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

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“Neelkamal” (1947) was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Raj Kapoor and Madhubala in lead roles. The movie also had Begam Para, Nazira, Rajendra, Shanta Kumari, Baby Indira, Kumar Sahu , Pesi Patel, Subhashini 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. This is his 200th writeup in the blog.

SHOKHIYAN (1951) was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma under the banner of Ambitious Pictures. The star cast included Premnath, Suraiya, Jeewan, Kamlesh Kumari, Nazira, Shanta Kanwar, Achala Sachdev, Ramesh Sinha etc. There were 8 songs in the film of which 6 were penned by Kidar Sharma and remaining two songs by his brother Himmat Rai Sharma. Kidar Sharma was impressed with Jamal Sen’s classical and Rajasthani folk tunes he demonstrated to him and thus got the music direction of the film.
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“Faasle” (1985) was produced and directed by Yash Chopra. This movie had Sunil Dutt, Rekha, Rohan Kapoor, Farha Naaz, Deepti Naval, Faarooque Sheikh, Sushama Seth, Raj Kiran, Javed Khan, Huma Khan, Nikita Shah, Damayanti Puri, Daljeet Kaur, Kanwar Ajeet, Alok Nath, Raj Hans, Shakeel, Rajesh Bhatija etc in it.
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This article is witten by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

78th. . . yes, dear readers and friends. One more century milestone is reached. Congratulations all. 🙂 🙂

Way, way back when we were jumping with joy, on 13th November, 2011 – this blog had reached the magic number of 5000 songs. I am sure many had it in their minds to think about the 10,000th song. But it was only Lalitha ji who put it in words “. . . here’s wishing to many more such delights on our way to the 10,000th song!”.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Aha, the 7700th. Congratulations and celebrations. 🙂 🙂

Welcome all to yet another century milestone on this blog. Habit forming, and on the dot, never missing a beat. The regularity is so predictable, that we can set our calendars accordingly. A hundred new songs on the blog – ah yes, about 18 days must have passed. Kudos to Atul ji for managing and controlling the pace of new songs, no matter what.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The year is 1957. The time in the Hindi film industry when the big name banners prominently ruled, and the success and recognition of film music was the domain of the high profile music directors. An era with a lot of stories of how Filmfare awards were influenced, and how the privileged songs were made to climb to the top of Binaca Geetmala list. In such a time and such an era, an ‘unprivileged’ song rapidly climbed the charts of popularity, completely defying the set commercial conventions, and confounding the hold of hierarchical tradition of established big names in the industry, it became the no. 1 song of 1957 at the top of Binaca Geetmala charts. The film – an unimpressive and an unremarkable socio-religious drama by the name of ‘Janam Janam Ke Phere’. The song – an unmatchable and a very endearing duet by Rafi Sb and Lata Mangeshkar – “Zaraa Saamne To Aa O Chhaliye”, an unlikely song of a human being’s search for the Almighty. The deep and impressive words of Bharat Vyas tuned to a lovely melody by a master craftsman of classical and folk genre – Shrinath Tripathi, better known as SN Tripathi.
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This article is wtitten by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

This song happens to be the 7600th song on this blog – and I am happy and privileged to have been given the opportunity to present a song on the occasion. When Atul made me the offer earlier today, I gladly accepted. Congratulations, Atul, on this century milestone!
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This is his 500th writeup in the blog !

Gosh, it has been a long trek already, and the night is very late as I complete the preparation and the write up for this post. And I am thinking about the 29 months, that seem to have flown by already. I had signed up for getting email notifications from this blog on 1st October, 2010, and today, it is exactly 2 years and 5 months. And what a heady and euphoric journey it has been so far. And all along the way, it has been raining music – most wonderful, and the best. Many beloved and favorites, many loving memories refreshed again with the help of friends on this bandwagon, and yes, so many, oh so many unheard gems to fall in love with on the first hear.
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“Pyaar Mohabbat” (1966) was produced and directed by Shankar Mukherji under the banner of Alankar Chitra. The movie had Dev Anand, Saira Banu, Premnath, Shashikala, Durga Khote, David Abraham, Asit Sen, Sulochana Latkar, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Tarun Bose, Murad, Jankidas, S. Nazir etc in it.
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