Song of the Day🌹

Let’s start the day with Mohan Kumar’s 1964 romantic drama film *”Aap Ki Parchhaiyan”* written & directed by Mohan Kumar. 

The film starred Dharmendra and Sushila Choudhury. They were supported by Shashikala, Suresh, Vijyalaxmi, Leela Chitnis, Nazir Hussain, Manorama, Mumtaz Begum and Om Prakash. 

“Aapki Parchhaayian” (1964), like “Anpadh” (1962) was one movie that enhanced Madan Mohan’s repulation as being the ghazal king of Bollywood music world. In both these movies Raja Mehdi Ali Khan was the lyricist who penned some unforgettable songs.

Here is one such song from the film. It is sung by Rafi. It is picturised on Dharmendra and Supriya Chaudhary.

Dharmendra needs no introduction, but who is Supriya Chaudhary ? Is she a one movie wonder ? Some search told me that she was also the heroine in “Begaana” (1963) opposite Dharmendra and in “Door Gagan ki Chhaon Mein” opposite Kishore Kumar. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. She is a major star is Bangla movies and she formeda lead pair with Uttam Kumar in Bangla movies in 1960s and 1970s. I recall now that the town where I was growing up had one movie hall that often showed Bangla movies and the publicity of this movie ( as was the case those days) was done by a person seated in a rickshaw distributing pamplets and making announcement about the movie. All these Bangla movies had the same lead cast viz Uttam KUmar and Supriya Chaudhary. Listeneing to this publicity, I thought that Uttam Kumar and Supriya Chaudhary were the only actors in Bangla movies those days. 

*"Main Nigahein Tere Chehre Se"* lyrics by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, composed by Madan Mohan and sung by Mohammed Rafi 🎤🎵🎶🎧