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There were three top heroes in Hindi movies in 1950s. Of them, viz. Raj Kapoor expired in 1980s and Dev Anand just a few days back. One of them, viz Dilip Kumar is still around. He in fact is celebrating his 89th birthday today. He was born on 11 th december 1922 in Peshawar,now in Pakistan. He made his debut in Hindi movies with “Jwaar Bhata” (1944) and his made his mark as a hero with “Jugnu” (1947) and soon he became a hot property in Hindi movies and earned him the sobriquet of “Tragedy king”. It is not an accurate description, becuase he has worked in several light hearted movies as well.
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Main teri nazar ka suroor hoon
Posted on: December 11, 2011
I have discussed as many as five songs from “Jahaan Ara” (1964). There are more nice songs in this movie and every one of them needs to be included in the blog.
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“Chhoomantar” (1956) is a movie which was produced by Sadiq Productions and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Karan Dewan, Shyama, Johny Walker, Jagirdar, S. Banerjee, Raj Mehra, Amar, Anita Guha, etc in it.
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Guzre hain aaj ishq mein
Posted on: December 10, 2011
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) is one of the first “old” movies that I became aware of as a pre teen kid, and my impression about old movies being melancholic stuff was mainly based on this movie, its songs and also its title.
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Most movies of the olden days had great music. In fact, music served as a major attraction for movie goers. There were many movies that became hits mainly because of the music.
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Dil ye kyaa cheez hai
Posted on: December 5, 2011
“Baazi” (1951) was one of the earliest movies produced by Navketan, and it was a pathbreaking movie in more ways than one. This movie paved the way for crime thrillers that became and remained a popular genre of Hindi movies throughout 1950s.
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Kabhi ae haqeeqat e muntazar
Posted on: November 28, 2011
This song is a poem which is written by Md Iqbal, also known as Allama Iqbal. This song has many versions, which have been sung by many artists. “Dulhan Ke Raat Ki” (1966) utilises this poem as a qawwali/ mujra song, which may not be what this poem is intended to be.
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When I take a look at the list of movies whose songs have figured in this blog, I find that just over 1800 movies are represented in the blog. Most of these movies date from 1930s upto 1980s, during which time about 5600 Hindi movies got censors certificate. So roughly speaking about one third of all released movies till 1980s are represented in this blog.
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It was on 16th november 1917 that Chitragupta Srivastava was born in Bihar. He went to Bombay and earned fame as music director Chitragupta. He preferred to keep a low profile and was happy to compose for B grade movies, where he composed absolutely A grade music. A grade movie makers would have happily worked with Chitragupta if only Chitragupta had gone and met them. For instance, the first time that Chitragupta met with Raj Kapoor was in 1980s, when his music director sons Anand and Milind introduced him to raj Kapoor at a function. And Raj Kapoor told him that he would have definitely used him as a music director in his movies if only he had met him.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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