#237         Song: Agar Dil Ke Taaron  Par,  Main  Chhed  Sakataa
                Nai Zindagi Ka Naya Sa Taraana ...

        Film:   Ratnadeep (1952)         Music:  Robin Chatterjee
        Lyrics: Kaif  Irfani  [*]          Singer: Talat  Mehmood
        *ing:   ?

        Source: Talat Mehmood -- Rare Melodies [HMV]

This one is one of the best Talat songs, I have ever heard.  Very
touching words and extremely good singing by Talat are but bonus,
to beautifully composed tune.

I was searching for this song for long-long time. It was ended by
HMV release as mentioned above. HMV claims that all 30 songs have
never been released before on  any  tape  (EP,S7,LP,Cassette,CD).
The  quality  of recording is obviously not excellent for hiss of
78 rpm recordings is audible; but even  with  it,  it's  a  great
compilation. So much so, it includes 'Abhimaan Ko Mere Chur Karo'
from Swami Vivekanand (1953?) composed by R C Boral?  --  a  song
that  I  have heard only once on radio in SLBC's Bhule Bisre Geet
programme! [Those who don't know what Bhule Bisre  Geet  of  SLBC
is,  may  think  it  as a similar to Vividh Bharati's Bhule Bisre
Geet. But no, Vividh Bharati's is  not  a  Bhule  Bisre  Geet  in
reality, it's just a programme on popular old songs]

The music director, I believe was Anil Biswas's recordist [#].  I
have  heard  two or three songs composed by him and all are great
composition. I guess, he is the only composer who  brought  Talat
and Meena Kapoor in recording room together.

[*] Finally, the lyricist of this  song  is  not  known.  Neither
SLBC,  nor  HMV  talks about it. Kaif Irfani is my guess, for his
other songs (known to me) are by him.

[#] This is going by an article that Neha Desai  posted  recently
on  Meena  Kapoor- Anil Biswas. I believe that person referred to
there in as Robin Chatterjee is same as this music director.


 
Author: Snehal B. Oza