Aasha

<p>The story is about Kishore who is a good-hearted person and always helps poor people even though he is from a rich Zamindar (property owner) family. One day, he travels to Bombay to stay with his cousin Raj, who cheats a lot with girls. When they both go for a hunt in the jungle, Raj meets a man who demands he marry his jilted daughter. Raj murders the father and he frames Kishore for the crime. Kishore is forced to flee. Finally, Kishore and his lover Nirmala prove that Raj is the guilty one, and Raj tells the truth in front of everyone. Now the police arrest Raj and Kishore marries Nirmala amid happy celebrations. The music was composed by and the lyrics were written by . The song ” “, sung by and in two different versions, became very popular. It was one of the Hindi cinema’s first numbers. The words of the song were inspired by children playing outside ‘s music room. The children were chanting ” “, which inspired and his assistant John Gomes to create the first line of the song, ” “. Gomes, who was a , added the words ” ” ( for “I don’t want”). They kept on adding more nonsense rhymes till they ended with ” “. It was later covered by Timid Tiger and . magazine declared ‘s version of “Eena Meena Deeka” as one of his top 10 best songs. An advertising campaign by the agency of London for the UK bank in October 2008 used the ” ” song from the film as background music.</p>