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

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“Khandan” (1942) ,a Dalsukh Pancholi production, was one of the biggest movies in Hindi movie industry when it was released in 1942. This movie was inspired from the movie “East Lynne” (1931) which in turn was based on a 1861 novel of the same name written by Ellen Wood. This movie dealt with a topic that was considered quite sensational at that time.
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Throughout the world, there have been tragic love stories that are simply known by the name of the lovers- viz Romeo Juliet, Laila Majnu etc. In Punjab, there have been not one or two, four four such love stories. The most well known of them is “Sohni Mahiwal”. The second most well known must be “Mirza Sahiban”.
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In this blog, I have been discussing Sajjad Hussain’s compositions these days. I have covered nearly 40 % of all the songs that he composed in Hindi movies and finding the remaining songs is becoming a tall order as they are all rare songs, not easil available. So every day I wonder where my next Sajjad Hussain song will come from.
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Sajjad Hussain made his debut an an independent music director with “Dost”(1944). With the passage of so much time, very little is known about this movie today. What is known is that this movie had actors like Noorjahan, Vatsala Kumthekar, Motilal, Husnbano, Maya Banerjee, Kanhaiyalal etc in it.
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When I look at the roles of lead actresses of Hindi movies, I find that the ability to cry is an essential quality that they must possess. So I cannot help but feel that most actresses who entertained hopes of a successful careers in Hindi movies needed to have lots of practice of crying. In other words, it always helped if they came from families that offered them lots of opportunities to hone this skill. So does it mean that most actresses in Bollywood had unhappy childhood ? Shudder !
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Sajjad Hussain is regarded as one of the most talented music directors of Hindi movie industry. But he failed to have a long career in Hindi movies, because he tended to rub people the wrong way with his behaviour. As a result, he got very few assignments in his career lasting nearly two decades in which he got to compose only about 100 songs.
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In Hindi movies, actors do not remember God when the going is good. At that time they are busy running around the trees singing romantic songs, but as soon as the good times end, the characters (especially female characters) would suddenly remember God and she will start singing a Bhajan. In some cases, when the lady feels especially short changed, she will not even bother to sing a Bhajan, rather she would accuse God of being harsh on her.
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