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Dil zinda rakhne ke. and Woh ek dost jo. (Surkhiyaan), Ek lamha to bina. (Mohre), Ek subah ek mod. (Hip Hip Hurray), Saawan ke din aaye. and
Tumhare bin jeena. (Bhumika), Piya baj pyala. (Nishant), Zabaane badalti hai.(Mandi), Yeh shame
i
Saawan ki aayi bahaar. (Junoon), Hum honge kamyaab. (Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron).
If those songs didn’t exactly climb the charts except perhaps
Hum hone kamyab., which has gone on to become an anthem for struggles that is probably because the films that featured them weren’t mainstream. Bhatia’s creativity and deep knowledge in music are evident in those songs, for which he used singers like Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Yesudas and Preeti Sagar.