Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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This article is written by Mahesh Mamadapur, 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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6291 Post No. : 19473

Mukesh and his NFS – 09

In the aftermath of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, the team of composers Hunslal-Bhagatram, lyricist Rajendra Krishna and singer Mohd. Rafi created a marathon NFS overnight. The song was over 12 minutes long and was made into 4 parts probably to fit on the 78-rpm record disc. The song was an instant hit all over the country.

On the blog, this song was represented way back in 2012 and here is the link.

During the same period, Mukesh also recorded a song on the situation and circumstances.
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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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6291 Post No. : 19472

Today’s song is from the film Johar in Kashmir-1966.

It was produced and directed by I.S.Johar for his own banner, Johar films- Bombay. Lyricist was Indivar and the Music Director was the pair of Kalyanji- Anandji. The film had a cast of Sonia Sahni, I.S.Johar, Ratnamala, Kamal Kapoor, Tiwari, Sapru, Rajan Haksar, Ulhas, Mukri, Manorama, Narmada Shankar, Shetty etc.etc. I had written a post on a Parody song from this film in 2013. By now , today’s song is its 6th song to feature here.
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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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6290 Post No. : 19471

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (Happy Birthday to Usha Khanna)
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Today 7th October 2025 is the eighty-fifth birthday of music composer and singer Usha Khanna (born on 7th October 1941).

On this occasion I am presenting song that is sung as well as composed by her.

This song is from the 1979 movie ‘Meri Beewee Ki Shaadi’. It was directed by Rajat Rakshit for AVM Arts International, Bombay. It was a social movie. The cast of this movie included Amol Palekar, Ranjeet, Ashok Saraf, C.S. Dubey, Maruti, Datta Bhatt, Jankidas, R. Verma, M. Naidu, Ashok Narang, Baba Naik, Siraj, Susheela Raut, Pramod Naidu, Chanda, Anuradha, Dilip Kulkarni (debutant) and others. Neelu Phule and Namita Chandra had special appearances in this movie.
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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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6290 Post No. : 19469 Movie Count :

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#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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In this post I am presenting a song from the 1966 Bhojpuri movie ‘Loha Singh (Bhojpuri)’.

Regulars on the blog would wonder on my new found love for Bhojpuri songs. Yes, I am enjoying listening to the songs of yesteryear Bhojpuri films that were made from sixties to eighties. ( I like a song from the recent years too, but we will have to wait for that 🙂 ).

Geet Kosh Vol-IV (1961-1970) mentions that the movie ‘Loha Singh-1966’ was directed by Kundan Kumar for Vikramsheel Arts. The cast of this movie had Sujit Kumar, Vijaya Chaudhary, R.S. Kashyap, Sujata, Tiwari, Sheel Kumar, Helen and others.
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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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6290 Post No. : 19468

Today’s song is from a complicated film-Bindiya-1946.

There were 3 films with this title. I fail to understand why film titles are repeated so often, as if there is an acute shortage of titles. There are hundreds of such titles which are repeated from two to as many as 7 times. I have never found such repetition in Hollywood films. If at all there are any, they may be very rare cases.

Bindiya was made in 1946, 1955 and 1960. I remember writing a post on a song from the film Bindiya-1960, in which actor Om Prakash had sung a song. This was in my series of ” songs by non singers”, somewhere in the end of 2012.
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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 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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6289 Post No. : 19467

‘Mehndi’ (1983) was produced by Dinesh Kumar and was directed by Asit Sen. The cast included Vinod Mehra, Ranjeeta, Raj Babbar, Tamanna, Raj Bothara, Madan Puri, Usha Kiran, Seema Deo, Meena T, Mohan Choti, Birbal etc. Bindiya Goswami and Sh akti Kapoor made their special appearances in the film. This was Asit Sen’s last Hindi film as a director.

There are confusion galore about two Asit Sen’s works in Hindi films on the internet. Suffice to say here that Asit Sen, the director of the film under discussion did not act in any Hindi film. He directed his first Hindi film ‘Mamta’ (1966) while Asit Sen, the comedian/character actor has also directed only two Hindi films, ‘Parivaar’ (1956) and ‘Apraadh Kaun’ (1957). Hence, there is a clear demarcation of their work as director in terms of the timeframe. Unfortunately, Asit Sen, the director is hardly remembered today who had directed some Hindi classic films such as ‘Mamta’ (1966), ‘Anokhi Raat’ (1968), ‘Khaamoshi’ (1969), ‘Safar’ (1970), ‘Annadaata’ (1972) and some Bengali films. Even if he is remembered, he is often mistaken with Asit Sen, the comedian. For example, an article in ‘The Hindu’ which appeared on April 02, 2010, under ‘Blast From The Past’, calls Asit Sen, the director of ‘Mamta’ (1966) as ‘a disciple of Bimal Roy’. Surely the writer has confused with Asit Sen, the comedian who had worked with Bimal Roy as his assistant director for his films of 1950s.
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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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6289 Post No. : 19466

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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#Yippeeee to Aanchal-1980 #
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In this post I am presenting a nice ‘morning’ /‘bhor’ song’ from the movie ‘Aanchal-1980’.

Picturisation shows a big house in a vilage where most of the main characters in the movie reside. Rakhee is lip syncing this good morning song in the voice of Lata Mangeshkar. Two decades ago, we had Meena Kumari lip syncing in Lata Mangeshkar’s voice another good morning song ‘jyoti kalash chhalke.’

Like what Meena Kumari was shown doing in that iconic “Bhaabhi Ki Choodiyaan”(1961) song, this “Aanchal”(1980) song shows Rakhee playing her role as an ‘ideal Bhaarteey Naari’ performing early morning household chores such as spraying water (mixed with ‘gobar’), ‘tulsi kee pooja’, feeding the birds, extracting water for household works from the pump, waking up other members of the household, preparing them for going to their work etc.
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This article is written by Mahesh Mamadapur, 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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6289 Post No. : 19465

Mukesh and his NFS – 08

Dreams are but dreams; what’s the reality in them.

This is in continuation of my post Mukesh and his Composers – 42 wherein Vipin Mehra was featured. I am unable to find more details on the composer than what I have mentioned in the post.

As such, I would like to cover one more NFS composed by Vipin Mehra so that the third and last song will remain to be covered.
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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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6288 Post No. : 19464

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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Today’s song is from the 1964 movie ‘Rustom-E-Rome’ which was passed by the Censor Board on 28.03.1964. It was directed by Radhakant for Sargam Chitra, Bombay. This stunt movies had Dara Singh, Azad, Vijaya Chaudhary, Rajan Kapoor, Sundar, Aruna, Madhumati, Rajrani, Arvind Pandya, S.K. Shyam, Ram Raseela, Anand, Jilani, Bihari, Haroon, Qamar, Tiger Joginder Singh, Al Rad Gova, Saudagar Singh, Pal Vachan, Ismail Azad, Jaani Babu, Shery, Indira and others.
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This article is written by Mahesh Mamadapur, 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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6288 Post No. : 19462

Mukesh and his NFS – 07

“Baat adhoori rahe gayi uss din”

In today’s post, we cover yet another music director who never got any filmi songs sung by Mukesh but composed two melodious NFS.

The composer is Jag Phool Kaushik, better known as JP Kaushik. He is also mostly known as the composer of Amitabh Bachchan’s debut movie Saat Hindustani (1969).
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