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A song from a Bollywood movie London Dreams, starring Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan, and movie Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! starring Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao, Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi. It is also used in Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam as a short song. In the movie 1920 (directed by Vikram Bhatt), Hanuman Chalisa is frequently used in different scenes. These movies have a part/or the entirety of the Hanuman Chalisa.
The chalisa is one of the best selling Hindu religious books and also most often performed by popular singers. There are popular versions of Chalisa recitals by popular singers like Mahendra Kapoor, M.S. Subbulakshmi, S.P.Balasubramaniam, Udit Narayan, Gulshan Kumar, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Shankar Mahadevan, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Morari Bapu and Bhushan Dua. The "Shri Hanuman Chalisa" album, features one song by Amitabh Bachchan and 20 other leading music artistes, received an unprecedented response by the releasing music label during November 2011.
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