Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Aaj Ki Raat..

Another Asha-RD combination. This time from the movie Anamika!

Produced by Tahir Hussain, Amir Khan’s father, Anamika was his 2nd production – the first one being Caravan. Once again, Anamika, saw RD giving some of the best compositions to lovely lyrics by Majrooh. Kishore's Meri Bheegi Bheegi Si, & Lata's Bahon Men Chale Aao were chart busters when the movie was released & have remained fresh in their sound till date. 

As has been the trend with RD, the more popular compositions also managed to hide some rare gems – and most of the time the singer to get that treatment was Asha Bhosle. Anamika was no different which had three superb numbers rendered by Asha. 

My favourite is, however, this cabaret. Picturised on a very sensuous Helen, the song had to do something special to match Asha-Helen-RD’s number from Caravan. And yes, it does – starting slowly with Bhupendra’s guitar riffs, the song moves on the generate some great beats – specially in between the stanzas, and Asha's effortless seductive voice complements Helen's movement on-screen, the way only she could have done it.

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