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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

STREET SINGER (1938) is regarded as one of the three tops films of K L Saigal produced under the banner of New Theaters. If ‘Devdas’ (1935) confirmed the arrival of K L Saigal as an actor-singer, ‘Street Singer’ (1938) and ‘Zindagi’ (1940) made him the first star actor-singer of the Hindi film industry. People used to watch his films more for his songs than for the film itself. The flip side of Saigal’s popularity as a singer was that his songs virtually eclipsed the songs sung by other singers in his films.
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“Postman” (1938) is a very old movie which has by now ended bp as an obscure and forgotten movie. From the avaialble information, the movie was directed by M Thakore and Zia Sarhadi for Sagar Films. The movie had Kumar, Maya, Bibbo, Yaqub, Bhudo Advani, Sankata, Harish etc in it.
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300 days and after (1938) is a movie that few people are today aware of. Here is what Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia, has to say about this movie.
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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. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Today’s song is from film Jwala-38. It is sung by Ratnaprabha under the music direction of Dhamman Khan.
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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.

This is the 8th song in “The flavour of the 30s” series. It is from film Adhikar-1937, sung by Pahadi Sanyal and composed by Timir Baran.
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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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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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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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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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