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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The year is 1993. It is twenty five years now that the Dada Saheb Phalke award has been instituted. For the first time after twenty years of its inception, this prestigious award that represents a lifetime of significant contribution to the Indian cinema, is announced for a lyricist. And the recipient – Majrooh Sultanpuri.
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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.

Today’s song is the FIRST NFS sung by Kishore Kumar on this Blog. This was written by Kewal Sharma and the music was by Ramesh Gupta-who was a wellknown lyricist.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

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Voice of Mukesh #17
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Ah, finally. I have with me now, the song from the 1946 film ‘Durbaan’ that has been eluding me so far. Graciously and thankfully sent to me by another collector friend. Readers will recall that this is the one song from 1946, still waiting to be posted, as we traverse the early years of Mukesh’s career. As per records, by the end of 1946, Mukesh had sung 21 songs in eleven films (starting from 1941).
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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.

ARABIAN NIGHTS-1946 was a ” Triveni Sangam ” of artists from Bengal in a Bombay film. Kanan Devi, Kamal Dasgupta and Faiyaz Hashmi came together to make music for this Fantasy film. This film,incidentally, is also making its debut on this Blog.
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Shamshad Begam (14 april 1919- 23 april 2013) is no more. She was the seniormost among all the survivors from the earliest days of Hindi movie music. She in fact was senior to all the legends of the golden era of Hindi movie music. She was more or less a contemporary of the likes of K L Saigal, Khursheed, Amirbai Karnataki etc.
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“Magadh Raj” (1946) must be one of the most obscure Hindi movies of all time. Hardly any information is available about this movie. Songs from this movie are not available on YT either. One can come across songs like this only in one’s own offline collection if any and there too one needs to search specifically for these songs.
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“Room no. 9” (1946) must be among one of the most obscure Hindi movies by now. The movie as well as its songs have been forgotten with time. From the little information that I have been able to dig up about this movie, it seems that this movie was directed by Vedi (?). The movie had Shyam, Geeta, Nizami, K N Singh, Saroj Borkar etc in it.
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