Tuesday, March 14, 2017

This track was certainly unforGe(e)t(t)able

Most Hindi film music aficionados today are irked by the item numbers that filmmakers, unfortunately, don’t seem to consider superfluous. But thankfully, they aren’t compared to the racy songs of yore, one of which was Tadbeer Se Bigdi Hui Taqdeer Bana Le.

The song, from Baazi (1951), was penned by Abdul Hayee, who was popularly known as Sahir. He was horrified that S D Burman turned the song he (Ludhian)viewed as a ghazal into a club number.

It was rendered by Geeta Dutt (nee Roy), who went on to marry Guru Dutt, the film’s director.  

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