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Published: 28 September 2017

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Parody song is a comic song that has the same or very similar tune of a popular song but the words are changed. The earliest one I have heard is 'gaao gaao ai mere saadhoo' from MIss Frontier Mail (1936)

gaao gaao ai mere

It is based on the very popular 'jaavo jaavo ai mere saadho' from Pooran Bhagat (1933)

jaavo jaavo ai mere

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Listen to Sati Nari (1965)

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Published: 27 September 2017

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In the early early talkies, males had to play female roles also, because the acting had a bad reputation and no respectable female would come forward. When they did, men did not like it. Kamlabai in an interview

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 Listen to Purnima (1965)

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Published: 26 September 2017

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When that Julie song came, many ignorant people said that that was the first English song in a Hindi film. People with little more knowledge pointed to C A T cat and Beautiful baby of Broadway, When HFGK came, everybody realized that it was the first song from Karma here

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Listen to Panch Ratan (1965)