I am giving below a link to one of my old posts on this site .The post was about Music Director O. P. Nayyar and his penchant for rhythm and Tonga beats. I wrote based mainly on the gramophone records in my possession and on my experience of listening to his songs on the radio in my younger days.
I
was searching for old Hindi film songs, for a program I am handling on a local
FM Station. My search was mainly about
old Hindi film songs with thematic content like tonga songs, train songs, songs
picturised in motor cars, songs in Piano playing scenes,boatsongs, Jewellary(Jhumka) songs, songs with whistling
and so on. It was then that I came ocross, once again, a few O.P Nayyar
gems which had faded from my memory over the years. The songs are a Tonga beat song, a train song, a whistling song and a song in
a motor car scene.
The
tonga beat song is from a 1966 film DO DILON KI DAASTAN with Pradeep Kumar, Vijayanthimala
and Rehman in lead roles. The song is , ‘Aji pehli mulaqat’, a duet by Asha Bhosle and Muhammed Rafi. I
wonder how I missed this song in my earlier post about O P Nayyar. The film was
directed by Pradeep Kumar himself. Not much information about this film is readily available . But the song has the
unmistakable stamp of OPN with the rhythm and tonga beats standing out
prominently; Rafi and Asha Bhosle, as
usual,at their best.



