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“Bahu Beti” (1965) was a movie produced by Shatrujit films and directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie was on a progressive theme, viz widow re marriage. The movie had actors like Ashok Kumar, Mala Sinha, Joy Mukherjee, Ashish Kumar, Mumtaz, Achla Sachdev, Mukri, Dhumal, Mehmood etc in it.
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“Namaste Jee” (1965) is a D M Movies production. It was directed by Daljit Krishnan. Star cast of the movie included names like Mehmood, Ameeta,Helen, Ajit, I. S. Johar, Nalini Chonker, Ullhas, Manorama etc. in it.
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“Tamanna” (1969) is a movie which was a K S Pictures presentation. It was directed by K P Atma. The movie had the ageing pair of Vishwajeet and Mala Sinha in the lead. Other actors in this by now obscure movie were Shashikala, Agha, Nazima, Deven Verma, Nazir Hussain, Sulochana, Sajjan, Achla Sachdev, Asit Sen, Krishan Dhawan etc.
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When I take a look at the list of movies whose songs have figured in this blog, I find that just over 1800 movies are represented in the blog. Most of these movies date from 1930s upto 1980s, during which time about 5600 Hindi movies got censors certificate. So roughly speaking about one third of all released movies till 1980s are represented in this blog.
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“Saanjh Aur Sawera” (1964) is a S J Films presentation. It was produced by Sevanti Lal Shah and the movie was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The sar cast included Meena Kumari, Gurudutt, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Manmohan krishna, Ruby Paul (aka Praveen paul), Padmadevi,Preethi Bala(aka Zeb Rehman),Jagdev,Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Kanu Roy, Rashid Khan etc.
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Different people may have different ways of judging movies. I read an old joke in this connection some three decades ago. A Pathan from Afghanistan came to India and looked at a poster of a movie . He was very impressed with the title of the poster and he went to watch that movie. after THE END, he came out very frustrated and disappointed. He was asked the reason for his disappointment. “The poster promised that the movie had Chiraag Khan and Roshni Khan in it. I watched the entire movie , but I could not find either of the Khans in this movie.” The Pathan explained.
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“Taqdeer” (1967) is a Rajshree Productions movie. It was directed by A Salaam. The movie had Shalini, Kamal Kapoor, Farida Jalal, Kajal, Sushil, Jalal Agha, Ajay, Dinesh, Dilip Dutt, Champakala, Subhash Ghai, Bharat Bhushan etc in this movie.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Guru Nanak Dev ji de prakash utsav diyan saareyan nu lakh-lakh wadhaiyan hon ji!!!

A million greetings and best wishes on the occasion of the anniversary of the advent of Shri Guru Nanak Dev ji.

Today is the most significant celebration in the Sikh tradition, the day of arrival of Shri Guru Nanak Dev ji on this earth, in the year 1469. The actual calendar dates vary, because the manner in which the common use calendars have been transformed over the centuries. However, the celebration now occurs on the full moon day of the month of Kartik, which is today. Honored as the first Guru in the lineage of ten Gurus of Sikhism, he was born in the village of Talwandi, now known as Nankana Sahib, is near Lahore in present-day Pakistan.
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