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Madhubala's sister. I saw her first in Dil Ki Rani (1947).
From Filmfare given by a friend, who wishes to remain anonymous.
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There are lots of website for Hollywood movie mistakes. Perhaps the most comprehensive is
For example, the site lists 563 mistakes (the maximum) in Apocalypse Now (1979).
Mistakes are classified as thus:
continuity,
factual errors,
mistakes that reveal the film-making process,
visible crew or equipment,
plot holes,
audio problems,
deliberate "mistakes",
character mistakes, and
"other".
No such big work has been done for Indian films. I have been collecting mistakes, but do not have enough fir a book yet :) It is a worthy project.
Latest find, telephone pole in a film set in medieval times, Sher Khan (1962).
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When the first edition of the Volume 4 (1961-1970) of the Hindi Film Geet Kosh came out in May 1986, Har Mandir Singh 'Hamraaz' wrote that it was a song-less film. This was based on the information available to him at that time.
Thirty-six years later, when he was preparing the second edition, the film was available and he deleted the remark about it being a song-less film. This is because he found one song in a female voice with chorus:
Banne Re Teree Ankhiyan Suramedaane ...
When he sent the files to me, I also watched the film for picturization information, and found one more song!
So, here is the entry in the picturization book.
Of course, this information will go on the website. Here are the two songs and the title music.
Click to listen and Download, right-click and Save as for downloading.
Listen to sara-akash-1-banne-re-teri.mp3
Listen to sara-akash-2-madbhari.mp3
Listen to sara-akash-title.mp3
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