Bhoole Bisare Geet - 3 - Drohi

The love for music is universal. Almost everybody likes some form of music. Over the years, I have loved a lot of songs. Somewhere down the road, many of these songs have become hits. I don’t have a favorite song as such but I have a whole list. Being a hit means that a song is loved by many people. Also it means that it is heard more number of times than normal. I have found myself falling out of love to these overplayed songs so much so that I wished they had never become such a hit.

And there are some songs which never become hit for some reason of the other. The lyrics are good, the song is good, the singer has sung it well but then it does not work with the people. Over a period of time, it gets lost in time somewhere and when you hear it once in a blue moon, its bliss. These songs could have been hits and for some reasons, they never were.

This is about those songs;

The missed hits, The unsung hits

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“1942 - A Love Story” is credited to be the last hit of R D Burman as a Music director. The year was 1993.

1992 - I was in 11th Standard. 3 years back, a director by the name Ram Gopal Varma gave a hit movie about a college rebel called “Shiva”. Shiva was a hit with Nagarjun being introduced to the Hindi audience. I was not so keen to know the director but the hero was important. In 1992 Ram Gopal Varma cam back with Nagarjun with another crime thriller cum love story called “Drohi” The music was by R D Burman.

But that was not the reason, I bought the rupees 25 music cassette. I bought it because the cassette was pure white. Cassettes those days were mostly black with colorful inlay card but “Drohi” had a white inlay card, a white cover and a white cassette inside. It was different from other cassettes in the shop and so I bought it. For many months it was my favorite. The movie was released and was a big flop. Urmila Matondkar was the heroine. This was much before she was reintroduced in Rangeela.

According to me Drohi had wonderful music. It was an album lost in time. It had some foot-tapping numbers. The songs were shot quite artistically using a lot of light and not making it bright. This was when RGV was just learning to make movies. At one time this was my favorite album until somebody borrowed it and never returned it back. A lot many songs in the album are sung by Asha Bhosale.

The particular song is sung by Suresh Wadkar and it shows why a good singer like Suresh Wadkar is missed. What makes the song special is the slow song with good soulful lyrics coupled with good picturization.

Song: Tum Jo Mile
Movie: Drohi
Year: 1992
Singer: Suresh Wadkar
Music: R D Burman
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar

Tum jo mile toh lagaa hai, jaise mili Zindagi
Jaati kahaan hain ye raahe, jin pe chali Zindagi

Itana mujh ko kab tha pata, aaisa bhi ek gaon hain
Rastaa takati mera jahaan, in palakon ki chaav hain
Meri to thi dhoop mein hi, ab tak pali Zindagi

Tum ko pa ke aaisa lagaa, jitne the gum  kho gaye
Sadiyon se hum patthar ke the, ab mom ke ho gaye
Itani hansee roop mein hai, dekho dhalee zindagi

Jeene ko jeete the magar, itani khabar thee kise
Dil mein aaisi galiyaa bhee hai, jin mein hain sapane base
Sapane mile to khili hai, ban ke kali zindagi