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        Song:   Gore gore haathon mein mehndi rachaake
                Nainon mein kajra daal ke
                Chalo dulhaniya piya se milne
                Chhota sa ghunghat nikaal ke

        Film:   Parineeta (1953)
        Singer: Asha Bhosle, chorus
        Music:  Aroon Kumar
        Lyrics: Bharat Vyas
        *ing:   Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari


And we close our Asha series with one of her loveliest songs from
her  early  years. Before anything, I'd just like to say that I'm
aware there are a LOT of Asha  beauties  from  the  50s  which  I
haven't  included  in  the  series-  the  intention  was  not  to
undermine any of them- I just wanted to post a few representative
(and   some   not-so-popular-but-still-beautiful)  songs  that  I
personally like a lot. (Just  stating  this  disclaimer  to  stem
offended emails for not having included so-and-so song.) :-)

This one is a winner, with a charming  picturization  -  IIRC,  a
gudiya-ki-shaadi' (doll's wedding). Personally, I could have done
with a little less of the chorus and more of Asha,  but  whatever
it  may  be, the song is quite enchanting, atleast for me. One of
the things I find very, to coin a phrase,  rewind-able,  in  this
song  is  the  way the antaraas return to the mukhda - especially
the percussion instruments.

There is one more slow, mellow Asha melody in  this  movie  ('Tum
yaad  aa  rahe')  which  I like a lot. I don't quite remember its
picturization, though.











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