Shafqat brought two (Ama)nations closer

The subject of this post was the reason I created this blog.

The song was titled Teri Jhuki Nazar, and it was the only song from the 2013 film Murder 3 in my collection.

By no means would it be incorrect to state that composers like Pritam deserve the lion’s share of the credit for proving that art knows no boundaries.

In this case, he did that by assigning the song to Shafqat Amanat Ali.

The film version of the track – which was written by Sayeed Quadri – happened to be one of its two versions.

Jaaved sang this reK(aka)reated (Mi)track

Years before ‘Thukra ke mera pyaar, mera intequam dekhegi’ became a jilted lover’s chant, Pritam’s fans should have warned him, ‘Kar ke is gaane ko recreate, hamara Intequam dekhoge’.

But the music director collaborated with songwriter Shabbir Ahmed on Aa Jaan-E-Jaan, the recreated version of the song from the 1969 film (whose title, in the previous paragraph, has been capitalised and italicised).

It was the only song from Hello Darling (2010) in my collection.

Jaaved Jafferi, a member of the film’s cast, lent his voice to the song, as did Akriti Kakar and Antara Mitra.

Raageshwari lent thiS(o)number her voice

I was one short of an A R Rahman composition that would take the total to a number divisible by 10 (240).

And the only one I could think of was Osaka Muraiya.

Alphabetically, it was the second song from One 2 Ka 4 (2001) in my collection.

And as far as their durations were concerned, it was the shorter of the two – it was five minutes and 44 seconds long.

Raageshwari and Sonu Nigam sang the song, which Majrooh Sultanpuri wrote.

While Osaka is a city in Japan, I don’t know what Muraiya means.