Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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Today (5 august) is Salil Chaudhary’s death anniversary. Salil Chaudhary (19 november 1922- 5 september 1995) was one of the pioneers in the field of Hindi movie music. He composed music mainly in Bangla, Hindi and Malayalam movies and left his mark in movies of all three languages.
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“Kaareegar”(1958) was a Panchdeep Chitra production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Om Prakash, Madhu Apte, Lalita Pawar, Agha, Ramesh Kapoor, Sumnati Gupte, Jagirdar, Nana Palsikar, Minoo Mumtaz, Helen etc in it.
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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.

On the occasion of Kishore Kumar’s birth anniversary on August 4th, the wheel of time(kalchakra) takes me back to my teens when I used to listen to Radio Ceylon’s programme on old Hindi film songs. On the first day of every month, the first song that was played on this programme was din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai from the film ‘Pahli Taarikh’ (1954). That was the time when I came to know about Kishore Kumar as a singer. It was a revelation to me later from the film ‘New Delhi’ (1956) that he was not only a singer but an actor also. With his many subsequent films in 50s and early 60s, I had taken it for granted that he was a comedian who sang mostly fun songs and that too for himself.
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