"Chahunga Main Tujhe" is an Indian

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song from the

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film ''

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'' (1964). The lyrics of the song were written by

Majrooh Sultanpuri Asrar ul Hassan Khan (1 October 1919 − 24 May 2000), better known as Majrooh Sultanpuri, was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in the Hindi language film industry. He wrote lyrics for numerous Hindi film soundtracks. He was one of the dom ...

, and the music was composed by

Laxmikant–Pyarelal Laxmikant–Pyarelal were an Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940). In their career span stretching from 1963 to 1998, they composed music for about 750 movies, wo ...

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was the playback singer of this song. In 1965 Majrooh Sultanpuri received

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in the best lyrics category for this song. Laxmikant–Pyarelal won their first Filmfare award for composing this song. Although the song became very popular and got Filmfare awards, the song was planned to be removed from the film.

insisted to keep the song in the film. He took only as his fee as the singer.

Awards

For this song both the lyricist

and the music composer-duo

received

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in the categories of best lyrics, and best music composition respectively.

References

External links

* Songs in Hindi 1964 songs Indian songs Mohammed Rafi songs Songs with music by Laxmikant–Pyarelal Songs with lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri {{song-stub