> Type II. Well, the days of freedom are over and now they are in love.
> These songs can be further classified into 4 subtypes:
> II a. When he knows they are in love but she has not realized it yet.
> II b. When she knows they are in love but he is too anaaRii to realize
> what was going on.
> II c. When they are in love but don't know about it ... yet. So dost and
> saheliaa.n jump in as facilitators. The best example is the Goonh Uthi
> Shehnai (Lata, Geeta Dutt & chorus, 1958) song "ankhiyaa.n bhool gayii
> hai sonaa."
> II d. Finally!! Both of them now know and acknowledge that they are in
> love.

> Hi all,
>
> Half news as per the info that I have. I think the govt of Maharashtra has
> instituted an award in memory of late OP Nayyar.
> The first recipient will be RD's assistant Shri Manohari Singh.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Arty.

> My apologies if an article similar to this one has already been
> posted. I did search the RMIM archives; perhaps I was using the wrong
> search words.
>
> When I was young (about a hundred or so years ago) and single (39
> years ago), I was wooing Marleen, a Canadian-born, non-Hindi, non-
> Punjabi speaking girl (whom I later married). Whenever she visited my
> place, I would be playing Hindi film songs. She liked what she heard
> and wanted to know what the song was all about, etc. Since almost all
> the songs in my collection (I had a rather modest collection then)
> were from the movies which I had seen, I was able to offer a detailed
> description of the song's setting. After a while, I began to notice a
> pattern and was able to classify the songs into distinct categories
> (called "types"):
>
> Type I. "I am free, have no worries, and am enjoying the life". The
> best example is "panchhii banoo uDtii phiroo.n mast gagan
> mai.n" (Lata, Chori Chori, 1956).
> ...