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Nasir Hussain's productions have always had music by R.D. Burman before Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988), barring his debut as producer, Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon, which had music by O.P.Nayyar, his 2nd production, Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai, which had music by Shankar Jaikishan, and Ni Sultana Re from Pyar Ka Mausam which is co-composed by R.D.Burman and percussionist Homi Mullan.
When young Mansoor Khan was to make his feature film debut, he decided to opt for relatively new composing duo Anand-Milind with whom he had worked for a Doordarshan tele-film starring Amole Gupte, called Umberto. Mansoor Khan also picked the relatively new Udit Narayan as the lead singer for Aamir Khan, and Udit had worked on Umberto too, incidentally.
By now, it is well-known that the soundtrack of Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak is one of the best-selling Bollywood soundtrack albums of the 1980s with more than 8 million soundtrack albums sold and was a breakthrough for the careers of Anand-Milind, Udit Narayan and record label T-Series. The film is filled with hugely successful songs and one of those songs happen to be 'Akele Hain To Kya Gum Hai'.
10 years before Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, an English instrumental rock group called The Shadows released their eleventh album, called Tasty (1977). The group is the fourth most successful act in the UK singles chart, behind Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and Cliff Richard. The album had a song called 'Return to the Alamo'.
And that, in my opinion, is one of the MOST heart-breaking discoveries of plagiarism in Indian film music. It is so blatant and bizarre that every time I tell people this, and play both songs back to back, their first reaction is, 'C'mon, that's someone playing the instrumental version of the Hindi song on stage somewhere!'.
Veteran Bollywood actor Aamir Khan got emotional at the song launch of Rajkummar Rao's upcoming biopic Srikanth. The entire team of the upcoming film attended the event where they launched Papa Kehte Hain 2.0. Naturally, Aamir Khan and singer Udit Narayan were also invited to the special event.
Talking about the song and his film, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Aamir Khan said, ''It's a song that started my career. It's certainly special. All of us were very new in that film (Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak). Humlog apna career shuru kar rahe the. So it was a very exciting journey. Uss wakt bilkul andaza nahi tha hum kamyaab honge yaa nahi honge. Aur jab bhi Mansoor aur main film dekhte the toh hamesha uski khamiyan nazar aati thi.''
He continued, ''Ek din film release ho gayi aur hamare haath se nikal gayi. It was very exciting to see the kind of love it got. Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak was a milestone in Indian cinema. It changed the whole sensibility of Indian cinema. From '88 you can see the shift happening and I think Mansoor was the first director to bring that about. So it was a very special film for me in every way.''
Srikanth star Rajkummar Rao also talked about the significance of the iconic song in his life. He recalled the time when he was only 18-years-old doing theatres. He would cycle all the way from Gurgaon to Delhi and would listen to a bunch of Bollywood songs to motivate him.
Papa Kehte Hain stuck a chord with him as he was determined to do something in his life and make his parents proud. Rajkummar Rao also praised Aamir Khan for being an inspiration and attending the event. Srikanth will be released on May 10, 2024.
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