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The tale of Tarzan was used in Hindi movies beginning from 1937. The original Hindi Tarzan movie was called “Toofaani Tarzan” (1937). This movie was a Wadia Movietone production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had John Cawas in the title role. The starcast of the movie had John Cawas, Gulshan, Boman Shroff, Chandrashekhar, Nazira, Dalpat, Ahmed Dilwar etc. A wonderful review of this movie is available in Memsaab’s blog.
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“Vidyapati” (1937) was directed by Debaki Bose. This movie had Pahadi Sanyal in the title role with Kanan Devi acting opposite him. This movie also had Prithviraj Kapoor, Chhaya Devi, K C Dey, Kidar Sharma and Leela Desai.
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Bhooli huyi yaad aayee kahaani
Posted on: October 15, 2012
While most Hindi movies of the early days used stories from Indian mythological tales, there were a few movie makers who looked westward into Arabian/ Persian tales. Then there were a few who looked even further into tales of Western world and used them.
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“Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” (1958) has as many as eight songs in it. Seven of these songs have already been discussed.
Here is the eighth and final song from the movie.
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Ab maine jaana hai
Posted on: October 12, 2012
“Amar Jyoti” (1936) was a Prabhat Production. It was directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Chandramohan, Durga Khote, Shanta Apte, Vasanti, Vasant Desai etc in it. This movie was the first Indian movie to be screened at the Venice Film Festival.
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Ye kooch ke waqt kaisee aawaaz
Posted on: October 11, 2012
Two K L Saigal songs from “Kaarwaan e Hayaat” (1935) have been discussed in the past during the memorable days of 2011 when we were discussing one K L Saigal songs every day in this blog.
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“Devdas” (1955) was a Bimal Roy Production movie. It was produced and directed by Bimal Roy. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Vaijayantimala, Johnny Walker, Pran, Suchitra Sen, Motilal, N. Hussain etc in it.
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“Maha Pooja” (1954) was an Amr Jyoti Films Production. It was directed by Shanti Kumar. the movie had Amirbai Karnataki, Shashi Kapoor (not the better known one), Anant Marathe, Naina, Prem Adib, Ratnamala etc.
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“Sangeeta” (1950) was a Sudha Pictures Production. It was directed by Ramanlal Desai. The movie had Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Suraiya Choudhary, Ramsingh, Radha Krishnan, Pran, Mumtaz Ali etc in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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