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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Earlier in the week, I have posted two songs, on the request of Sikander Esmail Sb of the USA. The songs are “Mann Pagley Sapan Dikhaaye”, and “Tumhen Dil Se Jaane Nahin Denge Hum”.
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Kaahe nainon mein naina daale re
Posted on: April 22, 2013
“Jogan”(1950) was a Ranjit Film Company Production. This movie was made at a time why the studio was on the verge of bankruptcy. This movie, based on a seemingly flimsy looking story line rescued the company. Here is what Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia, has to say about this movie:-
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“Chunariya” (1948) was a Kuldeep Pictures Ltd production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Wasti, Manorama, Pran, Randhir, Cuckoo, Narbada Shanker etc in it.
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“Station Master” (1942) is a very old movie. If one looks at the year, one can see that this movie was released in the same year when Indians passed “Quit India” resolution on their British rulers. Yes, this movie is that old and not much is known about this movie. What is known is that this movie had actors like This movie had actors like Jagdish Sethi, Jeewan, Amirbai Karnataki, Baby Suraiyya, Gulab, Kaushalya, Prem Adib, Ratnamala, Shakir, Umakant etc.
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Ae dil machal machal ke yoon
Posted on: March 5, 2012
“Main Suhaagan Hoon” (1964) is a Nayyar Films Production. It was produced by V N Nayyar and directed by Kundan Kumar. Starcast of the movie had names like Mala Sinha, Ajit, Mishra, Kewal Kumar, Nazir Hussain, Nishi,Ramayan Tiwari, Durga Khote, Chand Burque, Najma, Raja, Kesri, Daya Devi, Altaf, Sarla, Mastram, Indira Bansal, T.N.Sinha, Sardul, Bimla, Rajnath, Manohar, Bihari etc.
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Ik din ik armaan bharaa dil
Posted on: October 28, 2011
“Gareebi” (1949) is a movie about which very little information is available on internet. Fortunately, we have our own encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, who was not only around when these movies were released, but on many cases he even watched such movies and took notes.
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“Aurat Teri Yehi Kahaani” (1954) was Ranjit Movietone (assembly line) production, which was directed by their long term director Charurbhuj Doshi. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nirupa Roy, Sulochana, Chandrashekhar etc in it.
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Jab chaand jawaan hogaa
Posted on: August 18, 2011
Here is a song that is a very rare song on several counts.
This song is from an obscure movie called ‘Bairam Khan” (1946). This song is sung by not one or two or three, but four female singers ! This song is sung by Geeta Dutt (then Roy), Shamshad Begam, Naseem Begam and Munawwar Sultana.
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Chaahe dil ki khidki na khuley
Posted on: June 22, 2011
“Bhool Bhulaiyya” (1949) was apparently a light hearted B grade movie made on a shoe string budget. This movie had some funny songs in it.
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Bollywood movies and Indian Railways are two of the major unifying factors for this vast nation of India. And these two often come face to face. We have people sitting in railway trains and singing songs (ask beggars on local trains) and on the other hand we have movies depicting songs sung in trains.
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