Moon as a backdrop!
The hero singing Anand Bakshi's verse, composed to RD's tune, in Rafi's voice!!
Theme - him wondering is there anyone more beautiful than his lady love!!!
Sounds familiar? If I ask you to guess the song what would be your answer?
Alas, this is not, however, 'Maine poochha chand se' from Abdullah with Sanjay Khan & Zeenat.
This is from an earlier film, Pyar ki Kahani, released in 1971. Perhaps a precursor to what RD & Anand Bakshi created in 1980 for Abdullah, this song has Amitabh posing something similar for Tanuja. The composition does have a much different feel to it - a short prelude and largely guitar based; romantic enough & yet not as intoxicating as the one in Abdullah which has a long prelude with a mix of Santoor & Sax. To some extent the interludes, depicting some kind of stress, also take away the focus from romance.
Yet, if the answer "nahi, nahi, nahi" could be for Zeenat, it surely would have been for Tanuja - one of the most vivacious actresses on Hindi film screen - a list which according to me consists of three - starting at Geeta Bali & stopping at Kajol.
So here it is:
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