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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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Ever since the talkies came into being, Shakespeare’s plays have been one of the most favourites literary sources that have been used in Hindi films after suitably adapting them. The first talkie film adapted from Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ is stated to be ‘Khoon Ka Khoon’ (1935) directed by Sohrab Modi. Shakespeare’s plays which have been the favourite with Hindi film industry beside ‘Hamlet’ are ‘Macbeth’, ‘Othello’ and ‘Romeo & Juliet’.
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“Mera Suhaag”(1947) was directed by Amiya Chakraborty for Famous Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Kamla Kotnis, Sulochana Chatterji, Arun, Baby Tabassum, Narmada Shankar, Ghulam Mohammad, Ganjoo, Sajjan, Karadkar, Arjun etc in it.
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“Padmini” (1948) was directed by Wali Sahab for Punjab Film Corporation. The movie had Mumtaz Shanti, Ashok Kumar, Mumtaz Ali, Samson, Maya Devi, Neelam, Bibi, Ibrahim, Harun, Sultana, A Shah etc. in it.
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“Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya” (1963) was produced and directed by B S Ranga for Vikram Productions. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, B.Saroja Devi, Pran,Om Prakash, Prithiviraj Kapoor, Agha, Rukmani Devi, Helen, Hussain, Shubh Khote, Nazir, Pushpavalli(Heroine Rekha`s Mother) etc in it.
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“Jeewan” (1944) is an obscure movie with equally obscure songs in it. This movie was produced by A R Kardar and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Mehtab, Badri Prasad, Anwar, Shyam Kumar, Misra, Sofia, Nirmala etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Aabhaas Kumar Ganguly, was the third son of Kunjalal Ganguly, the advocate, living in the town of Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh. Aabhaas was born this day in the year 1929. While at school, he had a very serious interest in theatre and drama, and used to regularly win gold medals for his performances. Plus he had a wonderful voice, and was very much in demand as a singer in family and school/college gatherings. The renowned KL Saigal was his idol. He considered Saigal Sb to be his guru, and would sing only his songs.
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Today (3 august 2014) is the 98th birth anniversary of Shakeel Badayuni (3 august 1916- 20 april 1970). Bulk of Shakeel Badayuni’s movies (around 89 movies) were with Naushad and their team have given us immortal songs for two decades from late 1940s to late 1960s.
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“Bela” (1947) is by now an extremely obsure movie with little information available about it online. Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our belovedinhouse encyclopaedia, shared information about this movie in his comment on a previous song of this movie. Here is what he has to say about this movie:

BELA(1947),a Ranjit Movietone film was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi and had Music by Bulo C Rani. The story, screenplay, Dialogues and Lyrics were by D.N.Madhok.

The cast of the film was P.Jairaj ,Nigar Sultana, Shrinath Tripathi (none other than S.N.Tripathi (who was a Lyricist and Music Director in later days), Pt.Iqbal, Krisnakumari, Master Mehmood, Rekha, Usha, B.R.Sharma etc.

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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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

I had heard the name of the film ‘Rangeen Raaten’ (1956) for the first time in my friend’s house some time in 1971 where some of us used to assemble for listening to his collections of some rare Hindi film songs. My friend would stack a few 78 RPM gramophone records of rare songs on his Gerrad Record Changer and we would listen to those songs one by one with some discussion on the songs and the films. One of the songs through which I came to know about the film was bahut aasaan hai chilman se lagakar muskuraana.
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This article is written by Raja, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Today is the 31st of July(2014).

For many Hindi film music lovers, this date makes an immediate connect in their brain. To one of the most beloved persons to have ever been part of the Hindi film industry.

Yes, I am talking about Mohammad Rafi (or Rafisaab, as he is often respectfully referred to).

Today is the death anniversary of Rafisaab.

34 years ago, in 1980, a day that I remember vividly as if it were yesterday, Rafisaab left our midst.
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