Vinay Jain has been organizing a "Surveykshan" for a while. Its a nice little exercise where music lovers list out their favorite soundtracks and songs by the great music directors. Such surveys have happened on Salil Chowdhury, S.D.Burman, Naushad etc. and now, its the turn of Anilda himself.
Some RMIM-ers opined that selecting 15 soundtracks for Anilda is a problem of shortage whereas 15 songs is a problem of plenty. Opinions of course differ from person to person. I had a hard time selecting 15 tracks of Shankar Jaikishan for example which a few found amazing. To me, a great soundtrack isone where at least 60% of the songs are great and a soundtrack becomes desert-island worthy when that percentage nuber becomes 90. In my opinion, Anilda has plenty of great soundtracks, but perhaps not too many desert-island ones. But thats equally true of all composers. Note that the emphasis is on the word "great" here and not just "good".
Take "Aaraam" for example. The great songs in this track are "man me kisii kii priit basaa le", "ae jaane jigar" and "mil mil ke bichhaD gaye nain". "baalamavaa naadaan", "shukriyaa ae pyaar teraa" and "ujaDii re mere pyar kii" are good songs while "zindagii hai yo yo" and "ruuThaa huaa chandaa hai" are average. So "Aaraam" may not necessarily be a desrt-island soundtrack (of course, it becomes one for me simply because I cannot survive without 'man me kisii kii' :)). On the other hand, "Taraanaa", "Anokhaa pyaar" and "Milan" are definitely desert-island worthy tracks.
Anyway, the purpose is to select 15 favorite soundtracks and I hit on the below list:
Aakaash - "bhiigii bhiigii raat aaii", "ab is mar mar ke", "so gaii chaandni", "mere dil ke giit chup the"
Aaraam - listed already
Anokhaa pyaar - all the songs
Basant - all the songs
Chhoti chhoti baaten - again, all the songs
Fareb - "aa mohobbat ki bastii", "udaasiyo.n me nazar", "husn bhii hai udaas udaas"
Gajre - "rah rah ke", "duur papiihaa bolaa", "riitam teraa meraa", "baras baras", "ghar yahaa.N"
Hamdard - all the songs
Jalti nishaani - "ruuTh ke tum to", "dil hai beqaraar", "kah rahii hai", "aaj bharii mehafil", "jalane lagaa"
Kismat - all songs
Maan - "mere pyaar me tujhe", "guazaraa huaa", "kah do ki", "dam bhar kaa", "allaah bhii hai"
Milan - all songs
Naaz - all songs
Taraanaa - all songs
Waaris - "raahii matavaale", "duur hote nahii", "kabhii hai Gam", "gazab kiyaa"
As many as 8 of these 15 soundtracks meet my criteria for a desert-island track. You may partly attribute this in part to my own partiality for the man's music. But I hope that I have created sufficient curiosity for you to venture into the wondrously melodious world of Anil Biswas' music
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