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“Ek Musaafir Ek Haseena” (1962) is a Filmalaya production movie. This movie was directed by Raj Khola. this movie had Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana in lead roles. Other actors in this movie included Dhumal, Rajendranath, Kamal Kapoor, Siddhu, Jagdish Raaj, Sulochana Chatterji, Chaman Puri, Shyam Chatterji, Neera Sameer, Gyani, Malika etc.
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This article is written by Greta (Memsaab), a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and its music and a regular visitor to this blog.

Atul is aware that this particular cabaret song and dance is one of my favorites, performed by the very lithe and graceful Faryal. It contains most of the peculiarly Indian cabaret traits that make me love them so: male background dancers, a fake Sheikh or two, a Boss lurking in silhouette, and a lively band clad in frilly outfits. So how perfect for it to be the 4700th song posted on this brilliant blog!
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“Main Hoon Alladin” (1965) was a quintessential B grade movie which was produced by Ramkrishna Films. It was directed by Mohammad Hussain. The movie had Ajit and Saeeda Khan in lead roles. Other actors in this movie were Madan Puri, Maruti, Jagirdar, Shyam Sunder, Mumtaz Begum, David Abraham etc.
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“Saahib Bibi Aur Ghulaam” (1962) was a Guru Dutt production movie. It was directed by Abrar Alwi. The movie had actors like Guru Dutt, Meena Kumari, Rehman, Waheeda Rehman, Sapru, Dhumal, N. Hussain, S. N. Banerjee, Krishan Dhawan, Jawahar Kaul, Bikram Kapoor, Pratima Devi, Ranjit Kumari, S. N. Banerjee, Krishan Dhawan, Jawahar Kaul, Bikram Kapoor, Bimla Kumari etc in it.
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I had mentioned in an earlier discussion that Helen’s aspirations (if any) of playing mainstream rolers in Hindi movies (where mainstream roles means donning a sari /salwar kurta etc and singing songs that are the preserve of leading ladies) were realised on movies like “Cha Cha Cha” (1964) and “Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979). She in fact won the Filmfare award for best supporting actress too, for her role in “Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979).
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“Doli” (1969) is a movie which was produced by Bahaar films combines. Hargobind Duggal was the producer and Adurthi Subba Rao directed the movie. This movie had a star cast consisting of names like Rajesh khanna, Babita,Prem Chopra, Om prakash, Nazima,Nana Palsikar, Raj Mehra, sulochana Latkar, Sunder, Kanhaiyyalal, Pandhari bai,Randhir,Shivraj, Sulochana Chatterjee, Hari Shivdasani, Shammi, Praveen Paul, Polson, Nazir Kashmiri, Birbal, Johnny Whisky, Narbada Shankar, Radheshyam etc.
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I am aware of a movie called “Aan Baan” (1956), but it turns out that there was another movie of the same name in 1972 as well. I am surprised that I should know about the 1956 movie of this name , but be totally oblivious of the 1972 movie of this name.
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