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It is my observation that the careers of many actors in Hindi movies were made and sustained thanks to the great music that their movies had. It is difficult to imagine these movies becoming hits without their hit music. And as we all know, Hindi moviegoers are initially attracted towards movie halls because of the music and these songs are often one of the biggest selling points of these movies. Movies without songs have a hard time finding distributors.
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Today (8 september) is an important date for music lovers of Hindi movie songs. It was on this date in 1933 that Asha Bhonsle was born. Today she turns 79. And she has been giving playback in HIndi movies since 1948. So she has been a playback singer for the last sixtyfour years ! Simply unbelievable.
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“Poornima” (1965) was a Roopkala pictures production. It was directed by Narendra Suri. The movie had Meena Kumari, Dharmendra, Mehmood, Nazir Hussain, Parveen Choudhary, Siddhu, Raja Nene, Honey Irani, Babloo, Anita Guha, Durga Khote etc in it.
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“Baawarchi”(1972) was produced by Hrishikesh Mukherji and N C Sippy and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Jaya Bhaduri, Usha Kiran, Manisha, A. K. Hangal, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Suraj, Paintal, Kali Banerjee, Durga Khote, Asrani etc in it.
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Today (30 august) is the birth anniversary of Shailenedra (30 august 1923- 14 deceember 1966). It is unimaginable but true that Shailendra lived to an age of only 43 ! The body of work that he had built up by that time was so imposing that he was already a legend by that time.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Perhaps there is something about me which makes me always root for the underdog in any situation. In the very first men’s singles Wimbledon tennis final I followed, I rooted for the 40-year old Ken Rosewall as he was brutally brushed aside by the 22-year old all-conquering Jimmy Connors.
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Jayshree Gadkar (21 feb 1942- 29 aug 2008) was an actress in Hindi and Marathi movies. In Hindi she has acted in lead and/or major roles in movies like ” Do Gunde”(1959), “Madaari” (1959), “Saaranga” (1960), “Jai Bhawaani” (1961), “Ye Dil Kisko doon” (1963), “Subhadra Haran” (1964), “Bhagwan Parshuram” (1971) etc. Nearly a dozen songs picturised on her in these movies have been discussed in this blog in the past. And as far as Marathi chitrapat was concerned, she was a legend of Marathi cinema where she acted in over 250 movies in four decades.
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