Meru Malan

1985 Indian film

Naresh Kanodia
Snehalata
Firoz Irani

Release date

1985CountryIndiaLanguageGujarati

Meru Malan is a 1985 Gujarati romantic drama film, starring Naresh Kanodia, Snehalata, Firoz Irani, directed by Mehul Kumar. It was the most successful film of the year, and became a super hit in the rural era.The superhit songs are penned by Kanti Ashok and music is composed by Mahesh Naresh duo.

Cast

Naresh Kanodia as Meru
Snehalata as Malan
Firoz Irani
Hitu Kanodia as a child actor

Soundtrack

The film's songs like Tu Maro Meru Tu Mari Malan, Jaag Re Malan Jaag, Ke Odhni Odhu Odhu Ne Udi Jaye were chartbuster and are evergreen hits till the date.^[1] The song Ke Odhni Odhu Odhu, sung by Alka Yagnik and Praful Dave, was a megahit and has been widely cited as one of the popular songs in Gujarati film.^[2] It inspired the 2019 Hindi films song Odhani from the movie Made in China.^[3]

Meru Malan
Soundtrack album
Released	31 December 1985 (1985-12-31)
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	25:00
Label	Sa Re Ga Ma^[4]

Track list
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Ke Odhni Odhu Odhu Ne Udi Jaye"	Kanti Ashok	Alka Yagnik, Praful Dave	5:58
2.	"Jaag Re Maalan Jaag"	Kanti Ashok	Praful Dave	3:34
3.	"O Roop Raseela Chora"	Kanti Ashok	Alka Yagnik, Praful Dave	6:43
4.	"Tu Maro Meru Tu Mari Malan"	Kanti Ashok	Usha Mangeshkar, Viraj Upadhyay	3:04
5.	"Naach Re Gori Naach"	Kanti Ashok	Alka Yagnik, Manzoor Hussain	5:41
Total length:				25:00

References

^ "'Meru Malan' to 'Chhota Aadmi': Must watch films of Naresh Kanodia". The Times of India. 28 October 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ "From 'Sayba Mane Nindardi' to 'Jina Jina Moraliya': Here are top Gujarati evergreen songs by Alka Yagnik". The Times of India. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ "The Odhani song from Made In China has style but the scintillation seems missing". mid-day. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ "Meru Malan". Gaana.