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Blog Day : 3912 Post No. : 14970

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Today’s song/ post is to wish a Doe-eyed beauty on her birthday. At the when she was a busy movie star – starring in Bengali and Hindi movies – I had no clue about who she was, where she was from etc, and I didn’t care to find as at that stage in my life I was more of a watcher and not researcher. I have started trying to find things about the people who I used to like back then only now and I am amazed by the things I read and see.

So, today’s Bengali beauty was a convent school teacher to start of, who also tried her hand at modelling, participated in the Femina Miss India contest of 1971 and was judged Miss India World 1971. She went on to represent India at the Miss World 1971 and Queen of the Pacific pageant held in Australia where she was 1st runner-up. She also happens to be Anitha Guha’s niece. I am talking of the beautiful Prema Narayan- who made a name for herself playing Dhanno in the Uttam Kumar -Sharmila Tagore starrer “Amanush”. She was mostly cast as a dancer/ vamp or supporting roles with a western touch to her character. We remember her in songs of “Armaan”. “Ponga Pandit” etc as a person whose eyes are full of mischief.
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“Amaanush”(1975) was based on a story by Bangla author Shaktipada Rajguru. this movie was made in Bangla as well as Hindi with nearly the same team of artists.
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“Bandie” (1978) was produced by F C Mehra and directed by Alo Sarkar for Eagle Films production. The movie had Uttam Kumar, Sulakshana Pandit,Bindu, Prema Narayan, Amjad Khan, Utpal Dutt, Tarun Ghosh, Master Bittoo, Manik Dutt, Helen, Iftekhar, Satyen Kappoo, Padma Khanna, Amarnath Mukherjee, Indrani Mukherjee, Asit Sen, Madan Puri, Amrish Puri, Nandita Thakur, Prem Lala, Master Raju, Shivraj, Chandrima Bhaduri, Manek Chaudhuri etc in it.
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Raag Maalikaa in Hindi Films – 2
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This Composition of the 1981 film ‘Umrao Jaan’ is the second presentation in the series. Produced and directed by Muzaffar Ali, the film had the star cast of Rekha, Farooq Sheikh, Naseeruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Prema Narayan, Deena Pathak etc.
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The best memory I have of this artist is the visual from ‘Araadhna’ (1969), sitting in the driver seat, looking crisp and dapper in a suit and matching cap, driving single handedly and playing mouth organ with the free hand, maneuvering the vehicle so that it keeps pace with the small toy train as it wounds its way on the hilly trek to Darjeeling, thus enabling a free hand to Rajesh Khanna to perform his gymnastics in the open top vehicle, as he belts out the now iconic “Mere Sapnon Ki Rani Kab Aayegi Tu”, serenading a coy Sharmila Tagore sitting in a window seat of the train, hiding her face behind Alistair MacLean’s novel, ‘When Eight Bells Toll’, but also peeking from the edges of the book that she is obviously not reading.
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“Jab Andhera Hota Hai” (1974) was produced by Kailash Chopra and directed by Deepak Bahri for Roop Enterprises. The movie had Vikram,Prema Narayan,Helen,Madan Puri, Jalal Agha, Prem Chopra, Sajjan, Dulari, Naaz, Keshto Mukherjee, Gulshan Bawra in a special appearance, Chandrashekhar, Kirti Kumar, Indu Mehta, Sabina, Madhup Sharma,Sunaina, Basant Bhatia, Johny, Rajoo, Minoo, Shanti Malik, Anita Guha, Aashi Khanna,Shamim, Seema Kapoor, Marie, Shanta etc in it.
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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

In Mukti (1977), Shashi Kapoor and Vidya Sinha play a happily married couple, till he is framed for murder and thus gets capital punishment. Thinking that he is dead she relocates to Bombay, where she meets the local goon, who helps the lonely “widow” and her daughter settle down. This other man is played by Sanjeev Kumar. In this song he seems to be drinking so that he can feel brave enough to admit his love to his adored one.
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We did not have any anniversaries of movie personalities for the last one day. That state of affair cannot continue of course. 🙂 With so many movies and so many songs over the last eight decades featuring thousands of artists, a few annivesaries are bound to be there on most of the days of the year.
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Considering that a large number of Bollywood songs are on the subject of love, it comes as some surprise to note that the subject of this love, be it a boy or a girl, is not named by his/her proper name, rather he /she is addressed by common nouns viz Saajan/ Sajni, mehboob/ Mehbooba, Aashiq etc.
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