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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, 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 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.

Deven Verma, the Actor-Comedienne-Producer-Director was 77 when he passed away last year. Unbelievable that it’s a whole year since then. How time flies but certain voids are never filled.
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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.

Today is 28 september 2015, a red letter day for HFM because it is the birthday of Lata Mangeshkar today who was born this day in 1929. The most shining jewel of a musically illustrius family, it goes withut saying that she has dominated Hindi playback singing for the last six decades or so. Many of the songs that have become integral parts of our daily lives as well as parts of our lives during special occasions have been sung by her.
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There have been several movies titled “Zindagi”. This blog has so far discussed songs from “Zindagi” (1940), “Zindagi” (1956) and “Zindagi” (1964).

Here is a song from “Zingadi” (1976). This song is sung by Lata and Kishore Kumar and it is picturised on Mausami Chatterji and Vinod Mehra.
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“Zindagi” (1964) was a Gemini Pictures Production and it was directed by Ramanand Sagar. Atarcast of the movie had Prithviraj kapoor, Rajendra kumar, Raaj kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Nirupa roy, Jeevan, Leela Chitnis, Dhumal, Moolchand, Mumtaz Begum, Heeralal, Kanhaiyyalal, Mehmood, Helen, Jayant etc.
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This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Zindagi was made in 1964 with star casts as Rajendra Kumar, VMala, Raj Kumar, Prithvi Raj Kapoor, Mehmood, Jeevan, Jayant, Leela Chitnis, Dhumal, Kanhaiyalal, Hiralal & Helen. The movie was produced by SS Vasan, Gemini Pictures and was directed by Ramanand Sagar.
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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 selection is from the 1964 Gemini production Zindagi. This film had a very good star line up, as in Rajendra Kumar, Rajkumar, Vijayantimala, Prithviraj Kapoor, Lila Chitnis, Mehmood, Jayant, Kanhaiyalal, Jeevan, Dhoomal, Helen, Mumtaz Begum, Heeralal, and Master Shahid. Ramanand Sagar, the director of this film, has been active in the Hindi cinema as a story and dialogue writer since the early 1950s. He directed his first film in 1953 (Mehmaan), but it was in 1960 that he really established himself as a director with the film Ghunghat. This was followed by Zindagi (1964) and Aarzoo (1965). He then established Sagar Arts International, his own production house an went on to produce and direct such famous hits like Aankhen (1968), Geet (1970), Lalkar (1972), Charas (1976), Prem Bandhan (1979) etc. Beyond all the film world creations, Ramanand Sagar is more famous for the TV serial Ramayan, which he created in 1987, whose success established him as a household name all over India.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Movies with the name Zindagi have been made four (or maybe five) times. As per the recorded listings, the first instance of a film named Zindagi is in 1940. This is a New Theatre Productions from Calcutta, directed by PC Barua. The primary players in this film are KL Saigal, Jamuna, Pahari Sanyal, Ashalata, Sham Laha, Nemo, Manorama, Sitara, Dhruba Kumar, Bikram Kapoor, Rajnirani, and Ramkumari etc. The screenplay for this film is adapted from the novel ‘Priya Baandhabee’ by Prabodh Sanyal.
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During late 1960s and much of 1970s, when I was growing up as a kid, I scoffed at the songs that were played on radio Ceylon between 7-30 to 8 AM, which was the time for the programme called “Puraani filmon ke geet”. And the programme culminated at the stroke of 8 with a song by K L Saigal.
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