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“Shehnaayi” (1964), not to be confused with “Shehnaayi” (1947), was a New Oriental Pictures Production. It was directed by S D Narang. This movie had Biswajeet, Rajshree, Johnny Walker, Veena, Chand Usmani, Nirupa Roy, Asit Sen, Iftekhar, Leela Chitnis, D. K. Sapru, Parveen Choudhary etc in it.
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Today (23 september) is the birthday of Tanuja. She had a lot innings in Hindi movies beginning from 1960 and she has not really retired from movies even today.
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Gori ke nainon mein nindiya bhari
Posted on: August 23, 2012
“Angaarey” (1954) was an Akash Chitra Production movie. It was directed by K B Lal. The movie had Vanmala, Pran, Paro, Ratan Kumar, K. N. Singh, Nasir Khan, Nargis, Jagirdar, Nanda, Jeevan, Sunalini Devi, Jawahar Kaul etc in it.
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Chaand kanwal mere chaand kanwal
Posted on: August 1, 2012
Meena Kumari, whose birth anniversary falls today (1 august) was not a legendary actress for nothing. She is well known ,and even typedcast in public mind for her melancholic roles, but she was very good in other roles as well.
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Today (29th july) is the death anniversary of Sudhir Phadke (25 july 1919- 29 july 2002). He got the opportunity to compose in very few Hindi movies, but he has left an indelible mark in the annals of Hindi movie music. Who can forget the immortal song Jyoti kalash chhalke from “Bhaabhi Ki Choodiyaan”. Another timeless classic, viz. Din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai is also his creation.
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Aaja ri nindiyaa
Posted on: July 23, 2012
- In: Blog century song | Century songs for the blog | Duet | Kishore Kumar songs | Kishore Kumar-Lata duet | Lata song | lullaby | Lyrics by Khyati Bhatt | Lyrics contributed by readers | Male lullaby | Multiple version song | Poignant Song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1974 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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It is said that making people laugh is serious business. Just because some people who make others laugh does not mean that they are not capable of being serious. On the contrary, such people are capable of being serious and sensitive too.
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Allah nigehbaan tera
Posted on: July 23, 2012
“Elaan” (1947) was a Mehboob Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Surendra, Munawwar Sultana, Zebunissa, Agha, Shahnawaz, W. M. Khan, Leela Mishra, Rita, Shaheda, Subhasini, Reehan, Mohammad Afzal etc in it.
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Dheere dheere hauley se
Posted on: April 21, 2012
“Minoo” (1977) was a Hena Films Production. It wa directed by Parshuram and Pushraj. The movie had Baby Moonmoon, Dinesh Thakur, Radha Saluja, Nanditha Thakur, Padma Khanna, Jagdeep, Anwar Hussain, Dulari,Sudhir, Manmauji, Ranjeet Sood etc in it. The story of this movie revolves around a small girl child who was hoping that her mother is going to bring a small brother to play with her. Unfortunately, her mother never returns from hospital to her side. Her father remarries and the girl find it very hard to digest the situation and flees from home. A movie with this kind of story line and that too made on a small budget with no stars did not have a market those days. In fact, a movie like this does not have a market even today and so few people watched this movie.
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“Doraaha” (1971) was produced by Ram Dayal and directed by Firoz Chinoy. This movie had an adult theme and that made the movie a “controversial” movie. In other words, the movie audience, media as well as the censors were not mature enough to handle movies of this genre. This movie, as well as other movies of the same genre, viz. “Dastak”, “Chetna” etc suffered from wrong publicity which attracted wrong kind of movie goers to these movies. The movies suffered at the box office. Come to thingk of it, Indian movie audience, media as well as the censors have not yet matured even today, some four decades later, to be able to deal with these kind of movies.
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Mere soone jeewan ka aasraa hai tu
Posted on: March 22, 2012
- In: Asha Bhonsle solo | Asha Bhonsle songs | Century songs for the blog | Feelings of heart | lullaby | Lyrics by Prakashchandra | Lyrics contributed by readers | Lyrics contributor century song | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1966 | Theme song | Title song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This blog, which began as a one man show has by now become a multiple contributor bandwagon of likeminded music lovers. With time, we now have several contributors who have begun to achieve their own landmarks of century and multiple century marks.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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