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Din jaa rahe hain
Posted on: May 20, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The failure of Doosri Sita(1974) at the box-office resulted in the disappearance of the good musical score of this film from the collective memory. My favourite from this film is this highly melancholic background song.
I heard this song for the first time in the late 80s on an audio-cassette with Gulzar songs. The dramatic introduction led me to think that it is a ghost song. The advent of youtube brought the real situation to light. This is a background-song about the travails of a suffering woman at the hands of her husband (Raza Murad ?) and mother-in-law (who else but Lalita Pawar). This is but just an intermediate station to the whole tragedy.
Pacifist Immer, who has posted some guest posts on my blog helped me with the lines “apne saleeben aap hi uthaaye”. Thank you, Pacifist!
Song-Din jaa rahe hain (Doosri Sita)(1974) Singer- Lata Mangeshkar, Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-R D Burman
Lyrics
din jaa rahe hain
ke raaton ke saaye
apne saleeben aap hi uthhaaye
din jaa rahe hain
ke raaton ke saaye
apne saleeben aap hi uthhaaye
din jaa rahe hain
ke raaton ke saaye
jab koi doobaa
raaton ka saaya
koi saveraa
waapas na aayaa
waapas jo aaye
veeraan saaye
din jaa rahe hain
ke raaton ke saaye
jeenaa to koi
mushkil nahin thhaa
magar doobne ko
saahil nahin thha
saahil se koi
ab to bulaaye
din jaa rahe hain
ke raaton ke saaye
saanson ki dori
chhoote na toote
zara zindagi se
daaman to chhoote
koi zindagi ke
haath na aaye
din jaa rahe hain
ke raaton ke saaye
apne saleeben aap hi uthhaaye
din jaa rahe hain
Tu jahaan miley mujhe
Posted on: May 19, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Doosri Sita got released in 1974 and sank without a trace, taking with it the musical score. Only in the course of R D Burman revival, did the songs resurface again. I remember listening to them on radio in the late 70s and early 80s on Vividh Bharati. The name Doosri Sita, though never really registered itself in my mind.
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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.
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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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Kehna hai aaj tumse
Posted on: April 10, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
While Padosan (1968) is much more famous for its funny songs and “mere saamnewali khidki mein”, it has more to it than that. This Kishore Kumar solo for example often gets forgotten when people talk of the songs from this film.
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Meri pyaari Bindu
Posted on: April 9, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is my favourite comic song from Padosan (1968). It is simple and still so funny.
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Sharm aati hai magar
Posted on: April 8, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is Lata’s second solo number in the film Padosan (1968). It is interesting to note that there are no male-female duets in the film. The hero and heroine do not get any chance to sing with each other. No, not even across the street from their respective windows.
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Ek jaanib shamm e mehfil
Posted on: March 17, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This song from Abhilasha (1968) is not so well known like the other two featured songs on the blog here. It is a Rafi-Manna Dey duet. Roshan used this combination of voices brilliantly in his qawaalis. This song, I think is the first time that Pancham uses this pair of voices.
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Meri patni mujhe sataati hai
Posted on: March 12, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the song, where all the three comedians of the film are gathered together for a song. I think this is the only song in the Hindi film history where these three comedians par excellence have together in one song.
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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Chandi Sona (1977), as the name points out at, is a film about treasure hunt on an island. Most probably a desi version of a Hollywood film. Sanjay Khan in his independent ventures favoured R D Burman. Even in this film it is Pancham, who gives the music.
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