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Dilkash sazaa ye deeje

Posted by: Atul on: March 28, 2024

In: "Get together" song | Actor-Singer song | Guest posts | movie opening song | Post by Sadanand Kamath | Songs of 2020 (2021 to 2030) | Songs of 2023 | Talat Aziz solo songs | Talat Aziz songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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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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‘Gulmohar’ (2023) was produced under the banner of 3 film production companies – Star Studios, Chalkboard Entertainment and Autonomous Works and was directed by debutant Rahul Chittella. The cast included Sharmila Tagore, Manoj Bajpayee, Simran, Suraj Sharma, Kaveri Seth, Utsavi Jha, Santhy, Jatin Goswami, Gandharv Dewan, Chandan Roy, Anurag Arora, Devika Shahani, Shriharsh Sharma, Talat Aziz, Vinod Nagpal, Danish Sood, Tanvi Rao, Abhinav Bhattacharjee, Tripti Sahu, Nargis Nandal, Varun Narayan, Kanishk Seth, Puja Sarup, Deepak Bagga, Kavita Seth, Angad Sharma etc. Amol Palekar made a guest appearance in the film. The film was released on OTT platforms on March 23, 2023.

The story of the film is about Batra joint family staying in their family bungalow ‘Gulmohar’ in Delhi for decades. The family is required to vacate the bungalow after sale for its redevelopment and are in the process of shifting to apartments. At this point of time, each family wants to be independent leading to the potential break-up of the joint family. The matriarch of the family is shifting to Puducherry for her own reason. The family has only 4 days to stay together in Gulmohar until the Holi festival. During a get together party, many secrets of the family come out creating some discord among the family members. It is now a testing time for the family on the secrets of their past, creating the tensions for the present and the future uncertainties for the family as a single unit.

The film is available for viewing only on one of the OTT platforms. The story of the film is as under:

Batra family consists of Kusum Batra (Sharmila Tagore), the matriarch of the family, her son Arun Batra (Manoj Bajpayee), his wife, Indu (Simran) and their son, Aaditya Batra (Suraj Sharma), his wife, Divya (Kaveri Seth) and their daughter, Amrita (Utsavi Jha). Arun Batra runs a family business started by his father which is doing very well. They all stay together in their Gulmohar Bungalow in Delhi which Arun’s father had bought 30 years back so that all the family members stay together. Arun’s wife, Indu is a perfect housewife who takes care of the family without any hiccups.

Under pressure from a builder, their bungalow has been sold for redevelopment and the family is in the process of shifting to a hotel as a stop-gap arrangement before they think of shifting to an apartment. It appears that it was at the instance of Sudhakar Batra (Amol Palekar), the uncle of Arun that builder has pressurised Kusum to sell their Gulmohar Bungalow as he is bitter about Kusum who persuaded his brother (and her husband) to move to Delhi. The bitterness between Kusum Batra’s family and Sudhakar Batra has been continued for a long time. Nonetheless, Arun has financially helped his uncle, Sudhakar for the higher education of his grandson.

The film actually starts with Kusum Batra, the matriarch of the family hosting a get-together, being the last one in Gulmohar, for the family members and her close friends during which she reveals two things. First, the family would shift from Gulmohar after 4 days, that is, after Holi celebrations so that the entire family leaves Gulmohar with good memories. Secondly, she would be shifting to Puducherry where she has already bought a house. With Arun’s son, Aaditya having already decided that he and his family would live independently, with his mother’s revelation, Arun is tremendously disturbed but refrains from reacting to his mother’s decision.

Arun’s son, Aaditya wants to become an entrepreneur on his own strength without the help of his father. However, he is not able to get the investors. He is looking for a separate house on rental, but he is not able to afford a high rental. His wife, Divya suggests him not to give up on his dream of becoming an entrepreneur and suggests him to take the financial help from his father who is willing to support him.

During the packing of the moveable items from the bungalow, Indu finds a file containing a will written by Arun’s late father. She hands it over to her husband, Arun. After reading the will on which he finds his mother’s signature also, he calls a meeting in Gulmohar in which he invites his uncle, Sudhakar Batra (Amol Palekar) and his son. He reads out the contents of the will which states that after his death, his brother, Sudhakar Batra and his son would be the owners of the bungalow. Kusum can stay in one part of the bungalow till her last after which that portion of the bungalow will also devolve on Sudhakar and his son.

Arun feels very bad about the will, not because he was not one of the beneficiaries of the will but because his late father has regarded him as his adopted son. He has always regarded his mother and father as real parents even after he came to know about his adoption. Kusum invites Sudhakar and hands over the property papers to him. While drinking water from a glass, Sudhakar accidentally spills the water on the property papers obliterating the signatures etc. Watching the spilling of water on the will, Kusum says to him that whatever has happened is good for the family.

There is another secret getting out in the open. Aaditya’s daughter, Amrita who is a budding singer, returns home from the song rehearsal after getting upset with her boyfriend. After some time, Deepika from her singing band visits her. The fact is that both Amrita and Deepika are in love with each other, and their closeness is witnessed by Kusum who, instead of reprimanding them, starts telling her own story of her college days when she was in love with Supriya who later become a popular singer.

Devasted by his father’s will, Arun leaves Gulmohar and checks into a hotel. Indu comes to the hotel to meet him. During the conversation, Arun tells her that he has located his real father and has visited the area a number of times but did not meet him. He runs a tea shop. On the insistence of Indu, Arun meets his father for the first time without revealing his identity. He tells him that like any father, he also wished to provide the best for his son but felt incapable of providing what his newborn son deserved to get during his life span. At this juncture, Arun realises as to how lucky he was to be adopted by Kusum and her husband.

On the last day before the final shifting, Batra family meets for the last time in Gulmohar on the day of Holi celebrations. Indu convinces Arun to return home for Holi celebrations. The Batra family celebrates their last Holi in the Gulmohar with every member of the family enjoying the Holi celebrations leaving their worries behind. The film ends with Avinash (Talat Aziz) telling Kusum who is getting ready to leave Gulmohar for Puducherry that Supriya the popular singer is also staying in Puducherry after her retirement. Amrita who is listening to the conversations, looks at her great grandmother, Kusum who winks at her. Now, it dawns on Amrita as to why Kusum has chosen Puducherry to stay independently.

The film is an emotional family drama in which inter-personal relationship forms a core issue. The changes in cultural ethos of the three generations of the family add to the complexity in a joint family system. Despite the crumbling of joint family system, the film stresses the importance of family bonding even during the inter-personal stresses. There are sub-plots in the story like lesbian relationship and romance of two house-keeping staff more as a by-product of the changing scenarios in the high society.

All the main actors have given their best performances. However, it is Manoj Bajpayee who stands tall with his stellar performance in the film. Kudos to debutant director, Rahul Chittella who is also the screenplay and dialogue writer, for making the film engrossing to watch. I also liked the tagline at the end of the film which says:

घरोंदे जो हम बनाते हैं
रिश्ते जो इनमें बसते हैं

The film had 7 songs of which names of the lyricist are available for 5 songs – Shellee (4) and Hasan Kazmi (1). There were 5 music directors – Sidharth Khosla (1), Sidharth Khosla-Alan Demoss (3), Talat Aziz (1), Maadhavan Bhattacharjee (1) and Mukhtiyar Ali (1). I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘dilkash sazaa ye deeje’ to appear on the Blog. The song is written by Shellee (real name: Shailender Singh Sodhi) which is set to music by Sidharth Khosla. Talat Aziz sings for himself. The orchestration of the song is soothing.

This is the opening scene of the film depicting a get together of the family members and a few close friends of Kusum (Sharmila Tagore) in their bungalow, Gulmohar. Avinash (Talat Aziz) is a family friend who renders a ghazal in the get together. It is interesting to note that while Avinash is singing and family members seem to enjoy the party, the undercurrent is a bit tense within the family members. Kusum is worried as to how to break the news that she is going to shift to Puducherry. Arun (Manoj Bajpayee) is disturbed by the decision of his son, Aditya (Suraj Sharma) and his wife, Divya (Kaveri Seth) with their daughter, Amrita (Utsavi Jha) to live separately. Aditya also has a worried look after watching the message on his mobile because for his start-up business, he is not getting investors. Even maid servant and her fiance, a security staff of Gulmohar shows worried look. Everyone is afraid of their secrets which eventually comes out as the film’s story progresses.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Dilkash sazaa ye deeje (Gulmohar)(2023) Singer-Talat Aziz, Lyrics-Shellee, MD-Sidharth Khosla

Lyrics:

dilkash sazaa ye deeje..ae
jurm e haseen haay keeje
dilkash sazaa ye deeje..ae
jurm e haseen haay keeje
hai kabse mureed tumhaare
nazaakat ye uspe ishaare
younhin naaz uthaayen
qurbaan huye jaayen
inaayat yahee bas keeje
dilkash sazaa ye deeje..ae
jurm e haseen haay keeje

dhai aakhar preet kaa hai jo
atar mein liptaa mehkaa mehkaa
tumsaa ho koi yaa mujhsaa deeewaana
har ek gharonde mein jaadoo saa chehkaa
younhi muskuraayen
har pal jiye jaayen
ye sohni si zehmat to keeje
dilkash sazaa ye deeje..ae
jurm e haseen haay keeje
dilkash sazaa ye deeje..ae
jurm e haseen haay keeje

pyaar wo kissa aisi kahaanee
rukti na jiski sadiyon rawaanee
dar ho ghar ho
jeewan safar ho
har shay mein milti jiski nishaanee
ye lamhe haay yaadon ke saaye
tohfe mohabbat ke leeje ae
dilkash sazaa ye deeje ae
jurm e haseen haay keeje
hai kabse mureed tumhaare ae
nazaakat ye uspe ishaare
younhi naaz uthhaayen
qurbaan huye jaayen
inaayat yahee bas keeje
dilkash sazaa ye deeje..ae
jurm e haseen haay keeje

Tags: 2023, Actor-Singer, Gulmohar, Shellee, Sidharth Khosla, Talat Aziz

Sukh aur dukh is duniya mein taqdeer ne baante hain

Posted by: Atul on: December 5, 2023

In: Background song | Guest posts | movie opening song | Mukesh solo | Mukesh songs | philosophical song | Post by Sadanand Kamath | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1977 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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I had discussed in my earlier articles, a couple of lesser-known actors like Shaam Kumar and Keshav Rana, who have worked in a large number of films but mostly remained unidentified for the general film audience. But their faces were known to them even though they may appear in the films in small roles or sidekicks. One of such actors was Kamal Mehra.

The information about Kamal Mehra as to which place he belonged, how did he land in Hindi films and what happened after the end of his filmy career is not available online. From the filmography, I guess he commenced his acting career with Kidar Sharma’s ‘Thes’ (1949) when he was known as Kanwal Mehra. He was mostly seen in producer, F C Mehra’s films in the 1950s. His most active years in the films was during 1950-70. His last film was ‘Jeena Hai Pyaar Mein’ (1983).

I have watched Kamal Mehra in some films without knowing his name. In fact, I used to get confused whether the actor I had watched in the films was Kamal Mehra or Rajan Haksar, another character actor of his time. In the age of internet, now it has become easy to identify the actors online. Kamal Mehra has done varied roles – as a dance master to Shashikala in ‘Chacha Chowdhury (1953), an eccentric film director in ‘Aji Bas Shukriya’ (1958), a circus clown in ‘Shikaari’ (1963), a side kick to Biswajeet in ‘Kismat’ (1968) and in ‘Naami Chor’ (1977), an advocate in ‘Paras’ (1971) etc. All these roles had some comical elements. Most of his 50 odd films he did during his filmy career were ‘B’ grade, mainly comprising genres of action, fantasy and costume dramas.

Kamal Mehra turned producer with ‘Saat Samundar Paar’ (1965) under his own banner, Pride of Asia Films. Next, he produced ‘Kismat’ (1968) which became a box office hit. With ‘Naami Chor’ (1977) he debuted as a director which was his last film as producer and director. The star cast included Biswajit and Leena Chandavarkar in the lead roles supported by Shatrugan Sinha, Dev Kumar, Durga Khote, Raj Mehra, David, Keshto Mukherjee, Lata Sinha, Hiralal, Mirza Musharaff, Manmohan, Brahmachari, Bipin Gupta, Gajanan Jagirdar and Kamal Mehra. It is a ‘masala’ film comprising the main genres of films such as romance, music, dances, comedy, villain, fights etc.

The gist of the film’s story is as under:

The film starts with a flash back mode when in a police station, Raja makes a confessional statement of his crime giving reasons as to why he turned a petty thief and a safe cracker.

Many years back, Raja’s father, Kundanlal (Gajanan Jagirdar) after returning from a long tour, confronts his boss, Dhanpat Rai (Hiralal) for the rape of his sister which led to her suicide. During their scuffle, Dhanpat Rai gets killed. Kundanlal is arrested. The court awards him a life imprisonment, leaving his wife, (Durga Khote) and two children, a boy and a girl to fend for themselves.

In order to avoid stigma from the society, Kundanlal’s wife and two children shift to some other city. Raja becomes a petty thief during his childhood to sustain the family. By the time he is adult, he has been in and out of the jails multiple times. Over a period of time, he becomes an expert in breaking locks and safe. During one of his such releases from the jail, he accidentally meets Leena (Leena Chandavarkar) in a train who is a doctor in a hospital and is a daughter of a judge. They have bickerings from time to time whenever they meet.

After completing life imprisonment, Kundanlal is released. Outside the jail, Vinod (Shatrugan Sinha), posing himself as Raja receives him and take to his flat and his posh office. The reason is that it is a ploy by a crime syndicate Boss (Manmohan) to punish Kundanlal for killing his father, Dhanpat Rai. Vinod tries various tricks to take Raja in his gang so that he also becomes in their control for punishment. But all his attempts fail.

Raja who is already in love with Leena and whose influence on him had led to his giving up crime is about to be engaged to Leena when Police Inspector, Anand (Dev Kumar) who has one sided love with Leena, decides to frame him in safe-cracking crime by creating a situation in the engagement party during which a boy is ‘accidentally’ get locked in a big safe. Raja helps in opening the safe but get arrested by Inspector Anand on the ground that he is the same safe cracker police is looking for. When Raja is being taken to police station, the Boss orders his henchmen to blow up the police jeep. The attempt fails. After a long fight with the Boss and his henchmen and after police intervention, Raja triumphs and get united with his mother, sister and also with Leena.

I found the film to be trash. No wonder, it badly flopped at the box office. After this film, Kamal Mehra did not attempt to produce or direct any film. Biswajeet’s acting career, which was already on a waning phase, did not help him to regain his status of a star-actor.

The film had 5 songs written by Shaadab (3), Sardar Hairat (1) and S H Bihari (1) which were set to music by Kalyanji-Anandji. I am presenting the first song from the film which is played in the background as the film’s titles roll. The song is ‘sukh aur dukh iss duniya mein taqdeer ne baaten hain’ which is rendered by Mukesh. The song is written by Shaadab which sets the theme of the story. The third antara of the song gets played in the background when Gajanan Jagirdar, after his release from the prison, meets his grown-up daughter without both of them being aware of it as such. However, the record version of the song has only two antaras.

It is unfortunate that such a beautiful song was a part of a trash film.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Sukh aur dukh is duniya mein taqdeer ne baante hain (Naami Chor)(1977) Singer-Mukesh, Lyrics-Shadaab, MD-Kalyanji Anandji

Lyrics (based on video clip):

sukh aur dukh iss duniya mein
taqdeer ne baate hain….
ek daaman mein phool bhare hain
ek mein kaaten hain
ho o o o
ek mein kaaten hain…..

jo paapi ka naash kare wo
apraadhi kehlaaye ae
lekin ye taqdeer ka likkha
koi badal na paaye ae
jab ke khud insaaf ka maalik
dekh ke chup rah jaaye
ho o o
sukh aur dukh iss duniya mein
taqdeer ne baate hain aen aen
ek daaman mein phool bhare hain
ek mein kaate hain

rona iska dekh raha hai
tu insaaf ke waali ee
apne lahu se ki thhee jisne
bagiya ki rakhwaalee ee
aag laga di iss duniya ne
jal gayi sab hariyaali
ho o o
sukh aur dukh iss duniya mein
taqdeer ne baate hain aen
ek daaman mein phool bhare hain
ek mein kaaten hain

dharti ka seena phat jaaye
aa jaaye toofaa aan…
toone apne ghar mein ye
insaaf kiya bhagwaan….
inke dil pathar ke nahin hain
ye hain tere insaan
ho o o o
sukh aur dukh iss duniya mein
taqdeer ne baate hain aen
ek daaman mein phool bhare hain
ek mein kaanten hain

Tags: 1977, Kalyanji Anandji, Mukesh, Naami Chor, Shaadaab

Zindagi kya hai kaantaa hai ya phool

Posted by: Atul on: October 13, 2023

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 Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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(A Tribute to Kishore Kumar – The Versatile Genius)

Today (13 October 2023) we pay our tributes to the ‘versatile genius’ Kishore Kumar (04.08.1929 – 13.10.1987) on his thirty-sixth ‘Remembrance Anniversary’.

Much has already been written about Kishore Kumar in the media and on this blog too. So I am not going to repeat the same today. But I would like to mention that Kishore Kumar will be discussed till HFM exists on this planet. Much will be written about him till the HFM exists on this planet. People of future generations will keep coming across his songs and his biography and his acting and musical skills and his writing skills and his directing skills and … we can go on adding about this multifaceted personality, and a simple yet sometimes eccentric human being.One needs to into depth into his life to understand Kishore Kumar fully. So people will keep discoving facts about him.

On this occasion I am presenting a lesser heard song sung by Kishore Kumar. I became aware of this song a little while ago. This song is from the ‘1988’ movie ‘Aakhri Muqaabla’. I was unaware about this movie till recently. I had never listened to this song in the past. I became aware of this song thanks to the book – ‘When Ardh Satya met Himmatwaala- The many lives of 1980s’ Bombay Cinema’ by Avijit Ghosh which I added to my library recently. The author mentions this song under ‘super songs that never hit the charts’ (from the eighties). On the musical front the decade of ‘eighties’ was ruled by ‘Bappi Lahiri’ music and of many songs that people would like to forget about, but there was also ‘unforgetteble’ music created during this decade and today’s song is one such song. Listening to the today’s song also reminds me of a composition from the movie ‘Sitamgar-1985’ which was composed by R.D. Burman. However the today’s song is composed by Usha Khanna. The singer for the both songs is Kishore Kumar.

Today’s song is from the movie ‘Aakhiri Muqaabla’ (passed by Censor Board on 19.12.1988).

‘Aakhiri Muqaabla’ was directed by Sudesh Chandra Issar for ‘Lily Films, Bombay’. It was produced by Dr D.D. Singh and Mrs Baljinder Kaur. The cast of this movie included Shashi Kapoor, Suresh Oberoi, Rajan Sippy, Divya Rana, Padmini Kapila, Puneet Issar, Asha Sachdev, Paintal, Shammi, Dev Kumar, Brahmachari, Pradeep Kumar, Chandrashekhar, Junior Mehmood, Chand Usmani, Mac Mohan, Nandita Thakur, Ram Mohan, Bob Christo, Tej Sapru, Shivraj, Dharmesh Tiwari, Vyjanti, Jerry, Asha Sharma and others. This movie introduced D.D. Singh and Palaaki Singh. And the movie had Dharmendra in an ‘above all-special appearance’.

Story of this movie was written by Jag Mohan Singh. Screenplay was by Surinder Kaul and Dialogues were written by Raja Bedi. Editing of this film was done by Padmakar Nirbhavane.
There were thrree lyricists in this movie. They are Gauhar Kanpuri, Jag Mohan Singh and Indeevar. Kishore Kumar (who had passed away in 1987), Asha Bhonsle and Suresh Wadkar had given their voices to the songs in this movie. Music for this movie was composed by Usha Khanna. This movie has total three songs including the multi-part song under discussion. However the lyricistwise breakupfor the individual songs is not known. An Audio link of the song mentions the lyricist name as Indeevar for this song but it needs to be confirmed. The link mentions Usha Khanna’s voice in the duet version, but her name does not appear in the title of this movie under the list of singers for this movie.

This song is available in three parts. The first part is played in background and video of this song is available. This song is played when the titles are rolling and we can see Shashi Kapoor as a Doctor and others on the screen. The video of the second part could not be found as of now. The third part is played at the end of the movie in the background. Here we can see Shashi Kapoor, Rajan Sippy, Padmini Kapila, and Divya Rana on the screen. Also seen is Dharmendra smiling as ‘all ends well’ 🙂

I hope readers will enjoy this song. It is a philosophical song.

Let us listen to this song now …

With this song the movie ‘Aakhiri Muqaabla-1988’ makes its debut on the blog.

Solo (Part I) (video)

Duet (Audio)

Solo Part III (Audio)

Solo part I and III (Audio)

Song-Zindagi kya hai kaantaa hai ya phool (Aakhri Muqaabla)(1988) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Gauhar Kanpuri/Indeevar/Jag Mohan Singh, MD-Usha Khanna
Unidentified voice

Lyrics

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Part I
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zindagi kya hai ae
kaantaa hai yaa phool
kaantaa samajhnaa hai bhool
zindagi hai phool

jeewan hai maalaa
sukh dekh ke motee ee
in motiyon se
jeewan mein jyoti
jeewan hai maalaa
sukh dekh ke motee ee
in motiyon se
jeewan mein jyoti ee ee
zindagi kya hai ae
aansoo hai yaa muskaan
aansoo nahin naadaan
zindagi hai muskaan

tez badi ye samay ki
dhaaraa hai ae
aashaa niraashaa
iskaa kinaaraa hai
tez badi ye samay ki
dhaaraa hai
aashaa niraashaa
iskaa kinaaraa hai ae ae
zindagi kya hai
toofaan hai yaa patwaaar
toofaan na samjho yaar
zindagi hai patwaaar
zindagi kya hai ae
kaantaa hai yaa phool
kaantaa samajhnaa hai bhool
zindagi hai phool

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(Duet version)
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zindagi kya hai
toofaan hai yaa patwaaar
toofaan
toofaan
toofaan
toofaan na samjho yaar
zindagi hai patwaaar
zindagi kya hai ae
kaantaa hai yaa phool
kaantaa
naa naa
naa naa

saanson ki bagiyaa
man apnaa maali
pyaar ki khushboo
aashaa ki daali ee
saanson ki bagiyaa
man apnaa maali ee
pyaar ki khushboo
aashaa ki daali ee ee ee
zindagi kya hai
maati hai yaa sonaa
maati
maati
maati
maati samajh ke na khonaa aa
zindagi hai sonaa

jeewan hai maalaa
sukh dekh ke motee ee
in motiyon se
jeewan mein jyoti
jeewan hai maalaa
sukh dekh ke motee
in motiyon se
jeewan mein jyoti ee ee
zindagi kya hai ae
aansoo hai yaa muskaan
aansoo
aansoo
aansoo oo
aansoo nahin naadaan
zindagi hai muskaan

tez badi ye samay ki
dhaaraa hai
aashaa niraashaa
iskaa kinaaraa hai
zindagi kya hai
toofaan hai yaa patwaaar
toofaan
toofaan
toofaan
toofaan na samjho yaar
zindagi hai patwaaar
zindagi kya hai ae
kaantaa hai yaa phool
kaantaa
naa naa
naa naa

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(Part-III with dialogues, dialogues are not included here)
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zindagi kya hai ae
kaantaa hai yaa phool
kaantaa samajhnaa hai bhool
zindagi hai phool

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Devnagri Script lyrics (Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
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भाग I
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ज़िंदगी क्या है ए
कांटा है या फूल
कांटा समझना है भूल
ज़िंदगी है फूल

जीवन है माला
सुख देख के मोती ई
इन मोतियों से
जीवन में ज्योति
जीवन है माला
सुख देख के मोती ई
इन मोतियों से
जीवन में ज्योति ई ई
ज़िंदगी क्या है ए
आँसू है या मुस्कान
आँसू नहीं नादान
ज़िंदगी है मुस्कान

तेज़ बड़ी ये समय की
धारा है ए
आशा निराशा
इसका किनारा है
तेज़ बड़ी ये समय की
धारा है ए
आशा निराशा
इसका किनारा है ए ए
ज़िंदगी क्या है
तूफ़ाँ है या पतवार
तूफ़ाँ न समझो यार
ज़िंदगी है पतवार
ज़िंदगी क्या है ए
कांटा है या फूल
कांटा समझना है भूल
ज़िंदगी है फूल

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(युगल गीत )
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ज़िंदगी क्या है
तूफ़ाँ है या पतवार
तूफान
तूफान
तूफान
तूफ़ाँ न समझो यार
ज़िंदगी है पतवार

ज़िंदगी क्या है ए
कांटा है या फूल
कांटा
ना ना
ना ना

साँसों की बगिया
मन अपना माली ई
प्यार की खुशबू
आशा की डाली ई
साँसों की बगिया
मन अपना माली ई
प्यार की खुशबू
आशा की डाली ई ई ई
ज़िंदगी क्या है
माटी है या सोना
माटी
माटी
माटी
माटी समझ के न खोना आ
ज़िंदगी है सोना

जीवन है माला
सुख देख के मोती ई
इन मोतियों से
जीवन में ज्योति
जीवन है माला
सुख देख के मोती ई
इन मोतियों से
जीवन में ज्योति ई ई
ज़िंदगी क्या है ए
आँसू है या मुस्कान
आँसू
आँसू
आँसू
आँसू नहीं नादान
ज़िंदगी है मुस्कान

तेज़ बड़ी ये समय की
धारा है ए
आशा निराशा
इसका किनारा है
ज़िंदगी क्या है
तूफ़ाँ है या पतवार
तूफान
तूफान
तूफान
तूफ़ाँ न समझो यार
ज़िंदगी है पतवार
ज़िंदगी क्या है ए
कांटा है या फूल
कांटा
ना ना
ना ना
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(भाग III संवादों के साथ, संवाद यहाँ पर शामिल नहीं किए गए हैं)
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ज़िंदगी क्या है ए
कांटा है या फूल
कांटा समझना है भूल
ज़िंदगी है फूल

Tags: 1988, Aakhri Muqaabla, Kishore Kumar, Usha Khanna

Rishton ki khushboo sadiyon ka chandan

Posted by: Atul on: September 20, 2023

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Movie Count :

4818

‘Swaami’ (2007) was produced and directed by the well-known choreographer, Ganesh Acharya. Juhi Chawla and Manoj Bajpayee were in the lead roles supported by the debutant Maninder Singh, Neha Pendse, Vijay Kashyap, Vivek Shauq, Manmeet Singh, Ashok Beniwal, Aryan Thakkar etc. Amitabh Bachchan was the narrator. The film is a subtle love story of a middle-class married couple who live in harmony in a house in rural setting. The film has some scenes of melodrama, not of tear-jerker type, during the second half.

The unique thing about this film and probably the first time in the history of Indian cinema was that entire soundtrack including the background score was recorded before the commencement of the film’s shooting. The film was shot on the background music like a song. (Source: Interviews of the film’s music director duo, Nitin Arora-Sony Chandy in ‘Bollyspice’, March 15, 2015).

The gist of the story of the film is as under:

Swami (Manoj Bajpayee), a Maharashtrian brahmin is an accountant in a jewellery shop who happily lives in a village in Maharashtra with his Tamil speaking brahmin wife, Radha (Juhi Chawla). They live in a perfect harmony. After 10 years of their marriage, a baby boy is born. Like any other middle-class family, Radha is keen to give her son a better educational facility. They sell their house in the village and shift to Mumbai after Swami finds a job at a jewellery shop. They get the son enrolled in a good school. From his childhood, Swami has a liking for having a rocking chair in his house but because of its prohibitive cost, it has remained as his unfulfilled desire.

Radha often falls ill and the doctor has diagnosed her illness as kidney ailments. He has recommended surgery which requires money. Swami works overtime and manages to save the money for the surgery. However, one day, he sees a rocking chair in his house which Radha has bought from the money he had saved for her surgery. First, he gets annoyed with Radha but realises that she had purchased the rocking chair out of love for him. So, he had to do some more hard work to save the money for the surgery. However, before Swami could manage money, Radha seriously falls ill and passes away.

Before her death, Radha has taken a promise from Swami that he would give their son a good education so that he can aspire to go to the USA and eventually settle down there. Swami fulfils the last wish of Radha. The son, Anand (Maninder Singh) completes his higher education and joins a multinational bank. Anand has liked a girl, Pooja (Neha Pendse) and he intends to marry her. Anand takes this matter to Swami who gives his assent to the marriage as he himself had a love marriage with Radha. In due course of time, Anand and Pooja are blessed with a baby boy.

While running around in the house, the boy accidentally falls on Swami’s rocking chair injuring his head. In a spur of the moment, Pooja gets annoyed at Swami for his rocking chair and after few days, she disposes of the chair to a second-hand shop. When Swami does not find his chair, he gets upset but does not apparently show it on Anand and Pooja. When things have cooled down, Pooja feels bad about disposing off the chair and goes to retrieve the same but returns empty-handed. Since Swami was emotionally attached to the rocking chair, he feels restless.

Anand gets opportunity to visit the USA. However, he is reluctant to go leaving his father alone. Swami convinces his son that it was his mother’s last wish to see him settled in the USA and he has already made arrangement for his stay at an Old Age Home. The film ends with Swami bidding a goodbye to his son, daughter-in-law and grandson. He enters his room at an Old Age Home and is surprised to see his rocking chair. He hugs the chair for, he has lot of emotional attachment with Radha through this chair which is the only memento left in his lonely life.

The film flopped badly at the box office. Probably, for the audience, the story of the film was out of tune with the 21^st century audience. For the front row audience, the usual ingredients for them in the film was absent.

For me, it was a pleasant surprise that the ace choreographer, Ganesh Acharya selected a sensitive subject for his directorial debut. His handling of direction can be comparable to any middle-of-the-road-cinemas. Both Manoj Bajpayee and Juhi Chawla have given the excellent performances. The director has admirably handled some delicate moments in the film like the death scene of Radha and also at the end of the film when Swami sees his rocking chair in his room in Old Age Home. No one would imagine that an ace choreographer, Ganesh Acharya would refrain from having any dance sequence in the film. He had opportunity to add an item number of song with the well choreograph dances in the film on the occasion of Ganapati immersion. Instead, he has left to the crowd to dance in their natural way as often happens during Ganapati immersion.

The only drawback if one would like to call it as such with this film is that all the characters in the films are too good to each other which seldom happens in the real world.

As I mentioned earlier, the film has more than a dozen snippets of songs, all written by Sameer and set to music by the debutant, Nitin Arora-Sony Chandy pair of music director. All the snippets are sung by K S Chitra and Hariharan, mostly as duets.

I am presenting the first song, ‘rishton ki khushboo sadiyon ka chandan’ from the film to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by K S Chitra and Hariharan. This is the opening song of the film which starts with the two verses of Shri Venkatesh Suprabhatam, followed by some dialogues between Swami and Radha and thereafter the mukhada and an antara. This is the only part of the song which is lip synced on Manoj Bajpayee and Juhi Chawla. Other snippets of this song are played in the background at least a dozen times, in the film, alternating between mukhda and different/repeat antaras.

The official audio clip of the song has two antaras. I have made the video of the songs joining at least two snippets with different antaras to make it the song of three antaras. There are two more short antaras in the film played at different times.

I have noted from various online sources that there is no uniformity as to how to present the Sanskrit verses of Shri Venkatesh Suprabhatam in English. So, for the opening verses, I have relied on the book on Shri Venkatesh Suprabhatam published by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam. The English translation of the opening verses given in the book is as under:

The precious child of the noble Kausalya, it is twilight in the east. Wake up, Rama, the best among men. You should perform your morning rituals. Get up Govinda, get up, the lord of the eagle banner. Get up, the spouse of Lakshmi. Bestow the auspicious on all the three worlds.

I heard this song and watched the video clip for the first time only recently and was surprised that such a melodious song has remained on the backburner.

Video Clip:

Audio Clip:

Song-Rishton ki khushboo sadiyon ka chandan (Swaami)(2007) Singers-K S Chitra, Hariharan, Lyrics-Sameer, Nitin Arora-Sony Chandy
Both

Lyrics (Based on video clip)

kausalya supraja rama poorwa sandhya pravartate
uthishta nara sardoola karthavyam daivam anhikam
utishthottistha govinda uthisht garuddhwaja
uttistha kamalakaanta trailokyam mangalam kuru

rishton ki khushboo sadiyon ka chandan
jeewan to hai saanson ka bandhan
tode se toote nahin een
chhode se chhoote nahin
rishton ki khushboo sadiyon ka chandan
jeewan to hai saanson ka bandhan
tode se toote nahin Raadhe
chhode se chhoote nahin Raadhe
Chandan
Chandan
Chandan

swaami….
mere swaami
mere swaami
mere swaami
jaise diya sang jalti hai baati
jaise hawa laaye saawan ki paati ee ee
tera mera aisa milna….

lenge hazaaron hazaaron janam
par na juda na juda honge hum
khushiyaan miley yaa miley laakh gham
ab preet ki pyaas hogi na kam
humne yahi mil ke li hai kasam
humne yahi mil ke li hai kasam
li hai kasam

ek doosre se alag hoke bhi
ek doosre mein samaaye rahen
aankhon ki jhapki khuli putliyaan
palkon mein soorat bithhaaye rahen
donon jaahan ko bhulaaye rahen
donon jahaan ko bhulaaye rahen
bhulaaye rahen

Tags: 2007, Hariharan, Juhi Chawla, K S Chitra, Manoj Bajpayee, Nitin Arora-Sony Chandy, Sameer, Swaami

Shree Ganesh dheemahi

Posted by: Atul on: September 19, 2023

This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, 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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Hullo Atuldom

As a youngster, I had heard a song which had the mukhda ending with ‘prem ka hum shree ganesh karein’. At that time I didn’t know what the phrase “shree ganesh karein” meant. As time passed, I learnt that it meant a new-start for any activity or venture by seeking the blessings of your God and elders. I know for sure that followers of Islam say “Bismillah” at similar situations. I think it is a very Indian practise. I know of students who used to write some holy symbols on top of every page of their answer sheets at the time of important examinations. ( I have heard that the various education boards have prohibited this recently, don’t know if this is being implemented. 🙂 )

So, today happens to be the chaturthi of the Shukla paksha in the month of Bhadrapad; by the Vikrama Samvat calendar. By the panchangs followed in the South of India, the day was trutheeya till 12.39p.m. & then Chaturthi has set in. Don’t know if that is the reason South Indians are celebrating Ganesh/ Vinayaka Chaturthi today.
Since morning I have been receiving Ganpati Bappa Morya & Happy Ganesh Chaturthi messages. Then there are messages of Hartalika Teej. This is one festival about which I have no knowledge. Never heard of it. So I googled. This is what I have understood.

“Teej (Nepali: तीज) literally meaning the “third” denoting the third day after the new moon when the monsoon begins as per the Hindu calendar. It is a combined name for 3 Hindu festivals primarily dedicated to Hindu deities – the mother goddess Parvati and her male consort Lord Shiva. The festival is mainly celebrated by married women & unmarried girls mostly in North India and Nepal to wish for the long life of their husband or future husband and to welcome the arrival of monsoon season with the singing, swings, dancing, enjoyment, prayer rituals and often fast. “Teej” is a generic name referring to the three types of Teej festivals – ‘Haryali Teej’ on the third day after new moon of the Shravana month, ‘Kajari Teej’ 15 days later, and ‘Hartalika Teej’ another 15 days later. The ‘Haryali Teej’ (literally meaning the “green teej”), also known as the ‘Sindhara Teej’, ‘Chhoti Teej’, ‘Shravana Teej’ or ‘Sawan Teej’, falls on the third day after new moon of the Shravana month, marking the day when Lord Shiva consented to goddess Parvati’s wish to marry him. Celebrations by married women, who visit their parental home includes preparing swings on which they then swing and sing happy Teej songs. The ‘Kajari Teej’ (literally meaning the “dark teej”), also known as the ‘Badi Teej’, is celebrated 15 days after the “Haryali Teej” during the dark (waxing crescent) phase of the moon. The ‘Hartalika Teej’ (literally a composite word of “Harat” and “Aalika” meaning “a woman’s kidnap with her consent by her female friends”), falls one lunar month after the “Haryali Teej” on the third day after new moon in the month of Bhadrapada which usually falls a day before the Ganesh Chaturthi. This teej marks the occasion when Parvati encouraged her friends to kidnap her to escape the marriage with Lord Vishnu after her father Himalaya wanted to give her hand in marriage to him. It is celebrated by married women who observe the “nirjala vrata”” (water-less fast) for the long life of their husband.”

That explains what I saw yesterday. I shall explain that here too. Bangalore has a sizeable number of Nepalese who work in beauty parlours, homes as maids etc. I am sure there are many of them working in the I.T. industry too. Yesterday, my maid took a day off, “teej hai madam.”. Then I saw the whole brigade of them dressed in their best sarees (most of them being Red), with lots of sindoor on their ‘maang’ & I was wondering about the customs related with the festival. It seems they give more importance to “Teej” vis-a-viz Ganesh Chaturthi.

I would like to include a little note about the day for us, my family to be precise. We don’t get the Bappa (idol) home but do a pooja to the in-house Ganesha idol. We don’t have any fasting or feasting but normally don’t eat anything till the pooja is done. The main prasad we make is steamed Modak in sweet & savoury variations. It seems my husband’s grandma used to fast on Ganesh Chaturthi (don’t recall if she used to have the various prasad that was there) which she ended on the next day called Rishi Panchami.

But whatever be the method of worshipping the Elephant-headed god he is the one who is worshipped before the start of any venture.
“ādi-pūjyaṃ gaṇādhyakṣhaṃ, umā-putraṃ vināyakam”

The Blog has just touched a new century. Actually, it has reached a new 1000. Let us wish for new centuries & thousands. All the best to Atulji & his trusted lieutenant Sudhirji. The milestone has come on a festival day.
Let us have a song worshipping the Vignaharta, Vigneswara, Ekdanta, Gauriputra- and all the other names by which he is addressed.

The song is a traditional prayer song from the 2005 release “Viruddh”. The singing voice is of Shankar Mahadevan. The song plays at the start of the film which was directed by Mahesh Manjrekar & produced by A. B. Corp. Ltd in association with Satyajeet Movies. The cast was lead by Amitabh Bachchan with Sharmila Tagore playing his wife. John Abraham was his son whose love-interest was Anusha Dandekar. Then there were Sanjay Dutt, Prem Chopra, Sachin Khedekar, Viju Khote, Sharat Saxena, Shivaji Satam, Amitabh Dayal etc. playing important characters. The song starts in John Abraham’s voice where he is giving a background about his father.

(Note: I don’t think the video that I found on YouTube is as it appears in the film, but it gives us a run-through the film)
Jai Shree Ganeshaya Namah.
Ganpati Bappa Moraya

Song-Shree Ganesh dheemahi (Virudhh)(2005) Singer-Shankar Mahadevan, MD-Ajay Atul
Chorus

Lyrics

hmmm hmm hmmm hmm
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa

gananayakay ganadaivataya ganadhyakshay dheemahi
gun shariray gun manditay guneshanay dheemahi
gunaditay gunadhishay guna pravishtay dheemahi
ekadantay vakratunday gauri tanaya dheemahi
gajeshanay bhalchandray shree ganeshay dheemahi
ekadantay vakratunday gauri tanaya dheemahi
gajeshanay bhalchandray shree ganeshay dheemahi
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa a aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa

gaanachaturay gaanapranay gaanantaratmane gaanotsukhay
gaanamattaya gaannott sukh mana se
guru pujitaaya, guru daivataaya, guru kulasthaine
guru vikramaya, guiyy pravaraya gurave guna gurave
gurudaitya kalakchhetre, guru dharma sada radhyay
guru putra paritraatre guru paakhand khand khay
geet saaray, geet tatvaay geet gotraay dheemahi
goodh gulfay, gandh mattay gojay praday dheemahi
gunaditay gunaadhishay gun pravishtay dheemahi
ekadantay vakratunday gauri tanaya dheemahi
gajeshanay bhalchandray shree ganeshay dheemahi
ekadantay vakratunday gauri tanaya dheemahi
gajeshaanay bhaalchandray shree ganeshay dheemahi

gandharv rajay gandhay gandharv gana shravan pranaime
gaadha anuragay granthaay geetay grantarth tanmaiye
gurili gunavate ganapataye
granth geetay granth geyay grantha taratmane
geet leenaay geeta shrayay
geetvaadya patve, dhyeya charitaaya gaay gavaray
gandharvaprikrupe
gaayakadhina vighraahayagangajal pranayavate
gauri stanamadhaya
gauri hridaynandanaya
gaur bhaanu sutaay
gauri ganeshwaraaya
gauri pranyay gauri pravanay
gaur bhaavay dheemahi
osahastray gowardhanay gopgopaay dheemahi
gunaaditaay gunadhishaay gun pravishtaay dheemahi
ekadantay vakratunday gauri tanaya dheemahi
gajeshanay bhaalchandray shree ganeshaay dheemahi
ekadantay vakratundaay gauri tanaya dheemahi
gajeshanay bhalchandray shree ganeshaya dheemahi
aa aa aaa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa

Tags: 2005, Ajay Atul, Amitabh Bachchan, Shankar Mahadevan, Virudhh

Paap se dhhartee phhatee adharm se aasmaan

Posted by: Atul on: July 21, 2023

In: Guest posts | movie opening song | Post by Peevesie's mom | Songs of 1980s (1981 to 1990) | Songs of 1989 | Theme song | Title song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Hullo Atuldom

Anand Bakshi (21^st July 1930-30^th March 2002) whose birthname was Bakshi Anand Prakash Vaid, was a poet, first and foremost. Writing poetry was his hobby from a young age. He used to write occasionally, even after he joined the navy. He used his songs & lyrics in local programmes related to his troop. He worked for many years in the navy and simultaneously tried to market his songs in the Mumbai film world.

The first song, written by him, recorded for a film was in 1956, after which he kept getting work, but success came with “Mehendi Lagi Mere Haath” (1962) for which he had collaborated with Kalyanji Anandji. Subsequently, he worked with all the music directors of the Hindi film industry & listeners had a ‘dum maro dum’ with ‘dekho o deewano tum ye kaam na karo’ in the same movie. Lovers of HFM also had a ‘chal chal mere saathi’ & ‘nafrat ki duniya ko chhod ke’ in the same film. I am sure that any listener of Hindi film songs will have their own playlist of Anand Bakshi songs- hits & not so popular ones. His work spanned almost 46 years, with the last film with songs written by him releasing in 2008 (Mehbooba) for which Ismail Darbar was the music director.

I was looking up some interesting numbers that are available on the internet. I always thought that most of his work was with RD Burman, but the internet gives a different story – Anand Bakshi has been the lyricist for more of Laxmi- Pyare’s work.

He has worked with SD Burman & RD Burman, Chitragupt & Anand-Milind, Kalyanji-Anandji & Viju Shah, Roshan & Rajesh Roshan; that means a few fathers & sons have been comfortable working with this song writer or we can safely say that he knew the needs & demands of any generation. Interesting!!!

We have 1198 songs written by the lyricist on our blog. Today on his birth anniversary we shall have a song from the 1989 released “Tridev”. It was produced by Gulshan Rai, directed by Rajiv Rai and had music by Kalyanji Anandji. Sapna Mukherjee, Sadhana Sargam, Alka Yagnik, Amit Kumar, Manhar Udhas, Mohd. Aziz were the playback singers used. Naseeruddin Shah, Sonam, Sangeeta Bijlani, Jackie Shroff, Sunny Deol, Madhuri Dixit, Anupam Kher, Raza Murad, Tej Sapru, Dan Dhanoa, Dalip Tahil, Rajesh Vivek, Subbiraj, Sulabha Deshpande, Tom Alter, Ram Mohan and The Amrish Puri were the cast.

We have one song from “Tridev” on the blog which was posted last year for the 90^th birthday of Amrish Puri. Today’s song is the one that appears along with the titles of the film & is in the voice of Naseeruddin Shah. The same also gets repeated as the film goes into the interval.

Incidentally, yesterday (20^th July) Naseeruddin Shah turned 73. He has been active in films since 1975 beginning his journey with ‘Nishant’, ‘Manthan’, ‘Bhumika’, ‘Junoon’ etc. all of which were essentially art films. ‘Sunayana’, ‘Hum Paanch’, ‘Khwab’, ‘Tajurba’ etc. were his initial foray into mainstream/ commercial cinema. His filmography has a mix of commercial & art films through the ’80s and after that his films may have been classified as commercial films but they, mostly, had meaningful plots. There are out-and-out outlandish films too, “Tridev” being a case in point.
Wishing Naseeruddin Shah a (Belated) Happy Birthday & remembering Anand Bakshi.

Video

Audio

Song-Paap se dharti phhati (Tridev)(1989) Voice-Naseeruddin Shah, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Kalyanji Anandji

Lyrics

paap se dharti phati
adharm se aasmaan
atyaachar se kaanpi insaaniyat
raj kar rahe haiwaan

jinki hogi takat apoorv
jinka hoga nishaana abhed
jo karenge inka sarvnaash
wo kehlaayenge tridev

paap se dharti phati
adharm se aasmaan
atyaachar se kaanpi insaaniyat
raaj kar rahe haiwaan

jinki hogi taakat apoorv
jinka hoga nishaana abhed
jo karenge inka sarvnaash
wo kehlayenge tridev

Tags: Anand Bakshi, Kalyanji Anandji, Naseeruddin Shah, 1989, Tridev

Kiski dharti kiskaa gaam

Posted by: Atul on: May 31, 2023

This article is written by Mahesh Mamadapur, 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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Mukesh and his Composers – 24

LTNS is an unofficial Internet expression in vogue so much so that there is a wiki page too on it.
Well, its “Long Time No See” as far as my posts on the blog are concerned.
My honest excuses are detailed below.

Apart from the work routine, it was some sort of dejection that kept me away from writing. Dejection of meeting almost dead ends as far as search for rare Mukesh songs are concerned. It was my want of concentrating my efforts to try and trace rare songs that kept me away from adding new posts.

In the last couple of months, I pursued my efforts with renewed vigor by directly contacting some uploaders and collectors with my queries. A few responded, but there has been no communication or any hints regarding the sample rare list of elusive Mukesh songs. In fact, I have nearly half a dozen lists of untraceable songs.

Following is a brief gist of what I am frantically searching,

• The very first two private songs that Mukesh sang in Delhi before he came to Bombay are pressed on a disc with number N 14504. This particular disc and the two NFS therein does not seem to be available. Here is a post on the details of these total 6 NFS.

• The famous Rafi number from Do Badan (1966) “Raha gardishon mein hardam” was in fact sung by Mukesh for Ravi himself in the film Ghunghat (1960) but was not used in the said film. I sent an email to Gemini Studios also with no response from the other end. According to some sources, spool recording of Mukesh version was available with composer Ravi, who unfortunately lost it in 2005 Mumbai floods.

• Sangam (1964) has an unused song with the title “Kabhie na kabhi, koi na koi”. This could be available somewhere but is elusive as of now.

• Bebus (1950) with S K Pal as one of the composers has two fantastic solos and a great duet with Geeta Roy. However, one more solo “Do dil ho do dilon ka” does not seem to have been released on records. Needless to say, the film is lost in all probabilities and hence the question of film soundtrack version does not arise.

• Raat ki Rani (1949) had a Mukesh duet recorded by Hansraj Behl with Geeta Dutt. However, the same was re-recorded in the voices of Rafi and Lata and retained in the film. The Mukesh Geeta Dutt version has not surfaced anywhere.

Unfortunately, my efforts over the last couple of months to have some leads on the above have come to a naught. Well, the endeavor will continue for sure. And, as I said earlier there are many more untraceable songs in my lists.

Coming to today’s post, I tried to pull Avinash ji’s leg by reminding him that the month is ending soon, and the three-figure tally is yet to be achieved. In return, he pulled both my legs and reminded me of my LTNS on the blog. 😊

Further, in our direct messages on whatsapp, I sent him proof that I was indeed on the job. During this conversation, he reminded me for the second or third time that the lyrics of a Mukesh’s song from a 1971 film Sri Krishna Anjun Yudhh are pending with him for a long time. I was thus sort of compelled to take up this post.

One song from this film is already represented on the blog.

I have included today’s song in this series to have some sort of continuity. The composers are rather unknown, and it seems to be their only film. There are 5 songs in the film and the one sung by Mukesh is sung at the beginning of the film as the titles roll.

The title of the film is rather unusual as we all know the friendship of Krishna and Arjun in Mahabharata. However, there are several accounts stating the battle amongst the two to have indeed occurred. Whilst I was trying to find some lead regarding the story and circumstances of this battle, I came across another film of the same title released earlier in 1945. Naturally, the next step was to see if any songs from this 1945 film have been covered on the blog.
Lo and behold, there was indeed a debut representation of this film authored by our Sadanand Kamath ji. What is even more satisfying is the detailed story of this battle which Kamath ji has explained in full detail in his post.

I reiterate that the wealth of information available on this blog is simply matchless.

Again, coming back to today’s post, I have not included any table in this post as this is the only song sung by Mukesh in what was probably the only film of the composers Nandu-Pyaare.

Now, lets listen to this highly philosophical song sung by Mukesh.

Video

Song-Kiski dharti kiska gaam (Shree Krishn Arjun Yudhh)(1971) Singer-Mukesh, Lyrics-Pt Madhur, MD-Nandu Pyaare

Lyrics(Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)

kiski dharti kiskaa gaam
subah ko dekha bante shaam
aanewaalon ko raam raam
jaanewaalon ko raam raam
kiski dharti kiskaa gaam
subah ko dekha bante shaam
aanewaalon ko raam raam
jaanewaalon ko raam raam
kiski dharti kiskaa gaam

har hriday paashaan hai
ghar ghar mein shamshaan hai
kuchh badlaa insaan hai
kuchh badlaa bhagwaan hai
kaun banaaye bigde kaam
kaun banaaye bigde kaam
aanewaalon ko raam raam
jaanewaalon ko raam raam
kiski dharti kiskaa gaam

bhaai bhaai mein phoot yahaan
mitr mitr mein loot yahaan
maar kaat ki chhoot yahaan
baat baat mein jhoothh yahaan
door huaa jag se aaraam
door huaa jag se aaraam
aanewaalon ko raam raam
jaanewaalon ko raam raam
kiski dharti kiskaa gaam

raam raajya ka raag kahaan
lachhman sa anuraag kahaan
bharat saa wo vairaag kahaan
seeta jaisaa tyaag(?) kahaan
seeta jaisaa tyaag(?) kahaan
kahaan ayodhya saa wo dhaam
kahaan ayodhya saa wo dhaam
aanewaalon ko raam raam
jaanewaalon ko raam raam
kiski dharti kiskaa gaam
subah ko dekha bante shaam
aanewaalon ko raam raam
jaanewaalon ko raam raam
kiski dharti kiskaa gaam

Tags: 1971, Mukesh, Nandu Pyaare, Pt Madhur, Shree Krishn Arjun Yudhh

Chaahe dekho jal mein chaahe dekho thhal mein

Posted by: Atul on: March 26, 2023

Blog Day :

5364

Post No. :

17592

Movie Count :

4729

#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (Debutante Movie-Bhagwaan Samaaye Sansaar Mein-1976)
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Today we get introduced to the ‘1976’ movie ‘Bhagwaan Samaaye Sansaar Mein’.

It was directed by Satish Kumar for ‘Jayshree Enterprises’. Babubhai N. Shah was the producer of this movie.

The cast of this movie included Kanan Kaushal, Ashish Kumar, Bharat Bhushan, Abhi Bhattacharya, Jeevan, B.M. Vyas, Satyadeep, Mohan Choti, Jayshree T., Lalita Kumari, Radheshyam, Chand Usmani, Anant Marathe, Tuntun, Sundar, Bhagwan Sinha, Moolchand, Ratna, Master Alankar, Baby Nilofar, Baby Rehana and others.

Story, screenplay and dialogues of this movie were written by Pt. R. Priyadarshi. Editing of this movie was done by Kamlakar.

‘Bhagwaan Samaaye Sansaar Mein-1976’ was passed by Censor Board on 12.11.1976.

This movie has six songs –all written by B.D. Mishra. Music for this movie was composed by Anil-Arun.
Mukesh, Mahendra Kapoor, Asha Bhonsle, Anuradha and Usha Mangeshkar had given their voices to the songs in this movie.

Here is the list of songs in this movie:-

SNo	Song Title	Singer/s
01	Bhagwaan samaaye sansaar mein	Mukesh, Anuradha Paudwal
02	Jay jay Lakshmi maataa, tu sun le meri pukaar	Anuradha Paudwal
03	Aur bairaagi ban anuraagi, main hoon niraali	Asha Bhonsle
04	Meri laaj rahe nandlala	Mahendra Kapoor, chorus
05	Aaj baba aayenge, ham paawan ho jaayenge	Usha Mangeshkar
06	Paap na hone de dharti pe ye tera apmaan hai… dekh le aa ke apnaa jahaan	Mahendra Kapoor, Anuradha Paudwal

Today we present the first song from this movie on the blog. This song is the title song as well as the ‘theme song’ of this movie which emphasizes the presence of God in everything that exists in this ‘mortal world’.

The first part of this song is played in the back ground when the titles of this movie are rolling on the screen.

This song is sung by Mukesh and Anuradha Paudwal. In the second part of this song we can see Jeevan (as Narad muni and disguising as Sadhu later) and Master Alankar lip-syncing this song in the voices of Mukesh and Anuradha Paudwal respectively. In this part the first stanza of the first part is repeated and added with another stanza. In the video we can also see other artistes and some child artistes too.

Picturisation of the third part shows Ashish Kumar lip-syncing in Mukesh’s voice and we can see many others listening to him.

The fourth part of this song is a sad version where we can see Kanan Kaushal and Ashish Kumar helping sick people and getting tired and exhausted in the end. This part is played in the background. We can also see other artist in the video of this song.

I guess that this movie was inspired by the success of ‘Jai Santoshi Maa-1975’ and the lead pair of this movie was repeated here too. HFGK (Vol-V) also mentions that this movie was earlier titled as ‘Kan Kan Mein Bhagwan’ as the records of songs of this movie were released by the this title.

Let us now listen to the today’s song of this movie and welcome ‘Bhagwaan Samaaye Sansaar Mein-1976’ on the blog …

Lyricist for the song is B.D. Mishra and music is composed by Anil-Arun.

Audio (Part !, 2, 4)

Video (Part 1)

Video (Part 2)

Video (Part 3)

Video (Part 4)

Song-Chaahe dekho jal mein chaahe dekho thhal mein (Bhagwaan Samaaye Sansaar Mein)(1976) Singers-Mukesh, Anuradha Paudwal, Lyrics-B D Mishra, MD-Anil Arun
Both

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Part 1
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ramayan se
aur geeta se
miltaa hai ye gyaan

dekh lo man ke ae
nain khol ke ae
kan kan mein bhagwaan,/em>

chaahe dekho jal mein
chaahe dekho thhal mein
chaahe neelgagan mein
nihaar lo o
bhagwaan samaaye sansaar mein
wo hi sab ke man mein
wo hi kan kan mein
jahaan chaaho unko
pukaar lo o
bhagwaan samaaye sansaar mein ae
chaahe dekho jal mein
chaahe dekho thhal mein
chaahe neelgagan mein
nihaar lo o
bhagwaan samaaye sansaar mein

ban ke ann wo
dharti se upjey
sab ki bhookh mitaaye
ae ae ae
phool bagiyaa ban
wo hi mahke
phal aur phool lutaaye ae
har mausam hai
vesh(?0 usikaa
jo bhi aaye jaaye ae
paani ke ye jharne
parvaton ko gehne
usne hi diye hain
uphaar mein ae
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein
chaahe dekho jal mein
chaahe dekho thhal mein
chaahe neelgagan mein
nihaar lo o
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein

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Part 2
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wo apni hi
ichchhaa se hai
saaraa jagat rachaataa
aa aa aa
rang birange
pardon se hai
jag ka manch sajaataa aa
apne an-gin roop banaa kar
abhinay karne aataa
muskaaye wo sukh mein
murjhaaye wo dukh mein
doob jaaye ansuan ki
dhaar mein ae
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein

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(Part-3, video, Singer- Mukesh)
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ramayan se
aur geeta se
miltaa hai ye gyaan
dekh lo man ke ae
nain khol ke ae
kan kan mein bhagwaan

chaahe dekho jal mein
chaahe dekho thhal mein
chaahe neelgagan mein
nihaar lo o
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein

mathura puri mein ae
shri hari janme ae
jinki devki maiyyaa aa aa
yashoda ke aangan mein
wo khele ae
ban ke krishn kanhaiyya aa
bansi bajaaye
sab ko rijhaaye
ban mein charaaye gaiyyaa aa
raas leelaa jisne
kee hai saare brij mein
jhoome jag ye
uske hi pyaar mein ae
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein
chaahe dekho jal mein
chaahe dekho thhal mein
chaahe neelgagan mein
nihaar lo o
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein
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(Part-4, video, (sad))
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har praani mein
parmeshwar ko
jisne sadaa nihaaraa aa aa
deen dukhi ki
sewaa karnaa
lagtaa usko pyaaraa aa ,/em>

asahaayon ko o
beemaaron ko
detaa wo hi sahaaraa
chintaa usko apni
hoti hai na kabhi bhi
lagaa rahe jo
sabke upkaar mein
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein
chaahe dekho jal mein
chaahe dekho thhal mein
chaahe neelgagan mein
nihaar lo o
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein
bhagwaan samaaye
sansaar mein

Tags: 1976, Anil Arun, Anuradha Paudwal, B D Mishra, Jeewan, Master Alankar, Mukesh

Jal bharee gagree saa chhalka jiyarwaa

Posted by: Atul on: March 21, 2023

Blog Day :

5359

Post No. :

17575

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2013-2023) – Song No.52
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As the title of the post suggests, in this post we have a ‘blog ten-year challenge’ song to listen to.

The month of ‘March’ ten years back in ‘2013’ clocked a ‘double century’ and added sixteen more song to it, making the total of ‘216’ songs in the month.
That gives us an average of 6.96 songs per day or almost seven songs per day.

On this day ten years ago (21 march 2013), eight songswere posted on the blog as per details given below:-

Post No	Song Title	Name of the movie	Remarks
7726	Aaj kar le jee bhar ke singaar	Maa Baap-1944	8 of 9 songs posted
7727	O varsha ke pehle baadal	Meghdoot-1945	01 song posted
7728	Ae dard e jigar mere dard e jigar	Parchhaain-1952	All songs covered
7729	Main kal phir miloongi isi gulsitaan mein	Dr Vidya-1962	All songs covered
7730	Ek ladki hai jisne jeena mushqil kar diya	Gumnaam-1965	All songs covered
7731	Mori baali re umariyaa	Chhoti Chhoti Baatein-1965	All songs covered
7732	Ae mere dil sun meri jaan	Kunwaari-1966	3 of 9 songs posted
7733	Bheega bheega mausam aaya barse ghataa ghanghor	Bhayaanak-1979	3 of 5 songs posted

From the above table we can see that out of eight movies represented on the blog ‘four’ movies have achieved ‘Yippeeee’ed’ status on the blog i.e. all songs from these four movies viz. ‘Parchhaain-1952’, ‘Dr.Vidya-1962’, ‘Gumnaam-1965’ and ‘Chhoti Chhoti Baatein-1965’ have been covered on the blog.

So, four movies are eligible for Blog ten Year Challenge today as they still have a few songs left to be covered on the blog.

In this post let us have a song from the movie ‘Kunwaari-1966’

“Kunwaari-1966” was produced by R N Mandloi for Ravi Kala Chitra Production. It was directed by S N Tripathi.

The movie had Indrani Mukherjee, Ravindra Kapoor, Jeevan, Tabassum, Leela Mishra, Prem Chopra, Murad, Sunder, Shammi, Tuntun, Mridula, S N Tripathi, Mumtaz Begum, Babu Raje, Khursheed, Raj Kishore, Susheela, Sheela Kashmiri, Chanda Bai, Daya Devi, Ajeet, Maula, Omprakash, Munshi Munakka, Safdar, Radhe Shyam, Ameeta, Anwari, Meera, Helen, Shashi, Chhunni etc in it.

“Kunwaari-1966” has nine songs sin it. Seven of them were penned by Shailendra and two by B.D. Mishra. Music for this movie was composed by S.N. Tripathi.
Three songs from this movie have been posted on the blog so far.

The song presented in this post is the fourth song from this movie to appear on the blog. It is sung by Lata Mangeshkar and its lyrics are by Shailendra.

Only the audio of the complete song is available. The partial video of the song shows the song getting played in the background with the movie titles on screen and we can see Shashi, Chunni, Sheila, Kashmiri and Jeevan in the picturisation (as noted by Prakashchandra while sharing the lyrics of this song).

This song is a lovely melodious song to listen to with the magical words of Shailendra and the composition of S.N. Tripathi perfectly bringing the message in the song.

Audio

Partial video

Song-Jal bharee gagree sa chhalke jiyarwaa (Kunwaari)(1966) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Shailendra, MD-S N Tripathi
Female Chorus

Lyrics (Provided by Prakashchandra)

aaa aaa aaa aaaa
aaa aaa aaa aaa aaaaa
aaa aaa aaa aaaa
aaa aaa aaa aaa haa aaaaa
o o

jal bharee gagree saa
chhalkey jiyarwaa
balmaa basey pardes rey
jal bharee gagree saa
chhalkey jiyarwaa
balmaa basey pardes rey ae
aa ke baras gaye kitney badarwaa
balmaa basey pardes rey

sajnaa ki pyaaree kajraaree
mori ankhiyaan aan
hho o omoree ankhiyaan aaa
pathh pe bichhee hain
ye bechaari din ratiyaan
haayye din ratiyaa aan
jaaney kyun paraayaa laagey
baabul ka gharwaa aa
balmaa basey pardes rey
jal bharee gagree saa
chhalkey jiyarwaa
balmaa basey pardes rey ae

haadi(?) chaubaaree pe
sitaarey gin haari main aen
taarey gin haaree main
nindiyaa kahaan se aaye
birhaa ki maaree main aen
birhaa ki maaree main
ghadi ghadi bolee boley
paapi rey papeeharaa
balmaa basey pardes rey
jal bharee gagree saa
chhalkey jiyarwaa
balmaa basey pardes rey ae
aaa aaa aaa aaaa
aaa aaa aaa aaa aaaaa
aaa aaa aaa aaaa
aaa aaa aaa aaa aaaaa

Tags: 1966, Kunwaari, Lata, S N Tripathi, Shailendra

Kashti rawaandawaan hai sahaara hai naakhuda

Posted by: Atul on: February 8, 2023

In: Boat song | Boatman's Song | Guest posts | Mahendra Kapoor solo | Mahendra Kapoor songs | movie opening song | Post by Avinash Scrapwala | Songs of 1980s (1981 to 1990) | Songs of 1982 | Theme song | Title song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Blog Day :

5317

Post No. :

17438

#the Decade of Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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(A tribute to lyricist Nida Fazli on his ‘Remembrance Day’)

Today we pay our tributes to lyricist Nida Fazli on his ‘seventh’ ‘Remembrance Anniversary.

He was born on 12^th October’1938 and he passed away on 08^th February’2016.

As a tribute to him today on his ‘Remembrance Day’ I presenting a song penned by him for the movie ‘Naakhuda-1981’.

This movie has six songs and all the six songs were written by Nida Fazli.

We have some beautiful compositions composed by Khayyam Saab to the equally beautiful lyrics by Nida Fazli in this movie.

“Naakhuda-1981” was directed by Dilip Naik for ‘Yashraj Enterprises’. It was produced by Yash Chopra.

It had Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raj Kiran, Madan Puri, Yunus Parvez, Mac Mohan, Bharat Kapoor, and Javed Khan. They were supported by Sudhir Dalvi, Vikas Anand, Mahaan, Murlidhar, Bandini, Nandini, Umesh, Murari, Chand, Raj Verma, Chandu, Pardesi, Madhu Malhotra, Amarnath, Rajesh, Rauf Khan and others.

This movie introduced Swaroop Sampat. Asha Sachdev had a guest appearance in this movie.

This film was written by Mushtaq Jalili. Editing of this movie was done by B. Mangeshkar.
(Ranjan Suryawanshi was the chief assistant editor and Deepak Sareen was the chief assistant director for this movie).

This movie was passed by Censor Board on 17.02.1981.

As mentioned above this movie has six songs written by Nida Fazli and music for five songs was composed by Khayyam .
One song was composed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and this song had the voices of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mujahad Ali and chorus.
The songs had voices of Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mahendra Kapoor, Nitin Mukesh, Jagjit Kaur, Pamela Chopra, and S.K. Mahaan.

Following is the list of songs this movie had.

S.No.	Song Title	Singer/s	Posted On
01.	Allaah beli…sahaara hai naakhuda	Mahendra Kapoor, chorus
02	Tujhe maroongi phoolon ki maar sajna	Mahendra Kapoor, Asha Bhonsle
03	Suno ik baat bolen	Lata Mangeshkar, Nitin Mukesh	28.09.2014
04	Rangeen hai fazaayen… aa jaa yaar habibi	Mahendra Kapoor, Jagjit Kaur, Pamela Chopra, S.K. Mahaan
05	Tumhaari palkon ki chilmanon mein	Lata Mangeshkar, Nitin Mukesh	27.06.2020
06	Ali ali shaah e mardaan ali	Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mujahad Ali, chorus

Two songs from this movie ‘Naakhuda-1981’ have been posted on the blog earlier as mentioned in the above table.

Today’s song is sung by Mahendra Kapoor. Sudhir Dalvi is seen lip-syncing this song on screen.

Lyrics noted are as per the audio link (which is a longer link and may have repetition of lines of chorus and stanza lines too).

The picturisation of the song is shown in the background of the movie titles where we can see Sudhir Dalvi (as a ‘Fakir’) and other devotees (?) sailing in a boat.

The song relates the ‘captain of the boat/ship’ – ‘Naakhuda’ to God and says that he is the sailor, captain, rescuer, and director like the God in the hour of ‘crises. He is the commander of the ‘fate’ or ‘destiny’ of the travellers in the boat and also he is as great as God and treat all equally with love and shower his love on all irrespective of their caste, creed and religion.

Let us enjoy this wonderful song…

Audio (Longer)

Video

Song-Kashti rawaadawaan hai sahaara hai naakhudaa (Naakhuda)(1982) Singer-Mahendra Kapoor, Lyrics-Nida Fazli, MD-Khayyam
Chorus