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Kishore Kumar was around in the Hindi movie playback scene for two decades from 1948 to 1968 but all these while he was on the fringes. But a combination of many circumstances, that are well chronicled, ensured that changes of epic proportions took place in the Hindi movies schemes of things in late 1960s. Whe the commotion was over and things settled down, the old order had changed giving way to the new. The old timers (heroes, singers, music directors) suddenly found themselves upstaged and evicted from the scene in the new order.
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“Andolan” (1975) was a J K Arts Production movie. It was produced by Saroj Mittal and Uma Shankar. The movie was directed by Lekh Tandan. The movie had Neetu Singh, Rakesh Pandey, Naazneen, Pinchoo Kapoor, Urmila Bhatt, Raj Kumar(the lesser known one), Kunwar Ajit, Pratap Sharma, Uma Shanker, Tiwari, Vishw Mehra, Durrani, Parvez, Shrikant,
Balram Singh, Deepak, Shantanu Bhattacharjee, Aparna Chaudhary, Murari, Master Rajesh etc.
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“Insaaniyat Ke Deshman” (1987) was a Shankar Movies production. It was produced and directed by Raj Kumar Kohli. The movie had Dharmendra, Shathrughna Sinha, Raj Babbar, Dimple Kapadia, Aruna Irani, Anita Raj, Sumeet Sehgal, Shakti Kapoor, Kader Khan, Amjad Khan, Smita Patil, Gurbachan Singh, Vikas Anand, Urmila Bhatt, Abhi Bhattacharya, Janki Das, Pinchoo Kapoor, Iftekar, Paintal, Chandrashekhar, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Today (1 August) is Meena Kumari’s (1 August 1932- 31 march 1972) birth anniversary. She achieved so much despite passing away so young. Incredibly, she had a thirty year long acting career beginning from the age of seven ! She acted in nearly ninety movies. She began to act in adult roles from 1949 onwards and her breakthrough came in 1952 with “Baiju Baawra” (1952). She won the inaugural Filmfare best actress award for this performance.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Remembering Rafi Saab on the anniversary of his passing away today. And also, remembering Dara Singh ji, who left this earthly abode, nineteen days ago, 12 July earlier this month. This song brings to mind the memories of both these stalwarts together.
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Regulars may have noticed that I only posted three songs today which is far lower than what I would have liked. But then I found myself extremely strapped for time later today. I discussed three songs today and when I read the newspaper, I was reminded that the deadline for filing the income tax return was 31 july. In other words, I could no longer postpone it.
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