#49
        Song: Zirzir Zirzir Badara Barase, Ho Kare  Kare,  Zirzir
Zirzir
                Soye Armaan Jage, Kai  Tufaan  Jage,  Barakha  Na
Bhaye Mohe? Piya?

        Film:   Parivar (1956)
        Music:  Salil Chowdhury
        Lyrics: Shailendra
        Singer: Lata Mangeshkar, Hemant Kumar
        *ing:   Usha Kiran, Kishor Kumar, Jairaj

What possibly could have been better than Hemant Kumar singing  a
rain song? His voice with some bass and at higher pitch, provides
the best possible voice for this type of  song.  All  Lata-Hemant
songs  couldn't  have  been so attractive but for his voice. This
song carries  a  stamp  of  Salil  Chowdhary's  music.  No  major
orchestration  making  any  undue  noise lets you enjoy the song.
The only other song  of  the  film  I  know  is  Manna  De,  Lata
Mangeshkar duet:
        'Ja Tose Nahi Bolun Kanhaiya
                Rah Chalat Pakadi Mori Baiyan'

Lata Mangeshkar's aalap's are  an  asset  of  this  song.  Though
small,  they  show  a  good display of her control over voice and
notes. Manna De sounds very gentle and his  masterly  control  at
bending the voice is known anyway! And this song is no exception.

Well, this was the first round of rain  songs.  We  will  take  a
break  from  next  post  onwards  for  a  week. Then we will have
another short round of rain songs again. From tomorrow I will  be
posting  some old gems of Mohammad Rafi, the most successful male
singer of our hindi cinema world, so far.



 
Author: Snehal B. Oza