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Published: 11 September 2017

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Listen to the song 2 from Lal Chitthi from Girdharilal Vishwakrama collection

http://hindi-films-songs.com/main/glv-159.html

Soon after she sings kookatee hai Daalee Dalee, I hear a bird-like sound. She continues koyaliyaa kaalee. I believe it is just somebody whistling. In any case, this is the earliest song to have a bird sound.

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 Listen to Nag Mohini (1963)

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Published: 22 May 2018

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An excellent book on the 25 year history (1970-1995), of Music, Dance, Theater and Cinema from all over India, written by dozens of experts, with dozen board members. It covers all of the provinces, is in 2 volumes, has more than 700 pages. Ravi Shankar, B D Garg and Snajit Narwekar are contributors, among others.

It pains me to report that they put a photo of a person definitely not K L Saigal and labeled it as such. Amazing that so many qualified people could not see that. The writer of this particular article was born in 1918, must have seen at least one photo of Saigal somewhere.

Abhay Jain, Mothers' Day 2010

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Published: 06 March 2019

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Baby Nargis attempts to kill herself and other news from April 1946.

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