#JiyaJale was the first time Lataji worked with ARR. Gulzar's imagery of a "wedding night" is poetry in motion ❤️ DYK -- ARR inserted Malayalam chorus between antras & asked Gulzar to translate in Hindi. But Gulzar found it too beautiful & asked him to retain it I'm still in awe of these lines! ----- #DilSe (1998) #ARRahman #Gulzar #GireeshPuthenchery #LataMangeshkar #PreityZinta #ShahRukhKhan
@mimansashekhar Preity Zinta was top league Bollywood actress that time which culminated into her winning Filmfare Best Actress award for Kal Ho Na Ho..
@mimansashekhar When arr had approached her to sing choti si asha. She had rejected it cos of a newcomer. And for jiya jale things turned upside down.
@mimansashekhar Inside Man used Chaiya Chaiyya in its entirety during the opening credits. A Spike Lee film starring Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster
@mimansashekhar But Lata Mangeshkar's voice was on the downhill at this point of time.
@mimansashekhar From what I heard, it was #ManiRatnam who did it. It was not the first time he did this. Lyricist Mehboob said in an interview that when he wrote "Gum Sum Gum Sum Gup Chup" part of "Kehna Hi Kya" (Bombay), Mani sir loved it and kept it in all languages. youtu.be/HlcgrMPHLd4?si…