When a newly independent India heard Lata Mangeshkar sing, it was still coming to grips with the Partition's bloodshed "Aansu piye ja, yon hi muskuraye ja... unke sitam uthaye ja "Andaz (1949), starring Nargis Dutt, Raj Kapoor, and Dilip Kumar, felt like a balm for broken hearts. The Naushad composition had the same effect when the music crossed the border — after all, the separation pangs were the same on both sides. #TWN
