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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

An old adage – they say that the real geniuses leave early. Many an instance are scattered all over the history timeline. Gosh, she was still 4 months short of her 40th birthday when she gave up her resistance to the personal tragedies and tribulations, making her way out of the miserable labyrinths of control and manipulations that she was subjected to most of her life. Ah but, what a color her own life, rubbed on to her on screen persona, as she moved from one perfection to the next in the tragic milieu of tangled relationships and human miseries. A performer too young, too vivacious, to be baptized as the Tragedy Queen. And the vicious circle moved from real life to screen and back, so many times over, that her cup of life proved to be diminutive, unable to hold all the sorrows that the world put in it.
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“Parchhaain” (1952) was a Rajkamal Production movie. It was produced and directed by by V Shantaram. The movie had V Shantaram, Jayshree, Sandhya, Lalita Pawar, Wasti, G. Nirula, Shams Lucknavi, Saroj, Sandhya, Baran, Nimbalkar etc in it.
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“Hanste Aansoo” (1950) was one of the first Hindi movies to get an Adult certificate from the censors. The reasons for getting A certificate those days used to be quite flimsy. For instance, “Barsaat” (1949) had become the first Hindi movie to get an A certificate. The reason why censors were provoked thus was that the female actors in the movies, viz Nargis, Nimmi etc are shown without dupattas and in one song there is even the talk of dupatta flying away in the breeze, viz. Hawa me udta jaaye mora laal dupatta malmal ka. 🙂 And the censors were righteously indignant about all this. 🙂
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

In 1968, when HMV brought out an LP of CH Atma’s non film songs, the disc was titled as ‘Lingering Melodies’. Such an appropriate epithet and such a fitting description of the quality of this voice – ‘lingering’. The baritone sounds rendered by this wonderful singer, assuredly have this lingering quality. The sound and the words stay with the listener, as if still around, as if still playing somewhere, even after the song is complete. That is the kind of effect this voice has on the listener.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

A little over three weeks ago, Kamal Barot’s first non film song was posted on these pages –“Ye Haseen Taare Teri Yaad Dilaa Dete Hain”. The post was followed with comments from readers, with requests for other non film songs from the same singer. The song in this post was specifically requested, as it had been by AK ji, in his earlier communications.
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“Sanjog” (1972) was Produced by Mohan Segal and directed by S S Balan. The movie had Amitabh Bachchan, Mala Sinha, Aruna Irani, Johnny Walker, Ramesh Deo, Malika, Madan Puri, Nazir Hussain, Sulochana Chatterji, Keshto Mukherjee, Jagdish Raaj, C S Dubey, Master Ratan, Chandrima Bhaduri, Indrani, Baby Indra
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“Prabhat” (1973) was a Mukul Enterprises movie. It was produced by Ram Dayal and directed by Sikandar Khanna. The movie had Zaheeda, Jaya Kaushalya, Shyama, Roopesh Kumar, Kamal Kapoor, Sunder, Birbal, Zohara Khatoon, Krishan Dhawan, Pranshankar, Arjun Aosare, V.Gopal, Aarthi, Pinchoo Kapoor, Rajan Haksar, Hangama, Kamal Deep, Sujata, Narbada Shankar, Dulari, Gulshan Bawra, Nandita Thakur, Baldev Khosa, Pachhi, Asha Chandra, Dinesh Hingoo, Omi, Habib, Nisha, Ameeta Sinha, Sonika, Malini, Charanjeet, Neerja etc in it.
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“Gumnaam” (1965), based on Agatha Christie’s novel, “And then there were none”, was a Ptithvi Pictures production movie. It was produced by N N Sippy and directed by Raja Nawathe. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Dhumal, Mehmood, Helen, Madan Puri, Tarun Bose, Manmohan, Naina, Laxmi Chhaya, Hiralal etc in it.
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