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5873 Post No. : 18447

Today’s song is from a ‘Milestone’ film Chandralekha-1948.

I call it a Milestone Film, because it was the pioneer film that started the south made dubbed, remade and independent Hindi films for the All India Hindi audience. What’s more, it happened at a time when the flow of such Hindi films made in the East- Calcutta- had diminished and after some time totally gave up the space to south made films.
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5398 Post No. : 17707

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2013-2023) – Song No.100
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On this date ten years ago (29 April 2013), six songs from six different movies were covered in the blog. Here are the details:-

Post No Song Title Name of the movie Remarks
8001 Mera husn lootne aayaa Chandralekha (1948) 8 songs covered out of 11 by now
8002 Chanda ki chaandni na suhaaye to kya karen Duniya Ek Saraai (1947) 5 songs out of 9 by now
8003 Tere saath chal rahe hain ye zameen ye chaand taare Angaarey(1954) Movie YIPPEED by now
8004 Itni si baat ka fasaana na banaao Ek Ladki Saat Ladke(1961) Movie YIPPEED by now
8005 Ham pe daya rakhna Aas (1953) Movie YIPPEED in the blog with this song
8006 Jaa jaa jaa jaa tujhe ham jaan gaye Sehraa (1963) Movie YIPPEED by now

We observe that four movies (out of six) whose songs were covered in the blog on this date ten years ago (on 29 April 2013) have since been YIPPEED in the blog. That leaves us with two unYIPPEED movies that are eligible for Blog Ten Year Challenge today (29 April 2023).

“Chandralekha”(1948) is one BTYC eligible movie today.
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5106 Post No. : 17047

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2012-2022) – Song No. 69
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This date ten years ago (viz 11 July 2012) saw six songs from six different movies getting covered in the blog. Here are the details:-

Blog Post number Song Movie (Year) Remarks
6213 Chaand mere kyun door khada sharmaaye Chandralekha (1948) 7 songs covered out of 11 by now
6214 Do din ki bahaar Dulaari(1949 Movie YIPPEED by now
6215 Hazaaron khwaahishen aisi ki har khwaahish pe dam nikley Ghaayal(1951) 5 songs covered out of 11 by now
6216 Jaa re baadal Kailashpati(1962) 3 songs covered out of 16 by now
6217 Tum jahaan ho wahaan kyaa ye mausam nahin Road To Sikkim(1969) One song covered out of 8 by now
6218 Kab talak shamma jali yaad nahin Painter Babu (1983) 3 songs covered out of 7 by now

We can observe that one movie (out of six) whose songs were covered ten years ago on this date has since been YIPPEED. Other five movies are eligible for Blog Ten Year Challenge today (11 July 2022).
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This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Remembering playback singer Uma Devi, more popularly known as comedian Tun Tun, on her death anniversary today. (24th November)
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“Chandralekha” (1948) was a milestone for Indian movie industry. It was originally a South Indian movie produced by Gemini.After its huge success in South India, the movie was dubbed/remade into Hindi and its success among Hindi movie watchers paved the way for South Indian producers to venture into producing Hindi movies, not just as remake of South Indian movies, but also original Hindi movies.
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“Chandralekha”(1948) was a Hindi remake of Gemini’s movie of the same name in South Indian languages (Tamil and Telugu) and all these versions turned out to be hugely popular and this encouraged Gemini and other South Indian production houses to foray into production of Hindi movies in future.
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Till recently, scoring centuries of songs took me just a fortnight. But now I have slowed down considerably. My previous century (song number 2101 to 2200) took me one month. Even that was much faster than my present century. Yes, this song is song number 2300 for this song, and it has taken me a tortoise like two months and a half to reach from 2201 to 2300 !
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