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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6251 Post No. : 19334

Now let’s move away from the Kamsune/Ansune songs of Asha Bhosle and welcome a crazy as song.

Dhadkan 1972 is directed by Devendra Goel and stars The movie stars Sanjay Khan, Mumtaz, Rajendra Nath, Helen, Bindu, Roopesh Kumar, etc in pivotal roles.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6188 Post No. : 19113

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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(Celebrating Pancham’s 86th Birth Anniversary 27.06.2025 – 4)
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Music Director Rahul Dev Burman started his musical journey with the movie ‘Chhote Nawaab-1961’. In this post we will look at the statistics of Pancham movies released during the decade of Sixties viz the decade of 1961 to 1970.

Here is the list of movies and the status of their songs in the blog for movies released in the decade of 1960s with R D Burman as the music director :-
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This article is the 19100th song post in the blog.

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6184 Post No. : 19100

Regulars of the blog must have noticed unusually high number of posts appearing in the blog off late. It appears as if the blog had arrived at the 19000 post mark just a few days ago. It turns out that we have left that milestone behind and we are onto the next century milestone now, viz song post number 19100 !
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6072 Post No. : 18860

Today’s song is from the stunt film Babooji-1950.

The film was directed by master Bhagwan, the Lyricist was Ehsan Rizvi and the music was provided by P. Ramakant. The cast of the film included Bhagwan, Leela Gupte, Baburao pehalwan, Vasantrao pehalwan, Usha Shukla, Azeem, Mirajkar, Vithalrao and few others.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6003 Post No. : 18707

#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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Today 24th December 2024 is the One hundredth birth anniversary of the legendary singer – ‘divine voice’ – Mohd Rafi. He was born on 24th December 1924 and he passed away on 31st July 1980. Today’s day is another important day for us music lovers all over the world. This day marks the ‘centenary birth celebrations’ for this great singer.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5927 Post No. : 18543

Today’s song (in two parts) is from the ‘C’ grade costume film – Al Hilal-1958 aka Judgement of Allah.

My first encounter with the film Al Hilal was when I read that this was the first film in 1935, which was directed by Mehboob Khan. This film had an interesting history too. Mehboob Khan started his acting career with the Imperial Film Company, as an extra. Ardeshir irani was impressed with this young man’s earnestness in work and thought of making a hero in one of his Silent films. At the last minute E. Billimoria was taken as that film’s Hero and Mehboob Khan lost his first chance. When Irani thought of making a Talkie film Alam Ara, he again decided to make Mehboob as its Hero. His costumes were also stitched with his measurements and Mehboob Khan was excited. However, as advised by some experts,an existing popular Hero Master Vithal was taken as its hero and Mehboob lost his second chance. Third time it was decided to make him the hero opposite Sabita Devi for the film Shehar ka Jaadu, but luck played a ball again and a New entrant Motilal was given that role.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5915 Post No. : 18521

Today’s song is from the film Albeli-1945.

There were two more films with the same title, in 1955 and 1974. Its male variety-Albela- was made 4 times, in 1951, 1871, 1990 1nd 2001. This film was made by Talwar productions, Calcutta. The Music Director was G.A. Chishti. A very interesting observation is that after Partition, 80 % of the Muslim MDs who migrated to Pakistan were ordinary composers in India, giving music only to B and C grade films here. However, in Pakistan all these MDs became A grade MDs, became famous and had many films on their hands. All of them prospered.

There was ,however, one exception and that was Ghulam Haider. He was an A grade MD in India, but failed miserably in Pakistan. Does this speak volumes of the quality of Pakistan film music in any way ? A point to note was that after the crop of migrated MDs retired, the Pak musical industry was in doldrums, because there was no second line to take over – unlike in India !
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5806 Post No. : 18340

‘Ek Phool Ek Bhool’ (1968) was produced by Rajhans and directed by Kedar Kapoor for Kalyug Productions, Bombay. The movie had Dev Kumar, Jayanti (South Indian actress), Sudhir, Zeb Rehman, Madan Puri, KN Singh, Helen, Sunder, Dulari, Chaman Puri, Praveen Paul, Kumud Tripathi, Ram Mohan, Shekhar Purohit, Prakash Misra, Rajkumar, Ravikant, Sheela R, Baby Farida, Khursheed, Phool, Ratna, Narbada Shankar, Master Shahid, Master Anwar, Master Vijay etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

This article is his 1300th post in the blog as a guest poster.

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5682 Post No. : 18198

Today’s song is a duet by Rafi and Chitalkar from the social comedy film Hangama-1952.

This is my 1300th post on this Blog. Is it for real ? It is too difficult for me to accept that I have written 1300 posts on old film songs. How did it happen ? If someone had predicted, when I was 71 year old, that I would write a New Chapter in my life and achieve few Milestones, that my name will be known to many people all over India and other countries, and that I will even write a couple of books…. and all this on old films and its music, I would have laughed aloud for a long time ! But it did happen !!
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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5629 Post No. : 18118

Today’s song is from the film Zindagi-1956. Films with the same title were made in 1940, 47, 56, 64, 77 and 2001. The word Zindagi was in 10 film titles till 2011.
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