Mauli sang this RecreateD track

I Love NY – a long-delayed film – released in 2015.

My collection contained a couple of songs from the film.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, the recreated version of R D Burman’s composition, Aaja Meri Jaan (the title track of the 1993 film of that name) would be the first.

DJ Phukan was credited with composing this version, which was sung by Mauli Dave, a contestant on Zee TV’s reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007.

The song – which was five minutes and 14 seconds long – was written by Mayur Puri.

Mamta was the right choice

At the time of writing this post, it was election time in India.

And many people consider politics dirty.

In 2015, a film titled Dirty Politics released.

My collection contained just one song from that film.

It was titled Ghaghara.

Mamta Sharma sang that song. Only she could have done it justice.

The song, which was written by Sameer Anjaan, was composed by Sanjeev-Darshan.

It was four minutes and 25 seconds long.

By the way, that song had nothing to do with Ila Arun’s Vote for Ghaghra, an Indi-pop song that released in the 1990s.

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.

Ganesha devotees Hardly appreciated it

My collection contained three songs from ABCD: Any Body Can Dance (2013).

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, Sadda Dil Vi Tu would be the last.

And if they were arranged in the descending order of their durations, it would be the first – it was five minutes and 27 seconds long.

The song’s title was a Punjabi phrase that meant, “Our heart is you too”.

And the phrase that followed it was Ga Ga Ga Ganpati.

Devotees of the elephant-headed deity hated the Sachin-Jigar composition, which Mayur Puri penned.

Hard Kaur sang it.

This RFAK solo was insipid

Son of Sardaar released in 2012.

My collection contains four songs from the film.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, Bichdann would be the first.

And if they were arranged in the ascending order of their durations, it would be the second – it was five minutes and 21 seconds long.

That Rahat Fateh Ali Khan solo proved that he could do insipid songs justice.

The song, which was penned by Sameer Anjaan, was composed by Himesh Reshammiya.

The Reprise version of the song was just a couple of minutes and 11 seconds long.

Neeraj rendered this title track

Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi released in 2012.

Given the fact that the film was produced and written by Sanjay Leela Bhansali (who had a fantastic ear for music, and was a noted music director himself), the soundtrack was rather weak.

In fact, my collection contained just one song from the film, whose colloquial title means, ‘Shirin and Farhad got lucky’.

And that happened to be its title track.

The man who lent his voice to the song was Neeraj Shridhar.

The song, which was written by Amitabh Bhattacharya, was composed by Jeet Gannguli.

 

Ms Ghoshal S(ha)ang this song

Housefull 2 released in 2012.

My collection contained three songs from the film, including the subject of this post.

If they were arranged in the (Ghosh)alphabetical order, Do U Know? would be the second.

And if they were arranged in the descending order of their durations, it would be the first – it was five minutes and 22 seconds long.

Shreya and Shaan were the two people who lent the song their voices.

It was written by Sameer Anjaan, and composed by Sajid-Wajid.

The remixed version of the song was four seconds shorter than the original.