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Published: 29 January 2018

Last Updated: 29 January 2018

Now everybody and their auntie knows that Master Madan recorded 8 songs and lots of people are claiming that their great-grandpa had all 8 songs etc. Well, to tell you the truth, this is the first time ever that anybody saw this fact mentioned in print!

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Bharatji Lata 03

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Published: 23 August 2018

Last Updated: 23 August 2018

Har Mandir Singh "Hamraaz" has sent the following revised table from 2013.

From the Listeners' Bulletin Number 135, November 2007,

MD, Year of Debut, Number of Films (if > 50)

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Ghazals 2

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Published: 19 May 2018

Last Updated: 19 May 2018

This song from Qanoon (1943) was used 7 years later in a Panjabi film, Madari, in a satirical way, reminding people that the partition did not change much. Of course, the song was in Panjabi and javaanee was changed to aazaadee. In Panjabi the refrain is 'main koee jhooTh boliya?'

Listen to 1943_qaanoon_aaye-javaanee-jaaye-javaanee.mp3

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