Posts Tagged ‘1944’
“Mumtaz Mahal” (1944) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie has Khursheed in the title role with Chandramohan,Kajjan, Sulochana Chaterjee, Lala Yakub, Brajmala etc also figuring in this movie.
Read more on this topic…
Hamaari gali aanaa
Posted on: January 4, 2011
Hindi movies prior to the golden era (viz prior to 1949) had people about whom not much is known today. But it is clear that their contributions during their time in their fields of activity should not be forgotten.
Read more on this topic…
“Daasi” (1944), which is a very old and forgotten movie had some superb songs in it. The songs of this movie deserve to be much better known among music lovers.
Read more on this topic…
In Hindi movies, any situation is good enough situation for bursting into a song. I have seen actors singing a song while on a death bed, or while they are fighting. They sing when sad, and they also sing when they are happy. Social occasions means lots of songs. They in fact also sing when they are travelling, be it by a bullock cart,chariot, tonga,rickshaw,bicycle,car or train.
Read more on this topic…
Balam mohe chhedo naa
Posted on: December 15, 2010
In Hindi movies, we have songs where the hero teases the lady and then there are songs where the lady
tells him (half seriously) not to tease her. Here is a song that I believe must rank among the best teased songs of all time.
Read more on this topic…
Subah huyi har panchhi jaage
Posted on: December 14, 2010
“Daasi” (1944) seems to have some amazing songs in it that deserve to be discussed in these pages.
Read more on this topic…
I have mentioned it that I know very little about the movies and actors that came before late 1940s. For instance, I have very little knowledge about this movie called “Daasi” (1944). As the name of the movie suggests, this movie has to be about a woman suffering at the hand of her husband. But that is all the knowledge I have. Then I have the songs of this movie to go by.
Read more on this topic…
Koi prem ka deke sandesaa
Posted on: November 19, 2010
In this blog, I have been discussing Sajjad Hussain’s compositions these days. I have covered nearly 40 % of all the songs that he composed in Hindi movies and finding the remaining songs is becoming a tall order as they are all rare songs, not easil available. So every day I wonder where my next Sajjad Hussain song will come from.
Read more on this topic…
Saajnaa more saajnaa
Posted on: October 16, 2010
I have been posting the songs composed by Sajjad Hussain these days. I have so far discussed three songs from his debut movie viz “Dost”(1944).
Read more on this topic…
Alam par alam sitam par sitam
Posted on: October 12, 2010
Sajjad Hussain made his debut an an independent music director with “Dost”(1944). With the passage of so much time, very little is known about this movie today. What is known is that this movie had actors like Noorjahan, Vatsala Kumthekar, Motilal, Husnbano, Maya Banerjee, Kanhaiyalal etc in it.
Read more on this topic…
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
Recent comments