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Gazal · 1964

Main Nigahen Tere Chehre Se Hataun Kaise

Hindi-film eligibility matched; song credits may still need checking

Singer: Not listed in open data

Music: Madan Mohan

Recording: original

Metadata references

Release and credit references do not establish a raag or taal attribution.

Reported raag

Darbari Kanada

Not yet reviewed by a musician

A named writer on music analysed the song in this raag. This records what the source says; a musician has not checked the recording note by note.

Evidence: Named musician's analysis · Suneel Kumar Gupta, doctoral thesis on Madan Mohan (Banaras Hindu University, 2015), ch.7, printed p.361 (PDF p.25)

Source wording: “इसी चित्रपट की मो0 रफी द्वारा गाई ग़ज़ल ‘‘मैं ऩिगाहें तेरे चेहरे से हटाऊँ कैसे, भी राग दरबारी कान्हड़ा का आधार लिए हुए है जिसे संगीत निर्देशक मदनमोहन ने बहुत सुन्दरता से संगीतबद्ध किया है।”

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