“Half Ticket”, a bollywood classic film released in the year 1962 is a hilarious story of Vijay a.k.a Munna played by Kishore Kumar, who travels in a train as a boy on a Half ticket as he has not enough money. This film was based on the Hollywood movie “You’re never too young”. Directed by Kalidas, it also stars Madhubala, Helen and Pran. The music is by Salil Choudhary.
As hilarious as the film is, there is one particular song “Aage seedhi lagi jaise dil pe katariya” picturised on Kishore kumar (dressed as a female) and Pran. I think, this is the only song in the history of Hindi films where a singer has sung both the Male and Female parts (Bloggers may correct me if I am wrong). In other words, the whole song has been sung by the inimitable Kishore for both the male and female artistes!
Lata Mangeshkar was actually supposed to sing the female part for this song. However, due to some reasons, she was not available. Kishore convinced the music directed Salil da that he could sing both the voices. Thanks to Salil da, Kishore sang the song in both male and female voices! Sung with the energy as only Kishore can, this new experiment added an amazing comic effect! You can watch this song on youtube.com. It'll surely keep you in splits.
Hats off to Kishore the Maverick and to Kishore the Genius Singer!
-Nag.
