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“Sunahre Qadam” (1966) is an obscure movie despite being of relatively recent vintage by the standards of this blog. This movie was a Saraswati Kala Mandir presentation. It was directed by Satish Nigam and its star cast consisted of names like Shashikala, Agha, Sabita Chatterjee, Randhir, Rehman who hardly held any star appeal to attract ordinary movie goers to the movie halls. So it should come as no surprise that the movie failed at the box office.
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Ek do teen dil gayi chheen
Posted on: October 24, 2011
Today India follows the decimal system as far as currency is concerned where 100 paise = 1 rupee. But that was not always the case. The decimal systen was adopted by India in 1957. Before that one rupee was equal to 64 paise, and one anna equalled 4 paise. Thus half a rupee was 8 anna and so on. To differentiate between the paisa of the decimal system from the paisa of earlier days, the decimal system paisa was called “Naya Paisa” (new paisa). After 1964, the prefix naya was dropped, but in day to day life, usage of the term “naya paisa” continued well into 1970s. In fact, the coins itself had the word “naya paisa” or “naye paise” written on them.
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I just stumbled upon this rare song from an unheard of movie called “Saudaamini” (1950). On checking up, this movie is a National Screen production and it was directed by P C Joshi. The movie had Cuckoo, Leela Chitnis, P. Joshi, Sona Chatterji, Bikram Kapoor, Zubeida etc in it.
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This movie is called “Chhupa Rustam” (1965) which could translate to “undercover agent” in English. Now this movie and this song actually are “Chhupa Rustam” in the sense that few people including the authoritative Geet Kosh seem to be aware of this song. For that matter, people are not even aware of the existence of this movie either though movies of the same name which were released in 1970s and 1990s are somewhat better known.
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Ae saamne aane waale bataa
Posted on: October 21, 2011
“Gareebi” (1949) is a movie that was produced by Ranjit Movie company. It was directed by Ramchandra Thakur and the star cast of the movie included names like Geeta Bali, Jairaj, Nirupa Roy, P. Kailash, Usha Kiran, Ramesh Thakur, Jawahar Kaul etc in it.
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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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