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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6381 Post No. : 19788

Today’s song is a special song from a Muslim Social film – Darwaza-1954.

The film was produced by the famous writer of Urdu, Ismat Chugtai (21-8-1915 to 24-10-1991). She was the wife of this film’s director Shahid Lateef (11-6-1913 to 16-4-1967). His famous films were Naya Sansar-41, Jhoola-41, Anjaan-41, Ziddi-48, Arzoo-50, Fareb-53, Darwaza-54, Sone ki chidiya-58 and Baharen phir bhi aayengi-66. This pair of story writer, screenplay writer and producer- Ismat Chugtai and director Shahid Lateef worked in many films, including today’s film Darwaza-1954. The banner was Film India Corporation, Bombay. Music for this film was by Nashaad.

Film Darwaza-1954, true to its name, was the entry door for many artists. Singers Suman Kalyanpur and Sabita Bannerjee debuted as Hindi film singers with this film. Lyricist Khumar Barabankvi also debuted as a Lyricist with this film. The cast of the film was Shyama, Shekhar, Nazir Hussain, Leela Mishra, Neelam, Kumkum, Altaf (husband of Khurshid Jr, actress and singer as well as sister of Meena Kumari). Master Romi was a Guest artist.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6371 Post No. : 19760

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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The song in this post is from the movie ‘Tilasmi Duniya-1962’. It was directed by A. M. Khan for ‘Abdul Karim Productions, Bombay’. The cast of this movie had Daljeet, Krishna Kumari, Shyam Kumar, Shery, S.K. Shyam, Sarla Devi, Meera, Jilani, Rafia, Maqbool, Lambu, Abu Baker, Fazloo, Jay, Indra and others.

‘Tilasmi Duniya-1962’ has seven songs composed by Suresh-Talwar. The lyrics writers for this movie are Sartaj Romani, Anjaan, Akash, Akhtar Lakhnavi, and Talib Shahdarji. Geet Kosh Vol-IV (1961-1970) mentions the individual singer’s names for four songs and the lyrics names for only two songs.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6370 Post No. : 19756

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #

Today’s song is from the movie ‘Anarbala-1961’. This movie seems to be an obscure movie of its time. However the songs of this movie that are available are great songs. This observation has often been made by our members that these so called B or C grade movies had some great music in them. These movies may have become obscure, but their music deserve better fate

‘Anarbala-1961’ is one such movie. The movie appears to be lost, but some of its songs have survived and have become available online.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6369 Post No. : 19752

Today, December 25, 2025, is the 10th Remembrance Day of Sadhana, the fashion icon of Hindi cinema in the 1960s. She was also called the ‘mystery girl’ because she acted in three mystery genre of films one after another. In her short filmy career of about 15 years, she had a high success ratio in terms of hit films. She worked with top directors like Bimal Roy, Raj Khosla, Yash Chopra, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and H S Rawail. Her co-stars included Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Raj Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Rajesh Khanna and Dharmendra. Sadhana came and conquered the Hindi film industry in the 1960s and by the end of 1970s, she virtually vanished from the film industry.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6361 Post No. : 19724

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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The song in this post is from an unreleased movie ‘Rani Chandravati-1960s’. One song from this movie has been presented on the blog earlier by our Shree Sudhir jee.

Not much information about this movie is available in Geet Kosh Vol-IV (1961-1970) where this movie is mentioned under the section of Un-Released movies. Geet Kosh lists six songs leaving space for the possibility that more songs might have been recorded for this movie. The singer’s names for all the six songs have been mentioned. And they include Suman Kalyanpur and Subir Sen; with Suman Kalyanpur having three solos and one solo by Subir Sen. Music for this movie was composed by S.N. Tripathi. Out of the six songs in the movie two have been identified as penned by lyricist B.D. Mishra.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6360 Post No. : 19722

In this short write-up, I present a duet song, ‘gulaabi nazaare nazaare gulaabi’ rendered by Mohammed Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur from an obscure film, ‘Lakhpati’ (1991). It was the only film produced and directed by Jal Baliwala. The film was certified by Censor Board on April 5, 1991, but it could not get the theatrical release. Later, the film was released on VCD. I have given the story of the film in my earlier article while covering the song, nashe mein choor nazar hai mujhe.

The musical composition of at least three songs including the one under discussion gives a feel of the golden period of Hindi film music of 1960s and I am not completely off the mark. Music director, Iqbal Qureshi came into prominence in the 1960s. Lata Mangeshkar was not singing with Mohammed Rafi in most part of 1960s. The song under discussion is a duet of Rafi with Suman Kalyanpur.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6356 Post No. : 19705

‘Beqasoor’ (1969) was produced by Vijaykumar and was directed by Kamran. The cast included Dara Singh, Sanjana, Sham Kumar, Maruti, Ulhas, Ratnamala, Habib, V Gopal, Sadhana Khote, Dilip Dutt, Madhumati, Meenakshi etc. It was ‘B’ Grade action-thriller film. Dattaram composed the songs of the film during his waning career as a music director.

Dattaram Wadkar (1929 – 08/06/2007) predominantly worked with Shanker-Jaikishan (about 70 films) as his music assistant, taking care of the rhythm section of the songs during 1953-77. During this period, he also independently worked as the music director in 19 films spread over between 1957 and 1971.
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This article is written by Mahesh Mamadapur, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6353 Post No. : 19694

Mukesh and his Co-Singers –15

I am extremely delighted to present this next post on Mukesh and his co-singers to the readers of the blog.

Mukesh and Suman Kalyanpur. Two singers who renditions are remembered and enjoyed to this day mainly because of the unique sweetness in their duets.

Their standalone solos and duets with other singers are legendary. But when they came together, the melody was amplified and in a different league altogether. The charm and harmony in their voices is very much evident. Most of the songs that they sang were usually soft romantic numbers.

In many films they had only one song. But many such films are remembered only for the duet of Mukesh and Suman Kalyanpur. Their voices blended perfectly creating iconic songs.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6343 Post No. : 19653

‘Faislaa’ (1965) was produced and directed by Jugal Kishore. The cast included Shaikh Mukthar, L Vijayalaxmi, Jugal Kishore, Jagdeep, Sulochana Chatterjee, Niranjan Sharma, Jagdev, Jeevan, Sabina, Nazeer Kashmiri, Sheela, Helen etc. The film was an action-crime drama.

The film’s lead actress, L. Vijayalaxmi is from South and is different from Hindi film actress, Vijaylaxmi (real name: Kamala Verma) who has worked in ‘Mahal’ (1949), ‘Baawre Nain’ (1950). ‘Aah’ (1953), ‘Coffee House (1957), ‘Gharaana’ (1961), ‘Aap Ki Parchhaaiyaan’ 1964) etc. She mostly got the role of ‘other woman’ in the films.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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6340 Post No. : 19645

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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Today’s song is a lovely duet from the movie ‘Sati Sulochana-1969’. This song is sung by Suman Kalyanpur and Mahendra Kapoor. This song can well be categorized as a ‘chitrahaar’ of song. The melody will take you back to the melodious decade of the sixties.
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