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Published: 12 July 2018

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Filmfare awards have undergone many name changes. The earliest ones were named after a veteran film writer, Clare Mendonca, after she passed away. Her is a photo of her from 1939.

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Published: 15 January 2018

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Here is another example of a tune used later. Listen to this and then, 'hamen to shaam-e-gham men kaaTanee hai zindagee apanee'.

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Published: 16 September 2017

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Continuing my quest for early instruments, in the following song 4 from Amar Jyoti (1936) I do not hear tabla, but a Daf-like instrument, what Raj Kapoor played in Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (1960),

Amar Jyoti

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Listen to Te Dil Kisko Doon (1963)