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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6381 Post No. : 19790

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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#Actress Rameshwari’s Birth Anniversary #
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‘Mera Rakshak’ was directed by R. Thyagaraj for Devar Films, Madras. It was produced by Sandow M.M.A. Chinnappa Devar who also wrote the story of this movie. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 26.05.1978. The cast of this movie included Mithun Chakraborty, Rameshwari, Rakesh Pande, Gayatri, Shreeram Lagoo, Abhi Bhattacharya, Raja Duggal, Jaya Malini, Ram Govind, Mukkamala, Yogesh Chhabda, Devar, Jemini Balu, Swaraj, Pande, Bhagya Kumar, Siraj, Mukesh, G. Krishnan, Krishnamurthy, and Udaylaxmi, Laxmipriya and Veerasami and others. Editing for this movie was done by M.G. Balu Rao. Dialogues of this movie were written by Ram Govind.

‘Mera Rakshak-1978’ had total four songs. Asha Bhonsle, Lata Mangeshkar and Yesudas give their voices to the songs of this movie. Music for this movie was composed by Ravindra Jain who also wrote the lyrics for the songs of this movie.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6380 Post No. : 19784

Today’s song is from a social family drama- Bhai Saheb-1954. I have not seen this film, but as per Wiki and IMDB, the story revolves around a kind and talented man who works in Radio as a counselor for needy people and solves their problems by his means, which has a positive response. He falls in love with a sweet girl and wants to marry her but first he must complete the task of reuniting other individuals, leading to consequences. The story is not very attractive or different from normal love stories. As compared to the other musical and entertaining films of 1954, this film was actually nowhere.

The 50’s decade was called the Golden Era of HFM, not for nothing. Year after year, the films provided excellent songs, different film Genres, convincing stories, superb acting and Full Paisa Vasool Entertainment. In such a scenario an average music, beaten track stories, mediocre acting, poor direction and lustreless short lived songs had no chance of winning. Today’s film was one such film.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6379 Post No. : 19780 Movie Count :

5177

#the Decade of Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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(Music Composer R.D. Burman’s 32nd Remembrance Day)
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Today 4th January 2026 is the 33rd Remembrance Anniversary of Rahul Dev Burman who is fondly known as ‘Pancham’. He was born on 27th June 1939 and he passed away on 4th January 1994 at the age of only 54.

Today on Pancham’s 33rd Remembrance Day we will be paying our tributes to him by listening to some of his compositions that were not yet presented till now.

While much of his musical treasure is already available for music lovers to savour, some more of this treasure is still being unearthed and is being shared online. I hope this process of digging up his as yet unknown compositions will continue in future as well.

From an estimated figure of 1755 songs from 331 Hindi movies composed by Pancham we have so far covered 944 songs from 254 Hindi movies on this blog.

I start day’s proceedings by presenting a song from the 1985 movie ‘AMEER AADMI GHAREEB AADMI’. It was directed by Amjad Khan for ‘Cinema International’s’. Shehla Khan and Vinay Sinha were the producers of this movie. Actor Amjad Khan who directed this movie had also credited as writer and editor of the movie as well. Dialogues for this movie were written by Akhtar-Ul-Iman. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 19.02.1985.
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6378 Post No. : 19777

“Santaan”(1959) was produced by Mahesh Kaul and directed by Jyoti Swaroop for Anupam Chitra Production. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Kamini Kadam, Nazir Hussain ,Rita Roy (Bindu), Dulaari, Leela Mishra, Manorama, David Abraham etc in it.

“Santaan”(1959) had seven songs in it. Five songs from the movie have been covered in the past.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6373 Post No. : 19764

Today’s song is from yet another Kalpanik (Imaginary) film -Son of Sindbad-1958.

Produced by Balwant Bhatt and Ram Kamlani, the film was directed by the younger brother of Balwant Bhatt – Nanabhai Bhatt. In Gujarat, ‘Nana’ means younger. His real name was Yashwant and his nickname was ‘Batuk’ (means smaller).

Director Nanabhai Bhatt ( 12-6-1915 to 24-4-1999). He was a director in many films.He directed mostly Mythological and stunt films only. Nanabhai was born as Yashwant ( pet name – Batuk) at Porbandar. Since he was the younger one he was called Nanabhai ( opposite to Motabhai-elder brother). This name continued till the end. His father was a doctor. After matriculation, he went to Mumbai in 1934, where his elder brother Balwant Bhatt was working. Balwant started with Imperial,shifted to Sagar and now was with Prakash pictures of Vijay and Shankar Bhatt. He got Nanabhai a job as Sound Recordist.Soon he graduated as Production Executive. He also wrote several screenplays.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6372 Post No. : 19763

Today’s song is the last and final song from the coloured social film Rahgir-1969.

I specifically mentioned coloured film, because it was still a novelty for the audience. Even in the 60’s, a few films were made in B & W, but by the end of 1960’s decade they were a thing of the past. Rahgir-1969 was a sort of a hybrid film – mixture of a regular film and a New Wave cinema. The audience was not yet ready for the New Wave Cinema, but the excellent films presented by the select producers and the directors their acceptance was achieved soon. The film was released on 2-7-1969 .

Film Rahgir-1969 was a remake of the celebrated Bengali film “Palatak” (1963). Tarun Majumdar, the director of the remake, had directed the Bengali original along with two co-directors – Sachin Mukherjee and Dilip Mukherjee. The film was based on the story “Angti Chattujjer Vai” by Manoj Basu. Hemant Kumar, who composed the music for the Bengali film, also composed the score for the remake.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6367 Post No. : 19746

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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This song is from the movie ‘26th January’ alias ‘Bharati’, which was released in the year 1956. This movie was passed by the Censor Board on 14.08.1956. It was directed by Ramesh Sehgal. The cast of this movie had Nalini Jaywant, Ajeet, Johny Walker, Sapru, B.M. Vyas, Leela Mishra, Cuckoo, Balraj Mehta, Chaman Puri, Nishi (who made her debut with this movie) and others.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6366 Post No. : 19741

Today’s song is from a dubbed Hindi film -Piya Milan-1958.

This costume film was directed by Raghunath and the music was by P Ramesh Naidu, who was assisted by S.L.Merchant. The cast of the South indian dubbed film was Vyjayantimala, Raja Sulochana, Shri Ram, M.N.Rajam, Helen, Reeta, V.Nagiah, T.S.Baliah, P.L.Veerappa, Thangvellu, Chandra babu, G.A.K.Devar and many others. Lyricists were Harsha (3) and Hasrat Jaipuri (6). These 9 songs of the film were sung by P.Susheela, Lata mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar, Om Verma and jagmohan Bakshi. Actually, the film was produced by Jubilee Films, but was sold to R.R. Productions for releasing it.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6365 Post No. : 19739

Pancham’s Music – Eighties-to-Nineties (1981-1994…) Duets-5

My previous post in this series had a duet song sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Suresh Wadkar for the movie ‘Palay Khan-1986’. Incidentally, in this post we again have a duet song by the same singers, but coming from the pen of another lyricist.

This song is from the movie “Apne Apne-1987” which was directed by Ramesh Behl for ‘Rose Movies’. It was passed by Censor Board on 05.03.1987. Ramesh Behl, who directed this movie, was also the producer of this movie. The cast of this movie included Jeetendra, Rekha, Karan Shah, and Mandakini, with Satish Shah, Atlee Brar, Dan Dhanoa, Sushma Seth, Bina, Babli, Anjana, Ghanshyam, Chandu, Pandurang Boloor, Lata, Sheela, Leena, Mina, Tina, Rupa, Omi Chopra, Surendra, Rahi, Vasu, Iqbal, Rakesh, Reshma Aurora, Anthony, Prakash, and Kader Khan. Hema Malini had a special appearance in this movie. This movie was written by Aziz Qaisi. Sunder Shetty was the editor of this movie.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

This article is the 1000th song post in the blog during the year 2025.

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6362 Post No. : 19729 Movie Count :

5170

Pancham’s Music – Eighties-to-Nineties (1981-1994…) Duets-4

In the series of Pancham’s duet compositions from the eighties-nineties, today we introduce a duet song from the movie ‘Palay Khan-1986’.

This movie ‘Palay Khan-1986’ also makes its debut on the blog today.

This movie was produced by Skahti Samanta and directed by Ashim Samanta for Untied Producers & Shakti Films. It was passed by Censor Board on 03.12.1986. It had Jackie Shroff, Poonam Dhillon, Farha Naaz, Suresh Oberoi, Shakti Kapoor and Anupam Kher. They were supported by Sushma Seth, Puneet Issar, Satyen Kappu, Dinesh Thakur, Mac Mohan, Roopesh Kumar, Bob Christo, Kamal Kapoor, Tom Alter, Manek Irani, Zubeda, Rasinder Singh, Tito Singh, Mahender Tyagi, Tarana, Shivangi, Gurvinder, Abhishek Ahuja and others. Preeti Sapru made a guest appearance in this movie and actor Raza Murad had a friendly appearance in this movie.
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