Such was the
gusto with which Kavita Krishnamurthy rendered Hawa Hawai from Mr India
(1987) that even a goof-up by her was okayed. One of the lines went, “Jeenu jo tumne baat chhupayi” (it should
have been, “Jaanu jo tumne baat chhupayi”).
The film was Salim
Khan and Javed Akhtar’s last collaboration. The famed screenwriting duo, known
as Salim-Javed, split five years before its release.
Akhtar, who
continues to be active as a Hindi film lyricist, penned this Laxmikant-Pyarelal
composition, which starts with a string of random nouns like Honolulu and Mombasa,
interspersed with gibberish.
