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“Shehnaayi” (1964) was a New Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by S D Narang. The movie had Biswajeet, Rajshree, Johnny Walker, Veena, Chand Usmani, Nirupa Roy, Asit Sen, Iftekhar, Leela Chitnis, D. K. Sapru, Parveen Choudhary etc in it.
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“Poornima” (1965) was a Roopkala pictures production. It was directed by Narendra Suri. The movie had Meena Kumari, Dharmendra, Mehmood, Nazir Hussain, Parveen Choudhary, Siddhu, Raja Nene, Honey Irani, Babloo, Anita Guha, Durga Khote etc in it.
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When one talks of a Hindi movie called “Amar Prem”, one normally means “Amar Prem” (1971) which was a Rajesh Khanna-Sharmila Tagore movie directed by Shakti samanta. But there was another movie with the same title as far back as in 1948 too.
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“Baawarchi”(1972) was produced by Hrishikesh Mukherji and N C Sippy and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Jaya Bhaduri, Usha Kiran, Manisha, A. K. Hangal, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Suraj, Paintal, Kali Banerjee, Durga Khote, Asrani etc in it.
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“Shatranj”(1969) was produced and directed by S S Vasan under the banners of Gemini Pictures and N N Sippy Productions. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Shashikala, Madan Puri, Mehmood, Helen, Agha, Manmohan Krishna, Rajan Haksar, Achala Sachdev, Shammi etc.
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I wonder if anyone has made a list of “Chakki” songs in Hindi movies. Present generation people may not be aware of a “Chakki”. “Chakki” was a manual rotaty grinder- a home appliance of previous generations which was used to grind grains. You poured grains on the hole near the centre of the “chakki” and rotated the “Chakki”. The grain got crushed and came out from the edges which was then collected.
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