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“Pagli Duniya” (1944) is a movie that can qualify for the category of the most obscure movies today. Hardly any information is available about this movie. This movie had actors like Motilal, Mumtaz Shanti, Sheikh Mukhtaar, Kanhaiyalal, Pratima Devi etc in it.
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Very little information is available about the movie “Zamaana” (1938). This movie was produced by Krishn M and directed by Raam Daryani and it had actors like Ameena, Bansi Karnataki, Gope,Gulab, Hansa Wadkar,Jeewan, Majid, Nazir, Padma Devi, Vasant etc.
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Panchhi tu jaa re
Posted on: September 19, 2011
Here is a song that is extremely rare and obscure even by the standards of this blog where rare songs are discussed on a regular basis. And a song like this cannot be discovered just by stumbling against them in some site. One needs to consciously search for songs like this by name. I had got a lead somewhere that there was a music director called Pt Govardhna Prasad who was the father of Khemchand Prakash. Pt Govardhan Prasad worked as a music director in only one movie and that movie was called “Ismat”. With this minute bit of information, I set out to search for the songs of this movie.
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Jiyaa doley jiyaa doley
Posted on: August 30, 2011
There was a time when I ran away a mile at the prospects of having to listen to old songs. But now I especially like to listen to the songs of past singers who are not all that well known these days.
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When one talks of a movie called “Caravan”, one normally means “Caravan” (1971), but I have just discovered that there was another movie of the same name which was released in 1944. Very little information is available about this movie. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this movie.
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Ek din hansaaye ek din rulaaye
Posted on: August 14, 2011
“Kismat” (1943) has the distinction of being India’s most successful movie at the box office (it ran for three years at one movie hall) before its record was broken by “Sholay” (1975) (it ran for five years in one movie hall). “Kismat” (1943) really must have caught the imagination of the public at that time. And its music definitely played a big role in bringing movie watchers to the movie halls.
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Kyaa hamne bigaadaa hai
Posted on: July 21, 2011
We have come a long way in discussing K L Saigal songs. We have already discussed 85 out of 130 odd K L Saigal songs available. In addition,K L Saigal also sang in a few other languages, but that is beyond the scope of this blog.
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Meri aayin hain teen bhaabhiyaan
Posted on: July 12, 2011
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In my teen and pre teen days, I was a cricket enthusiast. In addition to doing the usual thing line playing it and listening to its radio commentary, I was also into maintaining cricket records. Personal computers were obviously not invented them, and I kept my records manually on registers. I had several thick registers with me, and the scores of all test matches played til them was available with me, and I had collected all these records by painstakingly culling records from many publications. When a new test match began (that was the only form of international cricket back then), I already knew what record was likely to get made in that match. Those were the days when centuries, especially centuries by Indian cricketers were rare. Also, hitting sixes was a rare phenomenon. One Indian player called Salim Durrani had hit a six sometime in 1972 and based on that one six, he was touted in Indian magazines as Mr Sixer.
These days, I no longer maintain cricket records. We already have such records being maintained by professional cricket sites. But I find that these days I am maintaining similar records for Hindi movie songs that I am discussing. And the suggestion for maintaining these song statistics came from Raja, who also grew up with similar passion for cricket and Hindi movies in a neighbouring state in the eastern parts of the country those days.
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Aansoo thhi meri zindagi
Posted on: July 8, 2011
“Bikhhre Moti” (1951) is a movie I have little idea about. But I have gathered that this movie had actors like Jeevan, Neelam, Kamini Kaushal, Nigar, Jayant, Ranjana, Sherry etc in it. From the movie title, the movie appears to be a tear jerker movie.
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