Posts Tagged ‘Munawwar Sultana’
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
It was many years ago; as a child I saw the song “Dil Jalta Ha To Jalne De”(‘Pehli Nazar’, 1945) as one of the songs in a Chitrahaar program on Doordarshan. At that time, I had no idea about the actors present on the screen during this song. The image of Motilal that I would later remember and carry with me for a long time, would be the balding, and somewhat comical man from films like ‘Mr. Sampat’ (1952) and ‘Jaagte Raho’ (1956). And it was much later that I would become aware that the young man in this song, with a moustache and a head of full hair is none other than the same Motilal. However, on the first viewing of this song on TV, it was the charming face of the lady love, that enamored me, and the image of that open expression on her face, with expectation and waiting written on it, still remains with me as one the most endearing images of a lady actor on screen.
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“Elaan” (1947), a Mehboob Production movie, was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Surendra, Munawwar Sultana, Zebunissa, Agha, Shahnawaz, W. M. Khan, Leela Mishra, Rita, Shaheda, Subhasini, Reehan, Mohammad Afzal etc in it.
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“Dard” (1947) was a Kardar Production movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suraiya, Shyam Kumar, Munawwar Sultana, Nusrat, Badri Prasad, Husn Banu, Pratima Devi etc in it.
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Jo dil hi todnaa thhaa
Posted on: October 19, 2011
“Sartaj” (1950) was an Omar Khayyam Productions movie. this movie was directed by S Khalil. Cast of the movie had names like Motilal, Munawwar Sultana, Cuckoo, Manorama, Ansari, Mirza Musharaf, Shyama, Rattan Bai etc.
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Here is a song from “Sabak” (1950). It is sung by Surinder Kaur. D N Madhok is the lyricist. Music is composed by A R Qureshi.
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Ambuwaa ke ped suhaane
Posted on: September 20, 2011
“Sabak” (1950) is a movie which was produced by Sadiq Productions and directed by its owner, namely M Sadiq. The movie had Karan Dewan,Munawwar Sultana,Om Prakash,Jagirdaar,jillo etc in it.
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Dil mera tera deewaanaa
Posted on: September 13, 2011
“Apni Izzat” (1952) was a B grade movie produced by Harishchandra Productions and directed by N Bhatt. This movie had Motilal, Munawwar Sultana, Sulochana Chatterji, David Abraham, Gope, Yashodhara Katju, Yakub, Agha, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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Jab chaand jawaan hogaa
Posted on: August 18, 2011
Here is a song that is a very rare song on several counts.
This song is from an obscure movie called ‘Bairam Khan” (1946). This song is sung by not one or two or three, but four female singers ! This song is sung by Geeta Dutt (then Roy), Shamshad Begam, Naseem Begam and Munawwar Sultana.
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When I was growing up in late 1960s and early 1970s, I was upset with oldtimer movie makers of earlier decades. Why did the oldtimers create such “boring” songs. And secondly, why would they give their movies the same titles as the movies of 1970s. 🙂 Yes, I blamed old movie makers for their titles like Dushman(1938),Jugnu (1947), Anokhi Ada(1948), Andaaz(1949), Samadhi (1950), Aankhen(1951) etc which were the same titles vis a vis titles of new movies released in late 1960s and early 1970s. Whenever I heard an announcement in Akashwani that a song of the abovementioned movies was going to be played, I eagerly looked forward to listening to a new song, but I felt badly let down on finding that the song played was from an old movie of the same name.
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Bichhde huye saajan ki
Posted on: June 20, 2011
Here is a song from a movie called “Pyaar Ki Manzil” (1950). It is sung by Lata. Rajinder Krishan is the lyricist and music is composed by Husnlal Bhagatram.
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