About this blog
I am Atul, an India based male in my 40s.My interests are similar to the interests of a typical Indian- Bollywood, cricket, politics etc.
I already have two blogs under my belt- squarecutsblog.blogspot.com is where I discuss music in general, and I used atulblog.wordpress.com for humour. Now I felt the need for a blog where I could express my admiration of certain bollywood songs that I simply love.
In this blog I will discuss some wonderful songs that I have had the privilege of listening to, over the years.Here I will discuss the songs, (including its lyrics and its translation into English), and my reasons why I like the song.I hope that there are many like minded people who will find these discussions interesting.
Your comments are welcome. Or you may email me at squarecut.atul@gmail.com
Now you can email me at contact@atulsongaday.me
Update ( on 3 october 2008 )
I thank all the visitors of this blog for their encouragement. This blog has been regularly clocking more than 300 visits daily ( best being 506 visits a day). The home page now has a google page rank of 4. Many individual posts ( posted before 14 septeber 2008 ) now have google page ranks of 3 and some even 4. All this is entirely because of the readers of this blog.
I take this opportunity to thank all my visitors and I assure you all that I will try to live up to your expectations in future also. Please give your suggestions so that I may be able to improve this blog, which is a labour of love for me.
Update on 1 January 2009
I wish all my readers and their near and dear ones a happy new year. May this new year be the best ever for you.
I thank all my readers for patronising this blog and encouraging me by their visits, comments, and farmaishes.
Thanks to your encouragement, this labour of love now has as many as 480 outstanding Bollywood songs ( as on 1 january 2009) and growing at a good pace. This blog is clocking over 500 visits daily ( maximum being 995 in one day).
I thank all my visitors once again and assure you all that I will continue to bring more such songs regularly for your reading, listening and viewing pleasures.
Update on 12 november 2009
Now, the blog has over 2150 songs as on now. The traffic has also increased. Now the blog gets over 1500 hits a day on an average and the highest hit in a day has been 2301. The blog does very well on search engines for relevant searches. It is heartening to see the blog growing so nicely. Hopefully we will have exciting days ahead of us.
Update on 28 march 2010
Since november 2009, when I posted my last update, I have slowed down in my rate of posting. Still, 2365 number of songs as of now is quite a lot of songs.
I find that the number of visitors to this blog has stabilised to an average figure of around 1500 visits daily (2320 being the highest number of visits in a day), which works out to just under 50,000 visitors per month. This blog has received nearly 7,00,000 visits since it was started.
I may have slowed down, but Hopefully it is just the lull before the storm. There are still tens of thousands of great songs yet to be covered which will take a lifetime. In other words, I will be kept busy posting songs for a long long time and there is no possibility that I will be running out of songs to post any time soon.
Acknowledgements:
In this blog, I embed audio/video links from sites like youtube and dailymotion etc. I gratefully acknowledge the efforts and contributions that the uploaders of these songs make in making these songs available to us for our pleasure and enjoyment. Without these links, this blog would not be what it is.
I also provide information about songs that is culled from different sources, mostly by googling. I acknowledge their contributions too, which helps me provide some useful information about the songs that I discuss.
PS- Sometimes I get comments where new visitors ask me to send them various songs. I will like to point it out that this blog is a place to discuss songs and I am not in a position to send links to songs or the songs themselves. As can be seen, this blog is a labour of love where I discuss songs with people (many of them becoming good internet friends with me), and not a place to share download links.
Disclaimer– I would like to believe that I have a sense of humour. Raja in fact has coined a term “Atulism” for this kind of humour. I often love to make light hearted comments about movies, songs, actors etc in my discussion of the songs. They are needed to be taken as such and should not be misconstrued as anything serious. I love to make light hearted observations and those observations need to be treated as such.
It has been made amply clear that this blog is a labour of love where we value the oldtime virtues of honesty and transparancy. By now we have a core group of regulars who are making invaluable contributions voluntarily through various means, viz sending lyrics, writeups, informations etc. Music lovers who are willing to join this music bandwagon are welcome.
Music lovers who are willing to contribute lyrics should ensure that their contributions are original in the sense that they should have listened to the lyrics themselves and noted them down. Please do not send incorrect/ incomplete lyrics copied from elsewhere on internet calling them your contributions. We in this blog are very particular about the completeness and accuracy of lyrics that are being posted.
Update on 27 december 2011
The primary domain name of this blog is now atulsongaday.me
Hopefully it is easier to remember for users.
636 Responses to "About this blog"
Thanks to Memsaab, here I am! What a wonderful site!
Some of my fav songs have already been requested by Rajawaminathan!
My farmaish: from Barsaat ki Raat, if you can, I’ve had no luck:
“Mayus toh hun waade se tere, Kuchh aas bhi hai aur aas nahin”
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Hi Atul,
I am back…as you can see from your comments overload. 🙂
Just realised that there is another Shammi fan here.
And a massive one at that !!!
Great…
Here are some Shammi requests from me, Atul.
– husn chala kuchh aisi chaal (Bluffmaster). Already requested this but no success. You don’t like it ? If you like, I will even do the English translation for you. Actually, I just found a youtube video which has the English transliteration already.
– dheere chal dheere chal (Boy Friend) : Shammi is in his element here…and Madhubala’s smile is to kill for…the song is really catchy…I just love it.
– na rutho na rutho (Jawan Mohabbat)
– main chali main chali (Professor) (I find a youtube posting already with transliteration)
– khuli palak mein (Professor)
That’s a start….
Hey, if you would like any help with transliteration, I would be glad to help. It is a lot of work for one person. I can take up one song at a time and e-mail it to you…you edit it as you like and put it up here. Just let me know, ok ?
I may not be very good or fast at it but every song done is one more “completed” song.
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yes, that is what I meant…I just got confused between transliteration and translation.
Like you said, I think the essence of the song makes more sense than just a verbatim translation. I will start with your backlog of Shammi songs.
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One small comment, Atul.
I see that comments are not allowed for “door door tum rahe” ? Any particular reason ?
I just wanted to say that this song brought back a lot of memories. And this is Simi’s attempt to seduce Vishal – not in the capacity of the heroine (she is not the heroine of the movie, Nazneen is). Simi has a role similar to Glenn Close in that movie of the late 80s where she is obsessed with the hero and wants to have him at any cost. Simi sees signs of the man she loved in Vishal and therefore this obsession.
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Atul, you are doind such wonderful work which is no less than tribute to those who created this wealth. They are immortal but you are making them lifetime beyond centuries. Keep it up buddy. I hope this the best way we can value their work.
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I just found out that this is the place to make farmaishes! I love your site and visit it daily to find out which ones of my favorites have made their way there.
Here are my farmaishes: (mostly Rafi)
Mili khaaq mein mohabbat – Chaudhvin ka chand
Daaman mein daag laga baithe – Dhool ka phool
Chahunga mein tujhe saanjh savere – Dosti
Pyar par bas to nahin hai -sone ki chidiya
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Atul, here are a few more farmaishes from me for your consideration :
– Aasmaan pe hai khuda (phir subah hogi)
– Wo subah kabhi to aayegi (phir subah hogi)
– Mera pyar bhi tu hai (Saathi) – happy or sad version
– Mere jeevan saathi (Saathi)
– Ye kaun aaya (Saathi)
– chale they saath mil kar (Haseena Maan Jaayegi) – Rafi version please
– tum kitni khoobsoorat ho (Jungle Mein Mangal)
– Wo hain zara khafa khafa (Shagird)
– Rangat teri surat ki (Tumse Achha Kaun Hai)
– Is rang badalti duniya mein (Raj kumar)
– koi pyar hamen bhi karta hai , a.k.a mohabbat ke khuda(Brahmachari) – I just love this song
– dil ke jharoke mein (Brahmachari) – fantastic lyrics
Thanks.
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August 27, 2008 at 8:07 am
Here is a farmaish Atul – Lori Category. And one of my all time favourite – Nanhi Kali Sone Chali
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August 16, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Can you help me getting this song on the blog which I found nowhere. The song is:
Dil tere iswhk mein bimar hai thora thora teri zulfon mein ngiriftaar hai thora thora
Film: Actor
Year: 1951
Music: Aziz Hindi and Ebrahim
Singer GM Durrani
Lyricist: Nazim Panipati
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