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Different people may have different ways of judging movies. I read an old joke in this connection some three decades ago. A Pathan from Afghanistan came to India and looked at a poster of a movie . He was very impressed with the title of the poster and he went to watch that movie. after THE END, he came out very frustrated and disappointed. He was asked the reason for his disappointment. “The poster promised that the movie had Chiraag Khan and Roshni Khan in it. I watched the entire movie , but I could not find either of the Khans in this movie.” The Pathan explained.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Today (19th november) is the birth anniversary of Dara Singh, the famous wrestling champion of free style format, and a majorly successful hero of B/C grade action films of the 60s. He continues to be active in films and TV serials, clocking a career that spans more than 50 years now in the industry.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Dara Singh needs no introductions. The name, the face and the physique is very familiar to more than six generation of Hindi film audience, and especially the fans of Indian free style wrestling. Born on the 19th November, 1928, Dara Singh belongs to a Jaat Sikh family of Amritsar. As a teen ager, he grew into a gangling and muscular young man measured in at 6 feet and 2 inches, and the move for becoming a wrestler was almost natural. Trained in the traditional akhaaras of rural Punjab, he was very active in the wrestling circuit in the 40s and 50s, in India, as well as outside India. He is one wrestler who caught the fancy of the general public, and has been a popular figure in professional wrestling till 1983, when he retired from it.
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“Sangeeta”(1950), an obscure movie by now, was a Sudha Pictures production. it was directed by Ramanlal Desai. The starcast of the movie included names like Shyam, Nigar, Suraiya Choudhary, Ramsingh, Radha Krishnan, Pran, Mumtaz Ali etc in it.
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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 post is in response to a comment and a farmaish posted by Lalitha ji more than two years ago on 6th January, 2009 (details further down).

Children’s Day is variously celebrated in different parts of the world, on different days. In India, it is celebrated on this day (14th November) every year. (This day also is the birth anniversary of the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.) There are other dates on which International Children’s Day (1st June) and Universal Children’s Day (20th November) are celebrated. 20th November is the day on which the Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted by UN General Assembly in 1959.
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“Didi” (1959) was a Sadashiv Chitra Production. It was directed by Narayan Kale. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Shubha Khote, Alhad, Sajjan, Feroz Khan, Daisy Irani, Honey Irani, Javdekar, Salvi, Om Prakash, Jayshree, Lalita Pawar etc in it.
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Yesterday this blog reached 5000 songs. Today is 14th november, which is celebrated as the children’s day in India. The day is over and it is night time, and not a single song has been discussed on this occasion !

No, I have neither run out of steam nor I have forgotten about this day. In fact I ensured that the 5000 th song was discussed one day advance so as to keep 14th november free for children’s songs. It is just that I was neglecting several important tasks which I completed in the day time. Now I have time to discuss songs for today. It may be too late for the real children, but those who are young at heart (which includes lots of readers of this blog), the day is not yet over. So I will try and discuss a few songs on the occasion as long as it is still 14th november in India. so I still have more than four hours at my disposal. 🙂
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