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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.

Under the banner of Navketan ( Navketan Films, Navketan International and Navketan Enterprises), there were many films which have become immortals. Films like ‘Nau Do Gyarah (1957), ‘Kaala Baazar (1960), ‘Tere Ghar Ke Saamne’ (1963), ‘Guide’ (1965) and ‘Jewel Thief’ (1967) have been known for the good story and screen play, good music and fast paced direction from Vijay Anand in particular, the song picturisation in these films. Each of his films germinated from new ideas.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

For the Generations that became young in 50s, 60s or the 70s, Dev Anand was their Idol. The theatres showing his films used to be crowded with youngsters who tried to copy his style, mannerisms, Hair style etc.
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“Roop Ki Raani Choron Ka Raaja” (1961) was a Rahul Theatres Production. It was produced and directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Jeevan, Sunder, Hira Lal, Randhir, Jagdish Raj, Rajindar Nath, Sahira, Sheela Kashmiri, Manorama, Indira Bansal, Gautam Mukerjee, Babu Rao Pehlwan, Soda Water, Prabhu Arora, Rirkoo, Jasbir Singh, Ravi Kant, Sadhu Singh, Raj Kumar, Ghosh, Guddu, Satish etc in it.
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“Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai” (1961) was a Nasir Hussain Films production. It was produced and directed by Nasin Hussain. The movie had Dev Anand, Asha Parekh, Pran, Raj Mehra, Mubarak, Sulochana Latkar, Wasti, Rajendra Nath, Tahir Hussain, Dulari, Bishan Khanna, Ram Avtar etc in it.
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This blog has more than one hundred “Helen” songs. In these songs, Helen would typically perform a cabarat dance and the hero would be seated on a table in the bar where this dance is being performed. I recently begin to wonder whether one can count the number of heroes who figure in such picturisations. I can recall many names right from Ashok Kumar (Howrah Bridge-1958) to Amitabh Bachchan (several movies). Then I reminded myself that Helen had started her cabarat dancing career in 1950s when the three big heroes were Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dec Anand.
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“Love Marriage” was produced and directed by Subodh Mukherji under the banner of Subodh Mukherji productions. The movie had Dev Anand, Mala Sinha, Pranoti Ghosh, Helen, Abhi Bhattacharya, Kanchan Mala, Neeta, Sarita, Kanchanmala, Wajid Khan, Sharda, Bhagwan Sinha, Gunjan, Narbada Shankar, Suresh, Bob, Sushil, Vijay Kumar, Munshiji, Mohan Modi, Rajesh, Mikki, Dubbe, Sailen Bose, Mool Chand, Master Anwar, Robert etc in it.
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“Nau Do Gyaarah”(1957) was produced by Dev Anand and directed by Vijay Anand. The movie had Dev Anand, Lalita Pawar, Rashid Khan, Kalpana Kartik, Jeevan, Shashikala, Madan Puri, M. A. Latif, Helen, Krishan Dhawan, Jagdish Raaj, Nazir Kashmiri etc in it.
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“Teen Deviyaan”(1965) was a Nalanda Production movie. It was produced and directed by Amarjeet. The movie had Dev Anand, Kalpana Mohan, Simi Garewal, Nanda, Harindarnath Chattopadhyaya, Ruby Myers(aka Senior Sulochana), I.S.Johar, Rashid Khan, Janki Dass, Dhanna, Ravikant, Rirkoo, Latif, Wajid Khan, Funny Tincher, Amin Sayani, Ratan Gaurang etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Whenever I come across the name of the film “Baat ek raat ki” the song ‘na tum hame jaano, na ham tumhen jaane’ is the song I remember. The Hemant Kumar version is posted in the blog. I have seen this song many times on ‘Chhaaya geet’.
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