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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Janaury 31st is the death anniversary of Suraiyya who was India’s greatest female singer-actor of the post-partition period. While reading her profile and biography, I felt that her life had twists and tales worthy of making a full length feature film. For instance, her romantic involvement with Dev Anand, a dominating maternal grandmother who, apart from deciding her filmy career, played a spoilsport in her romantic relationship and finally her decision to quit films to live a life of seclusion, can be some of the ingredients for a cinematic presentation. Suraiyya’s life cycle can best be described in some of her own renditions like Laayi khushi ki duniya (Vidya) , Tere nainon ne chori kiyaa mera chhota sa jiya pardesiya (Pyaar ki jeet) and Raste pe ham khade hain dil e beqaraar le kar (Rajput) to Ye kaisi ajab daastaan ho gayi hai(Rustam Sohrab)(1963) and finally to Rahiye ab aisi jagah chal kar jahan koi naa ho (Mirza Ghalib) .
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“Ratnadeep” (1952) is an obscure movie which was produced by Chitra Maiya (I guess that it is the name of the production house rather than an individual). Debaki Bose was the director. Star cast of the movie included names like Anuva Gupta, Abhi Bhattacharya, Pahari Sanyal, Molina, Chhaya Devi, Nitish Mukerji, Tulsi Chakraborty, Kamal Misra, Manju Dey etc.
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It is one occasion for this blog that I look forward to quite eagerly, the way a motorist on a highway looks forward to the next milestone. For this blog, every 100th song serves as a milestone, and the milestone that we touch with this song is the mark of 5300 posts !
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“Naubahaar” (1952) was a production of New Premier Films. Ashok Kumar and M S Ahluwalia had jointly produced the movie. Anand Kumar was the director of this movie. Star cast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Jagdish Sethi, Badri Prasad, Sunalini Devi, Kuldip Kaur, Randhir, Shivraj, Pesi Patel etc.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

January 6th is the death anniversary of Jaidev Verma, known as Jaidev in Hindi film world. He was one of those unlucky music directors who, despite being extremely talented, did not make it to the top in Bollywood. He had given hit songs in Hum Dono (1961), Kinaare Kinaare (1963), Mujhe Jeene Do (1963), Reshma Aur Shera (1972) , Gaman (1979) and many more. He is the only music director who won National Award for best music direction three times for Hindi films – Reshma Aur Sehra, Gaman and Ankahee.
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“Nishaan Danka” (1952) is a movie that few people may be aware of. This movie was a Vikas Prodctions presentation. It was directed by Jayant Desai. The star cast of the movie was quintessentially B grade, consisting of Ranjan, Shyama,Jeevan, Baby Tabassum etc.
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“Shah Behram” (1955) is a movie about which nothing was known on internet till I discussed a song from this movie a few months ago. In response to that post, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh provided us all the information that we may ever need about this movie.
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“Ek Saal Pehle” (1965) is a movie which was produced by S B Films. Dharam Kumar directed the movie and the “star” cast included names like Sujit Kumar, Saeeda Khan, Helen, Madhumati, K.N.Singh, Jagirdaar, Asit Sen, Sunder, Mohan Choti, Rajan Kapoor, Neelam etc.
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