Saturday 24 June 2017

Dev Anand's Song without his Trademark Playback Singers


Dev Anand represents a particular era of history of Hindi cinema of which he was an integral part for almost 65 years. He had a huge influence on Hindi cinema and beyond it.He hypnotised generations of audience.Music in his films laid a benchmark for the other Hindi films. His association with playback singers like Rafi and Kishore Kumar is well known. These 2 singers gave Dev Anand maximum playback, followed by Hemant Kumar.In this Blog I am posting few such songs which were sung by other playback singers,these songs may be surprise for many Dev Anand's fans.
The first song on my list is the song from the film Jeet (1949)
 Chahe kitni kathin dagar ho  Picturised on Suraiya and Dev Anand, music by pitamah of Hindi film music Anil Biswas, lyrics by Prem Dhawan and sung by Shankar Das Gupta for Dev Anand, Suraiya for herself
Song from Jeet 1949

Bahe Na Kabhi Nain Se Neer-this song is from the film Vidya (1948) ,it is the first time Mukesh gave playback to Dev Anand

Song from Vidya 1948

Laayi Khushi Ki Duniya this is a duet from Vidya sung by Mukesh and Suraiya

Song from Vidya 1948

Humne Khayi Hai Mohabbat  this song is from the film Dilruba (1950),For this duet Dev Anand has been given playback by none other than G.M.Durrani, which is very unusual.

Song from Dilruba 1950

Dekho Mane Nahi Ruthi Hasina-This song is from Taxi Driver 1954,this ia a duet by Asha Bhosle and Jagmohan Bakshi, this Jagmohan Bakshi is the same Jagmohan of Music director Sapan Jagmohan.

Song from Taxi Driver 1954

Phir Wohi Chand-this song is from Baarish (1957),Sharing a delightful chemistry on screen, Dev Anand and Nutan sing to the tunes of C. Ramchandra where the MD himself gives playback for the evergreen star.

Song from Barish 1957

O Kahan Jaate Hain Woh-this song is from the film Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1961),I think this is the only film where Mahendra Kapoor sang for Dev Anand

Song from Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1961)


Tak Dhoom Tak Dhoom Baaje ,this song from 1960 film Bambai Ka Babu,Manna De is singing for Dev anand

Song from Bambai Ka Babu 1960

Aye Dil Kaha Teri Manzil This song also happens to be one the best of Dwijen Mukherjee in Hindi cinema. Under the music direction of Salil Chowdhury,from the film Maya 1961

Song from Maya 1961



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