When I woke up this morning, Kishore Kumar's "Jee bhar ke dekhloon main tumhe, zulfe idhar karlo" (Deedaar, 1970, Varma Malik / Usha Khanna) was buzzing around in my head, right up to "Surkhi tere ruksaar pe, badlegi rang bahar ke" after which it dried up, without giving reasons for coming or going.
It is an easy paced and smoothly flowing melody and had been a favourite during the season the film was released and on and off (does "on" and "off" remind you of villain Ajit's signal?) and after that too, right up to the present.
Surprisingly, it did not come to mind last week, when the maverick genius, the 'harfanmaula', had his birthday and everyone was playing their favourite songs of his. Perhaps it was reminding me of my lapse to-day and was chiding me by going away after the first line of the first antara. Remiss of me.
So, after glancing through my first newspaper and savouring my second tumbler of strong filter coffee, sakkaré kadimé, I made amends for my forgetfulness by going to Youtube and pulling up this. And it took me right back to those summer holidays of 1969-70!
I suppose I will end up playing songs of those days to-day - songs like "O meri praan sajni", "Priye Praaneswari", "Rut hai milan ki", "Koi maane ya na maane", "Aaj ko junli raat ma". Who knows, when you play one, it will pry out some little tidbit embedded within the folds of yoir memory and lead you to another! That is what these songs do, don't they?
~ © Shiva Kumar, 08 Aug 2021
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