#328

        Song:   Unke bulaave pe doley mera dil
                Jaaoon to mushkil
                Na jaaoon to mushkil
        Film:   Nau Bahar (1952)
        Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
        Music:  Roshan
        Lyrics: Shailendra
        *ing:   Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaywant


Listening to this song on the  EMI  CD  (Jogan/Nau  Bahar)  is  a
supremely irritating experience.

Lemme qualify this- the song is  *captivatingly*  beautiful...  I
just can't get over it. It's one of those haunting tunes that you
keep humming for  over  a  day  after  listening  to  it-  it  is
unbelievably  melodious.  A lovely, lilting rhythm, an incredibly
sweet tune, and the ultimate icing- Lata ! (I just can't lose the
superlatives here).

The PROBLEM is, on the CD it comes  unceremoniously  superimposed
with  yards of dialogue !??! I can understand putting a word here
or there to stay faithful to the movie, but this track takes  the
term  "original soundtrack recording" to an atrociously intrusive
extreme- it gulps up almost 40% of the song, dagnabit !!

Anyway, the song is precious- Snehal  discussed  the  songs  from
this movie a long time ago on ATMJH, but somehow he missed out on
this diamond.  The  movie  *is*  filled  some  of  Roshan's  most
beautiful compositions, most of them Lata solos.

And a plea to all RMIMers - if you have or have come across  this
song  on  any  sort  of  audio medium MINUS the dialogues, please
PLEASE let me know... I shall be eternally grateful !!







Guest Author: Hrishi Dixit