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“Tamasha” (1952) was a Bombay talkies production. It was directed by Phani Majumdar. The star cast of this movie had Ashok Kumar, Dev Anand, Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari, Krishnakant, Haroon, Sunalini Devi, Randhir, Kaushalya, S. N. Banerjee, Shivraj, Amit Bose, Bipin Gupta etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Greetings to all, on the occasion of Durga Ashtami festival today, as well as he continuing celebrations of Navratris. Jai Mata Di.

‘Navratri’ means ‘nine nights’, a celebration to honor the Mother Goddess, that lasts for 9 days. There are many legends attached to the festival of Navratri, all of them related to Goddess Shakti (Hindu Mother Goddess) and her various forms.
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“Pyaar Ki Baaten” (1951), which was a Nargis Arts production movie was directed by Akhtar Hussain. This movie, as the name of the production house suggests, was Nargis’ home production. Nargis was the female lead in this movie.
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“Aawaaz” (1956) is a Mehboob Production movie. This movie was directed by Zia Sarhadi. The sttar cast of this movie had names like Rajendra Kumar, Nalini Jaywant, Usha Kiran, Zul Vellani, Anwar, N. Hussain, Mukri, Murad, Leela Chitnis, Jagdeep in it.
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“Pyaar Ki Baaten” (1951) is a Nargis Arts movie. It was produced by Akhtar Hussain and the star cast of this movie included names like Trilok Kapoor, Nargis, Neelam Kothari, Maruti, Nissar, Khurshid, H. Prakash, Cuckoo, Nazir, Rashid etc.
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Barsaat Ki Raat (1960) – just take away everything else, all the story, the screenplay, the characters, the histrionics, all the songs and music, and on screen plays, just take it all away, and leave just the three qawwaalis, and the greatness of this film will not be dimmed one bit. The three qawwaalis are the epitome of what this music and art form is all about. The first in the sequence, Nigaah e naaz ke maaron ka haal kyaa hogaa was discussed yesterday. The third, and the best known iconic qawwali of the three, Na to kaarwaan ki talaash hai…ye ishq ishq hai(Barsaat ki raat) has been discussed almost a little over three years ago, and then recently updated to its complete form. We are now left with the second offering in sequence, which is the subject of this post.
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