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

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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, 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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6281 Post No. : 19440

Today 28th September 2025 is the 96th Birth Anniversary of the Nightingale of India Lata Mangeshkar. So here’s a rare song to celebrate this happy day. The song is “Gaon Gaon Ghoomi Shaher Shaher Chaana” from Jalte Badan (1973). The song is written by Maya Govind and composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal.

Regular readers of this blog will remember my recent post from this movie, giving you the details of the movie and its story.
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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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6281 Post No. : 19439

Today’s song is from a fantasy film Gul E Bakawali-1963.

Most Indians have two common traits. One, they are religious and two, they believe in magic. Therefore most of the children liked the stories in which there was fantasy and magic. Ofcourse, I am talking of older times. These days children’s likings have changed and they like to play with modern gadgets, rather than reading books.

When I was in school, there was great demand from students for books on Vedic stories, fantasy and fairy stories, especially the Arabian Night story books in our school library. Students had to put their names on a waiting list for such books, though the library had multiple copies of such books. Once the books were taken home, other members of the family also read them with great taste and nostalgia.
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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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6280 Post No. : 19438

‘Pakhandee’ (1983) was produced by Robert D’Souza and was directed by Samir Ganguly. The cast included Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Zeenat Aman, Asha Parekh, Ranjeet, Helen, Jagdeep, Asit Sen, Leela Mishra, Anwar Hussain, Kader Khan, N A Ansari, Dinesh Thakur, Sudhir etc. This was Samir Ganguly’s last film as a director.

Samir Ganguly was born in Lucknow in 1936. His father was working in the railway while his mother was a housewife. He was the youngest of the seven children. After the retirement of his father in 1947, Samir was looked after by his brother-in-law (his sister’s husband) in Jaipur who was financially well-off. After his brother-in-law’s retirement, Samir came to Mumbai in 1953 in search of employment during which he stayed with another brother-in-law, Subodh Mukerji who was the younger brother of Filmistan’s boss, Shashadhar Mukerji.
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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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6280 Post No. : 19437

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-38)
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The ten-day long ‘Durgaa Poojaa’ Utsav is already underway all over our country. People are celebrating it with customary fervour and energy. This is also the time for staging of ‘Raam Leelaa’ in many parts of the country. I have fond memories of watching ‘Raam Leelaa’ during my childhood days. If I remember correctly the performing troup also used to add other incidences from mythology in between the episodes from Ramayana.

Today I am presenting a song which covers one such important incidence from Ramayana, that is Prabhu Ram, Seetaa Maiyya and Lakshman boarding the boat of Kevat to cross the river Gangaa. This song is from the movie ‘Shri Ram Bharat Milan-1965’. It was directed by Manibhai Vyas for R.M. Art Productions, Bombay.
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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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6280 Post No. : 19436

Today’s song is from the film Hamari Beti-1950.

The film was produced and directed by Shobhana Samarth, for her own banner ‘Shobhana Pictures’ Bombay. Music was by Snehal Bhatkar. Vasudev G. Bhatkar was working with H.M.V. and he had recorded some of his own songs as a singer. Impressed, Sudhir Phadke joined hands with him to give music to filmm “Rukmini Swayamvar”-1946. Being in service with HMV, Bhatkar could not use his real name, hence the pair was named as Vasudev-Sudhir. For more films, he used different names like B.Vasudev, V.G.Bhatkar and Snehal. In 1949, he left HMV to become a full time Music Director.

His first film was Hamari Beti-1950, for which he used the name Snehal Bhatkar- which continued till his last Hindi film, Sehme hue Sitare-1994. Snehal was his daughter’s name.
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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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6279 Post No. : 19435

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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Bhojpuri movie “Dangal-1977” was a social movie. It was directed by Bachu Bhai Shah for Vimal Chitra, Bombay. It was passed by the Censor Board on 11.05.1977. The cast of this movie included Sujit Kumar, Prema Narayan, Ram Singh, Iftekhar, Urmila Bhatt, Mukhtar Ahmed, Hari Shukla , Shubha Khote, C.S. Dubey, Shefali, Shekhar Purohit, Bhagwan Sinha, Dilip Sinha, Shahana, Rajrani, Bhushan Tiwari, Lakshmi Chhaya Aruna Irani and child artistes Rakhi-Umesh, and others. This movie has six songs which were composed to music by Nadeem-Shravan. Lyricist Kulwant Jani-four songs, Rajpati – one song and S. Bhaskar – one song shared the lyrics writing.
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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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6279 Post No. : 19433

Today’s song is from the film Karigar-1958. The film was produced and directed by Vasant Joglekar, for his own banner Panchdeep Chitra, Bombay. Music was by C.Ramchandra. 7 songs were by Rajendra krishna and 1 song was written by Bharat Vyas. The cast of the film included Ashok Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Om Prakash, Lalita Pawar, Jahagirdar, Sumati Gupte (wife of director Vasant Joglekar), Nana Palshikar, Helen, Minu Mumtaz, Madhu Apte etc. Guest artist was Agha.
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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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6278 Post No. : 19430

Today’s song is from an imaginary stunt/costume film Sair E Paristan-1958.

When this film came in theatres, I had first thought that the title was Sair E Pakistan, but then I realised that it was Paristan and not Pakistan ! I wonder even today as to why such types of Stunt/ Costume films had stories or rather cookes up silly stories had almost always a Muslim background ? Maybe because such stories were suitable for a background of Middle East countries only and no one would question their credibility. It is also possible to make the stories look like those from the Arabian Night stories. Anyway, the audience of such films never thought of all these things. All that they wanted was fighting, a few ‘Dil Tod’ dances, flashy dresses, big palaces and more daredevil stunts !
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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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6277 Post No. : 19428

‘Faaslaa’ (1974) was produced and directed by Khwaja Ahmed Abbas (K A Abbas) who also wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues. The cast included Shabana Azmi, Raman Khanna (debutant), Komilla Virk, David Abraham, Chand Usmani, Paintal, Yunus Parvez, Ravikant, Helen, Sadhana Khote, Shaukat Kaifi, Dinesh Thakur etc. Jairaj, Nadira, Nitin Sethi and Imtiaz made guest appearances in the film.

K A Abbas was an active member of the left-inspired Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA). All his earlier films, whether as a director or writer like ‘Dharti Ke Laal’ (1946), ‘Asawara’ (1951). ‘Shri 420’ (1955), ‘ Shahar Aur Sapna’ (1965), ‘Do Boond Paani’ (1971) and many more, dealt with social injustice and underprivilege classes of the society.
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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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6277 Post No. : 19427

Today’s song is from the film Mehndi-1958.

In the year 1899, a famous writer of those times-Mirza Hadi ‘Ruswa’ wrote a novel “Umrao Jaan Ada” on the life and times of a famous Tawaif and poet of Lucknow. There is a dispute whether it was a real or a fictitious character. There have been arguments on both sides giving questionable bits of evidence. Whatever it was, the novel attracted attention of the public and the critics over the next few decades.

The famous Alfred Drama Company of the early 20th century, made it into a drama and it too became popular. During the silent era attempts were made to make it into a film on her, but it did not happen. However, after the advent of the Talkie films, many variations of this story came up and some films were made on it. But due to lack of information, we do not have the details.
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