CB’s article in his column, Jeevant Panth” on page 14 of last week’s Gujarat Samachar took me down Memory Lane. How, while at Poona University, we used to bunk lectures and spend the afternoons watching Hindi films at one of the 28 or so cinema theatres. “Phir Subah Hogi” starring Raj Kapoor and Mala sinha was one of these memorable films. Like all Raj Kapoor starrer films, it has a message for the masses, providing dreams for better days – something to live for!
This kind of unforgetable songs are very few and far between. Nowadays, the songs have no meaning and have a short lifespan, while the old songs have etched an indelible mark on me which will not be blotted for years to come. They still linger on the mind even after fifty or sixty years. My thanks to CB for refreshing the memory with memorable songs. His previous such endeavour which flooded the mind with pealsurable memories was the “Chhoopi Hain Kahan” song of the Shantaram directed film Navrang.
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford
