My Favourites: Songs of Remembrance

Over at bollyviewer's blog where she listed her favourite Geeta Dutt songs, she began the post with a very famous song Yaad karoge yaad karoge (Do Bhai 1947) and something went off with a click. Not so long ago, I posted a list of my favourite Songs of Waiting. I said it was a part of being in love - the waiting for the beloved, and I listed songs that were tinged with the various hues of intezaar. The counterpart to this emotion would be 'remembrance' or yaad. The memories of your beloved, whether joyful or heartbreaking, whether anticipating arrival or mourning the lack thereof. Whether it is the sepia-tinged snapshots of a lost love, or the colourful ones of anticipation, our songs have celebrated all kinds of remembrances.

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