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Most movie songs that we get to listen to are from movies that got released. But there are a few songs which are from movies that never got released. Movies may have got shelved for varous reasons, but a few songs of these movies managed to get recorded and they came into circulation as well.
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Ambe tu hai jagdambe kaali
Posted on: October 4, 2011
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 occasion of Durga Ashtami festival today, as well as he continuing celebrations of Navratris. Jai Mata Di.
‘Navratri’ means ‘nine nights’, a celebration to honor the Mother Goddess, that lasts for 9 days. There are many legends attached to the festival of Navratri, all of them related to Goddess Shakti (Hindu Mother Goddess) and her various forms.
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Ye dil mera le lo
Posted on: October 1, 2011
I have discussed as many as five songs from “Picnic” (1966) in the past. All these songs are wonderful to listen to.
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Jab mera aanchal dhallega
Posted on: September 27, 2011
“Picnic” (1966) is a movie which is produced by Filmistan. It is directed by Shahid Lateef. If imdb is to be believed then the major stars of this movie are David Abraham, Anand Bakshi and P Kailash.
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“Main Hoon Alladin” (1965) was a quintessential B grade movie which was produced by Ramkrishna Films. It was directed by Mohammad Hussain. The movie had Ajit and Saeeda Khan in lead roles. Other actors in this movie were Madan Puri, Maruti, Jagirdar, Shyam Sunder, Mumtaz Begum, David Abraham etc.
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Kitni haseen ho tum
Posted on: September 22, 2011
“Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) is not a movie that I know much about. Whatever I know about this movie is thanks to the information sent to me by Prakashchandra alongwith the lyrics of this song from the movie.
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Kabhi ithhlaa ke chalte ho
Posted on: September 19, 2011
“Aapki Parchhaayiaan” (1964) was an Emkay Productions movie where EmKay stood for Mohan Kumar who was also the director of this movie. This movie had Dharmendra, Supriya Choudhary, Shashikala, Suresh, Nazir Hussain, Leela Chitnis, Om Prakash, Vijayalaxmi, Manorama etc in it.
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“Gharana”(1961) is a movie that was produced by Gemini Films and directed by s S Vasan. This movie had actors like Raj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar,Asha Parekh,Shubha Khote,Minu Mumtaz,Devika, Bipin Gupta, Lalita Pawaar,Aghaa,Kanhaiyyalal etc.
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“Cha Cha Cha” (1964) is Bhavdeep Films production. It was produced and Directed by Chandrashekhar. He was also the hero of this movie. He had signed up Helen to play the heroine opposite him. So this movie was one of the rare occasions when Helen was not a one song wonder but got to sing lots of songs and got to act in a Bhartiya Naari kind of role.
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“Ustaadon Ke Ustaad” (1963) was produced by an ambitiously named Production house called Films & Televisions, seeing that there used to be hardly any network of Television in India those days. Thnkfully, they at least produced Films, if not TVs or TV Serials. “Ustaadon Ke Ustaad” (1963) , which was directed by Brij, had Ashok Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Shakila, Anwar, Sheikh Mukhtar, Amar, Shakeela Banu Bhopali, Helen, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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