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Badalte Huye Saathi (Episode No. 7) (Shyam Kumar sings with Mohd.Rafi)
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Film Industry is truly a Maya Nagari. No one knows how the luck will change the course of one’s career in Film and Music world. Who would have thought that an ill-nourished looking, slim, imple girl, wearing an ordinary cotton saree, with torn kolhapuri chappals-who waited on an empty stomach for whole night for just one song from Ghulam Hyder-would one day become the undisputed QUEEN of playback singing in Indian Films ?….
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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.

BADALTE HUYE SAATHI- Episode No. 6 (Hamida Bano sings with Shyamkumar)
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When I planned this series I knew that this subject is very vast and it was not possible to cover all major singers in such a short series. According to a source, from 1931 to year 2000, a total of about 7000 actors (male and Female) acted in Hindi Films in small and big roles. There must be atleast 1500 well known actors and the pity is, we do not have complete information on even 500 actors. For majority of actors, there are no Photographs ( remember, for a considerable time, how difficult it was to get a photograph of Shamshad begum or Madhubala Jhaveri ? ). So we know nothing about them except their names.
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“Sanjog” (1943) was one of first movies based on the story of mistaken identities. The details of this movie were provided by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia. Here are the deials of this movie as provided by him:
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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.

This song is coming on here at the request of a close friend. A rare recording that is not yet available online. The film is ‘Pehle Aap’ from 1944.
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“Kaanoon”(1943) was produced by A R Kardar. The movie had Shahu Modak, Mehtab, A Shah, Gajanan Jagirdar, Badri Prasad, Ulhas, Nirmala etc in it.
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“Main Hoon Alladin” (1965) was directed by Mohammad Hussain for Ram Krishna Films. The movie had Ajit, Sayeeda Khan, Madan Puri, Gajanan Jagirdar, Maruthi, Shyam Kumar, David, Munshi Munakka, Ratnamala,Habib, Amar, Mumtaz Begum, Noor Jehan etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

In the early era of the Talkie, most films were based on Mythology, History or Fantasy stories. As the years went by,the films were made on social themes and still later the films were produced on the stories written in their ‘story departments’ weaving mystery, humour, misfortune and heroics imaginatively.
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“Teesra Kaun” (1965) was a Bindu Kala Mandir Production. The movie was directed by Mohammad Hussain and the star cast of the movie included names like Feroz Khan, Kalpana Mohan, Shashikala, Paro, Rajen Haksar, Shyam Kumar, RamSingh, Kundan, Kamal Mehra, S.Nazir, S.Banerjee, Mirza Musharaf, Chandrima Badhuri, Indira Bansal, Sabina, G.M.Durrani, Paresh Kumar, Habib, B.K.Pereira, Rajendar Singh, Miss Cathy Prince, Janki Dass etc.
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Most music directors of B grade movies tend to remain confined to B grade music throughout their careers. But the music director duo of Laxmikant Pyarelal were no ordinary music director duo. They began their career as independent music directors with B grade movies/ small budget movies, but they created such stunning music in these movies that they quickly joined the ranks of the most sought after music directors in the Hindi movie music industry.
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When it comes to artists of 1940s, there was a plethora of two names. One name was Khursheed and another was Shyam. There were far too many persons being called Khursheed and Shyam. The onfusion was further enhanced by the fact that the two Shyams will act together in the movie and one Shyam would give playback for the other Shyam.
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