music trivia

MUSIC TRIVIA

THE YEAR 1965

Laxmikant-Pyarelal’s Lootera has the hits, ‘Raat se kaho ruke zara...’, and ‘Neend nigahon se kho jaati hai...’

The numero uno composers, Shanker-Jaikishan have split and S-J are composing separately under the famous baton.
Jaikishan charges a mind-boggling Rs 5 lakhs for composing Ramanand Sagar’s ARZOO. ARZOO has hits‘Ae phoolon ki rani..’ (mischievously reworked from Naushad’s ‘Hameen se mohabbat...’ in Leader), ‘Bedardi baalma tujhko...’, ‘Aji rooth kar...’, and ‘Chhalke teri ankhon se...’. Ramanand Sagar then calls Shankar to compose the mujra, ‘Jab ishq kahin ho jaata hai...’ and reveals that he has to pay the same amount for just one song!
S-J’s GUMNAAM features the cult Mehmood hit by Rafi, ‘Hum kaale hain to kya hua dilwale hain...’. Lata’s haunting title-track, Rafi’s ‘Jaan pehchaan ho...’ and Lata’s ‘Is duniya mein jeena hai to...’ are the other hits of this thriller.
JAANWAR finds another S-J-Shammi Kapoor winner with perennials like ‘Lal chhadi maidaan khadi...’, ‘Meri mohabbat jawaan rahegi...’, ‘tumse accha kaun hai...’ and ‘Mere sang aaa gungunaa...’.
Anil Biswas composes his swan song (‘Chhoti chhoti baatein...’) with Shailendra as his lyricist, and quits films to move to Delhi and join All India Radio.

Maestro SD Burman gives one of his career-greatest scores in GUIDE and sings the memorable ‘Wahaan kaun hai tera...’. His ‘Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai...’ begins with the antara, and is created, recorded and sent by Dada to the Anand brothers with the assurance “I will send you a song that the world will remember”.
‘Din dhal jaaye...’, ‘Kya se kya ho gaya...’ and ‘Tere mere sapne...’ are the three Rafi gems that he creates for posterity, while ‘Gaata rahe mera dil...’, ‘Mose chhal kiye jaaye...’, ‘Piya tose naina laage re...’ and ‘Allah megh de...’ create history clearly displaying his expertise in both classical music and folk music and expertly blending the two.
Dada’s other winner that year is TEEN DEVIYAAN. Majrooh spills the beans
and reveals that assistant Jaidev composed the basic tune of ‘Kahin bekhayaal hokar...’, but Dada also creates wonders like ‘Arey yaar mere tum bhi ho gazab...’, ‘Aise to na dekho...’, ‘Likha hai teri aankhon mein...’ and ‘Khwaab ho tum...’.

Roshan’s BHEEGI RAAT is melody revisiting, ‘Dil jo na keh sakaa...’ is in different Lata and Rafi versions, while Neeraj, the poet extraordinaire, steps into the limelight with ‘Kaarvaan guzar gaya...’ and ‘Dekhti hi raho aaj darpan na tum...’ in Nai Umar Ki Nai Fasal.

Khayyam’s intoxicating Suman-Rafi duet, ‘Thehriye hosh mein aa loon...’in MOHABBAT ISKO KEHTE HAIN, Salil Choudhury’s ’spiritual Lata hit ‘Tujh bin jiya udaas re...’ and veteran Hansraj Behl’s last hit ‘Jahaan daal daal par sone ki chidiya...’ in SIKANDAR-E-AZAM endure to this day.
Madan Mohan’s NEELA AKASH is remembered for ‘Aap ko pyar chhupane ki...’. In RISHTE NAATE, Lata Mangeshkar is the only singer— a feat he again achieves in PRABHAAT eight years later.

Chitragupta delivers memorabilia like ‘Jaag dil-e-diwana...’, ‘Aaja re mere pyar ke raahi...’, ‘Haaye re tere chanchal nainwa...’ (OONCHE LOG), ‘Bahut haseen hai tumhari ankhen...’ (AADHI RAAT KE BAAD) and ‘Mujhe dard-e-dil ka pataa...’ (AKASH DEEP). In the last film, he composes the awesome Lata solo, ‘Dil ka diya jalaake gaya...’. Usha Khanna’s EK SAPERA EK LOOTERA is marked by the immortal Rafi solo ‘Hum tum se juda hoke...’.