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Take a Sad Song, and Make it Better

6 Sham-e-Gham Ki Kasam – Footpath, 1953

When it came to sad songs, singer Talat Mahmood was king. This tune, composed by Khayyam and written by Ali Sardar Jafri, is picturised on Dilip Kumar, and talks of the agony of waiting through the lines “Aa bhi jaa, aa bhi jaa, mere sanam”.

Narendra Kusnur
Narendra Kusnur
Narendra Kusnur is one of India’s best known music journalists. Born with a musical spoon, so to speak, Naren, who dubs himself Kaansen, is a late bloomer in music criticism. He was (is!) an aficionado first, and then strayed into writing on music. But in the last two decades, he has made up for most of what he didn’t do earlier.

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