Chhod mat jaiyyo ji mahaaraaj
Posted on: May 3, 2016
This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Sureelee Suman – 12
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I will narrate a story that I heard long back and since both the persons I am going to talk about are no more living, I am sure I will not be contradicted. (We all know the person who talks about being chummy and very close to all non-living persons)
Any way, the story goes like this:
During a Music Directors Association get together, Sajjadji came a little late and seeing Madan Mohan seating quietly in a corner rushed to him little angrily, with the accusation that Madanji’s “Tujhe Kya Bataaun Main Dilruba” was a blatant copy of his “Yeh Hawa Yeh Raat Yeh Chandani”. Madanji quetly replied that he is proud that he has copied the great musician Sajjadji and not some ‘aire-gaire’. That was very diplomatic of Madanji, which brought peace and smile on every lips present there.
Long back, during a presentation of mine about old film songs, in Bombay, (now Mumbai) I had uttered “Gaane jo Sweet thhe, Sweet hi rahenge”. Naturally, I never thought of getting the copyright of that phrase and when I came back after twenty years from States, I was shocked to find a slightly variation of my phrase being used repeatedly almost every minute on a pop radio station!!
Almost all of Suman Kalyanpur’s Non-Film creations were sweet then and will always remain sweet.
RPG (HMV, earlier) had published a Non-Film Album viz, ‘Swar Bahar’ in 1970. Most of the lyrics were by Meerabai with few by Anjaan and Yogesh. MD Shyam Sharma had set the sweet tunes to all these Bhajans. Who can be sweeter than Sureelee Suman to render this simple worded Bhajan ?
Song –Chhod Mat Jaiyo Ji Maharaaj (Suman Kalyanpur NFS) (1970) Singer -Suman Kalyanpur, Lyrics – Meerabai, MD– Shyam Sharma
Lyrics
chhod mat jaiyo o o ji maharaaj
chhod mat jaiyo ji maharaaj
chhod mat jaiyo
main ablaa bal naahi gunsaayi
main ablaa bal naahi gunsaayi
tum samrath mahaaraj
chhod mat jaiyo ji maharaaj
chhod mat jaiyo ji mahaaraaj ho o o o
main gunheen
gun naahin gunsaanyi
main gunheen
gun naahin gunsaanyi
tum hirday ke saanch
tum hirday ke saanch
chhod mat jaiyo ji maharaaj
chhod mat jaiyo ji maharaaj ho oo o
tumhri hoy ke kit re jaaun
tumhri hoy ke kit re jaaun
tum hi mere sartaaj
meera ke prabhu
meera ke prabhu aur naa koi
rakhiyo ab hi laaj
chhod mat jaiyo ji maharaaj
chhod mat jaiyo ji maharaaj ho oo o
6 Responses to "Chhod mat jaiyyo ji mahaaraaj"
May 3, 2016 at 9:56 am
I had heard the following incident long ago in Mumbai. Roshan’s song ‘Rahen na rahen hum’ from the film Mamta became a big hit. It seems S.D.Burman rang up Roshan and complimented him.. Roshan simply said that he had copied this tune from Dada’s own ‘Thandi hawayein leharaake aayen’ from the film Naujawan. It seems Burman Da replied that after all there were only seven swaras and they were all copying all the time, so what was the big thing about Roshan having taken a tune from him!
I do not know how far this is true,but the incident throws light on the greatness of the great masters.
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May 3, 2016 at 10:39 am
R Nanjappa ji,
there are many many such cases of copying tunes. Nashad-not Naushad- once said about copying tunes…
“Although no one says it to my face, I know that there is a section in the film industry who decry my music as “a re-hash of familiar tunes.”
This amounts to a charge of plagiarism.
I have no defense, no apology, to offer, except to say that, if am a plagiarist, I am one unconsciously.
With only seven main notes, six ragas, thirty-six raginis and seventy-two sub-raginis, every “new” musical composition is bound to sound familiar in places.
Try to hum any popular film composition of today and then cast back your mind. Make a careful search for a parallel and you will easily find one in some celebrated songs of yesterday.”
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May 7, 2016 at 12:48 pm
BTW the song (Mamta)was hated by Ashok Kumar when he heard for the first time. Then it caught on him.
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May 3, 2016 at 7:47 am
Absolutely Divine, and very sweet indeed
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