How a song can be born.
Thank you dear Hari ji. Happy reading.
Hari uncle. A friend of my father, and mine too now. Rare was a day in my father's life, when my Dad may not have visited him at his shop and demanded, from mutual affection, "Brahmin nu cigarette pila." And Hari uncle would happily offer him his favourite, 555. Regards.
Hari uncle. A friend of my father, and mine too now. Rare was a day in my father's life, when my Dad may not have visited him at his shop and demanded, from mutual affection, "Brahmin nu cigarette pila." And Hari uncle would happily offer him his favourite, 555. Regards.
Once, Hari uncle and Dad were traveling in a car near Khar, and they saw a very pretty girl passing by. One of them remarked 'kya roop paya hai!'
Dad stopped the car and scribbled the mukhda of the song from Aradhana then and there: Roop Tera Mastana, Pyar Mera Deewana... The rest is history. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HenA-OUyo0s )
Hari Mehra's music shop is the one Farah Khan (choreographer/director) would visit as a child four days a week. In her words: "Four days a week, I would travel to Twist, a music shop in Khar-Bandra, Linking road, to buy vinyl records, a LP or an EP. Back home I would dance to the songs. I would do actress Helen’s cabarets, and when I would dance to the song, ‘Kaise rahun chup’ from the film Intaquam (1969), I too would break a glass at the end. (laughs)" - Farah Khan. (@Directors' Diaries)
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