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Another tandem song with minor differences between the two versions. I've made silent emendations to the ISB version:

Film: Mehbooba (1976)
Singer: Kishore, Lata (separate versions)
Music: Rahul Dev Burman
Lyrics: Anand Bakshi
ISB Contributor:

Kishore version:

mere nainaa saavan bhaa.Ndo.n
phir bhii meraa man pyaasaa \- (2)

ai dil diivaane, khel hai kyaa jaane
dard bharaa ye, giit kahaa.N se
in ho.nTho.n pe aae, duur kahii.n le jaae
bhuul gayaa kyaa, bhuul ke bhii hai
mujhako yaad zaraa saa, phir bhii ...

baat puraanii hai, ek kahaanii hai
ab sochuu.N tumhe.n, yaad nahii.n hai
ab sochuu.N nahii.n bhuule, vo saavan ke jhuule
R^itu aaye R^itu jaaye deke
jhuuThaa ek dilaasaa, phir bhii...

baraso.n biit gae, hamako mile bichha.De
bijurii banakar, gagan pe chamake
biite samay kii rekhaa, mai.nne tumako dekhaa
man sa.ng aa.Nkh michaulii khele
aashaa aur niraashaa, phir bhii...

Lata version:

mere nainaa saavan bhaa.Ndo
phir bhii meraa man pyaasaa \- (2)

baat puraanii hai...

ghu.ngharuu kii chhamachham, ban ga_ii dil kaa Gam
Duub gayaa dil, yaado.n me.n
ubharii bera.ng lakiire.n, dekho ye tasviire.n
suune mahal me.n naach rahii hai
ab tak ek rakkaasaa, phir bhii...

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The ISB is not entirely correct in the way it distributes the stanzas between the two versions. It suggests that the stanza beginning "baraso.n biit gae" does not occur in the Lata version. Actually, it does, with a different ending:

baraso.n biit gae, hamako mile bichha.De
bijurii banakar, gagan pe chamake
biite samay kii rekhaa, mai.nne tumako dekhaa
ta.Dap ta.Dap ke is birahan ko
aayaa chain zaraasaa, phir bhii...

Also, while I have not heard the stanza "ai dil diivaane" in any of the audio recordings of the Lata version, the movie itself does have that stanza in Lata's voice.

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