Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Tu Ne Chheen Liya, Dil Ka Chain Piya

Bandhe Haath's music had some more gems which people started relishing only after the movie's flop status became irrelevant, and Pancham's own stock had risen high.

One of these was a number sung by Lata Mangeshkar, for a very oft-repeated situation of heroine dancing around the hero. The location was also quite cliched - Chhota Kashmir of Aarey Colony in Goregaon.

The lyrics & the composition though are sounding much more fresher. Majrooh uses the imagery that is provocative while the composition adds the lovely lilting silken touch to it. The heroine - Mumtaz - in love, tries to express her emotions to the sombre looking Amitabh, with her usual sparkle & froth, also suiting her role as a dancer in the movie. Lata too pulls out all stop in her singing to match her step by step.

Interesting to note are two aspects - one, the interlude before the first stanza has a tune on saxophone while the interlude after the same stanza has that same tune in Saxish mode but this time on Guitar; and two - the subtleness of the percussion which add to the lilting mood.

On a lighter note, looking at the clumsiness of AB's performance in the romantic scene, specially in another typical to-kiss-or-not-to-kiss scene of those years, it is clear as to why he hit the bull's eye only after getting into the avatar of the Angry Young Man - with romance always at the back-burner.

Anyways, listen to this lovely number from Bandhe Haath:

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