1973 hit film *”Kahani Kismat Ki”
The film starred Dharmendra and Rekha. They were supported by Ajit, Rajendranath, Jayshree T, Sulochana, Shetty, Bharat Bhushan, Abhi Bhattacharya and Arjun Hingorani.
A cute song from 1973. Rekha, a raw teenager was an ugly duckling and an immature youngster at that time,who was not expected to go very far in Bollywood. She would later turn over a new leaf in 1978. But that was far off in the future. This movie was only her third movie, and here she was paired with a leading actor for the first time. Her earlier two heroes were debutants Navin Nischol and Randheer Kapoor.
The picturisation of the song shows Dharmendra, who has won over Rekha, expressing his love for her in a rather unsophisticated way, and that puts Rekha in an embarrasing position, when Dharmedra publicly announces that the girl standing next to him loves him for a long time. Words like this ensured that this “timepass” song became quite popular among lowbrow movie watchers and their radio listening counterparts.
And I, all of 7 years of age, was very much a proud member of the large group of movie hall front benchers who loved this song, especially Rekha’s embarrassed one liner ” Maine aisa to nahin kaha tha”.
Kishore Kumar has sung this song with great enthusiasm. He was a versatile singer as we all know and he got to sing a similar song in another movie for another set of actors in the same year, and that song is very much in my shortlist of songs for this blog.
Coming back to this song, Dharmendra, known for dancing with two left feet, is at his charming best, who looked a natural in sweeping girls off their feet with his charms. With some other actor, it may have looked like the guy was taking undue advantage of the girl, but with Dharmendra, it looked like he was just teasing the girl good naturedly and pulling her leg ( figuratively, of course) and the girl was also enjoying it, despite some half hearted protestations to the contrary.
Rajinder Krishan, known for writing some seriously memorable lyrics in his career, too joins in the fun and lets his hair down, coming up with lyrics that were a tapori’s dream. This also reminds me of a Tapori song of the same genre, written by Rajinder Krishan himself, in 1951. (Yes, this 1951 song is also in my scheme of things).
PS-Now I have come to know that the words “maine aisa to nahin kahaa thaa” are not uttered by Rekha, but by Usha Timothy. But Usha Timothy herself requested at that time not to be credited since she thought that she had just talked and not sung this song.
*"Rafta Rafta Dekho"* lyrics by Rajendra Krishan and composed by Kalyanji Anandji and sung by Kishore Kumar 🎤🎶🎵🎧
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