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

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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Searching for and finding rarities in the world of music, is a keen and interesting pursuit. The Hindi film songs have so many variants attached to their existence. Songs that appear in film, but are not released elsewhere. Songs that are on records but not included in the film. Version songs – the official song in the film and on the record, is also available on record in the voice of a different singer. This case is different from the same song sung by more than one singer and included in the film. Then we have the variations between the song published on record and the song as picturized in the film.
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“Jhumroo” (1961) was a K S Films Production movie and it was directed by Shankar Mukherji. In reality, it was Kishore Kumar’s home production though he produced his movies by ,making his secretary pose as the producer of his movies.
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Prima Facie, it would appear that most Shammi Kapoor style movies starring Shammi Kapoor had music by Shankar Jaikishan. But that is not really the case. There have been several music directors compositing music for Shammi Kapoor’s movies beginning from “Tumsa Nahin Dekha” (1957) when Shammi Kapoor finally came into his own.
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This musical bandwagon continues to roll on unabated (touchwood !) and we continue to pass milestones at regular intervals.

Century of songs is the most basic and common kind of milestone for this song. In the earlier days of the blog, we just counted the number of songs posted in the day and every 100th song was a cause for celebration.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

This is the story of a diva who, despite being in the midst of very adverse family circumstances in her formative years and facing the conservative society, created a niche for herself in the field of classical and ghazal singing. It is also the story of a woman who, despite fame and adulation showered on her by millions of fans, felt lonely all through her life.
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On independence day, we had the birthday of Rakhi. Three days later, it is the birthday of her husband. Sampooran Singh Kalra, known just as Gulzar, was born on 18 august 1936. Gulzar started his career as a lyricist in Hindi movies in early 1960s. He had written songs for “Shrimaan Satyawaadi” (1960),”Kabuliwaala”(1961),”Bandini”(1963),”Do Dooni Chaar” (1969) etc in his earlier years.
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“Bombay To Goa” (1972) was a Mehmood Productions movie. It was produced by N C Sippy and directed by S Ramnathan. The movie had Amitabh Bachchan, Aruna Irani, Mehmood, Shatrughan Sinha, Lalita Pawar, Manorama, Anwar Ali, Nazir Hussain, Kishore Kumar, Dulari, Mukri, Keshto Mukherjee, Sunder, Asit Sen, Agha, Manmohan, Dilip Dutt, Indira Bansal, Usha Iyer aka Usha Uthup, Babban, Kammo, Birbal, Randhir, Raj Kishore, Jerry, Darshan, Praveen Paul, Shobha, Oscar Unger, Junior Mehmood etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Today is Poet Shakeel Badayuni’s birth anniversary. I came to know about it just now, as it happens in almost all anniversaries that are celebrated in the blog. Incidentally I had written down the lyrics of this unused song from the film ‘Aan”, yesterday only. When I send two /three song writeups to Atul ji , it is better to give him breathing space. So instinctively, I try to hold on and not send him any more till he posts these.
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Here in this blog we discuss songs from Hindi movies on a daily basis. Since we discuss songs so it is natural that we discuss the people also who are involved in the making of these songs. They could be the singers, lyricists or the music directors, or they could be actors figuring in the picturisation of these songs. Rougly speaking, this blog by now had 6280 plus songs from 2000 plus movies. Over three hundred singers, over three hundred lyricists, and over two hundred music directors have been discussed in the blog so far. I have not counted the number of actors figuring in these songs, but that number is likely to be more than three hundreds as well.
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