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This article is her 600th post in the blog.
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Hullo Atuldom
Dharamdev Anand, better known as Dev Anand, gave us a few songs that may have become life-mantra for many of his fans as well as followers of Hindi film music.
‘har fikr ko dhuyen mein udaata chala gaya’ , ‘hans tu hardam khushiyan ya gham’ are examples of life-mantra songs that are my personal favourites.
‘hai apna dil toh awaara na jaane kispe aayega’ would have been the song on the lips of many youngsters along with ‘pal bhar ke liye koi humein pyar karle’.
I would add songs like ‘phoolon ka taaron ka sabka kehna hai’, ‘choodi nahi mera dil hai’, ‘dheere se jaana khatiyan mein re khatmal’, ‘ruk jaana o jaana humse do baatein karte chali jaana’, etc. to any of the personal playlists that I may have written about in many of my previous posts on occasions like Devsaab’s birth or death anniversaries.
Devsaab would have been 100 this year and he may have still been making movies that his heart dictated (had he been around & in good health). I cannot imagine what would be the contents of those movies. In the last few years of his career he acted, produced & directed ‘Main Solah Baras Ki’ (1998), ‘Censor’ (2001), ‘Love at Times Square’ (2003), ‘Mr. Prime Minister’ (2005) & ‘Chargesheet’ (2011); I am not sure of the fate of these at the Box-Office. But he died of cardiac arrest in London on 3rd December 2011, at the age of 88 and we are not sure what we have missed. Gosh! it is 12 years already!
Dev Anand was known to have introduced a lot of new talent to the industry. His 1998 film ‘Main Solah Baras Ki’ was no different. In fact, it was the story of a filmmaker who is on the lookout for a new actress to star in his upcoming Bollywood movie. When he makes an announcement, many Indian women and men all over the world wait with bated breath to see who the lucky woman was going to be. The filmmaker does not find anyone in India, so he decides to tour U.K., and meets with beautiful Tina (Neeru Bajwa), who he casts in his next film. While meeting Tina, he also meets 16-year-old Madhu Mehra (Shaista Usta) in U.K., who also wants to act in his movie called “Main Solah Baras Ki”. The common thing between them is that both- Madhu & Tina- share the same birth date (the year is different); Dev likes Madhu, while Madhu loves Dev, and will do anything to make him notice her as a woman, not as a teen. The question is whether this veteran actor can decide to hold onto his own, while this charming teenager turns on her charm on him.
Jas Arora, Supriya Karnik, Deepak Tijori, Ananth Mahadevan, Tanuja, Harish Patel, A.K. Hangal, Satyen Kappu, Shashikala were the rest of the cast. Rajesh Roshan was the music director & Amit Khanna was the lyricist. Kavita Krishnamurthy, Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal, Kumar Sanu & Alka Yagnik were the playback singers used.
Some small interesting trivia:- Tanuja acted in this Navketan Film almost 30 years after ‘Jewel Thief’. Amit Khanna & Rajesh Roshan came together in a Dev Anand movie 18 years after ‘Manpasand’ & ‘Lootmaar’.
I had zeroed in on a song, which was something like a ghazal, by Udit Narayan to go with this post. The song was nice on the ears but the choreography was something that I couldn’t understand. Then I saw ‘hulchal macha di tune hulchal’ which was also in Udit Narayan’s voice & it also had Devsaab’s trademark smile, mannerisms & twinkle-in-the-eye. So, let us see this 25-year-old song where a (then) 75-year-old Devsaab was still charming. We also see Shaista Usta donning a Army-Major look almost like Devsaab of ‘Hum Dono’ (1961). I think I also heard Dev Anand’s voice at the start of the song; mouthing ‘yeh aankhen uff yumma’.
With this song we also (belatedly) wish Udit Narayan with health & happiness. His birthday was on 1st December.
As I was writing this post a thought struck me. The first time I came across this blog called atulsongaday.me was because my daughter asked me about a song from a Dev Anand film -‘Manzil’ (1960). She asked me for the exact words of the song ‘chupke se miley pyaase pyaase’. She posted a request to Atulji who gave the details in this post.
My journey continued with occasionally commenting to songs posted. One fine day, in 2012, I sent the lyrics to a songfrom ‘Taxi Taxie’ and followed it with another song.
Mere yaar ko mere Allah de ek chaand sa pyaara lalla (Dacait) was my first post ever on the blog. I remember what I had sent him was one long unstructured post. Atulji, was good enough to edit it to look readable (he still has to do it sometimes). Plus the lyrics that I had sent had to be corrected for spellings etc. But, I used to still send lyrics of those songs which I thought everyone will like & enjoy.
Sometime in the first 2 years of my journey as a contributor, I started writing posts only for occasions like festivals, birth & death anniversaries, and my 100th post came with this Sanjeev Kumar-Vidya Sinha song from “Hiraasat”. That first 100 took me a little over three years:- three years & two months to be exact.
My 200th post came in two years with a post for Zeenat Aman’s birthday.
This song, after a year and nine months, was my 300th post.
My 400thpost was also for Dev Anand’s anniversary in 2020 (it took one year and four months).
My fastest 100, the 500th, came with this song; which took just a year and two months.
hulchal
macha di toone hulchal
hai chanchal
khila khila har pal
hai
hulchal
macha di toone hulchal
hai chanchal
khila khila har pal
hain naina madhu tere naina aa
loote hain re chaina
hulchal
macha di toone hulchal
hai chanchal
khila khila har pal
hain naina madhu tere naina aa
loote hain re chaina
o ho ho ho ho ho
hahahahahaha
subah ki tu shabnam
saanjh ki hai sargam
pariyon ka khwaab hai
sapnon ka sangam m
kahin kisi vaadi mein khili ho koi kali
ya sooni raahon mein ho koi shamma jali
hey boloon kya boloon kya aur kya boloon main bolo
hulchal
macha di toone hulchal
hai chanchal
khila khila har pal
hain naina madhu tere naina aa
loote hain re chaina
sandali si aag hai
chaandni ka raag hai
halka sa hai nasha
mehka hua baagh hai
door gagan mein ho
jaise koi taara
ya kisi jheel mein
chalta shikaara
hey
jhoome re jhoome re jhoome re jag ye saara
hulchal
macha di toone hulchal
hai chanchal
khila khila har pal
hain naina madhu tere naina aa
loote hain re chaina
Nalini Ji,
With this post , what is the count of your posts? ( 500 +?) 🙂
Though I adored ( and still do for his earlier films) Dev Anand, his later films produced by him were low on quality.
🙂 this is post number 500+100.
You are correct about Dev Anand’s films post 1985. Actually some of them were successful even post 1985, but content wise they were his own bucket list.
I was in Kohima for attedning the week-long Annual Hornbill Festival when I read the sad news of passing away of Dev Anand early in the morning in London. I do not know as to why I felt that Dev Anand wished to have his low key funeral.
He was popular even in Nagaland. My tourist taxi driver repeated the news to me. Hyper active even in his 1980s I thought he would reach into 90s without much hicups.
Heartiest Congratulations Peevesie’s Mom ji on your 600th post on the blog. Sorry for the delayed response from my end. Thanks for the this post on Dev Anand with a song by sung by Udit Narayan. I was not aware of this song. It is a nice song to listen to. I wish you all the best for your future posts and hope they will keep coming more frequently further.
Regards,
This blog discusses Bollywood songs of yesteryears. Every song has a brief description, followed by a video link, and complete lyrics of the song. This is a labour of love, where “new” songs are added every day, and that has been the case for over SEVENTEEN years. This blog has more than 19700 song posts by now. This blog is active and online for over 6000 days since its beginning on 19 July 2008.
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December 3, 2023 at 8:21 am
Nalini Ji,
With this post , what is the count of your posts? ( 500 +?) 🙂
Though I adored ( and still do for his earlier films) Dev Anand, his later films produced by him were low on quality.
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December 3, 2023 at 9:42 am
🙂 this is post number 500+100.
You are correct about Dev Anand’s films post 1985. Actually some of them were successful even post 1985, but content wise they were his own bucket list.
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