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I was in grade 10 when this film came out. I was not allowed to see films so I had to watch them during school hours. Saw only 3-4 films  a year. This one did not make the cut. Saw it yesterday for the songs and any other interesting info.

During the club song, 'Kahnaa Meraa Aaj Maan Le', Nazi is singing and we see the back of a man. He suddenly turns and we see Mehmood, a surprise guest, only seen here, not mentioned anywhere.

Of course, he is going into the filmography and the song picturization information!

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Published: 16 August 2023

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Raj Khosla is actually listed in the credits. Yesterday, I found out that he is in the song, Choree-Choree Meree Galee Aanaa Hai Buraa, Aaegaa, Aa Ke Binaa Baat Kiye Jaanaa Hai Buraa.

Thanks to Rammesh K Venugopal for pointing this out.

With Geeta Bali.

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Censor Board Certified 959 Hindi/Urdu films during 1961-1970.

Of which we had 664 (Some were contributed by Pradeep Asrani and Vivek Kumar, many thanks both of you!).

Number of songs in these films is 6,433 of which we had 4,330 on video from the films.

I watched all these songs carefully to note down who were the singers onscreen. I also noted down the Group Dancers and Junior Artists present in the songs. In this exercise the two books on Junior Artists (Upendra Samaranayake) and two books on Group Dancers (again Upendra; Edwina, and Narsingh D Agnish) were very helpful. Also very useful were Facebook groups dedicated to Junior Artists and Group Dancers, led by Dr Ramnath Iyer. Hats off to their dedication and hard work.

Sadly about 300 people remain unidentified.

Some of you may be wondering, how me, a self-declared fan of the 30s and 40s films and songs, survived watching these movies. The answer is simple.

Whatever my current tastes may be. I grew up with these 60s movies that I watched in the theaters with many dear friends and it brought back memories of playing truant from school and walking from the Ludhiana cinemas to home and from the Chandigarh movie halls to the Panjab University Hostel Number 3, late at night and going to my room, not through the main gate, which was closed, but climbing a fence specially prepared for this purpose.

It took me about 6 months, it is done. Now the hard work of preparing the files for the database website and for writing books starts.

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