QUOTE(bigger_than_bollywood @ May 21 2006, 01:36 AM)
Ye chai chai kya hai, ye chai chai?
Upload karo na please, I havent heard it.
It is attached to this post.
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Priya, the song youre referring to is "Man madir main preet ka dora" from the
film ???. Lata sings for Mala Sinha who plays the "souten" and Asha for Aruna
Irani who plays the "wife" (of bachchan senior). I think the way they did it was
that Lata would sing for the bigger star and Asha for the sidekick, regardless of
the roles.
Nimmi, thanx for pointing out that "Sanjog" is the same as "Iru koDugaL". If so,
Mala Sinha is not really the "souten". She is actually the wife, who the husband
assumes has died and ends up marrying the second woman. In the Tamil version
at least, a lot of the sympathies are with the "souten" (played by Sowcar Janaki
in Tamil) while the "wife" (played by Jamuna) is the whiny character. The film
used to be one that I liked a lot. Have not seen it in years.
But coming back to what you were saying Manoneet, Lata always ended up
singing for the virtuous heroine while Asha got the "other" woman. Even in "Sharda",
Asha sings for Shyama who is the girlfriend, while Lata sings for Meena Kumari,
who is the ex-girlfriend who has now become his step-mother (yes it was a strange
story). And sure enough Lata sings for the goodie-goodie one who says "O chaand
jahaaN woh jaayeN tu bhi saath chale jaana, kaise haiN kahaaN haiN woh, har raat
khabar laana". Tell him nothing about how I feel, just let him be happy.
While Asha's character goes on about her aaheN and her baaheN and her nigaaheN
and how she wants him and needs him. Selfish woman.
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I think Lata-Asha duets fall into 2 major categories - 1. where they sing back to
back (like the o chand jahan wo jayen track), and 2. where the lines cross (like
man kyun behka, etc.). Both bring out different elements of their interaction,
esp. the competition. For example, in the song "mere mehboob main kya nahin",
apparently Latabai noticed the way Asha was singing "woh to laakhon main hain
ek haseen" and then copied it in the final take. She uses the harkat first in the
recorded song.
When the sisters sang together, there was intense competition since they were
each the leaders in the field. In the interview, I like the way Asha says "my goal
was to be at least as good, not better". I am sure the reality was not quite so
"noble".
Till much later in her career, Asha never really got the position that she deserved.
So many subtleties led to that such as the choices of songs she got, her inability to
drive her own career (Bhonsle completely controlled that), and most important, the
serious problems she faced in her own life. Bhonsle was an abusive husband and
as long as she was married to him, she never managed a single rupee that she made.
In fact, through the 50s, she barely knew how much money she commanded or how
famous she was. She was driven to the studios, sang, came back home, got beaten
a bit and basically kept house. I believe that till she left her husband, she never even
had help in the house and did all the house-work.
When she left Bhonsle, all she had was the clothes on her back, 2 children (pregnant
with the third) and that was it. She re-built herself completely after that.
One sees none of this real-life tragedy in her music.
well listen to the interview. All she wants is one song with that Legend, and says RD was his fan too
Main abhi mayoos ho rahi thi ki kaise sunoongi.
Now I need to reduce that 
I dont know if there is another one tho!! 
what u say 
