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Today (19 september) is the death anniversary of Producer Tahir Hussain (19 september 1938-2 february 2010). He was the brother of noted producer Nasir Hussain. To the younger generation of movie goers, Tahir Hussain is the father of Aamir Khan. “Caravan” (1971), “Anamika” (1973), “Zakhmee” (1975) etc are some of the well known movies produced by Tahir Hussain.
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Janam liyo lalna ke
Posted on: September 13, 2012
Today (13 september) is the death anniversary of Anjaan (Lalji Pandey). Anjaan began his career as a lyricist in 1950s. He was not a prolific lyricist. but he wrote a good number of songs.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Yesterday I was just browsing in the blog and also looking for a song of Asha Bhosle to send on her birthday. Two days ago someone’s comment alerted me that Asha Bhonsle’s birthday is approaching. I remembered that last year I had sent the lyrics of this song from “sujata’.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings and best wishes to Asha ji, on her 79th birth anniversary today (8th September).
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Aa dil se dil milaa le
Posted on: September 8, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
Asha Bhonsle, the versatile singer, has been with the Indian film and music industries for over six decades. She is also a multi-talented personality. She acted in one or two films as child artist;she composed music for a couple of non-filmy albums of her songs; she is in TV reality shows. I have also read that she does mimicry in her overseas concerts and is an excellent cook.
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Hain mauj mein apne begaane
Posted on: September 8, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings, Asha ji, on your 79th birth anniversary.
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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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“Bahu Begam” (1967) was a Sanamkada Production movie. It was directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Pradeep Kumar, Sapru, Naaz, Leela Misra, Helen, Johnny Walker, Lalita Pawar, Zeb Rehman etc in it.
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By 1977, Rekha’s career was going nowhere and movie critics commented that she was wasting her career like Faryal. Faryal was held as the gold standard of career wasters those days, though I suppose Randhir Kapoor was not far behind her.
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Sadhana was one of the biggest female star of her time in 1960s. But her aura was all but gone by late 1960s and 1970s. There were several reasons for that including the fact that she fell ill at the prime of her career that kept her out of movies in late 1960s. By the time she recovered and tried to make a comeback, the Hindi movie world had moved on and the new generation of movie goers had their own stars among the newer crop of female actors.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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