Rahman SaNg a catchy track

Undoubtedly the most popular song on the soundtrack of Humse Hai Muqabala, Urvashi Urvashi was also the longest – it was five minutes and 39 seconds long.

Incidentally, the Tamil original, titled Urvasi Urvasi, was as long as the Hindi version.

A R Rahman wasn’t just the composer of the song, but was also one of the three singers. Mr Mahadevan and Noell James Sha(nka)red singing credits with him.

By no means would it be wrong to state that the absurd lyrics – which were credited to P K Mishra – worked in favour of this catchy number.    

It was (Harihar)an excellent rendition

When Hariharan rendered Sun Ri Sakhi, every female Hindi film buff (and her male companion) listened with rapt attention.

Soothing to the ears, the track, from Humse Hai Muqabala, was five minutes and 11 seconds long.

It was penned by P K Mishra, who used an interesting word, Naagmani (which means a gem possessed by a shape-shifting cobra).

The rest of the line went, “Teri nagin si zulfon ko sanvaaroon main” (which can be translated to, “I will part your hair that is like a female cobra.”)

The track was composed by A R Rahman.

This NonSenSical track became popular

Patti Rap, from Humse Hai Muqabala, was the Hindi version of Pettai Rap, a rap-like track which interspersed English words with Hindi or Tamil ones, as was the case.

The original was in Madras Bashai, the slang used in Madras (now Chennai). Bashai is derived from bhasha, which means language).

A R Rahman composed both the versions of the track, which were four minutes and 23 seconds long.

P K Mishra penned the Hindi version of the track, which was rendered by Suresh Peters (who sang the Tamil version too), Noell James and Shankar Mahadevan.  

This was certainly (M)anoutstanding version

It certainly wouldn’t be incorrect to state that Muqabala Muqabala, from Humse Hai Muqabala, was the best of the many Hindi versions of the Tamil track of the same name (which, incidentally, had an entry in the Limca Book of Records for the same reason).

Five minutes and 23 seconds long, it was penned by P K Mishra.

Both versions were composed by A R Rahman (who was, incidentally, one of the singers who rendered the Tamil version of the catchy number).

Mano and Swarnalatha, who joined him behind the microphone, rendered the Hindi version.

Mr Balasubrahmanyam definitely (Jana)killed it

Humse Hai Muqabala released in 1995.

It was the Hindi version of Kadhalan, a Tamil film that released the previous year.

The songs of both the versions were composed by A R Rahman.

Those of the Hindi version were penned by P K Mishra.

Gopala Gopala, a fast-paced number, was five minutes and eight seconds long.

Besides the mind-blowing music and the outstanding lyrics, the track had the third ingredient that goes into the making of a fantastic track – awesome rendition by S P Balasubrahmanyam and S Janaki, known as the Nightingale of South India.