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Maare nainwaa ke baan
Posted on: December 7, 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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6351 | Post No. : | 19686 | Movie Count : |
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‘Baazaar-E-Husn’ (2014) was produced by A K Mishra, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vision Corporation Limited and was directed by Ajay Mehra. The cast included Om Puri, Reshmi Ghosh, Jeet Goswami, Yashpal Sharma, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Virendra Saxena, Rajeev Verma, Savita Prabhune, Rekha Sahay, Upasana Singh etc. The film was based on Munshi Premchand’s Urdu novel by the same name which he had also written in Hindi with the title, ‘Seva Sadan’.
It is interesting to note that the first talkie film based on this novel with the name, ‘Seva Sadan (alternative name, ‘Baazaar-E-Husn’) was released in 1934 which was produced by Mahalakshmi Cinetone, jointly owned by director Nanubhai Vakil and the actress, Zubeida. In this film, Jaddan Bai (mother of Nargis), Shahu Modak and Zubeida were the main actors. Another interesting information about this film was that the dialogues were written by Munshi Premchand himself. A Tamil film, ‘Seva Sadanam’ (1938) was also based on Munshi Premchand’s novel by the same name in which M S Subbulaxmi did the role of novel’s protagonist, Suman. A TV serial, ‘Seva Sadan’ (1986) based on the same novel was telecast on Doordarshan.
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Hawwaa Aziza Hawwaa
Posted on: December 5, 2025
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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 song post marks the 300th song of Usha Khanna in the blog as a music director.
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6349 | Post No. : | 19678 |
‘Main Hoon Alladin’ (1965) was produced by K N Sippy and was directed by Mohmmed Hussain. The cast included Ajit, Saeeda Khan, Madan Puri, Maruti, David, Amar, Jagirdar, Sham Kumar, Ratnamala, Mumtaz Begum, Munshi Munaka, Mulchand, Khalil, Nazir Kashmiri, Habib and others. The film was based on ‘Arabian Nights’ stories and belongs to ‘costume and fantasy’ genre.
The film is available in the VCR format. Though the film is in colour, the quality of both video and audio is not up to the mark. There appears to be some deletion of scenes at a few places as the story does not give a feel of a smooth changeover. As it is, the story of the film itself appears to be an amalgam of sub-plots. The first part mostly covers the character around Alladin and his love interest, Salma while the second part mostly gives the impression of a repeat of the fairytales of ‘Alladin and the Wonderful Lamp’. Still, the film is interesting to watch and all the songs are melodious.
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Jaane chaman aa jaa
Posted on: December 4, 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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6348 | Post No. : | 19673 |
In Hindi films, in addition to heroines, there would be one or two secondary female characters. For examples, in the love triangle involving the hero, there would be ‘other woman’. To create a rift between hero and the heroine, there will be a vamp. Then, Hindi films’ model box office formula stories also require female characters of seducer, westernised women of high society, courtesans, hero/heroine’s sister and friend etc. There were some popular actresses who were known for doing such character’s roles like Kuldeep Kaur, Shashikala, Nishi, Aruna Irani, Helen, Bindu, Faryal, Naaz, Nazima and many more during 1950s to 1970s. There were some lesser known actresses doing such roles, one of them being Lolita Chatterjee. This diva from Kolkata with her glamorous look, drew the attention of Hindi film makers during mid-1960 to mid-1970.
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Aa jaa aa zaraa aa jaa
Posted on: November 30, 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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6344 | Post No. : | 19656 |
‘Main Wohi Hoon’ (1966) was produced by S A Mehmood and was directed by A Shamsheer. The cast included Feroz Khan, Kumkum, I S Johar, Madan Puri, Murad, Roopesh Kumar, Bela Bose, Lata Sinha, Mirza Musharraf etc. The film was a murder mystery.
I have watched the film for the first time only recently after reading the synopsis of the film’s story which appeared to be an interesting murder mystery. A sole daughter of a wealthy father wants to marry a middle-class man. The father has some apprehension because he has two other suitors for his daughter who are rich. But the daughter is adamant to marry her preferred man. Finally, the father has made his mind to go with his daughter’s preference but she is yet to be told of his decision. All the three suitors attend daughter’s birthday bash. Soon, the father is murdered by an unknown assailant. The main suspects are the three suitors who have met the father in the birthday bash and have indirect interest in his wealth if Asha becomes their prospective bride.
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6343 | Post No. : | 19653 |
‘Faislaa’ (1965) was produced and directed by Jugal Kishore. The cast included Shaikh Mukthar, L Vijayalaxmi, Jugal Kishore, Jagdeep, Sulochana Chatterjee, Niranjan Sharma, Jagdev, Jeevan, Sabina, Nazeer Kashmiri, Sheela, Helen etc. The film was an action-crime drama.
The film’s lead actress, L. Vijayalaxmi is from South and is different from Hindi film actress, Vijaylaxmi (real name: Kamala Verma) who has worked in ‘Mahal’ (1949), ‘Baawre Nain’ (1950). ‘Aah’ (1953), ‘Coffee House (1957), ‘Gharaana’ (1961), ‘Aap Ki Parchhaaiyaan’ 1964) etc. She mostly got the role of ‘other woman’ in the films.
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6341 | Post No. : | 19647 |
‘Aa Jaa Sanam’ (1975) was produced by S A Mehmood and was directed by Yusuf Naqvi. The cast included Feroz Khan and Tanuja in lead roles supported by Deven Verma, Shabnam, Sulochana Chatterjee, S N Banerjee, Shivraj, Mukri, Meenaxi, S A Baker, Kalyani Bai etc.
I have recently watched the film for the first time and I am surprised that it is shot in ‘Black and White’ for a 1975 released film by which time almost all the Hindi films were made in colour. Obviously, the film must have got held up for a long time before it was released. I guess that the film may have been shot around mid-1960s going by the trends of costume used by Feroz Khan who is seen with narrow bottom pants. By the starts of 1970, the fashion of bell-bottom pants was seen in many films. Also, the film has all three male voice songs of Mohammed Rafi whereas after the post-Aradhana (1969) period, Kishore Kumar would have got at least one song for the film if not more because the film distributors normally used to insist.
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6339 | Post No. : | 19639 |
The theme of a married woman who chooses her domestic responsibilities by giving up her flourishing singing career has been covered in some Hindi movies. The woman’s resultant emotional toll from her loneliness and the internal conflict between as a housewife and her unfulfilled aspirations was first explored in the film, ‘Anuradha’ (1960) as far as I know. In this film, Leela Naidu gives up her singing career to marry an idealistic doctor, Balraj Sahni who is completely engrossed in his work to serve the poor villagers. A somewhat similar situation is depicted in ‘Guide’ (1965) when Waheeda Rahman is forced to give up the dancing career by her husband, archaeologist, Kishore Sahu who is more passionate about his archaeological discoveries than about his wife. In Both these films, suppression of passion makes wife’s life miserable though the end result in both these films are different.
‘Abhinetri’ (1970) has a similar theme in which Hema Malini gives up her successful career as a dancer after her marriage with Shashi Kapoor. A scientist who gets completely engrossed with his research work in his laboratory. The film was produced and directed by Subodh Mukerji under the banner of Subodh Mukerji Productions. The cast included Shashi Kapoor and Hema Malini in the lead roles supported by Deb Mukerji, Nirupa Roy, Nazir Hussain, Asit Sen, Nazima, Badri Prasad, Bela Bose etc.
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Chhod chalee ghar tera baabul
Posted on: November 24, 2025
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6338 | Post No. : | 19636 |
‘Mere Bhaiyya’ (1972) was produced by Tarachand Barjatya under the banner of Rajshree Productions and was directed by Satyen Bose. The cast included Vijay Arora, Nazima, Suresh Chatwal, Anita Guha, Bipin Gupta, Durga Khote, Manisha, Manik Dutt, Tarun Ghosh, Shail Chaturvedi, Ram Singh, Murad etc. The film was based on a popular Marathi play, ‘Vaahato Hee Durvaanchi Judi’ (meaning in English: Offering the Sacred Grass) written, produced and directed by Bal Kolhatkar who also acted in the play in the role of the brother. The play was first staged in in 1964 and became very popular.
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6335 | Post No. : | 19624 |
‘Dillagi’ (1966) was produced by Tony Walker under his banner, Golden Films and was directed by S Bannerjee. The cast included Mala Sinha, Sanjay Khan, Nazima, Vijay Kumar, Johny Walker, Jagirdar, Amar, Pravin Paul, Bela Bose, Zeb Sultana, Tony Walker, Bela Bose, Ratan Gurung etc. The film’s producer, Tony Walker (real name: Kamaluddin Kazi) was Johny Walker’s brother and film’s other actor, Vijay Kumar ( real Name: Waheeduddin Kazi) was the youngest brother of Johny and Tony Walker. Probably, this was the only film in which all the three brothers acted together.
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