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


“Naya Raasta” (1970) is a movie which was produced by I A Nadiadwala and directed by Akhtar Khalid. This movie had Asha Parekh, Jeetendra, Sujit Kumar, Lalita Pawar, Farida Jalal, D K Sapru, Veena, Balraj Sahni, Kishan Mehta, Shefali, Roopesh Kumar etc in this movie.
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It happens quite often in this blog that when a song is discussed, readers exclaim- “what ! How come this song was not discussed as yet !”. My explanation is that there have been tens of thousands of great songs in Hindi movies, and we have discussed just a small portion of that huge collection of songs, so omission of many great songs should come as no surprise. Hopefully the number of omitted songs will gradually come down as we add more and more of such songs.
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“Dil Ek Mandir” (1963) is a Chitralaya Pictures production. The movie was directed by C V Sridhar. The star cast of the movie included names like Raj kumar, Rajendra kumar, Meena Kumari, Baby Padmini, Krishna kumari, Taai Naagesh, Krishna Kumari, Achala Sachdev, Shubha Khote, Mehmood, Manmohan Krishna, Randhir, Sundar, Shantini, Ram Mohan, Keshav Rana etc.
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If new year is the day of making resolutions (only to give them up after a few days 🙂 ), then last day of the year is the day of bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year, hoping that the new year would bring in better luck than the previous year. Let bygone be bygones and let us make a new beginning- that is the sentiment on this occasion.
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“Teri Talaash Mein” (1968) is by now an obscure movie. This B grade movie was an A G Movie arts production. Kewal Mishra was the director of the movie. Its “star” cast consisted of names like Kumkum, Shailesh Kumar, Mohan Choti, Madan Puri, Amaranth, K N Singh, Indira etc.
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“Raam Aur Shyaam” (1967) was a Vijaya International production. It was directed by Chanakya. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Mumtaz, Nirupa Roy, Kanhaiyalal, Nazir Hussain, Sajjan, Mukri, Amar, Leela Misra, Zebunissa, Farida, Pran etc in it.
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If one has to name one single movie of Rajesh Khanna as a definitive Rajesh Khanna movie, then it has to be “Aradhana” (1969). The kind of popularity that this movie and its music enjoyed was unprecedented, and that may not have been surpassed since then.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The film Sushila (1966) is an obscure entity with a chequered history. I reproduce the following from a comment that I posted ten days ago for the iconic song “Gham Ki Andheri Raat Mein. . .” .
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