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“Village Girl” (1945) was directed by K Amarnath for Ramnik Production. The movie had Noor Jehan, M.Nazir, Jagadish Sethi, Durga Khote, Rama Shukul, Anant Marathe, Rajkumari Shukla, Rajkumari Kapoor, Bikram Kapoor, F.M.Khan etc. in it.
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“Sanyaasi” (1945) was produced and directed by A K Kardar. The movie had Ghulam Mohammad (actor- different from the music director), Shamim Bano, Amar, Shyam Kumar, Mishra, Shakir etc in it.
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VINTAGE NAUSHAD…Song No. 4
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Today’s song is from a 1942 film-Nayi Duniya. After a draught of success, Naushad entered the year 1942. Nai Duniya was his 5th and final film before he began his Success Marathon of jubilees. Out of the 3 films in 1942, his other two films Sharda and Station Master celebrated Silver jubilees. It was only this film-Nai Duniya-which did not celebrate a Jubilee, but this film was no less important and it was a Milestone in the history of HFM.
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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.

Quiz time. What is the result of the marriage of an exceptional script writer- lyricist- poet with another script and story writer who was also a child star to add? And what happens if one adds a small amount of talented step mother whose own family is full of literary giants?
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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.

One thing that is common among all of us who follow this blog or films is that we are all fans of one or other star be it an actor or music director or lyricist or film maker or singer. Right? Now what happens if we have the advantage of being in the film making business itself? We get an opportunity to showcase our love for our favourites. As today’s birthday girl Farah Khan had.
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The voices that we hear most of the time are the usual well known voices that made their career singing in HFM. But sometimes we get to listen to voices who were basically classical singers and who were by and large disinclined to sing in movies. In some cases, they had to be cajoled and often paid unheard of amounts to convince then to sing a few songs in Hindi movies.
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“Zarak Khan”(1963) was directed by Harbans for Shanti Niketal Films, Bombay. The movie had Jairaj, Chitra, Sheila, Harman, Baby Farida, Tiwari, Kumud Tripathi, Nazi, Wazir Muhammad Khan, Ravi Khanna, Ravikant, Rafia, Sujata, Madhumati etc in it.
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“Aansoo”(1953) was produced by Qamar Jalalabadi and directed by Shanti Kumar for Famous Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Kamini Kaushal, Shekhar, Pran, Nawab, Amirbai Karnataki, Indu Paul, Chaman Puri, Rajkumar, Kabil Amritsari, Parvati Devi, C Nazir, Indira Bansal, Rupmati, Suhel Chaudhary, Satya Rani, Aruna Mehta, Madan Mohan, Sudesh Kumar, Baby Kumkum, Baby Kavita, Baby Suman etc in it.
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“Parivaar”(1967) was produced and directed by Kewal P Kashyap. The movie had Jeetendra, Nanda, Rajendra Nath, Lata Arora, Krishan Dhawan, Sev Anand, Deen Dayal, Kamal Dukhia, Dilip Dutt, Gulshan, Sumati Gupte, Jankidas, Sarita Khatau, Raj Kishore, Sulochana Latkar, Madhavi, Manmohan, Junior Mehmood, Jagdish Raj, Randhir, Om Prakash, Padma Rani, Johnny Whiskey, Tuntun, Sunder, Ratna, Salochana Chatterjee, Ramesh, Sharifa, Onkar, Amar Kumar, Raja, Sharmaji, Dabboo, Ommi Katyal, Raju, Roma, Darshan, Abhimanyu, Shyam, Bancha, Swarndada, Signor, Chandra etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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.

There are a good number of Hindi films’ prints and negatives especially pertaining to the golden era of Hindi film music which have been lost. The loss could be because of damage to the film prints and negatives probably due to their improper storage. After all, film prints and negatives require storage of some specialised kind. Some producers/owners of the films who had taken due precautions by storing films in film laboratories, lost the films due to reasons beyond their control like fire in the laboratories. Most of these lost films had gems of melodic songs.
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