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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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4708 Post No. : 16413

In the initial years of sound films, some of the story, screen-play, dialogue and song writers came with literary background who had been well-known in the literary circle due to their published works. Gaurishankar Lal ‘Akhtar’, ‘Narayan Prasad ‘Betab’, Munshi Premchand, Amritlal Nagar, Dr. Safdar Aah Sitapuri, Krishan Chander, Dewan Sharar, Pandit Mukhram Sharma, Pandit Anand Kumar were some of such writers who started their association with Hindi films in the 1930s and 40s. Vrajendra Gaur, writer, poet and journalist was one among them.
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4703 Post No. : 16407

“Ghar Ki Izzat”(1948) was produced and directed by Ram Daryani for Murli Movietone Bombay. The movie had Mumtaz Shanti, Dilip Kumar, Manorama, Jeevan, Dixit, Suleman, Gulab, Gope etc in it. The movie had 12 songs in it. Eight songs have been covered in the past.
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4700 Post No. : 16397

“Hatim Tai”(1956) was produced and directed by Homi Wadia for Basant Pictures, Bombay. This movie had Shakila, Jairaj, Meenaxi, Naina, Krishna Kumari, Kamal, Menaka, S.N.Tripathi, B.M.Vyas, Sheikh, Vasantrao Pahlwan, Qamar,Dalpat, W.M.Khan, Shree Bhagwan, Habib Sandow, Nagpal, Sardar Mansoor, Master Pakoo, Abdullah, Kusum, Poonam, Vitha, Pushpa, Manda, Chanda, Shukla, Chand, Geeta, Priscilla, Ranibala, Triza, Natalie, Sunila,Sumitra, Bismillah, M.K.Hasan, Mithoo Miya, Aga Shapoor, Korega, Julian, Yadav, Kalla, Rajkumar, Rattan, Aflatoon, Sukumar etc in it.
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4690 Post No. : 16374

“Maalik”(1958) was produced by Naushad and directed by S M Yusuf for Sunny Art Productions, Bombay. This movie had Suraiyya,Talat Mahmood, Lalita Pawar,Jeevan, Kumar, Paro, Roopmala, Malika, Shalini, Akbar, Kaisar Bai, Radha Kishen, Mukri, Badriprasad, Jagdeep, Prakash, Shahji, Baby Shashi, Master Azaad,Ismayil,Tuntun, Jaago,Maqbool, Siddique, Wasi, Nawab, M Y Shaikh etc in it.
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4675 Post No. : 16351

“Jalti Nishaani”(1957) was produced by A G Dhanik and directed by Harish. This “Costume drama”(Veshbhoosha pradhan) movie had Geeta Bali, Kamal Kapoor, Ulhas, Kuldeep Kaur, Sundar, Chaman Puri, Indu Pal, Sheikh, Nazeer Kashmiri, Kamal, Mohan, Fazle Kareem, Patanjali, Nathan Raj, Ajeet, K Dukhiya, Asha, Meena, Najma etc in it.
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4670 Post No. : 16346

“Girls’ School”(1949) was written and directed by Amiya Chakraborty for Lokmanya Productions, Bombay. Lokmanya Productions was a joint venture of Kavi Pradeep and Amiya Chakraborty. This movie had Geeta Bali, Sohan, Mangala, Krishna, Sajjan, Ram Singh, Shashikala, Vimala Vashisht etc in it.
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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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4662 Post No. : 16332

#The Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # 133 # Remembering Shamshad Begam#
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Shamshad Begam sings for Mehmood 😊
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Today 23rd April’2021 is the eighth remembrance anniversary (14th April 1919 – 23rd April-2013) of yesteryears’ singer Shamshad Begam. One who Naushad always mentioned as ‘a perfect Hindustani voice’.

On this occasion here is a song from the 1971 movie ‘Johar Mehmood In Hong Kong’. I had watched this movie in my childhood with my Uncle and have mentioned it in my earlier post on the blog.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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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4592 Post No. : 16216 Movie Count :

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Today’s song is from a very rare film-Zanjeer-47. The name of the film immediately reminds us about the same name film of 1973, which catapulted Amitabh Bachhan to dizzying heights thereafter ! However, this film of 1947 was probably made to facilitate Black money into white. Since a lot of Black money generated during the war years had flowed into film financing, this was a regular practice of such producers.
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4583 Post No. : 16197

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2011-2021) – Song No. 8
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This day ten years ago (viz February 2011) saw six songs from six different movies getting covered in the blog. Here are the details:-

Blog post number Song Movie Year Remarks
3489 Halke halke chalo saanwre Taangaawaali 1955 7 songs covered out of 9. Remaining songs not available
3490 Hain pyaar ke do matwaale Apraadhi Kaun 1957 All songs covered by now
3491 Ye hawaa ye nadi ka kinaaraa Ghar Sansaar 1958 All songs covered by now
3492 Ye kaisi deewaar hai duniyaa Batwaaraa 1961 All songs covered by now
3493 Baahon ko zaraa lehraa de Kabhi Andheraa Kabhi Ujaalaa 1958 6 songs covered out of 9
3494 Ang se ang lagaa le Elaan 1971 3 songs covered out of 5

Ten years later, three movies whose songs were covered in the blog have been YIPPEED. Songs from the other three unYIPPEED movies can only be covered as part of Blog Ten Year Challenge today. Out of these three eligible movie, balance songs of “Taangaawaali” (1955) are not available. That leaves us ith “Kabhi Andhera Kabhi Ujaala”(1958) and “Elaan”(1971) as the only two movies hose songs arae available and can be taken up for discussion today.
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4560 Post No. : 16157

“Jai Shree”(1956) was directed by Balchandra Shukla and Harsukh Bhatt for Rajshree Productions, Bombay. HFGK mentions that Rajshree Productions had apparently bought the distribution rights of this movie and had released it under the banner of Ratndeep Pictures.
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