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This article is the 19800th song post in the blog. This article also marks the 300th duet of Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhonsle in the blog.

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6384 Post No. : 19800

That occasion is here again. The occasion when we reach a blog century post and then start wondering which song to cover as the century song. This time, I had a genneral idea that which artists should figure in the sopng. Apart from that, I was just as unprepared for the occasion as I generally am whenever a blog century appears. Acting at the eleventh hour and 59th minute has become a habit with me it seems. 🙂
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6384 Post No. : 19799

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 82

“Na Saathi Hai Na Manzil Ka Pata Hai” sung by Asha Bhosle is written by Asad Bhopali and composed by Datta Naik. This song is from “Badnam Farishte” (1971).

‘Badnaam Farishte-1971’ was directed by Qamar Narvi for ‘Films & Films International, Bombay’. It had Sona, Aatma Prakash, Arvind Rathor, Amrut Patel, Bharat Kapoor, etc. Anwar Hussain makes a guest appearance in the movie. And Sharmila Tagore and Rajesh Khanna make friendly appearances in this movie.
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6384 Post No. : 19798

‘Gul Sanobar’ (1953) was produced and directed by Aspi Irani under his banner, Super Pictures. The cast included Shammi Kapoor, Shayma, Agha, Zilloobai, Rajni, P Kailash, Jagdish Kanwal, Nazir Kashmiri, Agha Shapur, Habib, Alka, Ruhi etc.

The story of Gul Sanobar is an ancient Persian folklore which spread to the middle east Arab region and became a part of the bigger ‘One Thousand And One Nights’ of the Arabian Night traditions. I was expecting that the story of Gul Sanobar may have been first staged by the Parsi Theatres knowing their interest in staging many Arabian Night stories. But I could not find any mention of Gul Sanobar being staged by any theatre group. Even Kathryn Hansen, in her book, ‘Stages of Life‘ is silent on staging ‘Gul Sanobar’. Finally, I got a clue from Internet Archive which has posted in its website Parsi Theatre’s booklet of 75 songs in Gujarati ‘Gul Sanobar No Gaayano’ (Songs of Gul Sanobar) which indicates that the Parsi Theatre had staged the play in Gujarati.
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6384 Post No. : 19797

Today’s song is from a non descript C grade stunt film, Namumkin aka Impossible – 1946.

1946 was an important year in the history of Hindi films. This was the period when the impending Independence of India was on the Anvil and everyone knew that in the year 1947 it would take place. At the same time when the country was to be divided on the basis of Religion and another muslim country Pakistan was to come into existence. Many of the muslims in the film industry were excitedly awaiting their departure from India to the Utopia. This would, naturally, create a lot of vacancies in every department of film making. However, there was enough talent available in the remaining India to fill up the void. Hence from the year 1946 itself there were several debutantes. This made the year 1946 an year of Debuts of several new actors, directors, MDs, Lyricists etc etc.
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6383 Post No. : 19796

“Khilaadi”(1968) was directed by Homi Wadia for Basant Pictures Bombay. This “social” movie had Nadia, Dilip Raj, Uma Bhende, Sujata, Sheikh, Suzie, Amarnath, Wazir Mohammad Khan, Vishwas Kunte, Uma Dutt, Dalpat, Habib etc in it.
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6383 Post No. : 19795

“Kavi”(1954) was directed by Debki Bose for sunrise Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Geeta Bali, Nalini Jaywant, Chandrashekhar, B M Vyas, Jankidas, Om Prakash etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6383 Post No. : 19794

Today’s song is a duet from a Mythological milestone film – Bharat Milap-1942.

Mythological films have been an important part of Indian films for a long time and this was evident from the fact that there was hardly any production house that did not make a Mythological film. The period of 1940 to 1965 can be called an age of meaningful religious films. In this too, the 1950 to 1960 period was the peak period for this genre. Later on the production of such films dwindled and these days, of course, one has to make efforts to find such a film, with a large magnifying glass !
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6382 Post No. : 19793

“Raam Bharose”(1977) was produced by Subhash Sagar directed by Anand Sagar for Sagar Art (International) Films, Bombay. The movie had Randhir Kapoor, Rekha, Amjad Khan, Dara Singh, Keshto Mukherjee, Kanan Kaushal, Madan Puri, Nazir Hussain,Sujit Kumar, Raza Murad, Tom Alter, Shailesh Kumar, Jagirdar, Jagdish Raj, Chaman Puri, Master Baboo, Javed Khan, Shiv Raj, Sole, Shahid Bijnori, Ram Murthy, Deepak Raj,Shetty etc in it.

“Raam Bharose”(1977) had six songs in it. Two songs from this movie have been covered in the past.
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6382 Post No. : 19792

‘Gaman’ (1978) was produced and directed by Muzaffar Ali who also wrote the story. The cast included Smita Patil, Farooq Shaikh, Jalal Agha, Geeta Sidharth, Sulabha Deshpande, Arvind Deshpande, Nitin Sethi, Arun Joglekar, Nana Patekar, Amir Bano, Hiradevi Mishra, Satish Shah, Protima Bedi etc. It was a debut film for Muzaffar Ali as producer-director. Others who made debut in this film were Nana Patekar, Shahryar as lyricist, Chhaya Ganguly and Hariharan as playback singers. The film was certified by the Censor Board on October 24, 1978, and was released by the Film Finance Corporation (now NDFC) at Eros and other theatres in Mumbai on March 16, 1979.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6382 Post No. : 19791

Today’s song is a Bhajan from the Religious film (Bhakti Pradhan)- Narsi Mehta-1957.

This film was made by Producer/Director Devendra Goyal for his banner Goyal Cine Corporation, Bombay. The music was by Ravi aka Ravishankar Sharma, who had debuted as an independent Music Director, with the film Vachan in 1955. In a very short time, he had earned a good name. There were popular bhajans like, Darshan do Ghanshyam, Jay Govinda Gopala, Vaishnav jan to tene kahiye, Sab ki naiya paar lagaiya’ Ramdhun lagi etc. On the whole this film was full of religious fervour, good music and a show of histrionic talents by experienced artists. The cast included Shyama, Shahu Modak, Lalita Pawar, Radha Kishen, Madan Puri, protima Devi and many others. There were 4 Guest artists, including S.N.Tripathi.
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