August 27, 2017
marks Mukesh’s 41st death anniversary. Although he was most aD(et)roit
at singing pathos-laden songs, he excelled as a pop philosopher too, as was evidenced
by Zindagi Khwab Hai, the Jagte Raho track picturised on a drunk
Motilal (incidentally, his relative).
Shailendra, who
penned it, wove phrases from a Kabir couplet [which inspired the titles of two films
starring the second of the Ganguly brothers (Anoop Kumar)], into the opening
verse of the Salil Choudhury composition.
They were Chalti Ko Gaadi Kahen (the source for Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi) and Dekh Kabira Roya.
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