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Yesterday (17 january 2016) was in some way a special day for music lovers, quite a few of them being regulars of this blog. As it is, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopedia was planning to go to South, where he stayed at Hosur. Taking advantage of his presence there, a meeting of likeminded music lovers was organised in Bangalore. The lead in organising this meet was taken by Gajendra Khanna who decided to hold this meet in his residence. as it is, he is holding musical meets in his residence regularly and so he was quite an old hand in such matters.
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It’s been a while since we had a song in this voice. A voice which momentarily transforms us to another world. A voice so gentle and sweet that we invariably pause, ponder and are awestruck by the rendering. The total numbers are in three digits only. The genres of songs are also very restricted. But whatever is available will be cherished forever since the class of singing was always uncompromising.
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This article is the 11600th song post in the blog.

We in this blog discuss songs ranging mostly from 1931 to 1980s and sometimes from songs falling outside this range as well. One can often judge the era of the song by listening to it. Sometimes the lyrics of the song deal with some important happenings of the era as well.
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“Shaan” (1950) was directed by Jayant Desai for Kuldeep Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Suraiyya, Rehman, Manorama, David, Amar, Chaand, Pratima Devi, Cuckkoo, Savitri, Neeru, Kala, Rajani, Sapru etc in it.
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“Sangram”(1950) was directed by Gyan Mukherji. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jayawant, Nawab, Tiwari, Shashi Kapoor (jr.), Tabassum, Hemvati, Sajjan, Ram Singh, SN Banerjee etc in it.
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I think that I have got an unique song this time. This is a song from a film called Meri Asha-50. The song is sung by film comedian Agha aka Aghajaan Baig. I have never known that Agha had sung any song. Never came across any of his songs,nor read it in HFGK about his song, in his long career of almost 50+ years.
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Bengal enjoyed a dominant position in Hindi cinema till the 1950s. Its meaningful,entertaining films as well as music-Film and the Non Film music both, ruled the roost, from the early 30s. In this conquest of the East,the Lion’s share was that of NEW THEATRES-set up and owned by B N Sircar. New Theatres was not just a production company, but it was an Institution and a school for developing artistes in the 30s and the 40s.
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“Pardes”(1950) was directed by M Sadiq for All India Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Madhubala, Rehman, Karan Dewan, Shakuntala, Jagdish Sethi, Jayant, Chanchal, Cuckoo, Mukri etc in it.
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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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Today’s song is from the film Lajawab-50. It is sung by Anil Biswas, Lata and Binapani Mukherjee, with chorus. It is a lovely,rhythmatic,foot-tapping song and clearly shows the unmistakable stamp of the composer Anil Biswas. He was hailed as one of the most original, revolutionary and experimental composer, even dubbed as “The Bhishma Pitamaha” of HFM.
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“Sangram”(1950) was directed by Gyan Mukherji. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jayawant, Nawab, Tiwari, Shashi Kapoor (jr.), Tabassum, Hemvati, Sajjan, Ram Singh, SN Banerjee etc in it.
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