Hum Tum Ek Kamre Mein Band Ho

"Hum Tum Ek Kamre Mein Band Ho"
Song by Lata Mangeshkar and Shailendra Singh
from the album Bobby
LanguageHindi
Released1973
Composer(s)Laxmikant Pyarelal
Lyricist(s)Anand Bakshi

"Hum Tum Ek Kamre Mein Band Ho" (transl. Suppose you and I, locked in a room) is an Indian Hindi song from 1973 Hindi film Bobby, directed by Raj Kapoor. The song features Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia. The lyrics of the song was written by Anand Bakshi, and the music was composed by Lakshmikant-Pyarelal. Lata Mangeshkar and Shailendra Singh were the playback singers.[1][2]

Song

"Hum Tum Ek Kamre Mein Band Ho"
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It was filmed at Kapoor family's bungalow inside their farm house Rajbaugh, which is now a memorial to Raj Kapoor and lies inside the MIT World Peace University[broken anchor] (MIT WPU) on the banks of Mula-Mutha River in Loni Kalbhor village 30 km east of Pune in Maharshtra.

Reception

According to Binaca Geetmala, a weekly countdown show, "Hum Tum Ek Kamre Mein Band Ho" was the second most popular song of the year 1973, after "Yaari Hai Imaan Mera Yaar Meri Zindagi" from the film Zanjeer.[3]

Trivia

The 2004 Hindi film Hum Tum got its title from this song.[4]

References

  1. ^ "'Mein shayar toh nahi': A playlist for Rishi Kapoor, Bollywood's evergreen romantic". The Week. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  2. ^ Khurana, Suanshu (1 May 2020). "Ten quintessential Rishi Kapoor songs". The Indian Express. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Fun film facts about the ultimate lockdown song". EasternEye. 28 October 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  4. ^ Vijayakar, Rajiv (2019). Main Shayar Toh Nahin: The Book of Hindi Film Lyricists. HarperCollins Publishers India. p. 12. ISBN 978-93-5136-495-5.