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When I was in school, I did not see a single movie in a movie hall for six years. It was more by compulsion rather than by choice, of course. My elders would neither go to movie halls themselves nor take me. Watching movies spoil children and their future would be spoilt for ever- that was the rationalisation they gave to everyone who would listen. And my movie deprivation era (1972- 1978) were the prime era for Hindi movie watchers. 🙂
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Vrishti pade tapor tupur
Posted on: September 21, 2012
Today (21 september) is the death anniversary of Tarachand Barjatya (10 may 1914 -21 september 1992) who was the founder of Rajshree Productions and he produced several well known and well loved movies. Rajshree Productions is still going strong even after his demise.
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“Sunayna” (1979) was a Rajshri Productions movie which was inspired from Charlie Chaplin’s movie The citylights(1931). Charlie Chaplin’s movie was a silent movie even though the era of talkies has begun. Hindi movies cannot be silent by any stretch of imagination. And this movie had some lovely songs in it,including Naseeruddin Shah (playing Charlie Chaplin’s role) singing a romantic song(Sunayna sunayna..aaj in nazaaron ko tum dekho) for his lady love.
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It appears that there are lots of songs in Hindi movies that can be posted on the occasion of Janmashtmi. It is just that I am either not aware of them, or I have forgotten about them.
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Navkalpana nav roop se
Posted on: July 31, 2012
Rafi has sung songs for lots and lots of music directors, be they big names or unknown strugglers. I have not kept a count but I am sure that Rafi may have sung for the largest number of music directors among all major playback singers and that way he is a trivia buff’s delight.
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Agar bewafa tujhko pehchaan jaate
Posted on: May 7, 2012
I first became aware of Prem Dhawan in 1970s as the lyricist of the immortal patriotic song Jahan daal daal par sone ki chidiya karti hai baseraa from Sikandar e Azam. This song was composed by Hansraj Bahl. Subsequently I got to hear a few more songs which were written by Prem Dhawan and composed by Hansraj Bahl. Then I became aware of “Shaheed” (1965) and “Pavitra Paapi”(1970), where Prem Dhawan was the lyricist as well as the music director. And what nice song these two movies had !
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Ye mera jaadoo
Posted on: April 25, 2012
Yesterday, I was showing off my knowledge to a couple of regulars of this blog in private by telling them that “Chor Machaaye Shor”(1974) had six songs, and five of them were very well known, but the sixth song was quite less known. Then I boasted that I was going to post this rare song in the blog today.
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Ravi, the creator of iconic songs (which is my favourite way of describing him) began his career as an independent music director in 1955, when “Vachan” (1955) and “Albeli”(1955) were released.
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It is a commonly held view that obscure movies and songs are those that were created long long ago. But that is not always the case. There could be movies and songs that may have ended up as obscure even if they may have been created as late as in 1980 !
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Hazaar baaten kahe zamaana
Posted on: February 26, 2012
“Ghatna” (1974) was an Aradhana Films presentation. It was directed by Mahesh Shandilya. Starcast of the movie had names like Danny Denzongpa, Priti, Achaarya, Satyen Kappu, Asit Sen, Anjali Kadam, Jankidas, Mukesh, Kiran Kumar, Murad etc.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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