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“Door Nahin Manzil”(1973), though a recent movie by the standards of this blog is an obscure movie. This movie was an International Enterprises production. It was directed by Hari Walia. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Reshma, Durga Khote, Pradeep Kumar, Fariyal, Manmohan, Hina, Maruti, Suresh etc in it.
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“Namak Haraam” (1973) was an R S J Productions movie. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha ,Simmi Garewal, Rajesh Khanna, Asrani, Jayashree.T., Habiba Rehman, Om ShivPuri, Manmohan, Raza Murad, A.K.Hangal, Manju Bansal aka Manju Asrani, Durga Khote, Kamaldeep, Lalita Kumari, Neelam, Darshan, Manisha, Yogesh Chhabra etc in it.
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Yesterday (12 july 2013) brought us the sad news that Pran, the legendary villain of 1950s and 60s who then turned a legendary character actor of later decades had breathed his last. Pran Krishan Sikand (12 february 1920- 12 july 2013) made his debut in Hindi movies with “Khaandaan” (1942) as a hero. This movie was produced in Lahore, his favourite place. He subsequently made a mark as a hero in Lahore movie circles.
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Today (1 may 2013) is the 94th birth anniversary of Manna Dey. Radio/ TV stations, sites etc must be celebrating this occasion with some of his songs. It is easy for most of them. All they have to do is discuss some of the well known Manna Dey songs from movies like “Zanjeer”, “Upkaar”, “Dil Hi To Hai”, “Anand”, “Mera Naam Joker” etc and that is all. The same well known songs can be used on other similar occasions as well.
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“Kachche Dhaage” (1973) was produced and directed by Raj Khosla. The movie had Vinod Khanna, Kabir Bedi, Mousami Chatterjee, Sona, Zeb Rehman, Ritesh, Master Bhagwan, Nirupa Roy, Tun tun, Ratnamala, Trilok kapoor, K N Singh, Randhir, Murad, Jagdish Raj, Dev Kumar, Nawab, Habib, Ashwani Kumar, Gurbachan Singh, Purnima etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

It is a human nature that most top professionals would think that they are perfect in their professions, be it in the fields of sports or fine arts. Then why do we need coaches, guides, trainers etc ? A few years back, it looked odd to me to know that top seeded professional lawn tennis players have personal coaches. Some of the coaches may not have even played in any of the grand slam tournaments. Even in cricket, some of the teams’ coaches have not been top cricketers in their own national team. Now I know of two maxims in professional sportsman-coach relationship. First, all top players need not be perfect and coaches of these top players need not be top sportsmen in their fields. Second, the best coaches have the wherewithal to extract from the top professionals something more than the perfect which makes a vast difference in closely fought competition. This led me to think why not have a system of coaches (in Indian musical parlance, ‘guru’) for professional singers as well?
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