Baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
Posted on: June 1, 2009
In 1950s, we had a few movies which showed musical showdown by two musicians. Both of them would contest against each other trying to score musical brownie points, before the hero ( singing in the voice of a mainstream singer) would be adjusted to have won against the lesser actor ( singing in the voice of a classical singer).
These musical fights were similar to physical fights that became popular in later decades where Amitabh Bachchan would be shown fighting Shetty and defeating him.
For those who have seen Shetty- Amitabh Bachchan fights, one would realise that there was no way Amitabh Bachchan would have lasted more than a few seconds against Shetty. But these movies being Bollywood movies, hero wins and the aam janta is happy.
These musical fistifights were no different, to my mind. Sometime ago, I had posted a song from “Basant Bahaar” (1956) where hero Bharat Bhooshan sings in Manna Dey’s voice and beats another singer singing in the voice of Pt. Jasraj. It was like Amitabh Bachchan beating not Shetty but the undertaker !
This song is another such contest from the movie “Rani Roopmati”(1959). In this song the hero sings in the voice of Rafi and the other singer is classical vocalist Pt Krishnarao Chonkar, who not only sings but acts in the picturisation too.
Here is this nice song, which was written by Bharat Vyas. S N Tripathi was the music director.
Video
Audio
Song-Baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari(Rani Roopmati) (1959) Singers-Rafi, Krishnarao Chonkar, lyrics-Bharat Vyas, MD-S N Tripathi
Lyrics
aa aaa aaa
aaa
baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
he aiso hai bedardi banwaari
baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
he tohe bedardi banwaari
aiso hai nidar, darat na kaahoon se langar
aiso hai nidar, darat na kaahoon se langar
apne dhingaa-dhingi karat hai dagar
he more raam, he more raam, he more raam
baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
baat chalat itne dinan mein mose kabahoon na atakyon
aa aa aa, baat chalat
itne dinan mein mose kabahoon na
aa aa aa, baat chalat
itne dinan mein mose kabahoon na atakyon
nit prati jaat galin mein subah shaam
aawat phaagun itraat jaat de-de taari
he more raam, he more raam, he more raam
baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari re
chunari rang daari re
chunari rang daari re
chunari rang daari
baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
dha, pa ma ga re saa ni saa, re ga ma pa dha, pa
dha pa, ma ga, re saa, saa ga re ma saa ma ga
pa dha nii dha ma ga, ma dha ni saa, aaa
baat chalat nayi chunari rang
baaaa
baat chalat aaaa
baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari
aaaa aaaa
baat
aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa
7 Responses to "Baat chalat nayi chunari rang daari"
December 20, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Are you sure this is a competition? I haven’t seen the film yet, but to me this seems more like Bharat Bhushan’s character learning from his guru.
July 28, 2012 at 1:06 am
Same song in great voice of (1) Malika Pukhraj, (2) Geeta Dutt (3) Rafi Saab/Krishnarao Chonkar…
baat chalat nai chunri
Singer: Geeta Dutt…film ladki 1950…music: Dhani ram
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNAvxBsyrM
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May 5, 2017 at 12:21 pm
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July 4, 2021 at 5:15 am
It is quite surprising that although this song has been posted 10 years back, yet it has gone unnoticed that the classical singer who sang the BASANT BAHAR song alongwith with Manna De is Bhimsen Joshi and not Pt. Jasraj
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March 17, 2022 at 4:49 pm
This is not a competition. Bharat Bhushan is learning.
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March 18, 2022 at 6:50 am
Thank you Deepakji for commenting here. It highlighted the song. I heard it for the first time and am surprised it speaks to Raam and is not a Radhe-Krishn song.
Happy Holi
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June 1, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I had not heard this song before and I really enjoyed it.
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