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Vicky on 'Ina Mina Dika'
 
 

One of the good "jive" number as called by the Ball Room Dancing Community (if anyone familiar with Ball Room Dancing/Latin Jazz Dancing Techniques) was rendered by Asha Bhosle in the Hindi Movie "Aasha" ( I was very ignorant, thought, it was named after her all these years)and composed by Chitalkar Ramachandra. Lyrics were by Rajinder Krishan and goes by "Ina Mina Dika". A great "jive" note which was immensely popular in the late 50s. I wish Kimberly Mitchell (my favorite Ballroom Dancer for the last few years) could dance to that note in one of the Ballroom Dancing Championships. The same song was dubbed in tamil for the movie "Adisaya Penn". You would'nt win a lottery for guessing it right. It was by TFM Icon P Susheela. Literature tells us that many in the south thought the same song was by north indian legend Asha Bhosle. I could recall that PS lamented,in one of her audience with the press, that she was offered many a in-house assignments with "Filmistan Studios" (SD Burman Saheb was their corporate house composer forgive me if I got the name of the studio wrong) but was her focus was too narrow or she was not well equipped to make those business decisons at an early age. Listening to both the "jive " versions, I could hardly tell the difference myself. The composition itself per se, had 1940's traditional jazz orchestra influences (Glen Miller/Benny Goodman/Cab Calloway/Harry James/Sammy Kaye/Artie Shaw) on Chitalkar Ramachandra. Though the composition was original in Hindi, it was dubbed in tamil for the aforementioned movie by KVM (or was it by Chitalkar again). The song deserves a special mention (for the sake of P Susheela) after it was overshadowed by a north indian contemporary.

 
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