Word Play: Raat

Chalk it up (or down) to boredom, but I wanted another way to categorise my favourite songs than just by genres. So, instead of ‘My favourite songs of waiting’ or ‘My favourite raja-rani songs’ I cast about for another way to list them. And of course, I like making things difficult for myself. So, I wondered: Hindi film songs use certain words more than most. Why not find a way of listing my favourite songs that contain a particular word? To narrow my choices (and hence double my effort) I decided to limit it to songs that had the particular word not just in the mukhda itself, but began (mostly) with the word I chose. (Preludes to songs didn't count.)

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