And the winners are?
That is the transition yr between the Thirties and Forties. This was the yr when Himanshu Rai, the founding father of Bombay Talkies, handed away. The internecine warfare within the studio had not but begun. So Bombay Talkies was going nice weapons with Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis with movies like Aazad, Bandhan with music by Saraswati Devi and Ramchandra Pal. Ramchandra Pal working solo additionally gave excellent music for Punarmilan with an excellent twin music Naacho nacho pyare man ke mor (by Arun Kumar/Snehprabha Pradhan). I don’t know whether or not it was the primary twin music of Hindi movies, however I can say with out hesitation and disproving my basic speculation, that each the variations are equally good.
Catastrophe additionally struck New Theatres too, which had an enormous fireplace destroying most of their prints. However that didn’t deter them from making some nice movies with excellent music: Zindagi with lead actor-singer KL Saigal, and Nartaki with lead actor-singer Pankaj Mullick, each scores composed by Pankaj Mullick, and Haar Jeet, composed by RC Boral.
This was additionally the yr of transition from Sagar Movietone to its off-shoot Nationwide Studios. The director Mehboob and music director Anil Biswas had been widespread to Sagar’s final movie Alibaba, and Nationwide’s Aurat. Ranjit Movietone’s Holi had some nice songs composed by Khemchand Prakash. I discover a number of different movies of Sagar listed in HFGK, with songs that aren’t prime of recall.
This was additionally the yr of transition of the fashion of music from the Thirties which was closely classical-based to a extra fluid fashion led by Anil Biswas who was open to totally different sorts of influences. He was not solely the Bhishm Pitamah chronologically, however as one who will be credited to put the inspiration of what we all know as movie music. Not solely New Theatres stalwarts began flocking to Bombay, however from abilities from totally different areas had been drawn to the Dream Metropolis.
For these accustomed to classic period songs, that offers an excellent number of songs to refresh our reminiscence and luxuriate in.
As we are able to count on, the variety of songs of which nothing is thought in regards to the singers is way over the songs with singers credited. This is able to be evident from the next broad statistics.
Broad Statistics
| 1. Variety of movies in 1940 | 86 |
| 2. Much less variety of movies for which no particulars recognized | (-1) |
| 3. Internet variety of movies by which music titles recognized | 85 |
| 4. Variety of songs by which music titles recognized | 789 |
| 5. Much less variety of songs of which singers should not recognized | (-438) or 55.51% |
| 6. Internet variety of songs of which singers recognized | 351 (44.49%) |
| 7. Male solos | 96 (27.35%) |
| 8. Feminine solos | 141 (40.17%) |
| 9. Duets | 114 (32.48%) |
| 10. Male solos: Feminine solos: Duets ratio | 1:1.47:1.19 |
(My supply is Hindi Movie Geet Kosh. It’s potential some extra songs can be found with non-public collectors, or uploaded on YouTube. Songs with greater than two recognized singers I’ve included in duets. Refrain songs with one distinguished voice I’ve included as a solo. Pure refrain, or choruses with although distinct voices, however unidentified I’ve included in unknown songs in Row 5 that account for over 55% songs within the yr.)
Debut, Truth-file and Trivia
This was the yr when Naushad debuted as an impartial music director with Prem Nagar, although we have now seen earlier that his first recorded music is claimed to be Bata do koi kaun gali gaye Shyam within the voice of Leela Chitnis within the movie Kanchan (1941), which received launched later. The music of this movie is credited to Gyan Dutt. Nobody might have predicted then that this younger man would in 4 years emerge because the Mighty Mughal of Film Music.
SS Vasan began Gemini Studios. Grasp Vinayak and PK Atre began Navyug Movies. Sagar Movietone had final film within the yr, Alibaba, directed by Mehboob Khan with music by Anil Biswas. Mehboob Khan additionally directed Sagar’s offshoot Nationwide Studios manufacturing the blockbuster Aurat. A few years later he remade it into one other landmark movie Mom India (1957), however by that point Naushad had changed Anil Biswas as his common music director. A most attention-grabbing widespread thread between the 2 movies was Kanhaiyalal who performed the function of the evil, heartless money-lender, Sukhilala.
The variety of movies remained under 100 in 1940 too. The Second World Warfare was raging ferociously. This led to shortages and rationing of the uncooked inventory. The Warfare had some unintended penalties which modified the construction of film trade in the long term. The Warfare-induced black-marketing led to totally different sorts of cash coming to the movie trade, which spelt the start of the top of the Studio period.
Prabhat Studios made their one other saint film within the yr.
MEMORABLE SONGS
With that preamble, now’s the time to shortlist memorable songs of the yr. I’ve additionally included on the finish of movie songs over 20 non-film songs (NFS). My important supply has been Atul Tune A Day which lists many NFS in 1940. These might not all be in a single yr, however near-abouts. Many of those have been my all time greats, So whereas I’ll point out them in Particular Songs, I’d not embrace them in the principle competitors.
Aandhi: Music KC Dey
1. Chala gaya toofan, aa kar chala gaya toofan – by KC Dey (Lyricist Arzoo Lakhnavi)
2. Maan na kar ab sajni, maan le aan, kaahe ko a lot mode – by KC Dey (Lyricist Arzoo Lakhnavi)
3. Prem bansuriya bajaao saajan – Pankaj Mullick & Radharani, music KC Dey (Lyricist Rashid Gorakhpuri)
Aazad: Lyrics Jamuna Swarup Kasyap ‘Natwan’, Music Saraswati Devi & RC Pal
4. Saajan mohan waari tum mere important tumhari – Hansa Wadkar
Achhoot: Lyrics PL Santoshi; Music Gyan Dutt
5. Raghpati Raghav raja rm., patit tapavan sitaram – Gohar Mamajiwala, Unknown Male voice, Vasanti
6. Koi bajaao na prem ki veena – Khursheed
Alibaba: Lyricist Dr Safdar ‘Aah’; Music Anil Biswas
7. Teri in aankhon ne kiya beemar haye – Surendra, Waheedan
8. Hum aur tum aur ye khushi – Surendra, Waheedan
Aurat: Lyricist Dr Safdar ‘Aah’; Music Anil Biswas
9. Kaahe karta der baraati, lana hai tohe pee ki nagariya – by Anil Biswas & refrain
10. Extra angana mein laga ambua ka ped – by Anil Biswas & refrain
11. Jamuna tat Shyam khelein holi – by Anil Biswas & refrain
12. Bol bol re bol ban ke panchhi bol, tere meethe geet suhaane – by Surendra, Jyoti
13. Uth sajni khol kiwaade tere saajan aaye duaare – Surendra, Jyoti
Bahurani: Music Rafiq Ghazanvi
14. Zara muskura kar milaa nazar hello – by Zohra Jan
Bandhan: Lyricist Pradeep; Music Saraswati Devi and Ramchandra Pal;
15. Chane jor garam babu important laya majedaar – by Arun Kumar
16. Chal chal re naujawan, kahna mera aan, chal chal re naujawan – Suresh/ Ashok Kumar (Ramchandra Pal)
17. Apne bhaiya ko naacch nachaaungi – Leela Chitnis, Suresh
18. Kaise chhipoge, ab tum kaise chhipoge, O salone saajana – Leela Chitnis
19. Chal chal re naujawan, chalo sang chale hum, door tera gaon – Leela Chitnis, Ashok Kumar
20. Piu piu bol, piu piu bol, pran papohe piu piu bol – Pradeep
21. Ruk na sako to jaao – Arun Kumar
Ek Hello Bhool: Lyrics Sampat Lal Shrivastava ‘Anuj’; music Shankar Rao Vyas
22. Duniyawaale pagal kahte hain – Ramesh Desai
23. Fundamental phoolon ki sugandh bankar upvan sara mahkaaun – Amirbai Karnataki and NM Adhikari
Haar Jeet: Music RC Boral
24. Mast pawan shaakhein lahraayein – Kanan Devi, Pahadi Sayal
25. Tum Manmohan, tum sakhiyan sang, hans hans khelo phaag – Kanan Devi
Holi: Lyricist DN Madhok. Music Khemchand Prakash
26. Phagun ki rut aayi re zara baaje bansuri – Sitara, Amritlal
Fundamental Hari: Lyricist Kamal Amrohi; Music Mir Saheb
27. Panghat pe ek chhabili – Khan Mastana
28. Sanwariya se hamri naahin bani re – Menaka Bai
Matwaali Meera: Lurics Pt. Bhushan, Music Grasp Brijlal Verma
29. Mere to Giridhan Gopal doosro na koi (Meerabai) – Mukhtar Begum
30. Mhane chaakar raakhoji (Meerabai) –
31. Jogi mat ja (Meerabai) – Mukhtar Begum
Narsi Bhagat: Music Shankar Rao Vyas
32. Vaishnav jan to tene kahiye jo peer parayi jaane re – Amirbai Karnataki
Deendayal dukh bhanjan..Maine prabhu ke darshan paye – Amirbai Karnataki
Nartaki: Lyricist Munshi Arzoo; Music Pankaj Mullick
33. Madbhari rut jaaan hai – Pakaj Mullick
34. Ye kaun aaj aya savere savere – Pankaj Mullick
35. Prem ka nata chhoota, prem na chhoota – Pankaj Mullick
Narsi Bhagat: Music Shankar Rao Vyas
36. Vaishnav jan to tene kahiye jo peer parayi jaane re – Amirbai Karnataki
Pooja: Lyrics Shatir Ghazanvi, Music Anil Biswas
37. Lat uljhi suljha ja re baalam, haatho ein mehdi lagi hai – Jyoti
Prem Nagar: Lyricist DN Madhok; Music Naushad Ali
38. Aaye re pee ki nagariya se aaye re – Sharda
Punarmilan: Music Ramchandra Pal
39. Naacho naacho pyare ma ke extra, aaj mee jeevan mein chhaya basant – Arun Kumar (lyrics Pradeep)
40. Nacho nacho pyare man me extra – Snehprabha (lyrics Anand)
41. Aao banayein gharwa pyara – Snehprabha Pradhan & Arun Kumar
Sant Gyaneshwar: Music Keshavrao Bhole
42. Sabse pyare hain duniya mein khet hamaare – Vasant Desai
Sneh Bandhan (aka Intezaar): Lyrics Pt. Narayan Prasad ‘Betab’, Music Pannalal Ghosh
43. Daras bina dukhan laage nain (Meera bai?)– Miss Bibbo
Suhaag: Music Timir Baran
44. Aaj suhaag ki raat sej meri ban gayi phulwari (lyrics Pt. Indra)
Zindagi: Lyrics Kidar Sharma; Arzoo Lakhanvi; Music Pankaj Mullick
45. Deewana hun deewana hun, raahat se begana hun – KL Saigal (lyrics Kidar Sharma)
46. Fundamental kya jaanun kya jadoo hai, in do matwale nainon mein jadoo hai – KL Saigal (Lyrics Kidar Sharma)
47. Jeevan asha ye hai meri – KL Saigal
48. So ja rajkumari so ja so ja important balihari so ja – KL Saigal
Non-film-songs (NFS)
1. Aah ko chaahiye ek umra asar hone tak – KL Saigal (ghazal by Ghalib)
2. Ab kya bataaun important tere milne se kya mila – KL Saigal (ghazal by Seeemab Akbarabadi)
3. Baqadr-e-shauk iqrar-e-wafa kya – KL Saigal(ghazal by Seemab Akbarabadi)
4. Dheere se jana bagiyan mein re bhanwra – SD Burman (music SD Burman)
5. Dil dekar dard liya maine maine maine – Jagmohan Sursagar (NFS), lyrics Faiyyaz Hashmi, music Kamal Dasgupta
6. Duniya mein uun duniya ka talabgar nahin hun – KL Saigal (NFS ghazal by Seemab Akbarabadi), music KL Saigal
7. Ghar ye tera na sada ye mera hai – KL Saigal (ghazal by Arzoo Lakhanvi)
8. Har ek baat pe kahte ho tum ki tu kya hai – KL Saigal (ghazal by Ghalib)
9. Hairat se tak raha hai jahaan-e-wafa mujhe – Grasp Madan
10. Hari bin koi kaam na aayo – KL Saigal (lyrics Lal Das)
11. Holi khelein Kanhaiya baro ragri – (KC Dey NFS)
12. Humjoliyon ki thi toliyan – KL Saigal
13. Ibn-e-Mariam hua karey koi – KL Saigal (ghazal by Ghalib)
14. Jab chaand mera nikla chhayi thi ghatayein – Pankaj Mullick (lyrics Faiyyaz Hashmi, music Pankaj Mullick)
15. Jin jaao ri gori aaj paniya bharan – KL Saigal
16. Kaun bujhaave ho Ram – KL Saigal
17. Fundamental jo dinan ki chhori piya extra maanat naahin – KL Saigal
18. Fundamental rota hun mat mana karo – Pankaj Mullick, music Pankaj Mullick
19. Na tum mere na dil mera na jaan-e-naatwan meri – Kamla Jharia
20. Phir mujhe deeda-e-tar yaad aya – KL Saigal (ghazal by Ghalib)
21. Saanwariya raag se aag lagi – Mukesh
22. Ye raatein ye mausam ye hansna hansana – Pankaj Mullick
Particular songs
1. Hari bina koi kaam na ayo by KL Saigal (1940), NFS Bhajan, lyrics Lal Das
I’m posting this non-film bhajan by KL Saigal on the prime of Particular Songs, not due to poignancy in Saigal’s voice, however poignancy in looking for his uncommon songs whose existence was recognized, however which weren’t out there in public area. For KL Saigal’s followers, a goldmine was the positioning devoted to him by one in every of his loopy followers was www.kundanlalsaigal.com. This was my go-to website for any data on him. Alas, that website appears to be now not out there. However Sudhir Kapur has written a pleasant article on ASAD by which he additionally provides his search and obtain from that website.
2. Jamuna tat Shyam khelat hori, by Anil Biswas & refrain from Aurat (1940), lyrics Dr Safdar ‘Aah’, music Anil Biswas
Sudhir Kapur on ASAD expresses doubts in regards to the singers, and speculates the singers could possibly be Arun Ahuja, Jyoti, Sardar Akhtar & refrain, music Anil Biswas. In Mom India (1957), Naushad had composed a Holi music, Holi ayi re Kanhai rang chhalke suna de zara bansuri. Each Anil Biswas and Naushad had been masters of refrain songs.
3. Jogi mat ja by Mukhtar Begum from Matwali Meera (1940), lyrics Meerabai, music Grasp Brijlal Meera
Virtually each nice singer has sung this Meera bhajan. Everybody had a plaintive cry to jogi to not go away. Mukhtar Begum’s model is not any much less poignant.
4. Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram, patit paavan sitaram by Gohar Mamajiwala, Vasanti and others from Achhoot (1940), lyrics PL Santoshi, music Gyan Dutt
This bhajan has gained nationwide reputation due to its adaptation by Gandhiji in his mas conferences. The movie model would at all times take some liberties with the lyrics which provides some justification for attributing it to the lyricist PL Santoshi. Its mentioned to be initially written by Swami Sri Lakshmanacharya. Gandhiji is meant to have modified it to incorporate the traces Ishwar Allah tero naam, sabko sanmati de bhagwan. The movie model doesn’t comply with both. This movie was made by Ranjit Movietone, an vital manufacturing home within the Studio Period. The lead actress and a distinguished voice within the music is Goharjan Mamjiwala, the consort of Seth Chandulal Shah, the proprietor of Ranjit Movietone. The music director is a Ranjit common of these days, Gyan Dutt.
5. Sabse pyare hain duniya mein khet hamaare by Vasant Desai from Sant Gyaneshwar (1940), music Keshavrao Bhole
Vasant Desai’s identify figures within the solid manner down after Shahu Modak and so on. It’s clear he was stored these days for minor singing roles in Prabhat Movies. Keshavrao Bhole, a Prabhat stalwart within the music division gave music within the movie. I need to say Vasant Desai was endowed with a nice voice, and he sings a wonderful music. Alas, the tastes modified and he progressively gave up singing even when he later debuted as an impartial music director.
6. Zara muskura kar milaao nazar hello by Zohra Jan from Bahurani (1940), music Rafiq Ghaznavi
Who is that this Zohra Jan or Begum? Have to be from Kolkata, Mecca for music these days. It follows the inventory tune of Begum Akhtar’s well-known ghazal Deewana banana hai to deewana bana de. Zohra has made the tune sooner and added some harkat to make it a wonderful mujra music.
7. Chal chal re naujawan by Suresh from Bandhan (1940), lyrics Pradeep, music Ramchandra Pal
This music is well-known within the voices of Leela Chitnis and Ashok Kumar, a solo by latter and a duet model by each. Who is that this Suresh, an odd identify singing this iconic music. It seems, it’s yet one more model within the movie when Leela Chitnis’s youthful brother, a child-actor Suresh sings this model in his voice. A pleasant clipping of one other model of this music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCii6rUUFs
Now, it’s positioned earlier than the readers on your views on
Greatest male solos of 1940
Greatest feminine solos of 1940
Greatest duets of 1940
Greatest music director of 1940
Acknowledgements and Disclaimer
1. The record of Memorable Songs has been culled from Atul Tune A Day after listening to them. ASAD has additionally listed plenty of Non-film Songs within the yr. All these might not be from precisely the yr 1940, however near-abouts. They will need to have listed all these in 1940 for comfort as verification can be practically not possible. These comprise some gems which have lengthy been my favourites. And this was the one yr I might accommodate them.
2. Surjit Singh’s website
Professor Surjit Singh maintains a wonderful web site for classic songs.
http://hindi-films-songs.com/articles/1940.html
Hindi Movies / Films Songs (hindi-movies-songs.com)
Hindi Movies / Films Songs (hindi-films-songs.com)
3. Arunkumar Deshmukh has shared his notes generously.
4. Hindi Movie Geet Kosh
5. YouTube
