Posts Tagged ‘1949’
“Dulaari” (1949) is a movie which is today fondly remembered as the movie that helped Rafi break into the big league with the song Suhaani raat dhal chuki. Till then, Rafi’s style of singing had few takers in the Hindi movie music and with this movie it became the new style of singing. It was a paradigm shift which few people at that time may have realised. In fact the management term “Paradigm Shift” itself was not coined at that time.
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Kaise baje dil ke sitaar
Posted on: February 18, 2012
“Chaandni Raat” (1949) is a Taj Mahal Pictures presentation. It was directed by M Ehsan. Starcast of the movie included names like Shyam, Naseem, Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Ulhas, Parvin, David Abraham etc.
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Ek teer chala dil pe lagaa
Posted on: February 15, 2012
“Mahal” (1949) is a landmark movie in several ways, including its music. We in this blog have discussed as many as four songs from this movie.
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Here is another song of the genre “how come this song was not posted earlier”. 🙂 And like always, my excuse is the same. I thought this song was already discussed but I was wrong.
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“Patanga”(1949) was a Varma Films production. It was directed by H S Rawail and the starcast had names like Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Cuckoo, Yakub, Gope, Purnima, Randhir, Mohana, Ramesh Sinha, Shyama, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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“Lekh” (1949) was a Liberty Arts Production. It was directed by G Ganesh. Starcast of the movie included Motilal, Suraiyya, Anand Pal, Cuckoo, Ishu, Jagirdar, Sitara etc.
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“Chaandni Raat” (1949) is an obscure movie by now. It was a Tajmahal pictures presentation and the movie was directed by M Ehsan. Starcast of the movie had names like Shyam, Naseem, Ulhas, Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Parvin, David Abraham etc in it.
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This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Since Jan 31st, 2012 is the 7th death anniversary of Suraiya (Suraiya Jamal Sheikh), here is a song to remember a beautiful actress.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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