Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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#Actress Rameshwari’s Birth Anniversary #
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‘Mera Rakshak’ was directed by R. Thyagaraj for Devar Films, Madras. It was produced by Sandow M.M.A. Chinnappa Devar who also wrote the story of this movie. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 26.05.1978. The cast of this movie included Mithun Chakraborty, Rameshwari, Rakesh Pande, Gayatri, Shreeram Lagoo, Abhi Bhattacharya, Raja Duggal, Jaya Malini, Ram Govind, Mukkamala, Yogesh Chhabda, Devar, Jemini Balu, Swaraj, Pande, Bhagya Kumar, Siraj, Mukesh, G. Krishnan, Krishnamurthy, and Udaylaxmi, Laxmipriya and Veerasami and others. Editing for this movie was done by M.G. Balu Rao. Dialogues of this movie were written by Ram Govind.
‘Mera Rakshak-1978’ had total four songs. Asha Bhonsle, Lata Mangeshkar and Yesudas give their voices to the songs of this movie. Music for this movie was composed by Ravindra Jain who also wrote the lyrics for the songs of this movie.
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Chaman jal raha hai
Posted on: January 5, 2026
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Today’s song is from a social family drama- Bhai Saheb-1954. I have not seen this film, but as per Wiki and IMDB, the story revolves around a kind and talented man who works in Radio as a counselor for needy people and solves their problems by his means, which has a positive response. He falls in love with a sweet girl and wants to marry her but first he must complete the task of reuniting other individuals, leading to consequences. The story is not very attractive or different from normal love stories. As compared to the other musical and entertaining films of 1954, this film was actually nowhere.
The 50’s decade was called the Golden Era of HFM, not for nothing. Year after year, the films provided excellent songs, different film Genres, convincing stories, superb acting and Full Paisa Vasool Entertainment. In such a scenario an average music, beaten track stories, mediocre acting, poor direction and lustreless short lived songs had no chance of winning. Today’s film was one such film.
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Paas rehta hai door rehta hai
Posted on: January 4, 2026
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6379 | Post No. : | 19780 | Movie Count : |
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#the Decade of Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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(Music Composer R.D. Burman’s 32nd Remembrance Day)
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Today 4th January 2026 is the 33rd Remembrance Anniversary of Rahul Dev Burman who is fondly known as ‘Pancham’. He was born on 27th June 1939 and he passed away on 4th January 1994 at the age of only 54.
Today on Pancham’s 33rd Remembrance Day we will be paying our tributes to him by listening to some of his compositions that were not yet presented till now.
While much of his musical treasure is already available for music lovers to savour, some more of this treasure is still being unearthed and is being shared online. I hope this process of digging up his as yet unknown compositions will continue in future as well.
From an estimated figure of 1755 songs from 331 Hindi movies composed by Pancham we have so far covered 944 songs from 254 Hindi movies on this blog.
I start day’s proceedings by presenting a song from the 1985 movie ‘AMEER AADMI GHAREEB AADMI’. It was directed by Amjad Khan for ‘Cinema International’s’. Shehla Khan and Vinay Sinha were the producers of this movie. Actor Amjad Khan who directed this movie had also credited as writer and editor of the movie as well. Dialogues for this movie were written by Akhtar-Ul-Iman. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 19.02.1985.
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6378 | Post No. : | 19777 |
“Santaan”(1959) was produced by Mahesh Kaul and directed by Jyoti Swaroop for Anupam Chitra Production. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Kamini Kadam, Nazir Hussain ,Rita Roy (Bindu), Dulaari, Leela Mishra, Manorama, David Abraham etc in it.
“Santaan”(1959) had seven songs in it. Five songs from the movie have been covered in the past.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6373 | Post No. : | 19764 |
Today’s song is from yet another Kalpanik (Imaginary) film -Son of Sindbad-1958.
Produced by Balwant Bhatt and Ram Kamlani, the film was directed by the younger brother of Balwant Bhatt – Nanabhai Bhatt. In Gujarat, ‘Nana’ means younger. His real name was Yashwant and his nickname was ‘Batuk’ (means smaller).
Director Nanabhai Bhatt ( 12-6-1915 to 24-4-1999). He was a director in many films.He directed mostly Mythological and stunt films only. Nanabhai was born as Yashwant ( pet name – Batuk) at Porbandar. Since he was the younger one he was called Nanabhai ( opposite to Motabhai-elder brother). This name continued till the end. His father was a doctor. After matriculation, he went to Mumbai in 1934, where his elder brother Balwant Bhatt was working. Balwant started with Imperial,shifted to Sagar and now was with Prakash pictures of Vijay and Shankar Bhatt. He got Nanabhai a job as Sound Recordist.Soon he graduated as Production Executive. He also wrote several screenplays.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6372 | Post No. : | 19763 |
Today’s song is the last and final song from the coloured social film Rahgir-1969.
I specifically mentioned coloured film, because it was still a novelty for the audience. Even in the 60’s, a few films were made in B & W, but by the end of 1960’s decade they were a thing of the past. Rahgir-1969 was a sort of a hybrid film – mixture of a regular film and a New Wave cinema. The audience was not yet ready for the New Wave Cinema, but the excellent films presented by the select producers and the directors their acceptance was achieved soon. The film was released on 2-7-1969 .
Film Rahgir-1969 was a remake of the celebrated Bengali film “Palatak” (1963). Tarun Majumdar, the director of the remake, had directed the Bengali original along with two co-directors – Sachin Mukherjee and Dilip Mukherjee. The film was based on the story “Angti Chattujjer Vai” by Manoj Basu. Hemant Kumar, who composed the music for the Bengali film, also composed the score for the remake.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6367 | Post No. : | 19746 |
#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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This song is from the movie ‘26th January’ alias ‘Bharati’, which was released in the year 1956. This movie was passed by the Censor Board on 14.08.1956. It was directed by Ramesh Sehgal. The cast of this movie had Nalini Jaywant, Ajeet, Johny Walker, Sapru, B.M. Vyas, Leela Mishra, Cuckoo, Balraj Mehta, Chaman Puri, Nishi (who made her debut with this movie) and others.
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Dil ka sun le tu afsaana
Posted on: December 22, 2025
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6366 | Post No. : | 19741 |
Today’s song is from a dubbed Hindi film -Piya Milan-1958.
This costume film was directed by Raghunath and the music was by P Ramesh Naidu, who was assisted by S.L.Merchant. The cast of the South indian dubbed film was Vyjayantimala, Raja Sulochana, Shri Ram, M.N.Rajam, Helen, Reeta, V.Nagiah, T.S.Baliah, P.L.Veerappa, Thangvellu, Chandra babu, G.A.K.Devar and many others. Lyricists were Harsha (3) and Hasrat Jaipuri (6). These 9 songs of the film were sung by P.Susheela, Lata mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar, Om Verma and jagmohan Bakshi. Actually, the film was produced by Jubilee Films, but was sold to R.R. Productions for releasing it.
Film Piya Milan-1958 was originally a Tamil film MARMAVEERA-1956, dubbed in Hindi. Most songs were having the same tune as given by the Tamil original’s composer S.Vedhu. The greatest attraction of this film was the Guest appearance by N.T.Rama Rao, Sivaji Ganeshan and Gemini Ganeshan. They were the heavyweight actors of the Southern films.
The 50’s decade was full of a deluge of films from the south. After S.S.Vasan proved that it was possible to capture the All India Hindi Audience market for South-made films, there was a mad rush and almost all major and minor film companies from south tried to get at least a small piece of the “Hindi Audience Cake” for their films. Films came in the shapes of Bilinguals, remakes and dubbed ones. Bilinguals – when a film is made in 2 languages at a time, one language being Hindi, remakes were new Hindi films made on old Hit films of South Indian languages. Dubbed films were films made in the southern language, with a sound track of Hindi language. In 1958 alone there were 7 films from the South, dubbed in Hindi, for All India markets.
Since the 1950’s decade, every south artist’s dream was to shine in the Hindi film industry, because Hindi films meant All India fame and an honour. In this dream many actresses achieved success, but comparatively actors were almost nowhere. The only name perhaps could be taken was that of actor Ranjan and few more. However, Jamuna, Vaijayantimala, Hema malini, Ragini, Padmini, Rekha and many more actresses from South became famous in Hindi films. Likewise when the Tamil and Telugu industry became a big one, many actresses like Khushbu etc from the Hindi land became famous in South films. Somehow males could not achieve this.
One of the major problems for south Indian artists is the Hindi language. The actresses like Vaijayantimala, Hema Malini and Rekha became experts, but Southern actors could not cross this hurdle. N.T.Ramarao ( 28-5-1923 to 18-1-1996) tried hard. He featured in 23 Hindi films which were mostly dubbed films barring few. One film Brahmarshi Vishwamitra-1991 was even directed by him. Sivaji Ganeshan (1-10-1927 to 21-7-2001) a winner of the prestigious ” Dadasaheb Phalke Award” in 1996, also featured in 19 Hindi films. Gemini Ganesan-real name R.Ganesan ( 17-11-1920 to 22-3-2005) was actress Rekha’s father. He acted in 24 Hindi films.
Similarly many music directors also had the same desire to shine in Hindi films, but had the same problem of language. One of these MDs was P.Ramesh Naidu who gave music to the Hindi film Piya Milan-1958.
Pasupuleti Ramesh Naidu (Born 18-10-1933, Died 2-9-2005) was born in Kondapalli in Krishna District (Andhra Pradesh). He was so obsessed with music that he ran away and landed in Bombay when he was 17 year old. B R Chopra took him under his wings and Ramesh learnt Instrumentation and orchestration in HMV at Bombay.
Here he learned music and also got opportunities to interact with Hindi and Marathi directors. His debut as a music director was for a Marathi Movie ” Bhandawal Paahije” 1950, produced, Directed and acted by Kishore Sahu, when he was 17 years old. He was first introduced to Telugu movies in Dampatyam by Actress Krishnaveni. He moved back to Bombay and gave music for Kishore Sahu’s Hamlet 1954, Waheeda Rahman’s DUBBED Telugu movie Jai Singh (1959). He later went to Calcutta, married a Bengali woman and worked for about ten years for Bengali, Nepali and Oriya films before returning to Telugu films with the movie Amma Mata in 1972. He composed music mainly for the directors Dasari Narayana Rao, Vijaya Nirmala and writer Jandhyala. His other major works are Srivariki, Premalekha, Sivaranjani, Ananda Bhairavi and Swayamkrushi.
After a few years he went back to Andhra and got married. He got a son also and then he came to Bombay, on his way to Calcutta. he spent 10 years there giving music to Bangla, Oriya and Nepali films.
He was invited to Madras and he gave music to Amma mata-72. He settled there with his family. He gave music in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. He came to Bombay from time to time to give music to Dubbed and Remade films from the South. He also gave music in a few Bhojpuri films. His Hindi films were Hamlet-54, Jaisingh-59, Piya Milan-58, Nartaki Chitra-65, Ganga Bhavani-79, Azaadi ki Oar-86,and Hum bhi kuch kam nahin-1983.His first south film was Dampatyam-57 and last was Ish Gup chup-1993. He surpassed Salil Chaudhari by giving music in 10 Indian languages( Salil da gave music in 9 ). Ramesh Naidu got the National Award for the film ‘Megh Sandesham’. Naidu left this world on 2-9-2005, at Hyderabad.
The story of the film Piya Milan-1958 was…..
Maharaja Kulasekhara is the king of Kurni Empire. He has a beautiful daughter Vijaya (Vyjayanti mala), who is in love with a young rich boy, Mahinder (Shri Ram).
Maharaja Parakram Bahu of the neighbouring kingdom comes calling and before going back proposes to Vijaya. He is told that she is already engaged and this alliance is not possible.
Parakram goes back enraged. He consults his vazir, Nari and they decide to destroy Kulasekhara. They tempt Srimantha, the commander of Kulshekar and then attack Kurni, capture the Maharaja and abduct Vijaya. The kingdom is then given to Shrimantha. Shrimantha and his cronies torture the poor Janata and loot them.
Suddenly, a masked man called PARAMVEER appears from nowhere and protects the oppressed janata. He also punishes the cronies and Looters. Meanwhile Parakram Bahu decided to marry Vijaya forcibly. Getting this news, Paramveer attacks Parakram Bahu in the night ,captures him and rescues the princess Vijaya.
Then Param veer leads a mutiny and defeats Srimantha and rescues Maharaja Kulasekhara. Finally, it is revealed that Param Veer is no one else but Mahinder, the fiance of Vijaya.
All is well, after this.
one of the cast members was Raja Sulochana. Raja sounds like a male name, but she was a dancer cum actress. In southern films, her name is mentioned as Rajsulochana, but in Hindi it is used as Raja Sulochana. Chittajallu Rajeevalochana (15 August 1935 – 5 March 2013), better known as Rajsulochana, was a classical dancer and actress. She has acted in more than 300 Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi language films.
She was born on 15 August 1935 in Bezawada (now Vijayawada), in Andhra Pradesh. Her father, Pilliarchetty Bhakthavatsalam Naidu worked in Indian Railways and was transferred to Madras as PA to the General Manager of M&SM Railway. At school, her name was recorded in error as Rajasulochana. She learned Indian classical dance from Lalithamma, K. N. Dhandayuthapani Pillai, Acharyulu and Vempati Chinna Satyam, Krishnakumar, Vishnu Vysarkar, and Kalamandalam Madhavan.
The Kannada stage and screen maestro H. L. N. Simha gave her an acting opportunity in Gunasagari (Kannada, 1953), produced by Gubbi Veeranna. Subsequently, she acted in about 274 films in all South Indian languages. She acted with all the leading stars of South Indian cinema such as M. G. Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan, N. T. Rama Rao, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Rajkumar, S. S. Rajendran, Prem Nazir, A. P. Nagarajan and M. N. Nambiar.
Rajasulochana was a special friend of the boss A.V.Meiyappan and he was trying to push her in Hindi films.It was rumoured that due to this only,this song and dance item with master Bhagwan was thrust in the film Chori Chori-1956, even if it did look like a patch, having no connection to the picture story in any manner !
Rajasulochana was a good dancer/actress and acted in some 80 odd Telugu,Kannada and Tamil movies.
She acted/danced in few Hindi movies like, Chori chori, Aayi phirse Bahar, Alladin ka chirag, Naya aadmi, Sitaron Se aage etc.
She founded the dance school “Pushpanjali Nritya Kala Kendram” in 1961 in Chennai. It has trained many students in Indian classical dance forms and celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 1986. She gave many dance performances in India and abroad and got critical acclaim for the dance dramas.
She had a son out of her first marriage and after it ended in a divorce, she married actor-director C. S. Rao and had twin daughters. One daughter lives in Chennai. The other twin daughter and son live in Chicago, Illinois.
Rajasulochana died in Chennai on 5 March 2013 at the age of 77. Condoling her death, the then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had said the actress had left an imprint for herself in the film industry. She was engaged in creating artistes in her dance school “Pushpanjali Nritya Kala Kendram ” here, Jayalalithaa said.
Here is a song from today’s film, sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Enjoy….
Video (poor audio)
Audio
Song-Dil ka sun le tu afsaana (Piya Milan)(1958) Singer-Lata, Lyricist-Hasrat Jaipuri, MD-P Ramesh Naidu
Lyrics
Sun le re
man kee dhun
matwaaree moree
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
sajan
jo dil le
ye man gaaye
saj kar main naachoon
dil ka sun le tu afsaana
dil ka sun le tu afsaana
haaye qaatil jaana na
haaye qaatil jaana na
dil ka sun le
dil ka sun le
sun le afsaana aa
le lo ye dil apna sainya
nain raseelon se saajan
nain raseelon se ae
jaano dil ko
o jee jaano dil ko
haarey ham to
baaton baaton se
ham to baaton baaton se
arre matwaare
hmm
arre matware mere piya
tadpe hamaara jiya
chhotee see jaan jaaye re
arre matwaare
hmm
arre matwaare mere piya
tadpe hamaara jiya
chhotee see jaan jaaye re
ho dekho
chhotee see jaan jaaye re
dil ka sun le tu afsaana
dil ka sun le tu afsaana
haaye qaatil jaana na aa
haaye qaatil jaana na aa
dil ko sun le
dil ka sun le
sun le afsaana
man ka tan ta ho ke hardam
ban na bhola re ae
ban na bhola re ae
tera mera
o jee tera mera
ab ye zaalim
saath naa chhoote re
ab to
saath na chhoote re
arre dilwaale
hmm
arre dilwaale maan zara
mujhko pehchaan zara
chhotee see jaan jaaye re
arre dilwaale
hmm
are dilwaale maan zara
mujhko pehchaan zara
chhotee see jaan jaaye re
ho moree chhotee see jaan jaaye re
dil ka sun le tu afsaana
dil ka sun le tu afsaana
haaye qaatil jaana na aa
haaye qaatil jaana na aa
dil ka sun le
dil ka sun le
sun le afsaana
Apne apne se lage hamen
Posted on: December 21, 2025
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6365 | Post No. : | 19739 |
Pancham’s Music – Eighties-to-Nineties (1981-1994…) Duets-5
My previous post in this series had a duet song sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Suresh Wadkar for the movie ‘Palay Khan-1986’. Incidentally, in this post we again have a duet song by the same singers, but coming from the pen of another lyricist.
This song is from the movie “Apne Apne-1987” which was directed by Ramesh Behl for ‘Rose Movies’. It was passed by Censor Board on 05.03.1987. Ramesh Behl, who directed this movie, was also the producer of this movie. The cast of this movie included Jeetendra, Rekha, Karan Shah, and Mandakini, with Satish Shah, Atlee Brar, Dan Dhanoa, Sushma Seth, Bina, Babli, Anjana, Ghanshyam, Chandu, Pandurang Boloor, Lata, Sheela, Leena, Mina, Tina, Rupa, Omi Chopra, Surendra, Rahi, Vasu, Iqbal, Rakesh, Reshma Aurora, Anthony, Prakash, and Kader Khan. Hema Malini had a special appearance in this movie. This movie was written by Aziz Qaisi. Sunder Shetty was the editor of this movie.
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Mere sanam tera khat milaa
Posted on: December 18, 2025
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
This article is the 1000th song post in the blog during the year 2025.
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Pancham’s Music – Eighties-to-Nineties (1981-1994…) Duets-4
In the series of Pancham’s duet compositions from the eighties-nineties, today we introduce a duet song from the movie ‘Palay Khan-1986’.
This movie ‘Palay Khan-1986’ also makes its debut on the blog today.
This movie was produced by Skahti Samanta and directed by Ashim Samanta for Untied Producers & Shakti Films. It was passed by Censor Board on 03.12.1986. It had Jackie Shroff, Poonam Dhillon, Farha Naaz, Suresh Oberoi, Shakti Kapoor and Anupam Kher. They were supported by Sushma Seth, Puneet Issar, Satyen Kappu, Dinesh Thakur, Mac Mohan, Roopesh Kumar, Bob Christo, Kamal Kapoor, Tom Alter, Manek Irani, Zubeda, Rasinder Singh, Tito Singh, Mahender Tyagi, Tarana, Shivangi, Gurvinder, Abhishek Ahuja and others. Preeti Sapru made a guest appearance in this movie and actor Raza Murad had a friendly appearance in this movie.
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