Posts Tagged ‘1938’
Nirdhan ka tu hai dhan
Posted on: September 25, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a ellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 7th song in ” The flavour of the 30s ” series is from a Prabhat film-Gopalkrishna-1938, sung by a young Ram Marathe and composed by Master Krishnarao.
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Dekhoon kab tak baat
Posted on: September 21, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the 6th song in “The flavour of the 30s’ series. The song is from the Film-Mera Ladka-1938. it is sung by Shanta Hublikar and music is by Keshavrao Bhole.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The Flavour of the 30s-1
Today we start a New Series, titled- ” The Flavour of the 30s”.
The first song in this series is from film BRAMHACHARI-1938. This song is sung by Meenakshi Shirodkar, under the baton of composer Dada Chandekar.
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Basa le apne man mein preet
Posted on: April 9, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Baaghbaan means Baghwaan or a Gardener, one who tends the Gardens. To most readers, the name will remind of a film of same name, released in 2003.
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Ek nek tabeeyat raaja thha
Posted on: April 6, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the early era there was a fair exchange of film themes and music between all the centres of film production like Bombay, Lahore, Calcutta, Madras, Poona and Kolhapur( and Hyderabad and Bangalore at a later time). That is why sometimes Bilingual films were made. Madras was not directly interested in making films in Hindi upto 1948,till Vasan’s CHANDRALEKHA-48 had an All India release with over 700 prints, in those days.
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Ae dard zara dam le
Posted on: March 24, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Rajkumari and Amirbai Karnataki were among the leading female playback singers of 1930s and 40s. Both of them started their filmy careers around 1934-35 and also acted and sang songs in the films on themselves. Curiosity led me to check as to who had sung more Hindi film songs among them. So I checked the number of Hindi film songs sung by Amirbai Karnataki and Rajkumari during their careers from http://www.myswar.com. Since this website gives the details of songs only from the year 1941 onward, it was not possible to get the total number of songs sung by them in their entire filmy careers. Nonetheless, I felt that within this limitation, one should get a fair assessment of their contributions to Hindi film songs. As per these data, Amirbai Karnataki sang a total (solo, duets etc) number of 302 songs while Rajkumari sang a total of 387 songs during 1941 and onward. On this basis, I would guess that Rajkumari may have sung more Hindi film songs then Amirbai Karnataki.
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Sundar hoon sakhi
Posted on: February 14, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Films made in the early era of Indian Talkie are a national heritage. Unfortunately, most of the films from the period 1931 to 1939 are not available . Very few films of that era are available. Even the leaflets and film books of these films are not traceable in most cases. In few books like Encyclopaedia of Indian Films the short notes on some films are to be found.
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Jhanda ooncha rahe hamaara
Posted on: January 26, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. With this, he completes 50 writeups in this blog
HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY to all readers.
India became Independent in 1947 from British rule. Till that time, Patriotism and its open expression was considered as acts against the British Government and was a punishable crime. However,India , with a history of strong patriotism did not keep quiet. The Indian film industry also did not lag behind in this.
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Sakhi prem sudha bhar ke aayi
Posted on: November 6, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The era of silent films in India started in 1913, when 2 films were made-Raja Harishchandra and Mohini Bhasmasur. One would think that this must have started a spate of Silent films, but surprisingly, in 1914, 1915 and 1916 only 1 Silent Film each was produced. From 1916 it started with 5 films till 1931, when the age of Talkies arrived with Alam Ara.
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