1945

Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 4

Shyam Sundar-Bulo C Rani-Anil Biswas-R C Boral December 25, 2020

And the Award for the Best Music Director of 1945 goes to? And wishing everyone Merry Christmas Coming to the final Wrap Up 4, i.e the Best Music Director of 1945 is akin to the end of a Season of a web-series. For those who have not been with SOY since the beginning of the […]

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Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 3

1945 Best duets November 16, 2020

And the Award for the Best Duet goes to? We have seen in some years that either male solos or female solos may be tepid, but duets never disappoint. That has to do with combinatorics. If there are, say, 3 prominent male singers and 4 female singers in a year, there are 12 possible voice […]

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Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 2

Noorjehan-Amirbai Karnataki October 7, 2020

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. […]

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Best songs of 1945: Wrap Up 1

Mukesh-KL Saigal July 23, 2020

And the Award for the Best Male Playback Singer goes to? My Overview post of the best songs of the year 1945 had a Master List of 59/60 Memorable Songs (one song had a female solo and a female-female duet version), the least in the year-wise reviews so far. This was expected not only because […]

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Best songs of 1945: And the winners are?

Best films of 1945_Tadbir-Kurukshetra-Village Girl-Zeenat-Badi Ma-Pahli Nazar May 20, 2020

Now we come to the end of the year-wise review going backwards. It was progressively going into more unknown territory. Out of approximately 670 songs from 74 films in 1945, nothing is known about the singers of about 300 songs, i.e 45% of the total. However, a striking feature of this year is the significantly […]

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