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        Song: Hae Jiya Roye, Hae Jiya Roye
                Piya Naahi Aa~~~ye, Hae Jiya Roye, Roye ....

        Film:   Milan (1958)
        Music:  Hansraj Behl
        Lyrics: Prem Dhawan
        Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
        *ing:   Nalini Jayvant, ?

20th May was this forgotten master's death  anniversary.  Today's
ATMJH  is  tribute to him from RMIM community. I know a lady, who
cries every time she listens to this song; and would still insist
to listen to it again and again. What an emotion packed rendition
by Lata and what a composition by  Hansraj  Behl  ?!   It's  mind
boggling.  The moment Lata's opening alaap vibrates air; ambience
become heavy, the air stand still, the grief touches some  corner
of  heart!  Each  note  brings  pain with it! I still remember my
reaction -- rather nonreaction -- when  I  sat  to  listen  to  a
cassette   I   had  just  brought  from  recording  room  of  one
professional recordist in Vadodara, and player played  this  song
towards  the  end.  No, it wasn't in my list; but I was too happy
to have this gem as gift from recordist. After a  while,  when  I
came  out  of  my "musical-meditation", I heard my father telling
me: 'That was Milan!' He too, was glad to hear it  after  a  long
time.  I  couldn't  believe, for I knew only one Milan (1967) and
knew Laxmikant Pyarelal's output too well :). Then  he  clarified
'Not that Milan, this one was a decade older.' He couldn't forget
a Nalini Jayvant movie; and there were reasons.

Film has one -- equally great -- Lata solo:

        Saari Duniya Se Puchha, Milaa Na Nishaan
                Chup Rahi Ye Zameen, Chup Rahaa Aasmaan




 
Author: Snehal B. Oza