Mazumdar’s item number was (b)lous(e)y

Women’s clothing have always inspired male songwriters in Hindi films.

And Sameer Anjaan was no different.

He wrote Jawaani Se Ab Jung Hone Lagi.

The next line of the item number went, “Yeh choli meri tang hone lagi”.

Spread across my blogs, it was the fourth song from Vaastav: The Reality (1999) in my collection, and it wouldn’t be incorrect to say that it was ‘tailor-made’ for titillation.

Four minutes and 44 seconds long, it was the second-longest of the lot, and the third alphabetically.

It was sung by Preetha Mazumdar, and composed by Jatin-Lalit.

Ms Yagnik’s solo was underrated

Before I downloaded Meri Raaton Ki Neendein Uda De, my collection contained five songs from Sarfarosh, which released in 1999.

With the addition of that song, I have now added all the six tracks from the film.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, it would be the fourth.

And if they were arranged in the ascending order of their durations, it would be the first – it was four minutes and 37 seconds long.

The Alka Yagnik solo was Indeevar’s only contribution as a lyricist to the film’s soundtrack.

It was written by Jatin-Lalit.

 

Sulakshana Joined Udit for it

Including the subject of this post, my collection contains seven songs from Khamoshi: The Musical, which released in 1996.

I was actually torn between Jaana Suno (the Udit Narayan solo) and Saagar Kinare Bhi Do Dil Hain Pyaase.

But since my collection already contained many Narayan solos, I picked the latter, because he was joined behind the microphone for it by the Pandit siblings – Sulakshana (who was also a former Hindi film actress) and Jatin (who also composed the song with Lalit).

The song, which was exactly half-a-dozen minutes long, was written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

  

Indeed, this song was UnderrAted

Fareb released in 1996.

Spread across my blogs, my collection contains three songs from the film (including the subject of this post).

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, O Humsafar Dil Ke Nagar would be the second of those.

And if they were arranged in the ascending order of their durations, it would be the third – it was half-a-dozen minutes and 37 seconds long.

Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan rendered it.

By no means would it be incorrect to state the song – which was written by Neeraj, and composed by Jatin-Lalit – was underrated.