1. Music Director Naushad and lyricist Shakeel Badaiyuni, sat on a terrace ( and not an air-
conditioned Hotel room ) for a whole night, composing, writing, rewriting a song. No
wonder it is evergreen - 'Jab pyar kiya toh darna kya.'

2. Shakti Samant wanted for "Amar Prem' a song with lines full of extreme contrasts and
lyricist Anand Baxi, otherwise known as 'Factory of songs' could not write one. Suddenly
one night, at a filmy party, with a glass of wine in one hand, cigar in another, he was
standing at the window when rain-water extinguished his cigar. Immediately it struck to
him - ' Chingaari Koi bhadke, toh saawan use bujaye'

3. Music director Jaikishan, a romantic man, while in car, saw a beauty on road. He
turned behind, a number of times, to see her. Lyricist, sitting besides, immediately
created ' Mud mud ke naa dekh mud mud ke'.

4. Rafi was rehearsing the song ' Dil ke Jharukhe me tujko..' from Brahmachari. Shammi
Kapoor, present, requested : please sing all the 4 lines of the first stanza,IN ONE
BREATH. Rafi laughed : do you want to kill me ? But he sang- breathless.

5. Khai Ke paan... was originally composed for Dev Anand - film Banaarasi Babu. But he
did not like the idea of wearing a "Dhoti' . So later Kalyanji Anandji used it for Don, but
here too, writers Salim -Jaaved would not let their hero to wear a "Dhoti', and
Amitabh created history with his steps in trousers as well.

wah..thanks for those amusing stories..

i hav heard one..abt the song 'accha to hum chalte hain..' the music makers wer sitting tgether and the song wasnt taking shape, then one of them got up to go and said 'accha to hum chalte hai..' and the song was born! now who and who dont ask me!

A decade old popular song abt which the lyrics writer told later :

Musu Musi haasi do malai lai, musu musu haasi dyo.

Actually, the Nepali words were ' nalai lai ' and not ' malai lai ' but the 2 nepali girls who were kept present in the recording studio for directing correct prnumciations, , went out for some reason, and in the confusion, it became Malai.

malai is certainly more tempting!

whats actually the meaning of that whole sentence? with the nalai?

I do not know what nalai means, but

musu musu hasi dyo means

Gently, Gently, smile please.

Malai is actually equivalent to 'To me' of English or 'Mujhko' of Hindi.

I believe that the first line, the whole theme as well as the composition of the Bollywood song "Musu Musu Hasi deu" by Shaan was copied from the original popular Nepali song "Musu Musu Hasi deu" composed and recorded long ago by Sanjaya Shrestha of Kathmandu.

The original Nepali song starts with the line "Musu Musu hasi deu na lai lai". The words 'na' and 'lai' are different ones.
In most of the uses, the word "lai" is equivalent to the English preposition 'to'. But, in the original Nepali song, the word 'lai' is not used in the sense of "to", but just as any repetitive rather meaningless words such as "Ho ho ho..", "laa, laa, laa..", "naa, naa, naa, .." etc which are used in various songs.

The word 'na' is one of the examples of a special part of speech called "Nipaat" that is found only in Nepali language. Just like other Nipaat words of Nepali language, "Na" in itself has no meaning in Nepali. It is rather used to make a stressful request/offer just like the Hindi word "naa" is used in "Muskuraado naa" (equivalent to "Smile please".)

So, my conclusion is that probably the original Nepali line "Musu Musu haasi deu na lai lai" (equivalent to "Smile cutely please!") was misheard and mis-copied to "Musu Musu haasi deu malai lai" or may be they did so deliberately for some reason.

hey, thanks for that info..u seem to know a lot about the use of words..and diffrnt languages..

and welcome to the forum..expecting to hear more from u