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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

Asha Bhonsle, the versatile singer, has been with the Indian film and music industries for over six decades. She is also a multi-talented personality. She acted in one or two films as child artist;she composed music for a couple of non-filmy albums of her songs; she is in TV reality shows. I have also read that she does mimicry in her overseas concerts and is an excellent cook.
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Today (8 september) is an important date for music lovers of Hindi movie songs. It was on this date in 1933 that Asha Bhonsle was born. Today she turns 79. And she has been giving playback in HIndi movies since 1948. So she has been a playback singer for the last sixtyfour years ! Simply unbelievable.
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“Barkha”(1959) was an A V M Productions movie. It was produced by A V Meiyappan and directed by Krishnan-Panju. The movie had Anant Kumar, Nanda, Jagdeep, Mukri, Shobha Khote, David Abraham, Leela Chitnis, Mohan Choti, Achala Sachdev, Ulhas etc in it.
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“Ardhaangini” (1959) was a Mars and Movies production movie. It was directed by Ajit Chakraborty. The movie had Meena Kumari, Raj Kumar, Gopi Krishna, Durga Khote, Praveen Paul, Agha, Shobha Khote, Raja, Shivraj, Naaz, Jeevankala 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.

When ‘Dil Deke Dekho’ was released in 1959, the only thing I remembered at that time about the movie was that it was a film in which Asha Parekh was introduced as a new heroine to pair with Shammi Kapoor. The film was a super hit and its songs became very popular. But little did I know at that time that the film’s songs were composed by a new music director called Usha Khanna. In fact, I carried a wrong impression for some time that O P Nayyar was the music director of this film. Even for her second film ‘ Hum Hindustani’ which was released in 1960, I thought that the music director was Dattaram, the music assistant to Shankar-Jaikishan. I carried these impressions as the music compositions of these two films were very close to the styles of O P Nayyar and Shankar Jaikishan respectively. After about 4 decades when I revisited her songs, mostly of 60s and 70s, I felt that she had developed her own style of music for the songs of her later films.
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