This Kavita-Udit duet became popular

While I heard most of the previous songs in this blog on the radio, the subject of this post was a song I was vaguely familiar with, thanks to its repeated telecasts in the 1990s.

The song was Raat Chhoti Baat Badi.

And it was the only song from Sanjay (1995) in my collection.

Kavita Krishnamurthy – who could be called the voice of the film’s soundtrack – sang the female portion of the song.

And she was joined behind the microphone for it by Udit Narayan.

Satish Sharma wrote the song, which was composed by Shyam-Surender.

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.

This was a short trAcK

Mashooq released in 1992.

The most popular song on the soundtrack was Kaun Ho Tum Jo Dil Mein Samaye Jaate Ho (which could be translated to, “Who are you, the person who has made his way into my heart?”)

The shortest song in the film, it was four minutes and a second long.

Although Shyam-Surender were not A-list music directors, it would not be incorrect to state that this song proved to be a breakthrough in their career, which didn’t last too long.

Gauhar Kanpuri wrote the song, which Kavita Krishnamurthy and Abhijeet Bhattacharya sang.

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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.