About the film:

Source Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaudhvin_Ka_Chand


Chaudhvin Ka Chand is a 1960 Hindi feature film directed by Mohammed Sadiq. A production of Guru Dutt, the film centers on a love triangle between Guru Dutt, Rehman and Waheeda Rehman, and features music by Ravi. Farida Jalal is a guest appearance in the film, her debut. After a disastrous box-office performance of Kaagaz Ke Phool, this was a highly commercially successful and comeback movie for Guru Dutt. The movie saved Guru Dutt's home production studio from ruins. According the interview by V.K. Murthy the movie made profits of then what a 100 movies were to have made. Everyone were sure of the movie's success, however not to the levels movie grossed.

Though not directed by Guru Dutt, the movie has an unmistakable stamp of the maestro! Some of the songs have been immortalized by beautiful lyrics, music and cinematography and are as popular today as they were in the days this movie was released.

Song listing as per EM database:

Baalam se milan hoga sharmaane ke din aaye - Geeta Dutt

Badle badle mere sarkaar nazar aate hain - Lata Mangeshkar

Bedardi mera saiyyaan shabnam to kabhi shole - Asha Bhonsle

Chaudhvin ka chaand ho ya aaftaab ho jo bhi ho tum khuda ki qasam - Mohammed Rafi

Dil ki kahaani rang layi hai - Asha Bhonsle

Mera yaar bana hai dulha - Mohammed Rafi

Mili khaak mein muhabbat jala dil ka aashiyaana - Mohammed Rafi

Yeh duniya gol hai upar se khol hai - Mohammed Rafi

Yeh lakhnow ki sarjamin - Mohammed Rafi

About the music of the film :

Many firsts for this fim's music:
1) Ravi composing music for a Guru Dutt film
2) Lyrics being penned by Shakeel Badayuni for a Guru Dutt film
3) Rafi sahab singing as many as 5 solos (no duets at all)
4) Lata Mangeshkar ji singing her first and the only (?) song in a Guru Dutt film
5) A Guru Dutt film getting Filmfare awards for Lyrics and Male singer


Now coming to the main topic of our discussion. Since she got married to Guru Dutt, Geeta ji, the famous playback singer, was naturally the choice for songs in Guru's films. It is true that Asha ji and Shamshad ji had sung memorable songs in earlier films. This is the first instance where Geeta ji sings just one song (with chorus), that too a lackluster (IMHO) "Bidaai" song. What could be the reason for this?

Earlier I was of the feeling that the most of the songs were filmed on the leading lady Waheeda Rehman. Since Geeta ji was not singing for Waheeda, she did not sing the rest of the songs. Our friend Aditya corrected me that the only song actually filmed on Waheeda is the solo by Lata ji. The rest of the songs sung by Asha ji are filmed on other artists.

So what could be the reason of Geeta ji not singing them?

The list of possible reasons AFAIK:

1) Strained relations between Guru and Geeta ji
2) Asha Bhonsle being personal favorite singer of composer Ravi
3) Ravi and Guru both feeling that songs suited more for Asha ji's voice
4) Geeta ji opting not to sing for these songs

Just a small note which I forgot to add in the first post:

The next venture from Guru Dutt films had Geeta ji singing for the main heroine Meena Kumari and Asha ji singing for Waheeda Rehman. So it was not that Geeta ji stopped singing for Guru Dutt's fims from CKC.

The last film made by Guru Dutt was Baharein phir bhi aayengi and this time there was no song sung by Geeta ji. The composer O P Nayyar, making a comeback in Guru Dutt fims after his last film Mr and Mrs 55 had insisted that all the female songs will be sung by Asha ji only. Even the voice of Shamshad ji (who was a regular in almost all the films of Guru Dutt) was missing!