Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

While I searched for this song, Youtube had a number of audio links, no video links, and they all said only that this was a Rafi song from the film “Love in Canada”. The year is said to be 1979, but I am not too sure. When I heard the opening music of the song, I was convinced that it is an R D Burman song. Still to verify my hunch, I looked for info on earthmusic.net. But that website has no information of either this film or song. In this case even Google search engine was not of much help. Finally I remembered that there is a privately compiled list of all Rafi songs stored somewhere in my lap top. I found the excel format file and found the other details about this song. This is song no. 5337 in total 5373 songs rendered by Mohammed Rafi.
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Though Kishore Kumar is known for being a fun loving individual, he tended to make serious movies as a producer (with the exception a few movies e.g. “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi”). “Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein” (1964) was a serious movie which was a labour of love for Kishore Kumar. Serious labours of love like this movie did not have too many takers among movie goer those days and such movies tended to flop at the box office. This movie too failed at the box office.
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“Gauri”(1968) was a Shivaji Films Production. The movie was directed by A Bhimsingh. The starcast of the movie had names like Sunil Dutt, Nutan, Sanjeev Kumar, Mumtaz, Rajendra Nath, Laxmi Chhaya, Urmila Bhatt, Leela Mishra, Ashim Kumar, Shivraj, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Today (3rd june) happens to be the birthday of Illayaraja. Like many greats of South Indian movies, he too had a brief foray into Hindi movies, though working in South Indian movies continued to be their major field of activity where he has been a legend for the past few decades.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.

For those not at all religious, only a sublime expression of nishkaam bhakti (unconditional devotion without any desire or expectation of recompense) may possibly move them.
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Raj Kapoor (14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988) departed for the heavenly abode this day twentyfour years ago.

This blog has several songs picturised on Raj Kapoor. Here is a song which is not picturised on him, but it is a song whose picturisation was directed by him.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

This movie “Birha ki Raat” (1950) had Dev Anand and Nargis playing lead roles, which is a rare occurance. Video links are not available on youtube for the songs of this film, so we make do with only the audio links. Only one song, a duet by Rafi-Lata is posted in the blog so far. When I heard this Rafi solo “bahut purdard hai ae sunnewaalon daastan meri” for the first time, it touched me. Then on second hearing I found it to be a very endearing ghazal.
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