Sunday 8 April 2007

Rahul Dev Burman: Hum Kisise Kum Naheen (1977)

8.4.07    14 comments

Hum Kisise Kum Naheen

In which R.D. Burman goes mental. 'Hum Kisise Kum Naheen' [review] is where he throws in everything and the kitchen sink... chase-funk, sweet pop, weird keyboards, shouting, stabbing horns, rock 'n' roll guitars, a cheeky rip-off from Abba's 'Mamma Mia'... and that's just the 10-minute medley that starts the album off. Elsewhere there's 'Bachna Ae Haseeno' with its Hammond (I think) organ and electric piano intro, spacey trumpets and frenetic guitars, 'Kya Hua Tera Wada' which almost has a reggae feel to it plus a violin solo, and 'Yeh Ladki Hai Allah' which starts off like a Sun Ra moog piece, before turning into the loveliest of bossa-tinged pop songs. Totally bonkers, amazingly fun.

Track listing:
1. Mohd. Rafi & Chorus: Chand Mera Dil
    Kishore Kumar & Chorus: Ah Dil Kya Mahfil Hai
    R.D. Burman: Tum Kya Jaano
    Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar & Chorus: Mil Gaya Ham Ko Saathi
2. Mohd. Rafi, Asha Bhosle & Chorus: Hum Kisise Kum Naheen (Qawwali)
3. Kishore Kumar & Chorus: Bachna Ae Haseeno
4. Mohd. Rafi & Sushama Shreshtha: Kya Hua Tera Wada
5. Asha Bhosle & Mohd. Rafi: Yeh Ladka Hai Allah
6. Kishore Kumar & Asha Bhosle: Hum Ko To Yaara Teri Yari

14 comments:

  1. Jeff9 April 2007 at 00:02:00 CEST

    haha! Great - this is a totally insane movie too! Thanks!

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  2. THXjay9 April 2007 at 08:12:00 CEST

    Being quite new to Asian film soundtracks, I'm guessing that Rahul Dev Burman is the Indian Andrew Lloyd Webber (only a bit cooler)
    Where would Bollywood (or is it Mumbaiwood these days) be without him:)

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  3. Anonymous11 April 2007 at 10:23:00 CEST

    Bought this lp in India, but the quality of the lp sucked. Thanks for posting this!

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  4. Anonymous7 August 2007 at 15:03:00 CEST

    Hye, any chance you can re-up this. I'm gutted to have missed! Thnx

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  5. PC7 August 2007 at 15:17:00 CEST

    Re-uping and new posts will commence next week I hope.
    PC x

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  6. Anonymous21 August 2007 at 14:54:00 CEST

    Hi, any chance that it will be re-posted then? Many thanks

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  7. PC21 August 2007 at 15:29:00 CEST

    It's back up :-)
    PC x

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  8. Anonymous21 August 2007 at 17:54:00 CEST

    thanks alot!

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  9. Anonymous6 September 2007 at 01:48:00 CEST

    Thanks very much - It's a great one!

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  10. Anonymous6 September 2007 at 02:09:00 CEST

    this is actually a link for Hare Rama Hare Krishna - I've put it on that blog

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  11. PC13 September 2007 at 01:17:00 CEST

    Oops! Correct DL:
    http://lix.in/db708a

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  12. Anonymous13 September 2007 at 12:53:00 CEST

    thanx !!

    what about these :

    between parenthesis are extracts of reviews i found...

    JEWEL THIEF, S.D. & R.D. BURMAN
    (60's mod crime-jazz soundtrack Includes a monstrous instrumental crime-jazz track in 60's style)
    GUMNAAM, SHANKAR JAIKISHAN (EMI INDIA. 1969)
    (Shankar Jaikishan, the unchallenged kings of 1960s Indian R&B)
    SACHAA JHUTHA, KALYANJI ANANDJI (POLYDOR, 1970)
    (rock ‘n’ roll, Bollywood-style)
    KARATE, BAPPI LAHIRI (EMI INDIA, 1983)
    (Bond-meets-Bruce Lee-meets- Blaxploitation)

    all the best (& more....!)

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  13. PC13 September 2007 at 12:55:00 CEST

    With the exception of Karate which I don't have, all of the above will be forthcoming :-)
    PC x

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  14. Anonymous5 March 2008 at 00:10:00 CET

    Watched the film this weekend, and the visuals match the music perfectly! :-) Am glad to have the beautiful qawwali, it's not included on the CD or anywhere else that I've found.

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