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“Matlabi Duniya”(1961) must be one of the more obscure movies of all time. Little information is available about this movie. It was a Chetna Production movie. It was directed by Radhakant M Thakore and the movie had Damuanna, Anant Kumar, Asha, Satish Vyas, Dhumal. I am not aware who are Asha and Damunna in the cast.
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Today (30 august) is the birth anniversary of Shailenedra (30 august 1923- 14 deceember 1966). It is unimaginable but true that Shailendra lived to an age of only 43 ! The body of work that he had built up by that time was so imposing that he was already a legend by that time.
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“Sanjog”(1961) was a Light and Shade productions movie. It was produced by Om Prakash (the actor) and directed by Pramod Chakraborty. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Shubha Khote,Mehmood, Sunder, Raj Mehra, Leela Misra, Om Prakash, Pachhi etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Again, a long gap, which actually troubles me more than anything else. I am sure one of these days, Atul ji will add the following header to the top of one of my posts ; “This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a MOST-IRREGULAR-regular contributor to this blog.” 😀 😀
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There have been two Hindi movies called “Shama” and there are many people including “experts” who get mixed up in this confusion. There movies were “Shama” (1946) and “Shama” (1961). The confusion is compounded by the fact that the music directors of these movies were Ghulam Haider and Ghulam Mohammad respectively and there are people who think that the two were the same person. In fact I once watched a podcast about old songs where the podcaster very knowledgeably told the audience that Ghulam Haider, who composed the music of “Shaheed” (1948) later composed the music of “Pakeezah” (1972).
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

It is said that among the domesticated animals, dogs have a special bonding with human beings. They can anticipate their masters’ mind and act accordingly. During my childhood, we had cats as pet but not the dogs. However, we always had some street dogs around us who were like pets to us. While our pet cats’ loyalty was suspect, I always found street dogs around us very loyal. Theyalso had the ability of assessing the degree of our docility and act accordingly.
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“Pyaar Ki Pyaas” (1961) was a Anupam Chitra Production. It was produced by Pt Mukhram Sharma and Mahesh Kaul. Pt Mukhram Sharma wrote the story and Mahesh Kaul directed the movie. The movie had Manmohan Krishna, Nishi Kohli, Shrikant, Honey Irani, David Abraham, Manorama, Yashodhara Katju, Lal Bahadur, Gopi Krishna, Kamal Mehra, Indira Bansal, Dulari, Kathana, Hayat, Taneja etc.
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