There used to be a title song in all RK films be it the Mukesh number ‘Awaara hoon’ from filmAwara or the Barsat and Anari numbers mentioned earlier. For Raj Kapur Shankar Jaikishen was the music director till he switched over to LaxmikantPyarelalwith film Bobby. Probably it was the combination of Rajkapur,Shailendra/Hasrat and Shankar Jaikishen who started the trend in a bigway. It also made me think aboutseveral beautiful title songs which wereintegral to the films and onecould not think of the film without thinking of the song.The trend ofhaving a title song in the film continued strongly till the middleof the 70s. The songs from film Barsat and Anari,especially the title songs ( I mean songs with the title of the film in thelyrics) ‘Barsat men ham’and ‘woh chaandkhilana samajhe oh anari hai’ tookme to a different and nostalgicworld bringing back memories of seeing these films in the theatre,listening to the songs on the radio and reading news and reviews aboutthem, the performance ofRaj Kapur and so on. I was listening tothose evergreen Shankar Jaikishan songs on my record player the other day.
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