As soon as I heard this song, I got the feeling it wasn’t the first time I was listening to it.
The song was titled Yeh
Duniyawale Poochhenge [and all I knew was that Asha and Kishore Kumar
(Bhos)lent their voices to it].
Before I added it to my collection, I
looked the song up online to know which film it was from.
And that was when I found out that it
was from Mahal, which released in 1970.
The song, which Anand Bakshi wrote,
was composed by Kalyanji Virji Shah and Anandji Virji Shah.
There were three songs from Gopi in my collection.
All of them happened to be solos.
If they were arranged in the
alphabetical order, Akela Hi Akela Chala Hai Kahan would be
the first.
It was rendered by the one and only
Lata Mangeshkar, who happened to be the only female singer on the soundtrack of
the film.
From the point of view of this
playlist, it was lyricist Rajinder Krishan’s second consecutive song from a
film that released in 1970.
The song was composed by the
siblings, Kalyanji Virji Shah and Anandji Virji Shah.
There is no two ways about the fact that the voice of the legendary Mohammed Rafi was aptly described as ‘Khuda ki Awaaz’ (or ‘The Voice of God’).
Even when he was no longer at his
peak, he managed to stay relevant with underrated hits like the subject of this
post.
It was titled Khuda Bhi
Aasmaan Se.
And it happened to be the only song
from Dharti (1970) in my collection.
It was written by Rajinder Krishan.
The two men who composed the song
were Shankar Singh Ram Singh Raghuvanshi and Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal.
I would like to
start this post with an explanation of the fourth word in its title – it is a
portmanteau of the words ‘maternal’ and ‘eternal’.
And I coined it
because I believed that that summed up Mai Ri Main Kase Kahoon.
It was the second
song from the 1970 film Dastak in my collection.
Lata Mangeshkar
lent her voice to the song, which completed her ‘Meternal Duology’ on this
playlist.
One of the best
expressions of pain in Hindi films, the song was penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri.
It was composed by
Madan Mohan.
Composer Shankar Singh Ram Singh Raghuvanshi was raised in Hyderabad, so it was fair that he (and Jaikishan Dayabhai Panchal) had a ‘Duology with Telugu Phrases’.
While one was Ramaiya
Vastavaiya [from Shree 420 (1955)], the other was the subject of
this post.
It was titled Badkamma
Badkamma Ekkada Potav Ra.
That could be
translated to, “Badkamma, where are you going?”
And it happened to
be the only song from the 1969 film Shatranj in my collection.
Sharda Rajan
Iyengar joined Mohammed Rafi behind the microphone for the song, which was written by Kiran Kalyani.
A number of singers sang songs picturised on Rajesh Khanna during the peak of his superstardom (which began in 1969 and came to an end just two years later).
But the crooner most associated with
him was none other than Kishore Kumar.
Therefore, it was quite surprising
that Mahendra Kapoor sang the songs of the Kaka-starrer Bandhan,
which released in 1969.
However, there was just one song from
the film in my collection.
It was titled Aayo Re Aayo Re.
The song was written by Indeevar.
Kalyanji Virji Shah and Anandji Virji
Shah composed it.
Saathi released in 1968.
Mukesh Chand Mathur sang the majority
of the songs on the soundtrack of the film.
Interestingly, he was the only male
singer to lend his voice to them.
However, my collection contained just
one of those.
It was titled Mera Pyaar Bhi
Tu Hai.
The lady who joined him behind the
microphone for the song was Suman Kalyanpur.
It happened to be her only
contribution to the soundtrack of the film.
Majrooh Sultanpuri penned the song,
which was composed by Naushad Ali.
The song was four minutes and 22
seconds long.
