This one’s targeted more at children and tells the story of Lord Krishna through an animated video, directed by MFF. His live performances have always drawn a great response. It’s a Meera bhajan with the lines “Aisi laagi Lagan Meera ho gayi magan, woh to gali gali hari gun gaane lagi”. The most popular song sung by bhajan samrat Anup Jalota. The words went “Shyam teri bansi pukare Radha naam, log kare Meera ko yoonhi badnaam”. Ravindra Jain wrote and composed this tune sung by Aarti Mukherjee and Jaspal Singh. A young Padmini Kolhapure appeared on screen. Laxmikant-Pyarelal composed the tune sung by Mangeshkar with a short bit by Manna Dey. Written by Pandit Narendra Sharma in the 1978 film, it was based on the theme of Radha and Krishna. Burman.Ħ Yashomati Maiyya – Satyam Shivam Sundaram Lata Mangeshkar sang the tune composed by R.D. “Bada natkhat hai re Krishan Kanhaiya, ka kare Yashoda maiyya”, wrote Anand Bakshi. It was filmed on Sunil Dutt, and had a wonderfully choreographed folk dance by people in colourful costumes.Ī simple song showing a mother, played by Sharmila Tagore, addressing her naughty son. Rafi shone again on this popular song composed by Ravi and written by Rajendra Krishan. Picturised on Sunil Dutt and Saroja Devi, it was sung by Rafi, composed by Shankar-Jaikishen and written by Shailendra. This song was very popular after its release in 1964. Ravi composed the music, and Narsimh Mehta wrote the lyrics “Darshan do ghanasham nath mori ankhiyan pyaasi re”.ģ Radhike Tune Bansuri Churayi – Beti Bete Music was by Kalyanji-Anandji.Ī well-known Krishna bhajan sung by Manna Dey, Hemant Kumar and Sudha Malhotra in the 1957 film Narsi Bhagat. Mohammed Rafi sang Rajendra Krishan’s lines which went, “Govinda aala re aala, zara matki sambhal brijbala”. The list is in no particular order, the only condition being that the non-film songs were kept at the end.įrom the 1963 film Bluff Master, this song was set in a Dahi Handi crowd sequence and picturised on Shammi Kapoor. We also have a popular bhajan, an unknown song and one hit from the 1990s Indipop era. Seven of these are from films, and of those, three are sung by Mohammed Rafi. To mark Janmashtami, we choose 10 songs dedicated to Lord Krishna. On the eve of Janmashtami, Narendra Kusnur picked 10 songs dedicated to Lord Krishna – seven of them being from Hindi cinema