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Ab aayee barkha bahaar sajnee
Posted on: May 6, 2026
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6501 | Post No. : | 20203 |
I present a short song, ‘ab aayee barkha bahaar sajnee’ from the film, ‘Sangeet Samrat Tansen, (1962). The song is rendered by Mohammed Rafi who sings for Bharat Bhushan in the role of Tansen. The song ends with aalaaps and sargam rendered by Manna Dey who sings for M Kumar in the role of Swami Haridas.
The song is not listed in HFGC probably because being a short duration of about 2 minutes, the gramophone record of the song was not released. The song is not included in the LP record of the film. SAREGAMA has also not released the mp3 clip of this song. So, the only source of the song is from the sound track of the film.
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Kanta dha kanta dha kanta dha
Posted on: May 5, 2026
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6500 | Post No. : | 20198 |
I am presenting a song mixed with taraana and sargam, ‘kanta dha kanta dha kanta dha’ from ‘Sangeet Samrat Tansen’ (1962). It is a jugalbandi between Tansen (Bharat Bhushan) as singer and the dancer Naaz Parveen (Sabita Chatterjee) in the court of Raja (D K Sapru) of Rewa Kingdom.
The story of the film is majorly concentrated around Tansen and his childhood friend, Hansa (Anita Guha). Tansen is devoted to Hansa as well as to his music. So, he is always caught in a dilemma. As a result, most of the time, Hansa gets separated from Tansen because of the calls from his musical duties. In a way, their relationship is akin to that of Radha and Shyam.
When Tansen decides to get married to Hansa for the first time, his Guru, Mohammed Ghous (David) instructs him to join the royal court on an invitation from Raja of Rewa. After a few months, when he gets permission from Raja of Rewa to get married to Hansa, Shahenshah Akbar (S N Tripathi) orders Raja of Rewa to send Tansen to be one of his ‘navratnas’ in his court. Even though Raja of Rewa decides to reject the demand inviting the potential wrath from Akbar, Tansen decides to reluctantly accept the invitation as rejecting that would create problems for Raja of Rewa. After joining the court of Akbar, Hansa joins Tansen and Akbar has planned for their marriage in Delhi. However, a misunderstanding between Hansa and Tansen about his relationship with dancer Naaz Parveen who is, in reality Tansen’s disciple, forces her to leave Tansen and return to the ashram of Swami Haridas. They are united only after Tansen faints while singing Raag Deepak which revives Akbar’s daughter (Preeti Bala). It is dancer, Naaz Parveen who clears Hansa’s misunderstanding about her and requests her to be with Tansen who is slated to sing Raag Deepak. After hearing this, Hansa accompanies Naaz Parveen and rushes to Delhi. Seeing an unconscious Tansen, she sings Raag Megh Malhar and revives him.
The context of the song under discussion is that Tansen wants to get married to his childhood friend, Hansa after his musical training gets over both from his Guru, Mohammed Ghous and Swami Haridas (M Kumar). Tansen pays a visit to his Guru, Mohammed Ghous to take his permission to marry Hansa. However, his Guru reveals that Raja Ramchandra of Rewa Kingdom has invited him to be the court singer. Adhering to his Guru’s instructions, Tansen joins the court of Raja of Rewa where he gets the title of ‘Sangeet Shiromani Tansen’. On this occasion, Naaz Parveen, the Raj Nartaki (Royal Dancer) from the court of the kingdom of Orchha gives a dance performance on the taraana rendered by Tansen. Later, it turns out to be a jugalbandi between the dancer and the singer.
The dance starts with a taraana of rhythmic syllables after which it gets switched over to a duet song between the singer and the dancer. Towards the end, once again, the singer switches over to taraana with faster rhythmic syllables which the dancer is not able to match and she loses her balance. Later, she becomes Tansen’s disciple.
In some places, I have not been able to decipher the rhythmic syllables in which cases I have only indicated them as ‘rhythmic syllables’.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Kanta dha kanta dha (Sangeet Samrat Tansen)(1962) Singer-Manna Dey, Unknown female voice, Lyricist-Shailendra, MD-S N Tripathi
Lyrics (Based on Video Clip):
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha..aa
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
ta na na na
tanum
tanum
tanum
ta na tir kit
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
ta na na na
tanum
tanum
tanum
ta na tir kit
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
sa ni ma pa dha
pa dha
re sa
sa ni dha
sa sa ma
sa pa ni dha ma
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir kit dum
tanum
tanum
tanum
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
[Rhythmic Syllables]
thrik thrik thrik thrik chhum sanan sanan chaayee ghata
thrik thrik thrik thrik chhum sanan sanan chaayee ghata
dhinak dhinak rumjhum bundan barsaayee ghata
dhinak dhinak rumjhum bundan barsaayee ghata
sagan kunj aali gunj sang aali kunj manohar
sagan kunj aali gunj sang aali kunj manohar
madmaati muskaati itlaati rasraati
madmaati muskaati itlaati rasraati
manjul mrid saawak maral
sukapit kapot ke hari lajaati
manjul mrid saawak maral
sukapit kapot ke hari lajaati
ang vasan mrid hasan dasan daamini sihaansini
ang vasan mrid hasan dasan daamini sinhaansini
sab nupur jhankaar chaar
chamak chamak
kantey
kantey
kantey
kanta dha
kanta dha
dha ma ga pa
ni dha ni pa ni dha
ni pa ma ga
ma sa ni dha ni pa
ma ga pa ma s ani sa
sa ga ma pa da ni
sa ga ma pa da ni sa
sa ga ma pa da ni sa
sa ga ma pa da ni sa…aa
[Faster rhythmic syllables]
Kailashnath Prabhu Avinaashee
Posted on: May 1, 2026
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6496 | Post No. : | 20189 |
‘Shiv Bhakt’ (1955) was produced under the banner of AVM Productions and was directed by H L N Simha who also wrote the story. The cast included Shahu Modak, Pandari Bai, Padmini, Anant Kumar, Mishra, Kumaridevi, Rushyendramani, Ragini, H Ramachandra Shastri, Deshraj etc. The film was a remake of the Kannada film, ‘Bedara Kannappa’ (1954) – [English translation: ‘Hunter Kannappa’] which was also directed by H L N Simha. Later, there were remakes of the film in Tamil and Telugu.
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6453 | Post No. : | 20038 |
TV serial Song number 6:
I present the song, ‘morele jhanak jhanak jhan baaje paayaliyaa’ rendered by Sadhana Sargam and Rajkamal from Episode-53 of TV Serial, ‘Mahabharat’ (1988). The song is written by Pandit Narendra Sharma and is set to music by Rajkamal based on Raag Darbari. The song is picturised on Gauri Sharma in the role of Urvashi. The actor playing dholak is Gopi Krishna in the role of Gandharva Chitrasen while Satish Kaul is seen in the role of Lord Indra.
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Aag ke saathh hawaa
Posted on: November 25, 2025
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6339 | Post No. : | 19638 |
Today’s song is from an 87 year old film Jwala-1938.
The film was made by Producer/Director Master Vinayak for his banner, Huns Pictures. Going out of his tradition, he had made a different type of film. Additionally, he continued to give the music responsibility of this film also to Classical musician – Dhamman khan, who had earlier done music for the film Chhaya-1936.
Dhamman Khan was one of those giants of classical music who had developed an urge (call it itch) to try their hand at composing film music, do a film or two and return to their own comfort zone again. Some such other examples are Bhurji Khan(Kurukshetra-33), Ameer saab(Nirdosh abla-35), Nawab Khan(Mirza sahiban-35), Wamanrao Sadolikar(Naganand-35…this is C.Ramchandra’s First film as a Hero. The film ran for just ONE day !), Abdul Kareem Khan (Maut ka Toofan-35 and Voh kaun-35), Master Giyasuddin (Typist girl-35) etc etc.
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Pragato re Praan deep
Posted on: November 14, 2025
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This article is the 19600th song post in the blog.
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6328 | Post No. : | 19600 |
“Mata Mahakali” (1968) was produced and directed by Dhirubhai Desai for Sharad Productions, Bombay. The movie had Shahu Modak, Jaishree Gadkar, Ashish Kumar, Nalini Chonker,Jayant Bhatt, Shahanaz, Mahesh Bhatt, Jayshree Mehta, Polson, Saraswati Devi, B.M.Vyas etc in it.
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Mahaganapatim manasaa smaraami
Posted on: September 18, 2025
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6271 | Post No. : | 19409 | Movie Count : |
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Today, September 18, 2025, is the 75th birthday of Shabana Azmi which is an important milestone in anyone’s life. I thought that on this occasion I should write an article on a film in which, in my view, Shabana Azmi has accepted a challenging role and has given a brilliant performance. The film I am covering in my article is ‘Morning Raaga’ (2004), a predominantly English language film in which Shabana Azmi’s role is that of a Carnatic vocalist.
‘Morning Raaga’ (2004) was produced by K Raghavendra Rao and was directed by Mahesh Dattani, a well-known personality in English theatre. The film was later dubbed in Telugu language with the title, ‘Raagam’ (2006). The cast included Shabana Azmi, Prakash Kovelamudi, Perizaad Zorabian, Lillete Dubey, Nasser, Ranjani Ramakrishnan, Vaishali Bisht, Shashi Sudigala, Sheela Naidu, Shaleen Sharma, Elahe Hiptoola etc. Prakash Kovelmudi is the son of Producer K Raghavendra Rao who is a producer-director, screenplay writer and an actor in his own right.
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6179 | Post No. : | 19072 |
Today’s song is from the film Badi maa-1945.Don’t go by the film’s name.It is not a family drama, involving 2 mothers – Badi Maa and Chhoti Maa. Here the word Badi Maa is used for ‘Our Motherland’. It is a love story filmed on the background of the II World War in a Nondescript town.
The film was made by Prafull Pictures, Bombay, owned by Master Vinayak -father of actress (Baby) Nanda.
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Rang raliyaan karat sautan ke sang
Posted on: May 6, 2025
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6136 | Post No. : | 18970 | Movie Count : |
5062 |
In my last article on the Blog, I had discussed the film, ‘Birbal My Brother’ (1973) with a Hindustani classical bandish, ‘rang raliyaan karat sautan ke sang’, rendered by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi and Pandit Jasraj as jugalbandi in Raag Malkauns. In this article, I am presenting the same bandish rendered in Raag Malkauns by Asha Bhosle as a ‘filmy song’ without much of ornamentations. This one was from the film, ‘Khwaahish’ (2003) which was produced by Vivek Nayak under the banner of Perry Pictures and was directed by the debutant Govind Menon. The cast included Himanshu Malik, Mallika Sherawat, Shivaji Satam, Amrita Sathbai, Shahbaz Khan, Mahamud Babai etc. This was Mallika Sherawat’s first film in a lead role. The film was based on an English novel, ‘Love Story’ (1970) by Eric Segal, customised to the Indian setting.
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