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

Tere Ghar Ke Saamne (1963) is a classic for many a reason. A production from the house of Navketan, Dev Anand’s film company, this film was a major success in its time, and its music continues to set many a hearts aflutter.
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“Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) is not a movie that I know much about. Whatever I know about this movie is thanks to the information sent to me by Prakashchandra alongwith the lyrics of this song from the movie.
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“Nartaki” (1963) is a Film Bharati productions movie. It was directed by Nitin Bose. This movie had actors like Sunil Dutt, Nanda, Preetibala (Zeb Rehman), Aruna Irani, Moni Chatterji, Om Prakash,Nana Palsikar, Agha, Chandrima Bhaduri, Polson etc.
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“Ustaadon Ke Ustaad” (1963) was produced by an ambitiously named Production house called Films & Televisions, seeing that there used to be hardly any network of Television in India those days. Thnkfully, they at least produced Films, if not TVs or TV Serials. “Ustaadon Ke Ustaad” (1963) , which was directed by Brij, had Ashok Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Shakila, Anwar, Sheikh Mukhtar, Amar, Shakeela Banu Bhopali, Helen, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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I have discussed as many as four songs from ‘Meri Soorat Teri Aankhen” (1963). Each of these songs are timeless classics. After discussing each one of them, I felt that there was no need or room for any other great song in the movie.
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Listening to this song always has the effect of taking me back to 1960s, when things were much more simple and simplified. A song like this had a magical effect on listeners and they felt the urge to be drawn towards the movie halls screening this movie. I am sure this and other songs from this movie were the main reasons why people thronged to watch this movie. Watching Sadhana could be the second (distant) reason and watching Rajendra Kapoor may be the third (even more distant) reason. One only needs to delete all the songs and make people watch this movie, and let us see whether Jubilee Kumar would have really been able to carry the movie as he was reputed to be.
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Scandals in public life, especially crimes of passion, have always attracted the attention of Hindi movie makers and a few of them have actually gone on and made movies based on such scandals. Even at present, we find a movie maker making a movie on a woman who murdered her ex boyfriend with the help of her current flame.
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