1944

Best songs of 1944: Final Wrap Up 4

Khemchand Prakash-Naushad-Pankaj Mullick October 30, 2021

And the Award for the Best Music Director goes to? When you think of the year 1944, you think of Naushad. That was the beginning of Naushad phenomenon with his Jewel in the crown, Rattan. This was his 13th movie, having debuted in 1940 as an independent music director, he already had five Silver Jubilees […]

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Best songs of 1944: Wrap Up 3

Thumbnail image for Best songs of 1944: Wrap Up 3 September 17, 2021

And the Award for the Best Duet goes to? In my list of 81 MEMORABLE SONGS in the Overview Post on the best songs of 1944, I counted 17 duets. This is quite a small number, but as we have seen in the reviews of other years, duets always punch above their weight. There is […]

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Best songs of 1944: Wrap UP 2

Amirbai Karnataki-Zohrabai Ambalewali-Noorjehan-Manju July 21, 2021

And the award for the Best Female Song goes to? If you browse through my Overview Post on the best songs of 1944 and the Wrap Up 1 about the best male solos, two features would strike you immediately. One was the significantly large number of female solos compared to the male solos. And two, […]

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Best Songs of 1944: Wrap Up 1

KL Saigal-Surendra July 6, 2021

And the award for the Best Male Solo goes to? In my Overview Post of the best songs of 1944, I had mentioned that in the total songs in the years in which the singers’ names were known, male solos to female solos to duets followed a ratio of 1: 3.69: 1.69. Thus, the male […]

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Best songs of 1944: And the winners are?

Rattan-Bhanwra-Bhartrihari-My Sister April 11, 2021

Season 2 of the year-wise reviews begins I have explained in my final wrap up of the review of songs of 1945 how the idea of year-wise reviews of the best songs of the year started and why I termed the year 1945 as the end of Season 1. There was doubt in my mind […]

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