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        Song: Ai Dil Tu Kahin Le Chal (2)

        Film:   Shole (1953) [  or  you  may  like  to  spell  it
'Sholay' ! ]
        Music:  Naresh Bhattacharya
        Lyrics: Kamil Rashid
        Singer: Hemant Kumar, Shamshad Begum
        *ing:   Ashok Kumar, Bina Roy

        Director: B R Chopra

First, I would like  to  sincerely  thank  my  netter  friend  in
Germany  - Sreeni; (Sreenivas Paruchuri) who has provided me with
some very important details on the song. Namely cast and names(!)
of music directors; along with who made this film.

Well, if you noticed; I say "names of MDs". According  to  Sreeni
there  are  two MDs; namely Naresh Bhattacharya and Dhaniram. Now
the reason I have  written  the  name  of  former  is  I  vaguely
remember  that  being  the  name  given  by  the announcer before
playing the  78  rpm.  But  could  be  Dhaniram  too.  With  that
clarification  I  would also like to add here that this *not* the
*only* duet of Hemanto and Shamshad. There  exist  at  least  one
more. Don't remember the name of movie now.

This particular song is tandem.  Another  version  is  by  Hemant
Kumar alone. The solo version starts slowly and the opening lines
are sung at low pace without orchestral support and then it joins
later. In duet version the orchestra is right from the beginning.
Both the versions are enjoyable. The duet is more catchy owing to
change  of  rhythm  during  change  from Hemant to Shamshad after
mukhada; and then again after the antara.

The other information from Sreeni tells us that, this was  B.  R.
Chopra's third film.


 
Author: Snehal B. Oza