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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

When Ramanand Sagar released his ‘Aankhen’ in 1968, the film took the box office by storm, and was declared as a blockbuster by the trade journals. Ramanand Sagar bagged the Filmare award for the best director, and the film also got the Filmfare award for color cinematography. The music was hit, with lyrics coming from the pen of Sahir Ludhianvi and the music from the baton on Ravi. A film that truly settled Dharmendra’s career on a strong footing. In many ways, the film became a trendsetter.
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“Raaka” (1965) was a Tej Pictures production. It was produced by D N rathi and directed by Kedar Kapoor. The movie had Dara Singh, Mumtaz, K N Singh, Shyam Kumar, Shakila Bano Bhopali, Parveen Paul, Jagdish Raj, Kamal Mehra, Aroon, Meenaxi, Tuntun, Laxmi Chhaaya, Noor Jahan, Roopesh Kumar, Fazal, Khurshid, Bilkish, Bihari, Anand, Saudagar Singh, Vasant Singh, K C Panda, Salim, Black Shadow, Ganga, Paul Singh etc in it.
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Today (2 october) is Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. Mahatma Gandhi (2 october 1869- 30 january 1948), who is regarded as the Father of the nation was arguably one of the the greatest and most influential human beings of the modern era of mankind. Two of the movements that he initiated had Global application. They are Anti colonialism and Anti apartheid. Another major movement that he championed was anti touchability against a uniquely Indian social practice. All these movemnents have today become full fledged movements with official approval.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Some days back, I had posted the first song from the film ‘Dark Street’ (1961), first on this blog that is. The song is ‘Itne Badey Jahaan Mein, Apna Bhi Koi Hota’ . It was a farmaish from Prakash ji that was pending for some time. In that write up, I had written that the film has some more wonderful songs, and had promised I would be posting more songs from this film. So here is the next song from this film. This is a gem of a duet rendered by Manna Dey and Suman Kalyanpur. The lyrics for this film are penned by Indeevar and Gulshan Baawra. The YouTube post identifies the lyricist as Gulshan Baawra.
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