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“Navrang” (1959) was one of the the first Hindi colour movies, following the lead of movies like “Aan” (1951), “Jhanak Jhanak Paayal Baaje” (1955), “Mother India” (1957) etc. “Navrang” (1959) was produced and directed by V Shantaram under his banner of Rajkamal. It had Mahipal, Sandhya, Nirmal Kumar, K. Date, Vandana, Agha, Baburao Pendharkar, Ullhas, Chandrakant Desai, Vatsala Deshmukh etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

The second song in the series “Great souls of India” is from film TULSIDAS-1954. It is sung by Mohd.Rafi and this song was quite popular in those days. I have enjoyed it many times on Radio too.
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“Cobra Girl” (1963) was Produced by Pannalal Maheshwary and directed by Nanabhai Bhatt under the banner of Rekha Chitra Productions. This movie had Mahipal, Ragini, Tiwari, Maruti, Ulhas, Surekha, Rajan Haksar, Gopal Saigal, Mridula, Tun Tun, Manorama, Master Dube, Shobha, Manju, Nazir Kashmiri, Sunder, Abhimanyu Sharma, Ameer, Mukhtar Ahmed, Dawood, Shaida, Shafi, Madhumati, Rani, Naina, Edwina etc in it.
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“Aap Ki Sewa Mein” (1947) was a Chandrma Pictures Production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. It had Dikshit, Kesri, Shantaarin, Saroj Borkar, Nimbaalkar, Samson, DR Gokhale, Bhaal Maraathe, Vijaya, Baby Nalini etc. This otherwise lesser known movie has gone down in the history of Hindi movies as the movie where Lata Mangeshkar made her debut as a playback singer with the song Paa laagoon kar joree re. Less well known is the fact that this movie was also the Hindi movie debut for music director Datta Davjekar who otherwise was a big name in Marathi movies as a music director at that time.
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Today (19 september 2012) is the death anniversary of Datta Davjekar (15 november 1917-19 september 2007). He was a music director of Marathi and Hindi movies. He did not compose music for too many Hindi movies, but his name has gone in record books as the music director who gave Lata her first opportunity to record a solo song in a Hindi movie. The movie was “Aap Ki Sewa Mein” (1947). This song Paa laagoon kar joree re has already been discussed in great details in this blog.
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