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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.

During 1948-50, Dilip Kumar-Kamini Kaushal was a much talked about lead pair having worked in ‘Shaheed’ (1948), ‘Nadiya Ke Paar’ (1949), ‘Shabnam’ (1949) and ‘Aarzoo’ (1950). All these films were successful at the box office. Then why is it so that this successful lead pair did not work together in any films after ‘Arzoo’ (1950)? There is a story behind it but before that let me share Kamini Kaushal’s profile in brief which I found unusual and interesting. Some highlights of her profile including the reason for not working with Dilip Kumar after ‘Arzoo’ (1950) are given below:
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“Neeli” (1950) was a Ranjit Film Company production. It was directed by Ratibhai Punatkar. The movie had Dev Anand, Suraiya, Agha, Shyama, Dulari, Cuckoo etc in it.
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“Gunsundari” (1948), by now a forgotten movie, was an Ajit pictures production. It was directed by Ratibhai Punatkar. The movie had Saraswati, Manhar Desai, Nirupa Roy, Dulari, Chhagan, Romeo, Babu Raje, Jal Writer etc in it.
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“Jogan” (1950) was a Ranjit Film Company Production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. This movie was a landmark movie in many respects.

Musically speaking, this movie was a musical blockbuster. As many as ten songs from this movie have discussed in the past and still we are not done with this movie. 🙂
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

हाँ भई, होली हो और गीतों में रंग न हो तो, तो क्या मज़ा है, हाँ?

बस, भला हो उस ऊपर से ideas देने वाले का। गाने में एक से ज़्यादा आवाज़ हो तो पंक्तियों को color code कर दो। और फिर देखो गीत की लाईनें पढ़ने का मज़ा। और होली के दिन तो बस मज़ा रंगदार गीतों का ही है। सो, पेश है एक ऐसा ही रंगदार पंक्तियों वाला गीत – होली भी और रंग भी, दोनों ही गीत में गुथे हुये मिल गए।

होली मुबारक
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“Shaadi” (1941) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie was produced by Jayant Desai for Ranjit Films. It had Khurshid, Ishwarlal, Madhuri, Motilal, Ghori etc in it.
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“Beete Din” (1947) was directed by Ezra Mir. The movie had Motilal, Vanmala, Rekha S, Nazir, Solanki, L Ramesh, Baby Shyama, Sheela, Bibijan etc in it.
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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.

I had mentioned in one of my earlier write-ups that all the songs from the film ANMOL RATAN (1950) were very rare to get in the 70s even with the individual collectors. Though the film failed miserably at the box office, all the songs from this film were the forgotten ‘ratans’ (gems). We are fortunate that majority of the songs from this film are now available on the internet as audio clips. There are 11 songs in the film of which 5 songs have been discussed in this blog.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Recently our Mr. Sadanand Kamath has posted on this Blog two superb numbers by Jaganmoy Mitra, better known as Jagmohan Sursagar, together with rich information (and links) on this veritable ocean of melody. They are: O varsha ke pehle baadal from Meghdoot (1945), and a non-filmy song Mat kar saaj-singaar sundari.
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“Police” (1944) is by now a forgotten movie. The only thing that I have been able to find about this movie was that it was a Prakash Pictures production. It was produced by Vijay Bhatt. I have no idea about its director and the actors.
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