The shehnai is a wooden wind instrument,
with a double reed at one end and a flared bell, either made of metal or wood,
at the other. It is played on such auspicious occasions as weddings.
Ustad Bismillah
Khan, one of its best-known exponents, delighted Hindi film music buffs with a
few pieces in Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959).
Bharat penned
its songs, which were composed by Vasant Desai.
One of them V(y)as
Dil Ka Khilona Hai Toot Gaya,
rendered by Lata Mangeshkar.
The likening of
the broken heart with a toy didn’t elicit a s(i)mile.
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