Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs


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Last entire week, SATYA NADELA’s name was in the headlines of almost every newspaper and TV channel. Since the time his name was announced as the next chief of Microsoft, all roads leading to the Public School at Begumpet, Hyderabad were adorned with Big banners. All this because Satya Nadela was an alumnus of this school many 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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The Voice of Mukesh #54
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As we are getting close to the end of list for the Mukesh songs for 1950, the songs are increasingly becoming difficult to trace. Today’s song I have been able to locate in my own collection, and am posting it online, for the first time today. The film is an obscure one, titled ‘Raaj Mukut’. The film is a production from Mohan Pictures, Bombay and is directed by Nanubhai Vakil. The film has an impressive star cast that includes Nimmi, Veena, Jairaj, Ram Singh, Sapru, Mishra, Gulab, Ramesh Sinha, Ramesh Thakur, Jankidas, Baby Tabassum.
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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.

The best memory I have of this artist is the visual from ‘Araadhna’ (1969), sitting in the driver seat, looking crisp and dapper in a suit and matching cap, driving single handedly and playing mouth organ with the free hand, maneuvering the vehicle so that it keeps pace with the small toy train as it wounds its way on the hilly trek to Darjeeling, thus enabling a free hand to Rajesh Khanna to perform his gymnastics in the open top vehicle, as he belts out the now iconic “Mere Sapnon Ki Rani Kab Aayegi Tu”, serenading a coy Sharmila Tagore sitting in a window seat of the train, hiding her face behind Alistair MacLean’s novel, ‘When Eight Bells Toll’, but also peeking from the edges of the book that she is obviously not reading.
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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.

The second song in the series “Debut or First film songs ” is from the First Hindi/English film KARMA-1933. It is sung by the ‘First lady of the Indian Cinema and the First winner of the prstigious Daqdasaheb Phalke Award- DEVIKA RANI.
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“Actress” (1948) was directed by Najam Naqvi for Filmistan. the movie had Prem Adeeb, Rehana, Meena Shorey, Mishra, Mukri, David Abraham, Jamal Amrohi etc in it.
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“Chanda Ki Chaandni”(1948) was directed by Dwarka Khosla for I A Patel Productions, Bombay. The movie had Rehana, Jairaj, Veera, Billimoria, Shanta, Neelkanth Tiwari, Moni Chatterji, Pandey, Kesari, Amir Banu etc in it.
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“Phaansi” (1978) was produced and directed by Harmesh Malhotra for Eastern Films. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Sulakshana Pandit, Asrani, Ranjeet, Pran, Mohan Sherry, Sudhir, Jeevan, Urmila Bhatt, Iftekhar, Sapru, Ram Mohan, Shetty, Aarti, ,Aruna Irani,Birbal, Mohan Choti, Manni etc with special appearances by Anwar Hussain, Dev Kumar, B.M.Vyas, Randhir Senior, Purnima, Chaman Puri, Moolchand, Rajrani, Murad etc.
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“Night Bird” (1961) was directed by A R Zamindar for Navshakti Films, Bombay. the movie had Shanta Kumari, Azaad, Jeevankala, Shyam Kumar, Maya Dass, Tun Tun, Nazir Kashmiri, Daya Devi, Fazal Khan etc in it.
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“Saagar Tarang” (1950) is a movie about which hardly any information is available, other than the fact that Geeta Dutt has sung a few songs in this movie and these songs are availble on line. Other than that, hardly any information is available on this movie.
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Juthika Roy (12 april 1920-5 february 2014) is a name that I became aware of sometime in the last decade when internet became a viable and a useful source of gaining and sharing information. But seeing that she mostly sang NFS and I was not interesting in NFS, I did not take any further interest in her songs at that time.
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