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| Dhad Dhamchak Lag Gayi! |
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| Written by Aditya Pant |
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Rahul Dev Burman used a lot of folk elements in his score for Joshilay (1989). Dhola Dhol Majeera was based on a famous Rajasthani folk song that I was quite familiar with because I grew up in Rajasthan. The film has another song - Asha Bhosle's Dhad Dhamchak Lag Gayi - that was dinstinctly folksy, especially the antaras which have a very familiar tune. It was only today that I discovered that the song had another version that came about three and a half decades earlier. In Prisoner of Golcunda (Golkunda Ka Qaidi, 1954), Datta Davjekar and Kundan Lal had composed a song for Shamshad Begum that had exactly the same mukhra - lyrically as well as tune-wise - to the Joshilay song. The antaras of the two songs are different but they can be traced back to other folk songs. Now the question is whether Javed Akhtar and R D Burman had the Prisoner of Golcunda song as the refernce for their song, or if there is a folk song that was the inspiration for both the songs. Here is the song from Joshilay: And here is the "original" from Golkunda Ka Qaidi:
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