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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The third song in “The flavour of the 30s” is from a very rare movie, Miss -1933 (1933) by Ranjit Cinetone. This song is sung by Gauhar Qayoum Mamajiwala, under the music direction of Ustad Jhande Khan. This will be Gauhar’s First song on this Blog.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

This article is the 8700th song post in the blog.

Regular by the calendar now, the century milestones are coming and passing with their fixed regularity. I suppose, this occasion is now taken for granted by the members of the bandwagon, the friend circle and the readers. The curiosity now is not so much, when the century milestone is coming up. Rather the curiosity now is, what is going to be the ‘century’ special that will be served up with the milestone. 🙂
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“Aankhen” (1950) was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Shekhar, Nalini Jaiwant, Bharat Bhushan, Cuckoo, Anwari, Yakub, Yashodhara Katju, Bhudo Advani etc in it.

This movie is of interest to music lovers because it was the debut movie of Madan Mohan as a music director. It is interesting to observe the kind of music that Madan Mohan created in the movie.
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“Murder in Circus” (1971) was produced by B K Adarsh and directed by A Salaam under the banner of Adarshlok. The movie had Sujit Kumar, Jayamala, A. N. Ansari, Bela Bose, B. M. Vyas, Shetty, Sapru, Rajan Haksar, Dilip Dutt, Daisy Irani, Kundan, Baby Poonam, Rajan, Akash etc in it.
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“Raat Aur Din” (1967) was produced by Jaffer Hussain and directed by Satyen Bose for AAN Production, The movie had Nargis, Feroz Khan, Pradeep Kumar, Leela Mishra, Anwar Hussain, Laxmi Chhaya, K.N.Singh, S.N.Bannerjee, Sulochana Chatterjee, Ranjana Kadam, Parasram, Brahm Bhardwaj, Gulam Sabir, Veena Kumari, AbooBaker, Baby Farida, Sulochana Senior(aka Ruby Meyers), Anoop Kumar, Nur Jahan, Harindranath Chattopadhya, Moolchand, Ravikant etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The second song in “the flavour of the 30s” is from film DHARMAVEER-1937, sung by the beautiful Ratnaprabha under the music direction of Anna saheb Mainkar.
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We (or at least I) believe that most Hindi songs are picturised unrealistically and they bear little resemblence to real life situations. However, every now and then we come across songs that are picturised so nicely and realistically that they warm the cockles of our heart.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The Flavour of the 30s-1

Today we start a New Series, titled- ” The Flavour of the 30s”.

The first song in this series is from film BRAMHACHARI-1938. This song is sung by Meenakshi Shirodkar, under the baton of composer Dada Chandekar.
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