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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

About a month back, I stumbled upon a song ‘aankhen to huyi band magar dard jagaa re’ from the film BEGUM (1945) sung by Ashok Kumar. Until then, I had neither heard of this song nor of the film which had Ashok Kumar and Naseem Bano in the lead roles. I liked the song so much that I must have listened to it umpteen times. The song is written by Gopal Singh Nepali and set to music by Hari Prasanna Das (H P Das) whose name also I heard for the first time. From the Indian Film Trade Data website, I observed that H P Das had given music to 10 Hindi films between 1935 and 1948 including 2-3 films jointly with Manna Dey.
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Listening to well known old classics is a pleasurable exercise. But discovering old forgotten songs from old forgotten movies and listening to them is an equally and often more pleasurable exercise.

Here is a song which I discovered just now, more than half a century after this song was created.
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“Do Dilon Ki Daastaan” (1966) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie was a Deep and Sandeep Production. It was directed by Pradeep Kumar. Starcast of the movie had names like Pradeep Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Om Prakash, Jagdeep, Rehman, Shashikala, B. Nandi, Nazir Hussain, Tuntun etc.
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I often get confused between the two similarly named movies of 1960s, viz “Shikaar” and “Shikaari”. The confusion is compounded by the fact that both movies had similar storylines, where the hero would go to a jungle for “shikaar” where he would enounter tribals wearing Red Indian/ African kinds of heargears etc and the daughter of the chief would be the chief female dancer among the tribal dance troupe that would sing and dance at the drop of a spear.
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“Saara Jahaan Hamaara”(1961) is an obscure B grade movie by now. This movie was produced by India Films corporation. Prakash Chhabra was the director and the starcast had Premnath, Shyama, Hiralal,Rajeshwari, Azraa, Ajay kumar, Jankidass, Manju etc in it.

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“Grihasthi” (1963) was a Gemini combines movie. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. Star cast of this movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Mehmood, Sudesh Kumar, Iftekhar, Bipin Gupta, Pushpavalli, Lalita Pawar, Nirupa Roy, Indrani Mukherjee, Kanhaiyalal, Shobha Khote, Jagirdar, Achla Sachdev, Vandana, Niranjan Sharma, Rajshree etc.
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