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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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I always wondered what kind of problems were faced by Anglo-Indian and other non-Hindi speaking stars when talkies came. I read that they could not speak Hindi well, but no examples, until now. Here is Fearless Nadia explaining how she mis-pronounced the word 'chhoD' meaning to leave alone, in an interview with Rosie Thomas in Feb 1986.
Now you know!
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Duniya Na Mane (1937) was a unique Hindi film in that all the sound hears was diegetic. That means that the source of each sound (character voices, their movements, music etc.) was either seen on screen or heavily implied. The same thing was done by the famous Swedish director Ingmar Bergman a few years later. In this song, Damroo is heard for the first time
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