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“Ek Musaafir Ek Haseena” (1962) is a Filmalaya production movie. This movie was directed by Raj Khola. this movie had Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana in lead roles. Other actors in this movie included Dhumal, Rajendranath, Kamal Kapoor, Siddhu, Jagdish Raaj, Sulochana Chatterji, Chaman Puri, Shyam Chatterji, Neera Sameer, Gyani, Malika etc.
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“Hamsaaya” (1968) is a movie which had Joy Mukherji, Mala Sinha and Sharmila Tagore in it. As the title suggests, this movie had Joy Mukherjee in double role.One is Chinese and other in Indian. 🙂 Mala Sinha is the love interest of the Chinese Joy Mukherji while Sharmila Tagore plays the love interest of Indian Joy Mukherji.
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Among all the genres of songs that one can have in Hindi movies, rail songs are a genre that is quite fascinating. The rail songs are in fact a very interesting topic and I had done a long and deailed discussion on rail songs where I had discussed some 30 odd songs in my by now almost defunct blog.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

When the year 1952 dawned, Geeta ji had been singing in Hindi films now for about 6 years, and had an incredible 500+ songs already behind her. On the other hand, the soon to be famous OP Nayyar had composed the background score for Kaneez in 1949, and this film, Aasmaan, was going to be his debut as an independent music director. He became known as a maverick composer and the Melody Maestro in the coming years. OP Nayyar went through a phase in the 50s when All India Radio shunned his music as being too trendy, and Radio Ceylon became the remote beacon for music lovers to listen to his songs. In the mid to late 1950s, he became the highest paid composer in the industry, and the first one to command contracts worth one lakh (and more) for composing.
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Sunday, 14th August 2011 brought us the sad news that Shammi Kapoor was no more. We knew that Shammi Kapoor needed dialysis three times a week and he was wheelchair bound for years, and that he was 79 years old, still this news that came as a shock.
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“Aar Paar” (1954) was a milestone in the history of Hindi movies. It was one of the first suspense thrillers in Hindi movies. The music of this movie broke new grounds. The music was a breathtaking combination of Indian and Western influences. The same could be said about the picturisation of the movie and its songs. It is quite obvious that the makers of this movie had drawn inspiration liberally from western movies and from western music.
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“Aar Paar” (1954) was clearly a milestone in the annals of Hindi movies. The songs of this movie were quite different from the kinds of songs that the music lovers were used to. And all the songs of the movie became popular and remain popular to this day. In fact there are so many popular songs in this movie that it is easy to lose count of them.
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