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

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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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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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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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“Gehra Daag” (1963) was a Ralhan Productions movie. It was produced and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Mala Sinha, Ratnamala, Usha Kiran, Madan Puri, Mumtaz, Tuntun, Lalita Pawar, Ragini, Bupet Raja, Moppet Shahid, Manmohan Krishna, Bihari, Ram Mohan, Sunder etc in it.
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“Jahaan Pyaar Miley” (1969) was an L R T Productions movie, where L R T stood for Lekh Raj Tandon, who produced as well as directed this movie. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Helen, Badri Prasad, Zeb Rehman, Iftekhar, Naaz, Anjali Kadam, Nazir Hussain, Nadira, Kamal Kapoor, Jeevan, Sulochana, Narendranath, Pinchoo Kapoor etc in it.
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“Reporter Raju”(1962) was a Wadia Brothers Productions/ Basant Pictures production movie. It was produced by Homi Wadia and directed by Dwarka Khosla. The movie had Feroze Khan, Chitra, Jeevankala, Indira, Baby Vidya Rani, Manorama, Ratnamala,
Sulochana Chatterjee, Shah Agha, Sunder, Majnoo, Shakeel Noomani, Raj Adeeb, Mintobai, Gani, Mohammed Ali, Geeta, Paro, Julian, B.M.Vyas, Anthny, Bismilla, Mithoo miyaa etc in it.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

With Kundan Lal Saigal towering above every other male singing star and singer of his era, it was inevitable that many a new-comer tried to sing in the Saigal idiom in the 1940s. Mukesh got noticed sounding like Saigal in Dil jalta hai to jalne de in Pehli Nazar (1945); the self-confessed Saigal devotee Kishore Kumar sang Marne ki duaayen kyun maangoon in Ziddi (1948) and Jagmag-jagmag karta nikla chaand poonam ka pyaara in Ziddi (1949) in the Saigal style; C. H. Atma always sounded like Saigal.
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