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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.

Collecting information from forgotten artists is extremely difficult. First problem is to find them. Many yesteryear actors who are still alive are living in anonymity. People who live around them also may not know their identity, many times. If they are members of CINTAA (Cine and TV Artists’ Association, Mumbai), one may get their addresses, but some actors do not even inform CINTAA, when they shift.
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If a Hindi movie is named “Sadhana”, “Raagini”, “Kalpana” etc then one can be rest assured that the movie will not have the actress of that name in these movies. But it is different with a movie title like “Johny Walker” (1957). This movie, which was a Natraj production movie directed by Ved Mohan, had Johny Walker in the title role. The movie also had Shyama, Tony Walker, Raj Mehra, Amar, Sulochana etc in it.
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“Nau Do Gyaarah”(1957) was produced by Dev Anand and directed by Vijay Anand. The movie had Dev Anand, Lalita Pawar, Rashid Khan, Kalpana Kartik, Jeevan, Shashikala, Madan Puri, M. A. Latif, Helen, Krishan Dhawan, Jagdish Raaj, Nazir Kashmiri etc in it.
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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.

Old age too has some advantages. You have seen or done something long long ago, which is a part of History or a matter of wonder and awe for the younger generation. The cicumstances and social set up has undergone a sea change in the last 50-60 years. As such this period is equal to 2-3 generations(30 years=1 generation) and no wonder if things are topsy-turvy and 180 degrees changes have taken place.
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Plagiarism, or what is euphemistically called “taking inspiration” is nothing new for hindi movies. We have instances of movies which have been lifted frame by frame from movies from some other countries, and that too without acknowleding the fact. And in case people come to know about such acts, the makers of the plagiarised movie are often quite defiant about it and refuse to acknowledge the fact.
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c…”Nausherwaan e Adil” (1957) was a Minerva Movietone production. It was directed by Sohrab Modi. The movie had Raj Kumar, Mala Sinha, D.K.Murad, Shammi, Agha, Amir Bano, Niranjan Sharma, Sohrab Modi, Naseem Bano, Bipin Gupta, Uma Dutt, Heera Sawant, Sheela Vaz etc in it.
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