Gaata Rahe Mera Dil 50 Classic Hindi Film Songs

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What is there

What should be there

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Credits

Lyrics: Kavi Pradeep

Lyrics: <Unknown>

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Featured separately on a 78 rpm record

Featured on the other side of the same  78 rpm record

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The songs from Mahal were very well received by audiences and musicians. One number, ‘Mujhse mat pooch mere ishq mein kya rakha hai’, surely served as the inspiration for composer Ravi’s song: ‘Badle mere sarkar nazar aate hain’ from Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960) sung by Asha Bhonsle.

Please delete this

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2nd / last

Humraaz [1967]

Gumrah [1963]

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3rd / 2nd

a young Asha Parekh

a young Tabassum

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2nd / 6th

Naushad’s brother-in-law

Naushad’s good friend

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1st / 2nd

(Baazi)

( Baazi , 1951)

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last / 3rd last

Dhanyeshswari nadi re

Dhaleshwari nadi re

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Box

Salil Chowdhury, probably as a tribute to his Bengal compatriot, used it in the voice of S.D. Burman in Gulzar’s film Achanak (1973).

Gulzar also used the line in the background of Achanak (1973).

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But they clinch the return match with ‘Pehchanta hoon khoob’ (rendered by Asha Bhonsle, Sudha Malhotra and Balbir)

But they clinch the return match with ‘Pehchanta hoon khoob’ (rendered by Asha Bhonsle, Sudha Malhotra, Balbir and Bande Hasan)

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Sahir Ludhianvi innovates as Urdu gently makes way for a few words of Hindi like ‘kathin’ instead of ‘mushkil’.

Sahir Ludhianvi innovates, however, he does borrow couplets from Amir Khusraw, as Urdu gently makes way for a few words of Hindi like ‘kathin’ instead of ‘mushkil’.

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last / 2nd last

Barsaat Ki Raat was initially offered to Khayyam by Chandra,

Barsaat Ki Raat was initially offered to Khayyam by Chandra (real name Rameshchandra Gupta),

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7 a.m.

7:30 AM

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With a record ten playback singers (five male, five female),

With a record twelve playback singers (seven  male- Rafi, Manna, Batish, Balbir,Shankar, Shambhu, Bande Hasan, five female - Lata, Asha, Sudha, Suman, Kamal Barot),

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2nd / 7th

4/7

7/4

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2nd / 10th

4/7

7/4

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last / 3rd last

Vijay Anand, who was officially neither the director nor the producer of the film, but is supposed to have ghost-directed it. He moved to his flat on Pali Hill and had a table lamp custom-made to play the chime whenever the lamp was switched on.

Vijay Anand was the ghost director of the film, but was not officially credited for the same, as told to the authors by Dev Anand in an interview in his studio in 2010. Vijay was so much in love with the tune, that when he moved to his flat at Pali Hill, he had a lamp custom-made to play the chime whenever the lamp was powered on

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Rafiq Ahmad Khan

Rafiq Ali Khan

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Titles

Lyrics: Shamsul Haq Bihari

Lyrics: Shamsul Huda Bihari

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last / last

Talat Mehmood

Talat Mahmood

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3rd / 5th

( House no 44 )

( House no 44 , 1955)

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3rd / 6th

Chalo ik baar

Chalo ek baar

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1st / 3rd

continued to use till 1982

continued to use till 1986

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2nd / 7

Guide is also the only film

Guide is one of the few films (other films are Eight Days (1946) and Zindagi Zindagi (1972)

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1st / 12th

Na na pyar karte

Na na karte pyar

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2nd / 1st

Humne dekhi hain

Humne dekhi hai

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2nd / 6th

dekhi hain

dekhi hai

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1st / 7th

Producer L.B. Lachman stepped in

L.B. Lachman, who was producing Annadata , and was very close to Hrishi da, stepped in

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2nd / 1st

Raj holds a doll

Raj holds a doll  (the doll was prepared by veteran music director Madhavlal Damodar Master)

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last / 4th

other percussionist was Lala Sattar.

other percussionist was Lala Gangawane.

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Titles

Caravan (1972)

Caravan (1971)

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2nd / 4th

Vyjantimala

Vyjayantimala

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Footnote

Add a box at the end- Kolkata based Jayati Mukherjee, an amateur singer who has been sining the song for years, adds : There were two more lines in the first antara - Pyar ke jalte zakhmoon se jo dil mein ujala hai, Aab jo bichad ke aur bhi zyada bharne wala hai - which would be played on AIR during the initial days. However, the version which later made it the cassettes and CDs were sans these lines . Sanjeevani, an upcoming vocalist, had also sang the song with these two lines in a TV show

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1st / 9th

insturments,

instruments,

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3rd / last

Kajri's

Kajli's

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Titles

Singers: Mohd Rafi, Kishore Kumar, R.D. Burman, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar

Singers: Mohd Rafi, Kishore Kumar, R.D. Burman, Asha Bhosle

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3rd / 2nd

HKKM

HKKN

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3rd  / 6th

27 Down (1972)

27 Down (1973)

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5th / 2nd

Kulliaat

Kulliyat-e-Mir

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5th / 2nd

13000 words

13,000 couplets

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2nd / 3rd

Sardar Ali Jaffri

Ali Sardar Jafri

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3rd / 2nd last

Varmaji

Sharmaji

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1st / 4th

both written by Sameer, who was also the scriptwriter of the film.

both written by Sameer

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2nd / 2nd

We had a red Maruti van

Mansoor had a red Maruti van. The number was 1887 with Maharashtra registration

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1st / 2nd

Keezhmadu in Kerela's Aluva District

Keezhmaadu, near Aluva in Eranakulam district

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1st / 4th

Periyamukham

Periyamugham

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3rd / last

Joban George

Job & George

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4th / 5th

Mountain Misty

Mountain Mist Tea

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2nd / 5th

What many people don’t know is that Dilip had composed Disco Disco (1987) with singer Malaysia Vasudevan, the Sufi-based album Deen Isai Malai (1989) and the English album Set Me Free (1990)with singer Malgudi Shubha.

What many people don’t know is that Dilip had composed the Sufi-based album Deen Isai Malai (1989) and the English album Set Me Free (1990) with singer Malgudi Shubha.

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3rd / 2nd last

seventy-odd

seventy eight

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3rd / 3rd last

in 1997

in 1998

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2nd / 1st

On the Republic Day of 1963 (some reports say the date is January 27)

On January 27, 1963

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2nd / 9th

Waseem Altaf of Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan,

Waseem Altaf of Islamabad, Pakistan,