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Earliest song in which I hear both the singers laughing. The song is sung by Anil Biswas and Sardar Akhtar. Although both are in the cast of the film, HFGK says that the male on-screen is Pramod Chandra. I am sure it is Anil Biswas himself doing the laughing here, because the song is from the 78 record. The words are 'saaqee ho, sahan-e-baaGh ho, abr-e-bahaar ho, pahaloo men tum'. Obviously an Urdu translation of the famous rubaayi by tentmaker (and poet) Omar Khayyaam! I know one more song with a slightly different translation from the original Persian. I will point it out when we reach 1964 :)
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We have all heard the story that Sahir wanted one Rupee more that the music director. Where did it originate? Did he really say or do that? Has anybody actually heard somebody say that Sahir did that? Now there is some evidence that it may have actually happened!
“Sahir was very straight forward and curt. He used to say very undiplomatically of his fellow composers that they used to listen to English records and prepare the tunes of their Hindi songs after lifting them while the lyricists wrote with their hearts and minds. Hence, the status of lyricists is above that of the composers. He used to ask the producers to pay him one rupee more salary than the composers... "
This is Abrar Alvi talking. You can read the whole thing in Shishir Krishan Sharma's excellent blog. In contrast with thousands of gossipy blogs, TV show hosts and internet posters (some of who make up whole fake interviews), he actually meets film personalities, takes note and records the meeting with authentic info. If you have never seen his blog, do it!
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Everybody knows that the record companies cannot be trusted completely with respect to the information printed on the record. For example., for the famous song 'aayegaa 3 aane waalaa' sung by Lata, the record label says Kamini, the role played by Madhubala. One might think that for non-film records, they would be truthful. Not so, as V A K Ranga Rao declares:
He wrote this in a letter to the Editor of The Record News, a publication (1991-2010) of the Society of Indian Record Collectors. This magazine is full of very valuable and interesting info about Indian records from the very beginning. The whole set can be read on my website.
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