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In Hindi movies, we have songs for all occasions that touch the lives of Indians. Thus we have songs for various human feelings like joys, sorrows, love, hate etc. Then there are songs for various Indian festivals. We also have songs for special occasions like birthdays, weddings etc.
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Dil tod diyaa haay dil tod diyaa
Posted on: January 25, 2012
After doing some hectic journey for over 60 hours during the last few days, I am back to non journey mode, at least for the time being. Hopefully I will be able to make up some ground in the next few days.
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“Anokhi Ada” (1948) was a Mehboob Production movie. It was directed by Mehboob himself and the star cast of the movie included names like Prem Adeeb, Surendra, Naseem Bano, Pratima Devi, Zeb Qureshi, Cuckoo, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Murad,etc.
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Nashaad, not to be confused with Naushad, was born as Shaukat Ali. He began his career as a music director in Hindi movies in 1947. In his earlier movies, he was variously known as Shaukat Ali, Shaukat Dehalvi, Shaukat Hussain, Shaukat Haidari, Shaukat Hussain Haidari etc. It was in 1953 that film director cum lyricist Nakshab Jarachavi coined the name Nashad for him. The name brought him luck. In fact this name was adopted by his family members as their surname the way the desendents of music director Roshan adopted the name Roshan (first name of Roshanlal Nagrath) as their surname.
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“Ham Bhi Insaan Hain” (1959) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was produced by V A K Productions. R Majumdar was the director. The sar cast included names like Abhi Bhattacharya, Lata Sinha, Anil Kumar, Kumar, Dhumal,Chaman Puri, Samar Roy, Lalita Kumari etc. Most names in the cast ring no bells. In other words, this movie was a B grade movie.
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Koi kisi se dil na lagaana
Posted on: December 6, 2011
“Nishaana” (1950) was an M & T Production. It was directed by Wajahat Mirza Changezi. The starcast of the film included names like Ashok Kumar, Geeta Bali, Cuckoo, Madhubala, Shyama, Yakub, Nawab, Kanhaiyalal, Balam, Shanti Madhok, Durga Khote etc.
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In my series of songs composed by Sajjad Hussain, I have been discussing the as yet undiscussed Sajjad Hussain songs from “Khel” (1950) these days. This movie had nine songs in it,and I have discussed as many as seven of them in the past.
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Movies called “Taqdeer” have been produced from time to time. I have discussed three songs from “Taqdeer”(1967). Now I find that movies of these titles were produced in 1958 as well as in 1943.
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Jiya mora doley
Posted on: November 11, 2011
“Namoona” (1949) was an M & T productions movie. It was directed by Hira Singh. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Dev Anand, Kamini Kaushal, Pratima Devi, Cuckoo, Leela Chitnis, Gulab, Madan Puri, Hira Singh, Shyama, Shanti Madhok etc in it.
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“Khel” (1950) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a Shaheen Pictures production and it was directed by S M Nawab. The movie had Dev Anand,Nigar Sultana, Nargis, Hafiz Jehan, , Anwar, Neelam , Murad etc as far as one can tell.
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