A rather random rant. Or maybe not really that random. I stumbled upon this version of Heer sung by Lata Mangeshkar. I had heard it earlier and didn’t like it much. Since I searched for this on YouTube, it showed me another version in Hindi. A little more searching and I found out it was from the 1970 Bollywood movie Heer Ranjha. ...
If you are familiar with Heer Waris Shah you would know that in an attempt to make it the “biggest” Heer, many publishers got new verses written in the name of Waris Shah and completely spoiled the original text. This continued for decades till the research work dedicated to cleaning the text of this garbage was undertaken in both Punjabs and an authentic version was published. To give you an example, a very famous band, sung by many singers ਡੋਲੀ ਚੜ੍ਹਦਿਆਂ ਮਾਰੀਆਂ ਹੀਰ ਚੀਕਾਂ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਲੈ ਚਲੇ ਬਾਬਲਾ ਲੈ ਚਲੇ ਵੇ isn’t written by Waris Shah. Even Gulzar fell for it when he included it in the album called " Heer by Abida" he did with Abida Parveen ...