Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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1963 was a year when Hindi movie music was at its pinnacle. There were countless musical extravanzas that were released that year. Just thinking about the names of the movies boggles the mind. In this year, we had movies like “Mere Mehboob”, “Apna Bana Ke dekho”, “Asli Naqli”, “Meri Soorat teri aankhen”,”Sehra”,”Ye raaste hain pyaar ke”,”Ustaadon ke ustaad”,”Bharosa”,”Dil Ek Mandir”,”Professor”,”Gumrah”,”Pyaar kiya to darna kyaa”,”Bluff Master”,”dil Hi to Hai”,”Ek Dil Sau Afsaane”,”Aaj aur Kal”,”Gehra Daag”,”Bandini”,”Dil Tera Deewaana”,”Tere Ghar Ke Saamne”,”Rustam Sohrab”,”Bin Baadal Barsaat” etc etc.
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“Marine Drive” (1955) is a B grade movie starring Ajit and Bina Rai. And like all such movies, this movie too had A grade music. The movie and its music may not be very well known today, but the music is wonderful to listen to, if one digs up the songs of this movie.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.

When I was a young boy I never quite understood why a movie was often referred to with the director’s name attached to it. For example, people would talk about Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Anand or Bawarchi or Shakti Samanta’s Aradhana. For me these were movies of Rajesh Khanna first and foremost. Yet they would invariably be attached to the director, as if he owned the movie.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

With this post I am requesting Atul ji to add a new and peculiar category to this blog. This is a song sung on a ‘thhelaa’; and as far as I can recall, this is the only ‘thhelaa’ song in Hindi movies.
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“Kaajal” (1965) was a movie starring Raj Kumar, Meena Kumari, Dharmendra, Padmini etc. When I went to a movie hall in 1970s to watch this movie, I had no inkling about this movie and its songs. But when the movie began, and its songs arrived one after the other, I and other members of the audience gasped. Wow, this song is from this movie ! oh, this song is from this movie too ! And this song also ! Unbelievable, this song too !
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The lyrics of this song are provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.

“Pyaar Ka Bandhan” (1963) is a movie starring Raj Kumar,Nishi,Kumari Naaz, Dhumal,Johny Walker, Indira Bansal, Helen etc in it.
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