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Sometimes some producers get so obsessed with a story that they devote a good portion of their career to make a movie on that story. For instance, K Asif had planned “Mughal e Azam” as early as 1940s itself and it took him nearly two decades of time and enormous resources to finally bring his dream project to fruition in 1960 with different lead actors than what was originally planned. Likewise, Kamal Amrohi’s “Pakeezaa” was in the making for a decade or more before it finally got completed and released in 1972. By that time the lead actress and the music director of the movie were no longer around.
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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.

In the early era there was a fair exchange of film themes and music between all the centres of film production like Bombay, Lahore, Calcutta, Madras, Poona and Kolhapur( and Hyderabad and Bangalore at a later time). That is why sometimes Bilingual films were made. Madras was not directly interested in making films in Hindi upto 1948,till Vasan’s CHANDRALEKHA-48 had an All India release with over 700 prints, in those days.
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“Faasle” (1985) was produced and directed by Yash Chopra. This movie had Sunil Dutt, Rekha, Rohan Kapoor, Farha Naaz, Deepti Naval, Faarooque Sheikh, Sushama Seth, Raj Kiran, Javed Khan, Huma Khan, Nikita Shah, Damayanti Puri, Daljeet Kaur, Kanwar Ajeet, Alok Nath, Raj Hans, Shakeel, Rajesh Bhatija etc in it.
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“Rangeen Raaten” (1956) was an Ambitious Pictures Production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Mala Sinha, Chand Usmani, Pesi Patel, Rohit, Bhupendra Kapoor etc in it. Yes, it was one of rare movie where Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali had acted together.
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“Neelkamal” (1947) was directed by Kidar Sharma. He had signed up Raj Kapoor, then working as his third assistant (viz clap boy) as the hero of this movie. When Raj Kapoor enquired which heroine was being signed up opposite him, Kidar Sharma asked him if he had any specific choice. Raj Kapoor named Madhubala who was then signed up for the movie.
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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.

The admirers of both Anil Biswas and Mohammed Rafi are intrigued by the fact that Anil Biswas collaborated with Mohammed Rafi for far less number of songs – probably 10 in numbers. One possible reason could be that when Mohammed Rafi ‘s career as a playback singer was picking up, Anil Biswas’s career had already reached the zenith. During this period, he had Mukesh and Talat Mehmood for playback singing who were preferred over Mohammed Rafi by most of the then lead actors like Dilip Kumar.
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This article is witten by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

78th. . . yes, dear readers and friends. One more century milestone is reached. Congratulations all. 🙂 🙂

Way, way back when we were jumping with joy, on 13th November, 2011 – this blog had reached the magic number of 5000 songs. I am sure many had it in their minds to think about the 10,000th song. But it was only Lalitha ji who put it in words “. . . here’s wishing to many more such delights on our way to the 10,000th song!”.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

A little over three weeks ago, Kamal Barot’s first non film song was posted on these pages –“Ye Haseen Taare Teri Yaad Dilaa Dete Hain”. The post was followed with comments from readers, with requests for other non film songs from the same singer. The song in this post was specifically requested, as it had been by AK ji, in his earlier communications.
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