![]() ![]() Singers: Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar – Composer: R.D. The words themselves may be out of date and in some cases offensive in themselves but the meaning behind them is one of you are destined for me and me for you. For this case, Mohammad Rafi brings out a vibrant dance number in an almost completely different voice for Shankar JaiKishen and their jazz band. Sometimes people say the wrong thing to each other and one or both needs to just get away from it all. Singer: Mohammed Rafi – Composer: Shankar JaiKishen Not much is to be made of the music, with SD Burman’s sweet combination of strings and that epic voice that is Mohammed Rafi. “Lakh mana le duniya, saath na yeh chutega”… this is all about the words. Here Dev Anand takes Waheeda Rehman by the hand and leads her to guide her along a journey to success and stardom. BurmanĪnd what better then to set out on a journey together once that sweet moment of destiny has come to pass. ![]() Like time, the music creeps up on you, until in its ending you feel its silence and know you have been left behind. “Jayenge kahan, such ta nahin… chal pare magar raasta nahin”. It is the slowness of this song that draws you into it… then there is Geeta Dutt’s voice and finally SD Burman’s exquisite use of cello and double bass. Taking a light view of this is the next song, in which “Pyaar Hua, Iqraar Hua hai, pyar se phir que daar ta hai dil.” A song that would have suited Charlie Chaplin with little dance steps and a joyful little piccolo cut through the seriousness of this moment as Raj Kapoor and Nargis begin their epic love story as Bollywood’s first known film couple. Until the moment of meeting, until all is settled every lover must fear the loss of heartbreak. Singers: Manna Dey & Lata Mangeshkar – Composer: Shankar JaiKishen This is a theme even used in recent songs like Vaan from Kaatru Veliyidai proving that this theme is even beyond the borders of language. If you can find a way to hang out in an old abandoned house, even then love will find you as its destined to happen. “He will come, he will come, he will come… for he is destined to come, so he will come.” That is the message of the first of our chosen songs… love is destined to happen. Singer: Lata Mangeshkar – Composer: Khemchand Prakash So, on this Valentine’s day lets listen to a few different ways Bollywood has tried and failed to capture love over the years. As much as Bollywood has somehow kept finding new ways to express love, whether that be the forbidden love of a rich man’s daughter all the way through to the love of another man/woman or in a love that dare not speak its own name because it takes the form of patriotism or religious fervour, love still out lasts Bollywood. Bollywood has been around for a very long time for sure, but love has been around for longer. ![]()
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