Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya..........

Feeling Really Proud Of Such A Song Whose Filming Was A Battle In Itself For Legendary K. Asif To Shoot………..

 It Costing  Rs. 1 Million At A Time When A Film Would Be Made For Less Than A Million; It Was Written And Re-Written 105 Times By The Lyricist, Shakeel Badayuni, Before The Music Director, Naushad, Could Approve Of It; It Was Shot In The Renowned Sheesh Mahal (Palace Of Mirrors); And In Those Days Of Sound Recording, Editing And Mixing, As There Was No Way To Provide The Reverberation Of Sound, Naushad Had Lata Mangeshkar Sing The Song In A Studio Bathroom. Prithviraj Kapoor Would Look Into A Mirror As Tall As Himself Before Each Shot. When Asif Asked Him Why He Did So, He Replied, "I Do So To Get Under The Skin Of The Character."

Pyaar  Kiya To Dakna Kya  Sequence Takes Place In The Sheesh Mahal (Palace Of Mirrors) Of The Lahore Fort, Where Anarkali Dances For The Mughal Emperor And His Court, Singing Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya, "I Have Loved, So What Is There To Fear?" This Song Was One Of Three Sequences Shot In Technicolor, While The Rest Of The Movie Was In Black And White. The Singing Is, Of Course, Playback Singing By Lata Mangeshkar And Lip-Synched By Madhubala.

This Song Has More To It, Than Actually Appears. It Is Said That The Small Engraved Mirrors In The Area Where The Song Was Shot, Would Sparkle Under The Camera's Intense Lights And Made It Impossible To Shoot. Even Consultants From Hollywood Told Director K. Asif To Give Up On The Idea Provided The Impossible Task Of Shooting Against Such Intense Glare. Asif Thought Of An Idea: All Those Small Mirrors, Roughly In Thousands, Would Be Covered In A Very Very Thin Covering Of Wax, So That They Did Not Reflect Any Light And Still You Can See As Clean As It Can Be Without Any Blur. One Version Of The Story States That Asif Confined Himself To The Set For Days On End In Various Standing, Sitting And Lying Down Positions Until He Could Find That Single Spot Where The Problem Was Rectified And The Immortal Pyar Kiya Tau Darna Kya Was Filmed………..