Trivia Tunes: Song for Dilip Kumar’s directorial debut was later used in an Akshay Kumar movie : Bollywood News

October 11, 20245 Mins Read

Re-creations choose music labels!
The music rights of Kahan Shuru Kahan Khatam are with Saregama, formerly known as HMV. This is primarily because it includes the re-created versions of the 1960 cult classic hit, ‘Ajeeb dastaan hai yeh’ (from Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai) and the 1958 chartbuster, ‘Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi si’ (from Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi) with a hint of ‘Ae phansa’ from Bobby as well. Saregama is the go-to label for films where most such vintage songs are used, just as Tips was chosen for Crew as it had re-creations of ‘Choli ke peeche’ (Khal-Nayak) and ‘Sona kitna sona hai’ (Hero No. 1) as well as the non-film Ila Arun hit ‘Ghaghra’.

Trivia Tunes: Song for Dilip Kumar’s directorial debut was later used in an Akshay Kumar movie

A new twist to ‘re-creations’
As said above, no mention is made of Laxmikant-Pyarelal and Anand Bakshi in Kahan Shuru Kahan Khatam, as only the phrase ‘Ae phansa’ is heard. Another example in recent times is of ‘Parde mein rehne do’ from the 1968 blockbuster, Shikar in the film, Khel Khel Mein. The music was by Shankar-Jaikishan and the lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri.

Now these examples may be a new twist to entire re-creations, and though legal stipulations about duration or number of words used may not make it mandatory for the original creators to be mentioned, I think that decency warrants it.

Songless debut films…
One reason why the classic lip-sync song endures and is loved is because such songs are very often associated with big stars and their ascents, and ironically, also become their USPs in musical shows globally. But in the 1970s, three major actresses took off with films minus songs—Reena Roy (Charitra) and Zeenat Aman (Hulchul) in 1971, and Parveen Babi (Charitra) in 1973. Of course, their first hit songs came much later, not necessarily in their second films. And each one of them came to be associated with several chartbusters.

…And song-less debuts!
On the other hand, there were heroes too who never lip-synched songs in their debut films. Sanjay Khan was a part of the epic musical, Dosti, but had no song in it. Amitabh Bachchan had no lip-synch in his first film, Saat Hindustani. Vinod Khanna, being initially a villain as well, had nothing to sing in his debut movie, Man Ka Meet, and neither did Shatrughan Sinha, also a villain then, in Khilona. Technically, neither did Salman Khan in a second lead in Biwi Ho To Aisi, or Emraan Hashmi, later known for his songs, in his first film, Footpath. Needless to say, most of them can be now considered musical stars.

Rishi Kapoor’s two-generation debut!
When Raj Kapoor made Mera Naam Joker in three chapters, Rishi Kapoor, his son played his adolescent part in Chapter 1. Interestingly, the playback singer for his only song remained the senior actor’s main voice, described as his “soul”—Mukesh. That popular song was ‘Teetar ke do aage teetar’. But there was also another song that marked Mukesh’s son Nitin Mukesh’s playback debut—of sorts. It was he who sang—for Rishi again—the song ‘Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye’. This was recorded by Shankar-Jaikishan as a version of the English song of that name, a by Phil Park and Harry Parr-Davies, made popular during the Second World War by Gracie Fields. The song had earlier featured in Shipyard Sally in 1939. And so, Rishi’s debut became the first to have two generations singing for him!

S.D. Burman’s generous trait
S.D. Burman, that ahead-of-his-times composer who was also blue-blooded, had this endearing habit of being generous with his compliments whenever he liked scores or songs by other composers. He was known to actually go and visit everyone from Shankar-Jaikishan and Naushad to Madan Mohan and O.P. Nayyar and praise them lavishly. This incident was shared by a Bengali fan of his who had been told of it by someone close to the maestro. After the music of Milan in 1967 became huge, he is said to have gone to Laxmikant-Pyarelal and told them, “You have no right to do such good work! You will put us all out of business!” L-P were not only musicians with him but had arranged his music in Ziddi and Meri Soorat Teri Ankhen, and along with Kalyanji-Anandji and R.D. Burman, these six geniuses had a lasting friendship and regards between them!

From Dilip Kumar to Akshay Kumar via Anand Bakshi!
Anand Bakshi and Kalyanji-Anandji had signed Kalinga with Dilip Kumar as director. For one situation in the film, Bakshi had written the song, ‘Ae kaash kahin aisa hota’ and Viju, Kalyanji’s son had heard the lyrics and told Rajiv Rai about the song. Rajiv then told Bakshi, also his Mohra lyricist, that he would want the song if it did not go into Dilip Kumar’s (who had worked in his father’s production, Vidhaata) film for any reason. And so we got this haunting melody composed by Viju Shah and filmed on Akshay Kumar in Mohra.

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