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Kaise sukh sove
Posted on: October 6, 2023
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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There are some actors who have normally been identified with what is known as ‘middle of the road’ films. The big names among them are Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Farooque Shaikh, Om Puri, Irfaan Khan, Deepti Naval, Paresh Rawal and Pankaj Kapoor. In the recent times, some more actors have joined this list which includes Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Raghubir Yadav, Pankaj Tripathi etc. One more name of the actor which I would like to include in this list is Sanjay Mishra who has come into prominence after 2013. I am a great admirer of Sanjay Mishra as an actor. I find him to be an ‘offbeat’ actor because his expressions, reactions, body movements and dialogue deliveries are unpredictable. As an actor, Sanjay Mishra gives a feel of a real character of one among us.
Happy birthday to the Darbhanga born Sanjay Mishra who has turned 60 today. An alumnus of the National School of Drama, Delhi, Sanjay Mishra started his acting career with a small role in ‘Oh Darling Ye Hai India (1995). Thereafter he has worked in a series of films, mostly in comic roles. He has also worked in Some TV serials, the prominent among them being ‘Chanakya’ (1991) and ‘Office Office’ (2000). Even after his first 10 years in Hindi films, Sanjay Mishra was frustrated with his career for doing the same type of side roles. His health problems coupled with the sudden death of his father sometime in 2007, made him disenchanted with his filmy career.
In his TV interview, Sanjay Mishra had said that after the funeral of his father, he shifted to Rishikesh. To earn for a living, he worked as a cook in a dhaba at Rishikesh. Rohit Shetty while planning his film, ‘All The Best’ (2009) had a role for Sanjay Mishra who has earlier worked with him in ‘Zameen’ (2003), ‘Golmaal’ (2006) and ‘Golmaal Returns’ (2008). When Rohit Shetty came to know that he has left the film industry and gone to Rishikesh, he visited Rishikesh and persuaded him to return to Mumbai for a role in his film, ‘All The Best’ (2009). The film became a turning point in Sanjay Mishra’s filmy career, and he started getting better and varied roles in the films.
Over a period of time, he has graduated in doing major character roles. I feel that he is one of the most underrated actors and deserved much more recognition than mere a comedian or a sidekick. I have watched his outstanding performance in films like ‘Phas Gaya Re Obama’ (2010), ‘Aankhon Dekhi’ (2014), ‘Dham Laga Ke Haisha’ (2015), ‘Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain’ (2018) etc. I have also heard of his doing varied roles in films like ‘Masaan’ (2015). ‘Kaamyaab’ (2020) and ‘Vadh’ (2022). Since 2013, Sanjay Mishra has been getting roles in the films which can be categorised as ‘middle of the road’ cinema.
‘Aankhon Dekhi’ (2014) is probably his first film in which he has a central character. This film was the second turning point in his acting career. In one of his TV interviews, Sanjay Mishra narrated as to how he got the role in this film. Rajat Kapoor, the director of the film and Sanjay Mishra were shooting together for a film in Delhi when Rajat Kapoor told him that he was writing a script keeping him in mind and he should meet him when they return to Mumbai. After few months, Rajat Kapoor called Sanjay Mishra and read out the script of the film he was going to direct. Since Rajat Kapoor did not get any response from Sanjay Mishra, the role was offered to Naseeruddin Shah who agreed to do the role. When he came to know that the role was specially written for Sanjay Mishra, Naseeruddin Shah persuaded him to accept the role as this film would become a milestone in his filmy career.
‘Aankhon Dekhi’ (2014) was produced by Manish Mundra under the banner of Mithya Talkies and Drishyam Films. The film was directed by Rajat Kapoor who also wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues. The main actors in the film were Sanjay Mishra, Seema Pahwa, Rajat Kapoor, Brijendra Kala, Namit Das, Maya Sarao, Taranjit Kaur, Saurabh Shukla, Alka Chawla, Mahesh Sharma etc.
The gist of the story of the film is as under:
Bhau ji (Sanjay Mishra) in his 50s is the head of a lower middle class joint family who resides in old Delhi. The family members consist of his wife, Amma (Seema Bhargav), younger brother, Rishi Chacha (Rajat Kapoor), Chachi (Taranjit Kaur), daughter, Rita (Maya Sarao). Bauji works in a travel company for a livelihood.
Bauji’s teenage daughter, Rita has been in love with a neighbouring boy, Ajju (Namita Das) of the questionable character. When her relationship becomes known to the family, the hell breaks out. Rita is locked in a room and the family members confront the boy. But Bauji finds him to be a nice boy. This incidence makes Bauji to take a decision that from now onwards, he would follow the maxim, ‘seeing is believing’ (aankhon dekhi).As the time passes, Bauji’s newly acquired way of life reaches to an absurd level. He stops worshipping God and treat the God’s offering (prasad) as sweet. He goes to a Zoo just to confirm whether a tiger roars. In his travel company, he refuses to book a ticket for Amsterdam as he cannot say something positive about the place as he has not seen it. Apparently, he has to leave his job. He joins a gambling den as an employee and earns salary and commission.
But for his coterie of friends, Bauji is like their guide as they are impressed with his intellectual talks, and they believe in him whatever he says. This makes Bauji uncomfortable as he believes in ‘seeing is believing’ and they should not blindly follow him. But for his family, his fad and working in a gambling den are nuisance. His impression among them is that of a lunatic person. His brother, Rishi and his family shift to a new house rather than to face the embracement because of Bauji’s new fad and work.
The separation of his brother from the joint family shocks Bauji’s to such an extent that his health deteriorates. After recovering from his illness, Bauji takes up another fad of ‘maun vrat’ (vow of silence). He communicates with his family and friends in sign language only. He approves his daughter Rita’s marriage with Ajju during which his separated brother and his family join the marriage ceremony. Having fulfilled everything in his life, he takes his wife for a vacation during which he plunges into death in a valley while trying to fly like a bird (I think, there is some symbolism in this act).
Rajat Kapoor has to be complimented for making a realistic film depicting the life of a lower-middle class joint family of Old Delhi. The entire set up of the family and their neighbours looks so real that the audience will get a feeling that they are the part of the proceedings. I have seen Sanjay Mishra mostly in comic roles. This is the first time I became aware of his histrionic of a serious role in which he gave excellent performance as the head of a joint family, a whimsical husband, a concerned father, a bossing brother, and a loving friend to his neighbourhood. He has been well supported by Seema Pahwa in the role of his nagging wife.
Sanjay Mishra won his first Filmfare Critics’ Award for the Best Actor for his performance in ‘Aankhon Dekhi’ (2014). After the release of this film, Sanjay Mishra seems to have become one of the actors in demand for his interviews both by press and TV channels. Since then, he has been mostly getting roles in one of the main characters in the films.
The film has 6 songs, 5 of which were written by Varun Grover and were set to music by Sagar Desai. The remaining one is a traditional Khayal. The songs I am presenting the first song, a Chhota Khayal bandish, ‘kaise sukh sove shaam murat’ from the film to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Hindustani classical vocalist, Ronkini Gupta who makes her debut in Hindi films with this classical bandish.
This Chhota Khayal is played in the background when Bau ji (Sanjay Mishra) who is on a ‘maun vrat’, gives the approval to his daughter, Rita (Maya Sarao) in sign language for the marriage with her boyfriend, Ajju. She immediately leaves to meet Ajju at his house to give him the good news.
Ronkini Gupta is a trained Hindustani classical vocalist who is known for her elaborate Khayal singing. She was the winner of ‘Zee TV’s ‘SAREGAMAPA’ World Series reality show in 2004. She occasionally sings for Hindi films.
Ustad Naimat Khan ‘Sadarang’ (1670-1748), who served in the court of Mughal emperor, Muhammed Shah ‘Rangeela’, had written and composed this bandish of 4 lines for singing as Bada Khayal. However, in the film, Ronkini Gupta has rendered it as Chhota Khayal, reducing it to two-line bandish in Raag Bihaag.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Kaise sukh sove shaam murat (Aankhon Dekhi)(2014) Singer-Ronkini Gupta, Lyrics-Ustaad Naimat Khan Sadarang, MD-Ustad Naimat Khan Sadarang
Lyrics (based on audio clip):
kaise sukh sove
shaaaam moorat
chit chaaaadhi
chit chaadhi
shaam moorat chita chaadhi…
chaaadhi ee ee ee
sukh sove
sukh
sukh
sukh……
sukh sove……
kaise neenadari
neendariya aa
shaam chit chaadhi
kaise sukh sove
shaam…..
shaam…..
moora…..aa aa at
chit chaadhi
shaam……
shaam…….
moarat chit chaadhi….
chit chaadhi shaam moorat
kaise
kaise sukh sove
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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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#the Decade of Fifties – 1951 – 1960 #
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(A tribute to Bhimsen Joshi)
Today 24th January’2023 is the twelfth ‘Remembrance Anniversary’ of great vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi.
He was born on 04th February’1922 and passed away on 24th January’2011.
As a tribute to Bhimsen Joshi I am presenting a song from the 1959 Un-released movie ‘Pativrataa’.
Music for this movie was composed by famous music director of Marathi films Ram Kadam.
I was longing to introduce this movie on the blog, though un-released movie it is, because this the fourth and final movie where music director Ram Kadam composed music for Hindi films other than the movies, ‘Raaste Aur Manzil-1968’, ‘Sant Tulsidas-1972’ and ‘Pinjra-1973’(already represented on the blog).
HFGK Vol-III (1951-1960) does not mention any details for this movie ‘Pativrataa’ except listing of two songs from this movie in ‘unreleased movies’ section, name of the music director, singers, and production company.
However, since this movie was also made in Marathi (year 1959) I guess the same cast was there in the Hindi movie. I am giving details below herewith of this movie in Marathi.
‘Pativrataa’ was directed by Datta Dharmadhikari for ‘Alhad Chitra’.
Datta Dharmadhikari was also the producer of this movie.
‘Patrivrataa-1959’ (In Marathi) had Sulochana, Chandrakant, Jayshree Gadkar, Suryakant, Vivek, Indirabai Chitnis, Neelam, Damu Anna Malwankar, Vasant Shinde and others.
Raja Nene, Adhik Shirodkar, had guest appearances in this movie. And the movie also had child artistes Amrendra, Chhaya and Pratibha.
Editing of this movie was done by Anand Dharmadhikari.
Bhimsen Joshi, Asha Bhonsle, Lakshami Shankar and Janaki Aiyyar had given their voices to the songs in this movie.
As mentioned above music for this movie was composed by Ram Kadam.
Lyricist name for the songs in this movie is not mentioned in HGK Vol-III and also I didn’t find it mentioned in the titles of the ‘Marathi movie-Pativrataa’.
I would request our seniors on this blog and other knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this movie and its songs.
Today’s song is sung by Bhimsen Joshi and Lakshami Shankar and music is composed by Ram Kadam.
Our tributes to Bhimsen Joshi, one of the greatest vocalist of this country, and one of my favorites.
With this song this movie ‘Pativrataa’ makes its debut on the blog.
(audio)
Song-Ae ree maayi aaj shubh mangal gaao (Pativrata)(UR)(1959) Singers-Bhimsen Joshi, Lakshmi Shankar, MD-Ram Kadam
Lyrics
ae ri maayi
aaj shubhmangal gaao
ae ri maayi
aaj shubhmangal gaao re
re re ae
ae ri maayi
aaj shubhmangal gaao
shok puraavo
mridang bajaao
shok puraavo
mridang bajaao
gaao o o
rijhaao o
badhaao o o
o o nainwaaa re
ae ri maayi
ae ri maayi
aaj shubhmangal gaao
ae ri maayi
aaj shubhmangal gaao
guni gandharv apsaraa
kinnar bin rubaab
guni gandharv apsaraa
kinnar bin rubaab
baje ae ae ae ae
sadaa ? (sataar)
ae ri maayi
aaj shubhmangal gaao
ae ri maayi
aaj shubhmangal gaao
guni gandharv apsaraa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa
guni gandharv apsaraa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa
guni gandharv apsaraa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
(sargam)
aa aa aa aa aa aa
(sargam)
aa aa aa aa aa aa
(sargam)
aa aa aa aa aa aa
guni gandharv apsaraa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa
guni gandharv apsaraa
aa
kinnar bin rubaab
baje ae ae ae sataar rrrr
ae ri maayi
aaj shubhmangal gaao
ae ri maayi
aaj shubhmangal gaao
Toot gayee man ki beenaa
Posted on: May 1, 2022
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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2012-2022) – Song No. 47
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This date ten years ago (1 May 2012) saw six songs from six different movies getting covered in the blog. Here are the details:-
| Blog post number | Song | Movie (Year) | Remarks |
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| 5907 | Tera haath haath mein aa gaya | Hamdard (1953) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 5908 | Sapt suran teen graam | Sangeet Samrat Tansen(1962) | Ten songs covered out of 14 |
| 5909 | Saancha naam tera | Julie(1975) | 3 songs covered out of 5 |
| 5910 | Ye umar hai kya rangeeli | Professor(1962) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 5911 | Evening news | Dooriyaan(1979) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 5912 | Chali Radhe raani ankhiyon mein paani | Parineeta (1953) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
One can see that four movies whose songs were covered exactly ten years ago have since been YIPPEED in the blog. That leaves us with only two movies that are eligible for Blog Ten Year challenge today on 1 May 2022.
“Sangeet Samrat Tansen”(1962) is one of the eligible movies. This movie was produced by D G Laad and directed by S N Tripathi for Sur Sagar Chitra, Bombay. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Anita Guah, Sabita chatterjee, Kumar, David, Sapru, Mukri, Preetibala aka Zeb Rehman, Prem Sagar, S.N.Tripathi, Parashuram, Dulari, Altaf, Suryakant Shukla, Bagla, Yusuf, Radhey Shyam, Kamala Laxman as Court dancer etc in it.
“Sangeet Samrat Tansen”(1962) had 14 songs in it. Ten songs have been covered in the past.
Here is the eleventh song from “Sangeet Samrat Tansen”(1962) to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Poorna Seth and Pandharinath Kolhapure. Shailendra is the lyricist. Music is composed by S N Tripathi.
The song is picturised on child artists who are not identified so far. I request our knowledgeable readers to help identify them.
Lyrics of the song and other details were sent by Prakashchandra.
Audio
Video (Partial)
Song-Toot gayee man ki beena (Sangeet Samrat Tansen)(1962) Singers-Poorna Seth, Pandharinath Kolhapure, Lyrics-Shailendra, MD-S N Tripathi
Both
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
toot gayee eee een eee
toot gayee…eee eee
toot gayee..ee meri
mann ki beenaa..aaa
toot gayee
toot gayee ee ee
mann ki beenaa..aaa
toot gayee
kaisey sur ke..ae saaz sajaaoon
kaisey soye aey ae ae
geet jagaaoon
tootey taaron par kyaa gaaoon
toot gayee
toot gayee
toot gayee eee
toot gayee eee
mann ki beenaa aaa
toot gayee eee
aa aa aa aaa aaaa
aa aa aa aaa aaaa
madhur madhur sangeet sunaao
madhur madhur sangeet sunaao
gaao rey aey ae ae
gaao rey aey ae
gaao rey aey
gaa aaaorey aey ae ae aey ae ae aey ae ae
madhur madhur sangeet sunaao
jhanan jhanan sur bajey..ae been ke
jhanan jhanan sur bajey..ae
been ke
taar taar sang karey rangraliyaan..aaan
madhur madhur sangeet sunaao
sur singaar ke saaz saje aey ae
sur singaar ke saaj sajey
mridang chang
ek sang bajey aey ae ae
sur singaar ke saaj sajey
mridang chang ek sang bajey
sur taal sang
jhoomey ang ang
chhidey raagrang
uthhey sang sang
tan mein tarang
man mein umang
anuraag jagey
aaa aaaa aaaaa
madhur madhur sangeet sunaaoon
madhur madhur sangeet sunaaoon
jhanan jhanan sur bajey been ke
taar taar
sang karey rangraliyaan..aaan
madhur madhur sangeet sunaao
gaao rey aey ae ae
gaao rey aey
gaao rey aey ae aey aey aen
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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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Today 19th December’2021 is the 102nd birth anniversary’ of actor Om Prakash (19.12.1919 – 21.02.1998) whom we have watched performing in many character roles in the Hindi movies.
When I think of the movies of Om Prakash where I watched and liked his performance, it is a long list. I must say I liked his performances in all the movies where I have watched him.
The oldest memory of Om Prakashfor me is the movie ‘Patang-1960’, then ‘Chowkidar-1974’, ‘Sadhu Aur Shaitaan-1968’, ‘Mere Hamdam Mere Dost-1968’, ‘Sajan-1969’ ‘Dus Lakh’ etc. etc. when I was still growing boy.
As a grown-up boy I watched his ‘Laawaris’, ‘Namak Halal’, ‘Rang Birangi’, ‘Naukar Biwi Ka’, ‘Sharabi’, ‘Alag Alag’, ‘Insaniyat Ke Dushman’, and I think ‘Kalyug Aur Ramayan’ was his last movie that I watched.
In between there were many movies from the end-sixties to all seventies like ‘Khandan’, ‘Padosan’, ‘Zanjeer’, ‘Gopi’, ‘Nehle Pe Dehla’, ‘Chupke Chupke’, ‘Roti’, ‘Maa’, ‘Golmaal’ etc etc.
It would be surprising if I say that I have yet to watch ‘Amar Prem’, but I do not remember of watching it.
I may have also missed to note some of his prominent movies in the above list, but then the names I mentioned above are only few for example. I hope to add his list of movies later in future on the blog (may be with a song from his movies).
As I said above, I do not remember any of Om Prakash movies where I do not like his performances (mostly in character roles). He also got to lip sync songs in movies and today on his birth anniversary we are going to enjoy a song from the ‘1973’ movie ‘Archana’ which is performed on screen by Om Prakash.
I had come across this song in November last year when I had shared a song from this movie.
‘Archana-1973’ was directed by for ‘Vikram Pictures’ Bombay. It had Mala Sinha, Sanjeev Kumar, Snehlata with Jagdeep, Manmohan Krishna, Bobby, Jagridar, V. Gopal, Sulochana, Shabnam, Madhu, Sushila, Shibana and Om Prakash and others.
Jr Mehmood makes a special appearance in this movie.
Story of this movie was written by Prof. Tamhane, and screenplay was written by Madhusudan Kalelkar. Dialogues for this movie were written by Anand Romani, editing of this movie was done by Govind Dalwadi.
This movie was passed by Censor Board on 1st October’1973.
This movie has six songs written by Hasrat Jaipuri, Indeevar and Neeraj.
Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohd Rafi and Manna Dey give their voices to the songs in movie.
Music for this movie was composed by Shankar-Jaikishan.
Here is the list of these six songs as per HFGK Vol-V (1971-1980). So far only two songs from ‘Archana-1973’ have been posted on the blog.
| S.No. | Song Title | Lyricist | Posted on |
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| 01 | Jaise …. preetam se pyaar badhha jaaye | Hasrat Jaipuri | |
| 02 | Jab ham hain tere saath… janamdin tujhko | Indeevar | 15.11.2020 |
| 03 | Jiyaa mein laaga more baan preet ka | Hasrat Jaipuri | Being discussed today |
| 04 | Tan mann tere rang rangoongee | Neeraj | 04.01.2012 |
| 05 | Jaane kis roop ki jaadubhari parchhaayi ho | Hasrat Jaipuri | |
| 06 | Jo dil mein chubha… ab bas mein kahaan | Hasrat Jaipuri/Indeevar |
Let us now enjoy today’s song as a tribute to actor Om Prakash who had given us many of his ‘character roles’ to cherish, and songs performed by him remind us of his versatility and effortless performances, in his characteristic style.
In today’s song he is performing in a ‘musical mehfil’ like set up with music artistes around him. There is a ‘Nataraja murti’ in front of him and on the walls of the place he is sitting, there are portraits of famous music artistes around.
Today’s song is sung by Manna Dey, and lyrics are by Hasrat Jaipuri.
As mentioned above music is composed by Shankar-Jaikishan.
Editor’s note:-With this song, Hasrat Jaipuri completes 700 songs in the blog as a lyricist.
Let us enjoy today’s song now …
Video
Audio
Song-Jiya mein laaga more baan preet ka (Archana)(1973) Singer-Manna dey, Lyrics-Hasrat Jaipuri, MD-Shankar Jaikishan
Lyrics
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka aa
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka aa aa aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka aa
bin kaajar thhe nainaa kaaley
ae ae ae ae
bin kaajar thhe nainaa kaaley
bin kaajar
bin kaajar
bin kaajar thhe nainaa kaaley
thhe chitwan ke baan niraale ae
haar na maanen ham dilwaale ae
ham dilwaale ae
ham dilwaale ae
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
tarpat tarpat rain guzaaroon
tarpat
tarpat
rain guzaaroon
rain guzaaroon
tarap
tarap
tarap
tarpat tarpat haan
tarpat tarpat rain guzaaroon
saari rainaa panth nihaaroon
ban ke papeehaa aa
pi ko pukaaroon oon oon oon oon
pi ko pukaaroon
pi ko pukaaroon oon
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
man ki agan se deep jalaaun
oon oon
dha ni
dha ni
dha ni
dha ma gaa aa
ma dha re sa
dha ni dha pa maa ga re sa
saa
saa
maa aa aa aa
man ki agan se deep jalaaun
hardam deepak raag sunaaoon
saari umariyaa aa
gaanaa gaaun
gaanaa gaaun
gaanaa gaaun
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka aa aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka aa
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
Muhammad Shah Rangeeley
Posted on: November 10, 2021
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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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‘Jab Se Tumhen Dekha Hai’ (1963) was produced by Surinder Kapoor under the banner of Amar Chhaaya Films and was directed by Kedar Kapoor. The star cast included Geeta Bali and Pradeep Kumar in the lead role with the supporting cast of Agha, Vijaylaxmi, Siddhu, Sunder, Tun Tun, Mohan Choti, Ravikant etc. Shammi Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Om Prakash, Bhagwan, Kumkum, and Shyama made their guest appearances in the film. This was Surinder Kapoor’s maiden film as a producer.
I was wondering as to how Surinder Kapoor could manage to rope in Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor for the qawwali song in the film. It became clear when I came to know that Surinder Kapoor was the cousin of Prithviraj Kapoor. When he shifted to Mumbai from Peshawar in 1950, Prithviraj Kapoor helped him in getting his first job as an assistant to K Asif in ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ (1960). Since the film took a lot of time to be completed, Surinder Kapoor left K Asif and became the Secretary to Geeta Bali. Kedar Kapoor, the film’s director was from Peshawar. Probably, he may also be related to Prithviraj Kapoor.
It was Geeta Bali who encouraged Surinder Kapoor to become a film producer. She arranged the finance, the crew and the cast. So, getting the guest actors for the qawwali song became an easy task for Surinder Kapoor. The film was launched in 1958 and got completed in 1963. The film did not fare well on the box office. This was the last released film of Geeta Bali.
‘Jab Se Tumhen Dekha Hai’ (1963) had six songs in the film written by Shailendra (5) and Anand Bakshi (1) which were set to music by Dattaram. Four songs have been covered on the Blog.
Here is the 5th song ‘Muhammad Shah Rangeele gaawat aaj prem raag’ from the film to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Manna Dey on the words of Shailendra. The video clip of the song is not available on any video sharing platform. So, it is difficult to know as to in which context, this song was picturised in the film. My wild guess is that the song may have been picturised on Agha in a comical situation using the bandish-based classical song.
Muhammad Shah ‘Rangeela’ was the Mughal emperor during 1719 to 1748. He was a patron of performing arts and music. His court had many musicians, the prominent among them being Niyamat Khan who used to compose bandishes under his pen name. ‘Sadarang’ and his nephew, Feroz Khan under the pen name of ‘Adarang’. Sadarang has been credited with the introduction of Khayal as a form of Hindustani classical music. He composed many Khayal bandishes for his desciples which included a few women from the harem of Muhammed Shah ‘Rangeela’.
There are some persons who are known by their work and not by their names. Niyamat Khan was one of them whose name is unknown for the present generation. Some of us may have listened to his khayal bandishes rendered by stalwarts like Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Ustad Amir Khan, Ustad Rashid Khan, etc without knowing that these were composed by Niyamat Khan ‘Sadarang’.
One of the Khayal bandish composed by Niyamat Khan was ‘Muhammad Shah rangeele re, tum bin main kya karoon badariya, nit na suhaawe’ in raag Miyan Ki Malhar in praise of Muhammad Shah. The song under discussion is based on this bandish with different ‘bole’ written by Shailendra and composed by Dattaram in raag ‘Miyan Ki Malhar’. It is rendered as ‘chhota khayal’.
By the way, Muhammad shah rangeele re from ‘Nadirshah’ (1968) was also based on the abovementioned bandish. Both ‘Nadirshah’ (1968) and ‘Jab Se Tumhen Dekha Hai’ (1963) took a long time to be completed and released. So, it is difficult to guess as to which one of two films got inspired from this bandish first.
Audio Clip:
Song-Muhammad Shah rangeeley (Jab Se Tumhen Dekha Hai)(1963) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Shailendra, MD-Dattaram
Lyrics
hriday na…………….th
hey ae ae na…….th
aa aa aa aa aaa
aa aa aaaa
aa aaa
dhoom ta na ta na na
pranaam
muhammad shah rangeele
muhammad shah rangeele ae
muhammad shah rangeele
gaawat aaj prem raag
gaawat aaj prem raag
sur bade nasheele ae
muhammad shah rangeele
rangeele
rangee…..le
pa……aa
ma ma ma ni pa….aa
ma ma..aa
pa ni…ee pa…aa
pa pa pa ni
pa pa pa ni
pa pa pa sa
pa ni pa ni
pa pa ni
pa ni dha
ma dha pa
ma pa ga ma
dha ni dha ni dha ni dha ni
pa ni..ee
pa ni
pa ni
tere bin jee na sakoon
tere bin jee na sak……………oon
jee na sak…oon
na sakoon
tere bin jee na sakoon
tere bin jee na sakoon
jee na sakoon
tere bin
jee na sakoon
tere bin
tere bin jee na sakoon
lekin ab kya main karoon
lekin ab kya kya main karoon
lekin ab kya kya main karoon
saans saans kehti aas
saans saans kehti aas
jee..ee le
jee..ee le
jee..ee le
muhammad shah rangeele
muhammad shah rangeele
gaawat aaj prem raag
gaawat aaj prem raag
sur bade nasheele ae
muhammad shah rangeele
rangeele
rangee…..le
Jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
Posted on: July 16, 2021
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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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4746 | Post No. : | 16473 |
Sixty-five years have passed since ‘Jhanak Jhanak Paayal Baaje’ (1955) -JJPB for short – was released. I had seen the film in a theatre in South Mumbai either in 1955 or 1956 (this film had run for nearly 2 years in a single theatre in Mumbai). But I had no recollection of much of the film. It was only after I watched some parts of the film on the video sharing platforms over a period of time, I could connect some scenes from the film I saw in my childhood. The film still evokes interest of the cinema lovers especially of those who relish the classical dance/music.
I am now in a better position the appreciate a bold and somewhat adventurous decision Shantaram took to produce and direct JJPB with the classical dance as a theme. If not handled properly, the theme could have turned the film into a documentary rather than a feature film. It was a high budget film in a technicolour extravaganza. Shantaram’s bold and daring decision to make JJPB has be admired in the backdrop of the following handicaps he faced:
(1) The successive failures at the box office of ‘Surang’ (1953) and ‘Subah Ka Taara’ (1954), both directed by V Shantaram had already put a financial strain on his banner, Rajkamal Kala Mandir. Under the circumstances, producing a film with a classical dance theme which Shantaram had never handled in the past, that too in technicolour was fraught with a huge financial risk.
(2) There were examples in the 1940s when Sagar Movietone made ‘Kumkum The Dancer’ (1940) and Wadia Movietone made ‘Court Dancer/Raj Nartaki’ (1941) with classical dance theme. The results were not encouraging. Both these films failed at the box office putting the financial strains on the respective banners. Eventually, Sagar Movietone had to be merged with National Studio and Wadia Movietone got split between Wadia Brothers and the Wadia Studio was sold to V Shantaram.
(3) It was a high budget film but the lead actors in the film were non-stars – a handicap for the box office collections. The lead actor, Gopi Krishna was just emerging as a choreographer in a couple of films while the lead actress, Sandhya had acted in two Hindi films prior to getting the lead role of a dancer in JJPB. Moreover, she was not a trained classical dancer like Vyjayantimala who had already became a star actor-dancer and had the capacity to attract the crowd in the theatres much higher than that of Sandhya.
Despite these handicaps, going ahead with JJPB showed the confidence level of Shantaram as a director and a master craftsman of the cinema medium. Probably, Shantaram may have felt that with his technicolour film, he was in a better postion to present the classical dance theme than what Sagar Movietone and Wadia Movietone had made in 1940-41. He put Sandhya under Gopikrishna for the intensive dance training for over a year which included training during the shooting of the film as well.
Shantaram was very successful in winning over the audience who had rejected his previous two films. He made the Indian classical dances visually appealing to the audience by presenting them in a hybrid choreography, coupled with the lavish settings. The visuals in Technicolour appealed to the audience. The film became Shantaram’s most successful films on the box office front. More than the commercial success of the film, it was personal satisfaction for Shantaram as a producer-director when JJPB won the National Award and the Filmfare Award for the Best Film for 1955.
Since JJPB was all about Indian classical dances, it was apparent that the songs need to be based on the Hindustani classical music. It is said that some well-wishers of Shantaram including Vasant Desai had suggested him to entrust the music direction of the film to Naushad who had emerged as a star music director in the classical genre after the phenomenal success of his songs in ‘Baiju Bawra’ (1952). But Shantaram entrusted the music direction to Vasant Desai. It is interesting to note that after ‘Dahej’ (1950), as a music director, Vasant Desai was not associated with Shantaram’s subsequent films, ‘Parchhaain’ (1952), ‘Surang’ (1953), ‘Teen Batti Chaar Raasta’ (1953) and ‘Subah Ka Taara’ (1954).
In his zeal to prove the confidence reposed on him by his mentor, Vasant Desai travelled all over India to pick up the best musicians for his music team for JJPB. In Jammu, he picked up Shiv Kumar Sharma, an upcoming Santoor player who was still in his teen at that time. From Banaras, he picked up Pandit Samta Prasad, the renowned Tabla player. Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan of Indore played sitar for Vasant Desai. In JJPB, Santoor as a musical instrument was used for the first time which later became a part of many Hindi film songs and background music.
After almost all the songs had been recorded, Vasant Desai had composed the title song in raga ‘Darbari’ for which he persuaded Ustad Amir Khan to sing. Ustad Amir Khan arrived at the recording studio for the final rehearsal and recording. At the last moment, Vasant Desai felt that he should get consent of Shantaram before the recording. So, he invited him to the recording studio to listen to the final rehearsal. Upon listening to the rehearsal, Shantaram was unhappy. He called Vasant Desai to an adjoining room and advised him to cancel the recording and suggested to either change the tune or the singer or both. Somehow Vasant Desai, on some pretext, persuaded Ustad Amir Khan to come for the recording the next day.
A nervous Vasant Desai reached home and sat down quietly. He did not know what was wrong with the composition and could not sleep that night. Early morning, it dawned to him that all the dances in the film had very fast tempo and rhythm whereas his tune was in very slow tempo and so were the aalaaps. Vasant Desai composed the same song in Raga Adana in very fast tempo and aalaaps. He rehearsed the new tune with Ustad Amir Khan in the presence of Shantaram who was pleased with the new composition. [Source of this triva on title song -”Journal of SIRC”, Annual 2012].
I am presenting here the much talked about title song, ‘jhanak jhanak paayal baaje’ rendered by Ustad Amir Khan. The words are of Hasrat Jaipuri and the music composition is of Vasant Desai.
The title song became so popular that Ustad Amir Khan used to get ‘farmaish’ in his public concerts to sing the title song. Later, Ustad Amir Khan started singing a much-elongated version of this song (nearly 9 minutes) in his concerts and the gramophone record for the same was released. Ustad Amir Khan sang live the title song of the film on the occasion of the diamond jubilee (60th week) celebration of the film in the presence of the distinguished guests at the Liberty cinema in Mumbai.
Audio Clip:
Video Clip:
Audio Clip (Concert Verson):
Song-Jhanak jhanak paayal baaje (Jhanak Jhanak Paayal Baaje)(1955) Singer-Ustad Amir Khan, Lyrics-Hasrat Jaipuri, MD-Vasant Desai
Chorus
Lyrics: (Based on Audio Clip)
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
paayaliya ki runak jhunak par
paayaliya ki runak jhunak par
chham chham manwa naa..che
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
neel gagan bhi sunkar jhoome
madhur madhur jhanka…ar
madhur madhur jhankaar
soyi dharti jaag uthhi hai
soyi dharti jaag uthhi hai
goonj uthha sansaar
raag rang bhi saa…je
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
jhanak jhanak paa…yal baaje
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
[sargam]
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
(aaaaaaaaaaaa)
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
paayal baa..je
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
paayal baa….je
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
aaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
paayal aaa baa..je ae
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
aaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
paayal baa…je
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
jhanak jhanak paayal baaje
(aaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
jhanak-jhanak paayal baaje
(aaaaaaaaaaaaaa)
jhanak-jhanak paayal baaje
Binti karat mori paayaliyaa
Posted on: January 4, 2021
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4553 | Post No. : | 16142 |
“Ram Hanuman Yudhh” (1957) was produced by R N Mandloi and directed by S N Tripathi for Ravikala Chitra Productions. This movie had Durga Khote, Manhar Desai, Nirupa Roy, Prem Adeeb, Babu Raje, Shalini, S. N. Tripathi etc in it.
The movie had seven songs in it. Six songs from this movie have been discussed in the past.
Here are the details of the six songs already covered in the blog:-
| Blog post number | Song | Date of posting | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6548 | Suna tu man ki been par (Ram Hanuman Yudhh) | 30 August 2012 | |
| 7562 | Aaj agar meri laaj gayee (Ram Hanuman Yudhh) | 26 February 2013 | |
| 7567 | Rakh laaj mere sindoor ki (Ram Hanuman Yudhh) | 27 February 2013 | |
| 8603 | Bhaj Ram Ram bhaj Ram (Ram Hanuman Yudhh) | 29 August 2013 | |
| 9571 | Balma o balma chanda hamaare (Ram Hanuman Yudhh) | 14 March 2014 | |
| 12869 | Door gagan par chamken sitaare (Ram Hanuman Yudhh) | 29 January 2017 |
I had discovered the seventh and final song nearly two years ago. I found this song such a special song that it deserved to be covered on a special. And that special occasion had just passed. So I decided to wait for the next year when the occasion would recur. On the next year too I missed he occasion and I decided to wait for another one year.
What is this occasion ? The occasion is the birth anniversary of Nirupa Roy ((4 January 1931 – 13 October 2004) which falls today (4 January 2020).
To most moviegoers, Nirupa Roy is associated with roles where she played mother of Amitab Bachchan. In quite a few of these movies, she ould get separated fro her family only to reunite in the last reel.
People of earlier generation would tell us that she as a Maa only towards the second half of her movie career. Prior to that she played lead roles. She often played a suffering wife in these movies but that as not all. In quite a few of her early movies she has played happy and assertive roles as well. Many of her earlier movies ere mythological or historical movies where she played a goddess or queen.
Many songs have been picturised on her during her days as a leading lady. Some of them have become iconic songs. The famous song, “o pawan veg se udne aale ghode” was lip synced by her.
The song under discussion is different ! People who have a particular image f Nirupa Roy in their mind will get a culture shock hen the watch the picturisation of this song.
It is a song here Nirupa Roy performs a dance ! Yes indeed. It is a classical dance setting where Nirupa Roy lip syncs in Lata Mangeshkar’s voice. The song also has an unknon male voice that sings katthak bol.
Shailendra is the lyricist. Music is composed by S N Tripathi.
I request our knoledgeable readers to help identify the male singer as well as the actor lip syncing in the male voice.
with this song, all the seven songs of “Ram Hanuman Yudhh” (1957) are covered in the blog. The movie thus joins the list of movies that have been YIPPEED in the blog.
Audio
Video
Song-Binti karat mori paayal runjhun (Raam Hanuman Yudhh)(1957) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Shailendra, MD-S N Tripathi
Lyrics
nagendr haaraay trilochanaay
bhasmaang raagaayah digambaraay
gauri vinaash bhuvanaay maheshwaraay
daaridray dukhdahanaay namah shivaay
binti karat mori paayal run jhun
binti karat mori paayal run jhun
sabki sunat mori sun sun sun sun
binti karat mori paayal run jhun
tatdhim tatdhin
tatdhin
tirkit tathim tatdhim
tirkit tirkit dhum
dhim tatdhim
tatdhim tirkit tatdhim tatdhim
tirkat tirkat dhum
takit takit
takit takit
takit
tirkat tirkat dhum
tirkat dhum
tak takit
tak takit
tak takit
tirkat tirkat dhum
tirkat tirkat dhum
tak takit tak
takit
takit
takit
tirkat tirkat dhoom
tirkat tirkat dhoom
thai
ti
thai
ti thai
ti thai
ta thinak yun
thom
tadapat aaj trikaal hiya mein
rowat peer behaal jiya mein
tadapat aaj trikaal hiya mein
rowat peer behaal jiya mein
dard bhari mori dhun sun sun sun sun
binti karat mori paayal run jhun
sabki sunat mori sun sun sun sun
binti karat mori paayal run jhun
aa aa
aa aa
aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aaa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
na main tujhe rijhaana jaanoon
na patthar pighlaana jaanoon
na main tujhe rijhaana jaanoon
na patthar pighlaana jaanoon
aanchal hi phailaana jaanoon
mujhme nahin koi gun sun sun sun
binti karat mori paayal run jhun
sabki sunat mori sun sun sun sun
binti karat mori paayal run jhun
tattit takanaka jhum
tarikitnaka tha
ri tha
tirkat tirkat dhoom
tatdit
takanaka
tarigidana
dhi ta
tarkit tarkit dhum
dhit takanaka jyon
kritak dha thim
dhina dhom
kritak daka dhik
taka anak jhum
kritak tat jhim
dhina dhum
krikat tak jhim
taka naka jhum tari
naka taka
dhit taka naka
tari gida
naka
thai
thai
thai thai
thai thai
takajhun tak
takadhit takanaka jhum
tari gida naka taka
dhit taka naka
tari gida na
thai thai
thai thai
thai thai
takajhun take
Jogiya mere ghar aaye
Posted on: August 23, 2020
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4419 | Post No. : | 15827 |
“Raagini”(1958) was produced by Ashok Kumar and Ganesh and directed by Rakhan for Ashok Pictures, Bombay. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Padmini, Jabeen Jaleel, Balam, Sundar, Nazeer Hussain, Achala Sachdev, Amir Banu, Protima Devi, Rajendra, Master Vinod (Mehra), Baby Leela, Navami, Ifthikhar, Jamal, Mirajkar, Kathana, Bhardwaj, Narbada Shankar, Master Raja etc in it.
This “social” movie was quite an entertaining movie, as can be judged from the songs of the movie. This movie had as many as twelve songs in it. Eleven songs have been covered so far. Here are the details of these songs :-
| Blog Post number | Song | Posted on | Singers | Remarks |
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| 341 | Main Bangali chhokra | Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhonsle | 4 December 2008 | |
| 2804 | Chhotaa sa baalmaa | Asha Bhonsle | 17 August 2010 | |
| 5442 | Man mora baawra | Rafi | 12 February 2012 | Rafi giving playback for Kishore Kumar |
| 5893 | Mujhko baar baar yaad na aa bewafaa | Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhonsle | 29 April 2012 | |
| 6326 | Hamne raat guzaari taare gin gin ke | Asha Bhonsle | 29 July 2012 | |
| 6385 | Piya main hoon patang tu dor | Asha Bhonsle, Kishore Kumar | 6 August 2012 | |
| 6424 | Mud mud hamko dekhta | Asha Bhonsle, Kishore Kumar | 12 August 2012 | |
| 11059 | Is duniya se niraala hoon main | Geeta Dutt, Asha Bhonsle | 14 April 2015 | Picturised on child artists Vinod Mehra and Jabeen Jaleel |
| 14842 | Dil todne waale bata ke jaa | Asha Bhonsle | 16 Jan 2019 | |
| 15383 | Chhed diye mere dil ke taar kyun | Ustaad Amaanat Ali Khan, Ustaad Fateh Ali Khan | 16 Jan 2020 | Kishore Kumar and Anand Pal lip syncing in the voices of classical singers |
| 15813 | Tujhe dekh ke machal gaya aaj mera mann | Asha Bhonsle | 16 Jan 2020 |
The movie had Kishore Kumar and one would expect him to sing for himself. He did that in four songs. In addition, he lip synced a song in Rafi’s voice.
But that is not all. There is another song in the movie which is sung by doyens of Hindustani classical music namely Ustaad Amaanat Ali Khan and Ustaad Fateh Ali Khan. This song is lip synced on screen by Kishore Kumar and Anand Pal.
Finding classically trained Naushad using the voices of Ustaads of Hindustani classical music is expected, but O P Nayyar, who was supposedly untrained in Hindustani classical music actually got Ustaads to sing for his movie is something unexpected.
Naushad of course, got Ustaad Amir Khan to sing in “Baiju Baawra”(1952), as also Pt D V Paluskar. In “Mughal e Azam”(1960) he got Ustaad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. We had also witnesed Pt Bhimsen Joshi singing in “Basant Bahaar”(1956).
Come to think of it, the title “Raagini” itself is a derivative of “Raag”. The movie apparently had Kishore Kumar playing a musician.
The movie begins with a classical song sung by Ustaad amir Khan while titles roll in. and that “movie opening” song is the only song from the movie which is not yet covered.
So, here is that twelfth and final song from “Raagini”(1958) to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Ustaad Amir Khan. Lyricist is not known. O P Nayyar is of course credited as the music director.
A comment in youtube suggests that this song is in Raag Lalit, a morning raag.
I have a feeling that “Raagini”(1958) for O P Nayyar must haave been a labour of love, that gave been great creative satisfaction.
With this song, all the songs of “Raagini”(1958) are covered in the blog and the movie gets YIPPEED in the blog.
Audio
Video
Song-Jogiya mere ghar aaye (Raagini)(1957) Singer-Ustaad Amir Khan, MD-O P Nayyar
Lyrics
aa aa aa
jogiya mere ghar aaaaye
jogiya mere ghar aaaaye
ghar ghar alakh jagaaaye
jogiya mere ghar aaaaye
kaanan kundal gale bij shail
kanan kundal gale bij shail
ang bhabhoot ramaaye ae
jogiyaaaa
mere
ghar aaaye
jogiya mere ghar aaaaye
jogee ee ee ee ya mere ae
ghar
jogiya mere ghar aaaye ae
jogiya aa aa aa
mere ghar aaaaaaye
jogiya mere ghar
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
jogiya mere ghar aaaaaye
Saadh Re Mann Sur Ko Saadh Re
Posted on: June 21, 2020
This article is written by Sudhir, 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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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4356 | Post No. : | 15678 |
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you don’t feel pain”.
Thus spoke Bob Marley (1945-1981), the famous Jamaican singer and songwriter, about the power of music. From the most casual to the most formal, every activity, every endeavor of human existence is in one form or another, quite inextricably linked with music. Music pervades our lives and our beings. In many an instance, music appears quite unexpectedly in our lives.
Back in 1981, the Minister of Culture of France was a gentleman by the name Jack Lang. He appointed Maurice Fleuret as the Director of Music and Dance. One observation Maurice had about the cultural ethos of France – “the music everywhere, the concert nowhere”. He conducted a sample survey of the French population. The survey brought out some very interesting results; the most important one was which established that almost half the population was adept at playing one or another type of musical instrument.
Armed with this result, Maurice dreamt of bringing this talent for music, out in the open. Working with his minister, Maurice set out to design a method which would allow common people to be able to perform for others. From this pursuit was born the concept of ‘Fête de la Musique’ or the ‘Festival of Music’. After preparing and communicating for many weeks, finally the date for this public festival was decided as 21st June. In the year 1982, this event was rolled out across the length and breadth of France.
Ever since, the phenomena has spread to practically everywhere. This festival is now held in more than a thousand cities across 170 countries.
One basic feature of this celebration is that it is free. The artists and musicians perform for free. And also, all performances are free for the viewing public.
When writing about music, I have occasionally fallen back on the 1985 film ‘Sur Sangam’, for a suitable song for the post. Once again today, as I write to celebrate this worldwide event, I bring to the readers another wonderful song that tells about the nature and practice of music. The beginning words of this song lay out such an adept definition,
saadh re mann sur ko saadh re
ek mann ko doosre se baandh re
Yes, a force that brings together and binds the minds and hearts of people. Need I say more – the experience of the regulars of this musical bandwagon will speak for itself.
As I noted in my write up for the song “Aaye Sur Ke Panchhi Aaye”, as far as the memory serves, the film ‘Sur Sangam’ is probably the last film that I can remember, that has music as its central theme. After 1985, I cannot recall any other Hindi film built on the theme of music.
The film is a Hindi remake of the iconic Telegu film ‘Shankarabharnam’. It has been produced by V Ramesh for Vijay Madhavi Pictures, Madras and is directed by K Vishwanath. The eminent star cast of this film includes Girish Karnad, Jayaprada, Sachin, Sadhna Singh, Deven Verma, Bharti Achrekar, Paintal, Tabassum, Asrani, Bhushan Tiwari, Dina Pathak, Mohan Choti, OP Singh, Jeet Mohan, Sulabha Deshpande, SP Dubey, Urmila, Master Akash Singh and Baby Mamta.
The film has a set of very wonderful 11 songs, all written by Vasant Dev, and set to wonderful classical melodies by Lakshmikant Pyaarelal. Five songs of this film are already showcased on our blog. And the sixth makes its appearance today on the occasion of the World Day of Music. The singing voice is that of Rajan Sajan Misra.
May there be delightful music today, and every day in our lives.
Audio
Video
Song – Saadh Re Mann Sur Ko Saadh Re (Sur Sangam) (1985) Singer – Rajan Sajan Misra, Lyrics – Vasant Dev, MD – Laxmikant Pyaarelal
Lyrics
saadh re
mann sur ko saadh re
saadh re
mann sur ko saadh re
ek mann ko
doosre se
baandh re
saadh re
mann sur ko saadh re
saadh re..ae..ae
mann sur ko saadh re
taa..aa..aan hai suraj kiran
taa..aa..aan hai suraj kiran
alaap neelam ka gagan
alaap neelam ka gagan
ab ugey ankur dhara par
baandh aisa raag re..ae..ae
saadh re..ae
mann sur ko saadh re
saadh re..ae
mann sur ko saadh re
ma pa nee nee nee dha
nee. . . sa
ga nee ma pa
pa ga
ma re
re pa
megh se malhaar le tu. . .
megh se malhaar le tu
gandh se gandhaar le tu
gandh se gandhaar le tu
dhol pancham kokila ka
tu bahaa re raag re. . .
saadh re..ae
mann sur ko saadh re
saadh re..ae
mann sur ko saadh re
mann yahi tu dhyaan rakh
mann yahi tu dhyaan rakh
sur ki sahi pehchaan rakh
sur ki sahi pehchaan rakh
tu rahe ya na rahe
par sur rahe abaad re..ae
ae..ae
saadh re..ae
mann sur ko saadh re
saadh re..ae..ae
mann sur ko saadh re
saadh re..ae
mann sur ko saadh re
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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साध रे
मन सुर को साध रे
साध रे
मन सुर को साध रे
एक मन को
दूसरे से
बांध रे
साध रे
मन सुर को साध रे
साध रे॰॰ए॰॰ए
मन सुर को साध रे
ता॰॰आ॰॰आन है सूरज किरण
ता॰॰आ॰॰आन है सूरज किरण
आलाप नीलम का गगन
आलाप नीलम का गगन
अब उगे अंकुर धरा पर
बांध ऐसा राग रे॰॰ए॰॰ए
साध रे॰॰ए
मन सुर को साध रे
साध रे॰॰ए
मन सुर को साध रे
म प नी नी नी ध
नी॰ ॰ ॰ स
ग नी म प
प ग
म रे
रे प
मेघ से मल्हार ले तू॰ ॰ ॰
मेघ से मल्हार ले तू
गंध से गंधार ले तू
गंध से गंधार ले तू
ढोल पंचम कोकिला का
तू बहा रे राग रे॰ ॰ ॰
साध रे॰॰ए
मन सुर को साध रे
साध रे॰॰ए
मन सुर को साध रे
मन यही तू ध्यान रख
मन यही तू ध्यान रख
सुर की सही पहचान रख
तू रहे या ना रहे पर
सुर रहे आबाद रे॰॰ए
॰॰ए॰॰ए
साध रे॰॰ए
मन सुर को साध रे
साध रे॰॰ए॰॰ए
मन सुर को साध रे
साध रे॰॰ए
मन सुर को साध रे
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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