20 Responses to "Bolo kaanha bolo chhalia"
July 17, 2014 at 10:36 am
Excellent pick Shekharbhai! You reminded me of Doordarshan time when I had heard her for the first time. The wave that she had created with Damadam mast kalander…. was phenomenal.
My other favorites of hers are
Bole re papihara…
Ranjish hi sahi….
Badra leja neer hamaare….. (My fav no. 1)
Thanks again. 🙂
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July 20, 2014 at 10:56 am
Thanks, Khyatiji, for posting other – and better known – Runa Laila numbers above. – Shekhar
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July 17, 2014 at 10:40 am
Sir, heartiest Congratulations on this special occassion. always enjoyed and loved your posts.
Since last three years i hv been in this up down process for 60*2 km in ST and it becomes more enjoyable when we get to listen songs of yesteryears.
And finally Many Congratulations on finding this song. All our beautiful quests gets shared at this common platform provided by Shri.Atul ji.
Thanks and with best regrads,
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July 17, 2014 at 1:54 pm
What a beautiful song! Hearing it for the first time.
Thank you so much for this, Shekhar Guptaji.
Can understand why you so badly wanted to get hold of this song again.
Thanks for the write-up too.
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July 20, 2014 at 11:05 am
Dear Rajaji, I am glad to be able to bring something worthwhile to someone who has given us music lovers so much through this Blog. Best rgds, Shekhar
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July 17, 2014 at 2:59 pm
She and Reshma was a real threat to M sisters so they sent her packing.
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July 17, 2014 at 6:24 pm
I myself remember searching for not a song but a person in Bhopal.
About a decade or so I read an editorial in Times of India:
After completing the road tender in Indore by ECC(L&T) their engineer went to the Incharge for the balance 5% payment. He was asked ‘mera kitna?’. Upon inquiring with Mumbai HO he was advised to offer an amount. The incharge instructed the accounts Dept to deduct the amount while making the cheque. He was not asking for himself but for the Indore Municipality(Palasia) where he was working!!!!
I was trying to search the great person by asking top people in Indore like Shekharji did for the song. Every year I used to go to Indore(being son-in-law) but to no avail. In 2011 visit I was coming back to Indore from Dewas by bus after demo of my meter, I was watching this senior gentleman talking to the conductor animatedly about the buses he had given on hire after retirement. I just asked him where he was working he said Irrigation Dept.
I shot in the dark. I retold the above story. He exclaimed that it had to be Md Hussein(if I remember the name rightly)his boss; so MH was a younger person. He sang paeans about his honesty and khuddari. He told me another story of his straight forwardness.
There was a scheme that if a town collected x (5%)amount Central Govt. would contribute 95% for the development of the town, So Dhar(MP) town collected 5 crores(50 million). To collect the balance amount this gentleman was deputed by MH to collect the cheque from New Delhi. Again ‘mera kitna’ He reports to MH who in turn orders him to be back to Indore. MH wrote a strong email to the boss at Delhi about the incident that if doesn’t get a reply MH will assume that the boss is also party to the incident. MH receives immediate reply to collect the cheque. Great na!
I google MH and wrote email eulogizing his deeds but alas there was no reply. Perhaps he was too shy to reply.
Now I am not able to google him nor able to zero on to the email. I told the worthies in Indore to honour him at our Gujarati Annual Gathering.
Can any of our bloggers in Bhopal pin him down. Hats off to the great MH. Tujhe salaam MH.
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July 17, 2014 at 8:50 pm
Thanks Shekhar ji for sharing this beautiful song.
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July 18, 2014 at 11:53 am
Beautiful song, thank you. Runa sounds very different here. Had her film songs only.
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July 20, 2014 at 11:09 am
You’re welcome, Arpanaji. Glad you liked it. – Shekhar
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9 | Bharat Upadhyay
July 18, 2014 at 10:23 pm
When this song by Runa Laila came on Door Darshan, in ‘Mehfil-e-Gazal’, I was one of the first to record it on my cassette recorder (I had taken out the audio output from my TV, which was not a standard feature then) I underwent huge mailing expense sending audio cassettes to all of my relatives in India and abroad. I included as many runa’s song that I could gather then..Runa also sang ‘Mai Jaanyu Naahi, which Years later came out in Lata’s voice in ‘Chand Grahan’ album. Jaidev must have recorded Lata’s song first, but since the film was abandoned, he made Runa to sing it on TV.
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July 20, 2014 at 11:02 am
Dear Bharatjji, IF the version of this song in your collection is of better audio quality than on YouTube, would it be possible for you to send it to chandrashekhargupta@gmail.com as a MP3 clp, please? – Tkx n rgds, Shekhar
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December 28, 2015 at 8:04 pm
I found a better quality mp3 audio clip on Bharat Upadhyayji’s Program on Dr. Surjit Singh’s web-site at . Enjoy!
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December 28, 2015 at 8:09 pm
Sorry, the link is at http://hindi-films-songs.com/main/song6/30_15_Non-Film_Runa_Laila_Bolo_Bolo_Kanha_Bolo_Chhaliya_DD.mp3.
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May 31, 2022 at 5:37 am
This bhajan is based on Kannada song, by Jaydev, lyrics by Ku.ra.si.
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May 21, 2023 at 11:23 am
When I listened this Bhajan sung by Ms.Runalila,I too recalled this tune used in the Kannada Movie”Kalpa Vriksha”,the music director of this kannada movie was Sh.Jayadev.With the lyrics by the versatile and creative Kannada film personality,Late Ku,Ra Seetharama Shastry(he directed this movie also).However in the Kannada movie the song is not a Bhajan ,but a romantic duet(if my memory serves me right)
Kannada movie came to screen in 1969.And hence it appears that Sh.Jayadev composed the tune (in Raaga Shankara) first in Kannada movie ;thereafter, he might have used the same tune for Hindi Bhajan,in 1974(or so)
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July 17, 2014 at 8:34 am
This song is worth a chase for a decade. Thanks Shekhar for bringing this to the wider audience of this blog.
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July 20, 2014 at 10:54 am
You are welcome, Sadanandji. It was a relentless chase of four long decades for this number. The only consolation in the meantime was that my wife could capture the tune and remembered the mukhda … and would sometimes sing it for me. – Shekhar
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