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This article is written by Sudhir, 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 one voice in the Hindi cinema world that is so different from any others. The one voice that can only be characterized as soulful and naturally so. The sound of this soft voice seems to be coming from great depth. t not a deep bass, or a booming sound. Just a soft voice, moving very easily and comfortably, rising from deep caverns. Unassuming and soothing as it reaches out to the listeners, it is one voice that caresses, soothes and comforts in a way that no other voice can. No matter what the song be, when sung by Mukesh, it seems to get an unexpected ambience and comes alive, as no other voice can make happen. There is a touch of melancholy that rings even in the songs of zest and happiness, that is the hallmark of his singing. Many more such voices have come and will come. But none will be able to connect the sound with the heart as Mukesh could.
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“Daaera” (1953) is a forgotten movie by now and few people today have any idea about what this movie was all about. But we in this blog know about the movie and the background behind the making of this movie, thanks to the details provided by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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“Sanam” (1951) was directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal for United Technicians. This movie had Suraiyya, Dev Anand, Meena Kumari, Jilloo Maa, Pratima Devi, Gope, K. N. Singh etc in it.
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“Lakshmi Narayan” (1951) was directed by N Bhatt for Basant Pictures. This movie had Mahipal, Meena Kumari, Babu Raje, Dalpat, B. M. Vyas, Vasantrao Pahelwan, S. N. Tripathi, Amarnath etc in it.
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“Kaajal”(1965) was directed by Ram Maheshwari for Kalpanalok. The movie had Raj Kumar, Meena Kumari, Dharmendra, Padmini, Mumtaz, Satish Kumar, Jagirdar, Mehmood, Durga Khote, Tiwari, Helen, Madhu Apte etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular conributor 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 9th song in the series ” VINTAGE KISHORE ” is from the film Ilzam-54. It is a duet of Kishore Kumar and Shamshad Begum under the music direction of Madan Mohan. The film had 8 songs and Kishore had 3 duets in it -2 with Asha and 1 with Shamshad.
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Looking at the title of the song, most people are justified if they exclaim-“What ! This song was not yet covered !!”. My excuse is the same old one. All these days I was under the impression that this song was already covered long back.
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“Alladin and the wonderful lamp” (1952) was a Basant Pictures production and it was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Mahipal, Meena Kumari, Jilloo Maa, Vasantrao Pahelwan, B. M. Vyas, Babu Raje, Raja Sandow, W. M. Khan, S. N. Tripathi, Azim etc in it.
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Today (10 december 2013) is the ninth death anniversary of Homi Wadia (22 may 1911- 10 december 2004). He was the co founder of Wadia Movietone. Later he set up Basant Pictures. He is well known for his Fearless Nadia series of movies. He later married Fearless Nadia and thus Nadia became Nadia Wadia. 🙂
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“Saanjh Aur Sawera” (1964) was produced by Sevantilal Shah and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji for S J Films. The movie had Guru Dutt, Meena Kumari, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Manmohan Krishna, Preeti Bala aka Zeb Rehman, Ruby Paul aka Praveen Paul, Padma Devi, Rashid Khan, Jagdev, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Bhama Bhardwaj, Kanu Roy etc in it.
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