Song 57:
Asha Bhosle started singing in the 1950s, her first film being Mangu in 1954. However her first big break was CID in which the music was composed by O P Nayyar. Then followed a number of good movies with O P Nayyar's music. But O P Nayyar's favourite male singer was Mohd Rafi. So most of Asha's initial duets were with Mohd Rafi. While Asha-Rafi had some great songs together, it was much later that Asha Kishore too became a force to reckon with. While with Rafi a formality was maintained, with Kishore, Asha's voice blossomed into a vibrant form, coming upto her full potential. There was such perfect unison, such harmony. Everything looked perfect, maybe too good to be true.
Taking this another mood from the 60s this time. An unusual Asha-Kishore song for it is not frivolous or funky, but very gentle and sublime, perfectly enacted by the oh so gentlemanly Dev Anand and the coquettish Asha Parekh. It has a fairy tale like quality. Love too slowly tip-toes into your life in the strangest of ways, like an unbelievable fairy tale. You are caught unawares. The magical allure of that dream-like state is such that you drift along, putting all your sense and logic aside. You build castles in the air and float on clouds. Everything is picture perfect.
All you see all around is him and you imagine perhaps its the same for him too. You wake up and you think of him, you smile and his eyes smile back at you. You eat something nice and you feel like sharing with him. You wear some nice clothes and you want him to see you in those. Lilting violins play in the background even in the middle of a busy day at work. You look into your files and his voice resonates in your ears. You even start loving the words he uses often. You remember the colour of each and every shirt of his. You post long forgotten songs at odd hours and wake up in the middle of the night for unexplained water breaks. It's as if his eyes follow you all day. In all of this you do start loving yourself a little more too. Then one fine day you know it's silly. He has a complete life. And so do you. But yes, it's true. Yes, it's called a Twitter crush!
Asha Bhosle started singing in the 1950s, her first film being Mangu in 1954. However her first big break was CID in which the music was composed by O P Nayyar. Then followed a number of good movies with O P Nayyar's music. But O P Nayyar's favourite male singer was Mohd Rafi. So most of Asha's initial duets were with Mohd Rafi. While Asha-Rafi had some great songs together, it was much later that Asha Kishore too became a force to reckon with. While with Rafi a formality was maintained, with Kishore, Asha's voice blossomed into a vibrant form, coming upto her full potential. There was such perfect unison, such harmony. Everything looked perfect, maybe too good to be true.
Taking this another mood from the 60s this time. An unusual Asha-Kishore song for it is not frivolous or funky, but very gentle and sublime, perfectly enacted by the oh so gentlemanly Dev Anand and the coquettish Asha Parekh. It has a fairy tale like quality. Love too slowly tip-toes into your life in the strangest of ways, like an unbelievable fairy tale. You are caught unawares. The magical allure of that dream-like state is such that you drift along, putting all your sense and logic aside. You build castles in the air and float on clouds. Everything is picture perfect.
All you see all around is him and you imagine perhaps its the same for him too. You wake up and you think of him, you smile and his eyes smile back at you. You eat something nice and you feel like sharing with him. You wear some nice clothes and you want him to see you in those. Lilting violins play in the background even in the middle of a busy day at work. You look into your files and his voice resonates in your ears. You even start loving the words he uses often. You remember the colour of each and every shirt of his. You post long forgotten songs at odd hours and wake up in the middle of the night for unexplained water breaks. It's as if his eyes follow you all day. In all of this you do start loving yourself a little more too. Then one fine day you know it's silly. He has a complete life. And so do you. But yes, it's true. Yes, it's called a Twitter crush!
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