Amit composed and SANg it

The word ‘sentimental’ can be defined as, “Of, or prompted by, feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia”.

Colloquially, Indians call those who experience those feelings as ‘senti’ people, and refer to someone who is nuts as ‘mental’.

By the way, the longest song on the soundtrack of Shaandaar was titled Senti Wali Mental – it was nine minutes and a couple of seconds long.

(Am)It wasn’t just composed by Trivedi, but he was also one of the four people who sang it.

Neeti Mohan, Arijit Singh, and Swanand Kirkire were the others.

Amitabh Bhattacharya wrote it.

 

It was (Kirki)rendered by Swanand

Lootera released in 2013.

There were three songs from the film in my collection.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, Monta Re would be the second.

The song – which was influenced by the Baul musical tradition of West Bengal – was (Kirki)rendered by Swanand (whose fellow lyricist, Amitabh Bhattacharya, penned it).

Trivedi composed (Am)it.

It was the only song in the film that was under the four-minute mark – it was three minutes and 58 seconds long.

Therefore, if the songs were arranged in the ascending order of their durations, it would be the first.

Three SingerS sang this tracK

The second song from Yeh Saali Zindagi (2011) in my collection was its title track, which was five minutes and a second long.

Sunidhi Chauhan, Shilpa Rao, and Kunal Ganjawala lent it their voices.

Swanand Kirkire wrote the Abhishek Ray composition.

There were two other versions of the song, which weren’t in my collection.

One was titled the Bonus Song. It was sung by Ray, and was three minutes and 28 seconds long.

And the other was the Female Version.

It was a second longer than the original, and obviously, Ganjawala wasn’t involved in it.

 

Shilpa deserved both her nominations

With the addition of Mudi Mudi Ittefaq Se to my collection, there are a couple of songs from Paa (2009) in it now.

It was the longer of the two Shilpa Rao solos from the film in it – it was a couple of minutes and 53 seconds long.

She was nominated in the Best Female Playback Singer category at the 16^th Star Screen Awards and the 11^th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards for the song in 2010.

And she deserved both of them.

The song was written by Swanand Kirkire, and composed by Ilaiyaraaja.