Posts Tagged ‘1944’
“Pagli Duniya” (1944) is a movie that can qualify for the category of the most obscure movies today. Hardly any information is available about this movie. This movie had actors like Motilal, Mumtaz Shanti, Sheikh Mukhtaar, Kanhaiyalal, Pratima Devi etc in it.
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is a movie that came as a critic juncture in the annals of Hindi movie music and it determined the course of action that Hindi movie music was to take. Songs of this movie as well as the other movies with music by Naushad were based on folk music. It was a major departure from earlier music which was based on classical rag based music. Music lovers loved this folk music based music. The classical music based songs too continued to be composed but it became clear that the key to win the public over was through folk music based songs.
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Panchhi tu jaa re
Posted on: September 19, 2011
Here is a song that is extremely rare and obscure even by the standards of this blog where rare songs are discussed on a regular basis. And a song like this cannot be discovered just by stumbling against them in some site. One needs to consciously search for songs like this by name. I had got a lead somewhere that there was a music director called Pt Govardhna Prasad who was the father of Khemchand Prakash. Pt Govardhan Prasad worked as a music director in only one movie and that movie was called “Ismat”. With this minute bit of information, I set out to search for the songs of this movie.
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) was one of those early movies which decided the course of action that future Hindi movie music was to take. This movie, like other movies where Naushad was the music director, had its music based on folk music, and that enabled public to readily connect and identify with this music.
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“Anban” (1944) is as obscure a movie as a movie ever can be. Hardly any information is available about this movie now. This movie was directed by N Lahiri. Its star cast included names like Shah Nawaz, David Abraham, Mubarak , Pahari Sanyal, Nargis , Jagirdar , Shobhana Samarth etc.
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is a movie produced by A R Kardar. This movie had Wasti, Shamim, Jeewan, Anwar Hussain etc in it.
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Angdaayi teri hai bahaanaa
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“Rattan” (1944) was a movie that was musically a major milestone for Hindi movie music. The music of this movie served as a major trendsetter. The music of this movie was based on folk music, as against classical music. This ensured that movie goers, who were exposed to such music in their day to day life, were able to identify with this kind of music better. And just how well did the public identify with the music ! The music of this movie became super duper hit. Naushad became a rage, and other music directors too jumped on the bandwagon of folk music based songs.
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Laaye laaye laaye laaye balamwaa
Posted on: August 22, 2011
The song “Chal Chal Re Naujawaan” and the movie “Chal Chal Re Naujawaan” are different. A song thus titled first appeared in an Ashok Kumar movie called “Bandhan”(1938). The movie “Chal Chal Re Naujawaan” appeared in 1944. This movie too starred Ashok Kumar. So this phrase “Chal Chal Re naujawaan” whether as a song or as a movie title became inextricably associated with Ashok Kumar.
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When one talks of a movie called “Caravan”, one normally means “Caravan” (1971), but I have just discovered that there was another movie of the same name which was released in 1944. Very little information is available about this movie. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this movie.
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