Posts Tagged ‘Sameer’
Meree wafaayen yaad karoge
Posted on: June 21, 2026
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
| Blog Day : | 6547 | Post No. : | 20377 | Movie Count : | 5226 |
Continuing with the series on Asha Bhosle singing for actresses whose first names begin with the letter “A”, we arrive at the name Ashwini Bhave. I had already mentioned Ashwini Bhave in the post on the song gharwaalee banaa le mujhe.
When the film Henna (1991) was launched, RK Films organized a major talent search. This was heavily publicized by the studio’s PR department. When Zeba Bakhtiyar was selected and announced as the heroine in the title role, a footnote was attached to many articles stating that RK Films was still searching for an actress to play the second heroine. In various interviews, Rishi Kapoor and Randhir Kapoor complained that many established heroines had declined the offer. They argued that the second heroine’s role was as important as the title role and was comparable in significance to Rajendra Kumar’s role in Sangam (1964). Various names were circulated as having turned down the role. If I remember correctly, Juhi Chawla, Meenakshi Seshadri, and Madhuri Dixit were among those mentioned. Eventually, the role went to Ashwini Bhave, who was not yet widely known in Hindi cinema.
Dil dhoondhhe hai jidhar
Posted on: June 14, 2026
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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We now move on to the next actress whose name begins with an “A” and who has lip-synced to a song by Asha Bhosle. Today, we feature Anjala Zaveri.
Anjala Zaveri was launched in a big way through Vinod Khanna’s film Himalay Putra (1997). Since Akshaye Khanna was to be introduced in this film, a nationwide search campaign was conducted to find a suitable heroine for him. A similar kind of large-scale build-up had earlier been seen with Henna (1990), which benefited from it and became successful.
Anjala Zaveri was born in the UK into a Gujarati-speaking family. However, since Himalay Putra was not a major success, her acting career stalled before it could properly take off. The success that eluded her in the Bombay film industry was partially compensated by her work in the Telugu and Tamil film industries, where she remained active for the next eight years or so. In total, she appeared in 23 films: 7 in Hindi, 11 in Telugu, 3 in Tamil, and 1 each in Kannada and Malayalam.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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‘Monsoon Wedding’ (2001) was an English language film which was produced by Mira Nair and Caroline Baron and was directed by Mira Nair. The cast included Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah, Vijay Raaz, Tilottama Shome, Parvin Dabas, Vasundara Das, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dubey, Kamini Khanna, Randeep Hooda (debutant), Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Sameer Arya, Ram Kapoor etc. It was Mira Nair’s wish to make a Bollywood type film in English with a lot of songs from her viewpoint.
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Aaja meri jaan
Posted on: February 23, 2026
- In: Anuradha Paudwal songs | Calling the beloved | Debut song of movie in the blog | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Post by Avinash Scrapwala | S P Balasubramaniam- Anuradh Paudwal duet | S P Balasubramanyam songs | Songs of 1990s (1991 to 2000) | Songs of 1993 | Theme song | Title song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Pancham’s Music – Eighties-to-Nineties (1981-1994…) Duets-11
Today’s duet composition by Rahul Dev Burman is from the 1993 movie ‘Aaja Meri Jaan’. This movie was directed by Ketan Anand for ‘Gulshan Kumar’s ‘Super Cassette Industries’. Gulshan Kumar was the producer of this movie which introduced his younger brother Krishan Kumar. Actress Tanya Singh (daughter of musician Ajit Singh) made her debut in this movie and Krishan Kumar got married to her later.
The movie had Krishan Kumar, Tanya Singh, Shammi Kapoor, Prem Chopra, Pran, Deven Verma, Poonam Dasgupta, Manohar Singh, Satish Shah, Rakesh Bedi, Girish Malik, Sunil Lahiri, Virendra Razdan, Shiva Sagar, Govind Namdeo, Durga Jasraj, Shabnam, Malvika Arora, Neelima, Viju Khote, Vijay Kashyap, Johar, Arun Bali, Nasir Shaikh, Dinesh Balraj, Vijay Korde, Ritesh Pandey, Purnendu Shekhar, Ghanshyam, Karishma, Rajendra, Rohit K., Hashim Khan, Jaypee Barot and others. This movie was passed by the Censor Board on 17.09.1993.
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This article is written by Nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Zulfon ke saaye
Rukh pe giraaye
Shaidaayi mere
Dil ko banaaye
Shabnam ke moti
Pal pal pirotaa hai
Kya karun haay
Kuchh kuchh hotaa hai
The above is the mukhda first written for this song Tum paas aaye yoon muskuraaye ), which is the only song which is so far posted in the blog of the film “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai(1998)”. The lyricist Sameer Anjaan wrote this mukhda first, which was rejected by Karan Johar and then he rewrote it as ‘tum paas aaye yoon mukuraaye” used for the song.
Without meaning to or searching for them, I have now seen lengthy interviews of two celebrities connected with this film. I even saw 15-minute-long climax scene of this film. So much help from youtube I never expected, but glad that it did.
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An exercise called Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Voters’ list is being carried out in 12 states and union territories of India. It has received lots of attention in the media and it has created lots of confusion and doubts in the minds of public.
In this article, I would discuss this matter in detail so that our doubts and confusion on this matter get cleared.
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This article is written by Nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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This movie’s story takes place on a cruise ship. Cruise ship travel is still out of affordability area for the common people in India. I do not know anyone who does this type of travel or holidays. The way of life involving Yachts, Marinas and Cruise ships is very foreign to India. I saw one cruise ship in Liverpool. I saw some people who were from that ship roaming around the harbour area, with the Beatles museum, and the eateries, a very ordinary boat ride around the inner harbour/backwaters. They stood out as they were not casual tourists. At least I thought so, as I pride myself on my powers of observation and differentiation.
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Film “Dil hai ke manta nahi”(1991) was another one of Mahesh Bhat movies, made like a “Chitrahaar”, with ten songs, including one double version song. From what I see in the trivia about this film, it is about adaptations galore. The story is adapted from American film “It happened one night”(1934), which is a tradition of sorts with hindi film right from early 50’s.
A few other Hindi films were also inspired by the same film – “Nadan” (1951), “Chori Chori” (1956), “Nau Do Gyarah” (1957), “Solva Saal”(1958) and “Basant” (1960). Similar plots were used in other Indian films as well – “Chaowa Pawa” (1959) in Bengali, “Chandhrodhayam”(1966) and “Kadhal Rojave” (2000) in Tamil, and “Hudugaata” (2007) in Kannada.
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Kalkatta ho yaa Kaashi
Posted on: October 26, 2025
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Hullo Atuldom
“Jawani Zindabad” (1990) was a film that has been listed in the romantic/ drama genre. It was a remake of the 1988 Kannada film ‘ Avale Nanna Hendthi’.
The film had Aamir Khan & Farha Naaz playing the lead with Asrani, Kadar Khan, Javed Jaffrey, Rohini (from South Indian films), Utpal Dutt, Shobha Khote, Rajesh Puri, Upasana Singh, Sushma Seth, Satyen Kappu, Chandrasekhar, Mehmood Jr., Birbal, Shail Chaturvedi, Jagdish Raj, Viju Khote, and many known faces playing supporting characters. Anand Milind were tghe music directors for songs written by Sameer & Verma Malik. Sadhana Sargam, Amit Kumar, Suresh Wadkar, Kavitha Krishnamurthy, Anuradha Paudwal, Udit Narayan, & Mohd Aziz were the playback singers used for the six songs. The film was produced by Jay Mehta & Pranlal Mehta with Arun Bhatt as the director.
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Hullo Atuldom
The serial “Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey” was a serial I loved watching for its assorted characters, that lived in a apartment complex of North Mumbai. One of the characters, who happened to be a neighbour, friend & almost like family to the central (to the plot) Wagle Family- Daksesh Joshipura who is the secretary of the society. He had a one-liner every time he appears on the screen:- “I am Daksesh Joshipura, honourable secretary of the society & 1st Citizen of Sai Darshan Heights”.
I am sure the followers of the blog maybe wondering where I am leading to.
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