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        Song:   Dekho ji bahaar aayi
                Baagon mein khili kaliyaan
                Aana hai to aa jaao
                Sooni hain meri galiyaan
        Film:   Azaad (1955)
        Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
        Music:  C Ramchandra
        Lyrics: Rajendra Krishan
        *ing:   Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari

No sign of tragedy in this movie, I can assure you. The movie  is
filled  with  sprightly, cheerful melodies like this gem, all (or
most) of them by Lata Mangeshkar  -  probably  the  most  popular
being 'Radha na boley'.

This song is  cute.  As  much  as  I  try  to  avoid  using  that
adjective, I can't come up with a better one- everything about it
is cute- the playfully sweet tune, the words,  the  situation  in
the  movie... heck, even the way she dances as she sings the song
is cute. Pretty much the same goes for all the Lata solos in  the
movie.  And  of  course, who can forget the lovely (and immensely
popular) Lata-Chitalkar duet 'Kitna haseen hai mausam' ?

A singularly delectable movie, this- I saw it over 6  years  ago,
but still remember it in bits and pieces. And the soundtrack is a
worthy addition to any old Hindi  music  collection,  if  nothing
else,  for sake of completeness- this is one of those soundtracks
where *every* song is good, some more than others.





Guest Author: Hrishi Dixit