RMIM Archive Article "203".

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#   	     Satish Subramanian (subraman@cs.umn.edu)
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			  Husnlal-Bhagatram
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The first music director duo. First instance of two composers working
together and signing all their work jointly. Bhagatram gave music
alone earlier under the name Bhagatram Batish. Before the
Husnlal-Bhagatram duo was formed Bhagatram also gave music with
Madhavlal Master and the duo was called Madhavlal-Bhagatram.

Some of Husnlal-Bhagatram's hits include "Pyar ki Jeet", "Badi Bahen",
"Adhi Raat", "Afsana", "Sanam".  Suraiya sang several of their
compositions and some of their hits were popularised over Radio
Ceylon.

Brothers of music director Pandit Amarnath. (I have read it as
brothers, but Surjit Singh wrote saying they were Pt Amarnath's sons -
not sure which is correct).

Chaand (1944)
     First movie by two brothers, husnalaal and bhagataraam, sons
     of MD panDit amaranaath. It was a hit movie with songs by G.
     M.  durraanii and ziinat begam.  The  most  popular  was,"do
     dilo.n  ko  ye  duniyaa milane hii nahii.n detii" by ziinat.
     durraanii sang,"ai dil mujhe rone de" in two parts. They had
     even  bigger  hits later in pyaar kii jiit (1948) and ba.Dii
     bahan (1949). husnalaal was the more famous of the  two;  he
     personally  taught music to lataa mangeshakar for six years.
     Like many others, he could not adjust to  the  commercialism
     in  Hindi movies and came to live in Delhi, where he died on
     December 28, 1968. On the other hand, bhagataraam stayed  in
     Bombay and had to work in the orchestra of his earlier music
     assistants,  Laxmi-Pyare  to  earn  a  living.  He  died  in
     November 73.

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Filmography of Husnlal-Bhagatram
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1944	Chand
1946 	Hum Ek Hain (Dev Anand's first)
	Nargis
1947	Heera
	Mirza Sahiban
	Mohan
	Romeo Juliet
1948	Aaj Ki Raat
	Lakhpati
	Pyar Ki Jeet
1949	Amar Kahani
	Balam
	Badi Bahen
	Bansaria
	Hamari Manzil
	Jal Tarang
	Naach
	Raakhi
	Sawan Bhadon
1950	Adhi Raat
	Apni Chhaya
	Birha Ki Raat
	Chhoti Bhabhi
	Gauna
	Meena Bazaar
	Pyar Ki Manzil
	Sartaj
	Surajmukhi
1951	Afsana
	Sanam
	Shagun
	Stage
1952	Kafila
	Raja Harishchandra
1953	Aansoo
	Farmaish
1954	Shama Parwana
1955	Adl-e-Jahangir
	Kanchan
	Mr. Chakram
1956	Aan Baan
1957	Trolley Driver
1961	Apsara
1963	Shaheed Bhagat Singh
1965	Tarzan and the Circus
1966	Sher Afghan
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