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


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6443 Post No. : 19995

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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Today’s song is a nice composition from the movie ‘Daku Mangal Singh-1966’. Lyrics for this song were sent by Prakashchandra long back. Listeni8ng to songs like this (that I had not heard before), I am beginning to realise that apart from the songs that we grw up listening to (that we fondly remember), there many be thousands of songs that we could never listen to. Seing that most of these songs belonged to obscure movies, it is unlikely that music lovers will ever listen to these forgotten songs.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6443 Post No. : 19994

Today’s song is from a Mythological film Ayodhyapati-1956.

The Producer was A.A.Nadiyadwala, the Director was S. Fattelal and the Music Director was Ravi – an assistant to Hemant Kumar for a long time. Ravi had just become an independent Music Director for the film Vachan-1955. However, he still continued for a few more years as Hemant Kumar’s assistant. It was a rare case of Ravi giving music to a Mythological film, if you look at his later years’ performance. But, being a new independent MD, I guess, he accepted whichever film he got.

The cast of the film included Usha Kiran, Abhi Bhattacharya, Achala Sachdeva, Manorama, Rajkumar Khatri, Ratnamala, Anant Kumar, Balraj Mehta, Rajan Haksar, Dar Kashmiri (elder brother of actor Jeevan), Baby Asha Parekh and many others.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6442 Post No. : 19993

Today’s song is from a social film – Achhut-1940.

The second world war started from 1939, but its effects started being felt in India after 1940 only. The Government became alert and sensitive. Lots of restrictions were put on Imports and Exports. All exports to Germany and Japan were banned. Foreign travel came under Government microscope. Imports were restricted to only essential goods. Raw film stock came under Government control (and naturally became available freely in black market at exorbitant price). Taking advantage of the situation, the Government declared that those film production houses who help the Government in its war efforts, by making films with pro Govt. themes, would get raw film on priority.

Most production studios made films with Patriotic themes accordingly, spicing it with pro Govt dialogues to claim favours. Mahatma Gandhi too upped his efforts to Govt. in distress as much as possible by undertaking different Satyagrahas like the Salt Satyagraha, Burning of Foreign goods, Quit India Movement etc. At the same time Gandhi took up movement against social evils to attract public support to his main cause.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6441 Post No. : 19992 Movie Count :

5195

Pancham’s Music – Eighties-to-Nineties (1981-1994…) Duets-12

Today’s duet composition by Rahul Dev Burman is from the 1996 movie ‘Ghatak’ or ‘Ghaatak’. This movie was directed by Rajkumar Santoshi who also produced this movie for his home productions ‘Santoshi Productions, Bombay’. It was passed by the Censor Board on 01.11.1996.

In the last post under this series we had a song from the 1993 movie ‘Aaja Meri Jaan’. No movies with R D Burman’s music were released during 1994 and 1995. Though the movie ‘1942 A Love Story’ is mentioned as a movie of 1994, it was actually certified by the Censor Board on 31.12.1993. So it is obvious that it was released in the theatres in 1994. (However as per non-documented but strictly adhered 🙂 to SOP of this blog, we now need to correct the year of ‘1942-A Love Story’ as 1993 on this blog 🙂 ).

The cast of ‘Ghatak-1996’ included Sunny Deo, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Danny Dengzongpa, Tinu Anand, K.K. Raina, Anjan Shrivastava, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Mamta Kulkarni, Mukesh Rishi, Ila Arun, Viju Khote, Harish Patel, Brij Gopal and others. Music for this movie was composed by R.D Burman and Anu Malik. Since R.D Burman passed away during the making of the film, Anu Malik was roped in to record the remaining one song for this movie. This movie has five songs and total six sound tracks including a ‘theme music’ track composed by R.D Burman. Majrooh Sultanpuri wrote the songs for this movie. Playback singers for this movie are Suresh Wadkar, Sadhna Sargam, Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan, Anu Malik, Kavita Krishnamurthy, and Asha Bhonsle.
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6441 Post No. : 19991

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 94

The next song in the rare/rarely heard songs of Asha Bhosle is “Aaj Ki Raat Mere Wastay Kya Laayi Hai” from “Aaja Sanam” (1975). This song is written by Kafil Azhar and composed by Usha Khanna.

This movie was written and directed by Yusuf Naqvi for producer S. A. Mahmood. The Music Director was Usha Khanna and there were three lyricists – Indeevar, M. K. Javed, Kafil Azar.

Aaja Sanam starred Feroz Khan as Dr. Satish, Tanuja as Shanti, Deven Verma as Dr. Kaushal Verma with Mukri, Sulochana Chatterjee, Bipin Gupta, and Indu Shivraj also featuring prominently.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6441 Post No. : 19990

Today’s song is from the film Gopinath-1948.

The film was directed by Mahesh Kaul and the music was by Ninu Mujumdar. The lyrics of the film’s 9 songs had a mix of 2 songs each by Meerabai and Surdas and 5 songs by Ram Murti Chaturvedi. The cast of the film included Raj Kapoor, Tripti Mitra, Latika, Anwari Bai, Firoz, Mahesh Kaul and others.
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6440 Post No. : 19989 Movie Count :

5194

Before coming to the song, I would like to talk about the film itself. I remember going to see it at Chandragupt Talkies, one of the then popular single screen cinemas of Indore with my brother and enjoying this movie. That cinema is long gone like many other single screens but I still remember the josh of going to that huge cinema hall. Indore which came in the MP circle used to have this unique thing that the cinemas would get displayed on Thursdays (most other circles actually screened the movie the next day on the Friday). There would be huge queues to do advance bookings in those cinemas. Sometimes, we would have to request passing by girls and ladies to stand in the ladies queue to get tickets fast!
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6440 Post No. : 19988 Movie Count :

5193

‘Kanyadaan’ (1965), the first Maithili film was produced by S H Munshi and was directed by Phani Majumdar. The star cast included Gopal and Lata Sinha in the lead roles, supported by Mahua, Tarun Bose, Chand Usmani, Kanu Roy, Asit Sen, Dulari, Padma Khanna, Arati, Tuntun etc. Nabendu Ghosh wrote the screenplay and noted Hindi writer Phanishwar Nath Renu wrote the dialogue.

The film’s producer, S H Munshi who was from Jahanabad (Bihar) has produced ‘Kaafila’ (1952), ‘Sohag Sindoor’ (1953), ‘Baap Beti’ (1954) and ‘Toofaan Mein Pyaar Kahaan’ (1966). He died during the making of his film, ‘Dagdar Babu’ (started sometime in 1970s and shelved in 1980s) directed by Nabendu Ghosh with Dharmendra, Jaya Bhaduri and Utpal Dutt among others when film was about 80 percent complete. The film was based on Phanishwar Nath Renu’s novel, ‘Maila Aanchal’.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6440 Post No. : 19987

Today’s song is from a special film Lakharani-1945.

The film was produced by Prabhat film Company, Poona. It was a Costume film, directed by Vishram Bedekar. The film had music by Master Krishna Rao Phulambrikar – an All India famous classical singer of his times. The 6 songs of this film were written by Qamar Jalalabadi aka Omprakash Bhandari. The cast of the film included Durga khote, Monica Desai ( younger sister of actress Leela Desai and wife of director Phani Mujumdar), Azurie, Sapru, Guru Dutt, Ram Singh, Urmila and many others.
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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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6439 Post No. : 19986

Today’s song is from a social film Chand Tara-1945.

1945 was the year when the devastating II World War ended and the film industry heaved a sigh of relief. Many irksome regulations were relaxed. There was no force now to make Propaganda films for war, no shortage of Raw Film and plenty of Finance available through black money, generated during the war times. However, the year saw only 73 Hindi films made.

One of the most successful and famous film directors of Hindi films- Bimal Roy had a beginning in 1945. He was the director of the Bangla film “Udayer Pathe”, based on the story by Jyotirmoy Roy. It was remade in Hindi as ” Humrahi”. Both versions became Hit films. Thus a cameraman and editor Bimal Roy emerged as a big name in Hindi films. He got this opportunity as New theatres, Calcutta had dried up with its ace and famous directors, who left the company and had marched towards Bombay, even when NT was downhill. This film was also noteworthy because Tagore’s “Jana Gana Mana” was used in the film Humrahi-1945, which later on became India’s National Anthem (though it was written by Tagore to please and welcome King George V, on his visit to India in 1911).
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