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


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6396 Post No. : 19841

Today’s song is from an imaginary (Kalpanik) film – Hatimtai ki Beti-1955.

The film was produced and directed by Nanubhai Vakil for his own banner Vakil productions, Bombay. Music was by A.R.Qureshi, assisted ably by the yesteryear’s composer, Damodar Sharma. Sharma was one of the well known Music Directors of the early era films. Among the old era MDs, Damodar Sharma was different, in the sense that his songs were always unlike those of his contemporaries. When you hear his songs, you will notice that difference. From 1934 to 1948, he gave music to just 41 films. All his films were C grade films made by Paramount, Liberty, Ramnik Productions, Mohan Pictures and others. After 1948, he stopped getting films, so he worked as assistant to MD A.R.Qureshi till 1964.

The cast of the film included Chitra, Mahipal, Daljit, Krishnakumari, Kamal, Kammo, Heera Sawant, Helen, Ruhi, Tun Tun, Naaz,Maruti, Sunder, Kesari, W.M.Khan and others. The guest artistes were Heeralal, Ram Singh, Al Nasir etc. Lyricists were Shevan Rizvi and Kaifi Azmi.
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6395 Post No. : 19840

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 84

Today, 20th January 2026 is the 21st death anniversary of one of the most glamorous actress of the 70s and early 80s – Parveen Babi.

Parveen Babi was an iconic Indian actress and model who became one of the most successful and highest-paid stars in Hindi cinema during the 1970s and early 1980s. She was celebrated for her westernized fashion sense and glamorous screen presence, which broke traditional stereotypes of the era.

Born on April 4, 1954 in Junagadh, Gujarat, into the noble Babi Dynasty. She attended St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Her academic background was considered quite prestigious for a film actress at the time.
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6395 Post No. : 19839

‘Ek Baar Kaho’ (1980) was produced under the banner of Rajshree Productions and was directed by Lekh Tandon. The cast included Navin Nischol and Shabana Azmi in lead roles with Dilip Dhawan and Kiran Vairale in the second lead roles. The supporting cast included Madan Puri, Anil Kapoor, Rajendranath, Jagdeep, Hari Shivdasani, Arvind Deshpande, Shivraj, Rajan Kapoor, Colonel Kapoor, Avtar Gill, Ratan Gurung etc.
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6395 Post No. : 19838

“Watan Se Door”(1968) was produced and directed by Kamran for Rainbow Films, Bombay. The movie had Dara Singh, Nishi, Kamran, Daisy Irani, Tiwari, Maruti, Meenakshi, Shyam Kumar, Amarnath, Amar, Khursheed Khan, Anjum, Zerry, Habib, Fazlu, Tuntun, Bibu China, Masood, Moolchand, etc in it. The movie had five songs in it. Four songs have already been covered in the past.
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6395 Post No. : 19837

Today’s song is from a social film Ferry aka Kashti-1954.

Produced and directed by Hemen Gupta for his own banner Film trust of India, Bombay, the film had music by hemant kumar. In this film, his assistant was Ravi (Ravi Shankar Sharma), who soon made his Debut as an independent Music Director with the film ” Vachan “-1955. However, for many films even after ‘Vachan’, he continued to be an assistant to Hemant Kumar. Wherever possible, he also used Hemant Kumar as a Playback singer in the films wherein he was the Music Director.

The cast of the film was Geeta Bali, Dev Anand, Ram Singh, Gulab, Chand Burke, Premlata, Janaki Das, Master Babu, Baby Bula and many others. Geeta Bali’s name appeared before Dev’s, because this was her 48th film compared to 35th film of Dev Anand, thus she was senior.
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6394 Post No. : 19836 Movie Count :

5180

Pancham’s Music – Eighties-to-Nineties (1981-1994…) Duets-8

This duet composition by Rahul Dev Burman is from the 1990 movie ‘Dushman’. This title “Dushman” was also released in the years 1939, 1957, 1971 and 1998. All these four movies are already represented in the blog. “Dushman”(1990) came 19 years after “Dushman “(1971). Among all “Dushman” ( 🙂 ) I guess that the movie released in 1971 starring Rajesh Khanna in the title role (Dushman chaachaa 🙂 ) must be the most popular and successful of all these movies.

“Dushman”(1990) was directed by Shakti Samanta for ‘Shakti Films, Bombay’ i.e. his home productions. The cast of this movie has Mithoon Chakravarty, Mandakini, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Alok Nath, Deepa Sahi, Tanuja, Biplab Chatterjee, Vijay Arora, Ranjeet, Tarun Ghosh, Manek Dutt, Bob Christo, Ravi Nandi, Shakti Thakur, Anirudh Agarwal and others. This movie was passed by the Censor Board on 12.03.1990.
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6394 Post No. : 19835

“Taajposhi”(1957) was produced by Tejnath Zaar and directed by Dwarka Khosla for Zaar Productions, Bombay. The movie had Shyama, Ranjan, Shammi, Manju, Maruti, Jeevan, Praveen Pal, Bhagwan Sinha, Kanchanmala, Satish Batra, Gopal Vashishtha etc in it. Kammo had a guest appearance in this movie.
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6394 Post No. : 19834

Today ‘s song is a typical 1950’s Fun song from a Mythological film – Durga Pooja-1954.

The film was produced by Dhirubhai Desai and his son Sharad Desai for their family banner Sharad Productions, Bombay. The director of this film was Dhirubhai Desai. Music Director was a veteran of such films – S.N.Tripathi. He used 4 lyricists for the film’s 10 songs namely, Bharat Vyas (3 songs), G.S.Nepali (2), B.D.Mishra (3) and Saraswati Kumar ‘Deepak’ (2). The cast included Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Shahu Modak, Kamal( wife of comedian actor Maruti), Yashodhara Katju, Ratnamala, S.N.Tripathi, Rajkumar Khatri, Indira Bansal, Yashwant Dave etc.
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6393 Post No. : 19833

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet #
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In this post I am presenting a ‘club-dance-song’ sung by Suman Kalyanpur. I came across this song only yesterday. Songs are this genre is mostly sung by Asha Bhonsle and we have been listening to many such Asha Bhonsle songs on this blog these days. So when I came across this song in the voice of Suman Kalyanpur I thought I should present it here.

I have no idea how many such songs Suman Kalyanpur has sung in Hindi Films. This song is picturised as a typical 1970s club dance song on Jayshree T.
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6393 Post No. : 19832

ہر ایک بات پہ کہتے ہو تم کہ تو کیا ہے

تمہیں کہو کہ یہ انداز گفتگو کیا ہے

نہ شعلہ میں یہ کرشمہ نہ برق میں یہ ادا

کوئی بتاؤ کہ وہ شوخ تند خو کیا ہے

یہ رشک ہے کہ وہ ہوتا ہے ہم سخن تم سے

وگرنہ خوف بد آموزی عدو کیا ہے

چپک رہا ہے بدن پر لہو سے پیراہن

ہمارے جیب کو اب حاجت رفو کیا ہے

جلا ہے جسم جہاں دل بھی جل گیا ہوگا

کریدتے ہو جو اب راکھ جستجو کیا ہے

رگوں میں دوڑتے پھرنے کے ہم نہیں قائل

جب آنکھ ہی سے نہ ٹپکا تو پھر لہو کیا ہے

وہ چیز جس کے لیے ہم کو ہو بہشت عزیز

سوائے بادۂ گلفام مشک بو کیا ہے

پیوں شراب اگر خم بھی دیکھ لوں دو چار

یہ شیشہ و قدح و کوزہ و سبو کیا ہے

رہی نہ طاقت گفتار اور اگر ہو بھی

تو کس امید پہ کہیے کہ آرزو کیا ہے

ہوا ہے شہہ کا مصاحب پھرے ہے اتراتا

وگرنہ شہر میں غالبؔ کی آبرو کیا ہے

हर एक बात पे कहते हो तुम कि तू क्या है
तुम्हीं कहो कि ये अंदाज़-ए-गुफ़्तुगू क्या है

न शो’ले में ये करिश्मा न बर्क़ में ये अदा
कोई बताओ कि वो शोख़-ए-तुंद-ख़ू क्या है

ये रश्क है कि वो होता है हम-सुख़न तुम से
वगर्ना ख़ौफ़-ए-बद-आमोज़ी-ए-अदू क्या है

चिपक रहा है बदन पर लहू से पैराहन
हमारे जैब को अब हाजत-ए-रफ़ू क्या है

जला है जिस्म जहाँ दिल भी जल गया होगा
कुरेदते हो जो अब राख जुस्तुजू क्या है

रगों में दौड़ते फिरने के हम नहीं क़ाइल
जब आँख ही से न टपका तो फिर लहू क्या है

वो चीज़ जिस के लिए हम को हो बहिश्त अज़ीज़
सिवाए बादा-ए-गुलफ़ाम-ए-मुश्क-बू क्या है

पियूँ शराब अगर ख़ुम भी देख लूँ दो-चार
ये शीशा ओ क़दह ओ कूज़ा ओ सुबू क्या है

रही न ताक़त-ए-गुफ़्तार और अगर हो भी
तो किस उमीद पे कहिए कि आरज़ू क्या है

हुआ है शह का मुसाहिब फिरे है इतराता
वगर्ना शहर में ‘ग़ालिब’ की आबरू क्या है

No need to say here that the above ghazal is the kalam of Mirza Ghalib. His takhallus is his signature in the last Shair. Like the painters sign at the bottom of the canvas. Newer trend here is the thumb impression, biometric is the new signature. Going back in time.

The trigger for the above ghazal is here in the last stanza of this song:

aakaash se taare toot padey
aankh se tapki jo meri daastaan

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