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Today (19 september 2012) is Ganesh Chaturthi, a major Indian festival. Today Lord Ganesh’s birthday is celebrated. In Indian calender, Lord Ganesh’s festival comes first and the festivals involving other Gods come then follow during the year. In fact, “Sriganesh karna” has become a Hindi language idiom which means “to begin”.
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Today (17 september) is the death anniversary of Dev Kumar, an actor who was active from 1960s to 1980s. Not too many songs were picturised on him in Hindi movies because he mainly acted as a baddie. But there were a few movies where he acted as the lead actor and songs were picturised on him.
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Movies can be on many topics and it is not necessary that they should all be made on the prevalent mainstream subject of that era. But this fact was not known to movie goers or even to movie critics in the past decades. People would go to the movie hall with pre conceived notions of what the movie should be like and they would be disappointed if the movie had a different story line. There were Amitabh Bachchan movies in late 1970s and late 1980s where movie goers went expecting a dhishum dhishum fare but were extremelyt disappointed on finding that the movie had no fight scenes, and worse, Amitabh Bachchan was shown as a mortal rather than one who could singlehandedly taken on lots of baddies.
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“Aas” (1953), not to be confused with “Aah” (1953), was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Kamini Kaushal, Shekher, Om Prakash, Gulab, Chanda Bai, Master Ramesh Kapoor, S. K. Prem, Krishna Mukut, Laxmi Bai, Pratibha Rele, Vishnu Mehrotra, Baby Ya Ya etc in it.
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“Anuradha” (1960) was an L B Films Presentation. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Leela Naidu, Balraj Sahni, Abhi Bhattacharya, Ranu, Nazir Hussain, Mukri, Asit Sen, Manav Chitnis, Bhudo Advani, Rashid Khan, Hari Shivdasani, Asim Kumar etc in it.
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“Barkha”(1959) was an A V M Productions movie. It was produced by A V Meiyappan and directed by Krishnan-Panju. The movie had Anant Kumar, Nanda, Jagdeep, Mukri, Shobha Khote, David Abraham, Leela Chitnis, Mohan Choti, Achala Sachdev, Ulhas etc in it.
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“Godaan”(1963) was based on Munshi Premchand’s novel of the same name. The movie was a Jetley Films Production. It was directed by Trilok Jetley. The movie had Mehmood, Kamini Kaushal, Raj Kumar, Shobha Khote, Tuntun, Shashikala, Madan Puri, Ravikant, Manhar Desai, Trilok Jetley, Nand Kishore, Ragini, Bipin Gupta etc in it.
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“Jazbaat” (1980) was a Rajshree Productions movie. It was produced by Tarachanda Barjatya and directed by Suraj Prakash. The movie had Raj Babbar, Zarina Wahab, Rajendranath, Bhagwan, Savita Bajaj, Shail Chaturvedi, Dinesh hingoo, T P Jain, P Jairaj, Subbiraj, Jankidas, Viju Khote, Leela Mishra, Moolchand, Shashi Puri etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Ever since ‘Alam Ara’ (1931), the first Indian sound film was released in 1931, songs have become an integral part of our films. The Hindi films produced during the 30s and 40s used to have on anaverage 10-12 songs per film. Naturally, there was a demand for song writers(lyricists). So the producers of the films lured some well known Urdu/Hindi poets of that time to write lyrics of the songs for their films. Since the films were made in Hindustani (a name given by the film fraternity for a language which is a mix of Hindi and some common Urdu words)and some of the producers/directors and music directors were not well versed in this language, the lyricists also acted as guides to them. Some of the well known lyricists of 30s and 40s were, Arzoo Lucknowi, Safdar Aah Sitapuri, Kidar Sharma, Aziz Kashmiri, Behzad Lucknowi, Pandit Indra, Pandit Narendra Sharma, Zia Sarhadi, D N Madhok, P L Santoshi etc. Some of them also wrote scripts/ dialogues for the films.
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