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“Taksaal” (1956) was a Hemen Gupta Production movie. The movie was produced and directed by Hemen Gupta. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Smriti Biswas, Radhakrishna, Helen, Hiralal etc in it.
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“Kundan”(1955) was produced and directed by Sohrab Modi for Minerva Movietone, Bombay. The movie had Sohrab Modi, Nimmi, Ulhas, Sunil Dutt, Pran, Om Prakash, Baby Naaz, Manorama, Roopmala, Murad, Jeevan, Sadat Ali, Kumkum etc in it.
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Raaja Harishchandra(1952) was produced by C.M.Trivedi and directed by Raman B Desai for Trivedi productions. The movie had Prem Adeeb and Sumitra Devi in lead roles, playing Raaja Harishchandra and his wife Taramati respectively. The movie also had Pravin Kumar, Gope, Moni Chatterji etc. in it.
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“Kaala Aadmi”(1960) was produced and directed by Ved-Madan for Natraj Productions, Bombay. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Shyama, Mehmood, Johny Walker, Sheila Vaz, Minu Mumtaz, Raj Mehra, Amar, Baij Sharma, Neelofar, Brahm Dutt, Rammohan etc in it.
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I have heard this song before on the radio, but I did not have any clue to its details.  Today, browsing online, searching for something different, I bumped into this song.  As I read the initial details, and then started to do some more checking, I realized this song has a very interesting and significant antecedents that make for a very interesting discussion.
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“Jaal”(1967), not to be confused with “Jaal”(1952) was directed by Moni Bhattacharya for New World Pictures. The movie had Mala Sinha, Biswajeet,Johnny Walker,Tarun Bose, Sujit Kumar,Nirupa Roy, Helen, Asit Sen, Jagdish Raj, Niranjan Sharma, Kamran(Guest Artist) etc in it.
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“Agni Rekha”(1973) was produced by K S Melwani and directed by Mahesh Kaul for Mel-Kaul Films. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Sharada(known in South Indian film Industry as Urvashi Sharada), Bindu, Helen, Durga Khote, Asrani, Sajjan, Jankidas, Yashodhara Katju, Suresh Chatwal, Chand Usmani, Kumud Tripathi, Lalita Kumari, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Pal Mahendra, Radheyshyam, Chandrima Bhaduri, Indrani Mukherjee etc in it.
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Rafi Sb – In The Seventies – 22
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(1970s Unreleased – Duet)

Quite a coincidence today. This duet that I selected for this episode of the series, got inadvertently connected with an anniversary .

An amazing creation, this duet is. Film is ‘Sweetheart’, also from the early 1970s. The creators of this song are more familiar. The words are penned by Anand Bakshi and the music is created by Kalyanji Anandji. This film was launched with quite a filmi buzz, with the lead pair of Shashi Kapoor and Asha Parekh. I have some memory of reading something – maybe a promotional article, likely in the Filmfare magazine, way back then. Eventually, this film did not get done. The songs did get recorded. As per Geet Kosh, four songs are identified and probably more may exist. The list of songs is impressive, especially this duet and a solo by Mukesh (yet to be posted here). I remember these songs were played occasionally on the radio. It never did strike me that this film did not get released. As I checked the listings while preparing this series, I was a bit surprised to see this name in the list of unreleased films.
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Rafi Sb – In The Seventies – 20
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(1980 – Duet)

A brief and approximate view of the numbers from Rafi Sb’s career. I am basing this view on the data available in the Rafi Song list, and from browsing of the Geet Kosh. In the 1940s, starting from 1945 and upto 1950, his film songs number less than 200, approximately in the range of 165 to 170. Then in the 1950s, this number rises dramatically. An approximation is 1370 film songs in that decade. In the 1960s, we see a further improvement in this number – the approximate number of songs as per records is 1500, plus or minus 10. As we come into the 70s, there is a drop in this number. The records show that there are approximately 1025 songs in the decade from 1971 to 1980. I would like to add that these numbers also include the known songs from unreleased films, i.e. songs that were recorded for films, but the films either did not get made or were not released.
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Rafi Sb – In The Seventies – 2
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(1971 – Duet)

The decade of the seventies brought in some significant changes in the landscape of Hindi film song. For one, it was the spectacular rise of Kishore Kumar as a playback singer.“Mere Sapnon Ki Raani” happened in 1969, and after that we see a meteoric rise in Kishore Da’s playback singing performances. The second significant aspect is the accompanying rise of the new age music spearheaded by music directors like RD Burman and Bappi Lahiri. The generations were changing, and the new generations lapped on the new age music coming from this new crop of composers. Sadly, however, the demise of melody was also acknowledged to have occurred in this decade.
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