Aaj Unse Pehli Mulaqat Hogi..Song Review

Let’s start the day and week with Rajendra Bhatia’s 1971 drama film *”Paraya Dhan”* directed by Rajendra Bhatia. 

The film starred Rakesh Roshan and Hema Malini. They were supported by Balraj Sahni, Achala Sachdev, Abhi Bhattacharya, Ajit, Jayshree T and Om Prakash. 

Film.was shoot at Kullu Manalai and captures it beautifully.

Film.consist of fresh pairing of Rakesh Roshan and Hema Malini.. they both looked stunning together.By the time of its release Hema was already a big star thanks to Johny Mera Naam...while Rakesh was new commer with just one release Ghar Ghar ki Kahani..

One of.the under rated movie of bollywood....film excels.in all department be it story, performance, music, art direction....Movie was ahead of its tiime

Today’s  song is about one  eligible bachelor from a liberated family who is going to see his would be bride for the first time. Unlike in real life, he is going alone, and not with his parents. Other than that, his feelings are very much life like. I can fully empathise with his feelings of expectancy. He is also imagining what must be going through the mind of the girl who too must be waiting to see him.

This is a wonderful situation for a movie and a song. I always wondered how one can express the feelings of a would be groom going to meet his would be bride for the first time. Ordinary less coherent janta would just say ” man me laddoo phoot rahe honge”, but Anand Bakshi very coherently describes the feelings that one goes through in a situation like this.

Kishore Kumar sings this song with passion, as was his wont. If you get involved in listening to this song, then you would imagine the scenario described above and may not even notice the music. And that in fact speaks of the quality of the music of R D Burman, which, like the parents of the boy and girl, discreetly keeps to the background and allow the couple some time alone.

It is quite a lovely song to listen to. All the songs from “Paraya Dhan”, though quite popular, did not come anywhere in the popularity stakes, because 1971 was a year that saw a bumper crop of a huge number of outstanding songs and this song failed to appear in the Binaca geetmala finals of 1971.

Aaj Unse Pehli Mulaqat Hogi from Paraya Dhan .R.D. Burman had used the tune of this song earlier for a background music theme he had scored for the film "Pyar Ka Mausam" (1969). The theme music had Hariprasad Chaurasia playing the flute and Shivkumar Sharma playing the santoor and was used in a picnic scene featuring Shashi Kapoor and Asha Parekh.

*"Aaj Unse Pehli Mulaqat Hogi"* lyrics by Anand Bakshi, composed by R D Burman and sung by Kishore Kumar 🎤🎶🎵🎧