1946

Best songs of 1946: Final Wrap Up 4

Naushad-Ghulam Haider-Hansraj Bahal December 25, 2019

And the SoY Award for the Best Music Director goes to? Wishing Merry Christmas to the readers and a tribute to Naushad on his Birth Centenary (25 December 1919 – 5 May 2006) I need not have put a question mark about the best music director of 1946. Rarely one comes across such a single-horse […]

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Best songs of 1946: Wrap Up 3

Aawaz de kahan hai December 6, 2019

And the SoY award for the best duet goes to? In the year-wise reviews of the best songs, as we entered pre-1949, we gradually encountered less and less familiar songs. It became quite pronounced in 1946, in which I could include only 81 MEMORABLE songs in my Overview post, which is far less than the […]

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Best songs of 1946: Wrap Up 2

Noorjehan-Amirbai Karnataki-Shamshad Begum-Suraiya November 9, 2019

And the SoY Award for the Best Female Playback Singer goes to? As the readers would recall from Wrap Up 1, the Award for the Best Male Solo turned out to be a one-horse race, thanks to KL Saigal’s superlative songs in the film Shahjahan, composed equally superbly by the Great Mughal Naushad. Lata Mangeshkar […]

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Best songs of 1946: Wrap Up 1

KL Saigal-GM Durrani-Surendra-Rafi-Mukesh June 26, 2019

And the SoY Award for the Best Male Playback Singer goes to? Now we come to category-wise discussion of the best songs, following from my overview post on the Best songs of 1946. Understandably, the total number of MEMORABLE SONGS mentioned in the post (81) was the lowest so far in the series on year-wise […]

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Best songs of 1946: And the winners are?

Anmol Ghadi-Shahjahan-Safar-Eight Days April 11, 2019

As I started traversing back from the 1950s to the 40s in the year-wise review of film songs, I mentioned that we are entering the era of more unknown than the known. This is best exemplified by the year 1946: Out of 153 films in the year, nothing is known about five films, whether its […]

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