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        Song:   Yeh Kaun Aaya Re
                Kar Ke Yeh Sola Singaar
                Kaun Aaya

        Film:    Ziddi (1948)
        Music:   Khemchand Prakash
        Lyrics:  Prem Dhawan
        Singers: Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
        *ing:    Ashok Kumar (?), ?


Legend has it- KK came to Bombay around  1946/47  with  one  main
intention  (and  entering  movies  was  NOT it) - to meet his two
musical idols - K.L.Saigal and Khemchand Prakash.  He  never  met
Saigal, but he DID sing this for Khemchand Prakash.

A number of things, I feel, make this song a gem  -  its  lilting
melody,  the  fact  that  Lata,  aged  all of 19 years, is at her
sweetest best, a very early and fresh  Kishore  giving  his  best
imitation  of Saigal, etc.  Apart from all that, its probably one
of the earliest Kishore-Lata duets, making  it  some  sort  of  a
collectors' item.

Ziddi has a number of beautiful Lata solos too, topped of  course
by the famous 'Chanda Re Jaa Re Jaa Re'.




Guest Author: Hrishi Dixit