It was the title trAcK

Silsila Hai Pyaar Ka released in 1999.

My collection contained three versions of the film’s title track – Yeh Silsila Hai Pyaar Ka.

Of course, my collection contains just one of them.

It was four minutes and 35 seconds long, and was a duet (rendered by Alka Yagnik and Kumar Sanu).

Unbelievable but true, the shortest of the lot was just 29 seconds long.

It was a sad version, and it was a Yagnik solo.

And the instrumental version of the song was four minutes and 13 seconds long.

Sameer wrote the song, which Jatin-Lalit composed.

Two ladies rendered this trAcK

On October 16, 1999, a film titled Mother released.

As hard as it was to picture Rekha essay the titular role, I remember the subject of this post being aired on television on numerous occasions at that point.

It was titled Mother Mother.

And as the song’s title states, it was the film’s title track.

Anuradha Paudwal and Kavita Krishnamurthy lent their voices to the song.

The track, which was written by Sameer Anjaan, was composed by Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen.

Interestingly, Saawaan Kumar Tak – who was a lyricist himself – wrote, directed, and produced the film.

It was their ‘Soldier’ hAt-tricK

Soldier released in 1998.

My collection contained five tracks from the film, including the subject of this post.

It was titled Mere Dil Jigar Se.

It was actually a double hat-trick.

Firstly, it was the third song from the film in my collection that began with the letter ‘M’ (and the third, if they were arranged in the alphabetical order).

And secondly, it completed the hat-trick of Alka Yagnik-Kumar Sanu duets in the film.

The song was written by Sameer Anjaan, and was composed by Anu Malik.

It was five minutes and 32 seconds long.

(Ud)It was sung by Kavita

The subject of this post was another track I remembered from watching its promos on television.

The song in question was Maharaja Ki Kahani.

And it was the title track of Maharaja, which released in 1998.

The two people who lent their voices to it were Kavita Krishnamurthy and Udit Narayan, the other two prominent voices of the 1990s.

While the former was the voice of the soundtrack, the latter rendered both the versions of the film’s title track.

The song was written by Sameer Anjaan.

Nadeem Akhtar Saifi and Shravan Kumar Rathod composed it.

This was an underrated (Sa)number

My collection contains a couple of tracks from the 1997 film Tamanna, including the subject of this post.

The track in question was Yeh Aaine Jo Tumhe.

The man who lent his voice to it was the one and only Kumar Sanu.

By no means would it be incorrect to state that the song, which was written by Indeevar, and composed by Anu Malik, was underrated.

In fact, I recently heard this song during a radio show featuring Malik, which happened to be one of the videos on the YouTube channel of an FM station.

Mr Anand wAS the all-rounder

I remember watching the subject of this post on television.

And recently, for no reason, I looked a Hindi phrase up – which was in a line of that track – online.

The phrase in question was “Maikhane ki chaabi” (which means, “The keys to the bar”).

And the song was Humko Hone De Sharabi.

It was the only track from Koi Kisise Kum Nahin (which released in 1997) in my collection.

Anand Raaj Anand did not write and compose it, but he sang it too.

Kumar Sanu and Abhijeet joined him behind the microphone for it.

Ms Sargam sang thiS(a)number too

The subject of this post was a song that completed the Sonali Bendre hat-trick on this blog.

It was titled Kaajal Kaajal, and it happened to be the only song from the 1996 film Sapoot in my collection.

Although the film’s soundtrack contained a couple of versions of the song, my collection contains just one – the one sung by Sadhana Sargam and Kumar Sanu.

It was written by Dev Kohli, and composed by Anu Malik.

This was another song that was on the playlist of Bendre songs on the FM interview I watched on YouTube.