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        Song:   Jor lagaake jor lagaake jor lagaake jor
                Tuuti phuuti gaadi anaaDi chalaiyyaa
                Jaane kahaan le jaaye haaye more daiyyaa

        Film:    Nirala (1950)
        Music:   C Ramchandra
        Lyrics:  P L Santoshi
        *ing:    Madhubala, Dev Anand

(And it's the right billing sequence this time, Anand :-))

Another compilation weekend for me,  this  one.  The  theme  this
time:  chorus songs of Lata Mangeshkar from the 40s and 50s- some
of the not-so-wildly popular ones. I  was  (not-too-unpleasantly)
surprised  to  effortlessly  fill up a TDK C60 within a couple of
hours.. and it's chanting  in  the  background  at  this  moment.
Obviously,  ATMJH  seemed  the next logical stop... so here I am.
Will spend the next few posts on these.(Yeah, I know  we've  been
seeing  quite  a  bit of Lata on RMIM of late, but it never hurts
:-))

"Nirala" was I  think  the  first  Dev-Madhubala  starrer  to  be
released-  the  Adonis  and the Venus of the Indian screen paired
for the first time, as biographer Khatija Akbar  put  it.  Though
the  movie  itself is nothing to write home about, it features CR
and Lata at their symbiotic best; a veritable treasure of  music,
probably  most  popularized  by  "Mehfil  mein  jal  uthi  shamaa
parwaane ke liye", and (my personal favorite) "Aesi  mohabbat  se
hum baaz aaye jo dil ko jalaaye sataaye dukhaaye.."

The charm of today's selection, in addition to its sweet tune, is
a  decidedly droll picturization- a "gaon-ki-gori" accompanied by
the inevitable army of village gigglers,  teasing  a  "shehar-ka-
chhora"  whose  car  has  bailed  out on him in the middle of the
bucolic nowhere. She teases him, they tease her,  he  acts  cool,
they  tease  him, and they all tease happily ever after... as the
lyrics evince- here's the second antaraa :

        Chorus: ari o behnaa chalte purze sheharvaale
                tuu duur hi rehnaa
        Lata:   chalte purze hain yeh to hum kya kam hain
                ungli pe naach nachaiyyaa nachaiyyaa
        Chorus: hoye daiyyaa hoye daiyyaa...

You get the picture... :-)



Guest Author: Hrishi Dixit