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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Continuing the series of A to Z of Rafi Sahab’s songs, we reach the alphabet ‘ D ‘. I am delighted with this Rafi-Asha duet from the film ‘ Rangeela ‘(1953). The composer of this film is Jamal Sen and the lyricist of this song is S H Bihari.
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“Sagaai” (1951) was a Verma Films production. Like most Hindi movies of the past, details about this movie is difficult to find online. Fortunately we have our own Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia. Here is what he has to tell about 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.

Ah, the crisp voice of Kamal Barot. A sound that is so unique, and then so attractive, in certain scenarios. Granted that this voice may not exhibit as wide a range as some of her more successful peers, but the concern also works the other way round. That the voice, and some more like hers, did not get enough opportunity to develop more. We do find examples of her songs in all genres – except maybe having sung some sort of a cabaret song for Helen. Alas, it was an era dominated by few. And maybe that is what life is about – circumstances and relationships many a time define success, more than talent does.
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“Guest House”(1959) was produced by Mulkraj Bhakri and directed by Ravindra Dave for Golden Movies. The movie had Ajit, Shakila, Maruti, Lalita Pawar, Pran, Vimla Kumari, Tiwari, Niranjan Sharma, Ramlal, Helen, Haroon, Nadir, Burhan, Lillian, Master Raj, Akash Deep, Pal Sharma, Rajan Kapoor, Rajni, Sheela Waz, Kukku etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Today is the Death Anniversary of India’s most versatile singer Mohammed Rafi saab. Thanks to his evergreen songs, we still feel his presence amongst us. In last so many years India has not produced a single singer of Rafi’s calibre. One can not just say that those times were different and there was hardly any competition to him. Even in those days there was competition, but a healthy one. Artistes appreciated each others and conveyed their likings to the concerned artists, be it a role acting or a song or a tune. Even though for quite some time Kishore Kumar seemed to rule the industry, he was good enough to say that” Hum to bhai Barsaati mendhak hai. Barsaat khatam, hum khatam. Rafi saab jaise Timeless singer nahin hain hum.”
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

I had never heard this song from the film ‘insaaniyat’ till a few months back. While travelling from our native place in Belgaum, we often hear some CDs in the car. I had bought a couple of CD’s sometime back which were kept in the car. Lately I find that it is the safest place to keep CD’s so that we get to hear them sometime if not often. Once I bring them home, they are bound to get lost , as happened with this CD where I heard this bhajan ‘apni chhaaya mein bhagwan bitthaa le mujhe’ for the first time. I brought the CD home so that I could look for this unheard song, and now the CD is not where I kept it handy next to the lap top.
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“Mujrim” (1958) was an Eagle Films Production. It was produced by F C Mehra and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Ragini, Tuntun, Shubha Khote, Kamal Kapoor, S.N.Bannerjee, Mumtaz Begum, Amrit Rana, Abdul, Agha Miraz, Sood, Ratan Gaurang, Murad, Johnny Walker, Ramesh Thakur, Geeta Bali, Padmini etc in it.
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“Devdas” (1955) was produced and directed by Bimal Roy. The movie was based on Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s novel of the same name. A movie on this novel was made in 1935 with K L Saigal in the title role and that movie ended up being a classic.
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