Kumar (Kisho)rendered it with Asha

The second song from The Burning Train on this playlist – and the fourth overall – was Waada Haan Waada.

Asha was one of the two people who (Bhos)lent their voices to it*.

That was no surprise, because hers was the leading female voice on the soundtrack of the film.

The man who joined her behind the microphone for it was the one and only Kishore Kumar.

The song, which Sahir Ludhianvi penned, was composed by R D Burman.

(*Note: The only song in the film that she didn’t sing was the subject of the previous post.)

It was (Kolhapu)rendered by Shrestha

My collection contains two tracks from The Burning Train, which released in 1980.

By the way, that took the number of songs from the film to four.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, Teri Hai Zameen Tera Aasmaan would be the penultimate one.

It was a female duet – the two people who lent their voices to it were Padmini Kolhapure (who was about to transition from a child artiste to a leading lady) and Sushma Shrestha (who would go on to be known as Poornima).

Sahir Ludhianvi wrote the R D Burman composition.

Kapoor’s title track was ‘(Dh)un’derrated

Sansaar Ki Har Shae was a song that I did not even have the foggiest idea of before I compiled this playlist.

So, I had to look it up online.

And that was when I read that it was a song from Dhund.

The film, whose title could be translated to fog, released in 1973.

In fact, the song was the title track of the film.

The man who lent his voice to it was none other than Mahendra Kapoor.

It was written by Sahir Ludhianvi.

Ravi Shankar Sharma was the man who composed it.

Lata sang this La’jawab’ song

Bahu Begum released in 1967.

My collection contains just one song from the film.

While the title of the song was Duniya Kare Sawaal, its next five words went, “Toh hum kya jawab dein”.

Therefore, it could be translated to, “If the word asks questions, how do we answer those?”

But by no means would it be incorrect to state that nobody could question the talents of the trio who collaborated on that song.

The one and only Lata Mangeshkar lent her voice to it.

Sahir Ludhianvi penned the song, which was composed by Roshan.

Rafi didn’t just rock kal

Aaj Aur Kal released in 1963.

My collection contained just one song from the film (which I remembered out of the blue when I was compiling this playlist).

It was titled Yeh Wadiyan Yeh Fizayen.

Mohammed Rafi lent the track his voice.

And he was the right man for the job – his songs are timeless classics, and with the constant deterioration in the quality of Hindi film music over a period of four decades, it seems fair to say that the valleys and the springs have been beckoning him.

Sahir Ludhianvi wrote the Ravi composition.

‘Ensemble queen’ Kamal S(um)ang it

Barsaat Ki Raat released in 1960.

My collection contained five tracks from the film, because I split the pair of qawwalis (Na Toh Caravan Ki Talash Hai and Yeh Ishq Ishq Hai).

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, Garjat Barsat Saawan Aayo Re would be the first.

The two ladies who lent that track their voices were Kamal Barot and Suman Kalyanpur.

Ironically, the former seemed to come into her own when she teamed up with other singers, particularly female singers.

The song, which was penned by Sahir Ludhianvi, was composed by Roshan.

This was a Mukesh-Rafi duet

With the addition of the subject of this post to my collection, there are four songs from the 1958 film Phir Subah Hogi in it.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, Jis Pyaar Mein Yeh Haal Ho would be the third.

By the way, the next four words of the song were, “Us Pyaar Se Tauba”.

Two men lent it their voices.

One was Mukesh, and the other was Mohammed Rafi.

It was the latter’s only contribution to the soundtrack of the film.

Sahir Ludhianvi wrote the song, which was composed by Khayyam.

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.