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

Kedar Sharma, a career that started with a paint brush, and then went on to scale exceptional heights of creative cinema, and in the process helped to start many a famous careers in the industry. The eminent showman, Raj Kapoor, revered him as his guru. Many a famous artists made their debut in his films – Madhubala, Geeta Bali, Mala Sinha, Bharat Bhushan, Tanuja etc. He was the inspiration and the encouragement for a whole generation of performers and directors in the early decades of the industry.
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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.

GUNAAH (1953) was produced under the banner of Ambitious Pictures and directed by Kidar Sharma. The star cast included Jagdev, Geeta Bali, Vijay Laxmi, Jankidas, Pratima Devi, A S Gyani, Pesi Patel, Baby Naaz, Tun Tun etc. The film had seven songs of which two songs have been covered in the blog. All the songs were written by Kidar Sharma. Of the 7 songs, Snehal Bhatkar composed six songs and Roshan composed one ghazal “mere khayaalon mein aake gale laga jaa mujhe”.
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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 his 200th writeup in the blog.

SHOKHIYAN (1951) was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma under the banner of Ambitious Pictures. The star cast included Premnath, Suraiya, Jeewan, Kamlesh Kumari, Nazira, Shanta Kanwar, Achala Sachdev, Ramesh Sinha etc. There were 8 songs in the film of which 6 were penned by Kidar Sharma and remaining two songs by his brother Himmat Rai Sharma. Kidar Sharma was impressed with Jamal Sen’s classical and Rajasthani folk tunes he demonstrated to him and thus got the music direction of the film.
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“Chitralekha” (1941) was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma. This movie, which was based on a Bhagwati Charan Verma novel of the same name had Mehtab in title role with Nandrekar, A S Gyani, Rajendra , Monica Desai , Ram Dulari, Leela Mishra, Ganpatrai Premi and Bharat Bhushan (making his debut in Hindi movies) etc also there in the movie.
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