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“Anokhi Ada”(1948) was a Mehboob Productions movie. Mehboob Khan was the producer and director of this movie. Star cast of the movie had Surendra, Naseem, Pratima Devi, Zeb Qureshi, Cuckoo, Prem Adeeb, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Murad, etc in it.
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“Gauna” (1950) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a Jagat Pictures Production. It was directed by Amiya Chakravarty. Star cast of the movie had names like Usha Kiran, Anoop Kumar, Purnima, S. Nazir, Kesari, Shailendra, Indumati, Wasti etc it.
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“Halchal”(1951) had Dilip Kumar and Nargis in lead roles. This movie initially had Sajjad Hussain as the music director but he left the movie after recording three songs and then the music direction of this movie was entrusted on Md Shafi.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contrbutor to this blog.

In Hindi film industry, there were producers/directors who initially started their careers as lyricists but over a period of time, they ventured into film production. As far as I know, this trend started with Kidar Sharma who joined New Theatres as a still photographer and a set painter before switching over to lyricist and dialogue writer. He was followed by P L Santoshi, Nakhshab, Jaan Nisar Akhtar, Shailendra, Gulzar to give a few examples.
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