Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Dey sang about changing (La)tastes

Nineteen Fifty-six, the track from Anari, was about how people’s preferences had changed in the three-year-period between 1956 and 1959, the Lat(a)ter being the year the film released.

The Shankar Jaikishan composition, which was penned by Shailendra, was four minutes and 59 seconds long.

It referred to the ‘evolution’ of women’s attire [one of its lines was, “Saadi se choli” (which means, “from the sari to the blouse”)], and was predictive [as was evidenced by the lines, “Fashion badhenge, kapde ghatenge” (Fashions will evolve and clothes will shorten).]

Manna Dey and Ms Mangeshkar rendered it.

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