Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

“WOW” – the first reaction from my mind when I heard this song again after a very long time today. What a pleasant, delightful creation of joyous abandon this song is. One of those apparently never ending stream of gems that keep popping up from the most unexpected corners of this treasure house that we call the Hindi film music. Wow, what a song this is – a song that has stayed obscure. . . rather I would say, it has suffered obscurity for reasons that may never be completely understood. For why else would such wonderful creations of such bubbling music stay away from limelight and away from the listening pleasure of music lovers. I am sure you will believe my words when you hear it. And its obscurity is underscored by the fact that I was not able to locate it online, so far as I could search, and so I am posting this rare gem for my listener friends.
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This blog has more than one hundred “Helen” songs. In these songs, Helen would typically perform a cabarat dance and the hero would be seated on a table in the bar where this dance is being performed. I recently begin to wonder whether one can count the number of heroes who figure in such picturisations. I can recall many names right from Ashok Kumar (Howrah Bridge-1958) to Amitabh Bachchan (several movies). Then I reminded myself that Helen had started her cabarat dancing career in 1950s when the three big heroes were Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dec Anand.
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“Mohabbat Zindagi Hai” (1966) was Produced by K C Gulati for the banner of Roop Chhaaya. Jagdish Nirula was the director of this movie. The movie had Dharmendra, Rajashree, Chand Usmani, Madhavi Mehmood, Nazir Hussain, Deven Verma, Badri Prasad, Sunder, Manmohan, Madhavi, Kundan, Keshav Rana, Parasram, Kirti, Raj Dewan, Deenanath, Johnny Whisky, Prabhu, Neelam, Gitanjali, Sujata, Thelma D`souza, Neeta Sinha, Krishna Duggal, Samina, Subhash, Kumar Anand, Sweety Dutt, Anita etc in it.
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When I began to follow movies in my younger days then at that time Rajesh Khanna was everyone’s favourite actor. Actors of the previous generation, viz Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand were considered as passe, especially by someone like me. I regarded Dev Anand as an old man trying to act as a youngster in his movies instead of acting in roles befitting his age.
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Prima Facie, it would appear that most Shammi Kapoor style movies starring Shammi Kapoor had music by Shankar Jaikishan. But that is not really the case. There have been several music directors compositing music for Shammi Kapoor’s movies beginning from “Tumsa Nahin Dekha” (1957) when Shammi Kapoor finally came into his own.
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