Asha’s prize song that wasn’t filmed

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New Delhi: Well known playback singer Asha Bhosle won the Filmfare best singer award of 1974 for a song that did not figure in a film at all!
The award was for “Chain se hum ko kabhi aap ne jeene na diyaa”, the last song she sang for composer O P Nayyar which was supposed to be picturised in Pran Jaye Par Vachan Na Jaye but was not done.
This interesting fact figures in music historian Raju Bharatan’s new book “Asha Bhosle: A Musical Biography”, published by Hay House.
Also soon after her marriage to Bhosle, Asha wanted to give up singing and just be a housewife.
“All that I sought, was to keep house and play the mother to my first-born: Hemant. But my husband would not hearof my giving up the mike. He forced me to continue singing. Left to myself, I would have definitely quit,” the author quotes Asha as saying.
On the Filmfare Award thing, he says, “In fact I don’t think that this feat of hers has been matched by any singer in the world.”
He terms the song as a torch song recorded as we were set to move into the Asha-OP ‘cut-off’ month of August 1972.
The song, penned by S H Bihari, was first played in November 1973 on Radio Ceylon and the film which was supposed to picturise it was released January 18, 1974. pti