Dev Anand Death Anniversary: When the legendary artiste said that his song ‘Dum Maro Dum’ didn’t promote hippy culture : Bollywood News
Dev Saab—“Call me Dev”— whose birth anniversary we celebrated last week, and I once had long conversations about his films. He refused to believe that Guide or Hare Rama Hare Krishna were his best.
Dev Anand Death Anniversary: When the legendary artiste said that his song ‘Dum Maro Dum’ didn’t promote hippy culture
“I can’t discriminate between one film and the other. You love Guide above my other works. The entire world loves Guide. I love it too. But I also love my other films, too many to name but all precious, for the precious memories attached to them,” he had said.
Asked to name his favourite directorial and Dev Saab reluctantly admitted Hare Rama Hare Krishna was special. He was quick to add, “But Prem Pujari, Ishk Ishk Ishk, Heera Panna, Des Pardes, Loot Maar, Censor and Love At Times Square are also special. I put an equal amount of my efforts into them. Yes, Hare Rama Hare Krishna got a lot of love from my audience. I think it had to do with the sibling angle. They loved Zeenat and me as sister and brother, so much so that it was difficult to project us a romantic couple in subsequent films.”
About ‘Dum Maro Dum’ becoming a song propagating narcotism Dev Saab protested, “Why do you say it promoted the hippy culture? No! Not at all! The song was seen out of context. I never expected that! You see ‘Dum maro dum’ was part of a two-tier musical experience and that is how they were played in the film. In the first part Zeenat sings ‘Dum maro dum’ and then immediately afterwards I sing ‘Dekho oh deewanon tum yeh kaam na karo Ram ka naam badnaam na karo’. This was a clear condemnation of the that entire drugs culture that was sweeping across the young in the world. We needed to send out a proper signal to youngsters, which we did.”
“Lata sang two beautiful solos ‘Phoolon ka taaron ka’, ‘Ho ho re ghungroo’ and a lovely duet ‘Kanchi’ re for me in Hare Rama Hare Krishna. ‘Dum maro dum’ didn’t seem right for her,” Dev Saab told me.
That’s how Asha stepped in. Even after her sterling singing the song almost didn’t make it into the film.
When Dev Anand heard ‘Dum maro dum’ he told RD he found it strange and decided to drop it from the film. In a panic RD pleaded to at least let the song be part of the film’s soundtrack album, if not part of the film.
Eventually, ‘Dum maro dum’ was filmed and became one of the biggest hits of RD and Asha’s career.
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