It feels inevitable that Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge begins with a song. The film, turning thirty this year , is threaded with music. Each song carries a little story of its own. Sometimes merging with the film’s central current, sometimes drifting away, sometimes simply hinting at Aditya Chopra’s emerging voice, the debutant director already negotiating inheritance and authorship. After all, true to the tradition of Bombay cinema, his voice is most lucid, most assured, when he imagines a world rooted in song and dance, where emotion has to be the cornerstone of storytelling.

Ghar Aaja Pardesi

Singers – Pamela Chopra, Manpreet Kaur

Lyrics – Anand Bakshi

Composer – Jatin Lalit

We first see Chaudhary Baldev Singh (Amrish Puri) in that now-iconic opening: feeding pigeons in London,

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