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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6281 Post No. : 19439

Today’s song is from a fantasy film Gul E Bakawali-1963.

Most Indians have two common traits. One, they are religious and two, they believe in magic. Therefore most of the children liked the stories in which there was fantasy and magic. Ofcourse, I am talking of older times. These days children’s likings have changed and they like to play with modern gadgets, rather than reading books.

When I was in school, there was great demand from students for books on Vedic stories, fantasy and fairy stories, especially the Arabian Night story books in our school library. Students had to put their names on a waiting list for such books, though the library had multiple copies of such books. Once the books were taken home, other members of the family also read them with great taste and nostalgia.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6277 Post No. : 19428

‘Faaslaa’ (1974) was produced and directed by Khwaja Ahmed Abbas (K A Abbas) who also wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues. The cast included Shabana Azmi, Raman Khanna (debutant), Komilla Virk, David Abraham, Chand Usmani, Paintal, Yunus Parvez, Ravikant, Helen, Sadhana Khote, Shaukat Kaifi, Dinesh Thakur etc. Jairaj, Nadira, Nitin Sethi and Imtiaz made guest appearances in the film.

K A Abbas was an active member of the left-inspired Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA). All his earlier films, whether as a director or writer like ‘Dharti Ke Laal’ (1946), ‘Asawara’ (1951). ‘Shri 420’ (1955), ‘ Shahar Aur Sapna’ (1965), ‘Do Boond Paani’ (1971) and many more, dealt with social injustice and underprivilege classes of the society.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5746 Post No. : 18268

Today’s song is from the Sci-Fi film Gogola-1966. This is the last and final song of the film here.

According to the Internet information available on http://www.geeksforgeeks.org, as on 6-3-2024, the First 10 biggest Cinema industries in the World are….

Country Speciality/ strong point
Hollywood In USA Blockbusters, Technology, Cultural Influence
Bollywood IN India Colourful Musical Dramas, Global Appeal
Nollywood IN Nigeria Prolific, Cost Effective, Family and Love Films
China Box Office Revenue, Infrastructure, Production Volume
United Kingdom Historical Epics, Strong Storytelling, Global Presence
South Korea High production Value, Innovative Storytelling, Thrillers
France Artistic Films, New Wave, Film Festivals
Japan Variety of Genres, Aesthetic Innovation, Samurai Epics
Italy Art Cinema, Compelling Storytelling, Visual Flair
Russia Epic Narratives, Historicals, Animation

From the above data, one can conclude that it is only the Indian industry which provides only entertainment. It was never famous for Innovative stories, Technical advances or Sci Fi films. The entire focus has been and is even today on giving entertainment. However, as I noticed from the last few years, there have been some subtle changes and a lot of films on National issues, National personalities and films highlighting people who mattered in the development of the country have been made and these have received massive support from the viewers, encouraging more such adventures. In due course it surely will reflect on the Indian film industry in the world’s eyes.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5575 Post No. : 18047

#the Decade of Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Kraanti-1981’. This was one of the biggest movies of our times when people like me were still growing up or had just entered their teens. I still vividly remember the summer of 1981 when we had watched this movie in the near-by city Akola (Maharashtra). This movie was passed by Censor Board on 28.01.1981. Unlike now, when movies are released simultaneously in all places, it would take two-three months for the movies to reach the theatres then.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5386 Post No. : 17665

Today’s song is from a stunt film Gogola-1966.

The date was 28-8-2017. I received an EMail from an unknown person, as follows….

Kelly Robinson

Hi—

I’ve been told that you are an expert in Hindi cinema. I’m writing a book on lost horror films, and one of my chapters is on the film Gogola, which seems to be lost.

It is very difficult to find information on this film in English, so I was hoping you might be able to tell me about it. Any information at all is helpful. I’m also curious to know if it was the first Hindi film with a giant monster. Do you know if there were other similar films that preceded it?

Thank you very much for your help. I will be certain to credit you in the book with any information you can provide.

Kelly Robinson

I was surprised. First of all, I tried to find out who this person was. From the internet I learnt that Kelly Robinson was an Award winning film writer and researcher from the USA. He was associated with various Magazines as author, Radio, TV and Hollywood etc.
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This article is the 17200th blog post for the blog.

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5212 Post No. : 17200

Slowly and steadily, and also unnoticeably, we arrive at yet another century milstone for the blog. This article is the 172th century post, or in other words post number 17200.

The previous century was achieved on 14 august 2022 (Blog day number 5140). This century is being achieved on 25th october 2022( Blog day number 5212). In other words, this century has arrived in 72 days, at a glacial pace of 1.4 songs daily.
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4873 Post No. : 16668 Movie Count :

4603

Today (20 November 2021) is the birthday of Minu Purushottam (DoB 20 November 1944). She made her debut in Hindi movies in 1963 with “Tajmahal”(1963), under the music direction of Roshan. The song was Naa naa naa re haath na lagaana , a duet alongwith Suman Kalyanpur. The lilting song from “Ye Raat Phir Na aayegi”(1966), Huzoorewaala jo ho izaajat , a duet with Asha Bhonsle, is quite a popular song to this day. Both songs incidentally were picturised on Helen and Madhumati (Helen clone).
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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4844 Post No. : 16632

Today’s song is from the 1974 movie ‘Mehmaan’.

This film was directed by KP Atma for Shatrujit Films, Bombay, and was produced by Shatrujit Paul. It had Biswajeet, Rekha, Anwar Hussain, Manmohan Krishna, Abhi Bhattacharya, Tarun Bose, Sulochana, Mukri, Bhalla, Lata Sinha, Azad, Gopal Sehgal, Indira Bansal, Mona, Brahm Bharadwaj, Helen, Pratima Devi, Thakurdas, and new discovery Joginder (as debutant).
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Blog Day : 4368 Post No. : 15700

While covering songs on most days, I do not feel much pressure. The only pressure on me is that the day should not end up as a DOT day. I make sure that at least one writeup appears on the blog every day. Fortunately there has been no DOT days this year. The last DOT day of the blog was in December 2019.

The other “pressure”, apart from that of avoiding DOT day, is to make sure that guest posts are published within a day or so. If there is too much delay in publishing them then it may lead to avoidable misunderstanding. Then there is pressure of publishing articles that are topical (having to do with anniversaries, special days etc) which must be published on the appointed day otherwise they lose their relevance.
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Blog Day : 4142 Post No. : 15306

“Umar Qaid”(1975) was produced by V K Sobti and directed by Sikandar Khanna for Gautam Pictures Bombay. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Reena Roy, Vinod Mehra, Moushumi Chatterjee, Jeetendra(In a dynamic appearance), Asrani, Om Shivpuri, Kader Khan, Krishan Dhawan, Manmohan, Ram Mohan, Master Satyajeet, Sulochana Latkar, V.Gopal, Dinesh Hingoo, Birbal, Dimpy Chauhan, Vandana Shastri, Rajan Kapoor, Ranvir Raj, Raja Duggal etc with special appearances Anju Mahendru, Dev Kumar and Sanjana.
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