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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This post is in response to a comment and a farmaish posted by Lalitha ji more than two years ago on 6th January, 2009 (details further down).
Children’s Day is variously celebrated in different parts of the world, on different days. In India, it is celebrated on this day (14th November) every year. (This day also is the birth anniversary of the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.) There are other dates on which International Children’s Day (1st June) and Universal Children’s Day (20th November) are celebrated. 20th November is the day on which the Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted by UN General Assembly in 1959.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Presenting the song in response to the farmaish posted by Arun ji Deshmukh.
I am sure the number of folks would be very few, those who have not heard the iconic song, ‘Mere Piyaa Gaye Rangoon’ . The film Patanaga comes from the year 1949, which is considered as a watershed year in the annals of Hindi film music. So many wonderful movies with great music and great songs were released in this year, that it became a memorable year in terms of rising popularity of film music in India. The film is produced under the banner of Verma Films, Bombay and is directed by the distinguished Harnam Singh Rawail.
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Jab dard nahin thhaa seene mein
Posted on: November 7, 2011
I have often opined that people who can be the most playful when happy can also be the most mournful when sad. Kishore Kumar is quite an interesting study in contrast that way. He is mainly known for his happy go lucky genre of songs and acting, but when it came to producing movies, most of his movies, except “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” (1958) were all serious movies. Likewise, when one makes a list of the most memorable songs sung by Kishore Kumar, lots and lots of serious/sad songs are bound to figure in that list. In fact, Kishore Kumar has sung more sad/serios songs than is normally believed.
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Sona na sitaaron ka hai kehna
Posted on: October 27, 2011
“Opera House” (1961) is a Pushpa Pictures presentation. It was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Ajit, B Saroja Devi,K. N. Singh, Lalita Pawar, Bela Bose, Maruti, Johnny Whisky,Baalam, Mumtaz Begum,Niranjan Sharma,S N Bannerji etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
What a find!! Bless this YouTube, and all the scattered music lovers all over the globe. Somewhere, someone is holding on to some fabulous music and then voila, it appears on the net. A song I have been searching for a long time. I am sure it happens with others also; it starts with the thought – there is something one is missing. At times it will pass through the mind, and then get folded under some other thoughts. When I log in online, there are so many other things to look for, that are the significant need for the current series of posts, that this one (and many other such things) do not readily jump to the front line. And then one day, I am searching for something else, when I bump into this one thing, completely out of the blue, and the only expression I can manage at the moment is “O My God”.
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Aa aa bhi jaa raat dhalne lagi
Posted on: September 28, 2011
This is one of those songs that everyone is familiar with whether or not one is familiar with the details of the song. I too have heard this song countless times without being very sure which movie this song was from.
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“Nartaki” (1963) is a Film Bharati productions movie. It was directed by Nitin Bose. This movie had actors like Sunil Dutt, Nanda, Preetibala (Zeb Rehman), Aruna Irani, Moni Chatterji, Om Prakash,Nana Palsikar, Agha, Chandrima Bhaduri, Polson etc.
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During the discussions of a few old songs in this blog, the mention of “Aadmi” (1939) has been made a few times. This movie was a landmark movie in the annals of Hindi as well as Indian cinema.
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“Shankar Khan” (1966) is a B grade movie about which very little information is available. What I know is that it was a Dara Singh movie produced by Dara Singh himself. This movie had actors like Prithviraj Kapoor, Dara Singh, Randhawa, Jagirdar, Kammo, Pratima Devi, Mohan Choti, Jagdeep, Rajan Kapoor, Savita etc in it.
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“Sindoor” (1947) was produced by Filmistan studio. Kishore Sahu was its director. He himself was the hero of this movie. This movie had Kishore Sahu, Paro, Shamim, Gulab, Rajendra, Mehmood, Pratima Devi, Sushil Sahu etc in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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