And the SOY Award for the Finest Music Director of 1941 goes to?
We are actually coming to the tip of the evaluate of one of the best songs of 1941. After the Overview Publish, Wrap Up 1 of one of the best male solos, Wrap UP 2 of one of the best feminine solos and Wrap Up 3 of one of the best duets, we are able to now take a holistic view of one of the best songs of 1941 and talk about who deserves to be anointed the Finest Music Director of the 12 months.
Whereas the Classic Period was characterised by a big share of unknown songs, some movies and their songs turned eternal. Physician was one such landmark movie with actor-singer-music director Pankaj Mullick giving his greatest. RC Boral with Lagan starring KL Saigal and Kanan Devi was one other movie with very good music.
This was the period of Khemchand Prakash and Khursheed. Their combo gave some eternal songs. Khursheed sang some nice songs for Gyan Dutt too. Saraswati Devi gave had a fantastic knack for composing easy, however supremely widespread songs for non-singers. She confirmed her expertise in her favorite residence Bombay Talkies movie Jhoola, starring Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis. Ghulam Haider has the credit score of launching Shamshad Begum with Khazanchi wherein she gave voice in all of the songs. That created a sensation and heralded a brand new type of beat and frothiness which got here to be often known as the Punjab Faculty of Music. Kidar Sharma’s Chitralekha with music by Ustad Jhande Khan gave some immortal songs within the voice of a never-heard singer Ramdulari. You may think about the standard of extensive number of glorious music of the yr by the truth that I’m but to say the Bhishm Pitamah Anil Biswas who scored some nice songs for Bahen and Aasra.
Readers’ selection
Arunkumar Deshmukh’s selection for one of the best music director is unambiguously Pankaj Mullick. Anup has the identical selection. Anita modestly refrains from giving her rankings/ selections, however she says that Chale pawan ki chaal (Pankaj Mullick, Physician) is among the earliest examples of using sanchari in movie songs. Raunak Pleasure has been giving discovered evaluation of the Classic Period music for the previous few years. Lastly he offers his selection for greatest albums so as. On the prime stands Physician by Pankaj Mullick, adopted by Lagan by RC Boral, Beti by Gyan Dutt, Chtralekha by Ustad Jhande Khan and AS Gyani, Khazanchi by Ghulam Haider, Anjaan by Pannalal Ghosh, Jhoola by Saraswati Devi, and Pardesi by Khemchand Prakash.
I’ve been speaking of one of the best music director of the yr within the sense of the entire work in a yr, i.e all of the albums she or he composed. On the idea of Wrap Up 1, Wrap UP 2 and Wrap Up 3 I’m presenting beneath a consolidated checklist of one of the best male solos, greatest feminine solos and greatest duets of the yr.
Consolidated checklist of the Finest Male Solos, Feminine Solos and Duets of 1941
| Rank | Finest male solos |
Finest feminine solos |
Finest duets |
|
1. |
Aayi bahaar aaj aayi bahaah (Pankaj Mullick) |
Nainon se nain mila ke pyari chhavi dikhala ke (Khursheed, Beti, Gyan Dutt) |
1-2. Essential to Dilli se dulhan laya re (Saraswat Devi) |
|
2 |
Mahak rahi phuwari apni (Pankaj Mullick) |
Neelkamal muskaye bhanwra (Ramdulari, Chitralekha, Ustad Jhande Khan) |
2-1. Saawan ke nazaare hain (Ghulam Haider) |
|
3 |
Chale pawan ki chaal (Pankaj Mullick) |
Tum jaao jaao bhagwan bano, insan bano to jaanein (Ramdulari, Ustad Jhande Khan) |
Zindagi hai pyar se pyar mein bitaaye ja (Rafiq Ghazanvi) |
|
4 |
Kaahe ko raar machaai (RC Boral) |
Pahle jo mohabbat se inkaar kiya hota (Khemchand Prakash) |
Bhigoyi mori sari re, dekho bheege na choli (Khursheed & Ishwarlal, Shaadi 1941, Khemchand Prakash) |
|
5 |
Aaj apni mehanaton ko (Pankaj Mullick) |
Tum bin kal na aave mohe (RC Boral) |
Jaake naina matwaale hain, baal ghungharwaale hain (Ishwarlal, Shamim & Snehprabha Pradhan, Pyas, Khemchand Prakash) |
|
6 |
Kab tak nirash ki andhiyari (Pankaj Mullick) |
Madbhari madbhari matwari (RC Boral) |
Bhulana na yaad karo na karo (Ishwarlal & Snehprabha Pradhan, Pyas, Khemchand Prakash) |
|
7 |
Hat gayi lo kaari ghata (RC Boral) |
Ye dard-e-mohabbat hai kaise wo bhala jaanein (Khursheed, Beti, Gyan Dutt) |
Naino ke baan ki reet anokhi, baan chale aur nain na dekhe (Khazanchi, Ghulam Haider) |
|
8 |
Bhayi jagat ujiyari (Pankaj Mullick) |
Armaan kuchh to dil mein tadap ke hello rah gaye (Khursheed, Beti, Gyan Dutt) |
Tore kajra lagaaun mori rani (Beena Kumari & Child Meena, Bahen, Anil Biswas) |
|
9 |
Na jaane kidhar aaj meri naav chali re (Saraswati Devi) |
Bitaai kahan ratiya O maharaja (Husn Bano, Aasra, Anil Biswas) |
Dekho hamre raja ki aaj sagaai hai (Saraswati Devi) |
|
10 |
Dil hello bujha hua ho to fasl-e-bahaar kya (Nirdosh, Ashok Ghosh) |
Diwali phir aa gayi sajni (Khazanchi, Ghulam Haider) |
Bhari dupahari kamini ikli, dukli mat jaaye (Charnon Ki Daasi, Annasaheb Mainkar) |
We will now current the identical desk music director-wise as follows:
Music administrators of 1941 having most variety of the Finest Songs
| Sl No. | Music Director | Male solos | Feminine solos | Duets | Complete |
| 1 | Pankaj Mullick | 6 | – | – | 6 |
| 2 | RC Boral | 2 | 2 | – | 4 |
| 3 | Khemchand Prakash | – | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | Gyan Dutt | – | 3 | – | 3 |
| 5 | Ghulam Haider | – | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Saraswati Devi | 1 | – | 2 | 3 |
|
7 |
Ustad Jhande Khan | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| 8 | Anil Biswas | – | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Ashok Ghosh | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| 10 | Rafiq Ghaznavi | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Annasaheb Mainkar | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Complete | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
High quality and numbers will not be at all times synonymous. However on this case there may be an uncanny correlation between the 2 and it matches with the readers’ selections. Now we are able to declare:
Pankaj Mullick wins the SOY Award for the Finest Music Director of 1941. They’re carefully adopted by RC Boral and Khemchand Prakash.
As I come to the tip of the evaluate of the songs of 1941, I categorical my gratitude to the readers for his or her participation, and to the sources and the individuals who have helped me.
Acknowledgements:
1. Arunkumar Deshmukh for sharing his notes for the yr.
2. Atul Track A Day
3. Hindi Movie Geet Kosh
4. YouTube
5. Prof. Surjit Singh’s web site
