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6318 Post No. : 19563

“Malika Salomi”(1953) was directed by Mohammad Hussain for Comedy pictures Bombay. The movie had Roopa Varman, Krishna Kumari, Kamraan, Amrit, Dara, Sheikh, Rani, Arvind kumar, Bilaali, Nazir Kashmiri, Rafique, Shafi, Nanda, Sattar, Shetty, Ranjana Shikla, Kamal Mohan, Helen etc in it.
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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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6292 Post No. : 19477 Movie Count :

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were some Hindi films which were labelled as ‘parallel cinema’, ‘new wave cinema’ or ‘art cinema’ when they were released. The films included ‘Bhuvan Shome’ (1969) by Mrinal Sen, ‘Uski Roti’ (1969) by Mani Kaul, ‘Saara Aakaash’ (1969) by Basu Chatterjee, ‘Maya Darpan’ (1972) by Kumar Sahni, ‘Garam Hawa’ (1974) by M S Sathyu and ‘Ankur’ (1974) by Shyam Benegal. Among these films, there was a film titled ’27 Down’ (1973) about which I had a faint memory. Few days back, the name of this film came back to my mind when I read an article with a curiosity-creating caption, ‘A class IV employee, his only film won two National Awards, died at 35……. Who was Awtar Kaul?’ in The Economic Times, September 22, 2025. He was none other than the director of ’27 Down’ (1973).

Subsequently, I read two more articles about Awtar Kaul – one in ‘Chinar Shade’ by Avtar Mota and another in ‘The Wire’ by his nephew, Vinod Kaul. Surprisingly all these articles appeared during 2024-25.

Incidentally, ’27 Down’ (1974) was screened at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa in 2024 to commemorate 50 years of the film’s release. Perhaps these articles appeared around that time as tributes to Awtar Kaul on 50th year of his passing away on July 20, 1974.
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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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6290 Post No. : 19471

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (Happy Birthday to Usha Khanna)
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Today 7th October 2025 is the eighty-fifth birthday of music composer and singer Usha Khanna (born on 7th October 1941).

On this occasion I am presenting song that is sung as well as composed by her.

This song is from the 1979 movie ‘Meri Beewee Ki Shaadi’. It was directed by Rajat Rakshit for AVM Arts International, Bombay. It was a social movie. The cast of this movie included Amol Palekar, Ranjeet, Ashok Saraf, C.S. Dubey, Maruti, Datta Bhatt, Jankidas, R. Verma, M. Naidu, Ashok Narang, Baba Naik, Siraj, Susheela Raut, Pramod Naidu, Chanda, Anuradha, Dilip Kulkarni (debutant) and others. Neelu Phule and Namita Chandra had special appearances in this movie.
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This article is written by Dr PradeepKumar Shetty, 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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6285 Post No. : 19451

We know that S D Burman sang about 150 Bengali NFSs in the beginning of his career. Most of them became very popular. In Hindi, the number is about 25. We have 5 of them on the blog.

Today on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, here is a lesser known SDB song. I couldn’t get much detail. Looks like it must have been recorded in the year 1948, in the days following Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination. However some sources on internet mention the year as 1960 for this. Also this seems to be album containing more songs and titled as ‘Gun Dhaam Hamaare Gandhi jee’. I would request knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this song and its details please.
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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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6257 Post No. : 19354

Today’s song is from a comedy film- Aap ki Marzi-1939.

This was a film from Sudama Productions, Bombay. It was directed by Sarvottam Badami, well known in those times, for comedy film The music was by the veteran Gyan Dutt and the cast included Sabita Devi, Motilal, Vasanti, Mazhar, Khurshid, Sunalini Devi, K.N.Singh, Jagdish Sethi and others. This comedy film was based on the popular Hollywood film “Paradise for 3 “-1938.
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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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6252 Post No. : 19335

Today’s song is from an 88 year old film Jeevan Prabhat-1937.

In the initial era of Talkie films, Calcutta’s New Theatres and Poona’s Prabhat were the most well known filmmakers. They used to make films on social issues. Particularly, Prabhat was famous for keeping their films centred on the Reform themes like,Dowry, Child Marriage, Second Marriage, Cast difference etc.From the mid 30s one more company came into limelight and that was Bombay Talkies- founded by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. They also followed the trend and films on social issues like Untouchability, illiteracy etc were made. Today’s song is from a film made by Bombay Talkies- Jeewan Prabhat-37.
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This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, 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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6251 Post No. : 19334

Now let’s move away from the Kamsune/Ansune songs of Asha Bhosle and welcome a crazy as song.

Dhadkan 1972 is directed by Devendra Goel and stars The movie stars Sanjay Khan, Mumtaz, Rajendra Nath, Helen, Bindu, Roopesh Kumar, etc in pivotal roles.
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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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6218 Post No. : 19210

Today’s song is a chorus song from the Mythological film Hanuman Patal Vijay-1951.

I liked to see and enjoyed Mythological films. This was primarily due to the exposure to such films since early childhood. Thanks to the elders in our huge joint family, I got appointed as their caretaker who would take a group of elders to see such films. That is why from childhood I developed a religious mindset. However, my father ensured to impress on me that Religion is strictly a personal matter and one must decide how much importance one should give to Religion in one’s life. I have followed this principle till today and I treat all religions with the same reverence. Excess or exhibition of Religion must be avoided. This is my opinion.
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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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6212 Post No. : 19184

#The Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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Today is the second Monday of the Shraavan maas in the northern parts of our country. On this occasion here is a song praising Lord Shiva from the movie ‘Jai Mahaadev-1955’.

‘Jai Mahaadev-1955’ was a movie from the genre of mythological movies directed by Ramchandra Thakur for ‘K. Pictures, Bombay’. Ratilal Vora was the producer of this movie which was passed by the censor board on 25.03.1955. The cast of this movie had Nalini Jaywant, Trilok Kapoor, Mahipal, S.N. Tripathi, Meenakshi, Dar Kashmiri, Shyam Sundar, Jeevan, Revashankar, Indira Bansal, Pandey, Babu Raje, Sukumar, Heera Sawant, Bheem Bhai, Sachin Ghosh, Prabha Shankar, Mahimi, Deewan, Narbada Shankar, Chhannalal, Lalit Kapoor, Raj Sood, Ganpat Rao and others. Roopa Verman, Lalita Kumari, Umakant and Roopmala were the guest artistes for this movie.
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The blog, which started on 19 July 2008, completes 17 years of its existence today on 19 July 2025.

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6210 Post No. : 19171

“Gokul”(1946) was directed by Vasant Painter for Prabhat Films. The movie had Anant Marathe, Kamla Kotnis, Sapru, Chandrakant, But Kashar, Ganpat Rao, Yashwant Suley, Nimbalkar, Vimal Karnataki, Madhukar Apte etc in it.
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