This tracK (Anurad)had both tenses

Teri Meherbaniyan released in 1985.

There were a couple of songs from the film in my collection.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, the subject of this post would be the first.

The song’s title had a phrase in both the past and the present tense – it was Dil Beqaraar Tha Dil Beqaraar Hai.

Two people lent their voices to it.

One of them was Shabbir Kumar, the voice of the soundtrack.

And the other was Anuradha Paudwal.

S H Bihari wrote the song, which Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma composed.  

Runa rendered this popular number

When I was compiling this playlist, I chanced upon a song that I had heard, but I did not know the title of the film it was from.

The song was Mera Babu Chhail Chhabila.

Before I added it to my collection, I looked it up online.

And that was when I found out that it was from Ghar Dwaar (1985).

Anjaan wrote the Chitragupta composition, which was the only song from the film in my collection.

The song, which could be translated to, “My lover is a handsome youth”, was sung by Runa Laila.

Kumar did not accept (Kisho)remuneration

I wrote this post on December 29, 2023, which happened to be the 81^st birth anniversary of Rajesh Khanna, the producer and leading man in Alag Alag, which released in 1985.

Since the film marked his debut as producer, his playback voice since his breakthrough hit Aradhana (1969) – the one and only Kishore Kumar – did not charge him a fee for rendering the songs of the film.

The second song from the film in my collection – alphabetically too – was Kabhi Bekasi Ne Maara.

Anand Bakshi wrote the song, which was composed by R D Burman.

Alisha (Chi)nailed this title track

When Tarzan pops into the heads of people of my vintage, they remember Taarzan: The Wonder Car, which released in 2004.

But in 1985, a then newbie named Hemant Birje played the ape-like man in Adventures of Tarzan, with Kimi Katkar playing the desi Jane. Her character’s name in the film was Ruby Shetty.

My collection contained just one version of a song from the film – its title track, Tarzan My Tarzan.

By the way, both the versions were sung by Alisha Chinai.

The song was written by Anjaan.

It was composed by Bappi Lahiri.