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“Do Ustaad” (1959) was a Shekh Mukhtaar Production movie. It was produced by Sheikh Mukhtaar and directed by Tara Harish. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Madhubala, Daisy Irani, Sheikh Mukhtar, Umadutt, Sulochana, Bimla Kumari, Kamal Mohan, Satish Vyas, Master Daboo, C. B. Singh, T. N. Charlie, Sood, Fazalkarim, Khan, Narula, Jerry, Ratan Gourang, Dayal Kumar, Shangloo, Ramlal, Prem Sagar, Funny Tincher, Soofi, Sadiq, Mastan Shah etc in it.
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“Shehnaayi” (1947) was an amazing movie with extremely innovative and original kind of songs. We are fortunate that a print of this movie still exists. As can be seen from youtube, this print survived thanks to some private collector in Pakistan from where it was uploaded on YT. Now all the songs of this movie are available on YT.
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“Baazaar” (1949) was a Madhukar Pictures production. It was directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Yakub, Gope, Cuckoo, Badri Prasad, Amir Banu etc in it.
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mini mini chi chi
Posted on: September 12, 2012
Today (12 september) is Jaikishan’s birth anniversary. One half of the famous Shankar Jaikishan duo, Jaikishan had died quite young at an age of 41 on this day in 1971. He achieved so much at such a young age . The Shankar Jaikishan duo were easily the most dominant and prolific music directors of the golden era of Hindi movie music.
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Tu pyaar maange pyaar de doon
Posted on: September 9, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ah Ganesh, the unsung genius composer, creator of incredible melodies and rhythms that almost never got picturized on the so called grade A stars of his time. His songs, buzzing with hummable and memorable tunes, played themselves out in B and C grade cinema halls, in productions that were considered of the same categories. Some of his songs escaped this banishment to the C grade world, and found a place on the radio waves, and in the mind and memories of listeners. Some such songs have remained in the memories; but then there are many other remarkable creations from him that await re-discovery by aficionados.
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“Suraj Aur Chanda”(1973) was produced by A V Subramaniam and directed by T Madhav Rao. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Bindu, Shyama, Jagdeep, Laxmi Chhaaya, Sujit Kumar, Jairaj, Mukri etc in it.
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Morey naina bahaayen neer
Posted on: August 31, 2012
“Baawarchi”(1972) was produced by Hrishikesh Mukherji and N C Sippy and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Jaya Bhaduri, Usha Kiran, Manisha, A. K. Hangal, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Suraj, Paintal, Kali Banerjee, Durga Khote, Asrani etc in it.
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Aaya mere dil mein tu
Posted on: August 18, 2012
“Daastaan” (1950) was a Musical Pictures Production, which was a joint venture of A R Kardar and Naushad. The movie was directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suraiya, Raj Kapoor, Murad, Al Nasir, Veena, Suresh, Protima Devi, Shakila, Banerji, Lakshman, Surinder, Baby Anwari, Swartha, Krishna Kumar etc in it.
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Morni ne seekhaa
Posted on: August 13, 2012
Today (13 august) happens to be the birthday of not just Vyjyanti mala but also Sridevi. On this occasion, here is a song picturised on Sridevi.
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It appears that there are lots of songs in Hindi movies that can be posted on the occasion of Janmashtmi. It is just that I am either not aware of them, or I have forgotten about them.
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