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“Qawwali Ki Raat” (1964) is a Durgesh Productions movie. It was directed by Durgesh Kumar and Santosh. This movie, which was clearly inspired from “Barsaat Ki Raat” has some lovely songs in it, which are great to listen to, even though the movie itself was a B grade movie with only small time actors in it, viz. Aruna Irani, Kamaljeet, Kumkum, Mumtaz, Deven Verma, Mohan Choti, Jagdeep, Murad etc in it.
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When I look at the lyrics of this song, I feel that I have come across the lyrics of this song, and perhaps this song was among one of the guest posts by Sudhir jee. But when I check up with the list of songs that have been posted, I am unable to find this song. So perhaps this is a different song, though with lyrics that sound quite familiar, especially the line“yeh kaun aaya hai aanchal udaata”.
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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.

“Generations to come will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”

This is the statement written by a German-born theoretical physicist and a 1921 Nobel prize winner in the field of Physics, Mr. Albert Einstein on the occasion of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s 70th birthday in 1939. So truly said by the finest scientist that the world has “produced” for the finest Leader that once walked on this “Earth”. On January 30th, 2012 let’s remember this great soul, “Mahatma” who taught the world that you can always conquer bad with good, & violence with non-violence.
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In was just recently that I discovered the fact that the songs of “Neela Aakaash” (1965) were not discussed in the blog. After that, two songs have been covered in the blog. The remaining songs of the movie are also required to be discussed.
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Just now I came across a fantastic duet song from the era gone by. What a delightful song ! A song like this can magically transport the listeners back in time to those days, even if those days happened to be days before many of us were even born.
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Today (28th january) is the birth anniversary of Suman Kalyanpur. On this occasion, here is the title song of “Dil Ek Mandir” (1963). The song is a duet which is sung by Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur and it is picturised as the movie ending song as we see people mourning the death of Rajendra Kumar in the picturisation and the movie comes to an end. This song is the title song of the movie as well.
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“Sabzbaagh” (1951) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a Nirmal Pictures presentation and it was directed by Aziz Kashmiri. Starcast of the movie included names like Shekhar, Nimmi, Cuckoo, Pran, Khanjar, Chand Burque, Rashid Khan, Om Prakash, Suraiya Choudhary, Kamal Kapoor, Majnu etc.
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“Qaidi” (1957) is an Eagle Films production. It was directed by Mohammed Hussain and the star cast included names like Padmini, Suresh, Agha, Anwar, Kumar, Kamal, Helen, Johnny Walker, Ragini etc.

This by now forgotten movie has songs that have also become forgotten with time. But the songs are nice to listen to.
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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.

Here is a song on the occasion of 63rd Indian Republic Day on behalf of all NRIs. Even though we live outside “Bharat”, our heart and soul always remains in India.
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