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

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his article is writteb 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 4 (Ira Nigam)
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India is a very peculiar country.

It is rather Unique.
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When one looks at the yearwise list of songs in this blog. One finds that the oldest songs that we have in this blog are from 1933. Though Hindi talkies began to be produced in 1931 itself but the records of songs of these movies were not produced. It was only in 1932 that the idea of issuing gramophone records for songs was thought about. But as happens with most new ideas, the potential behind this concept was not immediately realised and only a few movie makers opted to have records of songs of their movies issued.
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“Khanzar” (1980) was a Guru Dutt Films combine production. IT was produced and directed by Atmaram, Guru Dutt’s younger brother. The movie had Reena Roy, Navin Nischol, Mehmood, Jayashree T , Reeta Bhaduri, Shekhar Kapoor, Amjad Khan, Suresh Oberoi, Jeevan, Sajjan, Raja Duggal, Murad, K.N.Singh, Mridula, Gauri Verma, Anil Chandavarkar, Pardesi, Maanik, Naidu, Bhooshan Tiwari, Sundar Taneja, Ashok Khanna etc in it.
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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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