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

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 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.

Atul ji’s 10K Song Milestone Celebrations – 11
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#Claimer 🙂 #
“All the thoughts expressed in this write-up are based on real life experience and day to day happenings, feelings, and emotions triggered by such incidences related with the blog and because of the love, admiration and respect for this blog”
Any ‘resemblance’ of the thoughts mentioned in the write-up is very much expected (and is not a mere ‘coincidence’) with ‘everyman’/ ‘everywoman’s thoughts who is ‘Hindi movie buff’ and lover of HFM for which the author should not be held responsible or criticized or punished in ‘any’ form 🙂
Also, as this is the ‘man ki baat’ of the author the ‘word limit’ does not matter 🙂

 This is another one of my long pending posts which I longed to share since couple of years now. I had kept this song reserved for a ‘special occasion’. However as the write-up could not be completed in time, I missed some ‘special occasions’ and so this still remained to be shared.

But then, what could be a better timing and a ‘greater occasion’ than it is to celebrate our Atul ji’s ‘10,000th post’.  So, here we go with this post today heartily Congratulating Atul ji on his 10,000 or 10K posts on the blog!!!

I had actually drafted this post almost two years ago in June of 2015 and this particular song was marked much earlier than that, i.e. around Sep 2014 when I shared the song ‘Hanste Hanste Aana’ from ‘Raja Rani’ (1942) with Atul ji. That time I was searching for Zohrabai Ambalewaali’s songs so that I can share and do my part in getting her maximum songs on the blog. During that period few songs sung by her were posted regularly on the blog. But, later on it took a back seat. (We are still exactly one short of the half-way mark of Zohrabai Ambalewaali songs, to have covered 133 out 268 songs on the blog sung by her (as per Stats page).

After getting in contact with this blog and Atul ji, when I got this opportunity (after a first ‘rejection’, which was my ‘mistake’ that I had sent in a format with my ‘strings’ as I was then doing while sending my other ‘socio-political’ write-ups to other publications)  of sending my contributions to Atul ji, I was very much excited and initially I was very eager to send as much contributions as I could. I think the highest was eight in one day and like that, and it subsequently got reduced later when I understood that so many contributors sending contributions will only add to problems and issues.

At that time my focus was mainly on the songs from the seventies and songs which I had short listed as ‘my favorite songs’ and ‘songs that brings back memories’. On the blog I found that many of these songs were yet to be posted and so naturally I thought that ONLY the songs that I know – of the seventies mainly – were the songs that were yet to be posted on the blog and all songs of the earlier years must be available there. Ignorant I was of the ‘vast treasure of HFM’ and could not even imagine then, that the total number of songs till 1980 were over 40000 songs, leave alone the songs after 1980.

Well, slowly, as I get along to became aware of the vast treasure of HFM I got more anxious to share the songs I was aware and to see my contributions coming on the blog. So gradually taking from the ‘songs of the 70s (only) (and which brings back my memories of those years), and songs from Rajesh Khanna films to other songs from the black & white era, songs by Sahir Ludhianvi, and songs from earlier decades, then jumping on to songs which I came across during my daily surfing and that were yet to be posted on the blog, and whichever I find interesting, I was eager to share them so that I can get my maximum contributions there.

No doubt my contributions too were coming but not frequently sometimes or as I want them to see ‘a song every day’. 🙂

As I got involved more on the blog and get to interact with other contributors through comments/replies, I tried to guess about the other contributors’ priorities (or likes/dislikes) so as to adjust myself and focus only on selected ‘Projects’ so that all others can get their ‘due’ and nobody is offended even inadvertently by me or my activities.

Simultaneously I began to realize that the songs that were posted on the blog were not coming randomly but the posts have a great deal of serious, sincere, logical and meticulous efforts of Atul ji so I too reduced my flow of contributions and as I took on to sharing my write ups with the songs that I was sharing and I also set certain ‘goals’ for myself (so that I can at least achieve them before declaring ‘my retirement’ 🙂 from the game (Indian cricket playing in my mind 🙂 and leaving behind somewhat satisfactory statistics too 🙂 )

Thus, I shifted my focus to Sahir songs, Rajesh Khanna songs, and songs of the seventies and topics that were coming across through related incidents or memories triggering posts. Other than this there was ‘Yippeeee’ and related browsing, or browsing through posts and adding the ‘links’ wherever they were not working. However sometimes it was so happening that my contributions were coming in flow and sometimes they would not be coming in flow and giving a ‘long wait’ to me to see my contributions there.

Now during all these years (for me since Aug 2012) the daily routine for me has been so changed that whatever the planning that I was doing was not without the blog and so I was browsing the blog every now and then whenever I get time, whether I was at office, in travel or any other place and when at home everything had been centered around the blog or music so life has been overall musical.

And I was enjoying everything that was coming through me in my ‘personal’ and ‘professional’ life too. Inspired and obsessed by ‘Hindi Movies’ and ‘shayari and music’ what more can a ‘common man’ want in his life. Because a ‘common man’ like me and a ‘Hindi movie and HFM lover’ always try to seek answers to ‘questions of life’ in music and many of the ‘philosophical’ situations and songs our movies have. A common man celebrates, enjoys, grieves, gets motivated, inspired, laughs, weeps, and seeks solace in hard times, and struggles in life, in the movies. In my case I was seeking this for a positive and new development taking into stride – ‘come what may’ – and move forward, keep going and getting inspired and motivated by the music.

We try to relate the situations with our real life situations, in particular with the songs or music, if not the story at some times. It is like this,

ज़िंदगी की जद्दोजहद और कशमकश को लफ्जों और तरानों में घोल कर पी लेते हैं और जी लेते हैं
दिलवालों का यही तो फलसफा है॰॰॰

Zindagi ki jaddojehad aur kashmakash ko lafzon aur taraanon mein gholkar pi lete hain aur jee lete hain,
Dilwaalon ka yahi to falsafaa hain…

 This is my own and it did come spontaneously during last month or to put it exactly on 8^th March evening when on the birth anniversary of Sahir, Raja ji’s post was there on the blog and I congratulated him saying ‘finally we were able to do it’. Because, when I return back to Nagpur on 7th March evening, after visiting my mother at Parli-Vaijnath (495 kms), I read Atul ji’s message in the ‘whatsapp’ group that he will be on outstation trip for his official work. So I expressed my apprehensions of having no post on the next day which was Sahir’s birth anniversary. So Atul ji advised us to get in touch with Sudhir ji if he can post it. I called upon Sudhir ji and requested him which he readily agreed and then I spoke to Raja ji to know if has already sent the write-ups for the lyrics lying with him. And then I was also to send my post which was lying half done. Finally all was well coordinated and thanks to Sudhir ji the ‘posts’ were there on the blog.

On the other hand all my household was under packing condition as we had to leave Nagpur on 9^th March by afternoon or early evening after the truck departs. So I was able to pack my desktop and accessories only on 8^th morning after I send my write-up to Sudhir ji on 7^th evening. On 8^th it was going to be more hectic as I had to pack all the remaining items so that nothing is left for 9^th. And, 8^th evening we have to visit relatives (from my wife’s side) and 9^th morning the relatives ‘from my side’ while returning back to my place.

So, when I congratulate Raja ji on the post, he enquired me when I was leaving Nagpur and when I told him all the above his reply was ‘… in spite of all of this you were still thinking of the blog and on there’!!!
But, what can a person like me do other than this?
Particularly when you are in love with HFM and this blog?

Coming back to contributing to the blog, now, given the change in my place of work and still time to be equipped with all the comforts required for sending a ‘post’, I think I will not be able to contribute that much. But then there are many of contributions still lying there and even if they keep appearing at regular intervals it will be very highly motivational for me in this time when I am away from my family and from ‘the Atulites’ and taken a ‘new challenge’ for myself in the form of a ‘new project’ away from my native country. Though I have brought with me books on my favorites viz. Rajesh Khanna, Sahir and Khayyam Saab, this time I do not carry the Geet Kosh volumes 3 and 5, fearing excess luggage issues. I think I will be able to bring it next time during my first leave to home.
[Ed Note: The author is referring to his job related posting in Kenya.]

So talking of my contributions and when not appearing of them disappointing to me sometimes, I think was better than a ‘lull’ on the blog. Because I was always eager to see posts every now and then coming on the blog, even if my contributions are not featured regularly. And this is the other altogether different angle to this story that if the blog is ‘slow’ or there is ‘no posts’ on the blog then it too is very painful for me. And it is ‘like missing a life from the life’.

The ‘happenings’ on the blog have to continue. The ‘silence’ there would be ‘killing’ and painful’, so there has to be ACTION always …  So there have to be posts and sometimes my posts too 🙂

But how to convey this to Atul ji, because I know that though I have not met him personally he knows me very well through my ‘write-ups’ where it has happened many times where I fail to get the right word to express my thoughts and Atul ji while editing the text have set it in such a perfect way by using lesser words in place of my longer sentences which also took more space 🙂 that I find it perfectly what I mean to convey it.

Well that was all ok, but how to request Atul ji to consider my contributions and post them regularly at least not every day and without longer gaps 🙂 So I thought I would put my ‘feelings’ in the form of poems and send it to Atul ji or recite it in front of him whenever I get to attend a ‘gang out’ and where he also makes it to the gang out or during any of the meetings in person with him.

At that time I had penned two poems (both inspired from Sahir songs J ), one in philosophical mood like ‘kabhi kabhi mere dil mein khayal aata hai’ and the other one also in ‘philosophical’ mood but said in comic way and inspired from Kishore Kumar mood like the song that I shared that time from the movie ‘Girl Friend -1960’ – ‘o madam main paagal hoon’.  The drafts of these two poems are still lying in my draft folder of yahoo mail; un-posted and waiting for the ‘great meeting’ 🙂

Well, keeping aside the disappointments of losing some contributions or non-featuring of my contributions regularly on the blog this is because of sheer love for the blog and the respect, admiration and love for Atul ji that I am writing this post here. And on this special occasion I would specially like to mention here that above all Atul ji is a ‘writer and editor par excellence’.

And in spite of his not conceding to ‘my various requests’ sometimes, if I were a ‘journalist’ I would have always preferred to work under his leadership since whatever he does is in the ‘bigger interest’ which was this blog and the service to the music lovers. So, whenever he would post my contributions, I always thought that this was the right time they were coming and Atul ji was very rightly holding them and like that.

At this moment there are many things, particularly his many posts which talks of ‘ISO’ like terminology e.g. ‘continual improvement’, and ‘earning through working (read his posts on Mehmood songs), then I always like his posts dealing with ‘social issues’ and yet not sounding talking of ‘personal’ or ‘offensive’ on the defaulters who are somehow doing harm to the society and in turn the nation (through their actions or behavior), for which I am unable to keep restrain.

At this point I also remember many of Atul ji’s posts wherein he have mentioned about social issues (though not directly hitting at it many times) I came to think of personalities like V Shantaram, BR Chopra, Sahir Ludhianvi and many others who deliberately choose ‘movies’ to convey their message to reach to the masses. And here I can relate this blog and Atul ji with doing this service and spreading ‘positivity’ and ‘motivating people’ in the right direction through his ‘writings’ on this blog.

I could only imagine Atul ji’s creativity when he just mix together the so many aspects of ‘management’ (which nowadays are common at our ‘workplaces’ ) and which most of us fondly talk (and may sometimes be practicing also in our day to day life or work). And think of the blog, think of the objective of the blog, and just think of the ‘ocean of songs’ (the so many requests, the contributions etc) which Atul ji is ‘sitting on’ (yes there is a post where he mentioned this, I am forgetting this post and given the very limited resources that I have at my hands now, I am unable to browse the blog and search and locate the post, and would request Atul ji to guide me which this post is in his comments)

As a writer I can only imagine this god gifted creative excellence that Atul ji has and practicing them which is evident there in his posts and the ‘editor par excellence’ in him, I wonder if I was in his place would I have been able to do the same – ‘justice with all’.

I can go on writing and writing about Atul ji and his posts which given the limitations I have not able to recollect now. Because it is already over a month now that I could not browse the blog I used to do equipped with all my resources.

Lastly I would thank Atul ji for this wonderful gift and the everlasting joy that he has given to me and all of us in the form of this wonderful blog and all those memorable posts and many many memorable moments and memories that I will cherish till I am here on this ‘earth’.

As mentioned above I came across the today’s song when I shared a song from the ‘1942- Raja Rani’. At the same time I noticed this link while searching for Zohrabai Ambaalewali’s song. Now the YT uploader had mentioned the film’s name which is sounds to me something interesting which was ‘mayra geet’. And I didn’t think if this would be a film’s name. I expanded my search on myswar.com by entering the title of song and got this film there. And OMG this film too had 16 numbers of songs. The other movie which I came across during the same time i.e. ‘Raja Rani’ had 14 songs’. So on that day we find thirty songs to make it on the blog.

Though the YT uploader has mentioned the singer’s name as Zohrabai Ambaalewali (and I too think like that) myswar.com is ‘silent’ about the singer’s name of this song. So I was searching for the authentic information and this came when I met Shri Deepak Chowdhari (a great music lover and record collector) at the Nov’16 Mumabi gang out.

After the meeting I had requested him to send me the photo of songs details of this movie ‘Mera Geet’ (1946) from HFGK Vol-II since I do not have the copy of this volume. He had promptly sent it then to me, but the post got delayed and due to change in ‘work place’ and change in my phone number I lost the details sent on ‘whatsapp’. After coming to my new location outside India and thinking of completing this post and introducing this song I again requested him to send these details and he once again sent me that. My sincere thanks to him!!!

This movie has now already been introduced on the blog (and thankfully leaving aside this song, which I had been in between requesting him to hold on) by our Atul ji I am not mentioning the details here now.

I would also like to mention here that the lyrics in Devnagri script are provided by my daughter Ashwini whom I asked to do it as I do not want to break the symmetry in my ‘posts’. And given the limited resources at my disposal here I was not able to do it from here. So I asked my daughter to do it and explained to her how it works (as the settings are already there on my PC at home). I also told her to type the ‘English’ lyrics exactly as I had spelt them. While I was worrying if she could be able to do it correctly, I was surprised to note that she had done it without any mistake.

Well, today’s song is composed by Ghulam Miyaan (there were five music directors who contribute for this movie). Lyrics for the song are by Ramesh Gupta who is the lyricist for all songs of this movie. The singers’ names are not mentioned in HFGK. The same are noted by Shri Chowdhari in his copy of HFGK. The singer for this song is Zohrabai Ambalewaali (which I am also sure), however I think that there are two voices in this song, the other I am unable to identify. I would request knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this.

So from a ‘common man’ and ‘music lover’ here is this ‘lovely song’ which makes a request ‘rooth na jaana’ to Atul ji, this blog ASAD, Atulites (respected members), visitors, well-wishers and readers of this blog.

Awaiting many thousand more songs on this blog, from you, dear Atul ji.

Song – Hum Se Roothe Hi Bhale Saara Zamaana (Mera Geet) (1946) Singer – Zohrabai, Unidentified Female Voice, Lyrics – Ramesh Gupta, MD – Ghulam Miyaan
Zohrabai + Unidentified Female Voice

Lyrics

hum se roothhe hi bhale..ae
saaraa zamaanaa
magar tum
rooth na jaana
hum se roothhe hi bhale..ae
saaraa zamaanaa
magar tum
rooth na jaana

jo hum ko chhodna chaahe
balaa se chhod jaaye
ho balaa se chhod jaaye
jo mukhdaa modna chaahe
balaa se mod jaaye
ho balaa se mod jaaye
balaa se dushman baney
saara zamaana
balaa se dushman baney
saara zamaana
magar tum rooth na jaana
hamse roothhe hi bhale..ae
saara zamaana
magar tum
rooth na jaana

hamaari dekh ke ulfat
mohalle waale jalte hain
kayi ladkon ke dil par
haaye
kayi ladkon ke dil par haaye
gham ke aarey chalte hain
jalnewaalon ko
aji aur jalaana
jalnewaalon ko
aji aur jalaana
magar tum rooth na jaana
hamse roothhe hi bhale..ae
saaraa zamaanaa
magar tum
rooth na jaana

jab se dekha hai tumhe..ae
duniya ka gham bhool gaye
ae ae ae ae ae
waah kya kehne ae
jab se dekha hai tumhe
duniya ka gham bhool gaye ae ae ae
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
kaun the kya huye
hum teri kasam bhool gaye
koi kehta hai majnu
koi deewaana
koi kehta hai majnu
koi deewaana
magar tum rooth na jaana
hamse roothhe hi bhale..ae
saaraa zamaanaa
magar tum
rooth na jaana
hamse roothhe hi bhale..ae          
saaraa zamaanaa
magar tum
rooth na jaana

o jaana
rooth na jaana aa

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Ashwini Scrapwaala)
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हमसे रूठे ही भले॰॰ए
सारा ज़माना
मगर तुम
रूठ न जाना
हमसे रूठे ही भले॰॰ए
सारा ज़माना आ
मगर तुम
रूठ न जाना  

जो हमको छोड़ना चाहे
बला से छोड़ जाए
हो बला से छोड़ जाए
जो मुखड़ा मोड़ना चाहे
बला से मोड़ जाए
हो बला से मोड़ जाए
बला से दुश्मन बने
सारा ज़माना
बला से दुश्मन बने
सारा ज़माना
मगर तुम रूठ न जाना
हमसे रूठे ही भले॰॰ए
सारा ज़माना आ
मगर तुम  
रूठ न जाना

हमारी देख के उल्फत
मोहल्लेवाले जलते है
कई लड़कों के दिल पर
हाए
कई लड़कों के दिल पर हाए
ग़म के आरे चलते है
जलनेवालों को
अजी और
जलाना
जलनेवालो को
अजी और
जलाना
मगर तुम रूठ न जाना
हमसे रूठे ही भले॰॰ए
सारा ज़माना
मगर तुम  
रूठ न जाना

जब से देखा है तुम्हे
दुनिया का गम भूल गए
ए ए ए ए ए
वाह क्या कहने 
जब से देखा है तुम्हे ए ए
दुनिया का गम भूल गए ए ए ए
आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ आ
कौन थे क्या हुए
हम तेरी कसम भूल गए
कोई कहता है मजनू
कोई दीवाना
कोई कहता है मजनू
कोई दीवाना
मगर तुम रूठ न जाना
हमसे रूठे ही भले॰॰ए
सारा ज़माना आ
मगर तुम
रूठ न जाना
हमसे रूठे ही भले॰॰ए
सारा ज़माना आ
मगर तुम  
रूठ न जाना
ओ जाना
रूठ न जाना