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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.

Shammi Kapoor had acted in over a dozen films as a lead actor in early 50s, most of which flopped at the box office. Chor Bazaar (1954) was one film. It was produced under the banner of All India Pictures and it was directed by P N Arora. The star cast included Shammi Kapoor, Sumitra Devi, Chitra, Om Prakash, Kammo, Amir, Cuckoo. Parshuram etc with a guest appearance by Wasti. This film had six songs all written by Shakeel Badayuni and set to music by Sardar Malik. I remembered the name of this film only because of an immortal song “huyi ye hamse naadaani teri mehefil mein aa baithhe” from this film which I had heard on my younger days on radio. Recently, I had seen this film on the VCD that I have with me. As usual with almost all VCDs of old films, the film lacks continuity in some places because of lots of cuts. I did not find one song ” Har dar ki thokerein hain” sung by Lata Mangeshkar in the VCD.
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“Aman” (1967) was an EmKay production movie. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Saira Bano, Chetan Anand, Om Prakash, Balraj Sahni, Chand Usmani, Sajjan, Sunder, Brahm Bhardwaj, Daya Devi, Baby Kavita, Suresh 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.

This is the Rafi-Asha duet recorded for Neela Akash(1965) but not used in the movie. It is a shame that such a song could not find place in the movie and was relegated to anonymity. Some might say that the other songs used in the film were better than this so this was edged out. But I do not agree.
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Though most Hindi movies of 1950s and 1960s had “mainstream” story lines, but a few comedy movies too were produced during that era. Quite a few of these movies had Kishore Kumar in the lead roles. Then there were some other actors who too were making their marks as comedy actors. I S Johar was one such actor.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

There are ways of discovering wondrous songs now. Radio was the main source where we heard old movie songs. Then for newer songs we had cassette players and C D players and also T V. With the accessibility of internet, I do not need any thing else to listen to songs but my laptop and net connection.
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“Ek Phool Chaar Kaante” (1960) was a Parbat Films Production. It was produced by Hardeep Chatrath and Shyam Dhawan and directed by Bhappi Soni. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, Dhumal, David Abraham, Krishan Dhawan, Rashid Khan, Bir Sakuja, Iqbal Singh, Tun Tun, Mumtaz Begum, Bela Bose, Radhika Sarathkumar, Sulochana Latkar, Reeta Roy, Madan Kenny, Kewal Kapoor, Mohan Choti 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.

Here is a fantastic duet by Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhonsle, from the film “Yeh raat phir na aayegi”(1966). Music Director is O P Nayyar, and this song is written by S H Bihari. Five songs are already posted, but a few famous songs are still on the way.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Just browsing on the blog, through the list of songs by film, I come across the film ‘Sangam’ from 1964. As per records, the film has eight songs, and seven are already posted here on the blog. The last entry for this iconic film and its songs is from August last year. As I paused on this list, I immediately realized what is missing. The missing song is the famous multi-lingual creation in the voice of Vivian Lobo. And friends, that was the easy part. Getting down to decipher just the four lines of non-English verses, turned out to be a multi hour marathon exercise. Don’t know why, but I just got fixed on this today, and now, after having spent a better part of the night and day, I am thinking, I should have left it alone. Or maybe not. 🙂 🙂
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