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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 16
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CHHAMIA (1945) was produced and directed by Protima Dasgupta under the banner of PDG Films. The star cast included Begum Para, Arif, Protima Dasgupta, David, Azoorie, Gulab, Dixit etc. There were 11 songs in the film. Only one song from this movie is available on YT which has been covered in the Blog in the past. There were two lyricists – Pandit Indra and Qabil Amritsari. However, the distribution of 11 songs between them is not known. The songs were composed by Gyan Dutt.
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The system of borrowed voice (i.e., playback singing) for actors started sometime in 1934 and playback singing was firmly in place in the Hindi film industry by the end of 1940. However, in the 40s, there were some prominent actor-singers Like K L Saigal, Noor Jahan, Suraiya, Shanta Apte, Kanan Devi etc. who continued to sing for themselves. Mukesh, Kishore Kumar, Talat Mehmood, Sulkashana Pandit etc who started as playback singers also sang for themselves whenever they acted in some films. GM Durrani who started his filmy career as an actor in the 30s switched over to playback singing and he became one of the most sought after male playback singer in 1940s. All these actor-singers/singer-actors had good voices and therefore one would normally expect them to sing for themselves while acting in films. However, there are cases where a few of such artists had to borrow voices of other playback singers.
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“Chaand Taara”(1945) was directed by Mahesh Chandra for Asiatic Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Swarnlata, Jagdish Sethi, Charlie, Indira, Pesi Patel, Ghori, Kesri etc in it.
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“Station Master”(1942) was directed by Chimanlal Luhar for Prakash Pictures. The story, screenplay and dialogues were written by P L Santoshi and V. Aundhkar. The movie had Prem Adeeb, Ratnamala, Jagdish Sethi, Kaushalya, Jeevan, Suraiyya, Gulab, Amirbai, Pratima devi, Shakir, Umakant Desai etc in it.
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“Vish Kanya” (1943) was a Ranjit Production movie. The movie was directed by Kidar Sharma. It had Surendra, Sadhana Bose, Prithviraj Kapoor, Kamla, Leela Mishra, Sulochana, Brijmala etc in it.
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“Jeewan” (1944) was produced by A R Kardar and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Mehtab, Badri Prasad, Anwar, Shyam Kumar, Misra, Sofia, Nirmala etc in it.
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“Zeenat”(1945) was directed by Syyad Shaukat Hussain Rizvi for Eastern Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Noorjahaan, Yakub, Karan Diwan, Bibbo, Shanta Rani, Majid, Himalaywala, Dixit, Jillobai, Laddan, Shah Nawaz, Naseem (Junior), Agha, Nazeer Kashmiri, Sengar, Amir Ali etc in it.
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“Ham Ek Hain” (1946) was a Prabhat Film Company Limited Production. It was directed by P L Santoshi.

This movie was the debut movie of Dev Anand, Rehman, Rane, Rehana and Kamla Kotnis. Today this movie is known for Dev Anand, but he had only played a smaller role. The biggest name of this movie at that time was Durga Khote, who played the matriarch who, in addition to her own son (played by Dev Anand) adopts boys of different religions as well as a girl of the lower caste and brings them up as her own kids. It is easy to guess that this movie was the inspiration behind lots of subsequent movies espousing the theme of unity in diversity. The name of “Amar Akbar anthony” (1977) readily comes to mind.
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“Aamrapaali”(1945) was directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal for Murli Movietone, Bombay. The movie had Prem Adeeb, Sabita Devi, Jeewan, Arun, Jagdeesh, Badri Prasad, Sankata Prasad, Ghulab, Kabir etc in it.
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“Geet” (1944) was produced by A R Kardar and directed by S U Sunny. The movie had Chanda, Shahu Modak, Nirmala, Amir Ali, Shakir Ali, A Shah, Zahid Ali etc in it.
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