Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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.

DisclaimerI 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.

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Here is a farmaish Atul – Lori Category. And one of my all time favourite – Nanhi Kali Sone Chali

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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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Wow, my first farmaish. I am feeling like rwhat the radio announcers of Radio Radio Ceylon felt on receiving their “farmaishes” from Jhumri Tilayya and other such places.

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When it comes to Indian music Stamford is probabaly really behind the times and even more obscure than Jhumri Tallaiya 🙂

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There you are, Shalini. Enjoy.

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Hi Atul,
I said I would give you some farmaishes…well, here they are…totally your decision of course if you want to present them…and when…

Jo tumko ho pasand wohi baat karenge (one of my Mukesh favourites)

Dil ka haal sune dilwaala (timepass, very pleasant song…brings back lots of memories…fun lyrics)

Hum chhod chale hain mehfil ko (I have always loved this Mukesh song)

Rona kabhi nahin rona (could not find this on youtube – maybe you can find it ? ..it has some memories for me)

Saiya choron ka bada sartaaj nikla (Do Aankhen Barah Haath)

Suhani raat dhal chuki (one of my Rafi favourites)

Abhi na jao chhod kar (definitely one of the best Rafi-Asha duets of all-time)

Jodi hamari jamega kaise jaani (total timepass)

Ye kaun chitrakar hai (one of my favourite Mukesh songs – what beautiful lyrics from Bharat Vyas, absolutely top-notch) – I could find the original picturisation on youtube some days back but cannot find it now ; maybe you find it somewhere)

Ye hawa ye raat ye chandni (Talat Mahmood from Sangdil) : The most unknown yet possibly one of the greatest music directors of all-time, Sajjad Hussain. His standards were
so high that he dismissed both Lata and Kishore as being below his standard !

Aane se uske aaye bahar (Jeene ki raah) : there are different versions of this song…they are all good…I find this song very uplifting.

jaate ho, jaane jaana (from Parvarish) (one of the best timepass songs of all-time, for lyrics alone…just too good !!!)

Hope you find them suitable to squeeze in somewhere.

I will think of more songs in the meantime. You know me.
My appetite for songs is like the Don’s was for runs. 🙂

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Certainly, Raja. Look for this blog in the coming days.

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There you are, Raja. Four of your farmaishes find their way in today’s songs, including that difficult to find “rona kabhi nahin rona” .

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Hi Atul, another farmaish from me.

Two songs from the film Barsaat Ki Raat

The fantastic classical song “Garjat Barsat Sawan aayo re” and the superb Qawwali – “Ishq Ishq”.

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Shalini, I am unable to locate “garjat barsat ” link, but have no worry, you will have your farmaish for this song fulfilled soon. Consider “Ishq Ishq ” done tomorrow.

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Yahoo! 🙂

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OK, ye dil maange more :

– After listening to the Rafi-Asha classic “abhi na jaao”, here is farmaish for another Rafi-Asha beauty “Deewana mastana hua dil” from Bambai ka Babu.

– Hemant da’s “ya dil ki suno duniya waalon” (I know this is one of Shalini’s favourites too.

– another Hemant da song which I really love “tum pukaar lo, tumhara intezaar hai” (Khamoshi)

– moving to Lata (I have not been fair to her) how about “wo bhooli dastaan, lo phir yaad aa gayi” – what a beautiful song this is.

– and “tum na jaane kis jahan mein kho gaye”

– and again Lata with “jo humne dastaan apni sunayee, aap kyon roye” (no prizes for guessing the music director for this one)

– and the same MD and talking of dastaans, Rafi this time “aap ke pehloo mein aakar ro diye”

– let me throw a Kishore song also into the mix “teri duniya se hoke majboor chala”

Just realised my farmaishes are all sad / serious songs…so how about a change with :

– O meri, o meri, o meri sharmilee

– akele akele kahan ja rahe ho

– aaja sanam madhur chandni mein hum tum

Rounding it off with a bhajan
“sukh ke sab saathi” from Gopi.

Atul, if I have gone Bradmanesque in my farmaishes, don’t get psyched please 🙂

Just putting them out there….if you can, and totally at your convenience, please see if you can accommodate them. No hurry at all. I am sure you have your own preference of songs also, plus other farmaishes. So please take your time…if I find even one of my farmaishes every few days, I will be thankful.

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I don’t believe this…the first time I gave a farmaish of 12 songs….this time, without counting at first, I find it is another farmaish of 12….almost like a cricket match (with 12th man included) 🙂

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Fun blog for a lot of songs I’ve never heard in my life and a whole bunch of others I enjoy listening to. 🙂
Thanks Atul!

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I loved your comments on the songs, Kanan. They were quite interesting and informative.Keep them coming

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Hi Atul, a few more farmaishes from me 🙂

– hai mere paas to aa, kidhar khayal hai (Asha Bhonsle in Shikar)..nice catchy song it is though it is not one of her better-known songs IMO

– aa jaane ja (Lata – yes, it is Lata – in Intequaam)

– barkha rani zara jam ke barso (sabak)

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Hi Atul, some more farmaishes from me :

– Main chali, main chali dekho pyar ki gali (Padosan)
– Main chali, main chali peechhe peechhe jahan (Professor)
– Koi pyar hamen bhi karta hai (Brahmachari)
– Dekhiye sahibon (Teesri Manzil)
– Hum bhi agar bache hotey (Door Ki Awaaz)
– Door rehkar na karo baat (Amaanat) – have you already posted this ?
– Aaj kal mein dhal gaya (Beti Bete) – fantastic song
– aaja aayee bahar dil hai (Rajkumar)
– kaamdev jaisi teri sooratiya (Tum Haseen Main Jawan)
– pyar hua hai jabse (Abhilasha)
– ye sama sama hai ye pyar ka (Jab jab phool khile)
– bheegi bheegi hawa hai (Sunehra Sansar)
– jaane chaman (Dulhan)
– tu kya jaane wafa o bewafa (Haath Ki Safai)
– chaahiye thoda pyar (Lahu Ke Do Rang)

wow…that’s a long list…I will stop for now.
If and when you can….totally at your convenience.

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A few more farmaishes from me, Atul.

-Oye chali chali kaisi hawa yeh chali (Bluffmaster)
– Husn chala kuchh aisi chaal (Bluffmaster)
– Ni main yaar manaana ni (Daag) – Unfortunately I can only find the remix version on youtube now, maybe you can find the original.
Thanks.

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I managed to find “Ni main yaar” – searched on “Daag ni main”.
Not the best of video quality but still definitely worth watching and listening. Please consider posting this sometime.

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Some more….I know I am flooding you with farmaishes but feel free to consider them totally at your convenience…

– tum ko piya dil diya (Shikari) (This will count in one of my top-10 ALLTIME favourite songs of ALL music composers) My tribute to GS Kohli.

– hansta hua noorani chehra (have you already done this ?)

– le de saiyan odhni punjabi (Pavitra Paapi) – nice song.

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Hi Atul….I am going to keep sending farmaishes your way…Please look at them at your convenience…and, if you feel like, include them….totally upto you of course…

How about
– nainon mein darpan hai (Aarop) – lovely “cycle” song
– aao tumhen main pyar (Upasna)
– Darpan ko dekha (Upasna) – I think you already put this up ?
– hey maine kasam li (Tere Mere Sapne) another “cycle” song
– jeevan ki bagiya (Tere Mere Sapne) – maybe you can have a category “expectant parents” (Sharmilee, Anand Ashram)
– jaise Radha ne mala japi (Tere Mere Sapne)
– do panchhi do tinke (Tapasya) – you already put this up ?
– aasmaan ke neeche (Jewel Thief)
– main to chala jidhar chale rasta (Dharkan)

Thanks.

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Atul…I just learnt that using the “tags” I can quickly analyse all the songs you have posted till now..stupid me…I should have known this earlier.

Just saw that you have already posted “darpan ko dekha”.
Fine.

Btw, congrats again on getting to 200 songs. What an achievement !!! Like you say, it is a labour of love for you. You have put so much energy into this, it is amazing.

Am sure it will go from strength to strength.

I will not be surprised if it becomes the site of choice for many Indian music lovers to get their video, lyrics, some stats (year, MD, singer etc) and a nice background about the movie and the song.

Hope I am not bothering you with my farmaishes. Of course I can listen to them separately on youtube but there is something nice about finding them on your blog, especially reading the intro. 🙂 Of course, you should also like the song. I would not want you to post a song which you yourself do not like much. Remember, it is YOUR blog. 🙂

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And I keep coming up with more 🙂

Manna Dey please…

– Lapak jhapak (Boot Polish) – what a fantastic song, in every sense)

– Laaga chunri mein daag (Dil hi to hai)

– Jhanak jhanak tori baaje paayaliya (Mere Huzoor)

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I am almost not able to muster the courage to throw in another farmaish – throwing one quickly in there and disappearing for the rest of the day 🙂

Manna Dey – Naache man mora

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Naache man mora is sung by Rafi, and not Manna Dey, unless there is another song with this lyrics sung by Manna Dey.

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Sorry, my mistake. Of course it is Rafi. 🙂

I hope you are singing

Rafi ho ya Manna Dey ho
Aakhir post karna hai
Post karna hai
Post karna hai 🙂

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Atul, a few more songs if you do not mind.

Itni haseen itni jawan raat kya karen (Aaj Aur Kal)
Mera pyar bhi tu hai (Saathi)
Chala jaata hoon kisi ke dhun mein (Mere Jeevan Saathi)
Dilbar jaani (Haathi Mere Saathi)
Tere haathon mein pehna ke choodiyan (Jaani Dushman) – a “choodi” song for you
Kya mausam hai (Doosra Aadmi) – I love this song !!!
Chale the saath mil ke (Haseena Maan Jaayegi) – lovely song.
Tauba ye matwaali chaal (Patthar Ke Sanam)

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Raja, kya mausam hai ( Doosra Aadmi) is already posted.
https://atulsongaday.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/kya-mausam-hai/

Tauba ye matwali chal (Pathar ke sanam) is already posted too. 😉
https://atulsongaday.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/tauba-ye-matwaali-chal/

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oh, ok…is there a quick way of seeing, alphabetically, all the songs posted so far ? There probably is but I am not smart enough to figure it out. I tried the tags but that is just a selection. 🙂

Anyway, since my previous farmaish has 2 null cases, I can come up with 2 more. 😉

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On the right hand top corner, there is search box. If you type the first few words of the song, there is good chance that the song, if posted will appear in the search.

Below the search box, there are three tabs (top posts, latest comments, and tags). By default, top posts is selected. Click tags.You will see popular tags. If you click say Mukesh, you can see all the Mukesh songs in the blog.

I will see if an alphabetical list of songs can also be provided somewhere.

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Some more farmaishes, Atul. I am getting greedier by the day.

It is a long list…as usual, please pick whichever you feel like and that too at your convenience of course. Aaraam se….

1)Na jaane kaise (Badaltey Rishtey)
2)Har dil jo pyaar karega (Sangam)
3)O mere sanam (Sangam)
4) Aanchal mein saja lena kaliyan (Phir Wohi Dil Laaya Hoon)
5) O mere shah-e khooba (Love in Tokyo)
6) Aankhon se jo utri hai dil mein (Phir Wohi Dil Laaya Hoon)
7) Jis ke liye (Saajan ki saheli)

8) ye hawa ye raat ye chandni (Sangdil) – my favourite Talat song (lovely lyrics too)
and its “twin” song
9) tujhe kya sunaoon main dilruba (Aakhi Daao) – Nutan looks sooooooooooooooo beautiful in this song

10) Nutan in “nigaahen milaney” (Dil Hi To Hai) – remember !!!

11) Deewana Mastana hua dil (Bambai ka babu)
12) Hum chhod chale hain mehfil ko (Jeevan Saathi)
13) Itni naazuk na bano (Vaasna)
14) Ponch kar ashq (Naya Rasta)

15) Ghungroo ki tarah (Chor Machaye Shor)
16) Pal pal dil ke paas (Blackmail)
17) Kya khoob lagti ho (Dharmatma)
18) Jab chali thandi hawa (Do Badan) – what a beautiful voice Asha has.

That’s it for now.
I hope you also like these songs. You have to post songs that YOU like…this is your blog.

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A few more, Atul. For a change, female voice. 🙂

Andaaz mera mastana – Dil Apna Aur Preet Parayi (timepass)
Sheesha-e-dil itna na uchhalo – same movie (halka-phulka)
Mera dil ab tera o sajna – same movie (lovely song)
Hum intezar karenge – Bahu Begum (evergreen song)
Duniya karey sawaal – same movie (beautiful song by Lata for Roshan)

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Atul, a couple of farmaishes if you don’t mind.
2 songs which I like very much – similar in theme. Heroine’s friends teasing her. What innocent times those were.

– akhiyan bhool gayi hain sona (Goonj Uthi Shehnai). One of my all-time favourite songs.

– jaanu jaanu re (Insaan Jaag Utha). Beautiful song.

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Hi Atul, what a great blog this is. Am going to make it a regular stopping place (and translations will make it even better!!!!!) 🙂 I look forward to greatly expanding my Hindi filmi music knowledge and song library!

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I am honoured by your visits, Greta. As you can see, I had provided translations in the beginning, before I stopped doing that. I will now start to provide translations for my earlier songs too, starting with Shammi Kapoor songs.

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The translations must be a lot of work, it’s not easy to do I know. Take your time (but do start with Shammi!!!) :-). As I said somewhere, I am even just happy to have transliterated Hindi lyrics that I can sing along to.

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Translation is hard work, and that is why I stopped doing that because I thought my readers did not need that.

But I have realised by now it that there are readers who need the translations, and decent translations are not available. So I will be filling that gap if I take up such translation.

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I have to leave now on some work. I will be back tomorrow, hopefully by this time. So bye for now, and take care.

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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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Thanks for your kind remarks, gilga. Keep visiting this blog. The song of your farmaish will appear in the blog soon.

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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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Great to see you back, Raja. Like you and me, Greta (Memsaab) is a great fan of bollywood and she has watched over 700 Bollywood movies in last 5 years when she started watching these movies.

Unlike us, she is of non Indian background. She is an American, but she by now has become an expert Bollywood movie reviewer, despite being unfamiliar with the language. Visit her site memsaabstory.wordpress.com and see for yourself. You will be stunned !

Greta, meet Raja, an Indian fan based in Holland,who is just as much interested in Bollywood as me, perhaps more.

Raja, thanks for your offer in transliteration. I think transliteration is no problem for me at the moment. It is in translation of the songs where you can certainly help, at your own pace of course.

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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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The comment got disallowed accidentally.Now I have allowed it.

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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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Thanks for your kind and encouraging words, Devendra.

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I am not sure what brought me to your blog; what I am sure is that I have enjoyed your posts. Keep up the good work.

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Thanks for your encouragement. Hopefully I will be able to sustain this labour of love for as long as possible.

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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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