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This film had some melodious songs, and the lines, “Tu hi re, tu hi re, tere bina main
provided a big boost for Udit Narayan’s kaise jeeyoon, aaja re, aaja re, yun hi tadpa
career. Here, he was joined by Alka Yagnik na tu mujhko”.
on Anand-Milind’s tune. Majrooh wrote,
“Ae mere humsafar, ek zara intezaar, sun 20 Kuch Kuch Hota Hai - Kuch Kuch
sadayein de rahi hai, manzil pyar ki”. Hota Hai (1998)
19 Tu Hi Re - Bombay (1995)
Alka Yagnik sang for both Kajol and Rani
Mukherjee, and Udit Narayan sang for
Already a big name in Tamil cinema, AR Shah Rukh Khan. Sameer’s lines “Kya
Rahman made a presence in Hindi films karoon haaye kuch kuch hota hai” were
through the songs of Roja and Bombay. hummed all over. Jatin-Lalit provided the
‘Tu Hi Re’ was a duet by Hariharan and music, and the song symbolised the sound
Kavita Krishmurthy. Mehboob began with of the late 1990s.
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positive, he’s being deported soon,’’ said match at St Kitts where I had my first
the journalist, who had a room in the same view of Brian Lara. But more significant
wing. was a meeting with Dr Jamie Astaphan,
We tailed Johnson to the airport, but Ben Johnson’s doctor. It was alleged that
Canadian officials made it impossible to get Astaphan had pumped Johnson with
access to the sprinter. In a couple of hours, stanozolol. When I asked him of this,
Johnson was flown out of Seoul, stripped Astaphan didn’t deny the charge outright,
off his gold medal, suspended by the but averred that the biggest culprits were
International Athletic body and consigned the Americans. “They just mask their drugs
to life in disgrace. Lewis was upgraded better,” he argued.
from silver to gold medal, his second in two There was no way of knowing the truth
successive Olympics. value of Astaphan’s claim, one way or
Postscript: A year later in 1989 I was the other. What I had, irrespective, was
touring the West Indies with the Indian something that journalists would give an
cricket team. There was a three-day arm and a leg for. A scoop.
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