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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contrbutor to this blog.

In Hindi film industry, there were producers/directors who initially started their careers as lyricists but over a period of time, they ventured into film production. As far as I know, this trend started with Kidar Sharma who joined New Theatres as a still photographer and a set painter before switching over to lyricist and dialogue writer. He was followed by P L Santoshi, Nakhshab, Jaan Nisar Akhtar, Shailendra, Gulzar to give a few examples.
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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 5501st post for this blog. You may wonder, what is special that I am highlighting the 5501st post. Yes something special in this one. Readers may have noticed that over the past few days, Atul ji and I have been posting songs by N Dutta at a very fast pace. The reason of course was we planned to coincide the century post for N Dutta with the 5500th song on this blog. All was in order till Tuesday morning when browsing through the tags and stats, something occurred to me.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Welcome all to the 5500th song on this blog. It seems like just a few days ago, that we had celebrated the 5000th milestone. And now, just a little more than three months later, we are already at the 5500 mark today. The journey of this musical bandwagon continues along merrily, and every day there is a treat of music that Atul ji is providing to all aficionados of old Hindi film music. But more than just good music and joy of listening, through this blog Atul ji is doing a yeoman’s service to the film industry, to the countless fans, and to this art form itself.
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“Chhote Nawaab”(1961) is a movie which was Mehmood’s home production. Produced under the banner of Mumtaz Films, this movie was produced by Usman Ali and directed by S A Akbar. Starcast of the movie included names like Mehmood, Ameeta, Minoo Mumtaz, Helen, Anwar Hussain,Raj Kishore, Raj Dutt, A.R.Bengali, Munshi Munaqqa, Maqbool, Yusuf, Abdul, Mono, Sevanand, Bela Bose, Aruna, Harikishan, Ebrahim, Khursheed Bawra, Pappoo, Altaf, Brij Sharma, S.N.Bannerjee, Nazir Hussain, Achala Sachdev, Kumar etc.
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Nutan (DOB-4 june 1936 – DOD-21 february 1991) left for heavenly abode this day 20 years ago. Twenty years ago ! How time flies !

She belonged to one of the first Hindi movie dynasties. Her mother(Shobhana Samarth) was a noted actress in Hindi movies, as was her sister (Tanuja). With Tanuja’s marriage to Shomu Mukherji, this family married into another big Hindi movie dynasty that included Joy Mukherji, Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar etc. Later on, her son, Mohnish Bahal and her neice Kajol would also act in Hindi movies , with Kajol marrying Ajay Devgan, another well known actor.
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There have been three movies with the title “Do Bhai”. “Do Bhai” (1961) is the most obscure of the three, even though it is a recent movie as compared to the “Do Bhai” (1947). The other movie of this title was released in 1969.
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“Dharmputra”(1961) was a movie made on the sensitive matter of communal harmony. And not surprisingly, this movie was produced by B R Chopra, who in the past had tackled other sensitive topics in his earlier movies e.g. “Sadhana” (1958) and “Dhool Ka Phool” (1959).
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“Gyaarah Hazaar Ladkiyaan” (1962) was a movie which was produced by Films Friends and directed by K A Abbas. Starcast of the movie consisted of names viz. Bharat Bhushan, Mala Sinha, Murad, Madhvi, Imtiaz, Nadira, Mukri, Helen, David Abraham, etc.
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