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“Shokhiyaan” (1951) is a by now obscure movie. this movie was produced by Ambitious pictures and directed by Kidar Sharma. Cast of the movie included names like Nazira, Shanta Kanwar, Premnath, Suraiya, Jeewan, Kamlesh, Achla Sachdev, Rajendra Vyas, Ramesh Sinha etc.
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Jo dil hi todnaa thhaa
Posted on: October 19, 2011
“Sartaj” (1950) was an Omar Khayyam Productions movie. this movie was directed by S Khalil. Cast of the movie had names like Motilal, Munawwar Sultana, Cuckoo, Manorama, Ansari, Mirza Musharaf, Shyama, Rattan Bai etc.
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“Aurat Teri Yehi Kahaani” (1954) was Ranjit Movietone (assembly line) production, which was directed by their long term director Charurbhuj Doshi. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nirupa Roy, Sulochana, Chandrashekhar etc in it.
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“Nirmal” (1952) is a movie that I knew nothing about. This obscure movie was produded by Shankar Theatre and directed by S Upendra. the star cast of the movie included Amarnath, Shanta Kanwar, Purnima, Shyam Kumar, Mirza Musharaf, Habib, Cuckoo etc.
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Aankh bhar aayi dil bhar aayaa
Posted on: October 18, 2011
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is one of the movies whose songs defined the course that Hindi movie music would take in the decades to come. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie already, including songs that have become far too rare to find.
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I found that both I as well as Sudhir jee came up with articles for this song ! I have combined both the articles in this write up. The first half (discussing Ashok Kumar’s career), is written by me. The second half, discussing this song is by Sudhir jee
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Atul’s write up
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A few days ago (13th october to be precise), we discussed Kishore Kumar’s songs on the occasion of his death anniversary. It was mentioned in passing in one of the articles that 13th october also happened to be the birthday of Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar’s elder brother. As a result of this death of his kid brother on his birthday, Ashok Kumar would no longer celebrate his birthday.
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Aaja kahin door chalen
Posted on: October 16, 2011
There are various ways by which I come to know about songs that I am not aware of. One of these ways is through the farmaishes of songs by readers. Seeing the backlog of pending farmaishes, it is obvious how much knowledge I have gained about songs that I knew nothing about. 🙂
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Ae phool khushi mein jhoom
Posted on: October 15, 2011
“Aabroo” (1956) was an Uma Chitra Production and it was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Kamini Kaushal, Kishore Kumar, Madan Puri, Achla Sachdev, Smriti Biswas etc in it.
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