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“Chalti Ka naam Gaadi” (1958) was a brainchild of Kishore Kumar. Legend has it that Kishore Kumar produced this movie to get over his tax problems. He wanted to produce a movie that he hoped would flop at the box office and that would enable him to balance his accounts for income tax purposes. He gave away the rights of this movie to his secretary Anoop Sharma who is credited as the Producer of this movie. The movie was directed by Satyen Bose and the movie included the three Ganguly brothers namely Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar as well as the would be wife of Kishore Kumar namely Madhubala.
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“Village Girl” (1945) also known as “Gaaon Ki Gori”, is a movie which was a Ramneek Productions movie. It was directed by K Amarnath, who had also written the story and the screenplay of the movie. The star cast of the movie included names like Noorjehan, Nazir, Jagdish Sethi, Mishra, Shanta Patel, Ibrahim, Nawaz, Chandrika, Ghosh, Durga Khote, Rama Shukul, Ananth Marathe,Rajkumari Shukla, Bikram Kapoor, Geeta Nizami, Rajkumari Kapoor, Ghulam Rasool, M.A. Khan etc.
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I found that both I as well as Sudhir jee came up with articles for this song ! I have combined both the articles in this write up. The first half (discussing Ashok Kumar’s career), is written by me. The second half, discussing this song is by Sudhir jee
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Atul’s write up
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A few days ago (13th october to be precise), we discussed Kishore Kumar’s songs on the occasion of his death anniversary. It was mentioned in passing in one of the articles that 13th october also happened to be the birthday of Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar’s elder brother. As a result of this death of his kid brother on his birthday, Ashok Kumar would no longer celebrate his birthday.
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“Moorti” (1945), by now a forgotten movie,was produced by Ranjit Movietone. It was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Motilal, Khursheed, Padma Banerjee, Yashwant Dube, Kamal Jamindar, Kaneez, Tara Bai etc. in it.
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I had discussed a song from the obscure movie called “Preet” (1945). According to the little information available about this movie, it was directed by Ram Daryani and it had Chandramohan, Nazir , Snehprabha , Swarnalata , Pahari Sanyal, Gope , Gulab etc in it.
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