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“Rangeen Raaten” (1956) was an Ambitious Pictures Production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Mala Sinha, Chand Usmani, Pesi Patel, Rohit, Bhupendra Kapoor etc in it. Yes, it was one of rare movie where Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali had acted together.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

pujaari husn ka hoon main
na deewaana jawaani ka

I heard these lines in the inimitable voice of Mohammed Rafi yesterday on Radio Rafi. I was looking for details regarding this song in the Database at mohdrafi.com, so not paying much attention to the radio playing. As the words of the poem registered, it caught my attention. I managed to catch the last line in the audio clip “pujaari husn ka hoon main”.
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Everyone is aware that a movie called “Milan” was released in 1967. What is less known is that the same year also saw a movie called “Milan Ki Raat” as well. Like “Milan” (1967), this movie too had the same lyricist and the same music director. 🙂
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“Aap Ki Sewa Mein” (1947) was a Chandrma Pictures Production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. It had Dikshit, Kesri, Shantaarin, Saroj Borkar, Nimbaalkar, Samson, DR Gokhale, Bhaal Maraathe, Vijaya, Baby Nalini etc. This otherwise lesser known movie has gone down in the history of Hindi movies as the movie where Lata Mangeshkar made her debut as a playback singer with the song Paa laagoon kar joree re. Less well known is the fact that this movie was also the Hindi movie debut for music director Datta Davjekar who otherwise was a big name in Marathi movies as a music director at that time.
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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.

Most of of the present generation of music lovers may not remember Shiv Dayal Batish ( S D Batish), the classical musician, vocalist, playback singer and music director. During his filmy career in 40s and 50s, he composed music for 19 films (including 2 films with his pseudo name of Nirmal Kumar) and sang about 100 songs. His music compositions for Hindi films are generally labelled as Lahore style of Hindi film music which was used by Lahore based music directors like Pandit Amarnath, Pandit Govindram, Master Ghulam Haider, Shyam Sundar, Khurshid Anwar etc. S D Batish was the cousin of other Batish brothers – Pandit Amarnath, Husnlal and Bhagatram. It is said that originally, the family surname was ‘Vats’ ( or Wats) which became ‘Vatish’ and then to ‘Batish’.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of this blog.

Directed by Raj Khosla, Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (1978) was a Nutan-Vijay Anand-Asha Parekh starrer with the last named being the “Tulsi” of the plot. It’s also known for Lataji’s evergreen title song Main tulsi tere aangan ki – which is already on this Blog.
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“Bahaaron Ke Sapne” (1967) was produced and directed by Nasir Hussain. This movie had Rajesh Khanna,Asha Parekh, Premnath, Laxmi Chhaya, Bela Bose, Azra, Manorama, Anwar Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Sulochana Latkar, Padma Khanna, P.Jairam, Madan Puri, Jaishree Gadkar, Shivraj, Ram Avtar, Rajinder Singh, Kanu Roy, Dhanna, Saral Kumar, Nazir Kashmiri, Jeri, R.P.Kapoor, Indira Bansal, Malti Bai, Antenet, Fahmida, Narbada Shanker, Uma Khosla, Krishan Nanda, Rajendra Nath, Baby Nuzhat, Mansoor Khan etc in it.
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