It is well known that language is no barrier for music lovers and this inner create urge to expand the horizons to all corners, composers of beautiful tunes have not only created memorable songs for posterity but also ensured legion of ardent fans derive joy of the composition in their own language.
‘Borne Gondhe Chande Gitite…’ is a vintage super hit romantic song that Bengalis who follow classics in musical numbers of 1960-70s, often sing. The singer was the composer & musical genius, legendary SD Burman also known as ‘Dada Burman’ of Bengali and Hindi film world. As the amazing story goes, the lyrics of this song were written by none other than Mira Dev Burman, very gifted better half of Dada and that SD had composed this evergreen song as a ‘Pujor Sankha’ in his music album released in 1969 !
Later Dada, a ‘Navketan’ favourite was composing music for Dev Anand’s film ‘Prem Pujari’ (1970) and used the basic tune of ‘Borne Gondhe..’ to create an equally beautiful song which was suitably modified to suit Dev’s suave persona. In keeping with tradition already set earlier, the playback for the song for Dev came from Kishore Kumar, who memorably rendered it with his incomparable flavor of romance, nostalgia and hope ! Today, the song ‘Phoolon Ke Rang Se..’ is as fresh & uplifting as it was 54 years ago !
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