What made RD special?
My take is that he could create new milieus within the accepted idiom of Hindi Cinema. For example this song from a movie which was not really among the top-of-the-charts ever.
Puraskar, released in 1970, had nothing extraordinary about it. Of course the cast had Joy Mukherjee - quite popular in late 60s. But thats about it.,except perhaps this song which had RD using Sitar as a prelude before mixing into seductive notes of Guitar, and post Mukhda, during the song the mixing of western instruments like Sax leading to sudden interlude of Sitar.
The vocals had similar structure - on screen Joy Mukherjee was trying to match steps with naturally tharakte kadam of Helen, while off-screen Asha Bhosle's seductive sweetness matched the calm serenading of Mukesh.
Nateeja? - aapke samne hai..
Bahaki hui hai jab ye fizayein,
Kaise na hongi akhir hamse khatayein
Lage jhoomne jab kali ghateiye,
Aise mein kyu na kadam dagmagaye
Kabhi kabhi aisa bhi to hota raha hai
Tumhari khata ya hamari khata hai
Yeh tum bhi na socho..
yeh hum bhi na soche..
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