Sunday, August 13, 2017

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.

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