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On the occasion of Shakeel Badayuni’s birth anniversary today (3 august), we are discussing a few songs written by him. Here is a song from one of the most memorable movies in which Shakeel Badayuni was involved. This movie is ‘Mother India” (1957). The movie as well as its songs went on to become timeless classics.
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Today (3 august) is the birth anniversary of Shakeel Badayuni. He was one of the most well known and influential lyricists in the golden era of Hindi movie music. He wrote about 700 songs in 89 movies. He teamed up with Naushad in 30 movies, with Ghulam Mohammad in 21 movies and with Ravi in 15 movies.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The Kidar Sharma-directed Jhaanjar (1953) was a joint venture of music director C Ramchandra and actor Om Prakash under the banner of New Sai Productions. Despite a star cast comprising Motilal, Kamini Kaushal, Om Prakash, Sajjan, Usha Kiran, KN Singh, Sunder, Protima Devi and Sheela Naik, it bombed at the box-office. But its melodies have survived the ravages of time.
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Today (2 august 2012) is the festival of Raakhi. Like most Indian festivals, this date of the festival depends of the Indian Saka calender rather than on the Gregorian calender. As a result, this festival falls on different dates on different years for people familar with the Gregorian calender.
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“Chambal Ki Kasam” (1980) was a M P D Production movie. It was produced by V L Muralidhar and directed by Ram Maheshwari. The movie had Raj Kumar, Moushumi Chatterjee, Nirupa Roy, Farida jalal, Usha Kiran, Shatrughna Sinha, Ranjeet, Pradeep Kumar, Paintal, Amjad Khan, Jagdish Raj, Nazir Hussain, Uma Khosla, Bhagwan Dada, Ramayan Tiwari etc in it.
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“Bahaaron Ki Manzil” (1968) was a Rizvi Brothers production. It was produced by Sibte Hasan Rizvi and directed by Yakub Hasan Rizvi. The movie had Meena Kumari, Dharmendra, Rehman, Farida Jalal, TunTun, Mallika, Polson, Wasti, Anwar Hashmi, Shefali, Sheikh, Ramayan Tiwari etc in it.
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Today (29th july) is the death anniversary of Sudhir Phadke (25 july 1919- 29 july 2002). He got the opportunity to compose in very few Hindi movies, but he has left an indelible mark in the annals of Hindi movie music. Who can forget the immortal song Jyoti kalash chhalke from “Bhaabhi Ki Choodiyaan”. Another timeless classic, viz. Din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai is also his creation.
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“Bluffmaster” (1963) was produced by Subhash Desai and directed by Manmohan Desai. It had Shammi Kapoor, Saira Bano, Lalita Pawar, Niranjan Sharma, Pran, Mohan Choti, Laxmi Chhaya, TunTun, Rashid Khan, Shyam Lal, Charlie Walker, Jugal Kishore, Anand Joshi, Santhosh Kumar etc in it.
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