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Sambandh (1969) is a movie that was based on a Bangla novel called “Pratham Prem” written by Achintya Kumar Sengupta. This movie was produced by Shashdhar Mukherjee film syndicate Private Limited. Ram Mukherjee was the producer and the movie was directed by Ajoy Mukherjee.This movie had Pradeep kumar, Deb Mukherjee, Achala Sachdev, Anita Guha aka Dutta, Anjana Manjrekaraka Anjana Mumtaz, Manisha, Sulochana Latkar,Vijaya Choudhary, Abhi Bhattacharya, Nana Palshikar, Ulhas, Rani, Leela Mishra, Jankidass, Manik Dutt, Dilloo,Sajjan, S.R.Bannerjee,Sunder etc in its starcast.
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“Faislaa” (1965) was a quintessential B grade movie produced by Jugal Kishore Productions. It was directed by Jugal Kishore. The movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Jagdeep,L. Vijayalaxmi, Jugal Kishore, Jeevan, Sulochana Chatterji, Niranjan Sharma,Helen etc.
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In any field, just having the skills for the job is not enough. Good PR skills and being in the good books of those who matter is paramount. Being able to stand for one’s rights and getting it too is a tight rope walk that few people may have perfected. Among lyricists, the top few managed to have their say, but those who were in the lower rung in the pecking order had it difficult.
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In this blog, we discuss songs of yesteryears. Many of the songs are well known and some are in fact so well known that they have become part of day to day life of people.

But there are many songs which are lesser known and then there are songs that have been forgotten.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

I have been somewhat preoccupied for last three four days. I have been regularly browsing the new additions to the blog, but have not been able to spend time to add or respond to comments. So I see this message from AK ji, renewing his farmaish for this song. And then read Atul ji’s response, saying that this song is not available online so far. That got me into a scramble; since I have the audio of this song in my collection. And this song is simply so endearing that somehow I had to take time out to create the YouTube post and publish it right away. 😀
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Atul ji and Arun ji have talked about the lady music directors of the 30s and 40s, like Saraswati Devi, Jaddan Bai etc. The careers of these lady composers did not last for very long in the industry. Then in late 1950s, another lady music director made a debut (with Dil Deke Dekho, 1959), and the industry was introduced to Usha Khanna. A career that is still continuing, Usha Khanna has now been active in the industry for a little more than fifty years. Her career was most active in the 1960s and up to the mid 90s, after which her assignments have been few and far between. She never got any Filmfare awards, but in 1983, she was a runner up for the music direction award for the film Souten. In 1979, Yesudas won the best singer award for the song ‘Dil Ke Tukde Tukde Kar Ke Muskuraa Ke Chal Diye’ from the film Dada, with the music composed by Usha Khanna.
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“Sohni Mahiwal”(1958), as the name suggests is one of the four tragic love stories of Punjab. The other such stories being Heer Ranjha,Mirza Sahiban and Sassi Punnun. Several movies have been made on these tales, not only in Hindi, but also in Punjabi and other languages.
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“Teen Sardaar” (1965) was a B grade movie with Randhawa, Parveen Chaudhary, Meenakshi, Azad etc in it. This movie today is as obscure as any B grade movie can be. Very little is known about this movie, and that includes its music.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.

When a cricketer hits a fast paced century (in any form of the game), that is stuff for headlines. Newspapers will carry that item on front page. (Btw fastest century record is held by Shahid Afridi, scoring an ODI century in 37 balls; for test cricket Vivian Richards with a century in 56 balls.)

We have stuff for a similar headline news on this blog. We have a new record for the fastest century of songs. Welcome to the 4200th offering of what is increasingly becoming a misnomer, Song-A-Day blog. With an average of over 7 songs posted per day, the musical journey from 4101 to 4200 has been covered in 14 days flat. This beats the previous record of 16 days. Congratulations ALL. 😀
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