Mere sajna sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
Posted on: November 30, 2023
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Hullo Atuldom
Vani Jairam (30th November 1945- 4th February 2023) was a playback singer who was known to easily adapt to any difficult composition & vocal range. She was the youngest artist to be awarded the “Sangeet Peet Samman”. She won the National Film Awards for Best Female Playback Singer three times and also has won State Government awards from the states of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. In 2012, she was honoured with the ‘Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South’ for her achievements in South Indian film music. She has recorded songs in most Indian languages except Sanskrit. She was well versed in various forms of music -Carnatic, Hindustani, thumri, ghazal, and bhajan. Apart from singing, she was also a songwriter, composer, and painter.
She was born “Kalaivani”, in Vellore, Madras Presidency of British India into a family of classically trained musicians as the fifth daughter among six daughters & three sons. She was attracted to Hindi film songs as she used to be glued to Radio Ceylon. It seems she used to memorize and reproduce the entire orchestration of the songs that used to repeatedly play on the Radio. At the age of 8 she is said to have given her first public performance on All India Radio Madras.
She was employed in a bank at the time of her marriage & managed a transfer to Mumbai. She started learning Hindustani Classical, on being persuaded by her husband, from Ustad Abdul Rehman Khan of Patiala Gharana, & gave a public concert in 1969. Around the same time, she was introduced to music composer Vasant Desai who was recording with Kumar Gandharva (at that time). He heard her voice & she got to sing along with Kumar Gandharva in that album which was well received by the Marathi audience. Her road to popular film music began in 1971 with “Guddi” for which her mentor Vasant Desai was the music director. She went on to sing for Chitragupta, Naushad, Madan Mohan, O.P. Nayyar, R.D. Burman etc. etc. Films from South India came into her kitty from 1973 when she recorded for music director S.M. Subbaiah Naidu, unfortunately neither that film nor that song was released. Her first released Tamil song was for a 1973 film which was with T M Soundararajan. 1973 also saw her sing for the Malayalam film ‘Swapnam’ under Salil Choudhary music direction. She was popular in Telugu, Kannada, Odia, Gujarathi, Marathi, Marwari, Bengali, Bhojpuri, etc.
She has around 250 songs to her name in Hindi films (I am clueless about her non-film songs). She is most remembered for her rendition of Meera bhajans under Pt. Ravi Shankar’s music direction for the 1979 film “Meera” for which she won her first Filmfare award of Best Playback Singer in 1980.
I could have easily picked a song from that film for today’s post- there are still 6 songs of that film to choose from. But I am also trying to remember the popular music director of the 1980s & part of 1990s with this post. Hindi film music lovers love him for many of his compositions but still hate the songs that he gave us post 1983. He was one music director who we just cannot ‘close our ears or eyes to’. Some purists didn’t like what he served us but we cannot deny that his ‘tohfa tohfa tohfa’, ‘nainon mein sapna’, ‘I am a disco dancer’, etc are popular even today. We love his ‘maathe ki bindiya boley’ as much as ‘sainyya bina ghar soona soona’. And the list of ‘loved songs’ by this composer may be bigger than the list of ‘not-so-loved’ songs.
I am sure readers would have guessed that I am referring to Bappi Lahiri who was born as Alokesh Lahiri in 1952 on November 27th. His parents were (also) singers & musicians. His maternal family included the Ganguly brothers i.e. Kishore Kumar, Anoop Kumar, Ashok Kumar were his maternal uncles & Amit Kumar is a cousin. He came to Mumbai at the age of 19, & first gave music to a Bengali film. His first Hindi film was ‘Nanha Shikaari’ (1973).
In my personal opinion the best song by Bappi Lahiri that Vani Jairam sang was this, which is already posted on our blog.
Today for Vani Jairam’s birth anniversary (she would have been 78) we shall have a song from the 1985 release “Wafadaar”. The songs of the film were written by Indeevar & Bappi Lahiri was the music director. It starred Rajnikanth, Padmini Kolhapure, Vijeta Pandit, Anupam Kher, Sushma Seth, Satyen Kappu, Ashalata Wabgaonkar, Asrani, Paintal, Dinesh Hingoo, Viju Khote & Kadar Khan with Shakti Kapoor. The film was directed by Dasari Narayan Rao & produced by Shrikant Nahata. I am sure it must have been a remake of some Telugu or Tamil film.
With two heroines the story may have been a love-triangle but the main plot was Anupam Kher plotting to obtain Sushma Seth’s wealth by wooing & marrying her daughter Padmini Kolhapure. For this he take the help of his servant Rajnikanth, who catches on to Anupam Kher’s intentions and protects Padmini, falls in love with her & marries her to happily-live-ever-after SIMPLE!
Let us listen to this melodious song in Vani Jairam’s voice which gives us a very different (for those times) Bappi Lahiri.
Audio
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Song-Mere sajna sang sang mujhe tum rakhna (Wafadaar)(1985) Singer-Vani Jairam, Lyrics-Indeewar, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Lyrics
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
o o
o o o
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
mere devta
tumse hi to
mere devta
tumse hi to
mandir hai mera angna aa
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
Seeta ke man mein Raam base jaise
mere man mein rahna sada tum aise
Seeta ke man mein Raam base jaise
mere man mein rahna sada tum aise
sukh dukh ke tum saathi mere kabhi juda na karna aa
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
mere devta
tumse hi to
mere devta
tumse hi to
mandir hai mera angna aa
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
chhoti si pyaari si bagiya hamaari
maange pyaar ki chhaaya tumhaari
chhoti si pyaari si bagiya hamaari
maange pyaar ki chhaaya tumhaari
laaj ki bindiya yoon hi chamke
sach ho har ek sapna aa
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
mere devta
tumse hi to
mere devta
tumse hi to
mandir hai mera angna aa
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
December 1, 2023 at 8:47 pm
Vani Jairam sang two songs for two films produced by Jayaprada`s producer Husband Srikant Nahatha at 1984 -1985 I remember…….
Haisiyat(1984) Dheere dheere subah huye jaag utthee zindagi(also got Yesudas Male version)
another film produced by Srikant Nahata is
Wafadaar 1985
audio link of record company:
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