Chandidas was produced by New Theatres, Calcutta and directed by Nitin Bose.
THis movie had K L Saigal, Uma Shashi, Pahadi Sanyal, Anwari Bai, M Nawab, Ansari, H Siddiqui, Parbati Devi etc in it. K L Saigal played the title role of Chandidas ( a 15th century poet of Bengal) and Uma Shashi played Rami.
This movie had nine songs in it.
The review is written by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh
SULTANA-1934 must be a true ‘obsure’ film. The HFGK is silent on its Music Director or the Lyricist.Even the Record No.s are not available for whichever songs were recorded.
It is however mentioned , giving reference of A.R.Kardar, that the songs of this film were sung by Zarina, Indubala and Mushtaq Hussain. All these names also appear in the cast credits. Obviously the Composer must be Mushtaq Hussain.
The other name RAGHUVEER RAMNATHKAR,which features in connection with this song,had given music to only ONE film-Sant Tulsidas-1934,that too along with Suresh Babu Mane(brother of Heerabai Badodekar and Saraswati Rane).
Here is some information on the Music Director Mushtaq Hussain.
Mushtaq Hussain was from U.P. and was an acclaimed Ustad in classical music before entering films. His first film was Aurat ka Pyar-1933 and till Bombay-1949, he gave music to only 18 films. This was because he was very keen on rehersals of songs before filming them. NAUSHAD who was his assistant in Baghban and Industrial India-both 1938, picked up this habit of rehearsals of songs from M.Hussain. When Naushad became independent ALL singers had to do the rehearsals at Naushad’s ground floor music room in his Bandra Bungalow. This habit had cost him some films like Azaad also, but he was not bothered.
M.Hussain was specialised in Ghazals and thumaries. He used singers like Mukhtar Begum ,Ashraf Khan (who later became a Sufi saint and in whose ‘URS’,prominent film personalities like Dilip kumar and Mahesh Bhatt also participate every year even today), fakr e alam Kawwal, Afzal Lahori, Ameerbai, Zahoor Raja, Shahu Modak (Film Aadmi fame), Shantareen and Ram Sahgal. Most of these names are unknown today.
He died in 1982 at Bombay.
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