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Song:
“Ek
Paheli
Hai
Tu...
”
Film:
Heera Panna (1973)
Banner
: Navketan Enternational Films Pvt.Ltd.
Producer/Director
: Dev Anand
Lyrics
: Anand Bakshi
Singers:
Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhonsle
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The
duet, so different from a normal love song. This also being a
romantic duet but coupled with a little mystery in it as hero
follows the girl not showing her face & seducing hero as
if she is his woman.
This
very expression Kishore puts in opening words as the lyricist
rightly says
“Ek Paheli hai
tu..Naar naveli hai tu…Jitna main suljhaaun….Aur Ulajhti
jaye!”
Panchamda
has literally given the tune, a touch of mystery and singers
have contributed so aptly. Listen the way Kishore opens the
song very mysteriously and sighs in between the lines with his
typical “haaaye”.
Asha’s
part is so well used without any lines but just the
expressions of seduction with naughtiness. Her “oohs”
“o-hos” “aahs”
and “giggles” take the song
to such a great height..! This must be from one of very few
duets which has female lead with no lines as such to sing but
only strong, sexy and naughty expressions and it still be
called a duet.
Another
best part of this composition is - There are very short lines
in stanza, broken into two to three words only like the sign
line itself. Stanza is also so unusually tuned. For
example-
Kishore-“Deewaaaanaaaa
hone lagaaa hoon….
(Mark the extension of word pronunciation.)
Asha-“
Ta ra ra rum….(short note)
Kishore-“Main
inmein khone
lagaaaa hoon…
Asha-“ Ta
ra ra ra rum…(Long stretched note)
Kishore-“
Naina….tere…aise… jaise ..Bhoo..ool bhulaiyyaaa……
see the words broken to form a melodious linking line to “ Badi
Albeli Hai tu…and then smoothly landing to sign line.
Not to
miss the minimal but rich orchestration amongst this classy
singing. Song has intro music of only two strokes on Santoor.
After which song has in its M1, M2, Santoor is in combination
with guitar chords played in short notes…this relates with
kind of words go in short lines. Trumpet is so well woven into
M2 and Asha follows trumpet notes ditto in “Pa..Ppa..Papa
…pa pa pa pa ppa papa….in her rendition. This is a
highlight of a composition. Tumba is so subtle in rhythms,
just as much as required and has side rhythms such as brush
strokes on Tumba, Kabash and of course the rhythm bass guitar
without which hardly any Pancham song is complete.
Violins
also have been composed differently than normally what we hear
in any other hindi film songs. Violins always sound so unusual
in all of Pancham compositions.
Song ends
abruptly at “Ek Paheli Hai Tu..!!”…expressing
exactly, opening of a secret of a girl not being whom the hero
expects..! on screen.
Panchamda
has almost given 100% visuals
to the director to shoot this song depicting all the moods and
expressions in his creation. Dev Anand has done a fair justice
to Panchamda’s composition on picturisation too.
That’s
Pancham’s finesse to any song we like and goes to become
ageless classic.
Sandeep
Kulkarni
Panchammagic.Org
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