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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my native place in Mangalore district (and perhaps other places in India specially in villages), it was a tradition in almost every house that all family members would assemble in the Pooja Room soon after the dusk for singing some devotional songs. In a joint family system, this tradition also worked as a means of creating bonding among large family members. After shifting to Mumbai in early 50s, with a nuclear family and a city culture, this tradition slowly got discontinued. But my mother would sing at least a couple of devotional songs every day after dusk while doing her kitchen chores. One of the devotional songs which I had often heard in my childhood was in the Konkani language, my mother tongue. I was very much impressed by the lyrics and the tune of the song.
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The last few days have seen not one but two artists of the golden era departing from our midst. Music director Ravi left us one day before Holi and Joy Mujherji one day after holi. We, who in this blog discuss the songs of the golden era on a daily basis, are so familiar with the artists involved in these songs that they feel like close acquaintances. So any living artist breathing his/her last comes as a shock to us, even when it is well known that death is inevitable for everyone.
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“Deedaar” (1951) was a Filmkaar Production. It was directed by Nitin Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nimmi, Nargis, Dilip Kumar, Yakub, Tabassum etc in it.
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Mera bichhdaa yaar milaa de
Posted on: February 18, 2012
“Sohni Mahiwal” (1958) was a Chaudhary Arts Production movie and it was directed by Raja Nawathe. Starcast of the movie included names like Bharat Bhushan, Nimmi, Kumar, Achla Sachdev, Mukri, Lotan, Chand Burque, Om Prakash etc.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the golden era of 1950s and 60s of the Hindi film songs, Lata Mangeshkar had sung quite a large number of songs composed by almost all the renowned music directors ( of course with the exception of O P Nayyar) of that time. Many of her songs of that era are still popular. However, there were some songs she sang under the batons of C Ramchandra and Madan Mohan which were, in my view, a class by themselves. Unfortunately, some of these classy songs were from films which flopped miserably and soon they went into oblivion. With them songs from such films were almost ‘buried’ under the ‘debris’ of the new songs over a period of time like that of Harppan and Mohenjodaro civilisation.
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This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Since Jan 31st, 2012 is the 7th death anniversary of Suraiya (Suraiya Jamal Sheikh), here is a song to remember a beautiful actress.
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The song under discussion is a classic example of a song that I thought had already been discussed in the blog long time ago, but I was wrong. This is a song whose lyrics are well known to all, including me, and this song is quite well known to all, even if there may be people like me who are vague about the details of this song.
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Yaad aayi hai bekasi chhaayi hai
Posted on: January 20, 2012
“Nageena”(1951) was a Pancholi Productions movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. Starcast of the movie included names like Nasir Khan, Nutan, Gope, Hiralal, Mohana, Goldstein, Shamlal, Bipin Gupta etc.
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“Aabsaar” (1953) is not a movie too many people have heard of. Hardly any information is available about this movie on internet. So it is obvious that this movie may have been a commercial failure at the box office.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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