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Yesterday this blog reached 5000 songs. Today is 14th november, which is celebrated as the children’s day in India. The day is over and it is night time, and not a single song has been discussed on this occasion !
No, I have neither run out of steam nor I have forgotten about this day. In fact I ensured that the 5000 th song was discussed one day advance so as to keep 14th november free for children’s songs. It is just that I was neglecting several important tasks which I completed in the day time. Now I have time to discuss songs for today. It may be too late for the real children, but those who are young at heart (which includes lots of readers of this blog), the day is not yet over. So I will try and discuss a few songs on the occasion as long as it is still 14th november in India. so I still have more than four hours at my disposal. 🙂
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This is the 5000th song writeup for the blog. This writeup is written by not one or two, but three enthusiasts of Hindi movie music , namely Raja, Sudhir as well as by me.
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Raja’s writeup
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Every now and then, we lovers of this blog like to get together in this space and celebrate a milestone or landmark that this blog has achieved.
It may be a landmark to celebrate a particular artist’s hundredth (or even thousandth) song on this blog. Or it may be a landmark to celebrate yet another “century” on the blog song-count itself.
Recently, as we have now got multiple contributors to this blog, we have also celebrated “centuries” by contributors.
Each one of these milestones always gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling.
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“Miss Coca Cola” (1955) is a Danny Films production. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Lalita Pawar, Om Prakash, Johnny Walker, Helen, Kuldip Kaur, Kamal Kapoor, Mumtaz Begum etc in it.
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Tu kyun mujhko pukaare
Posted on: November 13, 2011
I have mentioned the fact that Lata has the unique distinction of singing six different songs for six different actors in “Mayur Pankh”(1954). I have so far discussed two of these songs. It is only natural that I should want to discuss the other songs too.
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In my series of songs composed by Sajjad Hussain, I have been discussing the as yet undiscussed Sajjad Hussain songs from “Khel” (1950) these days. This movie had nine songs in it,and I have discussed as many as seven of them in the past.
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“Jagbeeti” (1946) is by now an extremely obscure movie. It was produced by Din pictures and it was directed by M Sadiq. The starcast of the movie, as mentioned in YT is Sadiq Ali, Auraiya, Shakir, Sulochana Chatterji, Abbas, Himalyawala.
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Movies called “Taqdeer” have been produced from time to time. I have discussed three songs from “Taqdeer”(1967). Now I find that movies of these titles were produced in 1958 as well as in 1943.
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Ye kya huaa kaise huaa kab hua
Posted on: November 12, 2011
“Amar Prem” (1971) is a movie which had the cream of Hindi movie talents at work in it. Rajesh Khanna, the then superstar alongwith Sharmila Tagore figured in this movie. R D Burman, the hottest property among the music directors, composed music for this movie. Kishore Kumar, who had taken male playback singing world by storm, was also there to sing for this movie.
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“Muljim” (1963) is a movie which was directed by Nisar Ahmad Ansari. As was his wont , he also acted in this movie, though not as the lead man. The two ageing actors, namely Pradeep Kumar and Shakila, play the lead roles in this movie.
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