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

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

Searching for and finding rarities in the world of music, is a keen and interesting pursuit. The Hindi film songs have so many variants attached to their existence. Songs that appear in film, but are not released elsewhere. Songs that are on records but not included in the film. Version songs – the official song in the film and on the record, is also available on record in the voice of a different singer. This case is different from the same song sung by more than one singer and included in the film. Then we have the variations between the song published on record and the song as picturized in the film.
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“Pocketmaar” (1956) was a Black and White movies production. It was directed by H Sa Rawail. The movie had Dev Anand, Geeta Bali, Sunder, Nadira, Gope, Bhagwan Sinha, Lalita Pawar, Tiwari, Kumud Tripathi etc in it.

This movie had eight songs in it. As many as seven songs from this movie have already been discussed.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Filmistan’s Durgesh Nandini (1956) was an adaptation of the first ever Bengali novel Durgeshnondini. Published in 1865, it was written by none other than Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, immortalized as the composer of India’s national songVande Mataram.
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Today (1 november) is the death anniversary of lyricist Tanvir Naqvi (6 february 1919 – 1 november 1972). Born as Syed Khursheed Ali in Lahore,,Tanvir Naqvi namy not be as well as some well known lyricists, but he has penned some well known songs in Hindi movies. He migrated to Pakistan in 1950s and died in Lahore on this date 40 years ago.
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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.

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Lesser known singers- Singer 7 (Moti Sagar)
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In the Hindi film industry, there are 4 types of people.
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