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

Put together the year 1964, the names like Dara Singh, Ameeta, Feroze Khan, Mumtaz, King Kong, Tiger Jogender, a director by the name Nanabhai Bhatt, and a film title like Samson. And here is a ready recipe for a B/C grade stunt film. The name and presence of Dara Singh could well have been the saving grace of this film, in the local B/C grade cinema halls circuit, and likewise the name of the film does not sound so unfamiliar. But then, pour into this mix some lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri, and some melodious tunes by Chitragupt. Well now, the recipe does turn out to be more interesting, for now at least we are assured there will be some good music coming along with the stunts. Mind not the situations and the people who would perform these pieces of music on screen, the promise of some good songs will not be turned down.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Continuing with the series of posts about rare Mukesh gems, here is a wonderful solo song from the film Hum Matwaale Naujawaan (1961). This film is a social drama, produced under the banner of Rover Films, Bombay and directed by LR Asthaana. The star cast includes Shekhar, Saeeda Khan, Jeevan, Agha, Lillian, Mirza Musharraf, Chaman Puri, Gopal Sehgal, Tun Tun, Indira Bansal, Kammo Tripathi, Ravikant, Baby Farida etc. The film was not any major success at the box office, but it did leave its mark. Its music and songs are really very good – a typical grade A quality of music for a B/C grade film. The lyrics are Majrooh Sultanpuri and the music composition is by Chitragupt. This song is a lovely melody, that has been wonderfully rendered by Mukesh.
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“Meri Bhabhi” (1969) is a movie produced by A G Films. It was directed by Khalid Akhtar. the movie had Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehmaan, Kamini Kaushal, Abhi Bhattacharya, Mehmood, Aruna Irani, Lalita Pawaar,Kanhaiyya laal, Raj Mehra, Tiwari, Mukri, Sundar,Lalita kumar, Baby Sabihaa etc in it.
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“Opera House” (1961) is a Pushpa Pictures presentation. It was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Ajit, B Saroja Devi,K. N. Singh, Lalita Pawar, Bela Bose, Maruti, Johnny Whisky,Baalam, Mumtaz Begum,Niranjan Sharma,S N Bannerji etc in it.
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“Saajan Ki Saheli” (1980) is a movie which came up in the last stage of the Golden era of Hindi movie music. Those were the days when Disco music was becoming the rage and lyrics were losing their importance in such songs. During those days, we fortunately still had the kind of music in some movies that we had grown up to love all these decades. These were off beat movies, smaller budget movies, family values movies- in brief “non mainstream movies”.
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“Pyaasi Shaam” (1969) is a Kewaljeet Productions movie which was directed by Amar Kumar. The cast of this movie included names like Sunil Dutt, Sharmila Tagore, Feroz Khan, Anjali Kadam, Dhumal, Sunder, Vimal Ahuja, Manmohan Krishna, Kamal Kapoor, Birbal, Om Prakash etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Something providential in the coincident that today is the birth anniversary of two wonderful dancers and performers of the Hindi silver screen. Yes, today, 21st October is the day that both Shammi Kapoor and Helen share as their date of birth. And not that it is a strange or unique occurrence. Many people share their dates of birth with many other known, even renowned people. But I single out this occurrence as special – these two wonderful people have been contemporaries in the film industry, they have performed together in many movies, and the most important, both of them represent that combination of energy and fun and delight and enjoyment that is unique to their theatrical personae.
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“Bheegi Raat”(1965) is a Maya movies production, which was directed by Kalidas. the movie had Meena Kumari, Pradeep Kumar, Shashikala, Rajendranath, Ulhas, Raj Mehra, Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, I. S. Johar, Hari Shivdasani etc in it.
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“Sartaj” (1950) was an Omar Khayyam Productions movie. this movie was directed by S Khalil. Cast of the movie had names like Motilal, Munawwar Sultana, Cuckoo, Manorama, Ansari, Mirza Musharaf, Shyama, Rattan Bai etc.
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