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History

1945 The song Aaj meré jeevan ké nabh from Amrapali has been included on the authority of a scholarly book. The Geet Kosh has listed eleven songs from the film. None of them has this opening line. But then this otherwise invaluable book has also got the opening words of the songs Is duniya ki pagdañdi and Runak jhunak chapal wrong. Could it be that the song Aaj apné ghar meiñ lagi aag ré, naujawaãn jaag ré was meant? Perhaps, these lines occur at different stages in the same song. (Why did we not simply drop the song from our list? Had we done so we would have gone against one of the basic principles of this series of Indpaedia pages: that once a source has been chosen we have to cite from it unselectively. We can not bring in our own biases by including some songs and droping others.)

Two notes about credits

1945 Amrapali ‚‘ The lyricist of at least ‘Runak jhunak’ and ‘Mujh ko nainon ke bandhan se dus gaye re koi pardesi’ is known to be Pradeep (according to TheDeepakp and raagrang786 respectively). Therefore, the other songs listed from this film might also have been written by the Kavi.

‚‘‘1945‘‘‘ Mr Ranade writes that Ashok Kumar was one of the singers of Duniya né humeiñ do din, rehné nã diyã mil ké from ‚‘Shikari.‘‘ However, Geet Kosh, which has the lowest margin of error, credits Ashok Kumar with two other songs from the film but not this one. And normally we go along with the Geet Kosh. However, here Mr Ranade points to a male singer. Therefore, in this case we have added Ashok Kumar in the credits.

22 significant Hindi-Urdu songs from 1945

*Song*	Film	Music	Lyrics	Singer(s)
Ãñkhadiyoñ kã neer poñchh lé	Amrapali	Saraswati Devi	Pradeep?	?
Bhagat, tere bhaag jãgéñgé, Prabhu sé lagan lagã ré	Amrapali	Saraswati Devi	Pradeep?	?
Is duniya ki pagdañdi par tum hî ho mere sãthi	Amrapali	Saraswati Devi	Pradeep?	Ameerbai
Runak jhunak chapal charan nãch moré man (Raag Bhîm Palãsi)	Amrapali	Saraswati Devi	Kavi Pradeep	Ameerbai
Diya jalaa kar aap bujhaya	Badi Maa	Dutta Koregaonkar	Zia Sarhadi	Noor Jehan
Tum hamko bhula baithé ho	Badi Maa	K. Dutta	Zia Sarhady	Noor Jehan
Falak ké chand ka	Ek Din Ka Sultan	Shanti Kumar	Wali Saheb	G. M. Durrani
Jana gana mana adhinayak jaya hé	Humrahi	‘RC Boral’ (Tagore)	Rabindranath Tagore	‘Chorus’
Kidhar hai tu ai meri tamanna	Kurukshetra	Pandit Ganpat Rao	Jameel Mazhari	K.L. Saigal
Muhabbat ke gul hãyé tar gooñdhtã hooñ	Kurukshetra	Pandit Ganpat Rao	Jameel Mazhari	K.L. Saigal
Giridhar Gopala (Raag Bhûpãlî/ Taal Keherwã)	Meera	S. Venkataraman	Meera Bai (ed. Narendra Sharma)	M.S. Subbulakshmi
O varsha ké pehlé badal	Meghdoot	Kamal Dasgupta	Fayyaz Hashmi	Jagmohan
Badariya baras gai us paar (Raag Tilak Kamod/ Taal Keherwã)	Murti	Bulo C. Rani	Pt. Indra	Khursheed, Hameeda Bano, Mukesh
Dil jalta hai to jalné do (Raag Darbãri Kãnarhã/ Taal Keherwã)	Pehli Nazar	Anil Biswas	‘Aah’ Sitapuri	Mukesh
Hasaratein khamosh haiñ … betãsîr hai	Tadbir	Lal Muhammad	Swami Ramanand	Kundan Lal Saigal
Janam janam ka	Tadbir	Lal Muhammad	Swami Ramanand	Kundan Lal Saigal
Milne ka din aa gaya (Rani khol dé apne dwar) (Raag Dés/ Taal Keherwã)	Tadbir	Lal Mohammad	Swami Ramanand	K.L. Saigal, Suraiya
Kis tarah bhoolega dil unka khayal aaya huwa	Village Girl/ Gaon Ki Gori	Shyam Sunder	Wali Saheb	Noor Jehan
Man phoolé nahiñ samãyé	Wasiatnama	R. C. Boral	Munshi Zaakir Hussain	Asit Baran, Bharati Devi
Aaheiñ na bharîñ, shikwé na kiyé	Zeenat	Hafeez Khan, Meer Saheb	Nakhshab Jaarachvi	Kalyani, Zohra Bai, Noor Jehan
Bulbulo mat ro yahan, aansoo bahaana hai manaa	Zeenat	Hafeez Khan	Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi	Noor Jehan

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: 1945

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Two notes about credits

22 significant Hindi-Urdu songs from 1945

How these particular songs were chosen

Raags in songs

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