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I am aware of “Taxi Driver” (1954) but I was not aware that a movie with the same title was released in 1973 too. “Taxi Driver” (1973) was an M H Films Production. It was produced and directed by Mohammad Hussain. The movie had Ashok Kumar,Nirupa Roy, Helen, Vishal Anand aka Bhisham Kohli(Chalte Chalte fame), Anupama, Habib, Asit Sen, Munshi Munaqqa, Nazir Kashmiri, Uma Dutt, Ratna Mala, JankiDAss, Tuntun, Paro, Upendra Trivedi, Mohan Choti, Shabnam, Bhagwan dada, Sham Kumar,Dada Curtey, Prabha Desai, Jerry, Sabir, Gul Hamid, Maqbul, Dog Prince, Faryal, Jayashree T,Jagdeep, Randhir etc.
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Maryada”(1971) was a Lalit Kala Mandir Production. It was produced and directed by Arabind Sen. The movie had Raj Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Mala Sinha, Helen, Rajenderanath, Pran, Bipin Gupta, Asit Sen, JankiDass, Abhi Bhattacharya, Dulari, Gurnam, Master Babla, Abhimanyu Sharma, Arun,K Shukla, Lata Bose, Sanjana, Jankidass, Bunty etc in it.
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Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia is discussing some lesser known singers in the blog. He discussed two Desai sisters namely Vinodini and Pramodini. After marriage, they became known as Vinodini Dixit and Pramodini Patkar respectively.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

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Lesser known singers- Singer 3 (Vinodini Desai)
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There were three Major Centres for Hindi Film Production in India in the early days, viz. Calcutta, Lahore and Bombay.
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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

I haven’t seen the movie Dasvidaniya(2008), but what I have heard about it makes me want to see it. From what I have read of it, it is a story of a terminally-ill patient, who after receiving the news of the terminal nature of his illness, decides to live his life fully and to achieve ten important things in his life.
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Kishore Kumar, who was externally a jovial and boisterous character had a sensitive side to him as well. He could sing serious and sensitive songs with the same ease with which he rendered fun songs. When it came to producing movies, Kishore Kumar has produced rip roaring comedy viz. “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” (1958) and “Jhumru” (1961), but many of his subsequent movies dealt with sensitive topics. These movies were far ahead of their times and the Indian masses were by and large not evolved enough to appreciate Kishore Kumar’s subsequent movies on serious topics, namely “Door Gagan Ki Chhaaon Mein”(1964), “Door Ka Raahi” (1971), “Door Waadiyon Mein” (1982).
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“Khuda Kasam” (1981) was a Kala Bhatri production. It was directed by Lekh Tandan. The movie had Vinod Khanna, Tina Munim, Ajit, Pran, Nazneen, Chandrashekhar, Zaahira, Kamini Kaushal, Madan Puri, Jalal Agha,Shakti Kapoor, Pinchoo Kapoor, Ram Mohan, C S dubey etc in it.
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