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“Ladka Ladki” (1966) was a Bright Films Production. It was directed by Som Haksar. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Mumtaz, Sujit Kumar, Laxmi Chhaya, I.S.Johar, Bhagwan,Raj Mehra, Tuntun, Randhir, Leela Misra, Ravikant, Johnny Whisky, Kesri, Krishna Duggal, Gulshan Baawra, Jagadish Bhalla, Aasi, Jerry, Abubakar, Nazir Kashmiri, Sham Laal, Deen Dayaal etc.
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“Patthar Ke Sanam” (1967) was an A G Films production. It was directed by Raja Nawathe. Starcast of the movie included Manoj Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Mumtaz, Aruna Irani, Raj Mehra, Mumtaz Begum, Lalita Pawar, Tiwari, Mehmood, Pran etc in it.
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1970s, especially the first half of it was ruled by R D Burman as a music director. So much so that the other music directors too began to compose music that sounded like R D Burman’s music. And of course they began to use the voice of Kishore Kumar also, who had become the top male singer just as R D Burman had become the top music director.
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“CID” (1956) as well as “CID 909” (1967) had music by the same music director, viz O P Nayyar. Unlike “CID” (1956), “CID 909” was a B grade movie though. It was a Bindu Kala Mandir Presentation, which was directed by Muhammad Hussai. The movie had up and coming B grade actors namely Feroz Khan and Mumtaz in lead roles, with Helen, Rajen Haksar, Brahm Bharadwaj, Ram Mohan, Rajen Kapoor, Tuntun, Bela Bose, B. Mehta also figuring in it.
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While looking at the picturisation of this song, I wondered why this song does not qualify to be called a Mujra song. As it is, Mujra songs are those songs where the clients are ordinary folks or spoilt nawaabs. If the same dance is performed in a royal court, it becomes a royal court (Rajdarbaar) dance.
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In 1970s, when I was growing up as a pre teen kid, I had noticed that Gulshan Nanda was the most popular Hindi novelist. His novels were read by all grown ups. Kids were not supposed to read such grown up stuff. Being a precocious and eager kid, I managed to read a few Gulshan Nanda novels even then and I loved the novels. I wonder what was low brow in these novels (as alleged by literary magaziones of those days).
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Remembering Mahendra Kapoor today, 9th Jan, his birth anniversary.

As I am searching for songs to post for today, I came across this simply super gem of a melody which I have heard long time back, and which has since been eluding me. This song just has to be counted amongst the best and softest duets ever. Rendered softer than silk and softer than velvet, this duet is by Asha ji and Mahendra ji. I am sure as you would hear this, the reaction is going to be, “wow, not posted yet?”.
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