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Published: 08 October 2017

Last Updated: 08 October 2017

Earliest song in which I hear both the singers laughing. The song is sung by Anil Biswas and Sardar Akhtar. Although both are in the cast of the film, HFGK says that the male on-screen is Pramod Chandra. I am sure it is Anil Biswas himself doing the laughing here, because the song is from the 78 record. The words are 'saaqee ho, sahan-e-baaGh ho, abr-e-bahaar ho, pahaloo men tum'. Obviously an Urdu translation of the famous rubaayi by tentmaker (and poet) Omar Khayyaam! I know one more song with a slightly different translation from the original Persian. I will point it out when we reach 1964 :)

1936 Piya Ki Jogan Song

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Listen to Shera Daku (1966) 

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Published: 22 December 2017

Last Updated: 22 December 2017

There is so much propaganda about Awara (195!) being popular in the Soviet Union that you may be forgiven for thinking that that was the first Indian film to be shown there. In fact, it was another one from two years earlier.

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Published: 07 August 2018

Last Updated: 09 August 2018

The earliest use of the word naagar in song 5 here

http://hindi-films-songs.com/main/chandralekha-48.html

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