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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. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
During the early days of sound films in 1931, Calcutta (Kolkata) film centre had actresses like Patience Cooper, Jahanara Kajjan, Violet Cooper, Anwari, Sabita Devi (real name: Iris Maude Gasper), Kanan Devi, Radharani etc. Most of them had graduated from the silent films. Those days, in the absence of playback singing system, actresses had to sing their own songs in the films. So, those with good voices also got chance to act in the films made especially in the 30s. Begum Akhtar, Mukhtar Begum, Indubala, Kamala Jharia etc are few names that come to my mind. Ratan Bai was also one of those who joined the bandwagon of actresses in Calcutta in 1932 as an actor-singer. Incidentally, this Ratan Bai (Begg) was a different actor and as such she should not to be confused with Ratan Bai (Shilotri), the mother of Shobhna Samarth.
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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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Today’s song is from the film Sheesh Mahal-1950. It was a Minerva Movietone production directed by Sohrab Modi. Vasant Desai was the music director. There were nine songs in the film, which were penned by four Lyricists.
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Jhanjhan beenaa baaje
Posted on: January 8, 2017
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“Vasantsena”(1942) was directed by Gajanan Jageerdaar for Atre Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Vanmala, Gajanan Jageerdar, Shahu Modak, Baby Devi, Eruch Tarapur, Navin Yagnik, Sunalini, Vijaya, Vimal Tripathi, Nazeer Bedi, Raj Vishwas, Sudhir Gore, Pandit Gokhle etc in it.
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Main ek anokhi daali
Posted on: January 5, 2017
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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
During the last 15 months or so, I have been concentrating mainly on rare songs from films of 1940s in my articles for the Blog. During this period, I came across some playback singers, music directors and lyricists who were unknown to me. I also got to know about some of the not so famous film production banners. Similarly, I got the opportunity to gather some information on film directors of 1930s and 40s such as Debaki Bose, P C Barua, V Shantaram, A R Kardar, Kishore Sahu, Mehboob Khan, Kidar Sharma etc.
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“Deewaali Ki Raat”(1956) produced by Vishandas Sapru and directed by Deepak Asha for V.A.R.Productions. The movie had Talat Mehmood, Roopmala, Shashikala, Gope, Motisagar, Neeta etc. in it.
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“Ramayani”(1945) was directed by Sarvottam Badami for Poornima Pictures, Bombay. This obscure movie had Nargis, Pahadi Sanyal, Rose, Chandramohan, Ameerbai karnataki, Kanhaiyalal , Moni Chatterji etc in it.
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Apna desh hai apna ghar
Posted on: December 21, 2016
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Debaki Bose (1898 – 1971) is regarded as one of the pioneers in the field of film direction along with P C Barua, V Shantaram and Nitin Bose. After the production of talkie films started in 1931, Debaki Bose joined New Theatres and got his first chance to show his directorial skills in ‘Puran Bhagat’ (1933). This film is regarded as a turning point in the realm of talkie films. For the first time, the dialogue deliveries by actors were made more like natural talk than in the loud voices with theatrical gestures which was carried over to the films from the theatres. Debaki Bose also used expressions of the actors to supplement the dialogues.
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Kisne diya hai hamko sahaara
Posted on: December 18, 2016
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“Piya Milan”(1945) was directed by S M Yousuf for Wadia Movietone, Bombay. This movie had Motilal, Nirmala Devi, Najma, Leela Mishra, Mirza Musharraf, Wazir Mohammad Khan, S Alam etc in it.
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“Beti” (1941) was directed by Jayant Desai for Ranjit Movietone, Bombay. It had Khursheed Bano, Arun Ahuja, Vasanti, E. Billimoria, Ghory, Khatoon, Kesri, Bhagwandas, Rewashankar, Dharpure, Nagendra, Bhupatrai etc. in it.
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