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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6540Post No. :20351Movie Count :5218

We now move on to the next actress whose name begins with an “A” and who has lip-synced to a song by Asha Bhosle. Today, we feature Anjala Zaveri.

Anjala Zaveri was launched in a big way through Vinod Khanna’s film Himalay Putra (1997). Since Akshaye Khanna was to be introduced in this film, a nationwide search campaign was conducted to find a suitable heroine for him. A similar kind of large-scale build-up had earlier been seen with Henna (1990), which benefited from it and became successful.

Anjala Zaveri was born in the UK into a Gujarati-speaking family. However, since Himalay Putra was not a major success, her acting career stalled before it could properly take off. The success that eluded her in the Bombay film industry was partially compensated by her work in the Telugu and Tamil film industries, where she remained active for the next eight years or so. In total, she appeared in 23 films: 7 in Hindi, 11 in Telugu, 3 in Tamil, and 1 each in Kannada and Malayalam.

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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6539Post No. :20347

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 115

This is the second of the back to back rare song of Asha Bhosle from “Bandagi” (1972). This song is “Bade Anadi Seedhe Saadhe” it is written by Rajinder Krishan and composed by Shankar Jaikishan.

“Bandagi” (1972) was directed by K Shankar for MCR Films, Madras. The movie had Vinod Mehra, Sandhya Roy, Madan Puri, Sujit Kumar, Ramesh Deo, Sundar, Birbal, Shivraj, Prem Kumar, Gemini Balu, Indira Bansal, Shammi, Shabnam, Pandhari Bai, Padma Khanna, Jagdeep etc in it.

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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6538Post No. :20344Movie Count :5217

Continuing the series on actresses whose names start with A and who have lip-synched to Asha Bhosle’s songs, we come today to Aarti Gupta. I think she was more famous for her modelling career in the 1980s than for her acting career, although she was quite well known in the horror genre, particularly for her appearances in the Ramsay Brothers’ Samri series.

The Samri series began with Purana Mandir (1984). The character Samri became such a hit with horror fans that he was revived, even though he had been eliminated in the climax of the original film. I am not a big fan of the horror genre, particularly the bloodthirsty variety that tends to dominate the scene.

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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6538Post No. :20342

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 114

The next two rare songs are from the album “Bandagi” (1972). I’m presenting them back to back.

The first rare song of Asha Bhosle in my series is “Mera Naam Hai Jawani Mastani” from “Bandagi” (1972). The song is written by Rajinder Krishan and composed by Shankar Jaikishan.

“Bandagi” (1972) was directed by K Shankar for MCR Films, Madras. The movie had Vinod Mehra, Sandhya Roy, Madan Puri, Sujit Kumar, Ramesh Deo, Sundar, Birbal, Shivraj, Prem Kumar, Gemini Balu, Indira Bansal, Shammi, Shabnam, Pandhari Bai, Padma Khanna, Jagdeep etc in it.

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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6537Post No. :20340

‘Jail Yaatra’ (1981) was produced by Vijay Maria and Praveen Bali and was directed by Bhappi Sonie. The cast included Ashok Kumar, Vinod Khanna, Reena Roy, Amjad Khan, Anwar Hussain, Ashoo, Heena Kausar, Jyoti Bakshi, Jaishree T, Anjana Mumtaz, Dhumal, Vandana Shashtri, Rajan Kapoor, Beena, Abhimanyu Sharma, Brahm Bhardwaj, Katy Mirza, Manhar Desai, Keshav Rana, Mushtaq Merchant, Shivraj etc. Nirupa Roy and Jagdeep made their friendly appearances. The film went to floor sometime in 1975 but got delayed in its completion mainly due to Vinod Khanna’s frequent visits to Rajnish Ashram. Incidentally, during 1981-86, Vinod Khanna had taken sabbatical from the film industry.

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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6537Post No. :20338

Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 113

Today I present a rare duet sung by Asha Bhosle and Mohd. Rafi Saab. The song “Main Hoon Haseen Tum Ne Kaha” is from “Harfan Maula” (1976). It was written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and composed by Shamji Ghanshamji.

‘Harfan Maulaa-1976’ was produced and directed by S.M.Saagar for ‘Adhikar International, Bombay’. It had Ashok Kumar, Kabir Bedi, Asha Sachdev, Satish Kaul, Anwar Hussain, Kundan, Yashraj, Aroop Kumar, Shetty, Ramlal, Master Ripple, Danny Junior, Mumtaz Begam, Mughni Abbasi and Rukhsana. Zaheera, Aruna Irani, Helen, Shakila Banu Bhopali, N.A.Ansari, K.N.Singh, Chandrashekhar, Satyen Kappu, Bindu and Mehmood made special appearances in this movie.

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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6537Post No. :20337

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #

The song being discussed in this post is a multiple version song. In the female version song, the lady pulls the leg of the gentleman by mocking him. In the male version of the song, the gentlleman returns the compliment.

This song is from the movie ‘Maine Jeenaa Seekh Liyaa-1959’. Male version is sung by Mohd Rafi and the female version is sung by Asha Bhonsle. As per the song list of this movie in Geet Kosh the Asha Bhonsle version appears first (if the HFGK song list is in the order in which the songs appear in the movie) and the Rafi version happens later.

‘Maine Jeenaa Seekh Liyaa’-1959, a social movie, was directed by Satish Nigam for Filmistan Limited, Bombay. This movie was passed by the Censor Board on 10.12.1959.

The cast of this movie had Ameeta, Ravindra Kapoor, Durga Khote, P. Kailash, Badri Prasad, Agha, Savita Chatterjee, Lata, Sushil Kumar, Murad, Noorjahan, Narbada Shankar, Tiger (Dog), Munshi Khanjar and others. This movie has eight songs contributed by two lyricist viz. Anand Bakshi and Rahil Gorakhpuri. Both of them wrote four songs each for this movie.

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Blog Day :6536Post No. :20335

“Baaghi”(1964) was produced by R L Suri and directed by Ram Dayal for Mukul Movies, Bombay. This movie had Pradeep Kumar, Leela Naidu,Mumtaz, Veena, Jayant, Hiralal, Jeevan, Vijaya Chowdhary, Jagdeep, Helen, Madhumati, Mridula, Ulhas, Naaz, Rajan Haksar etc in it.

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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6535Post No. :20333Movie Count :5216

When Atul started his alphabetical series of actresses who have lip-synced to Asha Bhosle’s voice, I suggested the names of some actresses who were missing from the list. I also sent the respective songs. Amala’s name was on my list, along with the song “Step by Step” from Dost (1989). When I asked Atul if he would mind my writing a post on the song, he replied that he would welcome it. This is how this contribution of mine came about after a long hiatus from this resourceful blog.

I became aware of Amala through her first Hindi film, Pushpak (1987). The film made quite a splash in the Hindi film industry, as it was a silent movie released in the middle of a decade that was full of very loud films. I did not have the chance to watch it in a cinema hall at the time. Amala looked quite different from the usual Hindi heroines of that era. In her interviews, she came across as a very sympathetic person who was actively involved in efforts against cruelty to animals. This brings us to the plot of the movie in question.

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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :6535Post No. :20330

#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #

(Lyricist Kavi Pradeep-69)

This song under discussion is from the movie ‘Basant Panchami-1956’. It was directed by Jayant Desai for ‘Hemlata Pictures’. Jayant Desai was also the producer of this movie. As mentioned in HFGK Vol-III (1951-1960) ‘Basant Panchami-1956’ was a devotional or ‘bhakti pradhaan’ movie. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 24.07.1956. The cast of this movie included Nirupa Roy, Anant Kumar, Jeevan, S.N. Tripathi, Radhakishan, Yashodhara Katju, Niranjan Sharma, Kumkum, Babu Raje, Charubala, Anand Joshi, Sukumar, Dubey, Uma Dutt, Naazi, Shri Bhagwan and others.

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