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“Aurat”(1940) was a Mehboob Khan Production. It had Sardar Akhtar, Surendra, Jyoti, Yacub, Kanhaiyalal, Arun Kumar etc in it. The story of this movie was later reused by Mehboob Khan in his “Mother India” (1957).
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“Roti”(1942) was directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Chandra Mohan, Begam Akhtar, Sitara Devi, Sheikh Mukhtaar, Ashraf Khan, Kayam Ali, Agha etc in it.
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 3
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The first time I heard the name of the film ‘Prarthana’ (1943) was sometime in 2012 when I wrote a short write-up on Jahanara Kajjan, singer-actor of 30s and 40s, for the Blog with her song tumre darshan ka nainaa taras gaye re in Raag Gaud. Since then, the only additional information I could get about this film was that it was a social genre film. The film’s VCD/DVD is not available.
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Today (7 july 2015) is the 101st birth anniversary of Anil Biswas (7 july 1914-31 may 2003), one of the earliest pioneers in the field of HFM music.

Known mostly as a music composer, Anil Biswas had sung a few songs as well. This blog has as many as ten songs sung by Anil Biswas, to go with 249 songs composed by Anil Biswas.
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VINTAGE SHAMSHAD BEGUM…..Song No- 5
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1947 was an important year not only for the Nation, but also for the Film industry that sadly said ‘Good Bye’ to many of its popular Muslim artistes, who chose to migrate to the new nation PAKISTAN, created on the basis of Religion. The departure of many talented and popular, successful artistes and technicians was an immediate blow to the film industry, but the void thus created was soon filled up with its own personnel ‘waiting in the wings’ to take over. India never had a shortage of talented people, but it was Pakistan, who faced problems in establishing its New Film Industry. Their major problem was shortage of Financiers and Producers-who were mostly Hindus and who either shifted to India or got killed in the riots and their studios were burnt down by the rioters.
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“Garib”(1942) was directed by Ramchandra Thakur for National Studios, Bombay. This movie had Surendra, Rose, Baby Meena, Veena Kumari, Santaka, N A Ansari, Agha, Pesi Patel etc in it.
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Today’s song is from film Badi Bahu-1951. This was a film produced by Ashalata Biswas (under the banner of Variety Pictures-the Logo of which was made by Anil Biswas and owned by Ashalata). The film was directed by her brother S Bhagat and the music was given by her husband Anil Biswas.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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.

Greetings all, for a fabulous and colorful holi. May this festival of spring colors enliven your lives with joyful celebrations and pouring streams of happiness. Let the colors flow, and brighten up the canvases of life. Happy Holi.
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“Roti” (1942), a Mehboob Khan production, was a landmark movie in the annals of Indian and Hindi cinema. Here are the details of this movie as provided by our inhouse experts in the past:
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