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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.

For the Generations that became young in 50s, 60s or the 70s, Dev Anand was their Idol. The theatres showing his films used to be crowded with youngsters who tried to copy his style, mannerisms, Hair style etc.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular conributor to this blog.

Today is the Birth Anniversary of C.Ramchandra or Ramchandra Narhari Chitalkar.

Only the other day I got hold of the Marathi Autobiography of C.Ramchandra(CR),titled ‘ Majhya Jeevanachi Sargam’ (Saragam of my life.) Copyright by Yeshwant Ramchandra Chitalkar-1977.
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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.

In Hindi film industry, more than the talent in the chosen field, one needs to be saleable in terms of box office success to become a successful artist. In addition, one needs to have a godfather in the Hindi film industry like a producer/director belonging to a big banner film production company. In the sphere of music direction, there were many talented maestros in the 50s and 60s who composed some memorable songs for the Hindi films. But they could not sustain themselves for long thus failing to make it to the big league of music directors of Hindi film industry. They did not have godfathers in the film industry. Some of them did not become saleable despite churning out beautiful songs.
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Regulars of this blog must have noticed that the daily output of this blog seems to have dwindled for the last few days. The reasons for that can be summed up briefly by saying that I have not been able to devote as much time to the blog as is necessary for its usual daily quota of songs.
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“College Girl” (1960) was a Rawal Films production. The movie was produced by B L Rawal and directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala, Om Prakash, Tabassum, Raj Mehra, Purnima, Nana Palsikar, Randhir, Achala Sachdev, Mohan Choti, Leela Misra, Vinod Sharma, Sarita Devi, Kumud Tripathi, Ravikant, Shyamlal etc in it.
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“Sakshi Gopal” (1957) was ratnadeep Pictures production. It was directed by Balchandra Shukla and Ramnik Vyas. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nanda, Madan Puri, Niranjan Sharma, Achla Sachdev, Chaman Puri, Narbada Shanker, Manju etc in it.
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“Navrang” (1959) was a Rajkamal Pictures Production. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Mahipal, Sandhya, Nirmal Kumar, K. Date, Vandana, Agha, Baburao Pendharkar, Ullhas, Chandrakant Desai, Vatsala Deshmukh, etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

1960 saw the release of the famous film ‘Bambai Ka Babu’. With Dev Anand and Suchitra Sen in the lead and music by SD Burman, this film did well to stay put in the memory of the viewers and listeners. In the same year, another ‘Bambai’ film was released, that seemed to have disappeared without making any impact, and there is nothing one hears about it.
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