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

About six weeks ago, the request for this song appeared on the Reader’s Farmaishes page. The request has been put in by Dr. Mona Shah. And the song itself I believe does not need any introductions. An iconic song that hit the radiowaves in 1981, was a rage with teenagers and young people of that era and beyond. The film Kalyug (1981) has just this one song, and this song has become a cult icon all by itself. But there is also a tribulation that is attached with this song. It is rare.
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In this blog we take pride in being topical, in the sense that we discuss topical songs on important days, viz national days, festivals, important birth and death anniversaries etc. Thus we are always raedy with topical songs for independence day, republic day,and festivals like holi, deepawali and raakhi. We also have special songs on the occasions of birth and death anniversary of important artists.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.

A deep, and a very relaxed sound – will not be heard live any more. Jagjit Singh, the icon of ghazal singing in the subcontinent for the past three decades, passed away the day before (10th Oct, 2011). And has left behind an inspired legacy of non-film and film music, mostly in form of ghazals, and in the form of musical scores for many films and albums.
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“Ham Se Badhkar Kaun” (1981) was a run of the mill kind of a movie that are produced every year and which are then soon forgotten after a few weeks.

As far as I was concerned, I actually forgot all about this movie soon after I watched it.
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Normally it is believed that old songs are obscure songs and new songs are better known songs. But that is not always the case. I find that several recent songs (anything created in 1970s and later are recent by the standards of this blog. 😀 ) have been forgotten in double quick time.
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“Prem Geet” (1981) is a movie that was a launch vehicle for two new actors called Raj Babbar and Aneeta Raj. Raj was an actor with no filmy connection, but Aneeta Raj was the daughter of Jagdish Raj, the perenniel police officer of Hindi movies.
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Umrao Jaan was a legendary courtesan of Lucknow, though few people outside Lucknow may be much aware of her. But all that changed in 1980 when the movie “Umrao Jaan” was released. And now, whenever one mentions Umra Jaan, one is reminded of Rekha. Just like many people think that Emperor Akbar looked like Prithviraj Kapoor, many people now think that Umrao Jaan looked like Rekha.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow Hindi movie music enthusiast and a regular visitor and contributor of this blog

It may be just my perception (and I will be happy to be proven wrong) but I think 1981 was a sort of musical compensation for 1980. Maybe it is just my taste but 1980 was one of those run-of-the-mill years for me as far as pleasant music is concerned.
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