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Published: 14 August 2014

Last Updated: 14 August 2014

A Year in Hindi Movies 1941

1941 - Mukesh acts and sings!

 This note on Mukeshachand Zoraavarachand Maathur should be
read alongside the wonderful info already available on the
RMIM Automailer maintained by Prince Kohli and Satish
Subramanian; get the articles #1, #2, #60 and #78.
Mukesh was born on July 22, 1923. One of the ten siblings,
the handsome young man came to Bombay in 1940 to become an
actor. His bosom buddy Tara Harish gave him a chance as a
hero in "nirdosh" (1941) opposite Nalini Jayawant in her
third movie. His first song was, "dil hii bujhaa huaa ho to
fasle bahaar kyaa", a solo and he also sang two duets with
Nalini Jaywant. The MD of the movie was Ashok Ghosh. On his
death in 1976, Anil Biswas said that he lost one of his
sons.

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Published: 16 October 2017

Last Updated: 16 October 2017

Early sound effects in the background or for songs were produced manually by using all kinds of props. Everybody knows about the sound of horse running produced by coconut shells. Realistic sounds such as footsteps, doorbell, phone ringing could be produced by using the real thing. For thunderstorms they used a gadget called thunder-sheet, a metallic sheet suspended by wires and moved back and forth. Here is the earliest example I have in my collection (Laal-e-Yaman song Number 8)

Laal-e-Yaman Song 8

Now you know!

 Listen to Parivar (1967)

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Published: 18 January 2018

Last Updated: 08 August 2023

Here is a copyright case from 1995, Gramophone Company of India Ltd vs Super Cassettes.  Guess who won? BTW you can see the whole case on the internet.

Now you know!

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