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Published: 12 July 2018

Last Updated: 12 July 2018

Filmfare awards have undergone many name changes. The earliest ones were named after a veteran film writer, Clare Mendonca, after she passed away. Her is a photo of her from 1939.

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Published: 12 January 2018

Last Updated: 08 August 2023

Everyone has heard the phrase, aavazz kee duniyaa ke dosto (Never doston). Some people think that it was invented by some guy from Radio Ceylon. Not so, It is heard here for the first time in a Radio context.

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Published: 28 August 2017

Last Updated: 04 September 2017

All of us know about non-film songs that were used in films. These are from private records, dramas, nautankis etc. Perhaps the most famous is "nadee naare na jaiyo shaam" originally by Gulab Bai, the famous nautanki artist. It was used in Mujhe Jeene Do (1961).

But which was the earliest song so used? To answer that we would need to know about non-film records. Luckily, MIchael Kinnear of the SIRC has done all the work. From his first book that covers 1899-1980, we find the song "jo main aisaa jaanatee preet kiye dukh hoye" from the play Bhool Bhulaiyan, sung by Miss Subhashi. Interestingly, a talkie was made in 1933 with the same name, most likely based on this drama, but this song was not used. 

Of course, everybody knows at least one Hindi film in which this song was used.

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