Archive for the ‘Protest song’ Category
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“Main Aazaad Hoon”(1989) was produced by Habib Nadiadwala and directed by Tinnu Anand. The movie was an adaptation of Frank Capra’s “Meet John Doe”(1941). Amitabh Bachcahn played the lead role in the movie.
While “Meet John Doe”(1941) was a superhit movie, its Hindi adaptation failed miserably at the box office. “Main Aazaad Hoon”(1989), like its Hollywood original, showed the hero as a common man, helpless against system. Indian audience, brought up on staple diet of escapist movies were not mature enough to appreciate movies that were off the beaten track. People expected Amitabh Bachchan to play his usual larger than life superman like character, but the movie depicted him as an ordinary man, as powerless and helpless as most ordinary men, and movie goers were not prepared for that. While “Meet John Doe”(1941) was a superhit movie, its Hindi adaptation failed miserably at the box office. So it showed, if any proof was needed that Indian audience of 1989 had not reached the maturity of Hollywood audience of 1941 !
Personally I quite liked the movie, but I was in a minority. Most other people had expected to see Amitabh Bachchan as an angry young man of “Trishul” or “Andha Kaanoon” and they felt let down with the non escapist fare that this movie served.
“Main Aazaad Hoon”(1989) had just one song in it.
Here is that sole song from “Main Aazaad Hoon”(1989). This song is sung by Amitabh Bachchan and chorus, in addition to some unidentified voices. The song is sung by Amitabh Bachchan and it is picturised on himself. Kaifi Azmi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Amar Utpal.
Since it is the only song from the movie, this song serves dual purpose simultaneously. This song is the debutant song as well as a YIPPEE song. So one can say, rather pompously that “Main Aazaad Hoon”(1989), makes its debut in the blog with this song and get YIPPEED as well. 🙂
Song-Itne baazoo itne sar (Main Aazaad Hoon)(1989) Singer-Amitabh Bachchan, Lyrics-Kaifi Azmi, MD-Amar Utpal
Chorus
Unknown male voice
Lyrics
itne baazu itne sar
hmm
itne baazu itne sar
gin le dushman dhyaan se
hmm hmm
itne baazu itne sar
gin le dushman dhyaan se
itne baazu itne sar
gin le dushman dhyaan se
haarega wo har baazi
jab khelen hum ji jaan se
haarega wo har baazi
jab khelen hum ji jaan se
jee jaan se
aao
aa jaao
jag pe chha jaao
ji jaan se
haan
ye hui na baat
aise hi gaate hain
ek do
aaye ho tum to aao
jee jaan se
hamen aake raah dikhaao
jee jaan se
manzil pe hamen pahunchaao
jee jaan se
aao
aa jao
jee jaan se
jag pe chha jao
ji jaan se
aao mere saath aao
ji jaan se
meri dhun mein tum gaao
ji jaan se
milke lashkar ban jaao
ji jaan se
aao
aa jaao
ji jaan se
jag pe chha jaao
ji jaan se
itne baazu itne sar
gin le dushman dhyaan se
itne baazu itne sar
ginle dushman dhyan se
haarega wo har baazi
jab khelen hum ji jaan se
haarega wo har baazi
jab khele hum ji jaan se
itne baazu itne sar
gin le dushman dhyaan se
itne baazu itne sar
gin le dushman dhyaan se
haarega wo har baazi
jab khelen hum ji jaan se
haarega wo har baazi
jab khelen hum ji jaan se
aao
aa jaao
ji jaan se
jag pe chha jaao
ji jaan se
aao
aa jaao
ji jaan se
jag pe chha jaao
ji jaan se
maalik ka dhan jo badhaaye
ji jaan se
?? hi dhan ban jaaye
ji jaan se
kyun na ik din lad jaayen
jee jaan se
aao
aa jaao
ji jaan se
jag pe chhaa jaao
ji jaan se
ek duniya sang hai
ye haq ki jung hai
ek duniya sang hai
ye haq ki jung hai
laalach se takraana hai
beshak takraayenge
haan
laalach se takraana hai
beshak takraayenge
jinko jhukna aata hai
saare sar kat jaayenge
jinko jhukna aata hai
saare sar kat jaayenge
aao
aa jaao
ji jaan se
jag pe chha jaao
ji jaan se
aao
aa jaao
ji jaan se
jag pe chha jao
ji jaan se
itne baazu itne sar
gin le dushman dhyaan se
haarega wo har baazi
jab khelen hum ji jaan se
haarega wo har baazi
jab khelen hum ji jaan se
aao aa jaao
jag pe chha jaao
aao aa jaao
jag pe chha jaao
itne baazu itne sar
gin le dushman dhyaan se
haarega wo har baazi jab khelen hum ji jaan se
itne baazu itne sar
gin le dushman dhyaan se
harega wo har baazi
jab khelen hum ji jaan se
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“Sankalp”(1974) was directed by Ramesh Sahgal for Twinkle Stars, Bombay. This “social” movie had Farida Jalal, Sukhdev, Bipin Gupta, Anjali Kadam, arjun Bakshi, Mahesh (new discovery), Yunus Parvez, Leela Mishra, Jankidas, Suresh Divekar, Subhash Sethi, Mona, Nikita, Chandu Alahabadi, Master Sheroo, Master Ratan, Satish Chhabra etc in it, with special appearance by Sulakshana Pandit.
The movie had four songs in it. Three songs from the movie have been covered in the past. These three songs were discussed in 2011, 2015 and 2018 , viz at three year intervals. 🙂 Here are the details of these three songs:-
|
Song Title |
Post No. |
Post Date |
| Tu hi saagar tu hi kinaaraa | 3921 | 23-May-11 |
| Sab thhaath pada rah jaawega | 11307 | 22-Jul-15 |
| Ghaav dil ke dhuyen se seete hain | 14194 | 22-Mar-18 |
Here is the fourth and final song from “Sankalp”(1974) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Mukesh and Mahendra Kapoor. Kaifi Azmi is the lyricist. Music is composed on Khayyam.
Only the audio of this song is available. One can guess that the song is a public lament song where people hold politicians responsible for the ills of the nation. Yes, people four decades ago held the same view about politicains that they do now. 🙂
Personally I think that now a days we are much better off vis a vis the situation of 1970s. Those were the days when we had economic policies that relied upon dole contributed by western nations. Things are vastly better today. The economic policies which kept the nation poor and steadily brought it on the verge of bankruptcy have since been abandoned. Politicians continue to be more or less same as before but the country is doing far better. So people listening to this song today will not share the same despondency as this song may have brought about in the past.
With this song, “Sankalp”(1974) joins the list of movies that have all their songs covered in the blog.
Audio
Video
Song-Bheetar bheetar khaaye chalo (Sankalp)(1974) Singers-Mukesh, Mahendra Kapoor, Lyrics-Kaifi Azmi, MD-Khayyam
Unknown voice
All
Lyrics
bheetar-bheetar khaaye chalo
baahar shor machaaye chalo
bheetar-bheetar khaaye chalo
baahar shor machaaye chalo
bhed kaun kholegaa
munh se kaun bolegaa
bheetar-bheetar khaaye chalo
baahar shor machaaye chalo
jantaa bholi-bhaali hai
pet bhi jeb bhi khaali hai
naaron se garmaa do lahu
vaadon se bahlaaye chalo
vaadon se bahlaaye chalo
bheetar-bheetar khaaye chalo
baahar shor machaaye chalo
badhti jaaye hai mehngaai
ghat’ti jaaye hai kamaayi
cheezon ke daam badhaaye chalo
insaan ka bhaav giraaye chalo
insaan ka bhaav giraaye chalo
bheetar-bheetar khaye chalo
baahar shor machaye chalo
haathon mein kuchh note lo
haathon mein kuchh note lo
phir chaaho jitne vote lo
khote se khotaa kaam karo
baapu ko neelaam karo
arre
baapu ki tasveer hai ye
tere baap ki kyaa jaagir hai ye
baapu-baapu karte raho
zahar dilon mein bharte raho
basti-basti aag lage
har insaan ek naag lage
praant-praant ko tang kare
bhaasha se bhaasha jang kare
koi yahaan malyaali
koi yahaan bangaali
gujrati hai koi yahaan
punjabi hai koi yahaan
ye hai maratha aur vo tamil
aapas mein yaari hai mushkil
sabko chaahiye apni zameen
hindustaani koi nahin
hindustaani koi nahin
hindustaani koi nahin
desh kahaan ab desh rahaa aa aa
desh kahaan ab desh rahaa
aa aa aa
desh to seemaaon mein bantaa
aur bhi tukde udaaye chalo
kursi apni bachaaye chalo
kursi apni bachaaye chalo
bheetar-bheetar khaaye chalo
baahar shor machaaye chalo
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This is the 2800th song of Rafi Sb to be showcased on our blog.
‘Mera Suhaag’ (1961) is the 3800th film represented on our blog.
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Series of Rafi songs-Rafi with music directors
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(Pal do pal ka saath)-MD composing just one Rafi song
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Part I-Arun Raghavan
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During his HFM career, Rafi worked with 14 music directors in more than 100 songs each. I describe them as Major music directors for Rafi or three figure music directors with Rafi. Then there were 45 music directors who composed between 11 to 99 songs with Rafi. We can call them semi major or two figure music directors with Rafi.
Major (viz three figure) music directors created 2743 song with Rafi, which is 53 % of all Rafi songs in HFM. The semi major (viz two figure) music directors created 1528 Rafi songs, viz 30 % of all Rafi songs in HFM. So we can say that the major and semi major music directors (59 in number) contributed a whopping 83% of all Rafi songs, which adds up to 4271 songs in all.
Then there were 170 music directors who worked with Rafi in less than 10 songs each. They were like the proverbial squirrels of Ramayan fame, who would carry a few grams of tiny pebbles each on their tiny paws while the giant vaanars would carry large boulders on their shoulders. The individual contributions of each of these music directors may be small in comparison to the major music directors, but the cumulative total of Rafi songs by these single figure music directors adds up to a figure of 503 ! This total is bigger than the career total of HFM songs sung by some well known playback singers, viz K L Saigal, Suraiyya, Talat Mehmood etc. And these songs contain quite a few wonderful songs as well.
I had discussed this fact while discussing a song on the occasion of Rafi’s birth anniversary. Raja, while commenting on that article had written –
“Just wondering if we have covered songs of all those 173 composers (1-9 songs category) here already? If not, that could be a project. Every composer who has used Rafisaab should be on the blog, even if the song being posted for that composer isn’t necessarily the Rafisaab one (if it is, of course better!).
That could be our way of showing our gratitude to that composer.”
I had taken note of Raja’s suggestion. And this writeup begins our series of articles about those music directors who were associated with Rafi in less than ten songs each. The name that I have chosen for this series is- pal do pal ka saath. This phrase is taken from that memorable qawwaali from “The Burning Train” (1981) containing this phrase.
In the beginning, I will discuss those music directors who have worked with Rafi in just one song each.
There are 48 such music directors. While most of them are small time less heard music directors, we have some rather well known names too in the list.
I decided to take up these names alphabetically. The first name that crop up in Alphabetical order is Aabid Hussain Khan who composed one Rafi-Zohrabai Ambalewaali duet in a 1949 movie called Last Message”(1949). While a few songs from this movie are available, the Rafi song , viz. “na thahar sake na tadap sake” does not seem to be available.
The next name that comes up alphabetically is Aparesh Lahiri (father of Bappi Lahiri). He has composed one Rafi song in a movie called “Subhash chandra” (1978). Since Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary is coming up next week, that would be the opportune time to cover this song.
The next name in the list of music directors is Arun Raghavan. He was a South Indian music director and he worked in just one Hindi movie. This movie, called “Mera Suhaag” (1961) was produced by Produced by N S R Mani and directed by H Krishnamoorthy for Secarts, Madras. The movie had Kanta Rao, Rajnala, Ramkrishna, K V S Sarma, A V subbarao, Balkrishna, Krisha Kumari, Girija, Rajshree, Hemlata etc. in it. In all likelihood, this movie was a remake of a south Indian movie where songs were re reccorded in Hindi. There were nine songs in the movie. Eight of these songs were sung by well known South Indian playback singers viz. P Susheela, S Janki and P B Srinivas.
But there was one song in the movie which was sung by Rafi. And that happens to be the one and only collaboration of Arun Raghavan as a music director with Rafi in a Hindi movie.
The song is penned by Vinod Sharma, who like the music director is an obscure name for this blog.
This song is a rare song. Only the audio of the song is available.
From the sounds of it, the song appears to be used as a background song in the movie.
I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the movie as well as on the picturisation of this song.
So much discussion on a song which is a rare and obscure song. Most sites dealing with HFM will struggle to find anything to write on this song. But trust us in this blog to treat most songs in general and songs like this in particular with so much care and respect, and we are able to come up with so many special things to say about songs like this.
This song is special for us for the following reasons:
1. This is the only occasion when Rafi has sung a song under the music direction of Arun Raghavan and under the penmanship of Vinod Sharma.
2. This is the 2800th Rafi song in the blog. It was a conscious decision on our part to use a Rafi song from a less known music directors to emphasize that they too have contributed their mite in enriching HFM.
3. With this song, “Mera Suhaag”(1961) becomes the 3800th movie to get represented in the blog. The same reason as given above applies here as well for considering this movie for this honour.
Song-Yug yug se anyaay ho raha hai naari ke saath (Mera Suhaag)(1961) Singer-Rafi, Lyrics-Vinod Sharma, MD-Arun Raghvan
Lyrics
Yug yug se anyaay ho raha hai naari ke saath
kaun samajh paaya uska dukh uske man ki baat
Yug yug se anyaay ho raha hai naari ke saath
dharmraj ne drupad suta ko diya juye mein haar
harichandra ki raani taara bik gayi beech baazaar
bik gayi beech baazaaaar
Yug yug se anyaay ho raha hai naari ke saath
kaun samajh paaya uska dukh
uske man ki baat
Shakuntala ko raaja bhoola
jiska thha vishwaas kiya
chhoti si thhi baat
Raam ne
Seeta ko vanwaas diya
Seeta ko vanwaas diya
Seeta ko vanwaas diya
tujhko bhi vanwaas mila hai
teri karun kahaani
kul maryaada raah mein teri
?? deewaani
tera dharm piya ko paana
?? tujhko mil jaaye
haan
?? tujhko mil jaaye
dukh ki kaali si raat kate
sukh ka sooraj muskaaye
tere man ka kamal khilaaye
tere man ka kamal khilaaye
tere man ka kamal khilaaye
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“Paighaam”(1959) was produced and directed by S S Vasan for GeminiPictures, Madras. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Raj Kumar, Pandhari Bai, Motilal, B Saroja Devi, Johny Walker, Minu Mumtaz, Vasundhara Devi, Protim Devi, Bannerji, Mukherji, Shivraj, Sitalaxmi, Ishwarlal, Pushpmala, Master Gopi, Karupayya, Radjha, Madhavan, Amar, Kamal Krishn etc in it.
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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 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.
hullo to all Atulwaasis
Today is 24th December 2016 -92nd birth anniversary of Mohammad Rafi.
At first I thought I would not be able to do a post which does justice to the persona of Mohd Rafi. Even now I am not trying to; all that I am doing is bringing to the blog a song which shows the vocal range that Rafisaab was gifted with. And this is not a super classical song but a fun song which one would normally expect Rafi to sing for Shammi Kapoor. But today’s song is for Shashi Kapoor and one should be excused if there is a feeling of the song being a Shankar- Jaikishan creation. Why? Because the director duo of this song were once music arrangers & assistants for Shankar Jaikishan.
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Haq maangte hain apne paseene kaa
Posted on: June 1, 2013
“Baap Bete” (1959) was an A V M Productions movie. It was directed by Raja Paranjpe. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Shyama, Chitra, Baburao Pendharkar, Kanhaiyalal, Vinod Sharma, Nana Palsikar, Jagdeep, Ramesh Deo, Lalita Pawar etc in it.
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Ye raat bahut rangeen sahi
Posted on: October 1, 2012
“Shagoon” or “Shagun” (1964) was a Shaheen Art production. It was directed by Nazar. The movie had Kamaljeet, Waheeda Rehman, Neena, Achla Sachdev, Libi Rana, Nazir Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Pratima Devi, Rajdeep, Chand Usmani etc in it.
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