P is the boss of Hindi songs of eighties and nineties. There is not a song of that era that he doesn't have info on. By contrast, they hardly existed as far as I was concerned. The only Hindi songs I heard were played in buses or public programmes or rarely on Vividh Bharti, when my father was late to come home(I remember the excitement). I compensated to a degree in college but my collection is very selective and my favourites are more from the seventies and before.
But if there is one song that both of us remember vividly, it is Hawa Hawa by Hasan Jahangir. Late eighties and early nineties must've been some of the most divisive in India but if there was one thing that united us, it must've been this song by a Pakistani. It was everywhere irrespective of the occasion. And though now I wonder why it was so popular, I can't think of the song without remembering the fanfare around it those days.
But if there is one song that both of us remember vividly, it is Hawa Hawa by Hasan Jahangir. Late eighties and early nineties must've been some of the most divisive in India but if there was one thing that united us, it must've been this song by a Pakistani. It was everywhere irrespective of the occasion. And though now I wonder why it was so popular, I can't think of the song without remembering the fanfare around it those days.
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