Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Dey’s philosophical number was simple

Life is a riddle. Sometimes it makes you laugh, and sometimes it makes you cry.

That was what Manna Dey conveyed – in the far-from-puzzling words of Yogesh* – in Anand.

The song, of course, was the philosophical Zindagi Kaisi Hai Paheli.

There’s no two ways about the fact that his sigh – the Haaye at the end of the opening line of the song – was its highlight.

Three-and-a-half minutes long, it was composed by Salil Choudhury.

(*Note: Although he was mononymously credited, Yogesh’s last name, aptly, was Gaur, which means attention. The listeners certainly paid him that.)

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