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“Reshma Aur Shera”(1971) is a movie which was produced and direced by Sunil Dutt. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Amitabh Bachchan, Jayant, Sulochana, Amrish Puri, Dulari, Sudhir, B. B. Bhalla, Guddy, Padma Khanna, Sunil Dutt, Vinod Khanna, Rakhee Gulzar, K. N. Singh etc in it.
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“Hindustan Ki Kasam”(1973) is a movie which was produced by Ravi Anand and directed by Chetan Anand. The movie had Raj Kumar, Priya Rajwansh,Chetan Anand, Vijay Anand, , Amjad Khan, Raj Kumar, Priya Rajvansh, Balraj Sahni, Ajay Sahni, Padma Khanna, Amrish Puri, Satyen Kappu, Nitin Sethi, etc in it.
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4th january is the birthday of yet another Hindi movie personality- namely the poet Neeraj.

On this occasion, here is a song from “Archana” (1973). The song is sung by Lata and it is picturised on Mala Sinha and Sanjeev Kumar. Shankar Jaikishan composed the music.
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Today (4th january) seems to be an important day for Hindi movies, seeing that several artists were either born on this day or they expired on this day.

Nirupa Roy, who in the mind of most moviegoers of my generation was immortalised as the long suffering mother of the hero (typically Amitabh Bachchan), was born on 4th january.
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It happens quite often in this blog that when a song is discussed, readers exclaim- “what ! How come this song was not discussed as yet !”. My explanation is that there have been tens of thousands of great songs in Hindi movies, and we have discussed just a small portion of that huge collection of songs, so omission of many great songs should come as no surprise. Hopefully the number of omitted songs will gradually come down as we add more and more of such songs.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The first thing that comes to mind on hearing this song is ‘Wow’. No matter that I have heard this song umpteen times over the years, but yet, soon as this song plays, the mind gets up in excitement. A racy dance number from the film Qaidi No. 911 (1959), it has all the qualities of that are a hallmark of grade A gem songs.
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Datta Naik was born in Goa, which was then a Portuguese colony. He came to Bombay to try his luck as a music director. Initially he acted as an assistant to S D Burman before starting out as an independent music director. He changed his name to N Datta by re ordering the sequence of his name.
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The way we were discussing Hansraj Bahl compositions in the recent past, regulars of the blog may have rightly guessed that Hansraj Bahl was reaching his milestone of 100 songs in this blog. And indeed he has now scored his century of songs in this blog. This is the 51st such occasion in the blog, and Hansraj Bahl is the 50th artist to complete a century of his songs in this blog.
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