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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.
This is the story of a 16 year old boy born in Peshawar in a conservative Pathan family for whom the association with film industry was a strict taboo. The boy was attracted to Bombay (Mumbai) as a destination. While listening to some Hindi film songs in one of the shops in Peshawar, a few of his friends coaxed him to try his luck as an actor in Hindi film industry since he had a good face. The fascination for Bombay coupled with the remarks from his friends were sufficient motivational factors for this youngboy to leave ( rather run away from) Peshawar for Bombay some time in 1935. The young boy was Ghulam Mustafa Durrani (1919-1988), later known in the Hindi film industry as G M Durrani, the playback singer.
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“Dilruba”(1950) is a movie which was produced by Lotus Orient Films. It was directed by Dwarka Khosla. The star cast of the movie included names like Dev Anand, Rehana, Cuckoo, Yakub, Balam, Achla Sachdev, Gogia Pasha etc.
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Naina panghat bhaye hamaare
Posted on: October 5, 2011
“Shankar Parvati” (1943) is a movie produced by Ranjit movies and directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. This movie had actors like Arun, Sadhana Bose,Rewa Shankar, Bhagwandas, Kamla Chatterji, Brajmala etc in it.
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“Anban” (1944) is as obscure a movie as a movie ever can be. Hardly any information is available about this movie now. This movie was directed by N Lahiri. Its star cast included names like Shah Nawaz, David Abraham, Mubarak , Pahari Sanyal, Nargis , Jagirdar , Shobhana Samarth etc.
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“Laal Dupatta” (1948) is a movie produced by Akash Chitra and directed by K B Lall. This by now forgotten movie had Sapru, Madhubala, ulhas, Gulzar, Neelam, Ranjit Kumari, Kesari, Raja Haksar etc in its cast.
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When one has to find details about Hindi movie songs, especially old songs, one has to be quite wary of the authenticity of the information. There are information about old songs that are incorrect. If such an information appears in one site, then it is faithfully cut and pasted by all other sites, and with time it becomes Gospel.
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“Kanchan” (1941) is a movie about which not much is known today, except that this movie had Leela Chitnis in it.
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Rain gayi ab huaa saweraa
Posted on: July 12, 2011
During old days (1950s to 1980s), a K L Saigal song was played as the last song of the programme “Puraani Filmon ke geet” in the Hindi service of Radio Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) broadcast from 7-30 AM to 8-00 AM. But they were under no obligatio to broadcast different K L Saigal songs every day. So the same few songs were constantly recycled in that programme.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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