Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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It is human nature that many of us blame others for our plights. But Hindi movie characters often go one step further. They hold the Almighty responsible for the situation that they find themselves in. Such characters would then sing a song in which they remonstrate with the Almighty.
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Today (6 november) is the 27th death anniversary of Sanjeev Kumar. When most of his contemporary actors were content to get typedcast in certain kinds of roles and would spend their entire career playing the same kinds of role, Sanjeev Kumar would play just about any kind of character that he was offered. While signing up movies, he did not worry about the impact of that role on his star value. To worry about one’s stardom was for lesser actors, not for Sanjeev Kumar , who could play roles that most heroes would summarily reject. Sanjeev Kumar played roles of deaf and dumb (Koshish), pimp (Manoranjan), Old man (in several movies), mad (Khilona) etc. His star value remained undiminished, no matter what kind of roles he played in his movies.
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We in this blog have discussed lots and lots of songs picturised on Shammi Kapoor. I eagerly look forward to the day when all available songs picturised on Shammi Kapoor will be available in this blog. I have not counted such songs, but I am sure we may already have at least half of all such songs in the blog.
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“Ek Phool Do Maali” (1969) was a Goel Cine Corporation Movie. It was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Sanjay Khan, Sadhna, Balraj Sahni, Bobby, Manorama, Shyam Kumar, Brahmachari, Brahm Bharadwaj, Praveen Paul, Abu Baker, David Abraham, Durga Khote, Shabnam etc in it.
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“Ghar” (1978) was based on a sensational news published in 1970s which made headlines all over India and even the PM of the country took note of it. But a few years later, the news reporter of this news item revealed that the headline was a figment of his imagination and nothing like this had happened.
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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.

After listening to some of the evergreen non-filmy songs during the last few days, I have come to the conclusion that non-filmy songs have their own style of compositions with tunes and melody getting primacy over orchestration. The musical instruments used in such songs are minimum. Most of these songs give a feel of devotional songs in one way or the other. In romantic songs, there is the devotion towards lovers/beloved. The patriotic songs are devotion to the country. Of course, the bigger canvass of the devotional songs (bhajans) is the spiritualism and devotion to the Almighty. In the 60s, ghazals and bhajans formed a bulk of the non-filmy songs.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s Mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Thanks to cyclone ‘Nilam’ whole of Tamil Nadu, parts of Andhra & many parts of Karnataka are having rains for the past few days. And Bangalore has gone cold. So we are experiencing fantastic romantic (in my husband’s words) climate. Baarish bhi sardi bhi!!! Ab in such a situation I read this post by Atul and thought wow! He has posted “Rama Rama“from “Naya Zamaana” so we can have one more “rain” song. Then I saw that we have a song from “Dus Lakh” soon thereafter so I thought we really need another romantic song to celebrate the weather. So here it is from “Maan Gaye Ustaad” starring Shashi kapoor Hema Malini Pran & wonder of wonders Amjad Khan playing Hema’s long lost brother. Imagine this relationship if you remember “Sholay” & “Jab Tak Hai Jaan” (mind it I am here talking of the Sholay song not Yash Chopra’s next movie’s title, God let him rest in peace).
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Today (1 november) is the death anniversary of lyricist Tanvir Naqvi (6 february 1919 – 1 november 1972). Born as Syed Khursheed Ali in Lahore,,Tanvir Naqvi namy not be as well as some well known lyricists, but he has penned some well known songs in Hindi movies. He migrated to Pakistan in 1950s and died in Lahore on this date 40 years ago.
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