Once upon a time, there existed a
perfect world: A world where romance overshadowed all other emotions; a world
where the hero remained young & energetic ever; a world where the lovely
& beautiful heroines sang in a voice that sounded freshly in love, always!
Once upon a time, there existed
Hindi movie world comprising of Yash Chopra, Dev Anand & Lata Mangeshkar .
And then there was Pancham – with a remarkable capability to create such
compositions which have remained young forever.
I began the week with a flurry of
songs from Lata-RD combination. As the week is about to get over, it is
becoming special - for the Hindi movie buffs - more so for those who are
die-hard romantics.
A week which had us celebrating
the birth anniversary of the youthful Dev Anand on 26th, of the king of Romance Yash Chopra today on 27th
and birthday of the queen of melody Lata Mangeshkar, tomorrow on 28th.
Here, at Celebrations with Pancham, the best tribute to all of them
would be this love-song from the movie Joshila.
Produced by Gulshan Rai, the
movie had two young & beautiful actresses - Rakhee & Hema Malini -
starring with not-so young - yet very, very, energetic Dev Anand - acting for the
only time under the baton of Yash Chopra. If at all, all these creative minds
together were not enough - the movie also had Sahir Ludhianvi penning the
lyrics for the first time for RD's compositions.
This composition carries the
hallmark of what Pancham was capable of - especially with vocal harmonization between
Lata & Kishore while the beats continue to change.
It also brings out the flavor of
a Yash Chopra romance, with his cinematographer Fali Mistry capturing the snow-capped
mountains, lush green carpeted earth, lovely blue sky – and creating a visual
of that world where the God was in heaven, everything was picture perfect & and the romance reigned supreme.
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