This Lata solo was ‘ghazab’

Naya Zamana released in 1971.

But as a writer, I was more delighted when I found out that its protagonist (Dharmendra) was the author of a book in it.

And the title of that book happened to be Naya Zamana.

My collection contained one song from the film.

It was titled Rama Rama Ghazab Hui Gawa Re.

And it was truly the ghazab (wonderful) half of the ‘Rama Rama Duology’ on this playlist.

It was sung by none other than Lata Mangeshkar.

The song, which was pennedby Anand Bakshi, was composed by S D Burman.

Ms Mangeshkar (Kisho)rendered this song

Here is a question.

What do you call a song whose opening lines could render the title of the film it was from ironic?

The answer is Chupke Se Dil De De.

And it was from the 1971 film Maryada.

The film’s title meant ‘limit’, and the song’s next five words were Nahin te shor match jayega.

In other words, Anand Bakshi wrote a song that could be translated to, “Give me your heart surreptitiously, or else there will be a commotion”.

Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar sang the song, which was composed by Kalyanji-Anandji.

Vani Jairam sang this prayer

Vani Jairam was born in Vellore, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Tamil Nadu) on November 30, 1945.

On February 4, 2023, the 77-year-old playback singer died, after a fall, in Chennai, the capital of the aforementioned state in southern India.

She was the voice of soundtrack of Guddi (1971).

While my collection had just one song from the film earlier  I added the second to this playlist.

It was the four-and-a-half-minute prayer, Humko Man Ki Shanti Dena.

A chorus accompanied Vani for the song, which was written by Gulzar, and composed by Vasant Desai.

Kumar composed and (Kisho)rendered (Pand)it

Door Ka Raahi released in 1971.

The involvement of Kishore Kumar in the film wasn’t restricted to singing the songs in it.

But he also wrote, directed, and starred in the film, in addition to composing its songs.

The only song from the film in my collection was Beqaraar Dil Tu Gaaye Ja.

It happened to be the only duet in the film.

The lady who joined him behind the microphone for it was former actor Sulakshana Pandit (the sister of actor-singer Vijayta Pandit and composers Jatin and Lalit).

The song was written by Irshad.