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Today (10 december 2013) is the ninth death anniversary of Homi Wadia (22 may 1911- 10 december 2004). He was the co founder of Wadia Movietone. Later he set up Basant Pictures. He is well known for his Fearless Nadia series of movies. He later married Fearless Nadia and thus Nadia became Nadia Wadia. 🙂
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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 article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

The image of Chitragupt is that of a music director – a creator of a treasure trove of heavenly melodies that are so numerous that a good representative sampler will take a long time to compile. In a career that lasted almost five decades in the industry, he composed music for almost 150 films in Hindi and Bhojpuri. Most of the time he had to be content with B/C grade stunt films and religious films, with a few sorties into the A grade categories. But whatever may have been the grade, the music by him has always been fabulous, no matter what the category of the film, and whatever was its fate.
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“Alladin and the wonderful lamp” (1952) was a Basant Pictures production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Mahipal, Meena Kumari, Vasantrao Pahelwan, B. M. Vyas, Babu Raje, Raja Sandow, Jillo Maa, W. M. Khan, S. N. Tripathi, Azim etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The year is 1948, and the film name – ‘Mala, The Mighty’. The name sounds like a Nadia film. Well, almost. It is a Basant Pictures production directed by John Cowas, but the leading lady is Leela and not Nadia. But any way, a stunt film in the late 1940s, and it is a fair chance that the music director will be Chitragupt. Yes, you got it right.
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