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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Sizzlers of the 60s – the phrase brings a handful of names to the mind. Of course, we have Helen and Bela Bose. And there are some performances by Aruna Irani, Laxmi Chhaaya. But talking of performances worthy of burning down the projection screens, the one name that you cannot do without is Faryal. This fairy queen of cabaret was a strong contender for the number two spot behind Helen, for long years in the 60s and 70s. Her dance numbers in films like ‘Jewel Thief’ (1967) (on instrumental music) and ‘Taxi Driver’ (1973) “Pyaar Karte Ho Yaar. . .” are some of the most fascinating cabarets in Hindi cinema.
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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Hum Hindustani a patriotic film of 1960 had the message of youth turning the nation into a hub of industrial and green revolution. Portraying the two faces of the Indian youth were Sunil Dutt and Joy Mukherjee. The former an upright engineer and the latter a bit misled.
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“Deedaar” (1970) was produced and directed by Jugal Kishore. This B grade movie had Anjana Mumtaz, Dheeraj Kumar, Premendra, Badri Prasad, Kumud Tripathi, Leela Mishra, Wasti, Leela Misra, Habib, K.N.Singh, Jayashree T, Meenaxi, Mirza Musharraf, Brahmachari etc in it.
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Today (29 august) is the birthday of Leena Chandawarkar. Yesterday (28 august) was the birthday of Anil Dhawan. These two had worked together in “Honeymoon” (1973), which was a Rajshree production movie which was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Hiren Nag. The movie had Anil Dhawan, Leena Chandavarkar, Suresh Chatwal, Nazima, Utpal Dutt, Shyama, Mukri, Sunder, Leela Misra, Senior Sulochana, Pravin Paul, Purnima, Agha, Shammi, Uttam Anand, Shail Chaturvedi, Praveen Kumar, Uma Dhawan, Madhup Sharma, Tarun Ghosh, Machhar, Sonal, Darshan, Pardesi, Shriram Shashtri, Baby Gayatri, Mona, Rajni,Indu Mehta etc on it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

When ‘Dil Deke Dekho’ was released in 1959, the only thing I remembered at that time about the movie was that it was a film in which Asha Parekh was introduced as a new heroine to pair with Shammi Kapoor. The film was a super hit and its songs became very popular. But little did I know at that time that the film’s songs were composed by a new music director called Usha Khanna. In fact, I carried a wrong impression for some time that O P Nayyar was the music director of this film. Even for her second film ‘ Hum Hindustani’ which was released in 1960, I thought that the music director was Dattaram, the music assistant to Shankar-Jaikishan. I carried these impressions as the music compositions of these two films were very close to the styles of O P Nayyar and Shankar Jaikishan respectively. After about 4 decades when I revisited her songs, mostly of 60s and 70s, I felt that she had developed her own style of music for the songs of her later films.
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We in India seem to have one festival or the other almost on a daily basis, which is natural seeing how many religions, regions and Gods we have. Similarly, we in this blog seems to have anniversaries almost on a basis, which is natural seeing how many people have contributed in the makings of the songs that we in this blog discuss.
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“Bin Phere Ham Tere” (1979) was an N P International production. It was produced by N P Singh and directed by Rajat Rakshit. The movie had Vinod Mehra, Sarika, Rajendra kumar, Asha Parekh, Nadira, Nazneen, Kamal Kapoor, Johnny whisky, C.S.Dubey, Mushthaq Merchant, Jagadish Raj, Janki Dass etc in it.
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“Baadal” (1966) was a Super Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Aspi Irani. The movie had Sheikh Mukthar, L.Vijayalaxmi, Sanjeev Kumar, Helen, Kamal Mehra, Hira Lal, Shammi Aunty, Ratnamala, Niroo, Fazal Khan, Prem, Bob, Ali Razak etc in it.
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Today (12 july) is the death anniversary of Rajendra Kumar. Movies featuring Rajendra Kumar tended to have fantastic music in them. As a result, we are spoilt for choice when it comes to discussing songs picturised on Rajendra Kumar. And this despite the fact that we have already discussed several such songs in the blog in the past.
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