Showing posts with label Asad Bhopali. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asad Bhopali. Show all posts

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Was this track that reLatable?

There were three versions of Dil Deewana, which, in the descending order of duration, were as follows – the female version (which was five minutes and 55 seconds long and rendered by Lata Mangeshkar and a chorus), the male solo (which was five minutes and 22 seconds long and rendered by S P Balasubrahmanyam) and the duet (which was a minute and three seconds long and rendered by Mangeshkar and Balasubrahmanyam).

The Raamlaxman composition from Maine Pyar Kiya earned Balasubrahmanyam the Filmfare Best Male Playback Singer Award and Asad the Filmfare Best (Bhopa)L(yr)icist Award in 1990.

  

They drove the BLU(e)S away

A boy and a girl can just be platonic friends.

That was what Asad, who penned Aaya Mausam Dosti Ka, from Maine Pyar Kiya, wanted the Bho(pa)li-bhaali janata to believe.

And there must've been quite a few young, innocent folks who took his word for it.

The Raamlaxman composition, which was six minutes and 47 seconds long, sampled Tarzan Boy (Baltimora’s debut single, which released in 1985).

S P Balasubrahmanyam and Lata Mangeshkar shared the Sing(h)ing credits with a couple of other singers – Usha Mangeshkar and Shailendra [who wasn’t given short (Raj)shrift by the banner].