Thanks for the lovely praise. Hope to see u back on the space soon
I was googling around to find a streaming/downloadable copy of ‘O radha tere bina tera shyam hai aadha’ and the 1st useful hit I got was the neerajpoonam.com site. “Aah!” , I thought someone who finally has this elusive gem from Anu ‘I’m such a genius’ Malik. Ctrl+F on the page and I find it isn’t the site owners but Mr. Jeswal who notes it as one of his favourites. Click to check who Deepak Jeswal is and I’m taken to Random Expressions (Old one) and from there to here. Oh, the same places I’d come across a couple of months ago and been impressed by their style ad substance. And this time I just couldn’t resist writing to record my thoughts on the blogs.
In that favourites list at neerajpoonam.com that I quickly scanned, I found other numbers that are close to my heart but you don’t see on nearly any list - mainly because most people have either never heard them or forgotten them. I’m big on these tucked away jewels and whenever I find a kindred soul that also likes them, which is very rarely, I feel I HAVE to reach out and connect, if only for the sake of assuring myself that in some distant place there’s someone who, for at least a few moments, thought just like I did. I’m speaking of songs like ‘Tere liye palkon ki jhalar bunoon’, ‘Mere pyaar ki umar ho itni sanam’, ‘Baali umar ne mera haal woh kiya’(Awaargi) besides ‘O radha’. To find four such songs on a single list is almost unprecedented for me! Hence all this fuss I’m making.
If you like these kinds of numbers, you’ll like these too, I’m fairly certain:
1. Jo main aisa jaanati - Batwara (late ’80s/early ’90s, J. P. Dutta, Laxmi-Pyare, Anuradha Paudwal, Alka Yagnik, Kavita K)
2. Thaare waaste re dhola - same movie, same singers
3. Mere pee ko pawan - Ghulami (you’ve probably heard this one)
4. Couple of songs from Yateem - again, J. P. Dutta, L-P
5. Chamakte chand ko - Awaargi (I’m sure you’ve heard this one)
There’s many more but these will do for a start. By the way, check out ‘My adorable darling’ from Main Khiladi Tu Anari to know how Anuji is inspired by, ahem, himself. Hear that one and tell me if you don’t meander into ‘O radha’. And then, of course, the source eludes me now but ‘O radha’ is itself heavily inspired by an older international number. But at least its a very endearing version of the ‘inspiration’. Any chance there’s a downloadable version of ‘O radha’ and ‘baali umar ne mera’ to be found anywhere?
Keep going!!!
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