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


This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Pancham, the name by which that Rahul Dev Burman was affectionately called, was a name that was given by his father, Sachin Dev Burman. Once in an interview, RDB had revealed why Sachin Da called him by this name. He says that when he was born, and when Sachin Da heard him cry for the first time, he found that the pitch at which the newborn was screaming was the fifth octave of the sargam. And that is how he came to be known as Pancham. (There are other anecdotes also, crediting Ashok Kumar with naming him so.)
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I realised it recently that the songs of “Sangam” (1964), which was a musical extravaganza of its time, are under represented in the blog. So far only four songs from this movie have been discussed and several well known songs from the movie are still at large.
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“Ek Kali Muskaayi” (1968) was a Panchdeep Chitra Production. It was produced and directed by Vasant Joglekar. The starcast had Ashok Kumar, Meera Joglekar, Joy Mukherjee,Mehmood, Om prakash, Nirupa Roy, Lalita Pawaar, Mallika, Neelam, Nana Palsikar, Sunder etc in it.
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“Maa Ka Aanchal” (1970) was a Hari Natraj Films Production. It was produced and directed by Jagdev Bhambri. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Abhi Bhattacharya, Anjana(Mumtaz), Leela Mishra,Jagdev,Sheela R., Satpal Nishan, Sushma, Johnny Whisky, V.Gopal, Gopal Segal, Amol Sen, Dilip Dutt, Deena Nath, Master Rattan, Abdul, RajKumar Dutt, Abdul etc in it.
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“Ghar Ka Chiraag” (1967) was a Hari Natraj Films production. It was directed by Jagdev Bhambhri. The movie had Biswajeet, Waheeda Rehman, Dharmendra,Dev Kumar, Indrani Mukherjee, Balraj Sahni, Chand Usmani,Mohan Choti, Abhi Bhattacharya, Purnima, Shekhar Purohit, V.Gopal,Tuntun etc in it.
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Though “Hamaari Yaad Aayegi” (1961) is today mainly remembered for its iconic title song sung by Mubarak Begam, the other songs from this movie are arguably in the same league, even if they became oivershadowed by the Mubarak Begam song.
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