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Shankar Vazre was a famous stunt actor of his time. He died young. Recently I made friends with his grandson Tejas. He asked me if I have any song from his films. As usual, I am busy with 20 different things, so I told him I will look and get back to him. Imagine my surprise when a friend sent to me a very nicely written article on him that he wrote for a website. I also saw this song and they said it was contributed by a collector from Delhi. Now, I know for a fact that this song came to me from another dear friend who spent months in India spending his own money and finding rare songs for me from a list that I had given him. Long story short, I sent this song and thousands others to my BFF and this Delhi guy copied from him on a recent US visit.Of course, there is no mention of any of this on the website. I don't blame the article writer. I am sure he did not know.
I am not going to shame anybody by naming names, at this time.I believe in sharing and I am going to put all these very rare songs on my website eventually.. So, in the words of a wise man,
hotaa hai, chaltaa hai, duniyaa hai
Listen to 1939_madhu-baanasaree_rang-rasiyaa-aavo.mp3
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Amazing film from all angles, photography by Bimal Roy. music by Pankaj Mullick! The tile music starts with a tune that was used later by Amir Ali in a very successful film Panna (1944) in the song 'kaalee ghaTaa chhaye' sung by Rajkumari. The music pieces had charkhi or charakhaDee that is played by quickly rotating or oscillating it so that the beads at the end of threads hit the drum in the middle. Used in qawwalis much later.
Listen to 1937063283_1937_mukti_83_x_1937 mukti title_x_x.mp3
Listen to 1937063284_1937_mukti_84_x_1937 mukti music_x_x-1.mp3
Listen to 1937063284_1937_mukti_84_x_1937 mukti music_x_x-2.mp3
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Listen to Narsingh 696
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Here is V Shantaram making fun of the Hindi in British accent spoken by actors who did not know Hindi. I believe this is a first.
Listen to 1939_aadamii_premi-premnagar.mp3
Now you know!
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