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Leading ladies (and even leading lads, for that matter) tend to feel betrayed/ victimised in love in Hindi movies. They are typically seen complaining of bewafaai at the hands of their beloved. They would patiently wait for the beloved while the beloved himself/herself mayor may not be thinking along the same lines. They typically sing songs of melancholy, or rather Pathos (as our beeloved Mr Bharat Upadhyay would like me to describe such songs. 🙂
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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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“Bairam Khan”(1946) was directed by Gajanan Jaageerdaar for Standard Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Mehtab, Jaageerdaar, Ghulam Mohammad (actor), David, Lalita Pawar, Benjamin, Hansa, Zebunnissa, Sunalini Devi, Chhotu, Shahnawaz, Latika, Akbar, Sadiq Ali, Dalpat, Zilani, Ramesh, Raman lal, Sham Lal etc in it.
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“Bairam Khan”(1946) was directed by Gajanan Jaageerdaar for Standard Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Mehtab, Jaageerdaar, Ghulam Mohammad (actor), David, Lalita Pawar, Benjamin, Hansa, Zebunnissa, Sunalini Devi, Chhotu, Shahnawaz, Latika, Akbar, Sadiq Ali, Dalpat, Zilani, Ramesh, Raman lal, Sham Lal etc in it.
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“Bahuraani”(1950) is one of many obscure movies of the past that have been forgotten with time. This movie was directed by s M Yousuf for Harishchandra Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Sulochana Chatterji, Shekhar, Kaushalya, Amar, Yashodhara Ktju, David, Sofia, Ansari, Mumtaz, E Billimoria, Bibi, Lalita Pawar, Gope etc in it.
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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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“Mehndi”(1947) was directed by Sibtain Fazli for Fazli Films, Bombay. The movie had Nargis, Begam Para, Murad, Ghori, Jillobai, Jaani babu, Protima Devi, Chacha Premi, Anwari, Zaki, Baby Shyama etc in it.
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“Chal Chal Re Naujawaan”(1944) was directed by Gyan Mukherji for Filmistan Limited, Bombay. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Naseem Bano, Jagdish Sethi, V H Desai, Motibai, Rafiq, Navin Yagnik etc in it.
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“Shama” is a movie title that leads to a serious bout of “same name confusion” among movie and music lovers. Not just casual followers of HFM but even “experts” make grave errors in mistaking one “Shama”with another, and worse, mistaking one music director with another-who also had similar names.
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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.

GIRLS SCHOOL (1949) was produced under the banner of Lokmanya Productions ( a joint venture of Kavi Pradeep and Amiya Chakraborty). The film was directed by Amiya Chakraborty. Interestingly, one of the assistant directors for him in this film was Guru Dutt. The star cast included Geeta Bali, Sohan, Sajjan, Shashikala, Mangala, Ram Singh, Vimla Vashisht etc. Amiya Chakraborty has been known to produce/direct socially relevant films which he must have got this legacy from his association with Bombay Talkies.
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