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“Hum Log”(1951) was a Ranjit Film Company Production. It was directed by Zia Sarhadi. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Nutan, Cuckoo, Master Ratan,Shyama, Anwar Hussein, Sajjan, Kanhaiyalal, Manmohan Krishna, Durrani, Rashid Khan, Durga Khote etc in it.
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Chanda ke desh mein rehti ek raani
Posted on: March 11, 2012
“Mera Ghar Mere Bachche” (1960) was a Minerva Movietone movie. It was directed by Sohrab Modi. The movie had Sohrab Modi, Subbiraj,Sulochana, Naaz, Balraj, Daisy Irani, Kavita, Nana Palsikar, Sudesh Kumar etc in it.
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Ye kya kiyaa re duniyaa waale
Posted on: March 5, 2012
“Beti” (1969) is a movie which had Sanjay Khan, Nanda, Kamini Kaushal, Kishor Sahu, Rajendra Nath in it. I have not seen this movie but it is my theory that a movie whose title included words like “Beti”, “Bhabhi”, “Bahu” etc tend to be a tales of women who are shown sacrifices just for the sake of it. I do not know whether I am correct in my assesment of this movie that I have made just by looking at the title and the starcast. I request our knowledgeable readers to help confirm/ refute my guess about this movie.
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It is a commonly held view that obscure movies and songs are those that were created long long ago. But that is not always the case. There could be movies and songs that may have ended up as obscure even if they may have been created as late as in 1980 !
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The list of songs that belong to ” How come this song was not discussed earlier ! ” category is quite long. Here is another song of this category.
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Main hoon apni lagan ka maaraa
Posted on: February 24, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Digging for songs by the so called second rung music directors is the same as wading through unheard and lost melodies from films that are now obscure, and even more rare than the songs themselves. One can just imagine – the time that these movies would have been created and released. Whatever the film, the team that creates it always has a motivation for enthusiasm – whether that motivation be money, or fame, or simply the love of the art. The team knows that it does not have the (so called) best of players or directors or writers or composers. And yet, I am sure, as the film is being created, as the songs get written, and as the music gets composed, there would be a keen eagerness in the minds of the team members, that they have a winner this time. The songs, the story line, the music, the acting, all seems very great to the folks who are doing those things. And the release and distribution is planned, posters are printed, and then displayed for generating public interest. The film comes to the cinema hall, some people do surely go and see it. If the star attraction is more, and the hype about the film is great, then a large, very large number of people will go and see it. And at times, the music is so catchy that it becomes the talk of the streets.
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I S Johar was quite a maverick character in Hindi movies. He tended to make fun movies. His movies were inspired by the British series “Carry on..”. The titles of this movies, that took an irreverent view of things, tended to be along the lines of “Johar in …..”.
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Ae dil ye bataa
Posted on: February 14, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today, 14th February is the birth anniversary of Jaan Nissaar Akhtar. The mention of this name brings to mind many memorable and hugely popular songs, that came from the pen of this gifted poet.
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Main raahi bhatakne waala hoon
Posted on: February 14, 2012
“Baadal” (1951) was a Varma Films Production movie. It was directed by Amiya Chakravarty. Starcast of the movie included Premnath, Madhubala, Purnima, Hiralal,Randhir, S Nazir, Agha etc.
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Sab pyaar ki baaten karte hain
Posted on: February 5, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had resolved not to access any Hindi film related websites for few days to enable me to attend to some other pending works which included writing my travel blogs. But the urge to listen to old Hindi film songs was so strong that this resolution was broken in less than 24 hours. It appears that listening to and discovering new ‘gems’ from old Hindi film songs is an addiction for which there is no detoxification therapy. 😀
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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