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In olden days, professions like “Gramophone Singer”, “Station Master”, “Taxi Driver”,”Trolly Driver” etc were quite coveted ones. We in fact have Hindi movies with such titles. So far we have discussed songs from “Station Master” (1942), “Taxi Driver” (1954) and “Trolly Driver” (1958) in the blog. Here is a song from “Gramophone Singer” (1938).
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

GOPAL KRISHNA (1938) was produced under the banner of Prabhat Film Company both in Hindi and Marathi versions. The film was directed by V G Damle and S Fatelal. The star cast included Ram Marathe, Shanta Apte, Parshuram, Ganpatrao Tambat etc. I have not seen the full movie but based on a few short clips of the films including the video clips of the songs that are available on the internet, it is a mythological film with a subtle message of nationalism against the British rule in India. The conflict between Gokul villagers on the one hand and King Kansa on the other side was compared with that of Indians and the British rule. Some of the dialogues of Krishna were full of nationalist fervour. For instance, he says to Nand that if we continued the live under the fear of King Kansa, none of our work would be successful. In some other context, Krishna says that the King and his men have been blinded by an authority of absolute power and when Kans’s men drag our cows like dogs and keep with them without proper food, such ruler and his men need to be mauled.
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The tale of Tarzan was used in Hindi movies beginning from 1937. The original Hindi Tarzan movie was called “Toofaani Tarzan” (1937). This movie was a Wadia Movietone production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had John Cawas in the title role. The starcast of the movie had John Cawas, Gulshan, Boman Shroff, Chandrashekhar, Nazira, Dalpat, Ahmed Dilwar etc. A wonderful review of this movie is available in Memsaab’s blog.
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“Vidyapati” (1937) was directed by Debaki Bose. This movie had Pahadi Sanyal in the title role with Kanan Devi acting opposite him. This movie also had Prithviraj Kapoor, Chhaya Devi, K C Dey, Kidar Sharma and Leela Desai.
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While most Hindi movies of the early days used stories from Indian mythological tales, there were a few movie makers who looked westward into Arabian/ Persian tales. Then there were a few who looked even further into tales of Western world and used them.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

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Lesser known singers- Singer 10 (Ashraf Khan)
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This is the 10th and the last of the series on “Less known singers series”.
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