![]() Ravi, who also debuted around the same time, gave some very popular songs in the late fifties, but he achieved raving fame with Chaudahvin Ka Chaand (1960), and soon broke into the top rung in a very crowded field. Chalo ek baar phir se ajanabi ban jayen hum dono from Gumrah, composed by Ravi, is to my mind the apogee of Mahendra Kapur’s singing. Thus you have fabulous Mahendra Kapur songs in films like Dhool Ka Phool (1959), Dharmputra (1961), Gumrah (1963), Waqt (1965), Humraaz (1967), Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969) etc. ![]() ![]() Except Naya Daur (1957), composed by OP Nayyar, you do not come across many Rafi songs in a BR Chopra movie. Mahendra Kapur was lucky that he became the favourite singer of BR Chopra movies, who seemed to have something against Rafi. The best known case is of CH Atma, who was such a perfect copy of KL Saigal that throughout his entire career he remained stuck in that groove, so much so that if you are not an initiate, his songs have to be played with the caveat that it is not the voice of Saigal. That can be a great handicap the world of film music is replete with the tragedies of clones not being able to come out of the shadow of the original star. Mahendra Kapur, who came to the film world through a singing talent competition in the late fifties, was seen as a Rafi clone. If ever there was a song that could be described as the defining song of a singer, Mahendra Kapur’s Chalo ek baar phir se ajanabi ban jayen hum dono is one such song. Chalo ek baar phir se ajanabi ban jayen hum dono ![]()
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