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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.

It is generally believed that the playback singing career of Mohammed Rafi really took off on a sustainable basis after his songs in ‘Baiju Bawra’ (1952) became very popular. I had been carrying an impression that the year 1949 was a watershed in Rafi’s playback singing career. Probably I got this impression due to a number of his film songs I came across on YT released in 1949. To check my ‘hypothesis’, I have attempted an exercise on Rafi’s Hindi film songs during 1944-50. The starting year 1944 was taken as Mohammed Rafi got his first song as a playback singer in 1944. The end year was selected as 1950 just to know as to what was Rafi’s performance as a playback singer after 1949 which is the year I believe to be an important year in shaping his career graph.
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This article is written jointly by Arunkumar Deshmukh and Sudhir, fellow enthusiasts 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.

Arunkumar Deshmukh
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Date-14th march 1931
Venue- Majestic Cinema,Girgaum,Bombay
Occasion- First show of India’s First Talkie Film, Aalam Ara.

A hugh crowd had gathered there. Those who had the tickets were happy and those who did not have tickets were envious. At last the second bell rang and all the people entered the cinema hall and occupied their seats with bated breath….
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“Noorie” (1979) was directed by Manmohan Krishna (character artist) for Yashraj Films production. This was a small budget love story that the Yashraj Films had planned as a quicky btheir ambitious “Kaala Patthar” (1979).
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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, 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.

Fortunately or unfortunately (for my friends, readers and followers) I belong to the variety of people who take pleasure in bringing out the hidden rare gems from HFM, usually from the 60s and the 70s. n keeping with my passion for “Rare Hindi Film Songs” (RHFS is my group on FB), today, I present a forgotten gem from a movie – “Raftaar” released in 1975.
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“Suhaagan”(1964) was directed by K S Gopal Krishnan for A L S Productions. The movie had Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Feroz Khan, David Abraham, Leela Chitnis, Om Prakash, Nazir Hussain, Deven Verma, Indira, Lata Sinha, S. Varlaxmi etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, 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 hundreds of gems of hindi film songs which I have not heard yet. I am talking about only the songs of Mohammad Rafi sahab here. It is obvious nobody can claim to have heard all the songs which include scores of wonderful songs of the golden era.
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“Wasiyatnaama” (1945), by now a forgotten movie, was directed by Soumen Mukherji for New Theatres, Calcutta. The movie had Asit Baran, Sumitra Devi, Bharati, Latika Bannerji, Ahindra Chaudhary, Hiralal, Devi Mukherji, Shor, Tandon, Natwar, Tulsi etc in it.
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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.

One of the things I like doing, is to watch old films on youtube. In the past, there weren’t that many available but over the last few years, many more have been uploaded. Especially the ones that aren’t very easily available otherwise. For somebody like me, that is like “andhe ko kya chaahiye, do aankhen”. 🙂
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When needy people need help, they often appeal for help, and help pours in from all quarters. When I discussed the previous Zohrabai ambalewaali song, i mentioned that I was struggling to get Zohrabai Ambalewaali songs to discuss. The next thing I knew was that Zohrabai Ambalewaali songs poured in my inbox. 🙂 So one can say that Zohrabai Ambalewaali song contributions “fund” has met with overwhelming response. 🙂 Now I have enough Zohrabai Ambalewaali songs to see her through to her century mark and beyond.
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“Dolti Naiyya” (1950) was directed by Mirza Musharraf for Shaane Hind Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Nigar Sultana, Shama Dulaari, Amarnath, S Mazhar, Cuckoo, Veena Kohli, Sabodhani, Pratibha Malhotra, Laxmi, Sikandar, Shareef Mirza, Agha Mirza, Jaleel A, Bhudo Advani, Mukri, Ameer Ali, Munshi Munaqqa, Mirza Musharraf etc in it.
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