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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.

hain aur bhi duniyaa mein sukhanwar bahut achchhe
kahte hain ki Ghalib kaa hai andaaz-e-bayaan aur

Whenever I remember this maqta of Ghalib’s ghazal, Majrooh Sultanpuri’s name props up in my mind. I always felt how apt it would be if words ‘duniyaa’ and ‘Ghalib’ from the maqta she’r were replaced with ‘filmi jahaan’ and ‘Majrooh’. During Majrooh Sultanpuri’s time, there were renowned poet-lyricists like Sahir Ludhianvi, Shakeel Badayuni, Shailendra, Kaifi Azmi, Jan Nisar Akhtar and later, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar etc. but Majrooh’s andaaz-e-bayaan , the sophistication even in his teasing, racy and light hearted lyrics in Hindi film songs was something which became the hallmark of his style of song writings. He wrote songs trending with the time. Perhaps this explains why Majrooh Sultanpuri had one of the longest innings of over five decades in the Hindi film industry, penning songs for most of the well known music directors – from Naushad in 1946 to A R Rehman in 2000.
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“Chor Police” (1983) was a Cinema International movie. It was produced by Shehla Khan and Vinay Sinha and directed by Amjad Khan. The movie had Shatrughan Sinha, Parveen Babi, Amjad Khan, Ashok Kumar, Kader Khan, Nirupa Roy, Kalpana Iyer, Shakti Kapoor, Yogesh, Master Bittu, Narendranath, Gurbachan Singh, Satyen Kappu, Johnny Whisky, Amrit Patel, Sudhir, Hercules, Viju Khote, Madhu Malhotra, Ram Mohan, Vikas Anand, Daljit Singh, Mamaji, Akbar, Shahid Bijnuri, Azad, Manmauji, Uttam Sondhi, Rajan Mirza,Vinod Mehra, Bindiya Goswami,Zarina Wahab, Nazneen,Imtyaz Khan, Mac Mohan etc in it.
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“Sapnon Ka Saudaagar” (1968) was a Screen Gems production movie. It was produced by B Anantswami and directed by Mahesh Kaul. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Hema Malini, Jayant, Tanuja, Achala Sachdev, David Abraham, Durga Khote, Nadira, Rupesh Kumar, C. S. Dubey, Satyendra Kapoor etc in it.
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“Sister” (1982), though a recent movie by the standards of this blog is an obscure movie. This movie was produced by Harish Kataria and directed by Rajdeep. The movie had Rehana Sultan, Gautam Bhatia, Tabrez, Bharat Kapoor, Hina Kausar, Chandrashekhar 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.

In my school days, I had read about many heroic events of Indian history like Maharana Pratap viz. Emperor Akbar, Shivaji vs Aurangzeb, Rani Laxmibai vs. British East India Company etc. All the opponents were villains to me and I hated them for their wrong doings.
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“Dooriyaan” (1979) was a Climb Pictures production. It was directed by Bhimsen. The movie had Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Priyadarshini, Shriram Lagoo, Baby Geeta, Sudha Chopra, Sulbha Deshpande, Arvind Deshpande, Lalita Kohli, Nitin Sethi, Dutta Bhatt, Achyut Poddar, Kiran Seth etc in it.
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“Shehnaayi” (1964) was a New Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by S D Narang. The movie had Biswajeet, Rajshree, Johnny Walker, Veena, Chand Usmani, Nirupa Roy, Asit Sen, Iftekhar, Leela Chitnis, D. K. Sapru, Parveen Choudhary etc in it.
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Kishore Kumar was around in the Hindi movie playback scene for two decades from 1948 to 1968 but all these while he was on the fringes. But a combination of many circumstances, that are well chronicled, ensured that changes of epic proportions took place in the Hindi movies schemes of things in late 1960s. Whe the commotion was over and things settled down, the old order had changed giving way to the new. The old timers (heroes, singers, music directors) suddenly found themselves upstaged and evicted from the scene in the new order.
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