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Today (23 september) is the birthday of Tanuja. She had a lot innings in Hindi movies beginning from 1960 and she has not really retired from movies even today.
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O babuaa ye mahuaa
Posted on: September 23, 2012
Today (23 september) is the 16th death anniversary of Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati (2 December 1960 – 23 September 1996), known popularly as Silk Smita.
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Today (23 september) is the birthday of Prem Chopra. Seeing that he played villain in most movies, there are not too many songs that were picturised on him. But there are such songs in Hindi movies.
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“Pyaar Ka Sapna” (1969) was a Modern Pictures presentation. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Biswajeet, Mala Sinha, Helen, Kundan, Mridula, Johnny Walker, Durga Khote, Naina, Rajen Haksar etc in it.
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Khush rahe teri nagri beta
Posted on: September 23, 2012
“Ghar Basa Ke Dekho”(1963) was a Ratnadeep Productions movie. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Manoj KUmar, Rajshree, Lalita Pawar, Savitri, Shyama, Leela Mishra, Randhir, Johnny Walker, Mehmood, Sudesh Kumar etc in it.
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Ye duniya bewafaai ki
Posted on: September 23, 2012
Today (23 september) is the death anniversary of Rajinder Krishan, an underestimated lyricist but who in reality dominated lyrics writing during the golden era of Hindi movie music. Among all the lyricists figuring in this blog, Rajinder Krishan has the second highest number of songs (554), behind Majrooh Sultanpuri (582).
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Ever since the anniversary page was added to the blog, we find ourselves dealing with several anniversaries almost on a daily basis. Today (23 september) is no exception. There are at least four different anniversaries today that I can think of off hand.
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Ye chaand to mridang hai
Posted on: September 22, 2012
Music lovers who search in YT often tend to come across some unheard of songs sometimes which sound like gems. The song is one such unsung unheard gem.
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Chanda se hoga wo pyaara
Posted on: September 22, 2012
Today (22 september) is the birth anniversary of P B Srinivas (22 september 1930). Dr P B Srinivas, as he is known now is a legendary playback singer in South Indian movies.
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Today (22 september) is the birthday of Ranjeeta, an actress who made her Hindi movie duet in 1976 with “Laila Majnu”. Born in 1956, she acted in movies like “Pati Patni Aur Wo” (1978), “Ankhiyon Ke Jahrokhon Se” (1978), “Aap To Aise Na Thhe” (1980), “Satte Pe Satta”(1982), “Teri Kasam” (1982) etc. In late 1970s and early 1970s, she paired up with Mithun Chakraborty in several “spy” movies.
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