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Published: 23 April 2019

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Narsingh 757: Mid-50s

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Published: 11 October 2017

Last Updated: 11 October 2017

Just in case people think that use of English words in songs is a new phenomenon. I take you back all the way to the theater days. Her is a song written by the famous playwright Agha Hashr Kashmiri for the drama Silver King:

kyon chhipaayee laa de bhaee Khaalis whiskey
rang ho jis men Miss kee
aur lazzat ho jis men Kiss kee

which loosely translates as

O brother, bring it, why have you hidden pure whiskey
which has the color of a Miss
and which has the bliss of a kiss

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Published: 30 November 2017

Last Updated: 30 November 2017

Very few people know that G N Joshi, an employee of the HMV since 1938 was responsible for persuading many famous classical music gurus to have their music recorded. His book Down Melody Lane is full of anecdotes. In one instance he details how HMV cheated a new record company called Young India by recording their music as version music and packaging very similarly. Gulshan Kumar did the same to them years later!

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