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This song is not one that too many people may have heard before. Those who hear this song for the first time will immediately exclaim that the song has the same tune as Ho leke pahla pahla pyaar (CID) . As it is, the composer is the same for both the songs, but as for being the original, this song is the original and the better known song from CID is the inspired song.
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“New Delhi” (1956) was a Deluxe Fims presentation. It was directed by Mohal Sehgal. Starcast of the movie had Kishore Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Prabhu Dayal, Dhumal, Radhakrishan, Nazir Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Mumtaz Begum, Shivraj, Sheela Kashmiri, Jabeen Jalil, Mirajkar etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contrbutor to this blog.

In Hindi film industry, there were producers/directors who initially started their careers as lyricists but over a period of time, they ventured into film production. As far as I know, this trend started with Kidar Sharma who joined New Theatres as a still photographer and a set painter before switching over to lyricist and dialogue writer. He was followed by P L Santoshi, Nakhshab, Jaan Nisar Akhtar, Shailendra, Gulzar to give a few examples.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

1959 was the busiest year in the career of music director N Dutta. That year, seven films with music composed by him, were released. (Six of these films are already represented in this blog. ‘Naach Ghar’ is one film that is awaiting entry here). And the music of these films is notable and still remembered – films like ‘Black Cat’, ‘Dhool Ka Phool’, ‘Didi’, ‘Bhai Bahen’, ‘Mr. John’, and ‘Jaalsaaz’.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.

I find that there are 18 songs listed under ‘Song excluded from movie’ category in this blog. Although the sample is not representative one to come to a definite conclusion, it is interesting to note that O P Nayyar leads in this category with 5 songs followed by Madan Mohan(4 songs), S D Burman (3 songs) and Naushad(2 songs). Sajjad Hussain, Husnalal Bhagatram, Bulo C Rani and Roshan have one song each in this category.
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“Neela Aakaash” (1965) is a movie which was produced and directed by Rajendra Bhatia for Kiron Productions. Starcast of the movie included names like Mala Sinha, Dharmendra, Madan Puri, Manorama, Shashikala, Madhvi, Raj Mehra, Sulochana Latkar, Sabita Chatterjee, Mehmood, Mumtaz Begum, Jeevan Kala, Hari Shivdasani etc.
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