Lata sang this adapted song

Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died at the age of 48 in London, England, on August 16, 1997.

One of his posthumous hits was the soundtrack of the 1999 film Kachche Dhaage (he composed all its songs).

Spread across my blogs, the subject of this post was the second song from the film.

The song in question was the female version of Tere Bin Nahin Jeena (a.k.a. Oopar Khuda Aasmaan Neeche).

Anand Bakshi wrote the song, which was rendered by Lata Mangeshkar.

It was a cover version of Khan’s popular qawwali, Tere Bin Nahin Lagda.

Unsurprisingly, Chithra’s rendition was mind-blowing

With the Indian T20 league underway, and Shahrukh Khan being the owner of one of the teams, it would not be incorrect that spread across my blogs, the number of songs from the 1997 film Pardes in my collection would be the musical equivalent of a six.

The subject of this post was Jahan Piya Wahan Main.

It was, in fact, the first – and only – song rendered by K S Chithra under the baton of Nadeem Akhtar Saifi and the late Shravan Kumar Rathod.

The song was written by the one and only Anand Bakshi.

Poornima sang this run-of-the-mill Son(u)g

When I heard, “Hungama ho gaya”, I thought to myself, “That is definitely a song which failed to create any hungama”.

Spread across my blogs, it was the fourth song from Deewana Mastana (which released in 1997).

As far as the duo who rendered it (Poornima and Sonu Nigam), it was their only contribution to the soundtrack of the film.

The film was produced by Ketan Desai, and dedicated to his father, Manmohan Desai.

Therefore, it was only fitting that the song was written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal (all Desai Sr.’s associates).

Sulakhe sang this run-of-the-mill Son(u)g

My earliest memories of Sonu Nigam are from the days he hosted Sa Re Ga Ma, and from credits of albums containing cover versions of Mohammed Rafi’s songs.

He and Bela Sulakhe teamed up for a song titled Choodiyan Banti Hain.

It was the only song from Aazmayish (1995) in my collection.

Mohan Kumar – renowned for producing films beginning with the letter A – produced the film to launch his son, Rohit Kumar.

The song was written by Anand Bakshi, and composed by Anand-Milind.

Sachin Pilgaonkar, who directed this film, introduced Nigam to the Shrivastava brothers.

Mukherjee was the APt choice

This song is what today’s generation of social media users would call a late post.

But yesterday – April 30, 2022 – was the second death anniversary of legendary actor Rishi Kapoor.

The subject of this post is Sahibaan Meri Sahibaan, the title track of Sahibaan (which released in 1993, and was the penultimate Hindi film for which Shiv-Hari composed the music).

It is, in fact, the only song from the film in my collection.

The track, which was written by Anand Bakshi, was rendered by Anuradha Paudwal and Jolly Mukherjee (whose voice suited that of Kapoor).

Asha and Vinod sang it

My collection contains a couple of songs from the 1993 film Pehla Nasha (including the subject of this post).

It was titled Tu Hai Haseena.

Vinod Rathod was one of the two people who lent the song his voice.

That was not a surprise, because he was the only male singer credited on the soundtrack of the film.

He was joined behind the microphone for it by the one and only Asha Bhosle.

The track was written by Anand Bakshi.

It was composed by the Vora brothers, the late Neeraj Vora and Uttankk V Vora.

Sachin sang it with Kavita

Spread across my blogs, Yeh Ho Raha Hai was the second track from Prem Deewane, which released in 1992.

‘Yeh’ referred to love, but the song made no mention of any word that could be translated to love.

The next two-and-a-half lines of the song – which was written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal – went, “Yeh ho na jaaye, yeh ho gaya toh woh ho na jaaye, woh ho gaya toh haaye haaye haaye haaye”.

The film was directed by actor Sachin Pilgaonkar, who also shared singing credits with Kavita Krishnamurthy for the song.

It waS a Memorable tracK

Just one letter separates the first word of the subject of this post from the two words that follow it.

I am talking about Saudagar Sauda Kar, the title track of Saudagar (1991).

Spread across my blogs, it was the fourth song from the film in my collection.

It was a pretty long track – it was seven minutes and 54 seconds long.

But it has also stayed in Hindi film music buffs’ memories for a long time.

Kavita Krishnamurthy shared Sing(h)ing credits with Manhar Udhas and Sukhwinder for it.

Anand Bakshi wrote the Laxmikant-Pyarelal composition.

 

It was an audio-visual TreAt

Dhun was supposed to release in 1991, but it has not seen the light of day.

However, the title of the film was apt, because Dhun is the Hindi word for tune.

My collection contains just one song from the film – Laagi Prem Dhun Laagi.

It wouldn’t be incorrect to call it an audio-visual treat, because the song was sung by and picturised on Talat Aziz, who is not just a popular ghazal singer, but also good-looking.

The song was written by Anand Bakshi, and was composed by Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma.

Aziz (Bhos)lent it his voice

One of the films that starred Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor was Ajooba, which released in 1991.

The film was directed by Shashi Kapoor (who was a frequent co-star of the former, and the younger paternal uncle of the latter).

The only song from the film in my collection was Arre Tajjub Hai.

But there was no tajjub (surprise) in the fact that Sudesh Bhosle sang Bachchan’s portion.

And Rishi lip-synched to the voice of Mohammed Aziz.

The track, which was written by Anand Bakshi, was composed by Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma.

This Lata-Aziz duet was underrated

While Mohammed Aziz passed away in November 2018, Lata Mangeshkar passed away in February this year.

Bali Umar Ne Mera – from the 1990 film Awaargi – was an underrated song sung by the duo.

It would not be incorrect to state that it was the perfect track to dedicate to them to pay a joint tribute to them.

If I had to list the best Anu Malik compositions before the turning point in his career, the list would be very short. But this song – which Anand Bakshi wrote – would certainly make it to the top 10.