Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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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.

Today’s song is a fun song from Sanam-51, a film in which Dev Anand and Suraiya were the lead pair and the music was by Husnlal Bhagatram.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular conributor to this blog.

If you go through the list of films made from 1931 to 1970, you will find that it was a mixture of the following Genres-

1. Fantasy/Costume

2. Religious/Mytological/Devotional

3. Social/Love/Tragedy/Comedy/Family Drama

4. Historical

5. Action

6. Mystery and

7. Musicals
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“Aaj aur Kal” (1963) was produced and directed by Vasant Joglekar under the banner of Panchdeep Chitra. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Tanuja, Nanda, Agha, Sudesh Kumar, Dhumal, Rohit, Deven Verma, Kusum Deshpande, Lalbahadur, Ravikannt, Rajkumar, Shah, Abdul, Nawab, Uma Khosla etc in it.
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Today (29 april 2013) is the 14th death anniversary of Kidar Sharma (12 april 1910- 29 april 1999). He was involved in Hindi movies in various capacities, viz Producer, Director, Script/ Screenplay writer, lyricist, actor etc. He is also known as one who gave beaks to several artists who later went on to become big names in Hindi movies. Raj Kapoor, Madhubala, Geeta Bali, Bharat Bhushan, Hansraj Bahl, Snehal Bhatkar, Roshan, Mala Sinha, Tanuja are a few such names who owe their debuts in Hindi movies to Kidar Sharma.
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I have recently become aware of a movie called “Nishaan” (1949). This movie was a Gemini Combines Production. It was directed by S S Vasan. The movie had P Bhanumati, Nagendra Rao, J. S. Casshyap, Maya Banerji, B. Kalla, Ranjan, Narayan Rao etc in it. Judging the movie by its songs, this movie appears to be a great fun movie. I wonder why this movie is not all that well known.
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“Shabaab” (1954) was a musical extravaganza and some people in fact regard it as Naushad’s greatest music for a movie, which is high praise indeed.

The movie had fifteen songs in all. Fourteen of them have been discussed in the blog so far.
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