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Chori chori solah singaar karoongi
Posted on: May 18, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Manoranjan (1974), Shammi Kapoor’s first film as a director, seems to have only four songs. That is a bit surprising for me. I’d expected it to have more. So this could be the last song to come in from this film.
A sensual song, which shows us Zeenat preparing herself for a night with her lover, who she thinks is fast asleep. He in fact has left the house to be on a job to earn money, which he can give her during the day in the role of a nawab. A comedy of errors!
Song-Chori chori solah singaar karoongi (Manoranjan)(1974) Singer- Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-R.D. Burman
Lyrics
chori chori
solaa singaar karoongi
aaj saari raat
intezaar karoongi
soye hain mere
peeharwaa
soye hain mere piharwaa ho
chori chori
solaa singaar karoongi
aaj saari raat
intezaar karungi
soye hain mere peeharwaa
soye hai mere peeharwaa
haan
chori chori
solaa singaar karoongi
lipte badan se
shole agan ke
teri lagan ke
khelo na man se mere ae ae
keh doongi main ye sajan se oo
haan haan
teri lagan ke
khelo na man se mere
keh dooungi main ye sajan se
naa jee naa
haan
haan jee haan aa aa
??
ek ye gila
sau baar karoongi
aaj saari raat
intezaar karungi
soye hain mere peeharwaa
soye hain mere peeharwaa
chori chori solaa singaar karoongi
nainon ke raste
chupke se aake
sapnon mein jaake
paayal bajaake
chham se ae
rakh doongi
unko jagaake ho ho
haan haan
sapnon me jaake
paayal bajaake
chham se ae
rakh dungi
unko jagaake
naa jee naa
haan
haan jee haan aa
pyaar kiyaa hai maine
pyaar karoongi
aaj saari raat
intezaar karoongi
soye hain mere peeharwaa
soye hain mere peeharwaa
haan haan
chori chori solaa singaar karoongi
aaj saari raat intezaar karoongi
soye hain mere peeharwaa
soye hain mere peeharwaa
Hai naam mera Ramzaani
Posted on: May 18, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today’s song is from an Arabian Night Story- Alladin aur Jadui Chirag-1952.
Fantasy has always attracted Human mind. Whether it is a grown up person or a child,everyone loves Fantasy. For the grown up, the Fantasy may be about the Gold Mohurs or may be the young and beautiful Princess Badr,while the child has the Fantasy for the Magic Lamp or the Genie !
Stories from Arabian Nights have been popular for a few centuries,and throughout the world,as these were translated in every language across the Globe. Children whether in Europe, Africa or Asia,grew up reading and listening to these stories.
Among the Arabian Night stories, there is a variety and there are stories for every liking. For Travellers, it is Sindbad the Sailor, for action lovers it is Alibaba and 40 Thieves and for fantasy there is Alladin and his Magic Lamp. Even now,I like the story of Alladin. I find that this story has many emotions, Bravery, conceit, innocence, love, adventure, imagination etc etc.
All over the world,almost in every language films were made on these stories,particularly Alladin and the magic Lamp. In India,we not only made films on Alladin’s original story, but also in our own ingenious ways created a son of Alladin, a Daughter of Alladin. We even combined Alibaba with Laila. Not only this but the Jadui chirag was connected with Tarzan also in Hindi films.
One must really admire the fertile imagination ofthe Indian film story writers in diversifying the original stories into new stories. There are no Taboos for connecting anything with anything else under the Sun. Thus we have films like a combination film like Alibaba, Alladin and Sindbad(1965), Tarzan and Magic lamp, Tarzan ka Beta, Tarzan 303, Tarzan and Delilah. There is no restriction or Time boundaries, so you have Krishna Hanuman Yudh. Indians are family people, so they added sons and daughters to Alibaba, Alladin, Sindbad and also Tarzan. The idea, may be, was to make them India-friendly !
Then there is something called ” Cinematic Liberty “. This strange phenomena gives liberty to the story-writers to twist the factual incidents, stories and Historical facts to suit the picturisation. Sometimes it is necessary but most of the times,it is out of convinience and to add Masala to the original story.
Actually, the Fantasy stories of Arabian Nights in their original forms itself are full of mystery, suspense, magic and valour, but once the original story has been filmed, the subsequent editions on the same story,have to give something different,hence the twists and inclusion of several relatives like sons and daughters etc.
The origin of Arabian Nights has been already discussed in this Blog, so a repetition is not needed.
The first films on Alibaba,and Alladin were made in 1927 by the Imerial Film company.Sindbad had a late entry,in 1930,by Sharda films.These were the Silent movies.In the 1927 version of Alibaba,the movie mughal and the owner of mehboob Studios,Mehboob had worked as an extra-one of the 40 Thieves !
In the Talkie Era,the first film on Alibaba and 40 Thieves was made by Madan Theatres,Calcutta in 1932. Alladin came in 1933 and Sindbad was very late-in 1946 !
Today’s film- Alladin aur Jadui Chirag-1952 was made by Basant Pictures of Homi Wadia ( husband of fearless Nadia. Just one curiosity…..After marriage was she called NADIA WADIA ? 
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four Lyricists-Shyam Hindi, Anjum Jaipuri, Pt.Chand and Ramesh Pandey. The Music Directory was S N Tripathi.
S N Tripathi was a multifaceted personality. He was born on 14-3-1913,at Benares and spent lot of time with composed Badriprasad,who also was from Benares.he joined Moris college at Lucknow and Devika Rani picked him up as a violinist,to Bombay Talkies. He was Sarswatidevi’s asst. from Jeevan Naiya-34,for 10 films and then left. As an independent MD his first film was Chandan-1939. In 1946 he gave music to Uttara Abhimanyu-a Mythological and this was begining for his mythological branding. In 1948 he gave music to Rambhakta Hanuman,which became popular. He gave music to so many Mythologicals,that he must have covered all Indian God films. he always got such soft films.
In 1952 his first Fantasy film Alladin aur jadui Chirag came and then he was a specialist for such films too.
Janam Janam ke Phere-57 and Rani Roopmati-59 were milestones for his songs.
Tripathi gave music to many Historical films too.After 1970,his film flow slowed and his last film was Mahasati Tulsi-1985.
He was sick for some time and died on 28-3-1988 at Diamond nursing home,in Bandra,Bombay,in the midnight at 3 am.
Tripathi was very prolific in his field. Besides giving music to more than 250 films,he acted in about 200 films,Directed 39 films and wrote s/plays for 37 films.
His role as Hanuman in Rambhakta Hanuman-48 and as jadugar Hikmat in Alladin and jadui chirag-1952 were very famous. He was a singer and sang many songs.
Chitragupta was his assistant for many years and he gave him chance to sing songs in films. In today’s film also Chitragupta had 2 songs. Infact today’s song is also sung by Chitragupta and Shamshad.
The story of the film was…
<blockquote<Jadugar Hikmat(S N Tripathi) is in search for the Magic lamp.It is ordained that only an honest man with 21 moles on his right hand will be able to find it first.,so Hikmat is on the look out of such a man.
Alladin (Mahipal) is an honest young man who is leisurely and spends time with friends. Once he defies the king's order to stay indoors during the Princess Badr's procession and sees beautiful Badr. They see each other and fall in love at first sight.
This is,however,not liked by the evil son Nazim,of the evil Vazeir and he arrests Alladin on a flimsy excuse to punish him. That time Hikmat sees the 21 moles on his hand and takes him with him to search for magic Lamp,pretending that he was his Uncle.
Alladin enters the cave and finds the Lamp but Hikmat wants the lamp first and Alladin wants to come out first..
Angry Hikmat closes the cave door and goes away.
Alladin mistakenly brushes the lamp and finds the Genie. With his help,he not only comes out and moves into a palace but also demands the King to marry Badr with him.
Nazeem,who is after her,challenges him. Meanwhile,Alladin realises that the evil Vazeir has kept the real king in Jail and his look-alike is put on the throne. In the following duel,he not only defeats Nazim,kills the Vazier and rescues the real king,but also marries beautiful princess Badr.
He lives happily with Badr. Once,when he is out hunting,Jadugar Hikmat comes and lures the palace maid to exchange old lamps with new ones. Once the Magic lamp is received,he moves the palace and Badr to faroff place and tries to woo her.
Alladin,with his magic ring,locates Badr and advises her to pretend love with Hikmat and then kill him. After a dance and song item she kills Hikmat.
Alladin and Badr live happily ever after.
Let us now see and enjoy a song in which Hikmat the Magician is trying to excange New lamps with old ones. S N Tripathi is in the role of Hikmat here.
Song-Hai Naam mera Ramzaani (Alladin Aur Jaadui Chiraag)(1952) Chitragupta, Shamshad Begam, Lyrics-Shyam Hindi, MD-S N Tripathi
Lyrics
main jahaan bhi gaya
bolbaala hua
sabse aala hai mera chiraag
jab ye ghar mein jale
aisa pyaara lage
jaise sehra mein phoolon ka baagh
iski nishaani
jalti jawaani
jalti jawaani
hai jawaani
hai jawaani he
taazir hoon Iraani
hai naam mera Ramzaani
kaala lekar ujla dena
sauda hai sultaani
yaaron sauda hai sultaani
jhoothha zamaane bhar ka
rasta le apne ghar ka
baaten banaana aisi waisi ee ee
jhoothha zamaane bhar ka
rasta le apne ghar ka
baaten banaana aisi waisi ee ee
harkaten bandar jaisi
soorat kalandar jaisi
hamko sunaaye kaisi kaisi ee ee
haay haseenon
o be-yaqeenon
?? nasheenon ki na maani hai
na maani hai
taazir hoon Iraani
hai naam mera Ramzaani
kaala lekar ujla dena
sauda hai sultaani
yaani sauda hai sultaani
taazir hoon Iraani
hai naam mera Ramzaani
kaala lekar ujla dena
sauda hai sultaani
yaaron sauda hai sultaani
ek dum ki kasar se
bana hai bashar
warna langoor ki hai ye zaat
o meri jaan o jigar
chhedkhaani na kar
dekh achchi nahin hai ye baat
moonchhen hain bhari bhari
arre lagtin hain pyaari pyaari
haay
jaise ho daadhi waala bakra aa aa
haan main
arre daadhi waala bakra
munh ko sambhaal ladki
haay
deta hai kisko jhidki be
haay re haay
tera nakhra aa aa
sun re madaari
o ho
kya hai beemaari
arre
teri hazaamat banaani hai banaani
ishq
taazir hoon Iraani
hai naam mera Ramzaani
kaala lekar ujla dena
sauda hai sultaani
yaani sauda hai sultaani
taazir hoon Iraani
hai naam mera Ramzaani
kaala lekar ujla dena
sauda hai sultaani
yaani sauda hai sultaani
Hamko India bahut pasand
Posted on: May 16, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is an unusual song with different lyrics, from an obscure and less heard film, MATLABI DUNIYA-1961. I have not seen this film, nor could I get any information about this film anywhere, except what is available in HFGK.
I came to know about this song FIRST time when my friend from Surat Mr.Harish Raghuvanshi ji sent me this song on mp3. Harish ji, as we know is a Film and song Historian and writer of many books.
After hearing this song, it haunted me so much that I kept on listening to it again and again. The Lyrics of the song are different, it says, ‘Hum ko India bahot pasand, yahaan hamara favourite singer, beautiful singer, Handsome singer Mukesh Chand…’
I decided to put it on this Blog and searched for it on You Tube. Luckily it was available.
Matlabi Duniya-61 was a Chetana production film, Bombay. It was a stunt film, directed by a duo-Radhakant and Mahendra Thakur.
Mahendra Thakur had earlier directed one more film Mala-1941, along with Jairaj. ( Mala was remade as AMAR in 1954. For both versions, Naushad was the Music Director. One special point about these 2 films was that JAYANT the actor had done the same role in Amar,which he did in Mala-41).
For the other Director Radhakant Sharma , it was his first film for Direction. May be Mahendra Thakur might have joined him to teach him the art of direction. Anyway, Radhakant directed 32 films mostly in Hindi and some Gujarati too, in his career. His last film was Solah Somvaar-78. He usually directed stunt, Action and C grade films. Some of his films were Rustom e Rome, Tarzan and jadugar, Tarzan and Jalpari, Tarzan 303, Gunahon ke Raste, Shera Daaku etc etc.
The lyrics were by Ramesh Gupta and there were four music Directors for matlabi Duniya-61, in which there were 12 songs sung by 7 singers. The music directors were Sushant Banerjee, Jayanti Joshi, Bharat Mehta and Varma. There is no information about this Verma, but Jayanti Joshi and Bharat Mehta were from Gujarati films, trying their luck-unsuccessfully- in Hindi, as they never again tried any Hindi film.
Sushant Banerjee was a fixture for stunt films and C grade films,like Jungle ki Pukar, Kuldeep, The last Message, Diwanji, Monika, Piya, Harishchandra, Ghar Grihasthi etc. Matlabi Duniya was probably his last film.
The cast of the film was Asha, Anant Kumar, Dhumal, Satish Vyas, Damuanna Malvankar etc. The song was sung by Sulochana Chavan (Kadam).
Sulochana Kadam was born in Bombay in 1933. She loved dancing and singing from young age and participated in school programmes. One of the family friends took her to composer Shyambabu Pathak, who was impressed with her style and voice. he gave her two songs in Krishna Sudama-47. She was barely 14 years of age at that time. Her first song was ‘main so rahi thi’. She she also sang in Jungle mein mangal, Kismetwali and Paro in the same year.
1947 was a period when many female singers had migrated to pakistan and there was enough space available for singers. From 1948, she got some fame after Dukhiyari, Laal Dupatta, Naav, Sunehre Din, Bombay etc.
She reached her zenith when she sang for Dholak and Ba-1951. ‘Chori chori aag si dil mein’ and ‘mausam aaya hai rangeen’ with Satish Batra were exceedingly popular.
Due to her typical voice and style, she was seen as different from Lata, Asha, Geeta, Raajkumari or Zohrabai. She sang maximum songs from 1950 to 55 period. Some of her films were, Hanste rehna, Basera, Bade bhaiya, Damaad, Jeevan tara, Mamta, Malika Salomi,Fashion etc etc.
She got married in 1953 to Shyamrao Chavan and slowly she opted out of the race. Her last song was with Meena Kapoor,in Akash pari-1958.
Sulochana Chavan was extremely popular in Marathi,singing lavani songs. She actually set up a bench mark for Lavani singing in Marathi,for ever.
She got several awards,including the sangeet and Natak Akademi.
Sulochana Chavan(Kadam) sang abour 220 songs in 60 films-Marathi and Hindi.
Today’s song is sung by sulochana Chavan, with Chorus. Let us enjoy the song….
Song-Hum ko India bahut pasand (Matlabi Duniya)(1961) Singer-Sulochana Kadam, Lyrics-Ramesh Gupta
Lyrics
Hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
yahaan hamaara
favourite singer
beautiful singer
handsome singer
Mukesh chand
Mukesh chand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
meet my hero Raj Kapoor
ye Nargis jannat ki hoor
Kukku ki shohrat door door
Shyama ko dekhen aa jaaye saroor
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
Italy Roos Cheen Japan
America Europe Iran
sabse ajab hai Hindustan
sabse ajab hai Hindustan
uski ajab niraali shaan
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
hamko India bahut pasand
This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hi all
I am discussing another great to watch Jodi today. Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit. This is on farmaish from my daughter. She feels that they did some great work together in “Beta”, “Ram Lakhan”, “Kishen Kanhaiya”, “Khel” etc. These two acted together for the first time in “Tezaab” and Anil Kapoor has said in some interview a long time back that he was so impressed by the (then) young and hard working Madhuri that he recommended her to Subhash Ghai for the then under making “Karma”. And it seems they even shot a whole song after which Ghai thought that it was not wise to waste such a lot of talent for a guest appearance song and took her on for his next “Ram Lakhan”.
The song that I would like to discuss is a personal favourite with lots of memories attached. I do not know why but I liked to sing it to my children when they were so small and had hardly begun to speak. Even now I love to watch the song any number of times. Before this write up today I have seen it 10 times (I think).
This song is from Vinod Chopra’s (he had not added the Vidu to his name then) “Parinda”. It was released in the last quarter of 1989 (when my son was to be born). I saw it with my neighbor (god let his soul rest in peace. How I miss him! He was more a brother to me) that I saw the movie. The climax of the movie where Anil Kapoor and Madhuri are shot at by Nana Patekar’s men really was a shocker when I saw it for the first time. Then the way Jackie Shroff (he plays Anil Kapoor’s brother) takes his revenge of Nana was another shocker. There is a scene in Mumbai’s Kabutarkhana in the middle of the movie where Anil Kapoor sees his friend Anupam Kher die – another jolt for the audience. All in and & its songs so much).
This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle and Suresh Wadkar. The song is written by Khurshid Hallauri. music was by R D Burman.
Audio (Full)
Video
Song-Tumse Mil ke Aisa Laga tumse mil ke (Parinda)(1989) Singers-Suresh Wadkar, Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Khursheed Hallauri, MD-R D Burman
Both
Lyrics
Tumse milke aisa laga tumse mil ke
armaan hue poore dil ke
tumse mil ke
aisa lagatumse mil ke
armaan hue poore dil ke
ae meri jaane wafa
teri meri meri teri ik jaan hai
saath tere rahenge sada aa
tumse na honge juda
tumse mil ke aisa laga tumse mil ke
armaan hue poore dil ke
mere sanam teri kasam
chhodenge ab nay ye haath
yeh zindagi (lalala)
guzarengi ab (lalala) hum dum tumhare hi saath
apna yeh wada raha tumse na honge juda
tumse milke aisa laga mil ke
Armaan hue poore dilke
Armaan hue poore dilke
Ai meri jaane wafa
Teri meri meri teri ek jaan hai
Saath tere rahenge sada aa
tumse na honge juda
Tumse Mil ke Aisa Laga tumse Mil ke
Armaan hue poore dil ke
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
maine kiya (lalala)
hain raat din (lalala)
bas tera hi intezar
tere bina ata nahin ek pal mujhe ab karar
humdum mera mil gaya hum tum na honge juda
humdum mera mil gaya ab hum na honge juda
tumse milke
tumse milke
aisa laga tumse milke
armaan huey purhey dil ke
eh meri jaan e wafa
teri meri meri teri ik jaan hai
saath tere rahenge sada aa
ab human honge juda
la la la la
la la la la la la la
la la la la la la
Goya ke chunaanche
Posted on: May 15, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Manoranjan (1974) was Shammi Kapoor’s first film as a director. He roped in R D Burman the reigning music director of that time to give music to his debut film as a director. Shammi Kapoor had in fact given Pancham his first biggest hit with Teesri Manzil (1966). But unfortunately Manoranjan flopped. The songs of this film were hits all the same.
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Main naagan hoon
Posted on: May 15, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Voice of Mukesh #17
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Ah, finally. I have with me now, the song from the 1946 film ‘Durbaan’ that has been eluding me so far. Graciously and thankfully sent to me by another collector friend. Readers will recall that this is the one song from 1946, still waiting to be posted, as we traverse the early years of Mukesh’s career. As per records, by the end of 1946, Mukesh had sung 21 songs in eleven films (starting from 1941).
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Aaya bahaar ka zamaana
Posted on: May 14, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings to Waheeda ji, on her birth anniversary today.
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Chalo Honolulu chalo Honolulu
Posted on: May 13, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today’s song is a fun song from Sanam-51, a film in which Dev Anand and Suraiya were the lead pair and the music was by Husnlal Bhagatram.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The end of the 40s and middle of the 50s was the period in which many comedy and musical films were made. This was the Golden Era of HFM and the Indian audience was not only enjoying good music but also laughing out loudly with the comedy films. Actually,it was a reflection on a joyous nation, which got its Independence after a long time and with sacrifices. So,it was a time for making merry !
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Pee le pee le hari naam ka pyaala
Posted on: May 11, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Bengal has contributed significantly to Hindi Film Industry. Actors, actresses, directors, producers, Singers ,music directors etc from Bengal have enriched the Hindi films in all major categories.
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