Song Review

Let’s start the day with Dilip Dhawan’s 1982 drama film *”Saath Saath”* written and directed by Raman Kumar. 

The film starred Farooq Shaikh and Deepti Naval. They were supported by Satish Shah, Rakesh Bedi, Neena Gupta, Avtar Gill, A K Hangal, Sudha Chopra, Geeta Kak and Anjan Srivastav. 

In 1970s and 1980s, small budget movies began to be produced which told the stories of boys and girls next door rather than the usual make believe stories that had little resemblance to reality.

Many actors in the film had their screen names same as their original names.

In 1970s, Amol Palekar and Vidhya Sinha were the biggest “stars” of such movies. In 1980s, Faarooque Sheikh and Dipti Nawal became the leading “stars” of such movies.

One pleasant fact of such movies was that the music of these movies tended to be very nice that would touch the heart strings of the audiences.

Here is a party song. Farooq Shaikh and Dipti Naval play a lower middle class couple, whose relationship is strained, but they are trying to put up a facade of normalcy in front of their acquaintances at a party. In the party, a reluctant Dipti Nawal is asked to sing a song and Farooq Shaikh, who otherwise is not on speaking terms with her, is forced to request her to sing a song.

This song, sung by Chitra Singh and picturised on Dipti Nawal is written by Javed Akhtar and music is composed by Kuldeep Singh. The lyrics express the feelings of Dipti Nawal amazingly well.

One can see Satish Shah, Neena Gupta, Javed Khan etc, who were then newcomers finding their feet in the industry. It is interesting to see how young and slim they all looked those days, unlike how they look today.

*"Yu Zindagi Ki Raah Mein"* lyrics by Javed Akhtar, composed by Kuldeep Singh and sung by Chitra Singh 🎤🎵🎶🎧