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

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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. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Writing about old films and old songs is not an easy job. Particularly,if you are writing about Debut Films and Debut songs,it is a Herculean task to find out which is the real Debut song/Film. This is because, as I always say, we are a poor nation as far as recording film history is concerned. There are conflicting claims made by Internet sites and so called experts. Even books are not reliable, as I found recently. Therefore, it is very difficult to verify any information.
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“Fakira” (1976) was produced by N N Sippy and directed by C R Dixit. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Asrani, Aruna Irani, Danny Denzongpa, Asit Sen, Ramesh Deo, Madan Puri, Shetty etc in it.
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“Jungle Mein Mangal” (1972) was produced and directed by Rajendra Bhatia for Kiron Productions. The movie had Pran(in double role),Kiran Kumar, Reena Roy, Narendranath, Jayshree.T., Meena.T., Sonia Sahni, Balraj Sahni(in a special appearance), Upendra Trivedi, Aravind Trivedi, Meena Roy,Jagadish Raj, Chaman Puri, Birbal, Bharat Kapoor, Padma Khanna,Chandrashekhar, Gulshan Bawra, Paintal, V.Gopal, Krishan Dhawan, Sono, H.L.Pardesi, Yogesh Chhabra, Bhatnagar, Menon, Shashi Kiron, Rajni Gupta, Ashok Tanki, Chanda Bai, Arpana, Mona Saxena, Uma Khosla, Prem, Neel Oberoi,Rajan Verma, Prematesh Mehta, Bhanumati, Hari Yogesh etc in it.
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“Dil Bhi Tera Ham Bhi Tere” (1960) was directed by Arjun Hingorani for Kanwar Kala Mandir Productions. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Usha Kiran, Kumkum, Sushil, Mohan Choti, Jankidas, Dharmendra, Hari Shivdasani etc in it.
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“Neelofar”(1957) was directed by P N Arora for All India Pictures. The movie had Suresh, Chitra, Sunder, Helen,Nishi, Amar, Shyam Kumar, W. M. Khan etc in it.
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“Same name confusion” , a term coined by our beloved in house encyclopaedia, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, is quite common among movie and music lovers. People, including some “reputed” sites confuse among artists of similar names and incorrect information about these artists are then faithfully cut and pasted by them from other sites and such information soon becomes viral on internet.
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Little was known about “Sanjog” (1943), a movie released seven decades ago, but that was only till we in this blog began to discuss the songs from this movie. Here is what Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia has to say about this movie:
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“Subah” (1982) was dubbed from a Marathi movie called “Umbarthha”. This movie was based on a Marathi story written by Shanta Nisal. Screenplay of this movie was written by Vijay Tendulkar, the famous Marathi playwright. The movie was directed by Jabbar Patel. The movie had Smita Patil, Girish Karnaad, Daya Dongre, Srikant Moghe, Ashalatha Wabgaonkar, Ravi Patwardhan, Kusum Kulkarni, Purnima Ganu, Surekha Diwaakar etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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The Many Colors of Love #10 – The Euphoria of Love
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And so wrote the scribe

un se pyaar ho gaya
un se pyaar ho gaya
dil mera kho gaya
dil un ka kho gaya
dil dil se mil gaya

(‘Baadal’, 1951)
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

My first introduction to ‘ghazals’ came about in 1986. Before that it was all ‘songs’, ‘sad songs’ or ‘slow songs’ for me. In 1985-86 I had taken up a job and my boss was a Punjabi from Chandigarh. He was fond of ghazals and I was fond of old Hindi film songs. My boss had with him a good collection of audio cassettes of ghazals by Mehedi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh and others. Impressed by my awareness of the old Hindi film songs he asked me to list out and compile old songs (singer wise, actor/actress wise) and get them recorded on cassettes (Sony, TDK cassettes mostly).
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