Sapna sang it with Sanu

When I began writing this post, it was 11:30pm on a Monday night.

Therefore, although the song in question was Sunday Ki Raat Thi, it would not be incorrect to state that the post was almost 24 hours late (but as the saying goes, it’s better late than never).

It was the only song from Rajaji (1999) in my collection.

Kumar Sanu was one of the two people who sang it.

He was joined behind the microphone for the track by Sapna Mukherjee.

It was written by Sameer, and composed by the Shrivastav brothers, Anand-Milind.

They could not be SHUSHed

If you have a precocious toddler at home, and want to teach him the English alphabet, please avoid A B C D E F G H I – the song from the 1999 film Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United – at all costs.

The song wasn’t just appalling, but also inspired (by Porque tu vas, the 1974 song by the Spanish singer Jeanette).

(Ud)It was sung by Narayan, Hema Sardesai, Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, and Saif Ali Khan (one of the film’s leads).

Mitali Shashank wrote the Raamlaxman composition, which was four minutes and 32 seconds long.

Narayan and Rathod rendered it

Heeralal Pannalal released in 1999.

My collection contains just one song from the film.

It was titled Ekka Dukka Tiya Du, and it happened to be the title track of the film.

The two men who lent their voices to the song were Udit Narayan and Vinod Rathod.

Incidentally, they were the voices of the soundtrack.

The song was picturised on the titular characters, Heeralal (Mithun Chakraborty) and Pannalal (Johnny Lever), and its title was their takiya kalaam*.

Shaheen Iqbal wrote the Anand Raaj Anand composition.

(*Note: Takiya kalaam is the Urdu word for, “Catchphrase”)

It was S(an)ung by Sathe

Yugpurush released in 1998.

My collection contains just one song from the film.

It was titled Chale Hum Do Jaa Sair Ko.

The song could be translated to, “The two of us have gone for a walk”, and it was five minutes and 53 seconds long.

Ravindra Sathe was the voice of the soundtrack, and one of the two men who lent his voice to the track.

The other was the one and only Kumar Sanu.

It was the only duet in the film.

The track, which Majrooh Sultanpuri wrote, was composed by Rajesh Roshan.

Abhijeet got no paternal nod

The first thing that would come to one’s mind upon reading the phrase Tirchhi Topiwale is the song from Tridev (1989).

But in 1998, a film of that name released.

My collection contains just one song from the film.

And it was a track that both youngsters and their fathers would relate to.

It was titled Daddy Mera Bada Pareshan.

Of course, neither a youngster nor his dad would admit to listening to the Abhijeet Bhattacharya solo.

The song was written by Anand Bakshi, and composed by his (first and last) namesake, Anand Raaj Anand.

It certAINlY deserved more popularity

India is the land of festivals.

And while Holi is the ultimate favourite of them all as far as Hindi film songs are concerned, there have occasionally been depictions of other occasions.

But all of them are reasons for songs.

And Chand Nazar Aa Gaya – the only song from Hero Hindustani (1998) in my collection – was a track in which Eid was celebrated (as the title suggests).

Alka Yagnik and Sonu Nigam were joined behind the microphone for it by Afzal and Iqbal.

Gauhar Kanpuri wrote the Anu Malik composition, which certainly deserved more popularity.

Sanu’s solo completed the soundtrack

Duplicate released in 1998.

With the addition of Wah Ji Wah (which happened to be the sixth song from the film in my collection), it completed the film’s soundtrack.

If they were arranged in the alphabetical order, the Kumar Sanu solo would be the last.

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

Javed Akhtar wrote the song, which was about food, because one of Shahrukh Khan’s characters in the film was a chef.

Anu Malik composed it.