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

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“Poonam”(1952) is a movie produced by Kay Arts. P N Arora was the producer and M Sadiq directed the movie. The star cast included names like Ashok KUmar, Kamini Kaushal, Sajjan, Omprakash, Asha Mathur etc.
I have discussed as many as five songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from the movie.
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“Santaan” (1959) is an Anupam Chitra Production. This movie was produced by Mahesh Kaul and directed by Jyoti Swaroop. The starcast of the movie included names like Rajendra Kumar, Kamini Kadam, Nazir Hussain, Reeta Rai, Leela Mishra, Manorama, David Abraham etc.
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I have discussed as many as six songs from “Barsaat” (1949) in the blog. This could be more than enough for the songs of many movies, but it is an inadequate number for a movie like “Barsaat” (1949). Many iconic songs from this movie are not yet discussed.
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While looking at the picturisation of this song, I wondered why this song does not qualify to be called a Mujra song. As it is, Mujra songs are those songs where the clients are ordinary folks or spoilt nawaabs. If the same dance is performed in a royal court, it becomes a royal court (Rajdarbaar) dance.
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“Barsaat” (1949) was arguably a pathbreaking movie and the music of this movie heralded the arrival of Shankar Jaikishan as the most dominant music composers of Hindi movie for the next two decades. This dominance was finally broken in late 1960s with the arrival of R D Burman.
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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.

Janaury 12th is the birth anniversary of the great maestro Ramchandra Narhari Chitalkar, well known in Hindi film industry as C Ramchandra and also Chitalkar as a playback singer. C Ramchandra (CR) was one of the prominent music directors belonging to the golden era of Hindi films songs. If one goes by the number of songs he had composed of joyous mood, I guess, he must have been a fun loving person.
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While looking for Jaidev compositions to be posted today (6th january) on his death anniversary, I came across gems after gems that I heard in my formative days without having any inkling that they were composed by Jaidev. These are songs that tempted me to hold on to them for some other special occasions. But if I hold on to all his compositions for some future occasion then I will have to stop discussing Jaidev compositions, such is the quality of all the songs that I am coming across.
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