Ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi
Posted on: June 26, 2009
When one watches Kishore Kumar on screen, one expects him to sing in his own voice. But there are some rare cases where Kishore KUmar, like normal heroes, has sung in the voices of other playback singers.
In the past, I have posted songs where Kishore Kumar sang in the voices of Rafi and Manna Dey. To the best of my knowledge, these are the only two singers who gave playback for Kishore Kumar. In case there are more such singers, I have yet to find out about them. Can someone inform me if there are more such cases ?
Here is a song from “Shararat” (1959) where Kishore Kumar sings on a piano and sings a sad song in the voice of Rafi. One can see Raj Kumar among the listeners of the song.
PS-This song has another (Happier) version as well.
Shailendra is the lyricist and Shankar Jaikishan composed the music.
Part I
Part II
Song-Ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi (Shararat ) (1959) Singer-Rafi, Lyrics-Shailendra, MD-Shankar Jaikishan
Lyrics
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Part I
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ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi
ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi
kabhi hansaa diyaa rulaa diyaa kabhi
ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi
kabhi hansaa diyaa rulaa diyaa kabhi
ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi
kali khilne hi na paayi thhi
ke shaakh hi ujad gayi
abhi zara se thhe ke
hamse pyaari maa bichhad gayi
o aasmaan bata
o aasmaan bata
kiya hamne thha kya
jo mili ye saza
jo mili ye saza
ladakpan mein hi ye duniya luti
ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi
kabhi hansaa diyaa rulaa diyaa kabhi
ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi
tum aain maa ki maamta liye
to muskuraaye ham
ke jaise phir se apne bachpan mein laut aaye ham
tumhaare pyaar ke ae
tumhaare pyaar ke ae isi aanchal taley
phir se deepak jaley
phir se deepak jaley
dhala andhera jagi rashni
ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi
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Part II
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ajab hai daastaan teri ai zindagi
ajab hai daastaan teri ai zindagi
kabhi hansaa diyaa rulaa diyaa kabhi
ajab hai daastaan teri ai zindagi
tum aayi maan ki mamtaa liye to muskuraaye ham
ke jaise phir se apane bachapan me.n lauTa aaye ham
tumhaare pyaar ke
tumhaare pyaar ke
isi aanchal tale
phir se deepak jale
phir se deepak jale
dhalaa andheraa jagi roshni
ajab hai daastaan teri ai zindagi
kabhi hansaa diyaa rulaa diyaa kabhi
ajab hai daastaan teri ai zindagi
magar badaa hi sangdil hai ye maalik teraa jahaan
yahaan maan beton pe bhi log uthaate hai ungliyaan
kali ye pyaar ki
kali ye pyaar ki
jhulas ke raha gayi
har taraf aag thi
har taraf aag thi
hansaane aayi thi rulaakar chali
ajab hai daastaan teri ai zindagi
6 Responses to "Ajab hai daastaan teri ae zindagi"
June 27, 2009 at 12:30 pm
So this song has a happy version too ? I need to search for that.
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July 2, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I love both versions of this song! The happy and sad versions. It is lying somewhere in my blog too! Too lazy to search
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July 2, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Aah I remembered. I posted about songs sung by other singers on Kishore Kumar. This was one of the song in that post.
http://musicwizard.livejournal.com/tag/other+singers
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December 24, 2011 at 8:56 am
This song is not by Hasrat Jaipuri but by Shailendra, please make the correction asap
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June 27, 2009 at 12:59 am
This is a wonderful song. I have heard and seen the happy version of this song, where Kishore Kumar is seated at the piano and singing, but I didn’t realize that there was a sad version too. When I first heard this song, I was surprised to hear Rafi singing for Kishore Kumar, until I realized that I had heard the same combination in Raaginee, “Man mora banwaraa …” Wonder how KK felt about it?
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February 6, 2012 at 11:16 am
Happy version with Kishore kumar on Piano :
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