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“Hariyali aur Raasta” (1962) was a Shri Prakash production movie. It was produced by Shankar Bhai Bhatt and directed by Vijay Bhatt. The movie had Mala Sinha, Manoj Kumar, Shashikala, Surendra Nath, Om Prakash, Helen, Manmohan Krishna, Krishna Kumari, Jagdeep, Samar Roy, Champaklala, Ram Mohan, Aroon, Moppet Raja, Baby Farida, Sandeep,Chopra etc in it.
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I am aware of “Taxi Driver” (1954) but I was not aware that a movie with the same title was released in 1973 too. “Taxi Driver” (1973) was an M H Films Production. It was produced and directed by Mohammad Hussain. The movie had Ashok Kumar,Nirupa Roy, Helen, Vishal Anand aka Bhisham Kohli(Chalte Chalte fame), Anupama, Habib, Asit Sen, Munshi Munaqqa, Nazir Kashmiri, Uma Dutt, Ratna Mala, JankiDAss, Tuntun, Paro, Upendra Trivedi, Mohan Choti, Shabnam, Bhagwan dada, Sham Kumar,Dada Curtey, Prabha Desai, Jerry, Sabir, Gul Hamid, Maqbul, Dog Prince, Faryal, Jayashree T,Jagdeep, Randhir etc.
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“Ginny Aur Johny” (1976) was produced by Amarlal P Chhabria and directed by Mehmood. This movie had Mehmood, Helen, Bhushan Tiwari, Preeti Ganguli,Naushir Khatau, Baby Ginny(Mehmood`s real life daughter-Debut role), Anwar Hussain, Nazir Hussain, Mohan Chhoti, Sundar, Mukri, Leela Mishra, Nana Palsikar, Polson,
Ruby Myers(senior Sulochana),Shyama, Chaand Usmani, Shobhana etc in it. In addition, this movie had several leading stars in friendly appearances. They were Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Nutan, Randhir Kapoor, Rishi kapoor, Vinod Mehra, Rakesh Roshan etc.
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“Yakeen” (1969) was a Navratna Pictures presentation. It was directed by Brij. The movie had Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Sunder, Helen, Anwar Hussain, Asit Sen, Brahm Bharadwaj, Vinod Sharma, Mukri, Dharmendra, Kamini Kaushal, David Abraham, Shetty, Gautam Mukherji etc in it.
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“Aaya Saawan Jhoom Ke” (1969) was produced by J Omprakash and directed by Raghunath Jhalani. The movie had Dharmendra, Asha Parekh, Bindu, Aruna Irani, Sunder, Ravindra Kapoor, Jalal Agha, Nazir Hussain, Rajendranath, Nirupa Roy, Laxmi Chhaya, Shivraj, Naaz, Dulari 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.

Sometimes the directors of Hindi films will put across really strange scenarios, that one does not really expect to see in the films, especially in the formula or near formula films that are a hallmark of the Indian film industry. Now, think of Helen, and the very first thing that will come to mind is a dance song. In a variety of dance forms, whether that be a folk dance (a handful), a classical (very very few indeed), a fun song (very many) or a cabaret dance (a huge number), when one sees Helen on the screen, she is singing a song, and dancing. Some time back on a particular post, we came across a Helen dance song in which she is not singing herself, someone else is. In response, others readers identified more such songs where Helen did not sing, while she was dancing on the screen.
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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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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Greetings to all on the 5501st post for this blog. You may wonder, what is special that I am highlighting the 5501st post. Yes something special in this one. Readers may have noticed that over the past few days, Atul ji and I have been posting songs by N Dutta at a very fast pace. The reason of course was we planned to coincide the century post for N Dutta with the 5500th song on this blog. All was in order till Tuesday morning when browsing through the tags and stats, something occurred to me.
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