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The golden era of Hindi movie music began in late 1940s and lasted till late 1970s. There are very few music directors who were around when the golden era began and who lasted almost the entire period of this golden era. The one music director who was around for almost the entire duration and whose was S D Burman.
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Ek dil ka lagaana baaki thaa
Posted on: October 5, 2009
Many people may have noticed that the picturised versions of many songs are often different from their audio versions. One reason could be that the picturised version is often curtailed while editing the movie. But the main reason for the difference between picturised version and audio version is more technical. In olden days, it was technically not possible to record a song once and use it for audio as well as picturised versions. So those days the same song used to be recorded twice- once for the picturisation and once for the audio recording. So one could find some slight, and sometimes, more than slight differences in the two versions of the same song.
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Rasiya re man basiya se
Posted on: September 5, 2009
Here is a beautiful song from “Pardesi” (1957) which is quite well known, though people may not be aware about the details of the song.
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Chaand so gayaa taare so gaye
Posted on: August 21, 2009
Here is a song from a by now forgotten movie called “Raahi” (1953). Dev Anand and Achala Sachdev were the lead actors in this movie.
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I have just read about the songs of “Aag” (1948) and I am only just discovering them.
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Teri nazron kaa paake ishaara
Posted on: June 22, 2009
Can anyone believe that there was a Bollywood movie called “Lucky Number” in 1961 ? The movie of course was not lucky enough and few people today remember this movie.
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Dil hamko dhoondhta hai
Posted on: June 3, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Return of Mr Superman”. This movie had some interesting songs. Music director of this movie was Anil Biswas.
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Stella O Stella
Posted on: June 2, 2009
“A” grade movies were not the only movies that get made in Bollywood. There are many B grade, C grade…Z grade movies which also got made. Most of these movies failed to register in the radar of mainsteam audience.
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Kisi ko yoon tamannaon mein..Meri jaan chaahne waalon ko tadpaayaa nahin karte
Posted on: May 31, 2009
Here is a rare song from an unheard of movie. The movie is called “Return of Mr Superman” (1960).
This song is written by Manmohan Sabir and the music director is Anil Biswas. The song was sung by Meena Kapoor, who was Anil Biswas’ wife.
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Chaandi ka badan sone ki nazar
Posted on: May 16, 2009
I have posted over a thousand songs in this blog so far. Most songs are 3 to 4 minutes long and their lyrics are about 200 words long. But this qawwali is nearly ten minutes long and its lyrics runs into 800 words !
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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