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1941 The song Lakh lakh chanderi from Padosi (1941) was ten minues long. It was very difficult to choreograph.

31 significant Hindi-Urdu songs from 1941

Song	Film	Year	Music	Lyrics	Singer(s)
Meré jeevan ké path par chhaee yé kaun	Anjaan	1941	Panna Lal Ghosh	Pradeep	Ashok Kumar, Devika Rani
Neel kamal muskaye (Raag Bhairavi)	Chitralekha	1941	Ustad Jhande Khan	Kedar Sharma	Raj Dulari
Rut aaye, rut jaaye, panchhi (Parts 1, 2)	Chitralekha	1941	Ustad Jhande Khan	Kedar Sharma	Siddeshwar Mukherjee
Saîñyã sãñwré, bhayé bãñwré, vachan karat nit jhoothé (Raag Bhairavi)	Chitralekha	1941	Ustad Jhande Khan	Kedar Sharma	Raj Dulari
Tum jao jao (Raag Bhairavi)	Chitralekha	1941	Ustad JhandeKhan	Kedar Sharma	Raj Dulari
Bas bas vé dholna	Chowdhri	1941	Ghulam Haider	F.D. Sharf	‘Baby’ Noor Jehan, Master Ghulam Haider
Aaj apni mehnaton ka	Doctor	1941	Pankaj Mullick	Aarzoo Lucknowi	Pankaj Mullick
Aayi nit nayi rut ki bahãr aai	Doctor	1941	Pankaj Mullick	?	Bharti/ Pankaj Mullick
Chalé pawan ki chaal	Doctor	1941	Pankaj Mullick	AH Shor	Pankaj Mullick
Guzar gaya woh zamana	Doctor	1941	Pankaj Mullick	Aarzoo Lucknowi/ A.H. Shor	Pankaj Mullick
Kab tak nirãshã ki añdhiyãñ (Raag Bheem Palãsi)	Doctor	1941	Pankaj Mullick	Aarzoo Lucknowi/ A.H. Shor	Pankaj Mullick
Mehek rahi hai phulwari (Taal Keherwã)	Doctor	1941	Pankaj Mullick	AH Shor	Pankaj Mullick
Maiñ to Dilli sé dulhan lãyã ré ai bãbu jî (Raag Pîlu)	Jhoola	1941	Saraswati Devi	Pradeep	Rehmat Bano, Arun Kumar
Na jané kidhar aaj meri nao	Jhoola	1941	Saraswati Devi	Pradeep	Ashok Kumar
Sawan ké nazaré	Khazanchi	1941	Ghulam Haider	Wali Saheb	Shamshad Begum, Chorus
Hat gai lo kaali ghata	Lagan	1941	R. C. Boral	Arzoo Lucknowi	K.L. Saigal
Kaahe ko raarh machãî	Lagan	1941	R. C. Boral	Arzoo Lucknowi	K.L. Saigal
Maiñ soté bhaag jaga doongã	Lagan	1941	R. C. Boral	Arzoo Lucknowi	K.L. Saigal
Tum bin kaal na aaye mohe	Lagan	1941	R. C. Boral	Arzoo Lucknowi	Kanan Devi
Ya kaisa anyay data	Lagan	1941	R. C. Boral	Arzoo Lucknowi	K.L. Saigal
Kakã abba barhé khilarhi	Padosi	1941	Master Krishna Rao	Pt. Sudarshan	Balwant Singh; Bãlak Ram; Gopal
Main geet sunati rehti hoon/ main mann behlãti rehti hoon	Padosi	1941	Master Krishna Rao	Pt. Sudarshan	Anees Khatoon
Hãth meiñ hogi khãli jholi	Pardesi	1941	Khemchand Prakash	Madhok or Santoshi	Sneh Prabha
Mori atariya hai sooni, Mohan nahîñ aayé	Pardesi	1941	Khemchand Prakash	DN Madhok	Khursheed, Sneh Prabha
Pehlé jo muhabbat sé inkar kiya hota	Pardesi	1941	Khemchand Prakash	DN Madhok	Khursheed
Ik meethi nazar ban ké, aañkhoñ meiñ samã jão	Sasural	1941	Khemchand Prakash	Dina Nath Madhok	Rajkumari
Voh apna jãdû, jãdû, nigãhoñ sé ãzmã rahé ho	Sasural	1941	Khemchand Prakash	Dina Nath Madhok	Rajkumari
Bhigoyi mori sari, ré; dekho bheegé nã choli	Shaadi	1941	Khemchand Prakash	Madhok or Munshi ‘Dil’	Khursheed, Ishwar Lal
Tera anokha siñgãr, rî (Raag Mishr Pîlû)	Shaadi	1941	Khemchand Prakash	Madhok or Munshi ‘Dil’	Khursheed
Zindagi hai pyar sé	Sikandar	1941	Meer Saheb, Rafiq Ghaznavi	Pt. Sudarshan	Khan Mastana, Chorus
Prem ki pyari nishani jaag rahi…	Taj Mahal	1941	Madhavlal D. Master	(Behzad Lucknowi or Pt. Anuj or S. Khaleel)	Sachin Dev Burman

How these particular songs were chosen

India’s first—and Hindi-Urdu music’s only durable—hit parade began in 1954. Its creator, Binaca Geet Mala, issued annual lists for 1952 and 1953 as well. However, songs had been introduced in Hindi-Urdu films as early as in 1931, indeed, with India’s first talking film.

Which were the most popular Hindi-Urdu songs between 1931 and 1951? The internationally accepted way of finding out is to go through contemporary as well as later articles to see which songs were mentioned (‘cited’) most often.

Indpaedia’s volunteers spent almost 21 man-months combing through all sources that mentioned songs from the years not covered by Binaca Geet Mala. Around one-third of this time was spent sifting through and analysing fifteen sources that covered the period 1931-53. These included YouTube playlists, three encylopaedias of Hindi-Urdu songs and a scholarly history of Hindi-Urdu film music. Because very few songs were mentioned ‘often,’ the volunteers noted down every song that was mentioned at all. Less than half a dozen songs were omitted because they did not exist either on Saregama’s website, the Geet Kosh, YouTube or Hindi Geet Mala. Every song was cross-checked with at least one of these sites.

For more details please see Hindi-Urdu songs: methodology.

Annual lists for the years 1931-51 have been arranged in the alphabetical order, because no one knows the order of their popularity. However, this can be done.

The Indpaedia community will be grateful if some volunteer(s) check out on YouTube the songs mentioned on this page and rank them according to the number of times each song has been played. (Most, but not all, of these songs are on YouTube.) This contribution will be gratefully acknowledged in the volunteer’s name.

Raags in songs

Few film songs that have a root in Indian classical music remain faithful to a raag throughout their length. Indpaedia volunteers have sometimes mentioned raags even when there is merely a hint of that raag in a song. (‘Raag’ is frequently spelt ‘raga,’ while ‘taal’ is also spelt ‘tal.’)

Wherever a taal has been mentioned, it is the one verified by ChandraKantha.com, and sometimes the raags, too.

Hindi-Urdu songs: 1941

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