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

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Kids of my and earlier generations grew up reading adventure tales where intrepid explorers going deep into Africa would be captured by natives and tied at the stake and the man eating natives would then dance around the stakes as preparation for cooking the captured adventurers in their cooking pots.
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The storyline of “Phagun” (1958) was clearly inspired from “Naagin” (1954). In “Naagin”(1954), the heroine finds the music of “been” irrestible, whereas in “Phaagun”, hero’s flute has a similar effect on the heroine. In “Naagin”, we had Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala in lead roles, whereas in “Phagun”, we had Bharat Bhushan and Madhubala playing the same roles.
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In old Bollywood movies, actors were often seen singing while playing a grand piano. Songs like that to me were unrealistic, because firstly, it is not possible to play that huge instument while singing a song at the same time. And secondly, expecting the lead actors to possess a huge grand piano, as well as a huge mansion to accomodate the said piano was unrealistic to my mind.
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