Bhool gaya sab kuchh yaad nahin ab kuchh
Posted on: February 25, 2024
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Ameen Sayani (21 December 1932- 20 February 2024) recently left for the heavenly abode on 20 february 2024. It goes without saying that Ameen Sayani was easily one of the most important personalities in the field of HFM. Instead of coming up with a hastily prepared article as a tribute to Ameen Sayani, I thought that I should pay him a tribute by discussing Binaca geetmala, a programme that was a musical phenomenon of our times. When we think of Ameen Sayani, we think of Binaca geetmala and vice versa.
But while most of us have heard of both, our recollections may have faded with time or may be we may not have gone into much details. Here I would like to go into some depth of Binaca geetmala and discuss facts about it that we may or may not be aware of.
Binaca geetmala programme had started on 3 december 1952. It was a wednesday. It was half an hour programme on Radio Ceylon from 8 PM to 8:30 PM. It covered seven songs. It was not a countdown programme at that time. It just had a collection of popular songs. It was sort of like chitrahar programme of today. The very first song that was played in the programme was Tu Ganga ki mauj main Jamuna kaa dhaara (Baiju Baawra) .
Instead of creating their own original signature tune, part of the song Pom pom pom baaja boley (Aasmaan) was used as signature tune of the programme.
Five programmes were broadcast on five wednesdays of 1952. All were half an hour programmes. At that time Binaca geetmala was not the programme that it subsequently evolved into.
After nearly one year and half, the format of the programme underwent a serious change in the middle of 1954. It became one hour programme from 8 PM to 9 PM. It became a countdown programme that began to play songs based on their popularity. Sixteenth most popular sung was played first whereas the most popular song was played last.
The programme did not just cover popular Hindi movie songs, it also added new words to the language that people spoke. The word “geetmala” itself was a creation of Ameen Sayani. He also came up with word like “Paaydaan”. Subsequently as the programme evolved further, he created words like “sartaaj geet”, “punar praveshi geet”, etc.
As Binaca geetmala became a countdown radio show towards the middle of 1954, the next logical evolution was analysing the popular songs of the year to come up with the sixteen most popular songs of the year and play that list on the last wednesday of the year. 29 December 1954 was the first time when final programme of Binaca Geetmala was broadcast. Sixteen songs were played. There were songs composed by Naushad (3), Hemant Kumar (3), C Ramchandra (2), O P Nayyar (2). There were one composition each of Avinash Vyas, Salil Chaudhary, Timir Baran, Ravi, Anil Biswas and S D Burman. S D Burman had just one song, but his one song had the distinction of becoming the winner of inaugural Binaca geetmala final programme. The song was Jaayen to jaayen kahaan (Taxi Driver) . This song has two versions. Male solo was sung by Talat Mehmood and female solo by Lata Mangeshkar. Sahir Ludhianvi was the lyricist.
Till end of 1956, only one final programme was being broadcast. But from 1957 onwards two final programmes began to be broadcast covering twice the number of songs. Penultimate programme of the year typically covered song number 32 to 17, whereas the highest ranked songs of the year were covered on the next wednesday viz the last wednesday of the year. The number of songs was not strictly fixed. It varied from 15 to 18 or so in annual programmes.
Popularity of songs were assessed based on sales of record as stated in the programme. It is not clear what was the methodology. They apparently took details from retail sellers of records. How the details were collected and how data were compiled to come up with the list every week is not known to us. A record has more than one song in it. How it was decided which song of the record was more popular than the other is not known to us. All this data processing in those pre computer days must have been quite a task and I wonder if Ameen Sayani had people to assist him in these tasks. I wonder if any of our readers have any information about it.
The other method of assessing the popularity of songs was by taking the views of “shrota sanghs”. When I read this explanation, I feel that the list preparation may not have been very rigourous and objective, seeing the logistical, technical and other challenges of those days.
During the early days, the songs could get included in the Binaca geetmala weekly programmes as many times as they could be based on their popularity. But 1966 saw a major change. In that year, a limitation was set that any song could be included for 18 times only and no further. It was then retired giving it the name of “Sartaj” geet. Unlike in the past when songs kept figuring in the programme for even two years (100 plus times), this limitation of cutting off a song from contention after one third of a year seemed unfair to many listeners. Ameen Sayani justified it by explaining that more songs got the opportunity to get represented in the programme by this new rule. The first song that was eased out of Binaca geetmala at the peak of its popularity by this new rule was Choo lene do naazuk hothon ko(Kaajal)(1965). Ultimately this song ended up as 13th in the final programme of the year.
I feel that record companies may have influenced this decision. If a popular song could be taken off from Binaca geetmala after one third of the year then potentially three times the number of songs would play in a year which meant potentially three times the number of records would sell. It is my guess. I request our knowledgeable readers to chip in with their opinions.
There were people who would try to note down the list of songs that were played in the programme. while most people would be unable to note down the lists from all programmes, there were some hardcore Binaca geetmala fans who would be able to note down the list of each and every programme. One such person was Mr Anil Bhargav of Jaipur. He noted down the list of songs played in all the 2081 programmes from 3 December 1952 till 4 april 1994, when the last Geetmala programme was broadcast.
Mr Anil Bhargav later wrote a book “Binaca Geetmala ka sureela safar” where he gives invaluable information about Binaca geetmala. I have used the content of this book heavily while collecting details on Binaca geetmala.
Personally I too tried to note down list of songs in weekly programmes but without much success because I missed out on listening to many programmes. It was the final programme that I (and lots of other music lovers) tried not to miss. I have given an account of how I got to listen to Binaca geetmala final programme of 1971 in this article:-, Zindagi ek safar hai suhaana (Andaaz).
Somewhere else, my would be brother in law was also into noting down the list of songs in Binaca geetmala. Much later, My wife got me some page from his notebook that contained the list of songs from the annual programme of 1971 or 1972. I have forgotten what year it was, as I have misplaced that sheet of paper. He by the way was a hardcore farmaish sender to Radio Ceylon, even though he was not from Jhumri Tilaiyya.
Incidentally, that brother in law of mine told me an interesting tale. They lived in Itarsi at that time in 1950s. He as a kid got a head injury while playing. He was urgently rushed to the nearest doctor who treated him and cured him. That Doctor was One Dr Nayyar, who was brother of music director O P Nayyar. 🙂
When one looks at the list of songs that appeared in the final programme of the various years, one notices some interesting facts. During the initial years, Hemant Kumar was the surprise topper among music directors. He had three songs in the final in the last week of 1954 and four songs in the final week of 1955.
By late 1950s , Shankar Jaikishan began to dominate. 1959 saw as many as 8 songs in the final being Shankar Jaikishan compositions. They repeated this feat in 1962 final as well. Laxmikant Pyarelal, who appeared in 1963 began to dominate towards the end of the decade of 1970s and beyond. They had 9 songs in the final wednesday of 1970. R D Burman had 8 songs in the final of 1973. All the songs in that final were composed by just four music directors, viz R D Burman (8), S D Burman (4), Laxmikant Pyarelal (4) and Kalyanji Anandji (3).
Just like we in our blog sometimes have dot days when no post appears, Binaca geetmala too sometimes failed to be broadcast on its appointed day and time. There were about 80 such occasions. Sometimes, older programme was played to fill in. For example the programme of 12 June 1974 was repeated on 19 june 1974 as well. Sometimes the day and time got changed. For example the programme scheduled for wednesday 4 december 1974 was broadcast on sunday 8 december 1974 at 13:00 hrs in the afternoon. In case of DOT wednesdays, the list of songs of that missing wednesday was read out in the next programme.
There were about 35 occasions when Ameen Sayani was unable to record a particular programme and that programme was recorded by some other announcer. Manohar Mahajan ( about 20 programmes), Gopal Sharma, Shiv Kumar Saroj, Vijay Kishore Dubey, Brajbhushan were the announcers. Personally I found it a let down because others were no match to Ameen Sayani as far as my opinion was concerned.
Year 1977 was silver jubilee year of Binaca geetmala. To mark the occasion, the two final episodes of the year had an enormously large number of songs, viz 42 songs, spread over two wednesdays. The final wednesday saw 21 songs being covered. The winner that year was Madan Mohan composition Koi patthar se naa maare mere deewaane ko (Laila Majnu) . It was the first and only time that a Madan Mohan composition reached the top of Binaca geetmala final but sadly Madan Mohan was not around to savour this success.
To mark the silver jubilee of the programme, three special programmes were broadcast on sundays (8 , 15 and 22 January 1978) between 11:00 hrs to 12:00 hrs where history of Binaca geetmala was covered. Special messages from important personalities were covered. This was a collectors’s item but sadly no recordings of these programmes were made available.
This year saw another major change in policy about playing of songs. From this year onwards, songs were allowed to play 25 times (instead of 18) before they were called “Sartaj” geet and retired. Till 18 times, the songs would be played fully and for the next seven occasions only their snippets (jhalki) would be played in the programmes. As a result, the number of songs being covered in a weekly programme became more than 16 songs, because of snippets of additional songs. “Ankhiyon ke jharokhon se(Ankhiyon ke jharokhon se)” became the number one song of the year in 1978.
The end of 1970s and beginning of 1980s saw the golden era of HFM coming to an end and the radio age too began to get eclipsed by TV at around the same time. Binaca geetmala slowly began to feel the heat. By that time Vividh Bharati radio stations had been set up in lots of places in India and they too had been allowed to air sponsored programmes. Under these changed circumstances, advertisers began to favour Vividh Bharati in place of Radio Ceylon (by now called SLBC).
On personal front, I too had begun to lose track of Binaca geetmala (as also Hindi movies). I do not feel that I may have missed much though, because the golden era of HFM was in any case behind us. Binaca geetmala kept being aired but Binaca geetmala of 1980s were not the same Binaca geetmala of yore. Binaca geetmala, in addition to being inundated by disco songs also opened its doors to non film songs. 12 August 1981 saw “Disco Deewaane” becoming the first non film song to get played in Binaca geetmala. Other songs of this album also began to get played in subsequent programmes and they even figured in the final programme of the year.
The songs that began to become the top songs in HFGK final programmes from 1981 onwards were quite lowbrow in quality in comparison to the songs of the past. 1981 topper was Mere angne mein tumhaara kya kaam hai (Laawaaris), 1982 topper was Angrezi mein kahte hain ki I love you (Khuddar) , 1983 topper was Shaayad meri shaadi ka khayaal dil mein aaya hai (Sautan). One can see that chaalu kind of songs had begun to find favour with music lovers.
Binaca geetmala on SLBC was renamed Cibaca geetmala with effect from 21 may 1986. It began to be broadcast on thursday from 27 october 1988 between 9 PM to 10 PM. From 6 april 1989, number of songs were reduced from 16 to 14.
All these were changes for the worse and these were signaling the decline of the programme in line with changing times. While the programme tried to continue gamely on SLBC, Vividh Bharti too saw Cibaca Sangeetmala being presented by Ameen Sayani from 6 november 1989. It was not quite Binaca geetmala. It was presented on Vividh Bharati (24 stations) on monday at 9 PM.
Finally, 4 april 1994 saw the last broadcast of Cibaca geetmala. That finally brought down curtains on an iconic radio programme that had a marathon run of 42 years (2081 programmes), almost all presented by just one individual namely Ameen Sayani. Ameen Sayani was 20 when he began the programme. He was 62 when the programme finally came to an end.
End of an era indeed.
I decided that I should discuss a Binaca geetmala finalist song with this writeup. When I began to search for songs that have figured in Binaca geetmala finals, I kept scanning songs after songs years after years beginning from 1954. I found that all the finalist songs from 1954 onwards have been covered in the blog. In fact, not just the songs, even the movies that the songs were from have been YIPPEED in the blog.
Finally my search ended in the list of songs in the year 1975. Here is a song from the Binaca geetmala final 1975.
When I reveal what song I am going to discuss, I expect regulars to gasp with surprise and exclaim how come this song was not posted till now.
The song is from “Julie”(1975). “Julie”(1975) was produced by A Chakrapani and B Nagi Reddy and directed by K S Sethumadhavan for Vijaya Productrions private Limited, Madras. This movie, billed as “A Bold daring true-to-life story of young love” had Lakshmi(aka Laxmi),Vikram (aka Vikram Makandar),Nadira, Utpal Dutt, Achala Sachdev, Rita Bhaduri, Jalal Agha, Rajendra nath, Om Prakash, Sridevi, Umesh Sharma, Master Satyajeet, J.N.Anand, Udaya Lakshmi, A.Abdul Hameed, C.J.Anand, Sulochana senior(aka Ruby Myers) etc in it.
“Julie”(1975) had five songs in it. Three songs have been covered so far. The last song from the movie was covered exactly 10 years and one month ago on 25 January 2014.
Here is this iconic song from “Julie”(1975). This song is sung by Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. Anand Bakshi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Rajesh Roshan.
The song is picturised on Lakshmi(south fame) and Vikram.
Lyrics of the song and other details were sent to me by Prakashchandra.
This song was third in the Binaca geetmala final programme of 1975 (broadcast on 31 december 1975).
Today is the 5700th day of this blog. On this occasion, we pay our tribute to the great legend Ameen Sayani and thank him for providing us with decades of musical bliss. You will remain in our hearts all the time.
audio link (longer):
video link:
Song-Bhool gaya sab kuchh yaad nahin ab kuchh (Julie)(1975) Singers-Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Rajesh Roshan
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
bhool gaya sab kuchch
hmm hmm mmm
bhool gaya sab kuchch
yaad nahin ab kuchch
oho o
hmm..mmm
hey aey hey aey
ek yehee baat na bhoolee ee
Julie ee ee
aa aaa aaa aa aa aaaa
I love you
aa aa aa aa aa aa
bhool gayee sab kuchch
yaad nahin ab kuchch
oho o
hmm..mmm…mm oho o o o ho o o o
ek yehee baat na bhoolee ee ee
Julie aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa
Julies loves you
aa aaa aaa aaaa
aa aaa aaaa
aa aaa aaa aaaa
aa aaa aaa aaaa
itna bhi door mat jaao oo
ke paas aanaa aa mushqil ho
ho o o ho
itna bhi paas mat aao oo
ke door jaanaa aaa mushqil ho
jaaney bhi do kahaa maano meraa
aisaa lagaa badan chhoo ke teraa
koyi chingaari chhoo lee eee
Julie ee ee
aa aaa aaa aaa aaa aaa
I love you
aaaa aaa aa aa aa aaaa
aisa na ho tadap tadap ke
ye pyaar pyaasaa aaa mar jaaye ae
ho o o o
aisa na ho hum donon ko
ye shaam ruswaa aa kar jaaye..ae
achchaa to main ye zid chhod doon bolo
achcha main ye qasam tod doon bolo
baat hai ye maamoolee ee ee
Julie ee
aaa aaa aaa aa aaaa aaa
Julie loves you
aa aaa aaa aaaa
aaa aaa aaa
bhool gaya sab kuchch
hmm hmm mmm hmmm mmm
bhool gaya sab kuchch
yaad nahin ab kuchch
oho o
hmm mm
hey aey ae ae
ek yehee baat na bhoolee eee
Julie ee ee ee
aa aaa aaa aa aa
I love you
aaaa aaa aa aaa
aaa aaa aaa
hmmm mmmm mmmm
ho o oo ho
hmmm mmm
hmmm mmm mmm
aaa aaaaa aaaaa aa
hmmm mmm mmmm mmm
4 Responses to "Bhool gaya sab kuchh yaad nahin ab kuchh"
February 26, 2024 at 4:48 pm
Sir,
After reading your interesting article 7-8 times, I have prepared a simple quiz of 10 questions for music lovers. Sample questions are as follows:
Q1) What was the reason behind the limitation set in 1966 regarding the inclusion of songs in Binaca Geetmala?
Options:
a) To encourage more diversity in song selection
b) To increase record sales
c) To prevent songs from becoming overplayed
d) To promote new artists
Q2) In which year did Shankar Jaikishan begin to dominate the final programs of Binaca Geetmala?
Options:
a) 1959
b) 1962
c) 1970
d) 1973
Q3) What was the major change in song policy that occurred in 1978 regarding the playing of songs in Binaca Geetmala?
Options:
a) Songs were allowed to play 25 times before being retired
b) Non-film songs were excluded from the program
c) The number of songs played weekly was reduced
d) Ameen Sayani retired from hosting the show”
Q4) What marked the end of the Binaca Geetmala program?
a) Ameen Sayani’s retirement
b) Introduction of television
c) Renaming to Cibaca Geetmala
d) Final broadcast on 4 April 1994
August 4, 2024 at 10:13 am
Lovely article Atul ji. Radio Days were great. Unfortunately, today people are gravitating towards visual mediums and that too of shorter duration. Itminaan nahin raha jeevan mein logon ke.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
February 26, 2024 at 4:32 pm
Atul Sir,
Your comprehensive exploration of Binaca Geetmala and the tribute to Ameen Sayani is truly commendable. The depth of detail and passion for preserving the legacy of this iconic radio program shines through every paragraph. Your meticulous research and engaging narrative style made it a captivating read.
This information is an interesting read for all age groups who love Hindi film music of the Golden era.
Request your permission to use excerpts from your insightful notes for a quiz program in our private weekly gathering aimed at our society’s senior citizens. Your expertise would greatly enhance our event, and proper credit will be given.
Thanks for such wonderful writeup.
Gandhi Vadlapatla
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February 26, 2024 at 5:18 pm
Thanks for appreciation. Please go ahead using the details in your quiz etc.
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