songs from which the blog has one song covered. It was under Sudhirji’s series of “Rafi SB -in the seventies”.

But the more popular song of the movie was its title song “log kehte hain, ke hum lafange hain”. That is not the song we shall have today. We will be celebrating the birthday of the leading lady of this movie with a song sung by Lata Mangeshkar. It is written by Anand Bakshi and Laxmi-Pyare were the music composers.
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4396 Post No. : 15767 Movie Count :

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Today is the 31st of July.
A date that has an immediate connect with most HFM lovers, for it signifies to them the passing away of one of Hindi film industry’s biggest legends.

Mohammad Rafi, or, as many (including myself) refer to him with the greatest respect, Rafisaab.

Today is his 40th death anniversary – and all of us here on the blog, and I’m sure millions around the world, remember him with great love, affection and respect.
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