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

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In this blog, I post songs mainly from the golden era of Hindi movie music spanning across three decades from 1950s to 1970s. The decades just prior to 1950s, viz 1940s and 1930s were where the decks were cleared for the golden era to commence Listening to songs from these two pioneering decades is an enriching experience as it helps us go down memory lane by more than six to seven decades back to an era when I was not born and even my parents were small kids at that time.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

There are singing voices. Then there are voices that sing. And then there is SD Burman – affectionately Sachin Da, or just plain Dada, to most people in the industry, a voice that stands apart from everyone else.
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The golden era of Hindi movie music began in late 1940s and lasted till late 1970s. There are very few music directors who were around when the golden era began and who lasted almost the entire period of this golden era. The one music director who was around for almost the entire duration and whose was S D Burman.
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I have so far posted 11 songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) and I wondered if there was any worthwhile song left from this movie that needed to be posted. Of course there was ! Here is this delightful song sung by Suraiyya which I had never heard before till now !
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In Hindi movies, actors do not remember God when the going is good. At that time they are busy running around the trees singing romantic songs, but as soon as the good times end, the characters (especially female characters) would suddenly remember God and she will start singing a Bhajan. In some cases, when the lady feels especially short changed, she will not even bother to sing a Bhajan, rather she would accuse God of being harsh on her.
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I have been posting songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) these days. So far, all the songs posted by me (all 8 of them) have been centred around Noorjahaan and Surendra, but this movie als had Suraiyya in it. And naturally, she too sang songs in this movie.
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I have been posting the songs of “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) these days. It was pointed out to me that I had not posted arguably the most popular song of the movie, viz. “Aawaaz de tu kahaan hai”. Was it really so ? I checked up and found that I had posted two songs from this movie starting with “A” , but the song under discussion was not one of them. And I was actually under the impression that the song was already posted !
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