Planet Rohan

The title of this post is borrowed from the Planet M chain of stores for those musically inclined. Like Music World for eg.

This post is all about Rohan's favorite songs. It all started with Kabhi Nahi (the Amitabh-Adnan Sami sung medley). Attached is a pic I took while Rohan was watching it intently (this was quite awhile ago - maybe when he was 2-3 yrs old).

We also used (or rather had to) to sing to Rohan to get him to sleep. His favorites :

- Gaadi bula rahi hai (sung originally by Kishore Kumar). My pop used to sing this to him when my parents were here with us. He used to sleep off very quickly on hearing my father's slow and deep voiced singing. Genetically inclined I guess (I used to sleep off too :-)) Later Rohan graduated to calling it "gubaali" to indicate he wants it. Now he sings "gaadi bulaaa rahi hayyy".
- Sau baar janam lenge (sung originally by Mohd Rafi). Worked like magic initially due to its slow tune. Suja later changed the tune and the magic wore off ;-) Just kidding.
- Tere mere Sapne (from Guide sung originally by Mohd. Rafi) - Rohan calls this "sapne". Once a lil' older he used to sing it as "sapne ab ek ang hayy".
- Mera jeevan kora kagaz (sung orig. by Kishore Kumar) - this was another magic recipe. Rohan picked this one up very quickly - he used to sing it as "kolasa meelasa, kolasa meelasa".

Some other magic recipe songs were (those that could be sung only by me :-))
- Ay mere pyare watan (sung originally by Manna Dey for Upkar I think). The melancholy tune and slow pace is sure way to get anyone to sleep.
- Ek akela is shahar mein (sung orig. by Bhupinder in Gharaonda)

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