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This article is written by Raja, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

When I saw Naqli Nawab (1962) a few days ago, I got into the mood to watch Muslim socials. As it is, this is a genre I am fond of. If nothing else, the Urdu alone is good enough to keep me interested in the film. Everything else – a storyline, a qawwali or mushaira, lavish sets – is a bonus.

So I followed Naqli Nawab with Mehboob Khan’s Najma (1943) and B R Chopra’s Chandni Chowk (1954).
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“Ishaara” (1943) is a movie produced more than seven decades ago. Little information was known about this movie till our own beloved inhouse Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh came to our help. In addition, we also had late Khwaja Sultan Ahmad (brother of music director Khursheed Anwar) as our visitor in the past who shared some unknown facts about the movies. Here are the details of this movie as narrated to us by the two abovementioned knowledgeable experts:
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“Aabroo”(1943) was directed by Nazeer for Hind Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Sitara Devi, Yakoob, Nazeer, Jagdish, Masood, Shakir, Vatsala Kumthekar, Laddan, Chanda Bai, Janardan Sharma etc in it.
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“Chaand”(1959) was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri for Tasweeristaan. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Meena Kumari, Pandhari Bhai, Sajjan, Manoj Kumar, Kumar, Leela Misra, Achla Sachdev, Kuldip Kaur, Sunder, Helen etc in it.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Hullo to all in atuldom

Recently I saw an ad in the newspapers which made me realise that there is something called the “World Music Day” and that it is held in about 120 countries. It is Fête de la Musique’ or Make Music Day or World Music Day.

Now whenever I come across such World or International things I have started reading about it from the (my) trusted source—Wikipedia. And I will say that most times it gives correct knowledge.
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“Dilli Darbaar”(1956) was directed by Chandrakant for Gandhi and Choksi, Bombay. The movie had Sumitra Devi, Rehana, Veena, Prem adeeb, Sapru, S N Tripathi, babu Raje, Uma Devi, Radha Rani, Minu, Helen, kammo, R s Dubey, Radheshyam, Rajesh Sharma, Raj Sood, Raj Kaushal, Arjun singh, Neerja, Noorjahan, Sarla Kapoor, Kanta, Ulhas etc in it.
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“Laal Batti”(1957) was directed by Balraj Sahni and Krishn Chopra for Cine Cooperatives Limited, Bombay. this movie had Mala Sinha, Balraj Sahni, Shashikala, Jawahar Kaul, Kamal, Rashid Khan, Sulochana (Ruby Meyers), Baij Sharma, Pal Mahendra, Brahm Bhardwaj, Bishan Khanna etc in it.
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The words of the song may make people to feel that the song under discussion is the famous Talat Mehmood song Shaam e gham ki kasamsong from “Footpath”(1953). But no, this song is different. The Talat Mehmood song has already been discussed in the blog more than seven years ago. The song under discussion is from a movie called “Dil Ki Duniya”(1949) which predates the Talat Mehmood song by four years.
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“Aabroo”(1943) was directed by Nazeer for Hind Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Sitara Devi, Yakoob, Nazeer, Jagdish, Masood, Shakir, Vatsala Kumthekar, Laddan, Chanda Bai, Janardan Sharma etc in it.
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“Yaad”(1942) was directed by Mazhar Khan for Asiatic Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Mazhar Khan, Veena, Satish, Azurie, Shahzadi, Indira Devi, Hadi, Chanda, Kanta, Girdhari, Harun, Girish, Ramavtaar, Devraj, Ameer, Agha etc in it.
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