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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.

In this blog we have discussed three pairs of Hindi film personalities having more or less the same name leading to considerable confusion. Shyam vs Shyam Kumar, Shashi (chand) F. Kapoor vs Shashi Kapoor ,and Arun Kumar(Ahuja) vs Arun Kumar (Mukherji).
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When I was growing up as a kid in 1970s, I was a very enthusiastic cricket statistician. By going through various resources, I had painstakingly collected details about all the test matches that were ever played till then. Maintaining those records is no longer necessary for cricket lovers now that we are in the era of internet and comprehensive cricket related statistics are available online.
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We in this blog discuss songs of various artists during their anniversaries. Discussing well known artists during their anniversaries is no big deal since everyone knows about their anniversaries. But there are artists who were lesser known and information about them is not easily available. Today is the birth anniversary of one such person.
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This article is written by Peevesie, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Janmashtami is a festival that is celebrated all over the country by all hindu communities. It signifies the birth of Lord Krishna in the Jail where Devaki was imprisoned. The story is that after he was born Vasudeva transports him to Gokul to the home of Yashoda. Hence the next day, viz. the day after Janmashtami is celebrated as Gokulashtami with his life in Gokul being re-enacted as Dahi Handi. As Yashoda was the one who brought him up, she is often regarded as the Maiyya of Krishna. For me the festival entails having sweets being fried, and then stored in the house for me to eat in “krishna-style” for the next few days. 😀
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Today (10th august 2012) is Janmashtami, which is a holiday in India. Today is friday, which means that the holiday is followed by the weekend. So in effect there are many people in India who now have a long weekend ahead of them, and I am one of them. 🙂
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“Pyaasa Saawan” (1981) was a Tirupati Pictures Production. It was produced by Prasanna Kapoor (Jeetendra’s brother). Dasari Narayana Rao was the director. The movie had Jeetendra, Moushumi Chatterjee, Reena Roy, Aruna Irani, Vinod Mehra, Madan Puri, Deven Verma, Ashalata Wabgaonkar etc in it.
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Though “Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka” (1975) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog, this movie is not all that well known today. Perhaps a TV serial of the same name has hijacked the title and that has pushed the information about the movie of 1975 back.
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“Biraaj Bahu”(1954) was produced by Hiten Chaudhry and directed by Bimal Roy. The movie had Kamini Kaushal, Abhi Bhattacharya, Shakuntala, Pran, Randhir, Manorama, Kammo, Bikram Kapoor, Baby Chand, Iftikhar, Moni Chatterji, Sarita Devi, Shivji Bhai, Maya Das, Dashrath Lal, Sharifa, Sailen Bose, Ravikant, Farooque, Dheer, Jagdish, Sharma, Jaani Bhai etc in it.
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