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

‘Baarood’ from 1960 is a relatively better known film, probably that being a Sheikh Mukhtar film, it does get some attention. The film is a social drama produced under the banner of Super Pictures, Bombay and is produced and directed by Aspi Irani. The main star cast is Sheikh Mukhtar, Kumkum, Honey Irani, Sudhir, Veena, Heeralal, Husnbano, Mukri, Uma Dutt, Babu Rajey, Tuntun, Shakeel Nomaani, Suresh, Mantobai, Baby Ratan, Fazloo, Balaram, Andaleep.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Pancham, the name by which that Rahul Dev Burman was affectionately called, was a name that was given by his father, Sachin Dev Burman. Once in an interview, RDB had revealed why Sachin Da called him by this name. He says that when he was born, and when Sachin Da heard him cry for the first time, he found that the pitch at which the newborn was screaming was the fifth octave of the sargam. And that is how he came to be known as Pancham. (There are other anecdotes also, crediting Ashok Kumar with naming him so.)
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I realised it recently that the songs of “Sangam” (1964), which was a musical extravaganza of its time, are under represented in the blog. So far only four songs from this movie have been discussed and several well known songs from the movie are still at large.
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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.

Recently, I came across a rare song ‘saajan tumse pyaar karoon main’ from the film BADNAAM (1952) sung by Lata Mangeshkar. It was written by Hasrat Jaipuri and set to music by Basant Prakash. I always felt that this talented music director belonging to the golden era of Hindi film songs was side tracked by Hindi film industry for reasons best known to them. As a result, during his 30years of active filmy career, he was the music director in about a dozen films only, some of which were joint ventures with other music directors.
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“Yakeen” (1969) was a Navratna Pictures presentation. It was directed by Brij. The movie had Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Sunder, Helen, Anwar Hussain, Asit Sen, Brahm Bharadwaj, Vinod Sharma, Mukri, Dharmendra, Kamini Kaushal, David Abraham, Shetty, Gautam Mukherji etc in it.
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“Mujrim”(1970) was produced by S P Suri and directed by Kewal Mishra. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Kumud Chuggani, Dev Kumar, Jayant, Nishi, Brahmachari, Hiralal, Rajan Haksar, Kundan, Balwant, Jayshree T., Meenakshi, Rekha Chauhan, Roopali, Birbal etc in it.
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“Do Phool” (1958) was a Silver Wings presentation. This movie was directed by Kardar. The movie had David, Agha, Jeevan, Baby Naaz, Master Romi, Vijaya Choudhury, Bipin Gupta, Ulhas, Pratima Devi, Rajan Haksar, Neelam, Amir Baanu, Mumtaz Begum, Banerjee, Nasreen, Amir Ali, Tiloo etc in it.
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“Ziddi” (1964), not to be confused with “Ziddi”(1948) was a Pramod Films Production. It was produced and directed by Pramod Chgakravorty. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Asha Parekh, Mehmood, Shobha Khote, Dhumal, Raj Mehra, Sulochana, Ullhas, Madan Puri, Nazima, Majnu, etc in it.
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“Aag Ka Dariya” (1953) is by now an obscure movie. It was a Shorey Films Production. It was produced and directed by Roop K Shorey. The movie had Karan Dewan, Meena Shorey, Prithviraj Kapoor, Shammi, Majnu, Johnny Walker, Cesil etc in it.
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