Mangeshkar rendered this track too

With the addition of the subject of this post to my collection, there are three songs from the 1955 film Uran Khatola in it.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, More Saiyan Ji Utrenge Paar would be the last.

And if they were arranged in the ascending order of their durations, it would be the first – it was three minutes and 25 seconds long.

Was it any surprise that the song was rendered by the one and only Lata Mangeshkar?

The song, which was written by Shakeel Badayuni, was composed by Naushad Ali.

Lata had a solo too

Tanga-wali was a case of transliteration gone wrong (albeit unintentionally), because it is a single word and not a hyphenated one.

The second song from the film happened to be a solo.

It was titled Rim Jhim Jhim Badarwa Barse (translated to, “Pitter-patter, the rain falls”).

And the lady who lent her voice to it was the one and only Lata Mangeshkar.

That was not a surprise, because she was the only female singer to contribute to the soundtrack of the film.

The song, which was written by Prem Dhawan, was composed by Salil Chowdhury.

Lata sang this ro(He)mantic duet

When a Hindi film music enthusiastic thinks of Tanga-wali (the female driver of a horse-drawn carriage), the first name that comes to mind is Basanti, Hema Malini’s talkative character in the 1975 film Sholay.

But a couple of decades before that cult classic, a film titled Tangawali released.

My collection contained just one song from the film.

It was a romantic number titled Halke Halke Chalo Sanware.

The two people who lent their voices to it were Lata Mangeshkar and Hemant Kumar.

Prem was Dhawan who wrote the song, which was composed by Salil Chowdhury.

It completed Lata’s Seema hat-trick

If the five songs from Seema in my collection were arranged in the alphabetical order, the happy version of Suno Chhoti Si Gudiya Ki would be the penultimate one.

And if they were arranged in the alphabetical order of their durations, it would be the first – it was a couple of minutes and 40 seconds long.

Therefore, the song that completed Lata Mangeshkar’s hat-trick of solos on the soundtrack of the film was the opposite of the second song in said hat-trick.

The song, which was written by Hasrat Jaipuri, was composed by Shankar Jaikishan.

It continued Lata's Seema hat-trick

Seema released in 1955.

With the addition of the subject of this post, and the next one, there were five songs from the film in my collection.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, Baat Baat Mein Rootho Na would be the first.

And if they were arranged in the descending order of their durations, it would be the penultimate one – it was four minutes and eight seconds long.

The song was rendered by Lata Mangeshkar.

Hasrat Jaipuri wrote the song, which was composed by Shankar Singh Ram Singh Raghuvanshi and Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal.

Dutt was not a duet

Sardar released in 1955.

And my collection contained just one track from it.

It was titled Barkha Ki Raat Mein.

While all the songs in the film were solos, this was Geeta Dutt’s only contribution to the soundtrack of the film.

Uddhav Kumar wrote it.

Every part of the composer’s name reflected his dedication to his craft and what he wanted to do.

His name was Jagmohan Sursagar.

And, he was an ocean of melody (as his last name suggests), and wanted to enthrall the world (if his first name was anything to go by).

This Du(e)t(t) became quite populaR

There were a couple of similarities between the subject of the previous post and this one.

Firstly, both the songs were from films that released in 1955.

And secondly, they had four-word titles, of which one of the words was Haseen.

The song referenced in this post was Udhar Tum Haseen Ho, and it was from Mr. & Mrs. ’55.

The two people who lent the song their voices were Geeta Dutt and Mohammed Rafi.

Neither was a surprise, because they were the voices of the soundtrack.

Majrooh Sultanpuri wrote the O P Nayyar composition.

The CoMposer sang it too

Before I added the subject of this post to my collection, it contained a couple of songs from Azaad, which released in 1955.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, the one in this playlist would be the second.

It was titled Kitna Haseen Hai Mausam.

The involvement of C Ramchandra in the song wasn’t restricted to composing it, but he was also credited – as Chitalkar (his last name) – with singing it.

He was joined behind the microphone for it by the one and only Lata Mangeshkar.

The song was written by Rajinder Krishan.