song : Dilwaale Raat Hai Jawan
singer : Asha Bhosle
album : Mahadev (Hindi movie 1987)
lyrics : Farooq Kaiser
music : Ilaiyaraaja
Trivia: Another great hit from the entertaining 80s! The model featured in this video is the former miss-India and actress Sonu Walia.
The singer needs no introduction. Any music-lover from the Indian sub-continent can easily recognise her sweet voice. She is the living-legend Asha Bhosle.
The music composer Ilaiyaraaja may not be as well known as his protege A.R Rahman (of Slumdog Millionaire fame.) Infact A.R Rahman was a key-boardist in Ilaiyaraaja's orchestra.And Ilaiyaraaja himself started off as a guitarist under the great composer Salil Chowdhury.
In his appearence, Ilaiyaraaja(below) may be mistaken as a south-Indian monk or 'swami'. But it was this soft-spoken & introverted 'swami' who composed all those peppy,chartbusting, Hi-NRG dance hits of the 80s! Though busy in south India, Raaja has also occassionally worked in Hindi music scene. 
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