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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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6354 | Post No. : | 19698 |
Today, December 10, 2025, is the 24th Remembrance Day of Kumudlal Ganguly, well-known by his screen name, Ashok Kumar (13/10/1911 – 10/12/2001), the first super star and the Bhishma Pitamah of Hindi films. He was conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1988 for his contributions to Indian Cinema and Padma Bhushan Award in 1999.
Ashok Kumar was the eldest among four siblings and his father, a practicing lawyer in Khandwa wanted him to follow his profession. He was admitted to a law college in Kolkata where he may have been influenced by New Theatres films thus creating his interest in cinema. But his interest was confined to the technical side of the film making. He joined The Bombay Talkies as a laboratory technician where his brother-in-law (sister’s husband), Sashadhar Mukerji was a sound engineer and production manager in 1934.
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Man naaheen laage mitwaa
Posted on: December 9, 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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6353 | Post No. : | 19696 |
In Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra and in Goa, there used to be Devdasi (servants of God) customs under which select girls (especially trained singers and dancers) were attached to local temple for temple duties. Since they were regarded as wedded to the deity of the temples, they were expected to live a life of celibacy. They were supported by the patrons of the temple which included royalties. However, with the abolition of royalties, the Devdasi custom as envisaged in the beginning came under financial strain, forcing them to rely on rich patrons, sometime becoming their mistresse. The girls born out of such relationship were initiated into Devdasi customs.
In 1970, Jaywant Dalvi, a Marathi novelist, playwright and journalist, who was from the South Konkan region, published his novel, ‘Mahananda’ highlighting the burning issues in Devdasi customs in the Konkan region of Maharashtra as evolved over a period of time, now almost extinct. The story is about a city-based college lecturer, Babulnath (Babul for short). He while on a visit to his native village, falls in love with Mahananda (Mannu for short), a daughter born out of Devdasi custom. However, her mother opposes their marriage as Mahananda is destined to serve the temple as Devdasi. It is a tragic love story which is doomed from the beginning due to societal pressures and superstitions resulting in the emotional turmoil for the affected lovers. The end result is that Mahananda is betrayed by her own mother due to her superstitions and later by Babul due to his timid nature though he remains unmarried.
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Sare baazaar karenge pyaar
Posted on: December 9, 2025
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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6353 | Post No. : | 19693 | Movie Count : |
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Hullo Atuldom
Back to writing a post after a full month, last one was on 6th November to pay tribute to Sanjeev Kumar. In this period I have been getting gentle nudges by our Guruji, enquiring about the lull in my writing. He even suggested that I strike a deal with Sadanandji, about pacing our landmark posts (at that point Sadanandji was four short of his century). I assured Arunkumarji that by the time I get back to writing Sadanandji would have hit his century and gone far ahead; he is sitting on 1014 currently.
I have been a little pre-occupied attending a few weddings, accompanied with learning to shake a leg for the dances to execute at the pre-wedding sangeet and other wedding related celebrations. A few of my nephews got married in this wedding season.
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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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6353 | Post No. : | 19692 |
Today’s song is a duet from the Mythological film – Veer Arjun-1952.
The film was produced by Ratilal Punatar ( he was the nephew of Sardar Chandulal Shah of Ranjit Movietone), for his own banner Ajit Pictures ( Ajit was his son’s name). The film was directed by Ramchandra Thakur ( highly educated, originally from Sagar Movietone). 6 songs of this film were composed by Avinash Vyas while one song was composed by S.Mohinder- who made G.M.Durrani sing, probably his life’s only bhajan in this film !
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Mere saathhee ho jeewan saathhee
Posted on: December 8, 2025
This article is written by Nahm, 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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6352 | Post No. : | 19690 | Movie Count : |
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This movie Baazi(1984) is making a debut in the blog with this song.
The title “baazi” is very popular with many movies made with this title.
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Duniya badal gayee hai
Posted on: December 8, 2025
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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6352 | Post No. : | 19689 |
Pancham’s Music – Eighties-to-Nineties (1981-1994…) Duets-2
Today’s duet song is from the movie ‘Hum Hain Laajawaab-1984’. It is another Kumar Gaurav starrer movie from the eighties having some good music by R.D. Burman.
“Hum Hain Laajawaab-1984” was directed by Mohan Saigal for ‘Milan Movies, Bombay’. It was co-produced by Jawaharlal Bafna-C.D. Mehta-Vasant Doshi-and Mrs. B.N. Shah. This movie was passed by the Censor Board on 21.08.1984. The cast of this movie has Kumar Gaurav, Padmini Kolhapure, Shakti Kapoor and Monty. They were supported by Kalpana Iyer, Kamal Kapoor, Prem Kalra, Yunus Parvez, Rakesh Bedi, Kiran Wairale, Ravindra Kapoor, Vikas Anand, Mohan Choti, Sudhir Dalvi, Jagdish Raj, Mushtaq Merchant, Birbal, Shivraj, Gauri Verma, Viju Khote, Manmouji, Sunil Dhawan, Bhola, Praveen Kumar, Shakeel, Ranveer Raj, Suhail Khan, Baby Dadi, Master Vikas, Master Ravi and others. Mayur and Huma had a special appearance in this movie.
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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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6352 | Post No. : | 19688 |
Today’s song is from a Mythological film-Mordhwaj-1952. This film was produced by M.N.Gautam and directed by a B grade film specialist Balwant Bhatt. Music was by a Debutant, Narayan (Datt). The cast included Durga Khote, Prem Adib, Ram Singh, Tiwari, Shashi Kapoor, Manju, Leela Mishra, Bindu, Neeru etc etc.
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