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

Today is the Death Anniversary of India’s most versatile singer Mohammed Rafi saab. Thanks to his evergreen songs, we still feel his presence amongst us. In last so many years India has not produced a single singer of Rafi’s calibre. One can not just say that those times were different and there was hardly any competition to him. Even in those days there was competition, but a healthy one. Artistes appreciated each others and conveyed their likings to the concerned artists, be it a role acting or a song or a tune. Even though for quite some time Kishore Kumar seemed to rule the industry, he was good enough to say that” Hum to bhai Barsaati mendhak hai. Barsaat khatam, hum khatam. Rafi saab jaise Timeless singer nahin hain hum.”
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Today’s song is from film MILAN-1958, sung by Rafi and Shamshad Begum, with music by Hansraj Behl.
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Today (29 april 2013) is the 14th death anniversary of Kidar Sharma (12 april 1910- 29 april 1999). He was involved in Hindi movies in various capacities, viz Producer, Director, Script/ Screenplay writer, lyricist, actor etc. He is also known as one who gave beaks to several artists who later went on to become big names in Hindi movies. Raj Kapoor, Madhubala, Geeta Bali, Bharat Bhushan, Hansraj Bahl, Snehal Bhatkar, Roshan, Mala Sinha, Tanuja are a few such names who owe their debuts in Hindi movies to Kidar Sharma.
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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.

The song I have chosen for discussion is a Mukesh-Shamshad duet ‘moti chugne gayi re hansi maansarovar teer’ from the film ‘CHHEEN LE AZAADI (1947) which I have been all along assuming to have already beencovered in the blog. Now I find that this duet is yet to be discussed in the blog. The reason for my erroneous assumption was that some time back our dear Sudhir had taken up the mission of posting Mukesh songs pertaining to 1940s.
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