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Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category


“Aman” (1967) was an EmKay production movie. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Saira Bano, Chetan Anand, Om Prakash, Balraj Sahni, Chand Usmani, Sajjan, Sunder, Brahm Bhardwaj, Daya Devi, Baby Kavita, Suresh etc in it.
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“Leader” (1964) was a Mukherji Film Syndicate production. It was directed by Ram Mukherji. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Jagdish Sethi, Madhumati, Jayant, Motilal, Nazir Hussain, Sapru, Hiralal, Amar, Jankidas, P Kailash, Leela Misra, Merlyn etc in it.
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“Aman” (1967) was an Emkay productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Saira Bano, Chetan Anand, Om Prakash, Balraj Sahni, Chand Usmani, Sajjan, Sunder, Brahm Bhardwaj, Daya Devi, Baby Kavita, Suresh 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.

If I were to ask the question ‘what was the common between Shailendra, Jaan Nisar Akhtar and Nyay Sharma’, the obvious answer is that they were lyricists for Hindi film songs during the golden era of Hindi film music. There is one more commonality between them. All of them tried their hands in producing a Hindi film in the 1960s which resulted in great financial strains on them from which they did not fully recover. In fact, after the release of their films, their careers as lyricist was on the downhill and in case of Shailendra, it ended with his untimely death.
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“Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) was a Bindu Kala Mandir Production. It was produced by B D Kapoor and directed by K Mishra. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Ragini, Jayashree Gadkar, Jeevan, Agha, Anwar Hussain, Sajjan, Kamal Mehra, Asit Sen, Kumar, Naazi, Madhumati, Kundan, Samson, Mirza Musharraf, Khurshid, W M Khan, Mirajkar, Mansaram, Tiger, Ameen Sayani, Vishi etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

This is the Rafi-Asha duet recorded for Neela Akash(1965) but not used in the movie. It is a shame that such a song could not find place in the movie and was relegated to anonymity. Some might say that the other songs used in the film were better than this so this was edged out. But I do not agree.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Here comes a party song, performed by Mehmood in the film “Neela Aakash”” (1965). All songs of this movie are marvellous, including the one removed/unused from the film. I will come to that song in the next post.
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“Kunwaari” (1966) was produced by R N Mandloi for Ravi Kala Chitra Production. It was directed by S N Tripathi. The movie had Indrani Mukherjee, Ravindra Kapoor, Jeevan, Tabassum,Leela Mishra,Prem Chopra, Murad, Sunder, Shammi,Tuntun,Mridula, S N Tripathi, Mumtaz Begum, Babu Raje, Khursheed, RajKishore, Susheela, Sheela Kashmiri, Chanda Bai, Daya Devi, Ajeet , Maula, Omprakash, Munshi Munakka, Safdar, RadheShyam, Ameeta, Anwari, Meera, Helen, Shashi, Chhunni etc in it.
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