Only Sunidhi’s version was included

The subject of this post was a song I regretted not including in my collection earlier.

The track in question was the female version of Ae Watan, which was rendered by the one and only Sunidhi Chauhan*.

It happened to be the shortest song in the film – it was three minutes and 31 seconds long.

Gulzar wrote the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy composition, which contained Allama Iqbal’s Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua, which is Pakistan’s national prayer, and is offered during school assemblies.

(*Note: The male version, rendered by Arijit Singh, was three minutes and 43 seconds long.)

Mr Mahadevan was the Sing(h)er

Before I added the subject of this post to my collection, it had three songs from Kill/Dil, which released in 2014.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, it would be the first – it was titled Happy Budday (yes, that was how the word 'birthday’ was spelled).

And if they were arranged in the ascending order of their durations, it would be the second – it was four minutes and 29 seconds long.

Shankar Mahadevan composed the song with Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa.

And he sang it with Sukhwinder Singh.

Gulzar penned the track.

Khan (Fe)roz to the occasion

While everyone knows the actor and filmmaker Feroz Khan, only a few remember his namesake, who sang a song from a film that released in 2009 (which was, incidentally, the year the former passed away).

The song in question was Tapkey Masti, and it was the fifth song from London Dreams in my collection.

Adding this track to my playlist had been on my mind for a while, and that was precisely what I did.

It was written by Prasoon Joshi, and was composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.

The song was four minutes and 29 seconds long.

Mr Garg rendered this song

I watched the 2009 film London Dreams at the cinema with a couple of friends from school.

A few years later, when I was compiling my Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy playlist, I added three tracks from the film to it.

The subject of this post – titled Shola Shola – would have (Zu)been the fourth, if they were arranged in the alphabetical order.

And if they were arranged in the descending order of their durations, it would be the second – it was five minutes and 31 seconds long.

The song, which was penned by Prasoon Joshi, was a Garg solo.

(Pand)It was sung by Shaan

While the playlist was planned, I realised that the subject of this post would put Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Sameer, and the year 2003 in the same sentence again.

But let us take at the two differences between them.

Firstly, the song in question – Saari Saari Raina – was different.

It happened to be the only song from Nayee Padosan in my collection.

And the second difference was the duo who lent the track its voices.

(Pand)It was sung by Shweta and Shaan.

As far as the duration was concerned, the song was four minutes and 42 seconds long.

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The difference between the number of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy compositions in my collection and the next number divisible by 10 (190) was four.

Incidentally, the first of the new entries in my collection was from a film with a ‘mathematical’ title too.

I am talking about the third song from Ek Aur Ek Gyarah, which released in 2003.

In alphabetical order, it was the first – it was titled Beimaan Mohabbat.

Sameer wrote the song, which Shankar Mahadevan, Gayatri Iyer, and KK sang.

It was the shortest of the lot – it was four minutes and 51 seconds long.

Three male SinGerS sang this

Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai? released in 2002.

My collection contained just one song from the film.

It was titled Yaar Apne Ghar Jao.

I am sure many people were asking that question upon reading the names of the lyricist and the music directors in the credits.

While the songwriter was Javed Akhtar, the composers were Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, and Loy Mendonsa.

Mahadevan happened to be one of the three men who lent their voices to the track.

Kunal Ganjawala and Shaan were the others.

The song was four minutes and 22 seconds long.