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“Half Ticket” (1962) was a Film Technician Production. Kalidas is the director. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Pran etc in it. This movie was one of few Hindi movies that could be described as a laugh riot.
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Plagiarism, or what is euphemistically called “taking inspiration” is nothing new for hindi movies. We have instances of movies which have been lifted frame by frame from movies from some other countries, and that too without acknowleding the fact. And in case people come to know about such acts, the makers of the plagiarised movie are often quite defiant about it and refuse to acknowledge the fact.
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Jaani O Jaani
Posted on: November 4, 2012
“Raja Jani”(1972) was produced by Madan Mohla and directed by Mohan Segal. The movie had Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Nadira, Premnath, Johny Walker, Helen, Sajjan, Hiralal, Manmohan, C. S. Dubey, Bhushan Tiwari, Bindya, Durga Khote, Prem Chopra etc in it.
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Hum bechaare pyaar ke maare
Posted on: November 2, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Imagine that you reached someplace where a song is playing, probably on a radio. But unfortunately it seems you have missed almost the entire song. What you hear as you get into listening range is just the last one or two lines playing. The words you hear do not seem to be part of the main song lyrics. And the words you hear do not seem to make a coherent sentence. You may just skip the thought and move on. Or if you are more Hindi-film-music inclined, you would start to wonder what the song was and who would have been the singer of this song, of which you have heard just a snippet.
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“Aakraman” (1975) was a title that came as a surprise to me. Those were the days when Hindi movies did not have titles in Textbook Hindi. “Aakraman” is Hindi/ Sanskrit for “Attack”. The tendency for movie makers those days was the use a word like “Hamla” instead of “Aakraman”, even though it was a word of normal usage in Hindi textbooks. That way one needs to give some credit to the makers of this movie that he used a Hindi title for a Hindi movie.
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Desh chhudaaye bhesh chhudaaye
Posted on: October 31, 2012
“Chacha Zindabad”(1959) was a Light and Shade production. It was directed by Om Prakash. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Anita Guha, Jagirdar, Anoop Kumar, Raj Mehra, Manorama, Tuntun, Sunder, Bhagwan, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Phir wohi raat hai khwaab ki
Posted on: October 30, 2012
“Ghar” (1978) was produced by N N Sippy and directed by Manik Chatterji. The movie had Vinod Mehra, Rekha, Prema Narayan, Asit Sen, Dinesh Thakur etc in it.
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Today (16 october) is the 64th birthday of Hema Malini. She ruled the roost in 1970s. So much so that she was described as dream girl by the media. To capitalise on this sobriquet, Pramod Chakraborty actually made a movie called “Dream Girl” (1977) signing up Hema Malini and Dharmendra.
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Today (11 october 2012) is Amitabh Bachchan’s 70th birthday. It is unbelievable how time flies. Even a movie like “Sharaabi” (1984) which I regard as a recent movie was released as many as 28 years ago !
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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