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31 significant Hindi-Urdu songs from 1946

Song	Film	Music	Lyrics	Singer(s)
Aaja haañ aaja/ meri barbad mohabbat [muhabbat] kay saharey, hai kaun jo bigdi hui taqdeer sanwaarey	Anmol Ghadi	Naushad	Tanveer Naqvi	Noor Jehan
Awaz dé kahañ hai, duniya meri jawãñ hai (Raag Pahãrhi/ Taal Dãdrã)	Anmol Ghadi	Naushad	Tanveer Naqvi	Noor Jehan, Surendra [Nath]
Jawan hai muhabbat (Raag Pahãrhi/ Taal Keherwã)	Anmol Ghadi	Naushad	Tanveer Naqvi	Noor Jehan
Kya mil gaya bhagwãn tumheiñ dil ko dukhã ké?	Anmol Ghadi	Naushad	Anjum Pilibhiti	Noor Jehan
Kyun yaad aa rahey hain guzrey huyé zamaney	Anmol Ghadi	Naushad	Tanveer Naqvi	Surendra
Main dil kã dard	Anmol Ghadi	Naushad	Tanveer Naqvi	Suraiya
Meré bachpan ké saathi	Anmol Ghadi	Naushad	Tanvir Naqvi	Noor Jehan
Tera khilona toota baalak	Anmol Ghadi	Naushad	Tanveer Naqvi	Mohammed Rafi
Urhan khatolé pe	Anmol Ghadi	Naushad	Tanveer Naqvi	Shamshad Begum, Zohrabai
Chit dole nit dole	Dr.Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani	Dewan Sharar	Vasant Desai	Jayshree
Umeed bhara panchhi thã khoj raha sajni	Eight Days @ Aath Din	Sachin Dev Burman	Gopal Singh Nepali	Sachin Dev Burman
Maiñ sãjan ko man meiñ, maiñ ik chãñd man meiñ chhipayi baithi hûñ (Raag Jaijaiwanti)	Maharani Meenal Devi	Saraswati Devi	Neel Kanth Tiwari/ Ramanand	Raj Kumari
Suhãni beriyãñ beeti jãyéiñ, akélé baiTh jiyã ghabrayé (Raag Bihag/ Taal Keherwã)	Milan	Anil Biswas	Aarzoo Lucknowi	Parul Ghosh
Kab tak gehri raat rahegi	Neecha Nagar	Pt. Ravi Shankar	Vishwamitra Adil/ Manmohan Anand	The film’s credits are silent
So na o nanhi, so na, na, na, ab ro na	Neecha Nagar	Pt. Ravi Shankar	Vishwamitra Adil/ Manmohan Anand	The film’s credits are silent
Bhagwãn, meré gyãn ké dîpak ko jalã dé	Pujari	Hansraj Behl	Wali Saheb	Baby Mumtaz (Madhubala)
Jã parwãné, jã! Kaheeñ/ yahãñ shamã jal rahi hai	Rajputani	Bulo C. Rani	Pt. Indra	Hameeda Bano, Mukesh/ Hameeda Bano alone
Kehké bhi na aayé tum	Safar	C. Ramachandra	G.S. Nepali	Mohd. Rafi
Aag lagi dil mein	Shah Jehan	Naushad	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Naseem Akhtar
Aye dil e beqraar jhoom (Raag Bihag/ Taal Dãdrã)	Shah Jehan	Naushad	Khumar Barabankavi	K.L. Saigal
Chãh barbaad karegi hamein (Raag Bageshri/ Taal Dadra)	Shah Jehan	Naushad	Khumar Barabankavi	K.L. Saigal
Gham diyé mustaquil	Shah Jehan	Naushad	Majrooh Sultanpuri	K.L. Saigal
Jab dil hi toot gaya (Raag Bhairavi/ Taal Keherwã)	Shah Jehan	Naushad	Majrooh Sultanpuri	K.L. Saigal
Jawani ké daman ko rangeen bana le	Shah Jehan	Naushad	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Shamshad Begum
Kar lijiye chalkar	Shah Jehan	Naushad	Majrooh Sultanpuri	K.L. Saigal
Mere sapnon ki raani, Roohi	Shah Jehan	Naushad	Majrooh Sultanpuri	K.L. Saigal, Mohammed Rafi
Gori chali piya ké dés	Shama	Ghulam Haider	Shevan Rizvi	Shmshad Begum, Zohra
Ik tera sahara	Shama	Ghulam Haider	Ehsaan Rizvi + Shamim	Shmshad Begum
Duniya né humeiñ do din rehné nã diyã mil ké	Shikari	Sachin Dev Burman	Gopal Singh Nepali	Amîrbai, Ashok Kumar
Jab ghar meiñ lagi aag sabh banshi bajãyeiñ	Shikari	Sachin Dev Burman	Gopal Singh Nepali	Paro
Kuchh rañg badal rahi hai meri un ki baat cheet	Shikari	Sachin Dev Burman	Prob. Nepali	Shamshad Begum

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: 1946

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31 significant Hindi-Urdu songs from 1946

How these particular songs were chosen

Raags in songs

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For lists of popular Hindi-Urdu films

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