The Story of the 'Richly Evergreen'......(Part4)
Shakti Films and O.P.Nayyar Incidentally, Kashmir Ki Kali was not the first film where O P Nayyar collaborated with Shakti Samanta. There was previously another film, Howrah Bridge (1958) , a thriller where O P gave music to Shakti Samanta. Ironically, Howrah Bridge was also the first film under the banner of Shakti Films - a production house that Shakti Samanta launched and which, with the passage of time, and thanks to various sparkling hits that came in the years to follow - became a big brand within the Indian Film Industry. Today, it is needless to say how much O.P contributed to the initial days of Shakti Films. The film was a runaway hit and Shakti Samanta started to make his mark among the other star directors of that era. I have mentioned about “Aaiye meherbaan” already before but there were other lilting tunes in the soundtrack of Howrah Bridge. One of them was the beautiful “Yeh kya kar dala tune” sung by Asha Bhonsle; a breezy tune that grows i...