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Aa jaa aa jaa re sanam
Posted on: May 22, 2026
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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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6517 | Post No. : | 20267 |
#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
“Sher Afghan-1966” was directed by B.R. Jhingan for ‘Shankar Movietone, Bombay’. It had Prithviraj, Nishi, Premnath, Suresh, Hiralal, Maruti, Ulhas, Zeb Rahman and others.
HFGK Vol-IV (1961-1970) lists six songs for this movie leaving spaces below that indicating possibility of there being more songs in the movie. Lyricist Hasrat Jaipuri wrote all the songs for this movie. Husnlal-Bhagatram composed the music.
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Aa bhee jaao saajnaa
Posted on: May 22, 2026
- In: "saawan" song | Calling the beloved | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Lyrics by Prakashchandra | Lyrics contributed by readers | Missing the beloved | Post by Arunkumar Deshmukh | Shamshad Begam solo | Shamshad Begam songs | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1951 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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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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6517 | Post No. : | 20266 |
Today’s song is from a social film, Actor-1951.
The film was produced by Kerawala and Bhojani for the banner of Sarosh Pictures, Bombay. It was directed by Ramji Bhai Arya, for whom this was his last film as a Director. He had spilled over from the Silent films. He started as an assistant to several directors before starting as an independent director of Talkie films. He directed films like Hindi ke laal-40, Manthan-41, Jungle ki pukar-46, Bhedi Dushman-46 and Sher e dushman-47. There were 2 Music Directors – Aziz Hindi and Ibrahim. Both names had an aura of mystery around them.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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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6516 | Post No. : | 20263 |
#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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‘Alam Ara Ki Beti-1960’, spelled in Geet Kosh as ‘Aalam aaraa Ki Beti’ was directed by Nanubhai Vakil for ‘Desai Kalamandir, Bombay’. Moghabhai Desai was the producer of this movie. This ‘imaginary or fantasy’ (काल्पनिक) movie was passed by the Censor Board on 02.02.1960.
The cast of this movie had Naina, Maruti, Daljeet, Prakash, Kanchanmala, Jeevankala, Sadik, Tuntun, Munshi Munakka, Chandabai, Nazmi, Sashimala, M. Kumar, Nadir, Meharbanu, Razzaq, Pawan Kumar, Ismail Azad, Yusuf Azad Qawwaal and others.
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Dekha jo balma ne meree taraf
Posted on: May 21, 2026
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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6516 | Post No. : | 20262 |
Today’s song is from a 72 year old social film-Parichay-1954.
Film Parichay-54 was produced by Radheshyam Jhunjhunwala under the banner of J.J.Films, Bombay and it was directed by Satyen Bose, whose famous film “Jagriti “- 54 was also censored in the same month. Film “Parichay” was released in Opera House,Bombay on 17-12-54, whereas Filmistan released their film Jagriti in “Naaz”, Bombay on 11-2-55. The cast of film Parichay was Shashikala, Abhi Bhattacharya, Pranoti Ghosh ( later married to Abhi Bhattacharya), Sajjan, Zebunnisa,Panchotiya, Shakuntala, Indira Chitnis, Dhumal etc etc.
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Badnaam farishte kya karen
Posted on: May 20, 2026
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6515 | Post No. : | 20261 |
“Badnaam Farishte”(1971) was produced by N S Kabir and directed by Qamar Naqvi for Films and Films International, Bombay.
This movie had Sona (debutant lead acress ) and 12 debutant male actors namely Amrit Patel, Arvind Rathod, Atam Prakash, Bharat Kapoor, Chetan, Gurnam, Jayesh, Kunal, Mahendra, Rajoo, Yash Tandon and Rajnish ( the name of Rajnish is mentioned in larger font size in one screen unlike other lead actors who share screen with others).
They were supported by actors (whose name is shown in smaller font ) such as Ram Mohan, Shivraj, B N Sharma, Rajan Chawla,Nazir Kashmiri, Nisha, Malik, Akram, Robinson, Kishore, Chawan, Shyam, N N Shukla, Nandini Desai, Kabir Kumar and (in larger font) Pinchoo Kapoor.
Anwar Hussain had made guest appearance whereas Dharmendra had given opening commentary. Above all, there were the hit pair of superstar Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore who were roped in to play special roles of lawyers who defend the debutant actors in court.
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Chham chham chham o naache mera jee
Posted on: May 20, 2026
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 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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6515 | Post No. : | 20260 |
‘Chhupa Rustam’ (1965) was an obscure film, produced by H S Khanna and was directed by Akkoo. The cast included Chitra, Azaad, Habib, Indira Bansal, Majnu, Maqbool, Sheikh, Arvind Kumar, Aruna, Khursheed, Uma Khosla etc.
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Bolo bolo bolo piyaa
Posted on: May 20, 2026
- In: "Proposal" song | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Lyrics by Prakashchandra | Lyrics contributed by readers | Post by Avinash Scrapwala | Rare song | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1961 | Suman Kalyanpur solo | Suman Kalyanpur songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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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6515 | Post No. : | 20259 |
#The Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Sapera-1961’. It has seven songs as mentioned in Geet Kosh Vol-IV (1961-1970).
This movie seems to be an obscure movie of its time, but it has some great songs in it that were composed by Ajit Merchant.
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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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6515 | Post No. : | 20258 |
Today’s song is from an obscure and a flop film – Pensioner-1954.
The film was produced and directed by actor Jagdish Sethi under his own banner, J.S.Pictures, Bombay. It was shot at Shrikant Studio, Chembur. The screenplay and dialogues were by Balraj Mehta and the music was by Hansraj Behl. The cast included Shyama, Ram Mohan, Jagdish Sethi, Ratnamala, Nimbalkar, Cuckoo, kathana, Jagdish Raj, Gulab, Amina bai (sister of actor B.Nandrekar), Cuckoo, Balraj Mehta and others.
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