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Published: 30 December 2022

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Rajesh Khanna's bedroom. Start and Style, March 1972.

In competition with Stardust.

From the collection of veteran RMIMer Asif Alvi.

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Published: 04 January 2023

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Whenever I perused Volume 1 of the Hindi Film Geet Kosh, I found the name Dilip in the cast in a few movies of the thirties. For example,

It could not be the famous Dilip Kumar. The mystery was solved by Shahid Pardesi of Lahore who pointed out that the actor Nazir had acted in a few movies with this name. Then, Sheo Khetan pointed to a page in filmindia confirming it for the film 'Flame of Love'. Lastly an internet search provided an image from Sharafee Loot when we have an actor looking like Nazir and we have a Dilip in the cast. WE still need to verify this hypothesis for the other three films, but my guess is that even there, Nazir acted under the name Dilip.

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Published: 13 June 2023

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I should have searched posts by Sudarshan Talwar and MN Sardana for this song from Haqeeqat (1964).

MN Sardana mentions that Raj (Johny) Bkashi played a double role. He also appeared as a Sikh soldier

Kharag Singh noticed that Rafi also sang for Prem Sagar, a fact already mentioned by Sudarshan Talwar in a post. I regret missing this information. Here he is

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