Raficionados disagreed with the title

My collection contained a couple of songs from Deedar, which released in 1951.

The subject of this post was also a song that had two versions in the film.

The song in question was Hue Hum Jinke Liye Barbaad.

Both the versions were rendered by the one and only Mohammed Rafi, whose fans would obviously never concur with the title of the song.

Noticing no difference between them, I looked up its duration on iTunes – it was four minutes and a dozen seconds long.

Shakeel Badayuni penned the song, which was composed by Naushad Ali.

Mr Kumar (Kisho)rendered this version

While there were a couple of versions of Kusoor Aapka Huzoor Aapka on the soundtrack of the 1951 film Bahar, my collection has just one.

I am referring to the male version, which was rendered by none other than Kishore Kumar.

With the addition of that song, there are a couple of tracks from the film in my collection*.

The song, which was penned by Rajinder Krishan, was composed by S D Burman.

(*Note: The other was sung by Shamshad Begum, who lent her voice to the other song from the film in my collection.)

It was a Geeta solo

Like many Hindi film music enthusiasts of my generation, the first time I heard the word ‘Gajar’ was in the song from the 1989 film Tridev, Gajar Ne Kiya Hai Ishara.

I didn’t know what it meant then – upon looking it up later, I found out that it meant an alarm.

In 1951, a film titled Baazi released.

The title of a song on its soundtrack went Suno Gajar Kya Gaaye.

It was rendered by Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhury (she was not Geeta Dutt then).

Sahir Ludhianvi wrote the song, which S D Burman composed.

Shamshad Begum sang this ‘number’

Before I added the subject of this post to my collection, there were teen (three) tracks from the 1951 film Awaara in it.

Ek Do Teen was the fourth song.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, it would be the penultimate one.

As was the case with the other songs from the film in my collection, it was penned by the one and only Shailendra.

It happened to be the only contribution of Shamshad Begum to the soundtrack of the film.

Shankar Singh Ram Singh Raghuvanshi and Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal composed the song.

Ms Mangeshkar joined the ComposeR

My collection contains five songs from Albela, which released in 1951.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, Dheere Se Aaja Ri Ankhiyan Mein would be the second.

And if they were arranged in the ascending order of their durations, it would be the first – it was three minutes and 21 seconds long.

Not only did C Ramchandra compose the song, but he was also one of the two people who lent their voices to it.

The lady who joined him behind the microphone for it was Lata Mangeshkar.

Rajinder Krishan wrote the song.