Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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In olden days, professions like “Gramophone Singer”, “Station Master”, “Taxi Driver”,”Trolly Driver” etc were quite coveted ones. We in fact have Hindi movies with such titles. So far we have discussed songs from “Station Master” (1942), “Taxi Driver” (1954) and “Trolly Driver” (1958) in the blog. Here is a song from “Gramophone Singer” (1938).
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This musical bandwagon continues to roll on unabated (touchwood !) and we continue to pass milestones at regular intervals.

Century of songs is the most basic and common kind of milestone for this song. In the earlier days of the blog, we just counted the number of songs posted in the day and every 100th song was a cause for celebration.
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“Dooj Ka Chaand”(1964) was a Filmasia Production movie. It was directed by Nitin Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Raj Kumar, Bharat Bhushan,Pritibala, B. Saroja Devi, Ratna, Ullhas,Agha, Sulochana, Azra, Prabhat Kumar, Iftekhar, Chandrashekhar, Murad etc in it.
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Today (25 october) is the death anniversary of Sahir Ludhianvi. Sahir Ludhianvi was an outstanding lyricist as we in blog are alraedy aware. In addition, he was a man of strong convictions and principles. In his views he was far more progressive that the era when he weas active. He championed the case of the underdog, the downtrodden, the law abiding masses, women etc. He spoke out against social evils. He shoke out against violence and war.
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“Baawri” (1982) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog, but this movie has already been forgotten and its details are not known to most people. This movie was directed by A C Trilogchandar. The movie had Rakesh Roshan, Jayaprada, Yogita Bali, Dr Shreeram Lagoo etc in it.
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“Heera” (1973) was produced and directed by Sultan Ahmad. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Asha Parekh, Farida Jalal, Shatrughan Sinha, Kanhaiyalal, Anwar Hussain, Sulochana, Mukri, Tabassum, Tuntun, Mumtaz Begum, Jankidas, Mac Mohan, Helen etc in it.
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Today (24 october) is the birth anniversary of Jeevan, one of the major villains of Hindi movies from 1950s to 1970s.

Villains of Hindi movies typically concentrated on torturing the lead actors rather than lip syncing songs, and so there may not be too many songs that could be said to be picturised on them.
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