This trAcK was A ‘three’t

Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United released in 1999.

My collection contained four songs from the film, including the subject of this post.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, Maiyya Yashoda would be the third.

And if they were arranged in the descending order of their durations, it would be the second – it was half-a-dozen minutes and 19 seconds long.

The ladies who sang it were Alka Yagnik, Anuradha Paudwal, and Kavita Krishnamurthy – the top three female singers of the time.

The song, which was written by Kiran R, was composed by Raamlaxman.   

Hariharan joined Alka for this

Including the subject of this post, my collection contained a couple of tracks from Arjun Pandit, which released in 1999.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, O Priya would be the second.

While the soundtrack of the film contained a couple of versions of it, my collection contained just one.

It was sung by Alka Yagnik, who was joined behind the microphone by Hariharan for it.

By the way, the second version was sung by Yagnik and Kumar Sanu.

Both those songs were written by Javed Akhtar, and composed by Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen.

 

SeVen SingerS SAng this trAck

My collection contains five songs from Aa Ab Laut Chalen (1999).

Those include the subject of this post – O Yaaron Maaf Karna.

The soundtrack of the film contained a couple of versions of that track.

But my collection contains just one.

And that was the one sung by multiple singers – seven of them, to be precise.

Alka Yagnik and Vijeta were the two ladies.

And Abhijeet, Kumar Sanu, Shabbir Kumar, Sonu Nigam, and Saud Khan were the others.

Sameer wrote the Nadeem-Shravan composition.

Yagnik and Sanu lent their voices to Version 2 of the song.

Alka (An)and Aditya sang it

Man, Woman and Child was a book by Erich Segal, and a 1983 film of the same name.

The subject of this post was, incidentally, sung by a man, a woman, and a child.

It was titled Hai Nazuk Nazuk Halki Phulki, and spread across my blogs, it was the second song from Pardesi Babu (1998) in my collection.

Firstly, I’ll talk about the woman and the child – Alka Yagnik and Aditya Narayan, respectively.

As for the man, it was Anand Raaj Anand.

He didn’t just compose and sing it, but he wrote it too.

It Vasn’t an AUrAl treat

Abhijeet Bhattacharya sang Badi Mushkil Hai, a popular song from Anjaam, which released in 1994.

He also happened to be one of the four people who lent their voices to an unrelated song of the same name, which was from Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate, which released in 1998*.

The others were Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, and Vinod Rathod.

The song was written by the legendary Anand Bakshi.

It was composed by the Shrivastava brothers, Anand-Milind.

(*Note: Spread across my playlists, it was, in fact, one of the two songs from the film in my collection.)

(Ud)It was sung by Paudwal

I recently watched a podcast in which three stand-up comedians were talking about the 1998 film Dulhe Raja.

My collection contains five songs from that film, including the subject of this post – Ladka Deewana Lage.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, it would be the last.

And if they were arranged in the descending order of their durations, it would be the second – it was half-a-dozen minutes long.

Anuradha Paudwal and Udit Narayan were the two people who sang it.

It was written by Sameer, and was composed by the Shrivastava brothers, Anand-Milind.

Yagnik sang this underrated (Sa)number

Yeh Kya Hua was an R D Burman composition from Amar Prem, which released in 1971.

There was an unrelated song of the same name.

And, of course, it was from the film that released in the 1990s.

I am talking about Yeh Kya Hua, the only song from the 1997 film Tamanna in my collection.

Alka Yagnik and Kumar Sanu lent their voices to it.

That track was written by Rahat Indori.

And it was composed by Anu Malik.

By no means would it be incorrect to state that it was an underrated song.