Jinhe Naaz Hai Hind Par

Very few songs when remade retain quality. the old one from Pyasa was a generation defining song. 1957 was the year, the movie released. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyaasa

Music of the movie is breathtaking (understatement??). Every song still has a cult status. now to take this song is quite a courage (except that Himesh takes it). I can go on with the things why i am such a big fan of Gurudutt. kaagaz ke phool is rated the best by Amitabh Bacchhan and me and my cousin. (a wiki fact Rajendra Prasad, president that time, came out of movie deeply offended) leave that. leave that. but this song was the manifestation of the anger and disappointment post freedom. 

When Rabbi plays Jan-Gan-Man in backdrop of the song, each cell of the skin starts reacting. astonishing video. in 2002 or 3 , i started reading Indian Express. it had some good cricket related columns and had excellent match reports. one day, on the front page(finally the front page), a news related to Satyendra Dubey was given. Golden-Quad project of Vajpeyee Govt was in much news. it turned out to me that the paper was infact running a story(series) (in box) with daily updates and was taking the whole follow up of the case. i checked other papers(HT, ToI,Hindu, and one more i am able to recall in hostel), the news was almost absent. it took almost a month for other papers(or maybe the issue was hotting up). and within 2 or 3 monthes there was the case of Monu at lakhimpur kheri in UP. the newspaper was following up passionately. since then, i am reading this paper. i remember when i was staying in Indirapuram, one retired Military man saw me with the paper. he came to me and said hey no one from your generation reads this paper(complimented me). it has agin gone to some wrong direction.

rabbi has done pretty bad with chhalla. which is (or form) also the cult. it lacks the energy that Gurdas mann had put into this song. but this is forgiven from me as this song jinhe naaz hai hind par, i am falling in love with.

some fool had rated the music of Delhi Heights poor in HT. Rabbi is one of the finest artists. Music and Lyrics a lot of people talk about. Somehow i liked tere bin more than Bulla ki jana main kon. maybe the wadali bro effect. it just doesn't get off head. there is distinct chill in his voice. no one arround sings like him. absolutely no one. 

problem is that the chill that made this song jinhe naaz hai super class act, messed the chhalla.

still hats off.. he sung it better than me.