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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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6030 Post No. : 18781

‘Bhai Bahan’ (1969) was produced by B S Ranga under the banner of Vikram Productions and was directed by A Bhim Singh. The star cast included Ashok Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Nutan, Padmini, Pran, Sulochana Latkar, Helen, Sikandar, Mukri, Bhalla etc. The film belongs to the genre of family drama.
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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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6028 Post No. : 18775

‘Tasweer’ (1966) was produced under the banner of Wadia Movietone and was directed by J B H Wadia. The star cast included Feroz Khan, Kalpana, Helen, Sajjan, Nazeer Hussain, Rajendranath, Lalita Pawar, Raj Mehra, Sabina, Indira Bansal etc. This was last but one film of Wadia Movietone and its director J B H Wadia. Kalpana had an active career as a leading actress in the 1960s and this film was one of those films of her later years when her career was facing some setback.
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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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6025 Post No. : 18766

‘Teen Bahuraniyaan’ (1968) was produced and directed by S S Vasan and S S Balan under the banner of Gemini Films. The main cast included Prithviraj Kapoor, Ramesh Deo, Agha, Rajendranath, Sowcar Janaki, Kanchana, Jayanthi, Shashikala, with the supporting cast of Jagdeep, Dhumal, Vaishali, Lalita Pawar, Niranjan Sharma, Kanhaiyalal, Farida etc. The film was a remake of a Tamil film, ‘Bama Vijayam’ (1967). The roles of three daughters-in-law were enacted by the same actors as that in Tamil film. Later, a Marathi film, ‘Lapwa Chhapwi’ (1990) was made as a remake of ‘Teen Bahuraniyaan’ (1968) which was in the list of top 25 Hindi films released in 1968 in terms of box office success. This film can be put in the bucket of ‘Padosan’ (1968) and ‘Chupke Chupke’ (1975) as cult comedy films.
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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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6024 Post No. : 18764

Remembering today, the music director, Chitragupt on his 34th Remembrance Day.

Chitragupt Shrivastava (16/11/1917 – 12/01/1991) was a double post-graduate in Economics and Journalism. He got a job as a lecturer in Patna University. His elder brother, Braj Nandan ‘Azaad’ was a freedom fighter who was also the editor of ‘Indian Nation’ and its Hindi counterpart, ‘Aryavrata’. Besides, he was also a percussionist as a hobby. Chitragupt was also interested in music and had undergone basic training in Hindustani classical music.
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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.

This article covers the 600th song of C Ramchandra in the blog as a music director.

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6022 Post No. : 18759

Remembering today the music director-singer, C. Ramchandra (12/01/1918 – 05/01/1982) on the occasion of his 107th birth anniversary. This Blog has a number of articles on his life and the musical career. I will, therefore, confine mainly to his musical journey.
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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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6021 Post No. : 18757

‘Ham Deewaane’ (1964) was produced by Natubhai Shah under the banner of Young India Entertainers and was directed by Master Bhagwan. The cast included Chandrashekhar, Master Bhagwan, Mumtaz, Helen, Iftekhar, Agha, Rajan Haksar, Maruti, Kundan, Anwar, Kanchanmala etc. This film was one among many attempts by Master Bhagwan to revive his filmy career which was being reduced to acting in small roles. However, this film was also an attempt to revive the musical career of C Ramchandra who composed the songs for this film as Anna Saheb, the name he had often used when associated with the films produced/directed by Master Bhagwan.
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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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6020 Post No. : 18752

‘Veer Bhimsen’ (1964) was produced and directed by Chandrakant. The cast included Dara Singh, Anita Guha, Mumtaz, Mahipal, Sumitra Devi, Shahu Modak, Randhawa, Ramayan Tiwari, B M Vyas, Ratnamala, Ameerbai Karnataki, Ruma Devi, Tuntun, Bhagwan Sinha, Raj Kishore, Tiger Joginder Singh, Saudagar Singh etc. Obviously, it is a mythological film connected with the epic of Mahabharat from the viewpoint of Bhimsen.
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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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6019 Post No. : 18750

‘Daal Mein Kaalaa’ (1964) was produced by the character actor, Bipin Gupta and was directed by Satyen Bose. The star cast included Kishore Kumar and Nimmi in lead roles supported by Abhi Bhattacharya, Om Prakash, Bipin Gupta, Agha, Sajjan, Sunder, Shammi, Kammo, Mumtaz Begum, Ashim Kumar, Sulochna Chatterjee, Tuntun, Mohan Choti, Keshto Mukherjee etc. The film belongs to the farcical comedy genre, based on a Bengali story, written by poet and writer, Premendra Mitra who has also directed a few Bengali films.
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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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6018 Post No. : 18748

In the 1960s through 1970s, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium at Worli (Opposite Haji Ali) used to host free-style wrestling bouts. Dara Singh, Randhawa, Tiger Joginder Singh, Saudagar Singh etc among the Indians and some foreign wrestlers like King Kong used to participate in the bouts. Most wrestling bouts used to take place on Saturdays/Sundays and probably one during the weekdays. Large life size cut-outs of the famous wrestlers used to be displayed at the venue as well as some prominent places. In addition, huge posters of wrestling bouts used to be displayed on hand pulled carts (Haathh Gaadi) which will move from one place to other. Thousands of leaflets of advertisement of the wrestling bouts used to be distributed at prominent places like railway stations, bus stands and other crowded places.
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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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6016 Post No. : 18743

‘Kal Hamaara Hai’ (1959) was produced by K Amarnath under the banner of K Amarnath Productions and was directed by S K Prabhakar who also wrote the story. He was the elder brother of Cinematographer, D K Prabhakar. The star cast of the film included Madhubala and Bharat Bhushan in the lead roles supported by Jayant, Leela Chitnis, Deepak, Jagdev, Hari Shivdasani, W M Khan, Murad, Brahm Bhardwaj, Ravikant, Jeevankala etc.
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