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Published: 22 December 2017

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There is so much propaganda about Awara (195!) being popular in the Soviet Union that you may be forgiven for thinking that that was the first Indian film to be shown there. In fact, it was another one from two years earlier.

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Published: 21 December 2017

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Before this song, I had not heard just single hits or thumps on a drum, probably not tabla.

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Published: 20 December 2017

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You may have heard/read that Govinda's last name is Ahuja. You may have also heard/read that his dad was Aroon Kumar Ahuja, who played the role of the husband who abandoned his wife in the first version of Mother India, viz. Aurat (1940). Some of you may have also heard/read that he was actually a Sikh named Gulshan Singh Ahuja! Here is a note about him from 1942.

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