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

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This article is written by Gajendra Khanna, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6440 Post No. : 19989 Movie Count :

5194

Before coming to the song, I would like to talk about the film itself. I remember going to see it at Chandragupt Talkies, one of the then popular single screen cinemas of Indore with my brother and enjoying this movie. That cinema is long gone like many other single screens but I still remember the josh of going to that huge cinema hall. Indore which came in the MP circle used to have this unique thing that the cinemas would get displayed on Thursdays (most other circles actually screened the movie the next day on the Friday). There would be huge queues to do advance bookings in those cinemas. Sometimes, we would have to request passing by girls and ladies to stand in the ladies queue to get tickets fast!
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6433 Post No. : 19969

Today’s song is from a social film – Pardesi-1941.

It was a Ranjit Movietone presentation. Directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi, its music was provided by Khemchand Prakash. Film’s 15 songs were written by D.N.Madhok and Pyarelal Santoshi. The cast included Motilal, Khursheed, Snehprabha, E. Billimoria, Durgesh (Debut of actress Anjali Devi-Bombaywali- in her real name), Kantilal, Bhagwandas etc.
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6424 Post No. : 19940

“Gumraah” (1976) was produced by K P Sethi and directed by Prem Manik. The movie had Reena Roy, Subhash Ghai, Danny Denzongpa, Iftekhar, Sheetal, Keshto Mukherjee, Jagirdar, Ashoo, Yogesh Chhabra, Ashok Khanna, Monto, Mona, Shefali, Moolchand, Leela Mishra, Arpana Choudhary, Bhalla, Sudesh, Sandeep, Bharat Ashavani, B. Shrivastava, Ganesh etc in it. Ranjeet made a special appearance in this movie. B.B. Bhala, Maruti and Manorama made friendly appearance in this movie.
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6420 Post No. : 19925

“Gramophone Singer”(1938) was produced by V C Desai and Ramchandra Thakur for Sagar Films Production, Bombay. The movie had Surendra, Bibbo, Ishrat Sultana, Prabha, Bhudo Advani, Sankata, Pande, Jamoo Patel, Pesi Patel, Kayam Ali, Sawant, Kanhaiyalal, Agashe etc in it. This movie had 15 songs in it. Five songs have been covered in the past.
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6418 Post No. : 19918

“Jhoola”(1941) was directed by Gyan Mukherjee for Bombay Talkies Ltd, Bombay. The movie had Leela Chitnis, Ashok Kumar, Shah Nawaz, V. H. Desai, Mumtaz Ali, Karuna Devi, Shahzadi, Rajkumari Shukla, Meenu Kapoor, M.A. Aziz, Kazi, Master Lakshman, Leeladhar Sharma, Iqbal Bai, B.M. Dixit, Jyoti, Dulari, Nana Palsikar etc in it.

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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6415 Post No. : 19908 Movie Count :

5186

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Shareef Daaku-1960’. This movie is making its debut on the blog today. It seems to be an obscure movie of its time.

One big advantage of the internet era is that sharing of resources has become easy. It has enabled music lovers to share music from obscure movies that would have remained out of reach of most music lovers if there was no internet. Songs from old movies that were considered very rare songs and even lost songs have become available with time for the listening pleasure of music lovers. One cannot thank the uploaders of such songs enough. Music lovers will remain grateful for their generosity in sharing such rare musical gems online.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6412 Post No. : 19896

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-57)
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Today 6th February 2026 is the 111th birth anniversary of Poet-Lyricist Kavi Pradeep. He was born on 06th Feb 1915 and he passed away on 11th December 1998. On this occasion here is a song penned by him for the movie ‘Chandi Poojaa-1957’.

‘Chandi Poojaa-1957’ was directed by Raman B. Desai for ‘New Precious Pictures, Bombay’. Dinu M. Desai was the Producer of this movie. The cast of this movie had Nirupa Roy, Manhar Desai, Prem Adib, Shanta Apte, Malay Sarkar, Sapru, Pande, Sangeeta, Narbada Shankar, Hansraj, Sudheer, Moni Chatterjee and others. ‘Chandi Pujaa or Chandi Poojaa-1957’ was passed by Censor Board on 19.07.1957. Geet Kosh Vol-III (1951-1960) mentions in the foot-note on the page of this movie that this movie ‘Chandi Pujaa’ was the last movie of actress Shanta Apte.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6404 Post No. : 19865 Movie Count :

5183

‘Taqdeer Ki Tope’ (1939) was produced and directed by Vithaldas Panchotia under the banner of Shri Bharat Lakshmi Pictures. The cast included Master Nissar, Husn Bano, Vithaldas Panchotia, Jyotsana Gupta, Sultana Banu, Fakir Mohammed, Abdul Kabuli, Narbada Shankar, Master Gama, Shanti Devi, Aruna Devi etc. I have no idea about the genre of the film. I came across the name of the film while listening, for the first time, the audio clip of a song rendered by Master Nisaar. I found the song interesting because it is rendered by Master Nissar in the Hindustani semi-classical style. Before I listened to the song, I was under the impression that Master Nissar was an actor first and had to sing for himself as during his time, the playback singing system was yet to be evolved. But his voice sounded like a trained singer.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6388 Post No. : 19810

Today’ song is from an early film of Talat Mehmood – Samapti-1949.

Talat has sung some memorable songs. He worked in 3 films in Calcutta and 9 films in Bombay as an actor. Today’s film is his 3rd and last film done in Calcutta. His first film as an actor was Raj laxmi-1945, the second was Tum aur Hum-1947. For this film, he had taken a new name – Tapan Kumar. The reason, presumably, was that there was another actor with a similar name – Talaaq Mehmood, working in this film. To avoid any confusion, he probably took this name. During the period 1947 to 1949, he sang many Bangla NFS in the name of Tapan Kumar.

Today’s song was composed by Music Director Timir Baran Bhattacharya. It was directed by Amar Mullick and the star cast was Bharati Devi, Heeralal, Sunder, Talat mehmood and others. I have neither seen this film nor know of its story. The film had 8 songs. 2 Solos and 2 Duets of Talat and Puprabha Sarkar and 2 solos of Suprabha are mentioned in HFGK. 2 remaining songs do not show a singer’s name. The HFGK also mentioned the title of this film as Sampatti instead of Samapti. This was , however, corrected in subsequent editions.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6383 Post No. : 19794

Today’s song is a duet from a Mythological milestone film – Bharat Milap-1942.

Mythological films have been an important part of Indian films for a long time and this was evident from the fact that there was hardly any production house that did not make a Mythological film. The period of 1940 to 1965 can be called an age of meaningful religious films. In this too, the 1950 to 1960 period was the peak period for this genre. Later on the production of such films dwindled and these days, of course, one has to make efforts to find such a film, with a large magnifying glass !
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