My ten favourite songs from Gulzar-Pancham collaboration
Though the pair R.D. Burman – Gulzar is very popular and famous. They might have done at the most a one and half dozen films together as composer-lyricist team. Nevertheless their partnership was very fruitful. Pancham admitted that working with Gulzar brought the best in him though at times the work together was very complicated.
Preparing this list was a pleasant though a very weary process for me. I have lost count how many times I included and rejected the songs. None of the songs here were in the original list except for dhanno ki aankhon me.
So to make matters at least a little bit easy for me, I set up the following rules:
1. The song must be from a film.
2. The film must have had a proper release in the cinema halls.
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Tags: Aandhi [1975], aap ki aankhon me kuch mahake hue se raaz hai, Anoop Ghosal, Anuradha Patel, Asha Bhosle, beeti na bitaayi rainaa, Bhupinder, dhanno ki aankhon me haan raat ka surma, din jaa rahe hain raaton ke saaye, Doosri Sita [1974], ek hi khwab kai baar dekha hai maine, Ghar [1978], Gulzar, Hema Malini, Ijaazat [1987], is mod se jaate hain, Jaya Bhaduri, Jeetendra, Jugal Hansraj, Khushboo [1975], Kinara [1977], Kishore Kumar, Kitaab [1977], Lalita Pawar, Lata Mangeshkar, Masoom [1983], Master Raju, mera kuch saaman tumhare paas padaa hai, Mithun Chakraborty, Nasseruddin Shah, o maajhi re apna kinara, Pancham, Parichay [1972], R. D. Burman, Raja Murad, Rekha, Sanjeev Kumar, Shaban Azmi, Sitara [1980], Suchitra Sen, tujhse naaraaz nahin zindagi, Vinod Mehra, ye saaye hain, Zarina Wahab
Thoughts on a wall on Mother’s Day
Growing up in Bombay as a small kid in the 1970s meant knowing your Sholay [1975] and Deewar. I had allegedly seen Sholay, but I couldn’t remember a single frame of it. It is quite possible that this was again a trick by my siblings to console me since they often went to films without me. After all who would like a eight years younger brother tagging along. I never had a chance to see Deewar. All the same I think I knew all the dialogues of both the films. One just couldn’t escape them. One thing all the same always rankled me that I hadn’t seen Deewar, this fact was remedied by the post on Parveen Babi, where in the comment section, pacifist provided me with the link to the movie (bless her!).
In this post, I will just write down some thoughts to this landmark film and not write much about the story, I think many of my readers know it. If some don’t, Anu has given an excellent (nearly frame to frame) narration of the plot on her blog. Good insight in the film has also been provided by Philip Lutgendorf and at Upperstall. All three articles make good reading.
Possible Spoilers Ahead
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Tags: Amitabh Bachchan, Deewar film review, Deewar [1975], Deewar [1975] film review, Gulshan Rai, I am in love with a stranger, Iftekhar, Javed Akhtar, keh doo tumhe ya chhup rahoon, koi mar jaaye kisipe kahan yeh dekha hai, Maa, Madan Puri, maine tujhe maanga tujhe paaya hai, Manmohan Krishna, Master Alankar, Master Raju, Mother's day, Neetu Singh, Nirupa Roy, Pancham, Parveen Babi, R. D. Burman, Sahir Ludhianvi, Salim Khan, Shashi Kapoor, Stayendra Kapoo, Sudhir, Wall, Yash Chopra, Yunus Parvez
Though the pair R.D. Burman – Gulzar is very popular and famous. They might have done at the most a one and half dozen films together as composer-lyricist team. Nevertheless their partnership was very fruitful. Pancham admitted that working with Gulzar brought the best in him though at times the work together was very complicated.
Preparing this list was a pleasant though a very weary process for me. I have lost count how many times I included and rejected the songs. None of the songs here were in the original list except for dhanno ki aankhon me.
