Oyeah, a Sapna came true

(Am)It’s one thing for a debutant to compose just one track in a film; it’s quite another to witness it become one of the year’s biggest hits.

That was indeed the case with Viju Shah. And the song in question was none other than Tirchi Topiwale (also billed as Oye Oye) from Tridev.

Although it was inspired by Gloria’s 1987 hit Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, his (Este)fans couldn’t care less.

Anand Bakshi penned the song, which was sung by Kumar and Sapna Mukherjee, who bagged the Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Award in 1990.

It appealed to the MASSes

Tridev (1989) was an actioner, and thus, was tailor-made for Kalyanji-Anandji, who were undoubtedly the Shahs when it came to composing the music of films of that genre.

But by no means were they not versatile, as (Trid)evidenced by the fact that they composed Main Teri Mohabbat Mein, a romantic track penned by Anand Bakshi.

It was rendered by the M(el)o(hamme)dious Aziz and Sadhana Sargam.

The soundtrack earned them [and Viju Shah (the son of Kalyanji and the nephew of Anandji)] a nomination in the Best Music Director category at the Filmfare Awards in 1990.

It will (Paudw)always touch (Man)h(e)arts

When one is discussing the music of Ram Lakhan, the romantic track picturised on its P(y)ar(el)allel leads – Jackie Shroff and Dimple Kapadia – (Laxmi)kan’t (and shouldn’t) be forgotten.

Tera Naam Liya was a relative shortie on a soundtrack that was chock full of lengthy numbers – it was five minutes and 58 seconds long.

But that’s (Man)hardly the reason why Hindi film music aficionados remember the song, which was penned by Anand Bakshi and rendered by Udhas.

This song earned Anuradha Paudwal a nomination in the Best Female Playback Singer category at the Filmfare Awards in 1990.  

Ms Mangeshkar’s pLa(ta)int became immortal

O Ramji Bada Dukh Dina – the six-minute, four-second long track from Ram Lakhan – was a song Lata Mangeshkar was expected to take to like a du(c)k(h) does to water. So it wasn’t surprising that she rendered it beautifully.

The Laxmikant-Pyarelal composition was penned by Anand Bakshi. And because he loved to KISS (keep it simple, stupid), his use of Ramji didn’t border on the ambiguous.

Ram – the name of Jackie Shroff’s character in the film – was suffixed with the honorific ji (used across India as a term of respect), because he was Lakhan’s older brother.

MAN, the introduction was fantabulous!

While my last two posts were a build-up of sorts to My Name Is Lakhan, here’s a post on the track from Ram Lakhan, which was penned by Anand Bakshi and was seven minutes and ten seconds long.

The film’s soundtrack earned Laxmikant-Pyarelal a nomination in the Filmfare Best Music Director category in 1990.

And Mohammed Aziz was nominated in the Filmfare Best Male Playback Singer category for the song, which began with the catchy Dhina Dhin Dha and contained the nonsensical phrase One Two Ka Four.

Anuradha Paudwal and Nitin Mukesh were his co-singers.

Amit and Aziz (Chi)nailed it

Main Hoon Woh Hero, from Ram Lakhan (1989), is about a role reversal of sorts, in which the baddie claims to be the hero, while Lakhan (played by Anil Kapoor) seems to have no qualms about referring to himself as a zero.

Their banter, which was nine minutes and seven seconds long, was penned by Bakshi (An)and set to music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.

While Amit Kumar fit the bill as the voice of the cocky ‘hero’, they couldn’t have ‘zero’ed in on a better singer than Mohammed Aziz for Kapoor.

They were joined by Alisha Chinai.       

(Am)It was dedicated to Mumbai

Bom Bom Bom Bom Bombay Meri Hai from Rakhwala (1989) was the second song of what could be called Amit’s Bombay trilogy.

The tracK(u)marked the singer’s collaboration of three other chips off the old block – Sameer (whose real name is Shitala Pandey) penned it and Anand-Milind were the music directors. The former was lyricist Anjaan’s son.

Not only was it picturised on Anil Kapoor, but it also contained excerpts of a couple of jhakkas tracks from other films that are, and will always be, synonymous with him – Ek Do Teen and My Name Is Lakhan.