Saturday, August 24, 2013

Waadiyan Mera Daman..

"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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