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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The song under discussion today is from the funny film, “Main shadi karne Chala”-62, sung by manna Dey and Mohammad Rafi.
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In Hindi movies there have been songs picturised on several means of transportation, viz horse, bullock carts, tonga, chariots, cars, jeeps, trucks, boats, aircrafts etc. There have been songs picturised on less common methods of transportation too, viz. camels, elephants etc as well.
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“Mela” (1971) was produced by A A Nadiadwala and directed by Prakash Mehra. The movie had Feroz Khan, Mumtaz, Sanjay Khan, Rajendra Nath, Randhir, Lalita Pawar, Master Sachin, Master Ratan, Ram Mohan, Nikita, Mumtaz Begum, Dulari, Kanan Kaushal, Brahm Bhardwaj, Raj Kishore, Bhushan Tiwari, Yunus Parvez etc in it.
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People intersted in old Hindi movie music often come across names that may confuse people. For instance, there are people who confuse between Naushad and Nashaad. Then there are people (including some who are regarded as knowledgeable by others as well as by themselves) who think that Ghulam Haider and Ghulam Mohammad are one and the same ! A few years back, I was listening to an audiocast (I think the actual tem used in different) of a programme on old songs. The presenter presented a song from “Shaheed, viz. Watan ki raah mein watan ke naujawaan shaheed ho (Shaheed) . After the song, the presenter informed the listeners that the music of this song was compose by Ghulma Haider, and that music lovers are awrae of this music director for his compositions in “Paakeeza” (1972). After listening to this sentence, I lost all respect for the knowledge of the presenter about old Hindi movies.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular conributor to this blog.

If you go through the list of films made from 1931 to 1970, you will find that it was a mixture of the following Genres-

1. Fantasy/Costume

2. Religious/Mytological/Devotional

3. Social/Love/Tragedy/Comedy/Family Drama

4. Historical

5. Action

6. Mystery and

7. Musicals
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Since ‘chaudhvin ka chaand ho ya aaftaab ho’ from the film ‘ Chaudhvin ka chaand ‘, no one had really attempted to recreate the magic of it. The reason is obvious that it is a tough act to follow. The beauty of that song in black n white is not comparable to anything.
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“Lambe Haath” (1960) was a D M Movies production. It was produced by Daljeet Krishna and directed by Krishna Malik. The movie had Mehmood, Naaz, Daisy Irani, Jagdish Sethi, Nazi, Mridula, Baij Sharma, Brahma Bhardwaj, Rajan Haksar, Fazal, Deepak Kumar, Shakuntala Devi, Moolraj, Babulal, Rafeeq, Shyam Sunder, Mirza, Ketaki Bai, Raj Dutt, Cheenu etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

‘Isi ka naam duniya hai’ (1962) is a film starring Ashok Kumar, Shyama, Mehmood & Sahira etc. A few songs of this movie that I have found on youtube are all picturised on Mehmood and Sahira. Only one song from this film is posted in the blog. For the second song from this movie, I had a choice among three Mehmood songs that I have seen. With careful consideration, I decided on this party song, which is also a piano song.
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Normally it is believed that O P Nayyar composed music for only two Shammi Kapoor movies, viz. “Tumsa Nahin Dekha” (1957) and “Kashmir Ki Kali”(1964). But that is not correct. O P Nayyar also composed the music of “Mujrim” (1958). This was an Eagle Films Production. It was produced by F C Mehra and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Ragini, Shubha Khote, Kamal Kapoor, S. N. Banerjee, Tun Tun, Mumtaz Begum, Amrit Rana, Abdul, Agha Miraz, Ratan Gaurang, Sood, Johnny Walker, Geeta Bali, Murad, Ramesh Thakur, Padmini etc in it.
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