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In Hindi movies, there are songs for all occasions including songs meant to assuage the hurt feelings of the beloved. Now, how can one go about assuaging the hurt felings of one’s beloved ? The common and gentlemanly method is to say sorry. But then Hindi movie heroes (like Government employees) 🙂 can never see the errors of their ways and cannot say sorry. Even when they say sorry then do not mean it. In a railway station, one listens to the announcement saying ” The train is running late. We are sorry for the inconvenience”. The announcer hardly sounds sorry while making this announcement.
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when one listens to O P Nayyar’s music, one often may find his music sounding same. But when one frees one’s mind of such pre conceived notions (viz. different compositions of a music composer needs to sound different from each other), one can enjoy music the best. And in case of O P Nayyar’s music, one should listen to the music and enjoy the indescribable quality of enjoyment that these compositions bring. This quality cannot be taught/ learnt/passed on to future generations. It was a quality that went into oblivion with O P Nayyar. And we need to savour the legacy that O P Nayyar has left behind.
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“Haqdaar” (1964) was an archtypically B grade movie where utilisation of resources was kept to the bare minimum, with the result that the names of most artists involved in this movie are unfamiliar. The movie was a production of Shree Ganesh Films. it was directed by P S Wagle and the “stars” of this movie were Ranjan, Ratnamala,Nasreen etc, which I am sure were household names those days- in the households of these artists. 🙂
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“Dil Tera Deewaana” (1962) was a Padmini Pictures production. It was directed by B Ramkrishna Pantulu. The satr cast included Shammi Kapoor, Mala Sinha, Mehmood,Shubha Khote,Pran, Om Prakash, Ulhas, Mohan Choti, Mumtaz Begam, Kammo, Manmohan Krishna etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Continuing the search for the qawwaali form of music in Hindi films, I come across two wonderful qawwaalis from the film Bahu Begum (1967). I present the first one in this write up.
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“Swarg Narak” (1978) was produced by Vijaya Productions and directed by Dasari Narayan Rao. This movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra,Tanuja,Vinod Mehra,Mausami Chatterji,Shabana Azmi,Jagdeep, Om Shivpuri,Komila Wirk,Raj Mehra, Shammi, Vikram Gokhale, Birbal etc.
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“Husn Ka Chor” (1953) is a quintessential B grade movie which was a Basant Pictures presentation. It was directed by J B H Wadia. The movie had Lalita Kumari, Mahipal, Arti, Usha Kiran, Babu Raje, Jiji Goldstein, Sharda, B. M. Vyas, Dalpat, Sardar Mansoor, Raja Sandow, Mithu Miya etc. in it.
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