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This article is written by Shekher Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.

Without detracting one bit from her merit, capability and musico-longevity, I have to admit that I am not a fan of Asha Bhosle in the same manner as I am of Lataji. That said, there are quite a few of Ashaji’s evergreens – some of them lesser known than her racy raunchy numbers – which touch me more or less the same as some of Lataji’s best.
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“Khota Paisa” (1958) was a Sadiq Productions Pvt Ltd presentation. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Johny Walker, Shyama, Amir bano, Rajan Haksar, Veena, Nissar Ahmed Ansaari(N.A.Ansari), S.N.Bannerjee, Hari shivdasani, Jeevan ,Dhumal, Indira Bansal, Sagar, Munshi Munakka, Keshav Rana, Cuckoo, Kathana, Soofi, Rafi, Jeewankala, SureshKumar, Balaram etc in it.
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“Bluff Master” (1963) was produced by Subhash Desai and directed by Manmohan Desai. This movie had Shammi Kapoor, Saira Bano, Saira Banu, Pran, Rashid Khan, Mohan Choti, Niranjan Sharma, Jugal Kishore, Shyamlal, Anand Joshi, Santosh Kumar, Lalita Pawar, Tuntun, Charlie Walker etc in it.
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I wonder if anyone has ever written a thesis on Hindi movie songs. There are so many topics to chose from if one thinks about it. How about the topic named “A study on the behaviour of a lady being pursued by a man singing a teasing song”.
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“Pyaar Kiye Jaa” (1966) was a Chitralaya Pictures production. The movie was directed by C V Sridhar. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Kalpana, Shashi Kapoor, Rajshree(South), Mehmood, Mumtaz, Om Prakash, Chaman Puri, Shivraj,Shyamlal, Veena Kumari, N.S.Bedi, V.D.Puranik etc. The movie turned out to be a big box office success.
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“Jahaan Ara” (1964) was a Light and Shade Pictures Production. It was directed by Vinod Kumar. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Mala Sinha, Prithviraj Kapoor, Sunder, Aroona Irani,Shashikala, Minoo Mumtaz, Siddhu, Randhir, Om Prakash,etc in it.
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Though I have not watched “Love In Shimla” (1960) but I have gained enough information about the movie by watching the picturisation of various songs of the movie and by going through the comments of readers who have clearly watched the movie. 🙂
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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.

Ever since Ghulam Haider introduced dholak (belonging to the percussion family) as a major musical instrument for song compositions in the super hit film ‘Khazaanchi’ (1941), it has become an inseparable part of Hindi film songs. In fact in the 50s, prominent music directors started engaging specialist dholak players in the songs’ orchestration. The introduction of dholak in the Hindi film songs has made some of them so rhythmic that a music lover consciously or unconsciously replays the rhythmic beats with his fingers on whatever place he find near him, be it on a sofa hand rest or on a table top or play it on any of the kitchen vessels as Bhagwan did in ‘ kismet ki hawa kabhi garam kabhi naram’ (Albelaa-1951).
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