"Phoolon Ka Taaron Ka" - Kishore Kumar

This song again takes me to the early childhood days in Faridabad. One fine evening me and my younger brother were studying in the sitting room when at around 8 in the evening, Baba came home. He was late to return from office since in the afternoon he had gone to Delhi (just an hours drive from Faridabad) with some work. When he entered, we both the brothers saw a shopping bag kind of a stuff in his hand and we were naturally curious to see what was in it. Both of us dashed from our study table to snatch it from his hand to see what was in side. What he pulled out was for a second not something very appealing to us. It was a bunch of 45 r.p.m.music records. In the whole lot there was one album which drew our attention. The album of the movie Hare Rama Hare Krishna. Since the rest were all bengali records, we were more interested in listening to this movie stuff.

The album had four songs. Side A had Phoolon Ka Taaron Ka by Kishore kumar and Kanchi Re Kanchi Re by Kishore Kumar & Lata Mangeshkar. The side B had two more songs Dum Maro Dum by Usha Iyer (today's Usha Uthup) and again the female version of Phoolon Ka Taaron Ka by Lata Mangeshkar. My favorite number of that album was Phoolon Ka Taaron Ka by KIshore Kumar. I remember playing the song for maybe 100 times each day and still found it fresh whenever I played it next.

Later on I would be seeing the movie and the situation would make the song more appealing. Much later I would be going to Kathmandu with a job and would be staying there for about seven years. Phoolon Ka Taaron Ka then would get more closer to my heart.

When first I had heard the song, did I ever dream that I would once go to the city where it was shot ? Starnge. But the fact is, whenever I hear the song, it reminds me not of Kathmandu or the movie, but my home in Faridabad and the room where one day Baba had entered with a packet. The packet which had a brand new album of the record "Hare Rama Hare Krishna".


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