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Meha aao re ghir ghir ke chhaao re

Posted by: on: April 29, 2026


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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 6494 Post No. : 20185

‘Sangeet Samrat Tansen’ (1962) was produced by D G Laad and was directed by S N Tripathi. The cast included Bharat Bhushan and Anita Guha in the lead roles supported by Sabita Chatterjee, Kumar, David, D K Sapru, Mukri, Preeti Bala, Prem Sagar, S N Tripathi, Parshuram, Dulari, Radheshyam etc.
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Bolo hey Chandi maata

Posted by: on: February 6, 2026


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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 6412 Post No. : 19896

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-57)
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Today 6th February 2026 is the 111th birth anniversary of Poet-Lyricist Kavi Pradeep. He was born on 06th Feb 1915 and he passed away on 11th December 1998. On this occasion here is a song penned by him for the movie ‘Chandi Poojaa-1957’.

‘Chandi Poojaa-1957’ was directed by Raman B. Desai for ‘New Precious Pictures, Bombay’. Dinu M. Desai was the Producer of this movie. The cast of this movie had Nirupa Roy, Manhar Desai, Prem Adib, Shanta Apte, Malay Sarkar, Sapru, Pande, Sangeeta, Narbada Shankar, Hansraj, Sudheer, Moni Chatterjee and others. ‘Chandi Pujaa or Chandi Poojaa-1957’ was passed by Censor Board on 19.07.1957. Geet Kosh Vol-III (1951-1960) mentions in the foot-note on the page of this movie that this movie ‘Chandi Pujaa’ was the last movie of actress Shanta Apte.
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Meree hundee sakaaro maharaj re

Posted by: on: January 7, 2026


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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 6382 Post No. : 19791

Today’s song is a Bhajan from the Religious film (Bhakti Pradhan)- Narsi Mehta-1957.

This film was made by Producer/Director Devendra Goyal for his banner Goyal Cine Corporation, Bombay. The music was by Ravi aka Ravishankar Sharma, who had debuted as an independent Music Director, with the film Vachan in 1955. In a very short time, he had earned a good name. There were popular bhajans like, Darshan do Ghanshyam, Jay Govinda Gopala, Vaishnav jan to tene kahiye, Sab ki naiya paar lagaiya’ Ramdhun lagi etc. On the whole this film was full of religious fervour, good music and a show of histrionic talents by experienced artists. The cast included Shyama, Shahu Modak, Lalita Pawar, Radha Kishen, Madan Puri, protima Devi and many others. There were 4 Guest artists, including S.N.Tripathi.
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Meree aabroo tere haathh hai

Posted by: on: December 19, 2025


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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 6363 Post No. : 19731

Today’s song is the last and final song from the costume film – Raaka-1965.

The film was directed by Kedar Kapoor. He was born on 2-9-1927. Not much information is available about him. Kedar joined the film line in 1945 and did a small role in the film Bhakta Prahlad-46. Working as an assistant to many directors, he started his career by directing the film Lal Pari-1954.

In all he directed 35 Hindi films, mostly B and C grade. He specialised in Dara singh films. He directed 8 films of Dara Singh in the 60s. Some of his films were, Miss Cocacola-55, Changez khan-57, Senapati-57, Dara singh-64, Patanga-71 etc etc. His last film was Bekhabar-83. Kedar Kapoor died on 5-6-1987.

The music for the film ‘s 6 songs was by Dattaram (Wadkar).
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Teree shakti kee aur meree bhakti kee

Posted by: on: July 26, 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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 6217 Post No. : 19208 Movie Count :

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#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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#Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (Debutant Movie)
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(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-28)
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Krishna Sudaamaa-1979’. It was directed by Kedar Nath Agrawal for ‘Sangeeta Productions, Bombay’.

‘Krishna Sudaamaa-1979’ was a mythological movie. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 07.08.1979. This same movie was then again submitted to the censdor boaard after adding three more songs. And this version titled as ‘Krishna Bhakt Sudaamaa’ was passed by the Censor Board on 26.11.1980.

The older version of this movie has eight songs whereas the new version has eleven songs.
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Tum Prabhu bade dil ke kathhor nikle

Posted by: on: August 19, 2011


“Chakradhaari” (1954) was an archtypical B grade mythological movie. It had Nirupa Roy,Trilok Kapoor and Shahu Modak in lead roles. Such movies normally have a very limited run among movie lovers and then these movies are forgotten.
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O roothhe huye Bhagwaan tumko kaise manaaun

Posted by: on: March 6, 2011


“Sindoor” (1947) is an old and obscure movie by now. Little is known about this movie. It was produced by Filmistan studio and directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Paro,Kishore Sahu,Gulab, Shamim,Pratima Devi etc.
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Andhhon se dayaa karnaa daataa

Posted by: on: December 12, 2010


These are the days of being political correct. Instead of calling a spade a spade, these days we use euphemisms instead. Thus, what was called an imbecile in the past is now called “differently enabled” and what was once called blind is now called “visually impaired”. Those were the days when cutting trees and hunting tigers was considered the in thing. Now these activities are banned.
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O zindagi ke dene waale

Posted by: on: December 12, 2010


I have discussed several songs from “Naagin” (1954) in the past, six to be exact. But this movie had so many songs in it that a few songs are still at large and remain to be posted.
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Gagan jhanjhanaa rahaa

Posted by: on: December 9, 2010


It is a well known fact that people in general and movie actors in particular remember God only when they are in trouble. And once in trouble, they resort to emotional blackmail to make God help them. And God in Hindi movies being soft hearted, tends to give in rather easily.
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