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Bachche man ke sachche
Posted by: Atul on: August 18, 2010
If ordinary folks want to know about their ancestors, they need to locate old albums and see the greyed out photos to see how their parents, grand parents etc looked like in their childhood.
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Meri aawaaz suno
Posted by: Atul on: August 1, 2010
Till 1960s and 1970s, most households in India compulsorily had a few photos and calenders hanging from their walls. One category was that of were religious photos and calenders, and then other category was that of national leaders. It may be difficult or impossible for the present generation to today imagine that most households in India equated national leaders with Gods. In 1950s and 1960s,in every Indian household, one could see photographs of Mahatma Gandhi (Father of the nation), Rajendra Prasad (First President of India) and Jawaharlal Nehru (First Prime Minister of India). Then some people also had a few more photographs of a few more important leaders, viz Sardar Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose etc.
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Yaar hamaari baat suno aisa ek insaan chuno
Posted by: Atul on: July 14, 2010
“Roti” (1974) was a lovely Rajesh Khanna-Mumtaz movie. It had a good and different story line and it was a nice movie to watch.
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Hai makkaar zamaana raham na khaana
Posted by: Atul on: September 14, 2009
Here is a very rare song from a very old movie. This movie is “Roti” (1942) which was produced by Mehboob Khan.
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Tujhme Raam mujhme Raam sabme Raam samaaya
Posted by: Atul on: September 4, 2009
I have heard this song many a times, but I had absolutely no clue about this song, except that this song was sung by Manna Dey.
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Kaam karo bhai kaam karo
Posted by: Atul on: July 17, 2009
Indians had great nationalistic fervour in the years after independence. There were a few movies made during those days that talked about working to make the country prosperous.
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Yaaron neelaam karo susti
Posted by: Atul on: April 15, 2009
Most people, including me know about the more popular songs of a movie. But I have found that sometimes even the less popular songs from movies could be very nice songs to listen to.
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Saathi haath badhaana
Posted by: Atul on: December 25, 2008
“Naya Daur” was a movie that reflected the official philosophy of the newly independent India of 1950s, which was idealistic as well as simplistic. It was believed by that regime that Socialism was the panacea to all ills of society and that Capitalism was evil.
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Pyaar baant’te chalo
Posted by: Atul on: October 18, 2008
This movie “Hum sab Ustaad hain” was the first movie in which Laxmikant Pyarelal, then newcomers, worked with Kishore Kumar. Kishore Kumar in fact was the actor cum singer in this movie, and the association of the would be great singer and would be great music director duo in this movie resulted in some memorable songs.
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