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Old
voices for new
A director
has a vision. He explains a situation and the lyricist and
composer let their imaginations soar - and many a time a chartbuster
is born.
To take
another angle, thanks to computronics, you can make a man
shake hands with Mahatma Gandhi on screen.
On an
idle then, I let my imagination soar too, and wonder what
would happen if by some technological marvel, it would be
possible to electronically generate the peak-time voices of
our singing greats! Imagine Rafi singing the songs of Coolie
rather than Shabbir Kumar, or Kishore Kumar belting out Main
to raste se jaa rahaa tha! And forget technology, what if
these songs had been composed in the era of those giants?
Combining
imagination with a the peculiar logic of sheer fantasy, let
me go back in time to ‘hear’ our chartbusters as
they would be rendered by our greats, and no offence meant
to the fresh voices, for on another occasion I intend to let
my mind wander on which of our current singers would have
sung our older hits! So let us hear Side A of this unique
remix.
The first
track is Ek do teen char form Tezaab. Recording in the 1980s,
this Laxmikant-Pyarelal delight would have gone to Lata Mangeshkar,
rather than Asha Bhosle despite its naughty-n-spicy nature.
And Lata would have given it the Bindiya chamkegi-Dil vil
kind of mischievous tenor.
Tirchhi
Topiwale from Tridev would have been vocalised by Kishore
Kumar and Kanchan, the K-A favorite of the mid-70s. Composed
in the 70s by Raam-Laxman, Dil deewana bin sajna ke maane
na would have been sung by Shailendra Singh with Usha Mangeshkar,
the then-Raam-Laxman favourites. The film Maine Pyar Kiya
would have probably starred Mithun Chakraborty and Ranjeeta!
Kishore
Kumar, Mahendra Kapoor, Asha Bhosle and Usha Mangeshkar would
have had a ball singing Lal dupattewali from Aankhen.
Sarkailo
khatiya would have sung by Kishore Kumar (along with Asha
Bhosle) under protest for Raja Babu, the way he sang Raftaa
raftaa and Khaike paan. And Aati nahin would have emerged
as the career-worst song of Mukesh under Laxmikant-Pyarelal!
On Side
B, the first track would be Jaati hoon main, as composed by
Rajesh Roshan for his brother Rakesh’s film in the late
80s, sung by Nitin Mukesh and Sadhana Sargam. Or in the 70s
by Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar. Next would be soulful Dil Hai
Ke Manta Nahin title track, so obviously sung by Kishore Kumar.
Strangely
enough, Papa kehta hain from Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak would
have gone to Manna Dey even if the hero was Shammi Kapoor,
and Stop that filmed on Johnny Walker (it would have been
an infra-dig song for a hero) would have been sung by poor
Manna Dey too!
Mahendra
Kapoor, Manna Dey, Bhupendra and Balbir would join for Chappa
chappa charkha chale. And finally Mohammed Rafi and Usha Mangeshkar
would have belted out Chal chaiyyaan in Dil Se..!
Rajiv
Vijayakar
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