![]() This is the watershed year when Lata Mangeshkar, who sang this haunting Khemchad Prakash composition and took the nation’s breath away, sealing her supremacy in the Indian film industry for decades to come, with no rival in sight. ![]() ![]() This Ghulam Haider composition carried the zest of the youth wanting to lay down their lives for the nation.Ī trunk call from Rangoon (now Yangon, Myanmar) to Dehradun that spoke of love and longing was an inherently fabulous, funny and catchy number, with Shamsad Begum’s nasal inflection imprinting it in collective memory. Afsaana (story) became the song of the year. Weeks after August 15, an independent India cocked its ears to this gentle ditty put together by Urdu poet-lyricist Shakeel Badayuni and Naushad with Uma Devi crooning it in her earnest voice.
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