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Sajjad Hussain composed only about 100 songs in his entire career lasting more than three decades. When I went through the list of his songs, I discovered some interesting facts. Though he composed very few songs, he worked with a disproportionally large number of singers and artists in these songs. In all, he worked with over 25 singers and over 25 lyricists in these songs that add up to just about 100 !
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Sajjad Hussain songs are a category of song that I regard as gold dust, especially those songs that are not yet discussed. As it is, Sajjad Hussain composed around one hundred songs in his career. This blog has covered as many as 62 of them, including some rare songs that were unearthed on internet for the first time.
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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 Sajjad Hussain composition, which was presumed extinct till now has also been unearthed and provided by him

Here is one more offering from the film ‘Tilasmi Duniya’ (1946). Recordings from this movie have been obscure and missing from decades. In this era of online publications, the only reason a particular item is not available online, could be that the item is of absolutely no interest, or that it is completely obscure or even lost. That seems to be the situation with these records also. It is just providential that I found these records in the collection of a good friend of mine; and he thankfully agreed to share the recording.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and a regular contributor to this blog. The audio of this rare song,which was presumed extinct, has also been discovered and provided by him.

‘Tilasmi Duniya’ is a film from 1946, for which much information is not available so far from known sources. The movie was produced under the banner of Jupiter Art Pictures, Bombay and directed by AM Khan. The listed star cast for this movie is S Kulkarni, Sarla Devi, Sita Devi, Shiraaz, Rampyaari, Agha Peerjaan, Rafiq, Madhukar Gupte, Narmada Shankar, Mehndi Raja, Ansari. Three songs from this flm are already posted on this blog. Here is a very rare fourth offering of this obscure movie
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This blog boasts of the largest collection of Sajjad Hussain compositions at one place in the entire interwebs. And I am quite proud of this feat. This blog has as many as 57 Sajjad Hussain compositions, and several of them are rare songs not available elsewhere.
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I have mentioned that finding Sajjad Hussain compositions is always a cause for great celebration. With as many as 56 Sajjad Hussain compositions already discussed in the blog, there many not be many more Sajjad Hussain compositions that are left to be discussed.
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As rare songs go, this song is rarest of the rare, as they say in legal parlance. 🙂 So rare in fact that very little information is available on this song. What I know for sure is that this song is from “Tilasmi Duniya” (1946). Another information that is exciting for music lovers is that Sajjad Hussain is the music director !
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