Archive for the ‘Jagjit Singh songs’ Category
Taskeen e dil e mahzoo na huyi
Posted on: December 5, 2013
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 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.
shahar ki raat aur main naashaad o naakaara phiroon
jagmagaati jaagti sadakon pe aawaara phiroon
ae gham e dil kya karoon
ae vahshat e dil kya karoon
This is the mukhda of a very popular song from the film ‘Thokar’ (1953). Most of the lovers of old Hindi film songs would know that the song was rendered by Talat Mehmood and there is a version song sung by Asha Bhonsle. Many among them may also be aware that the song was composed by music director Sardar Malik. But I am not sure as to how many would to know the name of the poet who created this beautiful nazm of despair and loneliness. I was one among them. Many years later, I came to know that it was the creation of Majaz. Then the next question – who was Majaz?. I had no inclination then in seeking an answer to this question.
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On the occasion of Kaifi Azmi’s birthday (19th january), we are discussing a few songs written by Kaifi Azmi.
Here is a song from “Arth” (1982). This song, which is picturised as a get together song, is sung by Jagjeet Singh. It is picturised on Raj Kiran, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda etc. Kaifi Azmi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Kuldeep Singh Chitra Singh and Jagjit Singh.
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Tumko dekha to ye khayaal aayaa
Posted on: October 12, 2011
In most Hindi movies, the actors lead reel lives that has little resemblence to real life of normal people. And it was widely believed (and the myths are further perpetuated by people) that movie watchers used movies to live their fantasies and so they wanted to relive their fantasies in the movies instead of being reminded of their day to day life. And that explained the larger than life characters in Hindi movies.
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Mere dil mein tu hi tu hai
Posted on: October 11, 2011
The news came in yesterday that the renowned Ghazal Singer Jagjit Singh was no more. And I was surprised to know that he was 70 years of age when he died. And then I realised that I had first heard his ghazals in 1980s, which happens to be three decades ago. So he was indeed that old.
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Ye tera ghar ye mera ghar
Posted on: January 23, 2009
This song is written by Javed Akhtar and it is a beautifully written song, which has been sung so nicely by Jagjeet Singh and Chitra Singh under the music direction of Kuldeep Singh.
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Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho
Posted on: November 5, 2008
Most of the ghazals we grew up listening to often had heavy duty high sounding words in them whose meanings few people understood. And people not understanding the words would not admit to it either, fearing that he would fall in the estimation of fellow ghazal lovers with such a confession.
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Jhuki jhuki si nazar
Posted on: October 30, 2008
“Arth” was an art movie or parallel movie as low budget movies were described as in those days. Apart from the realistic story line which were supposedly based on the life of Mahesh Bhatt, the movie had some nice ghazals. It was one movie that helped popularise ghazals which was a welcome development considering that the other option in Bollywood filmy music those days used to be “disco” songs.
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