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Marine Drive was a Sippy Films Production. It was produced and directed by G P Sippy. The movie had Ajit, Bina Rai, K.N.Singh, Vijayalaxmi, Johnny Walkar, Yakub, Om Prakash, Tuntun, Mohana, Anwar Hussain, Hari Shivdasani, Rajan Kapoor, Jankidas, Roopmala etc in it.
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Bar dance in Hindi movies began in 1950s. These dances typically were “western” in nature and they were mostly performed by dancers like Cuckoo, Helen, etc. There were cases when leading ladies like Geeta Bali, Madhubala etc too would perform such bar dances. Such dances were popularly known as cabarat dance.
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Today (19 august) is the death anniversary of Utpal Dutt (29 march 1929- 19 august 1993). In Hindi movie he typically played a comedian or character actor and I do not think he may have ever got any song to lip sync. So any songs that I want to discuss will necessarily will have to be a song where Utpal Dutt is present, without doing any lip syncing.
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“Taxi Driver” (1954) was one of the earliest production of Navketan. This slickly produced movie was directed by Chetan Anand. The movie had Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik, Sheila Ramani, Johnny Walker, Parveen Kaul, Hamid, Rashid Khan, Vernon Corke, Ratan Gaurang etc in it.
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“Maai Baap” (1957) is often confused with “Maa Baap”(1959). “Maai Baap” (1957) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Johny Walker, Shyama, Minoo Mumtaz, Nazir Hussain, Raj Mehra, S. N. Banerjee, etc in it. “Maa Baap”(1959) on the other hand was a Ratandeep Productions movie. It was directed by V M Vyas and the movie had Rajendra Kumar, Kamini Kadam, Bipin Gupta, Rajendra Kumar, Anwar, Kumar, Naaz, Kuldip Kaur, Peace Kanwal, Romi, Leela Misra, Sunder, Pran, Leela Chitnis etc in it.
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“Baazi” (1951) was a Navketan International Films Production. It was directed by Guru Dutt. The movie had Dev Anand, Geeta Bali, Nirmal Kumar, Kalpana, Rashid Khan, Johnny Walker, K. N. Singh, Abu Baker, Roopa Verma, Krishna Dhawan, Habib etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Trawling, even for a few minutes, through the vast collection on the internet posted by so many lovers of Hindi music, the effort never goes unrewarded. And here is one delightful reward that I bumped into few days back, as I was looking for songs by Shailendra. A song that I heard long back, first time when I saw this film on Doordarshan, as a child, and then lost track in the interim. The film is ‘Insaan Jaag Utthaa’ from 1959. The film is a well known production from the banner of Shakti Films, Bombay, produced and directed by Shakti Samant. The main star cast of the film includes Madhubala, Sunil Dutt, Nazir Hussain, Minoo Mumtaz, Bipin Gupta, Nishi, Sunder, Krishnakant, Madanpuri, Manju, Praveen Paul, Shyam Kumar, Kesav Rana, SM Thakkar, TN Charlie and a host of character artists viz. Prem Anand, Sailen Bose, Kalpana, Mauji, Gautam, Kundan, Pacchi, Manju etc.
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I have discussed as many as five songs from “Meri Soorat Teri Aankhen” (1963). They are all fantastic songs. And the interesting thing about these songs are, they are sung by different singers (more or less). Just imagine five outstanding songs in a movie sung by Rafi, Lata, Manna Dey, Mukesh ans Suman Kalyanpur !
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“Aakhri Daao” (1958) was a Movie Stars Production. It was directed by Mahesh Kaul. The movie had Nutan, Shekhar, Minoo Mumtaz, Shammi, Shobha Khote, Jeevan, Nazir Hussain, Kamal Kapoor, Leela Misra, Tuntun, Bhudo Advani, Johnny Walker, Badri Prasad etc in it.
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