#169
        Song: Laut Gayaa, Gam Ka Zamaana, Aayi Khushi Leharaati

        Film:   Naya Aadmi (1956)
        Music:  Vishwanathan and Rammurty
        Lyrics: Rajendra Krishna
        Singer: Hemant Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
        *ing:   N T Rama Rao?, ?

I can't say, how much do I love this song. I haven't yet  figured
out  a  way  to  express  the joy, I feel while listening to this
evergreen number. Lata and Hemant, are  magical.  The  spell  the
tune casts on listener can be only experienced. Every antara ends
in  'Laut  Gayaa    ...'  so  effortlessly,  that  without
interludes  one  would  not  find  where antaras are starting and
where do they end! I, somehow, like all songs of  this  genre  --
the one that spreads message of joy and/or are philosophical.

Film has one good Rafi solo  too:  Jagat  Ka  Rakhwaala  Bhagwaan
.....  As usual Rafi has turned this one too, in a gem. Everytime
I listen to songs of this type in Rafi's voice,  my  belief  that
his  was  the voice, created by God to sing such songs, take more
firm grounds. This one or 'Mat Bhul Are Insaa~~n' or  'Jaan  Sake
To  Jaan' or 'Wo Kaunsi Mushkil Hai' or ... I can just go on; are
all sung with rare touch from the heart.

I have heard one more song from the film -- may be two. The one I
recall is Lata solo under same music director pair: Paanch Minute
Aur Bas Paanch Minute Aur. Song is not a great one. At  the  same
time,  I  should  admit  I  enjoy it for it's new kind of song in
terms of lyrics.

Besides these, perhaps I have heard - only once  -  a  Lata  solo
composed by Madan Mohan, who was second, rather third composer of
the film.


 
Author: Snehal B. Oza