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Ye bahaaron ka samaa
Posted on: December 30, 2011
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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“Aabsaar” (1953) is not a movie too many people have heard of. Hardly any information is available about this movie on internet. So it is obvious that this movie may have been a commercial failure at the box office.
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Haay chanda gaye pardes
Posted on: December 25, 2011
“Chakori” (1949) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was a Ramesh Pictures production. It was directed by Ramnarayan Dube. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nalini Jaywant, Om Prakash, Manorama, Cuckoo etc in this movie.
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Haay tu hi gaya mohe bhool re
Posted on: December 22, 2011
“Kathputli” (1957) is a movie produced by Sreerangam Production.Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose were the directors of this movie. The movie had Balraj Sahni, VYjyantimala, Kamla Laxman, Jawahar Kaul, Agha, Sheela Kashmiri, Poonam etc in this movie.
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Sooni re nagariyaa
Posted on: December 21, 2011
“Uphaar”(1971) was a Rajshree Productions movie. It was directed by Sudhendu Roy. Rajshree Productions had hit upon the formula of signing up newcomers for their movies instead of big stars. They relied on great music and heartwarming storyline to attract movie goers and this formula served them well for nearly a quarter of a century.
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Hamko tumse pyaar hai
Posted on: December 20, 2011
“Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye” (1963) is a movie produced by Y T U Baria Films. K Parvez was the director and the star cast of the movie included names like Mehmood, Shakila, Johnny Walker, Omprakash, Poornima, Sheila Kashmiri, Shammi, Anwar Hussain, Brahm, Amar, Altaf, Dilip Dutt, Baby Devika, Jeevankala, Madhumathi, Kallan, Babu Raje etc.
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“Madaari” (1959) was a quintessential B grade movie. Such movies normally remained confined to their dedicated fans and failed to register among the mainstream movie watchers. But in some rare cases, the songs of such movies became so popular that mainstream movie watchers were made to sit up and take notice.
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During the period from 1940s to 1960s, we often had titles of Hindi movies based on Railways. Thus we had movies titled “Station Master” (1942), ” Rail Ka Dibba” (1953), “Railway Platform” (1955) , “The Train” (1970) etc. Much later in 1980s, we had a few more Railway based titles, viz “The Burning Train” (1980) and “Coolie” (1983).
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