Yeh mera vada raha’ (If you want the song to stay, then I will keep it. Thank God he listened to me! I remember him saying ‘Agar aap chahiti hain to main gaana zaroor rakhoonga. “When I heard that Mr Dev Anand was planning to remove this song from the film, I frantically called him in the middle of the night and requested him to retain it. “I only had this one song in the entire movie and from what I heard, a certain executive in the record company, HMV, was not in favour of the song,” says the 87-year-old over email. But it later became a solo with Uthup lending her voice for the chorus.Īnd for one of the leading playback singers of the day, Bhonsle, the radically refreshing song was almost dropped overnight. Usha Uthup, then a young, up-and-coming nightclub singer waiting for her breakthrough, was offered the song as a duet to be sung alongside Asha Bhonsle.
According to reports, she was planning to return to Germany with her mother when a chance encounter with Dev Anand at a party convinced the actor-director of HRHK that he had found his Jasbir/Janice-a runaway girl seeking freedom in the company of hophead hippies in Nepal. A 20-year-old Aman, crowned Miss India Asia Pacific in 1970, was two films old-The Evil Within and Hulchul. The year was 1971 and the cult film Hare Rama Hare Krishna, starring Dev Anand, Mumtaz and Zeenat Aman, released a song into the world which would precisely capture the spirit of the new-agers intoxicated with the hippie counterculture. The funny thing is people still think it is my song.
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