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“Shehnaayi” (1964) was a New Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by S D Narang. The movie had Biswajeet, Rajshree, Johnny Walker, Veena, Chand Usmani, Nirupa Roy, Asit Sen, Iftekhar, Leela Chitnis, D. K. Sapru, Parveen Choudhary etc in it.
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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 ‘Alam Ara’ (1931), the first Indian sound film was released in 1931, songs have become an integral part of our films. The Hindi films produced during the 30s and 40s used to have on anaverage 10-12 songs per film. Naturally, there was a demand for song writers(lyricists). So the producers of the films lured some well known Urdu/Hindi poets of that time to write lyrics of the songs for their films. Since the films were made in Hindustani (a name given by the film fraternity for a language which is a mix of Hindi and some common Urdu words)and some of the producers/directors and music directors were not well versed in this language, the lyricists also acted as guides to them. Some of the well known lyricists of 30s and 40s were, Arzoo Lucknowi, Safdar Aah Sitapuri, Kidar Sharma, Aziz Kashmiri, Behzad Lucknowi, Pandit Indra, Pandit Narendra Sharma, Zia Sarhadi, D N Madhok, P L Santoshi etc. Some of them also wrote scripts/ dialogues for the films.
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Though “Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka” (1975) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog, this movie is not all that well known today. Perhaps a TV serial of the same name has hijacked the title and that has pushed the information about the movie of 1975 back.
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Today (2 august 2012) is the day of Raksha Bandhan, also known as “Raakhi”. It turns out that there are at least two movies called “Raakhi” which were made on this festival. One of these movies was released on 1949. The second movie of this title was released in 1962.
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The month of July, which coincides with the Indian month of Saawan is an important month as far as Hindi movie songs are concerned. Western nations just have one day for lovers in the form of valentine days, but Hindi movies have the entire month of Saawan devoted for this purpose.
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When ordinary people want to go down memory lane in their personal lives, they need to look for their old photo albums. With movie personalities with long successful careers, all they need to do is to watch their old movies. In some cases, where these film personalities began early, viz as child artists, they can relive their childhood by watching these movies.
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“Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka”(1975) was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Leena Chandawarkar, Deven Verma, David, Ramesh Dev, Achala Sachdev, Sanjana, Asha Chandra, Brahmchaari, Birbal, Jagdish Raj, Hercules, Azad Irani etc.
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“Waqt” (1965) was one of the most influential Hindi movies of all times. The story of “Waqt” (1965) was by no means original, but the scale and presentation of the the story was was certainly grand. I have already given several reasons in the past why I call this movie an influential movie.
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