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“Hamraahi”(1963) was a Prasad Production movie. It was directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Jamuna, Shashikala, Dhumal, Lalita Pawar, Mehmood, Shobha Khote, Indira, N. Hussain, Rajendranath, O. P. Ralhan, Heera Sawant etc in it.
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“Godaan”(1963) was based on a well known story written by Hindi author Munshi Premchand. The movie was a Jaeley Pictures production. It was directed by Trilok Jetley. The movie had Raj Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Mehmood, Shobha Khote, Tuntun, Shashikala, Madan Puri, Ravikant, Manhar Desai, Trilok Jetley, Nand Kishore, Ragini, Bipin Gupta etc in it.
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Today (30 august) is the birth anniversary of Shailenedra (30 august 1923- 14 deceember 1966). It is unimaginable but true that Shailendra lived to an age of only 43 ! The body of work that he had built up by that time was so imposing that he was already a legend by that time.
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“Sanjog”(1961) was a Light and Shade productions movie. It was produced by Om Prakash (the actor) and directed by Pramod Chakraborty. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Shubha Khote,Mehmood, Sunder, Raj Mehra, Leela Misra, Om Prakash, Pachhi etc in it.
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“Jis Desh Main Ganga Behti Hai” (1960) was an R K Films production. It was directed by Radhu Karmarkar. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Padmini, Pran, Chanchal, Raj Mehra, Sulochana Chatterji, Nana Palsikar, Vishwa Mehra, Amar, Tiwari, Lalita Pawar, Nayampally etc in it.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Perhaps there is something about me which makes me always root for the underdog in any situation. In the very first men’s singles Wimbledon tennis final I followed, I rooted for the 40-year old Ken Rosewall as he was brutally brushed aside by the 22-year old all-conquering Jimmy Connors.
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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.

Ever since ‘Alam Ara’ (1931), the first Indian sound film was released in 1931, songs have become an integral part of our films. The Hindi films produced during the 30s and 40s used to have on anaverage 10-12 songs per film. Naturally, there was a demand for song writers(lyricists). So the producers of the films lured some well known Urdu/Hindi poets of that time to write lyrics of the songs for their films. Since the films were made in Hindustani (a name given by the film fraternity for a language which is a mix of Hindi and some common Urdu words)and some of the producers/directors and music directors were not well versed in this language, the lyricists also acted as guides to them. Some of the well known lyricists of 30s and 40s were, Arzoo Lucknowi, Safdar Aah Sitapuri, Kidar Sharma, Aziz Kashmiri, Behzad Lucknowi, Pandit Indra, Pandit Narendra Sharma, Zia Sarhadi, D N Madhok, P L Santoshi etc. Some of them also wrote scripts/ dialogues for the films.
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“Khuda Gawaah”(1993) was a Glamour Films production. It was produced by Manoj Desai and Nazeer Ahmad and directed by Mukul Anand. The movie had Amithabh bachchan, Sridevi,(Akkineni) Nagarjuna, Shilpa Shirodkar, Vikram Gokhale, Kiran Kumar, Anjana Mumtaz, Danny Denzongpa, Anjan Shrivasta, Aravind Rathod, Beena, Ali Khan, Mini, Tabassum, Bharat Kapoor, Deepak Shirke, Shammi, Surendra Pal, Bhooshan, Jeevan, Vikaas Anand, Master Emran etc in it.
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Today (29 august) is the birthday of Leena Chandawarkar. Yesterday (28 august) was the birthday of Anil Dhawan. These two had worked together in “Honeymoon” (1973), which was a Rajshree production movie which was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Hiren Nag. The movie had Anil Dhawan, Leena Chandavarkar, Suresh Chatwal, Nazima, Utpal Dutt, Shyama, Mukri, Sunder, Leela Misra, Senior Sulochana, Pravin Paul, Purnima, Agha, Shammi, Uttam Anand, Shail Chaturvedi, Praveen Kumar, Uma Dhawan, Madhup Sharma, Tarun Ghosh, Machhar, Sonal, Darshan, Pardesi, Shriram Shashtri, Baby Gayatri, Mona, Rajni,Indu Mehta etc on it.
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