Roy's assistant coaxed Gulzar, who was then working as a garage mechanic and wrote poetry too, into visiting Mohan Studio. Shailendra had penned the six other songs in the film and had a tiff with Burman, who was looking for a replacement. There is an interesting story behind the song 'Mora gora ang lai le' from Bimal Roy's last film "Bandini". Then while setting a song for Bimal Roy's "Sujata", Burman asked the director who demurred at the idea of a song sung by Sunil Dutt over the telephone to express his love for Nutan, "Have you never been in love?" And pushing aside Roy's doubts, Burman went on to compose the song that would make cinematic history as one of his most romantic compositions - 'Jalte hain jiske liye'.Īnother little-known fact is that among Burman's assistants for "Do Bhai" was a musical-minded ex-army man, who would later blaze his own trail as a composer of evergreen melodies - Madan Mohan. It merely uses two notes and has a very special influence on the scenes. He remembered the tune because of its peculiar effect. The rather jazzy hit song 'Roop tera mastana' sung by Kishore Kumar in "Aradhana" is a beautiful folk song that Burman happened to hear a long time ago. The book, published by HarperCollins India, is replete with anecdotes. And changed the course of his destiny as well as that of Manna Dey," the author writes. But Ashok Kumar was persuasive and Burman stayed. He decided to hand over the baton to his assistant Manna Dey. Work had started but Burman was still unhappy. "Hoping to entice him to stay longer, Ashok Kumar asked the composer to create the music for 'Mashaal'.
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