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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6589Post No. :20485

There were some Hindi films which either flopped or just made it to be the average performers at the box office after they had theatrical release. But over the years, they have attained the status of cult classics. The films in my minds are, Chetan Anand’s ‘Neecha Nagar’ (1946) for pioneering the parallel cinema, Raj Kapoor’s ‘Jaagte Raho’ (1956) for its social commentary, Guru Dutt’s ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’ (1959) for its cinematic style, Dev Anand’s ‘Guide’ (1965) for its progressive themes, Raj Kapoor’s ‘Mera Naam Joker’ (1970) for its philosophical depth and ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’ (1983) for raising a couple of serious issues facing the country in a satirical way. The list is not exhaustive. I also feel that I should add ‘Shakti’ (1982) in this list for the powerful performances of Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan as father and son, respectively who are in the opposite side of the law.

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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6585Post No. :20479

Today’s song is from a social film ‘Rangeeli’ of 1952.

1952 was a year which was going through a lean period for Hindi films. Increased costs of film production, escalating rates of stars and music directors, establishment of star system in place of earlier studio system, increasing taxes, decreasing number of cinema halls etc caused a worry in the film industry. Financiers with black money were making films – in 1952 the number of Hindi films made went up to 105 from 97 of 1951, but dropped again to 98 in 1953. Most films were of lower quality. Because of superior music there were some great films too, but the situation was grave nevertheless.

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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6584Post No. :20478Movie Count :5246

When Atul started the series of “Alphabetical list of actresses who have lip synced in Asha Bhonsle’s voice”, he had asked readers to suggest actresses, whose name started with the letter B and whose Asha Bhosle’s song have not been covered on this blog. When he covered the letter B he kindly took up my suggestion of Bhanupriya. Bhagyashree was the other actress. I had also suggested Bipasha Basu, but the song suggested by me was only a background song and not lip-synched by the actress. As a comment to the B-instalment of Atul’s series, I also mentioned Bharati Sharma. So the next post, God-willing, will cover the song dil lagaane ko dil from Hai Golmaal in White House (2013).

Bhagyashree’s story is unlike that of most Bollywood actresses. Long before she became a household name, she was born into royalty. She hails from the illustrious Patwardhan family of Sangli in Maharashtra and is the great-granddaughter of Chintamanrao Dhundirao Patwardhan, the last ruling Raja of the princely state of Sangli during British rule.

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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6583Post No. :20477

Hullo Atuldom

‘Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin’ (1996 – release date was 7th June 1996) is a thirty year old film that was directed by Sudhir Mishra and produced by Mahesh Bhatt and Amit Khanna through PLUS Films. The story was credited to Sudhanshu Mishra; Sudhir Mishra’s brother, who passed away in 1995. The film was dedicated to his memory. Sudhanshu Mishra’s story was based on a real-life experience. While he was studying at FTII, Sudhanshu picked up a fight with a stranger and had to go into hiding when he learnt that the man was an underworld don. 

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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6582Post No. :20475

Today’s song is from a comedy film ‘Halla Gulla’ (1954).

It was produced by Master Bhagwan for his own banner Bhagwan Art productions, Bombay. It was directed by Bhagwan himself and the music was by Nisar Bazmi. The story was by Devendra Mukherjee, screenplay by Vyankatesh Madgulkar and the dialogues were by Ehsan Rizvi. The cast included Shakeela, Sajjan, Bhagwan, Leela Gupte, Leela Gandhi, Baburao Pehalwan, Yeshvant Dave and many regular artists of Bhagwan team.

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This article is written by Mahesh Mamadapur, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6578Post No. :20469

Mukesh and his Co-Singers –20

This post today brings us to the 900th song of Mukesh on the blog. This is a significant milestone, considering that the total songs of by Mukesh are just about one thousand. As we get closer to that number, the songs are becoming harder to trace.

Today, 22 July is legendary singer Mukesh’s birthday. (22 July 1923 – 27 August 1976)

And this is his 900th song on the blog.  As such, it is a very special post. 

There is a possibility that this could be his last century on the blog and that he is unlikely to reach the magical 4-digit tally. However, I shall leave no stone unturned to disprove myself. Long ago, I had even made a mental note and earmarked a unique song to post as his 1000th song on the blog, if we could manage to do so. However, it was covered by one of the editors. Can anyone guess that unique song ?

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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6576Post No. :20467Movie Count :5242

Pancham’s Music – Eighties-to-Nineties (1981-1994…) Duets-13

Today’s duet composition by Rahul Dev Burman is from the 1996 movie ‘Anyaay Hi Anyaay’. As per information available in Hindi Filmography the date of censor certificate for this movie is 01.11.1996. However the movie available on internet has its date of censor certificate as 12.09.1997. Otherwise also sources mentioned that this movie was delayed in making by several years and finally when it got released the music composer of this movie RD Burman had already passed away in 1994. This movie is considered as the last movie (released) where the music is composed by RD Burman as per his filmography. Sources also mentioned that the makers of this movie marketed the audio cassettes blurb of this movie with RD Burman’s photo and mentioning it as his last release.

‘Anyaay Hi Anyaay’ was produced and directed by Tarun Wadhwa for Laharshta Creations. He also wrote the story of this movie. The cast of this movie has Madan Jain, Reshma Singh, Shafi Inamdar, Archana Puran Singh, Amrit Pal, Reeta Bhaduri, Alok Nath, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Sulbha Deshpande, Naqvi Ahmed, Brij Gopal, Baby Suman, Paintal, Mahaveer Shah, Malvinderjeet and others.

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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6573Post No. :20460

‘Darmiyaan’ (1997) was produced by RV Pandit under the banner of PAN Productions and was directed by Kalpana Lajmi who also wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues for the film. The main cast included Kiron Kher, Sayaji Shinde, Rita Ganguly, Shahbaaz Khan, Tabu and Arif Zakaria (debutant).

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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6571Post No. :20459

Today’s song is from a social film ‘Lehren’ (1953).

The cast of the film included Shyama, Kishore Kumar, Shakuntala, Bipin Gupta, Om Prakash, Sunder, Leela Mishra, Iftekhar, Pachhi, Johnny Walker and many others. Lyricist was Rajendra Krishn and Music was by C Ramchandra. Rajendra Krishna and CR worked together in 52 films, till they separated in 1958.

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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6568Post No. :20456

‘Ek Din Kaa Baadshah’ (1964) was produced and directed by Jugal Kishore. The cast included Jairaj, Nishi, Daljeet, Jugal Kishore, Sundar, Mohan Choti, Kumud Tripathi, Madhumati, Naazi, Majnu, Chandrima Bhaduri, Sulochana Chatterjee, Sheela Desai, Kathana etc.

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