{"id":317993,"date":"2023-11-21T05:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T05:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularindinews.com\/?p=317993"},"modified":"2023-11-21T05:27:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T05:27:56","slug":"helen-the-queen-of-all-the-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popularindinews.com\/tv-movies\/helen-the-queen-of-all-the-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen, The Queen Of All The Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subhash Jha hails Helen on the movie legend’s 84th birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Helen and I have a karmic connection. Every move in my songs is hers for the taking. She doesn’t miss a single beat. Singing for her dances is a great pleasure for me,” Asha Bhosle, who sang almost all of Helen’s dances into eternal fame, once told me.<\/p>\n

Many other dancing divas attempted Helen’s smooth sexy but never vulgar moves. I remember when Farhan Akhtar was planning his recreation of Chandra Barot’s Don<\/em> the question that bothered him the most was who would recreate Helen-Asha Bhosle’s Yeh mera dil pyar ka deewana<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Kuch cheezon ko haath nahin lagana chahiye, jaise ke Didi ke gaane, mere gaane, Helen ke <\/em>cabaret,” Asha Bhosle once told me.<\/p>\n

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Helen’s cabaret numbers were to Hindi mainstream cinema in the 1960s and 1970s what Mehmood’s comedy was in the same era.<\/p>\n

If you were an anxious producer back then and you had one or either of the two in your film you could breathe easy.<\/p>\n

Many of the blockbusters of that era leaned on the sizzling dances of Helen for sustenance.<\/p>\n

Sadhana’s last blockbuster Inteqam<\/em>(1969) had Helen’s sparkling presence in two of the most glorious cabaret songs ever composed for the Hindi screen.<\/p>\n

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Lataji<\/em> who sang Helen’s Aa jaan-e-jaan<\/em> and Mehfil soyee aisa koyee<\/em> in Inteqam<\/em> couldn’t stop praising Helen.<\/p>\n

“Kitna badhiya unhonein mere gaane pe dance kiya<\/em>. Helenji<\/em> has such grace. My sister Asha has sung most of Helenji<\/em>‘s cabarets. I sang very reluctantly for Helenji<\/em> for Inteqam<\/em> as Laxmi-Pyare (composers Laxmikant-Pyarelal<\/em>) insisted. I was very apprehensive. Helenji ne sambhaal liya<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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Filmistan’s most accomplished Bharata Natyam danseuse Vyjayanthimala had a rare opportunity to shake a leg with Helen in a dance competition for the film Prince<\/em> in 1969.<\/p>\n

“I must say Helenji<\/em> gave me a run for my money. The song was Muqabla humse na karo<\/em>. Ashaji<\/em> sang for Helenji<\/em> and Lataji<\/em> for me. She had the Western steps while I had the Indian steps. It was a riot.”<\/p>\n

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Asha Parekh is not only a very close friend of Helen, but also a co-star. “We’ve known one another for decades. She has gone through a lot in life. We worked together for the first time in Hum Hindustani<\/em>. But it was in Teesri Manzil<\/em> that we gelled. Her dance moves with Shammi Kapoor in O haseena zulfonwali<\/em> were deadly.”<\/p>\n

“Helen was a very dignified and graceful dancer. She was incapable of any untoward dance steps. No one dared to give her any crass steps. In Teesri Manzil<\/em>, Salim Khan saab<\/em> was also there in a brief role. They fell in love during the shooting.”<\/p>\n

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Usha Mangeshkar sang only one song for Helen. Moongda<\/em> in the film Inkaar<\/em> in 1978. It was one of Helen’s last hefty hurrahs on the dance floor.<\/p>\n

Says Ushaji<\/em>, When I recorded the song Moongda<\/em> for Rajesh Roshan we never knew it would turn out be such a craze. Not a single concert of mine is complete without Moongda<\/em>. I think Helenji<\/em>‘s dancing went a long way in making Moongda<\/em> such an everlasting success.<\/p>\n

“My sister Asha Didi sang most of Helenji<\/em>‘s hit songs. My number for Helenji<\/em> was not a cabaret. It was a lavni<\/em>-styled club song. It just proves she is the queen of all the moves.”<\/p>\n

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Feature Presentation: Rajesh Alva\/Rediff.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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