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Most Hindi movies deal with safe topics because dealing with “unsafe” topics are fraught with dangers. and when one’s own career may be at stake then obviously few movie makers can be expected to venture into potentially risky topics.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

‘Hum hain raahi pyaar ke’ – the phrase reminds me of an iconic song “ham hain raah pyaar ke ham se kuchh naa boliye” from the film NAU DO GYAARAH (1957) and the Amir Khan-Juhi Chawala starrer film HUM HAIN RAAHI PYAAR KE (1993). I was not aware of the fact that there was one more film by the same name until I came across an audio clip of a beautiful song from that film.
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“Milaap” (1955) was the debut movie of N Datta as a full feledged music director. This movie has by and large been forgotten by now alongwirh its music. But in the process of digging up the songs of this movie, we are coming up with one gem after another.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and a regular contributor to this blog.

JAADOO NAGARI (1961) as the name suggests, was a fantasy film with Ranjan and Vijaya Choudhary as lead actors. Other cast included Tiwari, Helen and Majnu. The film was produced under the banner of Mukul pictures and directed by Radhakant who had directed some of Dara Singh films such as Rustam-e-Rome (1964), Boxer (1965), Insaaf (1966) and Toofaan (1969).
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“Samadhi” (1950) is a movie which was produced by Filmistan. Ramesh Saigal was its director. Starcast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Badri Prasad, Mubarak, N. Kabir, David Abraham, Kanta Kumari, Shyam, Kuldip, Colin Pal, S. L. Puri, Shashi Kapoor etc.
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Today (14th february) is Valentine’s day and regulars may have wondered why we in ths blog did not discuss any songs on this occasion. Well, I thought that most songs in Hindi movies are in any case “expression of love” songs, so we in this blog in any case discuss such songs everyday. So for this blog everyday is Valentine’s day.
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“Aashiq” (1962) was a Reuben Dubey production movie. Bunny Reuben and Vijay Kishore Dubey were the producers of the movie. The movie was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Raj Kapoor,Padmini, Nanda, Raj Mehra, Johnny Walkar, Mukri, Keshto Mukherjee, Abhi Bhattacharya, Leela Chitnis, Honey Irani, Nana Palsikar, Achala Sachdev, Madhumati etc in it.
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“Aazaad” (1955) was a movie which was produced and directed by S MN S Naidu. He wanted the songs of the movies to be recorded within one month and approached the leading music director of Bombay, viz Naushad to compose the music of this movie (9 songs) within that target period. Naushad snubbed him, saying that it was not possible to create 9 songs in one month. Then Mr Naidu approached other leading music directors and they all refused to take up the assgnment.
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