"Dosti"
produced by Rajashree Films & directed by Satyen Bose, was one of
the biggest hits of 1964. It also won 6 Filmfare awards, including the
best film and the best story. It also got L-P their first Best Music
award edging out Shankar-Jaikishan for Sangam & Madan Mohan for Woh
Kaun Thi.
Ironically the main stars of the movie Sudhir Kumar
& Sushil Kumar were never heard again. At the same time, another
actor with not such a major role in the movie, and who had just entered
the Hindi film industry in that year, went on to become quite
successful as an actor as well as a producer - on the film screen as
well as TV screen. This was Sanjay Khan, who later teamed up with RD for two of his directorial ventures - Chandi Sona & Abdullah.
But much before these movies, in 1968, RD composed music for one of the
movies starring Sanjay Khan & Nanda - Abhilasha. Abhilasha was also
the first movie where Bhupendra joined RD's team as a Guitarist - and
thus completed a troika with RD & Manohari Singh. Unfortunately the
movie did not do too well, but some of the compositions of this movie
stand out, which I would like to play here - starting with this song
sung by Rafi in his inimitable style:
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