Dil-e-Nadaan

Director: Sridhar
Starring: Rajesh Khanna, Jaya Prada, Smita Patil, Shatrughan Sinha

The label 'Sentimental Moods' doesn't really do justice to what this multi-'kal'-oured nostalgia album does to us. Thirteen pristine, pensive and powerful compositions exuding a wondrous wistfulness. As usual with the Revival series, the impeccably re-recorded orchestral passages don't only enhance our hearing pleasure, they provide a new dimension to the tunes.

The title song, with its beautiful arabesque movements written by Javed Akhtar's father, Jan Nisar Akhtar, is among Lata Mangeshkar's favourite solos. When she sings Aye dil-e-nadaan aarzoo kya hai justuju kya hai we are overtaken by a sense of spiritual restlessness. The other Khayyam composition by Lataji Dikhayi diye yun ke bekhud kiya, humein aapse bhi juda kar chale elicits a spontaneous 'Wah' from the Nightingale whenever she talks about this eloquent song.

Eloquence is the key to the compelling collection. You may be familiar with Bhupinder's Ek akela iss shaher mein and Mohd Rafi's Yeh duniya yeh mehfil. But what about Laxmikant-Pyarelal's Yeh daman ab na choote and RD Burman's Aaj to meri hansi udai?

The latter is a special undiscovered gem born to sob unseen, now rescued by the anthologist who mixes the known and the virtually unknown like Beeti na bitayi raina from Parichay and Mohabbat ke suhane din from Maryada without losing a grip over the grammar of making statements in song form. An ideal blend of the beautiful and the dimmed (by the passage of time), this collection lights up our lives even though the songs sing about melancholic thoughts.

The composers are all in their element. Whether it's Madan Mohan in that fabulous Gulzar Ghazal Ruke ruke se qadam ruk ke baar-baar chale, qaraar deke tere dar se beqraar chale (wah, Gulzar Saab wah) or Madan Mohan again in the unreleased pain-drop sigh-lines of Kaise kategi zindagi (lyric writer uncredited), you really can't equal the power and glory of these maestros who wrote poetry because it had to be written, composed feelings because they were there, and sang emotions because there was nothing else they would rather do

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