I would have wanted to continue CID related discussion in any existing CID thread but it's impossible to search for that thread because of the abbreviated title CID. So, I'm posting my CID/ Bombay Velvet related comments here.
Muz wrote:
Ragz wrote:
I'm curious to know why exactly was the song deleted from C.I.D.?
Has Jata Kahan Hai Deewana ever been released before on video by any chance?
In this interview Waheeda Rehman said that the mukhda "Jaata kahaan hai deewane, sab kuchh yahaan hai sanam" lead to the song to be removed ... lots of people think it was due to the word "fifi" - but not the case!
http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/a ... /366389?ytI heard that the footage for the song is held in the national film archive ... but who knows!
I checked my Esquire VHS and sure as everybody said, "Jaata Kahan Hai Deewane" song is not in the film. What a disappointment that such a famous film song is not in the film, that it was supposed to be in. If the original footage is available (Archieves or anywhere), it should be put back in the film. The Censors reason was absurd and the segment sure would have passed Censors later on. Without this segment film classic film CID is incomplete and dis-continuous. In a film where every detail is explained like explaining to a child, how could they leave out what and how it happened and it's not shown that Dev is made unconscious and dropped off somewhere where he wakes up. In one shot conversation is going on, and abruptly, in the next film frame Dev wakes up elsewhere.
Moreover, Interval is at 65 min into the film out of a 145 min feature (re-introducing that missing film-reel/ segment would make the interval at logical 75 min in a 155 min feature.
(YRF DVD is PAL to NTSC converted video ?? coming out at 140 min (4% speed up); Esquire VHS is direct Film to NTSC and is 145 min, no speed up; Censor Certificate shows 13190 ft which is 146.5 min).
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I wasn't planning on watching Bombay Velvet anytime soon but for the curiosity to see (even a different) video picture connected with this famous song (even if altered), I will watch Bombay Velvet soon.------------------------------------------------------------------
Similar to "Jaata Kahan hai Deewane, Sab Kuchh Yahan Hai Sanam" is in Feroz Khan's Apraadh, "Ae Naujwan, Hai Sub Kuchh Yahan"
Lyrics in "Kahin Pe Nigaahein Kahin Pe Nishana" were used to advise Dev to escape. In one of the early Dara Singh films, lyrics in a song were used hinting him to the danger ahead.