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“Resham”(1952) is by now an obscure movie. This Jubilee pictures presentation was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The movie had Jairaj, Suraiyya, Sunder, Sapru, Baby Naaz, Achla Sachdev, Khurshid, Ramesh Thakur, Jagdish etc in it.
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“Vachan”(1955) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced by Devendra Goel and directed by Raj Rishi. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Geeta Bali, Neelma, Madan Puri, S. K. Prem, Radhakrishen, Raajdeep, Praveen Paul, Babboo etc in it.
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“Ek Phool Do Maali” (1969) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and dirdcted by Devendra Goel Production. Starcast of the movie included names viz Sanjay Khan, Sadhana, Balraj Sahni, Shabnam, Bobby, Manorama, Shyam Kumar, Brahmachari, Brahm Bharadwaj, Praveen Paul, Abu Baker, David Abraham, Durga Khote etc.
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“Mera Naam Joker” (1970) was an ambitious movie of Raj Kapoor which unfortunately failed big time at the box office when it was released. The box office debacle was so big that it took Raj Kapoor quite some time to recover from it, and when he recovered, he had made a clean break from the past, in the sense that his musical team was totally revamped.
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What came first ? Chicken or the egg ? This is perhaps one of the longest standing questions of all time. The question has not yet been resolved to this date. Naturally, of course.

Here is a fun song which begins with this line and then deals with some other equally and even more fun lines.
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When I saw the lyrics “chal chal re naujawaan” in a song from “Ek Phool Do Maali” (1969), I was surprised. People may wonder why I should be surprised if I had watched the movie. Indeed I had watched the movie, but my selective memory ensures that I only recall the details of movie watched in my younger days and details of movies that I watched much later are not retained in my memory (not enough space in the memory, perhaps 🙂 ).
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

PARDESI (1957) was an Indo-Soviet co-production film in Hindi and Russian languages . The Hindiversion of the film was directed by K A Abbas and the star cast included Balraj Sahani, Nargis, Oleg Strizhenov, Prithviraj Kapoor, Jairaj, David, Padmini. The film did not create a stir at the box office but was nominated for Cannes Film Festival (1958.) M R Acharekar got the Filmfare award for the best art direction (1958) for this film.
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In Hindi movies, we have songs for all occasions that touch the lives of Indians. Thus we have songs for various human feelings like joys, sorrows, love, hate etc. Then there are songs for various Indian festivals. We also have songs for special occasions like birthdays, weddings etc.
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