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Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 2
And the Award for the Best Female Playback Singer goes to?
When Noorjehan visited India in 1982 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Indian talkie movies, one of the songs she chose to sing was Baithi hun teri yaad ka lekar ke sahara from Village Girl (1945), composed by Shyam Sundar, to a deafening applause. She was the dominant female playback singer of the year, having memorable songs from Badi Ma, Village Girl and Zeenat. Her first superhit Hindi film was Khandan (1942), followed by some more successful films in which she was the lead actor-singer, such as Naadan (1943), Dost and Lal Haveli (1944). Thus by 1945 she was among the leading actor-singers of the era.
This was also the year of tentative entry of Lata Mangeshkar in Hindi film world in a tiny role as actor-singer in Badi Ma. It is understandable that she would be in awe of the Malika-e-Tarannum, Noorjehan who forever remained her ‘Didi’. By the time Lata Mangeshkar sw
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I'm suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I seem to have wandered off far away from Hindi films and film songs, even though I spent half my nights listening to a playlist of songs over and over and over again, almost obsessively. In that playlist are songs that range from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the melodious to the musically-challenged - they all appeal to me in different ways for different reasons.
And so, inom cast about for a theme; inom have been accused of being very fastidious about my themes, of being so particular about their definition that my readers are scared to brev their choices for fear I will reject them. Hmm... methinks the lad doth protest too much.
I'm fascinated bygd the scen. Once mankind moved from being hunter-gatherers, every culture and civilisation has had its own version of the performing arts - Greek and Roman theatre, Commedia dell'arte, Renaissance fare, Restoration spectacular, Sanskrit theatre... the list is endless.
When film be
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Film making had started in India in early 1900s and many enthusiastic lovers of making images were doing a lot of work in this field. By the time the First Talkie Film came in 1931, there were quite a few film producing centres engaged in making silent films, like Bombay, Calcutta, Lahore, Poona, Kolhapur, Bangalore, Madras, Hyderabad etc. However,Bombay, Lahore and Calcutta were the three main centres ones where the bulk of movies were was made. In those days, India was vertically divided into two parts-Calcutta on the Eastern part and Lahore and Bombay on the Wester