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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, 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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6238 Post No. : 19289

Atuldom is a lovely place to be. We have some like-minded film music lovers who make the job of post writing very easy. Let me explain.

I was planning a post on a song from the 1999 released, Milan Luthria directed and Ramesh Taurani & Kumar S. Taurani (under their banner of Tips Cassettes) produced film “Kachche Dhaage”. I was planning the post as a tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan whose death anniversary happens to be on 16th August. He passed away on this date in 1997 when he was only 49.
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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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6238 Post No. : 19288

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 38

“Ba Babalu Ek Main Ek Tu” by Asha Bhosle from “Agni Rekha” (1973). The song is written by Kavi Pradeep and composed by Kalyanji Anandji.

“Agni Rekha”(1973) was produced by K S Melwani and directed by Mahesh Kaul for Mel-Kaul Films. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Sharada(known in South Indian film Industry as Urvashi Sharada), Bindu, Helen, Durga Khote, Asrani, Sajjan, Jankidas, Yashodhara Katju, Suresh Chatwal, Chand Usmani, Kumud Tripathi, Lalita Kumari, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Pal Mahendra, Radheyshyam, Chandrima Bhaduri, Indrani Mukherjee etc in it.

Agni Rekha deals with social stigma, morality and the possibility of redemption for a woman with a troubled past. The film focuses on the emotional conflict of a man who marries a widow with a child, only to discover a dark truth about her past. It’s a sensitive portrayal of how society often refuses to forgive a woman’s mistakes, no matter how much she reforms.
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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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6238 Post No. : 19287

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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#Bhoole-Bisre Geet #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-33)
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I have been presenting songs penned by Kavi Pradeep which are yet to be posted here on this blog. We are all aware that Kavi Pradeep mostly wrote songs for movies from ‘mythological genres’. In such movies there are songs related to ‘mythological stories’ and ‘incidents’ which Kavi Pradeep brought to us in lyrics form with nuances such that one can easily visualize the incident happening in front of him/her. Picturisation of such songs is also a treat to watch. Readers might be remembering the recent song about ‘Krishna-Sudama meet’ which was posted here on the ‘world friendship day’. This song is a wonderful song both in terms of lyrics and picturisation.

Today, Janmashtami– the birth festival of Lord Krishna, is being celebrated all over the country. On this occasion I am presenting a song which is about the baal leelaa(s)’ of Lord Krishna. This song is sung by Usha Mangeshkar and chorus and the picturisation of this song has several child artistes and female artistes performing on it. The location of this song and the visuals around are lovely and they help in bringing to us the childhood innocence, playfulness and fun that the friends of Krishn and the Gopees are having.
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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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6238 Post No. : 19286

‘Aahistaa Aahistaa’ (1981) was produced by Sibte Hasan Rizvi and was directed by Esmayeel Shroff. The cast included Kunal Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure, Shammi Kapoor, Nanda, Shashikala, Girish Karnad, Aruna Irani, Deven Verma, Kader Khan, Rehman, Ashalata, Savita Bajaj, Leela Mishra, Rakesh Bedi, Sudhir Pandey, Soni Razdan, Master Sandeep, Baby Gazala, Krishnakant etc. For Padmini Kolhapure and Kunal Kapoor, it was their first film in lead roles.
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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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6238 Post No. : 19285

#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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Today’s song is from the 1950 movie “Basera”. Four songs from this movie have been posted on the blog earlier. This movie made its debut on the blog on 29.01.2016 with its song ‘Prem kahaani chhede jawaani ’ sung by Mubarak Begam. The second song from this movie ‘Dekho jee baat suno Hum se tum aan milo’ was posted on 10.08.2016 which is sung by Bahadur Nanji and Mubarak Begam. After covering one solo song and one duet song from this movie, we posted the third song from this movie on the blog on 16.10.2024, and this was a song in the category of ‘joie de vivre’ song ‘Laut aaye piyaa ’ which was sung by Sulochana Kadam. The fourth song from this movie was again a song sung by Sulochana Kadam and this song was a melancholic song. This song ‘Panchhee gulshan chhod chaley ’ was posted on the blog on 19.05.2025.
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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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6237 Post No. : 19284 Movie Count :

5115

#The Decade of 2000 – 2010 #
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(79th Independence Day)

#Desh Kee Mittee Kee Khushboo#

“Black & White-2008” was directed by Subhash Ghai for Mukta Arts Ltd, Bombay, his home production. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 22.02.2008 and it was produced by Raju Farooqui, Mukta Ghai, Subhash Ghai, and Rahul Puri.

Screenplay of this movie “Black & White-2008” was written by Subhash Ghai, Akash Khurana, and Sachin Bhowmick. Story concept of this movie was by Varun Vardhan.

Dialogues in this movie were written by Subhash Ghai himself whereas the editing of this movie was done by Subhash Ghai and Amitabh Shukla.

The cast of this movie included Anil Kapoor, Anurag Sinha, Aditi Sharma, Shefali Shah, Habib Tanveer, Ishita Ambardekar, Saie Tamhankar, Jaimini Pathak, Sukrit Sharma, Jeet Waldia, Akash Khurana, Arun Bakshi, Milind Gunaji, Manmeet Singh Sawhney, Mushtaq Khan, Ravi Kale, Saurabh Dave, Vikrant Chaturvedi, Pawan Chuptra, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Kumud Mishra, Madhur Arora, Mandar Gokhale, Sudhir Nema, Tarun Bajaj, Mira Savoor, Nirmal Khera, Dharmendra Jaiswal, Vida Samadzai, Amarjeet Singh, Neeraj Sood, Lalu Makhija, Kuldeep Sarin, Sukanya Dhande, Inderjeet Ahluwalia, Shabnam Kapoor, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi, Gaurav Saini and others.
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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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6237 Post No. : 19283

उर्मिले त्रिवार वंदन तुला (Urmile trivaar vandan tulaa) is a Marathi non-film bhajan rendered by Ram Phatak which I used to listen on the radio in my younger days. The meaning of the first line is ‘hey Urmila, my thrice salute to you’. The salutation by the poet is because she was an unsung character in Ramayan. She was the wife of Lakshman and younger sister of Seeta. When Ram was exiled along with Seeta for 14 years, Lakshaman decided to accompany Ram and Seeta to protect them during the exile. Urmila also wanted to join Lakshman. But she was asked by Lakshman to stay back and take care of his aged parents in Ayodhya during their absence. During those 14 years, Urmila is said to have slept continuously so that Lakshman can remain awake to protect Ram and Seeta.

I had forgotten about this Marathi song for a long time. While I was researching on Khayyam for writing a tributary article on the occasion of his 6thth Remembrance Day on August 19, 2025, I realised that his wife, Jagjit Kaur was the ‘Urmila’ in his life who sacrificed her aristocratic life to marry a struggling music director. While the selflessness of Urmila cannot be strictly comparable as Jagjit Kaur and her husband Khayyam spent their life together. But, apart from her aristocratic comfort, she sacrificed her playback singing career after her marriage with Khayyam sometime in 1954 in her own volition as she had said in her interviews. She did not seek playback singing assignments either from her husband or from others. Instead, she decided to assist her husband in whatever manner – either professionally or on the domestic front. She had said in an interview as late as 2019 that she recorded the song under Khayyam only because the scheduled playback singers did not turn up for recording the songs or the producers/directors of the films suggested her name for the songs.
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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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6237 Post No. : 19282

Today’s song is from a mysterious film – But Tarash-1947.

When I first heard this film’s name, for a very long time, I was puzzled about its meaning. First I thought ‘ But’ is written by mistake for ‘Boot’. But Then what was Tarash ?
Was it also by mistake, for ‘Trash’ ? No, it could not be !

Very wisely, I referred to my dictionary of ” Urdu into English and vice versa”. Conveniently, it lists Urdu words in Roman script, so one who can not read Urdu, can also use this dictionary easily. This dictionary is compiled by The Rev. T.Cravel,M.A. and it was published in 1889 from Lucknow. This book is one of my prized possessions and I got this from my father 70 years ago. This 136 year old book has to be handled very carefully as its pages have become yellowish brown and very sensitive for breakages. The dictionary meaning of ” But Tarash” is ‘One who sculpts an idol’. In Hindi we call it a ‘Shilpkar’ or a ‘ Moortikar’.
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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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6236 Post No. : 19281 Movie Count :

5114

‘Thikaana’ (1987) was produced by Paul Arora, Raj Grover and V B Soni and was directed by Mahesh Bhatt. The cast included Smita Patil, Anil Kapoor, Amrita Singh, Suresh Oberoi, Rohini Hattangadi, Avtar Gill, Madan Jain, Satish Kaushik, Aravind Joshi, Suhas Bhalekar, Suresh Bhagwat, Rita Rani Kaul with a special appearance of Anupam Kher. Mahesh Bhatt started shooting the film immediately after the release of his film, ‘Arth’ (1982). However, the completion of the film was delayed probably because there was disputes between the producers which got sorted out through Prakash Mehra who acted as an arbitrator. The film was released on October 18, 1987.
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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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6236 Post No. : 19280

Today’s song is from a Mythological story – Shuk Rambha-1953.

It was directed by an expert in such films – Dhirubhai Desai and the music was given by Manna Dey. Yes, you read it right. The MD of this film was Manna Dey. many playback singers secretly desired to become MDs, but only few dared and fewer still succeeded. It was a case of reverse too – like most MDs tried their hands at singing. Some dared and few succeeded.

It is seen that the human mind always craves for something done by his superiors, like actors wish to direct films, directors wish to produce films and producers want to direct films. Remember the Gujarati proverb- ” Jeno kaam teno thaay, bija kare so gotha khaay” ? ( जेनो काम तेनो थाय, बीजा करे सो गोता खाय ). Most artists wisely give up what they feel they are not skilled to do. Manna Dey, G.M.Durrani, S.D.Batish, Snehal Bhatkar, Amirbai Karnataki, Shanta Apte, Kishore Kumar and few others learnt the lesson in short time and went back to their real expertise field !
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