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Today (9 november 2017) is the death anniversary of Ghulam Haider ( 1908- 9 november 1953). He left this world when he was just in his 40s, but by that time he had revolutionised the HFM scenario.
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Today’s song is a Shamshad Begum solo song from film Poonji-43 ( also known as Wealth). The composer was Ghulam Haider, so no wonder, all 10 songs of the film had Shamshad’s voice.
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A few days back, I had mentioned in one of my articles in the Blog that I regard 1940s as the transitional phase for Hindi film music which paved the way for the arrival of the golden period of Hindi film music in 1950s and 1960s. The music director who triggered the ‘renaissance’ period of the 1940s in Hindi film music was Master Ghulam Haider. His song compositions in ‘Khazaanchi’ (1941) revolutionised Hindi film music. One of the popular songs from the film Saawan ke nazaare hain (Khazaanchi) was a trend setter not only for Hindi film music but also for the picturisation of the song.
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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.

In the 1940s, there were four main Hindi/Urdu/Hindusani movie producing centres in India, viz. Bombay (Mumbai), Calcutta (Kolkata), Lahore and Poona (Pune).

Bombay (Mumbai) had Ranjit Movietone, Calcutta (Kolkata), the New Theatres and Poona (Pune) had Prabhat Films as leading producers of Hindi/Urdu films. Lahore centre was dominated by Pancholi Art Pictures owned by Dalsukh Pancholi. He was also the owner of Lahore’s biggest film studio, Pancholi Art Studio during pre-independent period.
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“Poonji” (1943) was directed by Vishnu R Pancholi and Ravindranath Dave for Pancholi Art Pictures, Lahore. This movie had M Ismail, Raagini, Jayant, Manorama, Ajmal, Baby akhtar, Durga Mota, Miss Pandey, Anwari, G N Butt etc in it.
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