Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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In our personal lives, we remember various important dates viz bithdays, anniversaries etc of our near and dear ones and greet them on the occasion. Hindi movie personality whom we discuss in this blog also seem like family to us and we discuss them on this blog on important days.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

There is a wonderful and very melodious song by Mukesh (already posted Palbhar ki hi pehchaan mein ). The film is Anuraag from 1953. The mukhda of this song is

“Pal Bhar Ki Hi Penchaan Mein Pardesi Sanam Se”
“Lagtaa Hai Ki Ham Jaante Hon Janam Janam Se”

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“Waqt” (1965) was a movie that like most B R Chopra movies rewrote the rules of the game. This movie was a multistarrer movie at a time when this term was not even coined. This term as well as the concept would be made use of in Hindi movies ten years later in “Sholay” (1975) and other movies.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Tolstoy is reported to have said “Music is the shorthand of emotion”. Nietzche is supposed to have said “Without music, life would be a mistake”. A quote attributed to Aldous Huxley goes “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, it is music”.
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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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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Welcome all to the 5500th song on this blog. It seems like just a few days ago, that we had celebrated the 5000th milestone. And now, just a little more than three months later, we are already at the 5500 mark today. The journey of this musical bandwagon continues along merrily, and every day there is a treat of music that Atul ji is providing to all aficionados of old Hindi film music. But more than just good music and joy of listening, through this blog Atul ji is doing a yeoman’s service to the film industry, to the countless fans, and to this art form itself.
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“Gyaarah Hazaar Ladkiyaan” (1962) is a Film Friends Production. It was directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. Starcast of the movie included names like Bharat Bhushan, Mala Sinha, Nadira, Achala Sachdev, Mukri, David, Helen, Murad, Baby Farida, Baby Vidyarani, Baby Vijaya, Jagdish Kamal, Nazir Kashmiri, Meenal, Soni Sultana, Indira, Jugnu etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Before I actually came across this film, I would not have believed a film by this name. But in the world of cinema, we simply need to cease being surprised at the film titles.
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“Sabzbaagh” (1951) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a Nirmal Pictures presentation and it was directed by Aziz Kashmiri. Starcast of the movie included names like Shekhar, Nimmi, Cuckoo, Pran, Khanjar, Chand Burque, Rashid Khan, Om Prakash, Suraiya Choudhary, Kamal Kapoor, Majnu etc.
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