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Published: 14 August 2014

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A Year in Hindi Movies 1941

1941 - Mukesh acts and sings!

 This note on Mukeshachand Zoraavarachand Maathur should be
read alongside the wonderful info already available on the
RMIM Automailer maintained by Prince Kohli and Satish
Subramanian; get the articles #1, #2, #60 and #78.
Mukesh was born on July 22, 1923. One of the ten siblings,
the handsome young man came to Bombay in 1940 to become an
actor. His bosom buddy Tara Harish gave him a chance as a
hero in "nirdosh" (1941) opposite Nalini Jayawant in her
third movie. His first song was, "dil hii bujhaa huaa ho to
fasle bahaar kyaa", a solo and he also sang two duets with
Nalini Jaywant. The MD of the movie was Ashok Ghosh. On his
death in 1976, Anil Biswas said that he lost one of his
sons.

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Published: 21 May 2018

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I think he sand about 10 songs in Hindi films. Here is the first one

Listen to 1943_prem-sangeet_kaun-hai-ye-dilarubaa.mp3

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Published: 19 May 2018

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This song from Qanoon (1943) was used 7 years later in a Panjabi film, Madari, in a satirical way, reminding people that the partition did not change much. Of course, the song was in Panjabi and javaanee was changed to aazaadee. In Panjabi the refrain is 'main koee jhooTh boliya?'

Listen to 1943_qaanoon_aaye-javaanee-jaaye-javaanee.mp3

Now you know!

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