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Melody Kicks From Forgotten Flicks: Vol. 6

Monday, November 19th, 2012

Ab E Hayat

A composer who has composed over 600 songs to his credit as a music director is unfortunately known by his son’s name and fame. That is the sad story of the life of Sardar Malik! He became the completely innocent victim of an argument between a famous lyricist and an even more famous playback singer during recording of a song. This cost him his career. After this he received only B grade films and spent the rest of his life teaching music.

Sardar Malik began his career with the film Raaz (1949) but Geeta Dutt sang for him only as late as in 1955. She had three heavily chorus based fast paced songs for the fantasy film Ab-E-Hayat (1955). All of them are quite popular and one or other song from this film does make an entry on almost every CD compilation of Geeta Dutt.

This was a costume drama film starring Premnath with Shashikala, Ameeta, Helen and Smriti Biswas. The most popular song of the film was sung by Hemantda (Main gareebon ka dil). Let us enjoy three songs sung by Geeta ji, filmed on a different actress for each song.

1) Jhuk jhuk jaaye:

Song filmed on Amita –

2) Maara re maaara woh maara

Club style song filmed on Helen –

3) Meraa dil meri jaan chaahe le le

Another club style song filmed on Smriti Biswas