New Delhi. On August 15, 1988, a song was released on Doordarshan, which received a lot of love from the audience and people went crazy about that song. The lyrics of that song were ‘Mile Sur Mera Tumhara’. This song was shown continuously on Doordarshan for many years and the craze for this song was such that even today it is very famous among the people.
This is a song promoting national unity, which if you listen to once, you will feel like listening to it again and again. This song was composed by Ashok Patki and its lyrics were written by Piyush Pandey. It was directed by Surendranath and not only veteran Bollywood stars but also many sportspersons were included in the video of this song.
If we talk about Bollywood stars then in this song Amitabh BachchanJeetendra, Mithun Chakraborty including Sharmila Tagore, Hema Malini, Tanuja, Kamal Haasan, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Saira Banu, Revathi, KR Vijaya, Waheeda Rehman, Shabana Azmi, Deepa Sahi, Om Puri, Bhisham Sahni, Amrish Puri, Dina Pathak, Harish Patel, Virendra Saxena, Uttam Mohanty, Pratap Pothen and Geetanjali were seen together.
At the same time, among the singers and musicians, the names of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, scholar Shri M Balamuralikrishna, Lata Mangeshkar, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Shubhangi Bose, Suchitra Mitra, RA Ram Mani, Anand Shankar were mainly included. Another special thing about this song was that along with Hindi, 14 other languages were also used in this song.
According to a news published in Jagran, ad filmmaker Kailash Surendranath, who conceived this song, had once said that it took some time to bring Amitabh Bachchan, Jitendra and Mithun Chakraborty in this song, but when they got the dates, they decided to sing the song. The set was set up in the garden of Mehboob Studio and all three superstars reached the set on time at 7.30 in the morning and all three had brought their respective lower clothes with them. All three had okayed their shots within 10 minutes and went back to shooting their respective films.
Tags: amitabh bachchan, Jeetendra, Mithun Chakraborty
FIRST PUBLISHED: May 3, 2024, 12:17 IST