1957 Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye toh (Pyaasa) This iconic duet by Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey will always be remembered for the iconic imagery of Raj Kapoor and Nargis under the umbrella.ġ0. This Hemant Kumar composition is almost always sung every October 2. One of Kavi Pradeep’s early patriotic lyrics was dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, his ideas of freedom and non-violence. In Manna Dey’s haunting voice, the song was a commentary on the rising inequality in the country. Composer SD Burman had Geeta Bali sing the ghazal as a club number in this Bombay noir.ħ. In this rather buoyant melody, poet Sahir Ludhianvi says, overcome your ruined fate with faith. 1951 Tadbeer se bigdi hui taqdeer (Baazi) Lata Mangeshkar had arrived.Ī favourite with Rafi, the piece catapulted him to fame.Ħ. The song broke all records at Radio Ceylon as people flooded their office with letters to ask for the singer’s name (The gramophone company only carried the character’s name – Kamini). This is the watershed year when Lata Mangeshkar, who sang this haunting Khemchad Prakash composition and took the nation’s breath away, sealing her supremacy in the Indian film industry for decades to come, with no rival in sight.

This Ghulam Haider composition carried the zest of the youth wanting to lay down their lives for the nation.Ī trunk call from Rangoon (now Yangon, Myanmar) to Dehradun that spoke of love and longing was an inherently fabulous, funny and catchy number, with Shamsad Begum’s nasal inflection imprinting it in collective memory. Afsaana (story) became the song of the year. Weeks after August 15, an independent India cocked its ears to this gentle ditty put together by Urdu poet-lyricist Shakeel Badayuni and Naushad with Uma Devi crooning it in her earnest voice.

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