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


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Blog Day :6557Post No. :20408

Mukesh and his Composers – 48

Aarohi (1982), a relatively unknown film, has 4 songs sung by Mukesh. 3 duets and a solo.

I have covered Mukesh’s one duet each with Hemlata and Bela Saver. They can be found here and here.

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Blog Day :6557Post No. :20407

Today’s song is a comedian’s song from an old Religious film Raja Gopichand-1938. Films with the same title were made in 1930, 1938 and 1950 (as Alakh Niranjan).

The film was made by Saraswati Cinetone, Poona. It was directed by Bhal G. Pendharkar and the Music Director was C.Balaji aka Balaji Chougule. The film was made in Hindi and Marathi. The story was written by Bhal G. Pendharkar and the translation was done by Shri. Arun B.A. The cast included Chandrakant, Leela Chandragiri, Ratnaprabha, Dinkar Kamanna, Londhe, Usha, Bakula, Ramaa, Dongre, Danve and others.

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Blog Day :6556Post No. :20406

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #

#Bhoole-Bisre Geet #

(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-71)

‘Hari Darshan-1972’ was directed by Chandrakant for ‘Joy Films, Bombay’. It was passed by Censor Board on 24.08.1972. The cast of this movie included Randhawa, B. Saroja Devi, Abhi Bhattacharya, Shahu Modak, Asit Sen, Sujata, Kalpana Deewan, Padma Rani, Sanjana, Sadhna Khote, Sarla, Anwari, Rekha Chouhan, Babu Raje, Himmat Singh Chouhan, Ram Rasila, Satyajit, Jr. Mehmood, Baby Rupa, and others. Dara Singh, Jayshree Gadkar, and Arvind Trivedi make special appearance in this movie.

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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6556Post No. :20405

‘Kabhee Dhoop Kabhee Chhaaon’ (1971) was produced and directed by Chandrakant under the banner of Joy Films. The cast included Dara Singh, Ameeta, Geetanjali, Jagdeep, Sapru, Randhawa, Ramayan Tiwari, Ram Mohan, Renu, Mridula Rani, Bhagwan Sinha, Bhagwan, Mopet Raja, Tiger Joginder Singh, Sulochana, B M Vyas etc. In the film, Dara Singh is paired with Geethanjali (South) while Jagdeep is paired with Ameeta.

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Blog Day :6556Post No. :20404

Today’s song is from a C grade stunt film, Lutaru Lalana-1938.

1938 was the first decade of the Talkie films, which started in India in 1931 only. What an era it was ! I feel sad that the present generation (Zen G) can never ever even imagine the pleasure of seeing those films, which regaled the common man no end. I am talking about the C grade stunt/action/costume drama films made then. Those were the days when people went to the theatre with no preconceived notions, because they only went to see good stunts, dances and killing dialogues.

This was a class of lower middle class, working people and young children in their teens, who got entertainment at affordable ticket rates – no matter if the theatre was even 5 to 6 kms away to reach. Walking to get the desired timepass was no problem. No one from the audience expected a sane, reasonable story, no one was even bothered about the histrionic capabilities of the actors or the actresses.

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Blog Day :6555Post No. :20403

Mukesh and his Co-Singers –19

In today’s post on Mukesh and his co-singers, we take up one of the two songs that he sang with playback singer Bela Saaver (Saver). In one of my recent posts, I have requested readers to add more information on this singer. There have been no responses yet.

My own efforts are also not yielding a decent bio-post on her. She has given playback in films like Basti aur Bazaar (1973), Phir Aaya Toofan (1973), Gora Baboo (1976) etc. There are also quite a few NF ghazals and devotional songs sung by her.

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This article is his 1900th song post in the blog.

Blog Day :6555Post No. :20402

This is my 1900th post on this Blog. This is the second fastest century. For the 16th century, it took me only 119 days, whereas today’s century took 127 days. For me, it is like a dream. I still can not believe that I wrote 1900 articles on this Blog alone. Add to it another 100+ articles on other blogs and sites. Add to it my 13 books published. Add to it scores of books mentioning me and referring to my writings. Add to it countless friends I have gained in the last 14 odd years. Add to it…..

The list would be too long. When I look back, I wonder how all this happened. After retirement, generally people find it difficult to spend time. Here I was, sometimes I had to strive hard to manage time to cope up with my work. At the age of 86 years, I could do all the above, in addition to my work as an Independent Director on the Board of Directors of two major Pharma companies. For this I thank The Almighty and pray that He continues to provide the required energy to me to go on further, till I am destined to be here.

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Blog Day :6555Post No. :20401

‘Sikandar’(1941) was produced under the banner of Minerva Movietone and was directed by Sohrab Modi. The star cast included Prithviraj Kapoor, Vanmala, Sohrab Modi, Sheela, Meena (Shorey), K N Singh, Sadiq Ali, Shakir, Yakub, Gajendra Singh, Jillo Bai, Zahur Raja, Noor Jehan (Sr), Prakash, etc. This was the first Hindi film for actress, Vanmala and Meena and the first film for Prithviraj Kapoor in Mumbai after his return from New Theatres, Kolkata. Another noticeable feature about Prithviraj Kapoor in this film is that his voice sounds different than what I have heard in his films of the 1960s.

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This article is the 20400th song post in the blog.

Blog Day :6554Post No. :20400

Previous blog century (20300th song post) appeared on 30 May 2026. 29 days later, we reach the next blog century viz blog post number 20400.

It appeared like we reached the coveted summit of song post 20000 just recently. And now we havealready added another 400 songs to our tally.

In case of the previous century, the century song was identifed in advance. Here in this case, I decided on the song last evening, but when I looked at the songs that preceded the century song, I decided that the century song needed to sound as good as the songs that preceded it early in the day. So I have picked a song that I had earlier earmarked for some other special occasion. I decided that a century post is as special an occasion as any for that song.

This song is from “Apne Paraaye”(1980). This movie in a way is a throwback to those days of yore when story of the movie was taken from a novel written by an eminent littérateur and the movie made on the story would be faithful to the story line contained in the literary masterpiece.

“Apne Paraaye”(1980) was based on a Bengali novel, ‘Nishkriti’ (1917) by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay needs no introduction, of course. His stories have been made into a large number of well known movies in several languages. His story of “Devdas” itself has been made into over 20 movies in various languages, four of them being in Hindi alone.

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Blog Day :6554Post No. :20399Movie Count :5232

Hullo Atuldom

Krishnaswamy Bhagyaraj (7 January 1953 – 27 June 2026) was an Indian filmmaker, actor, musician. He worked predominantly in Tamil cinema, while also directing and acting in films in other Indian languages. He wrote and directed more than 25 films and acted in over 75 films, and was regarded as one of the most influential writer-directors in Tamil cinema during the 1980s. He edited the Tamil weekly magazine “Bhagya” and authored several novels.

Bhagyaraj began working in the Tamil film industry in the mid-1970s as an assistant director under Bharathiraja (who also passed away earlier this month) in films like ’16 Vayathinile’ (1977) , ‘Sigappu Rojakkal’ (1978); which were remade in Hindi as ‘Solva Sawan’ (1979) & ‘Red Rose’ (1980); and a few more. He began writing scripts and dialogues for films, while also appearing in smaller acting roles.

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