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The 1937 film ‘Mukti’ from the banner of New Theatres, was considered a very bold move. A path breaking film that explores the complexities of relationship between a man and a woman. It was daring theme for its times, especially being tackled by a big name production house. The storyline is written by and the film is directed by PC Barua, who was at the height of his creative energies and his career. He was already a big name with New Theatres, having directed the 1935 hit film ‘Devdas’ for both Hindi and Bengali versions. He also played the lead role in the Bengali version.
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“Ye Nazdeekiyaan” (1982) was a parallel cinema, as small budget small time movies used to be described those days. I had actually watched this movie which has otherwise ended by being a forgotten movie. This movie was produced and directed by Vinod Pande. The movie had Marc Zubeir, Shabana Azmi, Parveen Babi,Neena Gupta, Vinod Pande, Sudhir Pandey,Mala Jaggi, Bharathi Achrekar, Nitin Sethi,Col.Kapoor,Sunil Lahiri. In addition,friendly appearances were made in the movie by Kaifi Azmi,Shekhar Kapoor, Bijoya Jena, Baby Savari,Ravi Mishra,Helena Luke, J.P.Dixit,Dinesh Kaushik etc.
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Today (27 october 2014) is the 13th death anniversary of Pradeep Kumar (4 january 1925- 27 october 2001). Pradeep Kumar and a few of his contemporaries, viz. Bharat Bhushan, Biswajeet etc had the good fortune of figuring in movies with great music. For all their histrionics, it the music in these movies that may have titled the box office scales in the favour of these movies.
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Hindi movie music was predominanatly based on classical music during the first decade (viz 1930s). It was in early 1940s that Ghulam Haider introduced Punjabi Folk music based songs in “Khazaanchi” (1941). This paradigm shift was avidly lapped up by public and this paved the way for folk music based songs in Hindi movies. Ghulam Haider was followed by Naushad who introdced UP folk music in his compositions. That opened the floodgates and then we had different music directors composing songs based on folk music from different regions.
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Today (26 october 2014) is the 77th birth anniversary of Hridaynath Mangeshkar (DoB 26 october 1937). The only brother of the Mangeshkar sisters, he has been a singer/ composer in Hindi and Marathi movies.
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This article is written by Sudhir, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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With 10,400 songs already posted on this blog, we are still at just about 20% of the songs from the first five decades. And further, just about 11 or 12 % if one considers all the films from all the decades from 1931 to the present. There is a whopping number of songs that are still waiting out there to be posted. That is quite a number and it shall keep this team (of all quiet people 😉 ) busy for quite a while.
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This article is written by Sudhir, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Sahir, from Ludhiana – the poet rebel or the rebel poet. With childhood spent in dearth and need, in the narrow lanes of the poorest sections of the city, he grew up with a strong disdain for the establishment and the rich and powerful of the society. When the poet within him awakened and stretched, one of the first poems (nazm) that expressed his bottled emotions – starts the line “Kasam Un Tang Galiyon Ki Jahaan Mazdoor Rehte Hain” (swearing upon the narrow lanes which are home to the poor laborers.

Remembering Sahir Sb on the anniversary of his passing away (25th October).
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Today (25 october 2014) is the 69th birth anniversary of Aparna Sen (DoB 25 october 1945). She is mainly known as a top actress of Bangla movies but she occasionally forayed into Hindi movies as well.
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Today (25 october 2014) is the birth anniversary of Sharda Rajan Iyengar, who is known to music lovers as just Sharda. Shankar (of Shankar Jaikishan duo) had brought her to limelight with the “Suraj”(1966) song Titli udi ud jo chali. This song tied with another “Suraj”(1966) song Bahaaron phool barsaao for the best singer Filmfare award. There used to be just one Filmfare award for best singer those days (common for both genders) and this song getting tied for the top singer category made Filmfare create the categories of best Male and best Female playback singers from the next year onwards. I was a very young kid those days and I was one of those who were simply mesmerised by this “titli udi” song those days.
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“Society”(1955) was produced by Ismat Chugtai and directed by Shahid Latif for Film India Corporation, India. The movie had Nimmi, Nasir Khan, Johny Walker, Ifthikhar, Kumkum, Radhika, Minu Mumtaz, Bikram Kapoor, Protima Devi, Amar, Munnan Bai, Haroon, Munsi Munaqqa, Nazeer Kashmiri, Arvind Kumar, Md Ali, Dubey, Sagar, Jerry, Chandrakant, Akkan, Tuntun, Peggy etc in it.
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