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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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.

Today’s song is from a well known film ‘Baadbaan’ (1954). Well known for the simple reason that this was the last film coming from a one-time giant film studio Bombay Talkies. it was the last ditch effort of all the well wishers and workers of Bombay Talkies to save the company from closing down. Unfortunately the effort did not succeed and it was curtains for Bombay Talkies with this movie.
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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.

SUHAAG (1940) was produced under the banner of CIRCO Productions and it was directed by Balwant Bhatt. The star cast included M Kumar, Bibbo, Mazhar Khan, Ashalata, S Nazir, Ghulam Rasool, P R Joshi, Mehdi Raza etc. The story of the film as culled out from a review which appeared in July 1940 issue of ‘Filmindia’ magazine is as under:
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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.

THE VELVET MAGIC-TALAT DUETS
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We are starting a New series-on Talat Mehmood’s film songs-especially the Duets. Talat songs are my favourites and I am in the company of a large number of music lovers on this issue. His soulful, sad and melodious songs and everlasting duets are heard all over the world even today. Some of his duets with Lata, Asha, Shamshad and Geeta are very famous, but not many people are aware that Talat sang a wide variety of duets with many singers. From Suprova Sarkar in Calcutta to Hemlata in Bombay,Talat’s range of singers included Mubarak Begum, Sudha Malhotra, Madhubala Jhaveri, Surinder Kaur, Suman Kalyanpur, Sulochana Kadam, Ameerbai Karnataki, Rajkumari etc among the females and Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey, Mukesh, Rafi, Balbir etc among the male singers.
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“Devdas” (1935), based on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s blockbuster novel of the same name was directed by P C Barua for New Theatres, Calcutta. The Hindi version of the movie was preceded by Bangla version and followed by Assamese version. All these versions were directed by P C Barua, though the actors were different in the three versions.
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“Devdas” was a Bangla Novel written in 1917 by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay. This novel proved out to be so popular that several movies have been made on this story in several languages in India ever since. Even Pakistan and Bangladesh have made one movie each on this topic recently.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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.

Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also known as Sharat Chandra) was a well known Bengali novelist. Some of his works have been made into feature films in many languages. It is said that more than 50 films have been madethat are based on or inspired from his novels. Apart from some well known Hindi films such as ‘Devdas’ (1935, 1955, 2002) and ‘Parineeta’ (1953, 2005), there were other Hindi films based on his novels and stories such as ‘Pujarin’ (1936), ‘Kashinath’ (1943), ‘Biraj Bahu’ (1954), ‘Majhli Didi’ (1967), ‘Chhoti Bahu’ (1971), ‘Khushboo’ (1975), ‘Swami’ (1977) etc. But the most talked about film based on his novel is ‘Devdas’.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

This is the 8th song in “The flavour of the 30s” series. It is from film Adhikar-1937, sung by Pahadi Sanyal and composed by Timir Baran.
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Timir Baran (10 july 1904- 28 march 1987) was a pioneer of Indian movie music. He was one of those who brought Indian movie music out of the influence of theatre music and enabled it to acquire its own distinct identity. He was a classically trained musician. Trained under Ustad Allauddin Khan of Maihar Gharana, Timir Bran was an expert in playing Sarod, Clarinet and banjo.
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