Yeh Shyaam Mastani is a picnic song with romantic shades, filmed on Rajesh Khanna and Asha Parekh, and my most favourite track of the album.Discussion of Bollywood songs of 1970s is incomplete without mentioning the songs of R.D. Burman composed for Rajesh Khanna movies.In fact R. D. Burman composed for 40 films for Rajesh Khanna, for which Kishore Kumar worked in 32 of them.
In the 1970s R. D. Burman made electronic rock popular through several love stories, revolutionizing Hindi film music, and Rajesh Khanna and Kishore Kumar are two integral parts of them. D. Burman, Rajesh Khanna and Kishore Kumar became an extremely popular trio of 1970s, and meaningful lyrics of Anand Bakshi also played an important part. Yet it was the friendship of Khanna and R. D. Burman and a few evergreen hits recorded in their name, which made 1970s a musical decade. Needless to say, music fans loved their combination songs most, though only a few of them are of high standards. Interestingly, Anand Bakshi became a permanent companion for most of their works together in the 1970s and 1980s, post the success of Aradhana in the last year of 1960s. The movie had a Rafi track Zamane Ne Maare Jawan filmed on Rajesh Khanna, though he didnt sync-lipped to it. It was the first male singer track recorded by Pancham da for any Rajesh Khanna movie. Rest of the songs were exclusively reserved for Lata Mangeshkar which include solos Kya Janu Sajan and Aaja Piya and duet with Manna Dey Chunari Samhal. Though all these songs featured Rajesh Khanna, I excluded all these tracks from this list solely because Khanna didnt lip-sync to those tunes. As far as I believe its the first chartbuster song of Rajesh Khanna in R. D. Burman tunes. Though they have earlier worked together in Baharon Ke Sapne, there is not even a single song lip synced by Rajesh Khanna, and hence I excluded this musical movie from this list. The successful association of R. D. Burman and Rajesh Khanna began only in the 1970s with The Train, where he used Rafis voice to record all songs for Rajesh Khanna. D. Burman recorded remaining songs originally composed by his father, and Kishore Kumar-Rajesh Khanna pair became a smash hit. Gulabi Ankhein is one of the very rarest Rafi tracks recorded by Pancham da for Rajesh Khanna. Ne Soniye is a very popular duet sung by Rafi and Lata from the same album, featuring the lead pair. Nee Soniye is the single duet of the album, featuring the lead pair Khanna and Nanda, who earlier worked together in suspense thriller, Ittefaq, though not as pair. Its not easy to say, for which song Kishore Kumar excelled in singing. After the songs of Kishore Kumar became an instant hit, interestingly with three solos, R. D. Burman Kishore Kumar duo became the most celebrated musical pair of Bollywood, who fully dominated the scene throughout 1970s. Songs of Katti Patang followed by Amar Prem cemented the position of Kishore Kumar in Bollywood, post Aradhana success. In fact the director played an important role in making Khanna the nations lover boy. By that time screen presence of popular romantic screen idols like Shammi Kapoor, Joy Mukherjee, Biswajeet, Rajendra Kumar etc slowly started fading. Age factor also played an important role in deteriorating their careers to fit into romantic roles. The rest of the actors like Dev Anand, Dharmendra and Shashi Kapoor re-invented their careers as action heroes in the 1970s, and stayed here.
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