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5515 Post No. : 17961

‘Subah Ka Taara’ (1954) was produced and directed by V Shantaram for Rajkamal Kalamandir Limited, Bombay. The movie had Jayashree, Pradeep Kumar, Neelam Bai, Baby Rajshri, Shakuntala, Chandrakanta, Jogendra, Nimbalkar, Naaz, Meera Devi, Amirbai Karnataki, Chhagan Romeo, Gajendra, Ameena Bai, Badi Mumtaz, AmritLal, Nimbalkar etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5514 Post No. : 17960 Movie Count :

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As per Hindu mythology, the Sun god is travelling in the sky on a chariot pulled by seven horses. After pulling the chariot for a long time, the six horses are tired. It is the seventh horse who remains and continues to pull the chariot signifying it to be the horse of dreams and aspirations for the future. In 1952, Dr Dharamvir Bharati published his novella, ‘Suraj Ka Saatvan Ghoda’. I read the novella in full which is available online. The novella is written in narration style in which the protagonist, Manik Mulla narrates to his three friends, three separate romance stories relating to three girls. What is of interest is that Manik Mulla is not only the narrator of the stories, but he is also the characters in all the three stories who loves these three girls at different points of time in his life. As Agyeya said in his foreword to the novella, ‘Suraj Ka Saatvan Ghoda’ is not the one story comprising three stories, but three stories constituting one story. The author, in his introduction, has revealed that during his early period of writing, he was influenced by Marxist objectives rather than hardcore Marxism. In this novella, some indications of that objectives can be inferred.  The full novella in Hindi can be read here.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5514 Post No. : 17959

HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS FOR CROSSING THE MARK OF 16 MILLION VISITORS !

Today’s song is from a Costume film ” Raj Mukut” (1950).

The decade of the 1950 was the one in which possibly the highest number of films having “King and Queen” stories were made . A cursory look at the Film Title Index shows a total of 77 such film titles, starting with the letters “Raj…”. Out of these, 17 films are from the 50’s. There must be more films having the trio of ” King,Queen and the Vazir”, but starting with other words like Raami Dhoban or films starting with Samrat or words connected with kingdoms etc. Finally I gave up my ‘Research’ !
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5513 Post No. : 17958

Regulars of the blog would recall that I used to write a lots of posts about my pets between 2012 to 2014. The tales were amusing tales that some people may even dismiss as made up tales. But they were true tales. In one of the posts, I even put up a video link as proof to demonstrate that what I described in that post were facts and not fiction.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5512 Post No. : 17957 Movie Count :

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Kumar Shahani, an alumni of the Film and Television Institute of India who was trained under Ritwik Ghatak, became one of the internationally well-known filmmakers from India. His debut film, ‘Maaya Darpan’ (1972), financed by NDFC was critically acclaimed worldwide. He had to wait for 12 years to make his second film, Tarang’ (1984) with the assistance of NDFC.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5511 Post No. : 17956

Today’s song is from a C grade Costume film Shahi Mehman (1955).

The film was produced by J.P.Saini and T.N.Dhar. It was directed by an expert of such films, namely Balwant Bhatt. The 9 songs from this film were written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Anjum Jaipuri and Hasrat Jaipuri. The music was provided by Bipin-Babul. The singers were Mohd. Rafi, Shamshad Begum and Asha Bhosle. The cast of this film included Shyama, Ranjan, Johnny Walker, Shammi, Rajni and others.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5510 Post No. : 17955 Movie Count :

4867

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# (Debutant movie -Konduraa – 1977)
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# Desh ki mitti ki khushboo – 4 #
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Konduraa-1977’.

I discovered this song and this movie a few months ago while I was searching for Bhupinder Singh songs. The post however got delayed for various reasons.

“Konduraa (The sage from the sea/Maanas Ka Maharshi)” was directed by Shyam Benegal for ‘Ravi Raj International, Madras’. It was produced by K. Venkat Rama Reddy.
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5510 Post No. : 17954 Movie Count :

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‘Meera Ka Chitra’ (1960) was produced by Children’s Film Society of India (now merged with National Film Development Corporation) and was directed by Kidar Sharma. The cast included Preetibala in the role of Meera Bai, Hiralal, Urmila, Sujata, Farida etc. The film was on the life of Meera Bai, as brought out on the screen in the simplest form so that the children can easily understand the story. The film was about 45 minutes’ duration.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5509 Post No. : 17953

Today’s song is from a C grade costume film ‘Aan Baan’ (1956).

I was in two minds while searching for songs of this film on YouTube. Firstly, whenever I tried to find a song of this film, invariably YouTube presented songs from the film ‘Aan Baan’ made in 1972. After getting tired of this behaviour of YT, I got an idea and I asked for songs from ‘Aan Baan’ (1972). Lo and behold ! YT promptly gave me songs from ‘Aan Baan’ (1956) ! I was in a fix whether to pat my back for this idea or to curse YT for its dumbness.
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5508 Post No. : 17952

‘Shanti’ (1947) was directed by SU Sunny for Firdaus Art Productions, Bombay. The movie had Vijayalaxmi, Jeevan, Afzal, Lathika, Sunalini Devi, Prathima Devi, Sharada, Shabnam, Munees Begum, Mustafa, Amir, AR Kashmiri, Master Ratan, Suleman etc in it.
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