#363

        Song:   Madbhari yeh pyaar ki palkein
                Halki halki bundiyaan chhalkein

        Film:   Fashion (1957)
        Singer: Geeta Dutt
        Music:  Hemant Kumar
        Lyrics: Bharat Vyas
        *ing:   Pradeep Kumar, Mala Sinha


Here's a completely unnecessary attempt to dispel the 'Gati achha
hai  magar  roti  bahut hai' reactions to Geeta's early songs, as
Anant put it :-). 'Baazi' did do a good job of it, as asserted  ;
so did a cohort of other playful, catchy tunes she lent her voice
to.

Like this one. A refreshing brisk-paced melody, laced  with  some
rather  lofty  and  (for want of a better word) elastic vocals in
the antaraas. A signature tune from Hemantda :  sweet  simplicity
really  was  his forte; generating hauntingly melodious tunes out
of fairly simple and at times even predictable, musical patterns.
The  way  this song ends is funny, though- towards the end of the
first antaraa, Lata cuts in  with  a  completely  different  song
which  appears independently on the soundtrack ("Honthon pe teraa
naam"). Someone who's seen the movie can maybe shed some light on
this queer phenomenon.

Also, can someone confirm the year of its release -  I  based  my
1957 guess on the way Lata's voice sounds :-)

My personal favorite from this movie, btw, is  the  Hemantda/Lata
duet :
        Bahaaron se poochho, nazaaron se poochho
        Dil kyun deewaana mera ho gayaa
        Laakh sambhaala magar kho gayaa
        
                 ... a lilting wave of  that  'sweet  simplicity'
again . This wonderful song is VERY reminiscent of another lovely
Hemantda duet (with Asha) :        
        Yeh mehfil sitaaron ki, raat yeh bahaaron ki
        Aese mein chhed le taraana koi pyaar ka 

from 'Arab ka Saudagar' (1955).  (I'm  not  sure  which  preceded
which,  but since the composer was the same I guess this would be
classed as 'music re-use'  rather  than  plagiarism.  Or  perhaps
paying oneself a compliment :-))



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