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Is lok mein is raah mein
Posted on: December 31, 2025
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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.
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6375 | Post No. : | 19768 |
Today’s song is from a social film – Suhag-1958.
This was a film dubbed from its Tamil version titled “Tang Malai Ragsiyam”. There was a Kannada version too, titled ” Ratnagiri Rahasyam”. Both the South Indian films were made simultaneously in 1957. The Hindi version was made in 1958. I have not seen this film. All 3 versions were directed by B.R. aka Budagaru Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu. For him this was his DEBUT film as a Director. Not only him, but even his assistant Director – Puttanna Kanagal made his DEBUT in direction. Before direction, both were mere actors. Even in later years, they appeared in a few films as actors.
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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.
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6374 | Post No. : | 19767 |
Today’s song is from a social film the early era -Janmabhoomi-1936.
This was sort of a hidden or disguised Patriotic film. In those days films were scrutinised minutely by the British Government to eliminate any scene, dialogue or a song, which they suspected was a criticism of the Government. This was to ensure that there should not be any room to create or spread criticism of the Government or to promote patriotism leading to a revolt.
The police became stricter during the war period and it became the reasonKavi pradeep had to go underground for a few months for writing a daring songforthe film ” Kismet”-1943. The song was ” Door hato aye duniya walo (move away, O outsiders)”, which invited the ire of the then Government.
The first Talkie film came in 1931. The first year had just 24 films, but within a span of 3 years, the Talkie films crossed the century mark, with 121 films in 1934, 152 in 1935 and 134 in 1936. Making a film was a complicated process which needed a studio, the latest machinery and a lot of money. This was difficult for a single person and thus the Studio System got established. The studios ruled the industry and the film making. Films were sold on the names of the studios and the actors had secondary appeal to the audience.
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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.
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6373 | Post No. : | 19766 |
Today, 29th December 2025 is the eighty-third birth anniversary of Rajesh Khanna.
He needs no introduction to the Hindi Cinema lovers of yesteryears and those who have been following and studying the History of Hindi Cinema and love Hindi Cinema and its music. In fact, he is a well known and well admired actor even among the generation who came after Rajesh Khanna era was over.
Today on the occasion of the eighty-third birth anniversary of Rajesh Khanna I am presenting a song from the 1984 movie ‘Paapi Pet Ka Sawaal Hai’. I had earlier presented a song from this movie on this blog.
This movie “Paapi Pet Ka Sawaal Hai-1984” had an impressive cast viz Rajesh Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Rati Agnihotri, Jayaprada, Tina Munim, Kanwaljeet, Om Shivpuri, Bharat Kapoor, Mazhar Khan, Roopesh Kumar, Pinchoo Kapoor, Ajit Kumar, Nalin Dave, Meera, Sarla Yevlekar, Asha Potdar, Amarnath, Asha Sharma, Zenobia, Master Nadeem, Baby Shabana, Uttam Sodhi, Chandan, Seema, Harendra, Birbal, S.N. Tripathi, Kamaldeep, Murad, Brahma Bharadwaj, Chand Usmani, Harjeet, Shaikh, Vyas, Yasmeen, Rajan Haksar, Kartik, Kishin Singloo and others. This movie has as many as seven songs which were written by Hasrat Jaipuri-one song, M.G. Hashmat-two songs, Vishveshwar Sharma-two songs, and Prabha Thakur contributing two songs. Music for this movie was composed by Shankar-Jaikishan. Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Sharda, Prabha Thakur, Suresh Wadkar, Asha Bhonsle, and Anuradha Paudwal were the playback singers for the songs in this movie.
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Mere rasiyaa mere man basiyaa
Posted on: December 29, 2025
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.
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6373 | Post No. : | 19765 |
‘Naya Kaanoon’ (1965) was produced by Girdharilal Manchanda and was directed by R C Talwar. The cast included Ashok Kumar, Vyjayantimala, Bharat Bhushan, Om Prakash, Purnima, Nishi, Leela Mishra, Badri Prasad, Kamal Mehra etc.
The film’s director, R C Talwar (full name: Raghubir Chandra Talwar) was born in Talagang near Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan) on April 21, 1910 in an affluent family. He completed his graduation from Lahore. Knowing that he was interested in pursuing a career in filmmaking, his father sent him to New York to get trained in film photography and sound engineering. After completing the courses, Talwar returned to India via London where he studied the working of the studio system.
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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.
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6373 | Post No. : | 19764 |
Today’s song is from yet another Kalpanik (Imaginary) film -Son of Sindbad-1958.
Produced by Balwant Bhatt and Ram Kamlani, the film was directed by the younger brother of Balwant Bhatt – Nanabhai Bhatt. In Gujarat, ‘Nana’ means younger. His real name was Yashwant and his nickname was ‘Batuk’ (means smaller).
Director Nanabhai Bhatt ( 12-6-1915 to 24-4-1999). He was a director in many films.He directed mostly Mythological and stunt films only. Nanabhai was born as Yashwant ( pet name – Batuk) at Porbandar. Since he was the younger one he was called Nanabhai ( opposite to Motabhai-elder brother). This name continued till the end. His father was a doctor. After matriculation, he went to Mumbai in 1934, where his elder brother Balwant Bhatt was working. Balwant started with Imperial,shifted to Sagar and now was with Prakash pictures of Vijay and Shankar Bhatt. He got Nanabhai a job as Sound Recordist.Soon he graduated as Production Executive. He also wrote several screenplays.
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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.
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6372 | Post No. : | 19763 |
Today’s song is the last and final song from the coloured social film Rahgir-1969.
I specifically mentioned coloured film, because it was still a novelty for the audience. Even in the 60’s, a few films were made in B & W, but by the end of 1960’s decade they were a thing of the past. Rahgir-1969 was a sort of a hybrid film – mixture of a regular film and a New Wave cinema. The audience was not yet ready for the New Wave Cinema, but the excellent films presented by the select producers and the directors their acceptance was achieved soon. The film was released on 2-7-1969 .
Film Rahgir-1969 was a remake of the celebrated Bengali film “Palatak” (1963). Tarun Majumdar, the director of the remake, had directed the Bengali original along with two co-directors – Sachin Mukherjee and Dilip Mukherjee. The film was based on the story “Angti Chattujjer Vai” by Manoj Basu. Hemant Kumar, who composed the music for the Bengali film, also composed the score for the remake.
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6371 | Post No. : | 19761 | Movie Count : |
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A few weeks back while going through Deepti Naval’s filmography on her Website, I found the mention of one of her films, ‘Anant’. I have never heard of this film. I did not find the mention of this film on any regular film/song-based websites, like IMDb, myswar.in etc. Fortunately, a video clip of the film was available on one of the video sharing platforms which was uploaded by the producer of the film. I watched the film in one sitting and liked it immensely.
Anant (1999) was a tele film which was produced by Project Smita Society and Voluntary Health Association of India and was directed by Raman Kumar. The cast included Deepti Naval, Kanwaljeet Singh, Seema Biswas, Satyadev Dube, Bhakti, Javed Khan, Nanda and Avtar Gill. The story of the film was written by Alok Mukhopadhyay mainly to create an awareness about AIDS/HIV+ . Vinta Nanda wrote the screenplay and dialogues. The film was premiered on Star TV on December 1, 1999, on World Aids Day. Later, it was dubbed in nine languages for being telecast on the regional TV channels. The film was produced in mainstream cinema format with the focus on creating the awareness of AIDs for the people at large. The film is of 70 minutes’ duration.
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6371 | Post No. : | 19760 |
#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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The song in this post is from the movie ‘Tilasmi Duniya-1962’. It was directed by A. M. Khan for ‘Abdul Karim Productions, Bombay’. The cast of this movie had Daljeet, Krishna Kumari, Shyam Kumar, Shery, S.K. Shyam, Sarla Devi, Meera, Jilani, Rafia, Maqbool, Lambu, Abu Baker, Fazloo, Jay, Indra and others.
‘Tilasmi Duniya-1962’ has seven songs composed by Suresh-Talwar. The lyrics writers for this movie are Sartaj Romani, Anjaan, Akash, Akhtar Lakhnavi, and Talib Shahdarji. Geet Kosh Vol-IV (1961-1970) mentions the individual singer’s names for four songs and the lyrics names for only two songs.
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6371 | Post No. : | 19759 |
Today’s song is from the social film Naya Kadam-1958.
“Naya” is one of the popular title words of the filmmakers in Hindi films. As many as 40 films were made, having the starting word as Naya- from Naya Aadmi to Naya Zamana, during the period of 1935 to 2009. Not to be left behind, even films having titles starting with Nayi, Nayee or Nai, there were as many as 29 films !
Film Naya kadam-1958 was not a very successful film in 1958, as the year was replete with many entertaining films. It was directed by S.P.Kalla. His life story is like many other film people who, though successful in their vocation in the film industry, try their hand at producing a film and it becomes their nemesis costing them the ultimate- their life !
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