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


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6403 Post No. : 19863

Today, January 28, 2026, is the 89th birthday of playback singer, Suman Kalyanpur whose career growth got stunted because she remained under the shadow of a ‘banyan tree’ called Lata Mangeshkar. Sometime, having a voice quality too close to that of the top most playback singer of the film industry becomes a bane.

Suman Kalyanpur was born in Dhaka (now in Bangla Desh) as Suman Hemmadi when her father was working in Central Bank of India, Dhaka. The family belonged to Hemmadi village in Kundapura taluka, now in Udupi district of Karnataka. The family shifted from Dhaka to Mumbai in 1943 on her father’s transfer. Suman Kalyanpur was interested in singing and painting. After passing her Matriculation exam from St Columbia High School, she joined Sir J J School of Arts with Painting as the main subject. Simultaneously, she started her musical training under Keshavrao Bhole and later Ustad Khan Abdul Rehman Khan. She started singing on All India Radio in 1952. She got her first playback singing opportunity for a Marathi film, ‘Shukrachi Chaandni’ (1953).
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6403 Post No. : 19862

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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“Sher Afghan-1966” was directed by B.R. Jhingan for ‘Shankar Movietone, Bombay’. It had Prithviraj, Nishi, Premnath, Suresh, Hiralal, Maruti, Ulhas, Zeb Rahman and others. HFGK Vol-IV (1961-1970) lists six songs for this movie leaving a space indicating possibility of more songs might have recorded for this movie. Lyricist Hasrat Jaipuri wrote all the songs for this movie. And music for this movie was composed by Husnlal-Bhagatram.
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6402 Post No. : 19861

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 84

“Mere Qatil Utha Botal” is sung by Asha Bhosle, penned by Verma Malik and composed by Shankar Jaikishan. It is from the film “Gold Medal” (1984).

Two songs from this film are already posted on the blog. Here’s the third of six songs.

The Gold Medal’ (1984) was produced by Sham Behl under his banner, Time Films and was directed by Ravi Nagaich. The cast included Jeetendra and Raakhi in the lead roles supported by Shatrughan Sinha, Premnath, Bindu, Faryal, Jaishree T, David, K N Singh, Raja Pranjpe, Sundar, Janakidas, Keshav Rana, Jagdish Raj, Gulshan Bawra. Brahm Bhardwaj, Prabhu Dayal, Madhumati etc. Dharmendra made a ‘priceless’ appearance in the film as an union leader. The film belongs the genre of ‘James Bond’ type of spy thriller in the Indian setting.
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6402 Post No. : 19860

“Razia Sultana”(1961) was directed by Devendra Goyal for Movie India, Bombay. This historical movie had Nirupa Roy (in title role), Jairaj, Kamran, M Kumar, N A Ansari, Agha, Sadhana Chaudhary, Leela Mishra, Rajan Kapoor, S M Sagar, Narad Muni, Madhumati, Jeewan Kala, Meena, Maqbool etc in it.
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6402 Post No. : 19859

“Ratnaghar”(1955) was produced by Sudhir Phadke and Y H Joshi and it was directed by Yashwant Pethekar for Navbharat Chitra Bombay. The movie had Raja Paranjpe, Shakuntala, Lalita Pawar,Suryakant, Madan Mohan, Takalkar etc in it.

The movie had five songs in it.
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6401 Post No. : 19858 Movie Count :

5184

#the Decade of 2020s– 2021- TO – 2030 #
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Today we celebrate the 77th Republic Day of our country India. Our Independence is already above seventy-eight years now. We gained our hard fought freedom on 15th August 1947. So we gained independence more than 78 years ago, whereas India became a republic on this date in 1950.

We are all aware of the supreme sacrifices made by our freedom fighters and common people. The country was blessed to have some visionary leaders who led this freedom struggle. Once independence was achieved, they ensured that this hard fought freedom was not squandered but used for the benefit of the country and its population. Drafting a constitution for this newly idependent vast nation and making it a republic, where every citizen was guaranteed equality,irrespective of their caste,creed,religion and gender, was something unprecedented in the entire history of India. India became a republic on 26 January 1950 and from that day onwards, India has been governed according to the Indian constitution that came into force on that date.
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6401 Post No. : 19857

As the nation is celebrating 77th Republic Day on 26th January, 2026, I have found yet another patriotic song by Mohammed Rafi sahab. I had zeroed in on another song, the sound quality was not so good. Suddenly this song came up on the feed, as a newly found song. I have checked; it is available on youtube for many years.

Another special thing is that it is a non-film song, written by Rajinder Krishan. Music directors name and the Album name is missing from the list of Rafi song as well as on the links available on youtube.
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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.

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6401 Post No. : 19856

Mr. Sampat (1952) was produced and directed by S S Vasan under the banner of Gemini Pictures. The film starred Motilal, Padmini, Vanaja, Sundari Bai, Swaraj, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Badriprasad, Kailash Nath, Ramamurthy, J S Casshyap, B S Kalla etc. The film was adapted from R K Narayan’s novel, ‘Mr. Sampat – Printer of Malgudi’ (1949). It is a satirical film. This was Padmini’s first Hindi film in a lead role while Motilal was in the title role of Mr. Sampat. The film was first made in Tamil in 1948 but R K Narayan made some revision in the story based on which the Hindi version was made.
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6400 Post No. : 19855 Movie Count :

5183

Today I introduce a song from a movie which makes a debut on this blog. The movie I am talking about is “Laila” released in 1984 and the song is a fast romantic one sung by Kishore Kumar – “Ho Gaye Deewane Tum Ko Dekh Kar”.

The 1984 film Laila is a romantic drama directed by Saawan Kumar Tak. It is notably remembered as one of the early films of Anil Kapoor’s career, though its release was slightly delayed, leading to Woh 7 Din being his official debut as a leading man.
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6400 Post No. : 19854

“Kaala Samundar”(1962) was directed by R P Ashq for Deepak Chitra Production. The movie had Jairaj, Chitra, Bir Sakuja, Maruti, Hiralal, Radhika, Tuntun etc in it.

“Kaala Samundar”(1962) had seven songs in it. Four of these songs have been covered in the past.
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