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I discovered the songs of “Mad Bhare Nain” (1955) recently and I was surprised to know that so little was known about this movie.

Not any longer. Our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh has now shared up the details of this movie. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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“Miyaa Biwi Raazi” (1960) was an Anupam Chitra Production movie. It was directed by Jyoti Sawroop. The movie had Mehmood, Seema Dev, Shreekant, Raja Gosavi, Sabita Chatterjee, Niranjan Sharma, Daisy Irani, Manorama, Kamini Kadam, Mehmood, David Abraham, Gourab etc in it.
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“Insaan Jaag Uthha” (1959) was a Shakti Films Production. It was produced and directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Madhubala, Sunder, Krishnakant, Bipin Gupta, Manju, Pachhi, Nazir Hussain, Minoo Mumtaz, Nishi, Madan Puri etc in it.
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“Mad Bhare Nain”(1955) was a Fortune Films unit production. It was directed by Hem Chunder. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Bina Rai, Misra, Badri Prasad, David Abraham, Durga Khote, Yashodhara Katju, N. Hussain, Achla Sachdev, Bhupendra Kapoor 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.

The autobiography of C Ramchandra( Majhya Jeevana chi Sargam-copyright by Yeshwant Ramchandra Chitalkar) is somewhat disappointing. Its major part is spent on describing various exploits of C Ramchnadra with different women. Normally one expectes that the writer would focus on his worldly achievements and creations, which gave him name and fame, but on this count this book is a failure. Not that it is totally bereft of such things, but considering his musical successes during the Golden Era, one feels deprived of more discussions on music related topics.
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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.

Recently I had mentioned the name of Shirish Kanekar, a writer on HFM of yore. He writes in Marathi. He has a photographic memory and hundreds of anecdotes about songs, singers, composers, directors and everybody in films. He has written about 30 odd books, most of which are highly readable.
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