Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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“Shaadi Se Pehle” (1947) was a movie produced by Raja Nene Productions, Bombay and it had actors like Ranjna,Rajan,Vasant Thengri,Raja Nene, Leela Gadkar,Gokhale,Dixit,Bargir,Jivaji Kulkarni etc in it. This movie was also known by an alternative title viz “Juye Ka Nateeza” (meaning Evils of gambling)
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“Rajdhani” (1956) is a by now obscure movie. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Nimmi in lead roles.

I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie. This song is a rare song which is not available on youtube as far as I know.
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“Mashaal” (1950) is known mainly for the song ( Upar gagan vishaal )that announced the arrival of Manna Dey as a playback singer of note. But these movie also had other nice songs in it, even though these songs, unlike the Manna Dey song, have been forgotten with time.
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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 film Luteraa (1965) has seven wonderful songs, five of which are already discussed on this blog. This is the sixth song from this movie. This is a dance number by Helen, and the singing voice is that of Lata Mangeshkar. Luteraa is a grade B pirates adventure story, starring Prithviraj Kapoor, Dara Singh, Nishi, Helen, Hiralal, Jeevan, Maruti, Bela Bose and others. The storyline is convoluted with multiple parallel threads in progress. There are lost siblings, pirates, palace intrigues, battles at sea and what else not in the story plot.
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This is a gem of a song. And still this song is not known to too many people. By now I am no longer surprised or shocked by this fact that many great songs of yesteryears have been allowed to be lost to oblivion. Indians by and large are not keen students of history and they do not have much appreciation of their rich legacy, so showing callous disregard to such great works of art will naturally follow.
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I can guess the reactions of most readers of this blog on reading the title of this post. It will be along the lines of- ‘What ! This song was not yet discussed in this blog ! And you call yourself a Hindi movies song blog ! etc etc. 😀
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