Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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When I was growing us in late 1960s and 1970s, I was only aware of a few festivals when we had holidays. There were days like Holi, Deewaali, Raksha Bandhan,Durga Puja (Dashara), Id, Chrishmas etc. Then there were a few days thaat were known as days, viz Children’s day (Jawaharlal Nehru’s bithday), Teacher’s day (Radhakrishnan’s birthday) etc.
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We in India seem to have one festival or the other almost on a daily basis, which is natural seeing how many religions, regions and Gods we have. Similarly, we in this blog seems to have anniversaries almost on a basis, which is natural seeing how many people have contributed in the makings of the songs that we in this blog discuss.
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“Insaaniyat Ke Deshman” (1987) was a Shankar Movies production. It was produced and directed by Raj Kumar Kohli. The movie had Dharmendra, Shathrughna Sinha, Raj Babbar, Dimple Kapadia, Aruna Irani, Anita Raj, Sumeet Sehgal, Shakti Kapoor, Kader Khan, Amjad Khan, Smita Patil, Gurbachan Singh, Vikas Anand, Urmila Bhatt, Abhi Bhattacharya, Janki Das, Pinchoo Kapoor, Iftekar, Paintal, Chandrashekhar, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Today (12 july) is the death anniversary of Rajendra Kumar. Movies featuring Rajendra Kumar tended to have fantastic music in them. As a result, we are spoilt for choice when it comes to discussing songs picturised on Rajendra Kumar. And this despite the fact that we have already discussed several such songs in the blog in the past.
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“Johny Mera Naam” (1970) was a Trimurti Films Provate Limited production. It was produced by Gulshan Rai and directed by Vijay Anand. The movie had Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Pran, PremNath, Randhawa, Padma Khanna, Jeevan, Jagadish Raj, Sulochana Latkar, I.S.Johar, Ifthekar, Sajjan, Sham Kumar, Tabassum, Dulari, Madhup Sharma, Anil, Chander, Mridula, Radheshyam, Bihari, V.Gopal, Keshav Rana, Subroto, Baby Reshma, Saudagar Singh, Hardith Singh etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Prakash ji has written for the second time in ‘Readers Farmaishes’ requesting for the upload of this wonderful sad song in the voice of Lata Mangeshkar. The music composition is by that underrated genius – Ganesh. Prakash ji has mentioned that the song itself is not posted anywhere on the internet. So when I read this comment from Prakash ji, repeating his request for this song, I had to pull this out from my collection, and have posted it on YouTube today.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

As I browse through my collection, through the YouTube, and through the Geet Kosh, I have jotted down a fairly long list of films that are still waiting in the wings to find an entry on this blog. And they satisfy two very important criteria that are kind of a thumb rule here. Most of these films are rare and obscure, and more importantly, they have music and songs that are just superb. Rather, these films carry songs that may not be all obscure, they have been popular, or at least played often on the radio, and are in the public memory. But the information about their creators, and the films to which these belong is not easy to relate.
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