MaNY people would’ve excluded it

Although most of the songs of Duplicate (1998) were hits, there was one that wouldn’t have been on many people’s playlists.

And, to be honest, even I had excluded it simply because I hadn’t heard it in a long time.

The track in question was Tum Nahin Jaana.

Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan were joined behind the microphone for it by Shankar Mahadevan.

It was written by Javed Akhtar, and composed by Anu Malik.

That was the fifth song from the film (spread across my blogs), and it was haff-a-dozen minutes and 48 seconds long.  

Sadhana San(u)g this song too

Put 1997, Sadhana Sargam and Anand-Milind in the same sentence again, and what you get is the subject of this post.

The song in question was Tum Bin Mann Ki Baat Adhoori, and spread across my blogs, it was the second song from Mrityudand in my collection.

Kumar Sanu joined her behind the microphone for it.

It would not be incorrect to state that it was an underrated song, and I remembered it vaguely when I heard it on the radio recently (but I had to look it up online).

Javed Akhtar wrote the song.

Unsurprisingly, this trAcK made headlines

While there were plagiarised songs in Hindi films even in the Golden Era, Anu Malik’s name has been linked with the (mal)practice most often.

But he crossed the limits of being inspired when he lifted Hatikvah, the national anthem of Israel.

He was trolled for his composition, titled Mera Mulk Mera Desh.

It was from the 1996 film Diljale.

My collection contains just one of its three versions – the duet, sung by Kumar Sanu and Aditya Narayan.

While Sanu rendered the sad male version, Kavita Krishnamurthy sang the sad female version.

Javed Akhtar wrote them.