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“Sunayna” (1979) was a Rajshri Productions movie which was inspired from Charlie Chaplin’s movie The citylights(1931). Charlie Chaplin’s movie was a silent movie even though the era of talkies has begun. Hindi movies cannot be silent by any stretch of imagination. And this movie had some lovely songs in it,including Naseeruddin Shah (playing Charlie Chaplin’s role) singing a romantic song(Sunayna sunayna..aaj in nazaaron ko tum dekho) for his lady love.
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Ab wo raaten kahaan
Posted on: August 16, 2012
“Yasmin” (1955) was a Musical Pictures Production. It was directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suresh, Vyjyantimala, Jayant, Shyam Kumar, S. N. Banerjee, Maruti, Rashid Khan etc in it.
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“Shabaab” (1954) was a Sadiq Productions movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nutan, Shyam Asant Kumar, Wasti, Badri Prasad, Yashodra Katju etc in it.
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“Nav Durga” (1953) was a Basant Pictures Production. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. This mythological movie had Mahipal, Usha Kiran, Dalpat, Sulochana Chatterji, Raja Sandow, Maruti, S. N. Tripathi, Amarnath etc in it.
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Chanda re mere bhaiyyaa se kehna
Posted on: August 2, 2012
“Chambal Ki Kasam” (1980) was a M P D Production movie. It was produced by V L Muralidhar and directed by Ram Maheshwari. The movie had Raj Kumar, Moushumi Chatterjee, Nirupa Roy, Farida jalal, Usha Kiran, Shatrughna Sinha, Ranjeet, Pradeep Kumar, Paintal, Amjad Khan, Jagdish Raj, Nazir Hussain, Uma Khosla, Bhagwan Dada, Ramayan Tiwari etc in it.
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Kaise kategi zindagi tere bagair
Posted on: July 31, 2012
“Jahaan Tum Wahaan Ham” (1968) was a movie that was started with Raj Kumar, Feroz Khan and Mumtaz in lead roles. But the movie was shelved due to financial difficulties. By that time a few songs of this movie had already been recorded, but their records were not released at that time.
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Dukhiyaare naina dhoondhen piyaa ko
Posted on: June 25, 2012
Today (25 june) is the birth anniversary of Madan Mohan. We in this blog already have discussed as many as 278 Madan Mohan compositions, which work out to about one third of all Madan Mohan compositions in Hindi movies. Today gives us a reason to add up a few more songs to this tally.
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Tum na aaye sanam shamma jalti rahi
Posted on: June 14, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Tum na aaye sanam shamma jalti rahi” is one of those rare gems which involves all B-grade names apart from the peerless Lata Mangeshkar herself.
It is her sublime rendering of this number on a lesser light of that period, namely, Vijaya Chowdhary, with B-grade Bollywood hero Ranjan sometimes in the frame.
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“Taara” (1949) is an extremely obscure movie by now. This movie was a New Bombay Theatre Production. It was directed by R D Pareenja. The movie had Shyama, Jawahar Kaul, Kuldip, Majnu, Nayantara, Chand Burque etc in it.
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