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This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

‘Nimbua tale dolaa rakh de musafir’ by Padma Shree Sudha Malhotra is the sixth song in my series of ‘songs from ‘Varsha Ritu’ Album’. I am doubly happy to present this marvellous song on Sudha-ji’s birthday today, (30th November), and wishing her a long healthy and musical life. I also congratulate her on receiving this year, the national honour of ‘Padma Shree’.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

ARADHANA-1969 is a film which was a turning point for many people. For Rajesh Khanna, it heralded a begining as a Superstar and for Kishore Kumar, it proved to be the begining of ” Kishor Period” in the HFM from 1970 to 1985.
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This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Mukesh is extensively covered by Shri Sudhir-ji in his ‘The voice of Mukesh’ series’. I will just include few bits from Wikipedia about his personal life.
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“Aradhana” (1969) is a movie that needs no introduction. This movie was produced and directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore, Farida Jalal, Sujit Kumar, Pahari Sanyal, Anita Dutt, Ahi Bhattacharya, Madan Puri, Asit Sen, Manmohan, Master Shahid, C. S. Dubey, Subhash Ghai etc in it.
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This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

After these three NFS included in this blog I am continuing this series of songs from the album ‘Varsha Ritu’.

S N Song Singer
1. Naach Re Mayura Manna Dey
2. Ghiri Ghataayen Lata Mangeshkar
3. Beet Jaat Barakha Ritu Lakshmi Shankar

Suman Kalyanpur (nee Suman Hemmady) remains one of the best-loved voices of Hindi and Marathi songs — almost more than 20 years after she stopped singing full-time.
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This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

According to Wikipedia, “Born in 1926, Lakshmi Shankar started her career in dancing. In 1939, when Uday Shankar brought his dance troupe to Madras, (recently renamed Chennai), she joined the Almora Centre to learn Uday Shankar’s dance style based on the Indian classics, and became a part of his troupe. She later married Uday Shankar’s brother, Rajendra (with nickname Raju).
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This article is the 8900th song post in the blog.

Two years have passed. Well, almost, just about two weeks short. It was another cool night of November that I was busy typing the write up for the 5000th song on this blog. There was much exhilaration and excitement that the 5000th milestone was reached. There were some very cautious and guarded comments, pointing towards the 10,000th song. But at that time, although the 5000th was already capped, the 10,000th still seemed daunting and unthinkable. That was two years ago.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

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“A very very sad day for Indian music” – that is the words that Pradeep ji has expressed just now, in his email response.

Manna Da, the voice behind the sounds of the rousing “Upar Gagan Vishaal,Neeche Gehraa Pataal” and the chartbusting peppy number “Aaao Twist Karen”, is silenced today. A voice that has regaled music lovers for over seven decades now, will not be heard any more. Manna Da breathed his last early morning today, at a hospital in Bangalore, having been unwell for the past few months.
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This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Varsha Ritu (1969) an album in an LP form was released by HMV to the delight of music lovers. Non-Film songs (NFS) were very much in vogue those days. Lata, Manna Dey, Begum Akhtar, Mukesh, Talat Mehmood, Mahendra Kapoor, Lakshmi Shankar, Sudha Malhotra and Mubarak Begum had each one NFS in that album. Music for all except the first three in this list was composed by an HMV staff artist Murli Manohar Swarup.
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“Talaash” (1969) was produced and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Helen, Sunder, Balraj Sahni, O. P. Ralhan, Sulochana, Sajjan, Jeevan, Madan Puri, Sapru, Randhir, Tuntun, Mumtaz Begum, Nadira, Shahu Modak, Hari Shivdasani etc in it.
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