Shalimar
was a movie about theft of a diamond by that name from an island. The
movie had an international cast led by Dharmendra and Zeenat. Its Indian
flavour resulted in a song like Hum Bewafa, which, with its emotional
appeal and a melody based composition, became an instant classic and has
remained so ever.
However, in the bargain, and specially
since the movie did not do well, it also overshadowed movie's background
score as well as its theme song, which unfortunately icould get hardly a
minute.
However, this was a composition which, IMHO, was a
true representative of what RD was capable of creating. Starting with
guitar riffs - perhaps to create the effect of waves reaching the shore
of the island, a very subtle pause that marks each stanza, Asha's voice
reaching a crescendo before dropping down and then extending each of the
stanza to the main song, use of essentially only guitar, bass &
violin, and yet making it haunting - as a theme song ideally should be.
Listen to this over here, and if possible, use the earphones to get its real impact:
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