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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Two songs from this movie “Tu Hi Meri Zindagi” (1965) have already been discussed in this blog. I would like to present two of my most favourite songs of this movie. The first one is presented here, and am sure the other one (Maayus Na Ho Aye Mere Watan) will be posted in the near future.
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“Iqraar” (1979) was produced by Girish R Jani and Meenakshi R Jani and directed by Kailash Advani. The movie had Rakesh Roshan, Rameshwari, Amrish Puri, Aruna Irani, Jairaj, Suresh Chatwal, Yunus Parvez, Birbal, Tuntun, Randhir, Rajendranath, Jankidas 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.

When the music is by Ganesh, one can be assured of a very lilting and melodious fare. ‘Anjaam’, a B grade film from 1968, has got a treasure of some excellent grade A music. Four wonderful songs from this film are already represented on this blog. Here is the fifth song from this film, another wonderful memory from the radio years.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

In March last year, when Atul ji had posted the wonderful melody “Apne Khayaalon Ko Samjha Deejiye. . .”, from the 1955 film ‘Marine Drive’, I was instantly bowled over by this stunning sound that I had then heard for the first time. And it went on to reinforce, the lofty stature of N Dutta, the music director of this film, as one of the most talented composers from the 50s and 60s.
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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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