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Aaoge jab tum o saajna
Posted on: January 19, 2023
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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I was a regular visitor to theatres for watching Hindi films during 1969-72. Almost every weekend (preferably Saturday afternoon shows), I would watch Hindi films in theaters irrespective of what critical reviews say about the films. Gradually, I developed some aversion to Hindi films and my visits to theatres became fewer. I guess, by mid-1975, my visits to theatres for watching Hindi films was considerably reduced to a couple of films in a year, that too after reading positive reviews or on the recommendation of my relatives/friends. The last Hindi film which I watched in the theatre was ‘83’ (2021) in the last week of December 2021. Of course, now OTT platforms have given an alternative option to watch the films of our choices and our convenient time at home with family.
‘Jab We Met’ (2007) was one such films which I saw with my family in the theatre after reading the positive reviews of the film. The lead pair in the film was Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor. I had not seen their earlier films. Also, I did not come across any mention about the box office successes of their earlier films. Similarly, at that time, I heard of Imtiaz Ali, the film’s director for the first time. With these background in my mind, I was skeptical about the performances of the lead pair as well as the box office success of their latest film. In the event, my pre-viewing assessment of the film went completely wrong . The film was a romantic comedy which kept me engrossed till the end. Contrary to my apprehension, the performances of the lead pair were more than my expectations.
It is almost 15 years since I saw the film. Now, I do not remember as to how the story unfolded towards the end, Except two songs, I do not even remember as to how the rest of the songs were picturised. The two songs which is in my memory was ‘nagaada nagaada nagaada baja….’ and ‘ aaoge jab tum….’, the second one was of my liking. I always felt that songs in the films are the ‘speed breakers’ to the smooth flow of a film’s story and if they are out of context in the film, I tend to forget them. So, to refresh my memory, I watched the film on Youtube just before writing this article. I enjoyed the film watching after a long gap. I feel that this film has a good repeat value.
‘Jab We Met’ (2007) was produced under the banner of Shree Ashthvinayak Cinevision Ltd and was directed by Imtiaz Ali who also wrote story and dialogues. Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor were the lead pair supported by Dara Singh, Tarun Arora, Pawan Malhotra, Somya Tandon, Kiron Juneja, Ananya Khare, Divya Seth etc.
According to director Imitiaz Ali, he had in mind Bobby Deol and Preity Zinta for the lead roles which did not work out. Shahid Kapoor’s name was suggested to him by one of his friends. Imtiaz Ali felt that Shahid Kapoor looked young to the role of a businessman but he had no choice as he had already lost many months in picking up the lead pair. He had tried to contact Kareena Kapoor for heroine’s role but there was no response from her. It was only when he finalised Shahid Kapoor as the lead actor that Kareena Kapoor agreed to work in the film. At that time, Shahid Kapoor and Kareena were in relationship. It was during the half-way shooting of the film that their relationship was broken. However, according to Imtiaz Ali, he did not face any problem while shooting their remaining scenes in the film.
‘Jab We Met’ (2007) had six songs, excluding remix versions, of which 5 songs were written by Irshad Kamil which were set to music by Pritam. The remaining one song was written by Faaiz Anwar which was set to music by Sandesh Shandilya. As far as I remember, all the songs became popular after the film’s release in October 2007.
I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘aaoge jab tum o saajana’ to appear on the Blog. It is of a semi-classical genre rendered by Ustad Rashid Khan under the music direction of Sandesh Shandilya. It is a background song written by Faaiz Anwar. I came to know from the comments that the song is based on raag Tilak Kamod. I get the shades of both Thumri (human love relationship) and Kajri (pathos of separated lovers in rainy season) in this song. The pathos and the use of words ‘barsega saawan’ in the song indicate that it is more of a Kajri than a Thumri. Flautist Naveen Kumar has beautifully played flute in the prelude and interludes section of the song. Naveen Kumar is a favourite flautist of music directors, A R Rahman and Ilayaraja.
When I heard this song of semi-classical genre for the first time in the film in 2007, it sounded out of place in the film in terms of the genre, especially when rest of the songs belonged to pop and bhangra genres, the favourites mainly among the young generation. Imtiaz Ali, in his interview held about 10 years after the film’s release, revealed that when this song was recorded, almost all the unit members did not like this slow-paced song. Someone from the unit pointed out to him that this song belonged to old generation and the film is about the romance of the new generation. With great difficulties, he convinced to those who mattered in the film that this background song truly conveys the inner feelings of a jilted lover.
Ustad Rashid Khan, current doyen of Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana, is known for his mastery over Khayal, Drupad, Tarana and other semi-classical genres. After the demise of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, in my view, Ustad Rashid Khan stands tall among the current Hindustani classical vocalists. For him, this song is very simple to render. He starts the song with aalaap and ends with sargam. In-between, he has molded his rendition to make it attuned to the requirements of what I may call as ‘Bollywood genre’ of songs. For music director Sandesh Shandilya, he has nicely blended the traditional rendering with modern orchestration. The resulted fusion music sounds pleasing to the ears. Both have succeeded in their attempts if I go by nearly 55 million hit on the video of this song on Youtube in the period of last two years.
The proof of a pudding is in the eating. So, listen to this well-crafted song.
Video Clip:
Song-Aaoge jab tum o saajna (Jab We Met)(2007) Singer-Ustaad Rashid Khan, Lyrics-Faiz Anwar, MD-Sandesh Shandilya
Lyrics
aa aa aa aa aaaaa
aa aa aa aa aaaa
aa aa aa aa aaa
ha aa aa aaa
aaoge jab tum o saajana
aaoge jab tum o saajana
angana phool khilenge
barsega saawan
barsega saawan jhoom jhoom ke..ae
do dil aise milenge
aaoge jab tum o saajana
angana phool khilenge
naina tere kajraare hain
nainon pe hum dil haare hain
anjaane hi tere nainon ne
waade kiye kayi saare hain
saanson ki lai
madham chale
tose kahe
barsega saawan
barsega saawan jhoom jhoom ke..ae
do dil aise milenge
aaoge jab tum o saajana
angana phool khilenge
ga pa pa sa sa re ga sa
chanda ko taakoon raaton mein
hai zindagi tere haathon mein
palkon pe jhilmil taare hain
aana bhari barsaaton mein
sapanon kaa jahaan
hoga khila khila
barsega saawan
barsega saawan jhoom jhoom ke..ae
do dil aise milenge
pa ni sa re ma ma ga ga ga sa ni
ni re ga ni dha ni re ni ma dha ni dha
dha ni re pa pa ma ma dha dha ma re ma ga
ga ma dha ni sa
sa ni pa ma
ma ga ga sa re ga sa
angna phool khilenge
pa ni dha re sa re
angna phool khilenge
pa pa ma ma ga ga sa sa ni
ma ma pa ni sa ni
ma pa ni ni sa sa
re pa pa ma ma ga ga
Bikhre taar miley phir mann ke
Posted on: December 22, 2022
- In: Devnagri script lyrics by Sudhir | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Happy song | Lyricist-MD | Post by Avinash Scrapwala | Rare song | Semi Classical song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1973 | Vani Jairam solo songs | Vani Jairam songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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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 Seventies – 1981 – 1990 #
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#Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (missing movies of 1973 – A tribute to Vasant Desai)
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Today, 22nd December 2022 is forty-seventh remembrance anniversary of yesteryear’s legendary music composer Vasant Desai. He was born on 9th June 1912 and passed away on 22nd December 1975 at the age of 63 years.
For me, Vasant Desai is one of the great names which I am admirer of and have always been fascinated by his wonderful musical creations. I have been listening to the songs he composed for Hindi Film Music. There is a long list of my favorites of him from Hindi as well as Marathi film music. Today as a tribute to him I am presenting a song from a movie ‘Grahan’ (1973). Some sources also mention this movie as from the year 1976. I think this was an obscure movie of its time. No video of this movie is available on online platform, I guess.
‘Grahan’ (alias ‘The Acceptance’) was directed by Manjul Prabhat for AK Films, Bombay. It had Nutan, Basant Choudhary, Suhasini Muley, Subhash Ghai, Ajay, Vaishali, Shashi Puri, BB Bhalla and others. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 29.12.1973.
This movie has two songs composed by Vasant Desai. Lyrics for one song are taken from a ‘traditional folk song’. The song being presented today is penned by Vasant Desai himself. Mahendra Kapoor and Vani Jairam are the voices used for the songs in this movie. Today’s song is sung by Vani Jairam.
As mentioned above only the audio of this song is available.
I would request knowledgeable readers who have any information about this movie or have watched this movie in those years to share as possible here.
Let us now listen to today’s song and pay our tributes to Vasant Desai.
With this song this movie ‘Grahan’ makes its debut on the blog.
Song-Bikhre taar miley phir mann ke (Grahan)(1973) Singer-Vani Jairam, Lyrics-Vasant Desai, MD-Vasant Desai
Lyrics
bikhre taar miley
phir mann ke ae
bikhre taar miley
phir mann ke ae
bikhre taar miley
aa aa aa aa aa
sur saje ae jeewan ke ae ae
bikhre taar miley ae
phir mann ke ae
bikhre taar miley ae
aa aa aa aa aa
prem raagini ee ee
sargam chhede ae ae ae
prem raagini ee ee
sargam chhede ae
gaaye geet milan ke ae ae ae ae ae
prem raagini ee ee
sargam chhede ae ae ae
ae ae ae ae
ae ae ae ae
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
prem raagini ee ee
sargam chhede ae ae ae
gaaye geet milan ke ae ae ae ae
gaaye geet milan ke ae ae ae ae
bikhre taar miley
phir mann ke
bikhre taar miley ae
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir Kapur)
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बिखरे तार मिले
फिर मन के
बिखरे तार मिले
फिर मन के
बिखरे तार मिले
आ आ आ आ आ
सुर सजे॰॰ जीवन के॰॰
बिखरे तार मिले फिर मन के
बिखरे तार मिले
आ आ आ आ आ
प्रेम रागिनी॰॰ई॰॰ई
सरगम छेड़े॰॰ए
प्रेम रागिनी॰॰ई॰॰ई
सरगम छेड़े॰॰ए
गाये गीत मिलन के॰॰ए॰॰ए
प्रेम रागिनी॰॰ई॰॰ई
सरगम छेड़े॰॰ए
॰॰ए॰॰ए॰॰ए॰॰ए
॰॰ए॰॰ए॰॰ए॰॰ए
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
प्रेम रागिनी॰॰ई॰॰ई
सरगम छेड़े॰॰ए
गाये गीत मिलन के॰॰ए॰॰ए
गाये गीत मिलन के॰॰ए॰॰ए
बिखरे तार मिले
फिर मन के
बिखरे तार मिले॰॰ए॰॰ए
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
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“Paataal Nagri”(1963) was produced and directed by Ram Kumar Bohra for Madan Chitra, Bombay. The movie had Chitra, Azaad, Helen, B.M.Vyas, Sheikh, Abila, Ramkumar, Jeevankala, Habeeb, Nilofer, Jilaani, Maqbool, Kesri, Kalla/Kallan, Mohan Modi, Bimla Kumari, Kingkong, Sayeeda Khan, Padam Dev etc. The movie also introduced Ravi Kumar.
“Paataal Nagri”(1963) had six songs in it. One song has been covered so far and that was more than ten years ago.
The story, in brief, is
A princess (Chitra), two adventurous young men (Azad and Shaikh), and a genie, face assorted creatures in their quest to find the golden lotus of Patal Nagari.
Here is the second song from “Paataal Nagri”(1963) to appear in the blog. The song is sung by Asha Bhonsle. Sajan Bihari is the lyricist. Music is composed by B N Bali.
The song is apparently a classical song that have been sung by many classical singers prior to this song and also in the later decades. That way the lyrics could be traditional, though it has been credited to Sajan Bihari in this case.
Only audio of the song is available. My guess is that the song was picturised as a mujra dance song, or may be just a dance song. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the picturisation of the song.
Lyrics of the song and other details were sent to me by Prakashchandra.
Audio link:
Song-Apni garaj pakad leenee bainyyaan mori (Paataal Nagri)(1963) Singer-Asha Bhonsle , Lyrics-Sajan Bihari, MD-B N Bali
Lyrics (Provided by Prakashchandra)
aaa aaa aaa
aa aa aa aaa
aaa aaa aa aaaa
aaa aaa aa aaaa
aaa aaa aa .aaaa
aaa aaa aa aaaa
aaa aaa aa aaaa
aaa aaa aa aaaa
apni garaj pakad leeni bainyyaan mori joraajoree
apni garaj pakad leeni bainyyaan mori joraajoree
apni garaj pakad leeni
sainyyaan badaa be-imaan
chhodey na mori jaan
sainyyaan badaa be-imaan
sainyyaan badaa be-imaan
chhodey na mori jaan
chhalkey mori
nain katori
apni garaj pakad leeni bainyyaan mori
joraa..aaajori
apni garaj pakad leeni
aisaa chithchor hai..ae
dil kaa kathor hai
aisaa chithchor hai…ae
aisaa chithchor hai..ae
dil kaa kathor hai
beech bajariyaa unglee marodey
apni garaj pakad leeni bainyyaan mori
joraa..aaajori
apni garaj pakad leeni
kahat rahi..ee jaarey jaa
phir bhi woh maaney na
kahat rahee jaarey jaa
kahat rahi..ee jaarey jaa
phir bhi woh maaney na
dekho koyi seenaa jori..eee
apni garaj pakad leeni bainyyaan mori
joraa..aaajori
apni garaj pakad lee..eeni..eee
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, 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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Today’s song is from the film Do Behnen-1959.
The film was made by Brij kala Mandir, Bombay. Produced by J P Sehgal and Kailash Kapoor, it was directed by Kedar Kapoor. Music was composed by Vasant Desai and all the 7 songs were written by Kavi Pradeep. The cast of the film was Shyama, Rajendra Kumar, Chand Usmani, Radha Kishen, Tiwari, Ram Mohan, Leela Mishra and many more.
The director Kedar Kapoor (2.9.1927-5.6.1987) directed 35 films from 1954 to 1983. In his career he was branded as Dara Singh Specialist, because he directed as many as 19 films of Dara Singh. His daughter Madhu kapoor was also an actress, in those days. The pair of composer Vasant Desai and Kavi Pradeep was unusual. They came together only in 2 films of 1959, namely south made School master and Do Behnen. Kavi pradeep was not acceptable to many well known Music Directors of those times, because Pradeep insisted on singing at least one song in every film and he used to force the composer to use the tunes he made for his songs. Due to this, MDs who were famous, could afford to deny working with him, like Naushad for example. Even Vasant Desai had to give one song from both his films to Pradeep to sing.
The story of Do behnen-59 was a story of twin sisters who were poles apart in nature. Shyama did a double role for both sisters. Earlier K.A.Abbas’ story in film ” Anhonee’-1952 had handled such a story. But that too was not the first one. In 1942, the film “Muqabala” depicted 2 sisters having different natures. In that film the Stunt Queen Fearless Nadia did the double role of sisters.
Having a double role in films was not a new thing. Let us take a brief look at the history of Double roles in films. As far back as into the initial era of making silent films, a male actor, Anna Salunke, had done the double role of Shri Ram and Seeta in film ” Lanka Dahan”-1917, made by Dadasaheb Phalke. Later on actress Patience Cooper did double roles of Twin sisters in silent film “Patni Pratap”-1923 and then again as Mother and daughter in silent film “Kashmiri Sundari”-1925. Master Vithal did a double role in the film Raj Tarang-1927.
When Talkie films started, the first film to have a double role was “Awara Shehzada”-1933.The Hero was Shahu Modak. The film was based on Mark Twain’s popular novel “The prince and the pauper’ in 1881. With this film India had beaten Hollywood in this race, because the first Talkie film on this novel was made in Hollywood only in 1937, with the same title of novel. The film featured the handsome Erol Flynn. Another popular film was ” The prisoner of Zenda’ based on the novel of same name by Anthony Hope in 1894 in 1937 and 1952.
In Hindi, a major hit film on double roles was Geeta-1940. In this film the hero-Chandramohan did a role of Father and son and the Heroine Durga Khote did the double role of Mother and wife. The film advocated the principle for the first time in films that ” Crime never pays”. This theme was later used in many films like “Kismat”-43 and “Sangram”-50. Film Geeta became so popular that it was remade as “Ustad’-1957 and “Karmayogi”-1978. Ashok kumar and Raaj Kumar did double roles in these films.
In the south made film “Chandralekha’-1948, the Hero Ranjan had a double role as twin brothers. The trend of making films with double roles went on increasing steadily. I have the statistics of such films from 1931 to 2014. As per this, the double role films were 3 in the 40’s, 11 in 50’s, 37 in 60’s, 63 in 70’s, 62 in 80’s, 81 in 90’s, 45 in 2000 and 17 till 2014.
Leading actors did double roles in films thus –
Amitabh-15 films
Rajesh K. – 11 films
Mithun Ch. -11
Govinda -10
Jeetendra -9
6 films each by Akshay kr., Hema M., Rishi K., Sanjeev kr.,and Shri Devi
5 films by Anupam K., Dilip kr., Mehmood and SRKhan
4 films by Ajay D, Anil k., J.Shroff, KK, Rekha, Sadhana, Salman Khan, Shashi K.
3 films by 15 actors. 2 and 1 by many actors. I have all the names but it will be too long a list.
So much for films with double roles.
The story of Do Behnen-59 was written by eminent writer Pt. Mukhram Sharma ( 29-5-1909 to 25-4-2000): The most famous writer of stories with social themes in the fifties, Pandit Mukhram Sharma had a long association with B. R. Chopra. He had written stories for many of his hit films. Some of his notable films are Ek Hi Raasta, Aulad, Sadhna and Dhool Ka Phool. Pt. Sharma had also won Filmfare awards for Sadhna, Vachan and Aulad. His other hit films include Santaan, Do Kalian, Jeene Ki Raah, Raja Aur Rank, Dadi Maa, Gharana and Talaq. Pt. Mukhram Sharma won Sangeet Natak Academy Award (1961).
Before coming to Bombay, he was a teacher in Meerut. In 1939, he came to Bombay, but could not get any job. He moved to Poona and joined Prabhat films as a Tutor for Marathi and Hindi. In Poona, he married a Marathi actress Shanta Mujumdar.He was with Marathi films till 1952, then he came to Bombay and got the first Filmfare award for Best story for his film Aulad-54.
Then there was no looking back. After winning Filmfare awards 3 times, Academy Award and Lifetime achievement Zee award, Sharma retired in 1980 and went back to Meerut.
The story of Do Behnen-59 was……….
Bombay-based look-alike twin sisters, Vasanti and Malti ( Shyama ), live a wealthy lifestyle with their parents. Their father, Raghunath ( S.K.Prem), arranges devout Vasanti’s marriage with Ramesh ( Rajendra Kumar), who lives with his widower father, a doctor ( Tiwari), and a sister, Rekha ( Chand Usmani). After the wedding, Raghunath is shocked to find Malti singing and dancing with a male named Anokhey( Ram Mohan) in a nightclub.
He brings her home, admonishes her severely and forbids her to leave the home. In response, she elopes with Anokhey, travels to Poona and books a room in Paramount Hotel. Shortly thereafter Anokhey shows his true colors, squanders her money, starts drinking, and frequenting prostitutes. He then takes her jewelry and walks out of her life. In order to recover the rent, the Hotel Manager contacts the Mathurs, and Vasanti and her mom ( Mumtaz Begum) attend to take Malti back home.
While traveling home, the train meets with an accident and Vasanti passes away. Her mother tells everyone that it is Malti who has passed away, and compels Malti to take over as Vasanti, which she does reluctantly.
After going to her house, she finds it very difficult to adjust to the sati savitri type behaviour. However, slowly she starts loving the new house and also her husband. Ramesh many times gets puzzled with her behaviour, but ignores it.
Finally the truth is out one day, but by that time Ramesh starts liking her and so a New Malti takes over her dead sister’s place officially.
Today’s song is the 7th and the final song of this film. It makes the film ” YIPPIED ” ! It is a good song too. Enjoy….
Song-Chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan bichhua bole (Do Behnen)(1959) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Kavi Pradeep, MD-Vasant Desai
Chorus
Lata + Chorus
Lyrics
ho ho ho
papapapapa
papapapa
hahahahaha
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
sa re sa re ma ha ma dha pa
pa ma ga re ma ga re sa
sa sa sa
ma pa dha
dha ni re sa
sa sa
chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan
bichhuwa bole re
tan dole
man dole
chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan
bichhuwa bole re
tan dole
man dole
sakhi dekho jawaani aayi ban thhan ke
aayi ban thhan ke/font>
jeevan mein madhu ras ghole
tan dole
man dole
chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan
bichhuwa bole re
tan dole
man dole
o o
kis manzil pe aaj hum aaye
aaj hum aaye
dekho naazuk badan lahraaye
ho lahraye balkhaye
dekho nas nas mein hai bijli tadapti
nas nas mein hai bijli tadapti
ang mein bhadke shole
tan dole
man dole
chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan
bichhuwa bole re
tan dole
man dole
badal gaya sab roop rang
sakhi badal gayi hai chaal ree
chaal ree
dhak dhak dhak mere dil ki dhadkan
dene lagi hai taal re
taal re
o o
nain nachaa le gori teer chala le
nain nachaa le gori teer chala le
aaye khushi ke jhakole ae
tan dole
man dole
chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan
bichhuwa bole re tan dole man dole
chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan chhum chananan nanan
Saawan Ki Raat Kaari Kaari
Posted on: March 3, 2022
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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‘Meharbaan’ was directed by A Bhim Singh for AVM, Madras’. It was produced by AV Meiyappan.
It had Ashok Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Nutan, Mehmood, Sudesh Kumar, Bhalla, Shaymlal, Jankidas, Umesh Sharma, Ramavtaar, Rajkishore, Mukri, Sulochana, Shashikala, Shyama, Raj Mehra, Ramesh Deo, Ashim Kumar, Kumari Padma, Master Levi, Jayanthi, Bharathi and others.
‘Meharbaan’ had seven songs that were written by Rajinder Krishan. Following is the list of songs as mentioned in HFGK Vol-IV (1961-1970).
| SNo | Song Title | Singer/s | Posted On |
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| 01 | Mera Gadhaa Gadhon Ka Leader | Mohd Rafi, Mehmood | 09.12.2016 |
| 02 | Aayega Aayega Ik Chhail Chhabilaa Aayega | Mohd Rafi | |
| 03 | Ik Raaja Ki Sun Lo Kahaani | Lata Mangeshkar, Rafi | 06.06.2021 |
| 04 | Saawan Ki Raat Kaari Kaari | Asha Bhonsle | |
| 05 | Ae Mere Dost Ae Mere Humdum | Mohd Rafi | 21.01.2013 |
| 06 | Saari Duniya Mein Dekhe Hain Do Anpadh Naadaan | Lata Mangeshkar | |
| 07 | Ik Raaja Ki Sun Lo Kahaani | Mohd Rafi | 06.06.2021 |
This movie made its debut on the blog on 21.01.2013 with its song “Ae Mere Dost Ae Mere Humdum” which I had myself shared then as a ‘lyrics contributor’ on the blog. This song is a solo song by Rafi Saab. The second song from this movie, “Mera Gadhaa Gadhon Ka Leader“, which appeared on the blog was sung by Rafi Saab and Mehmood. This song was posted on 09.12.2016 which is almost after a gap of four years.
The most beautiful and well known song from this movie ” Ik Raaja Ki Sun Lo Kahaani“, a multiple version song – one duet and other solo – was posted on the blog on 06.06.2021 and that was almost after a gap of four and half years from the second song posted on the blog.
I had read about this movie (‘Meharbaan’) earlier when the movie ‘Swarg’ (1990) was released. I had watched ‘Swarg’ then for Rajesh Khanna.
So the name of this movie ‘Meharbaan’ had in my memory since then. When I became associated with this blog, I was under the impression that the songs from this movie should be already there. However, I was in for a surprise when I realized that none of the songs from this movie ‘Meharbaan’ were posted on the blog. I listened to the songs from this movie and noted down the lyrics of all the songs then itself in 2013. This movie will be completing its ten-year run on the blog.
All the songs of ‘Meharbaan’ are composed by the legendary music director Ravi Shankar Sharma known to us as Ravi. Today 3rd March, 2022 is the ninety-sixth birth anniversary of music director Ravi (3 March 1926 – 7 March 2012). On this occasion let us listen to this composition of Ravi. It is sung by Asha Bhonsle. This song, a semi classical song is the only song that Asha Bhonsle sung in this movie.
Only audio of the today’s song is available. (This was the case even then in 2013) I think this song may not have been included in the movie. I would request knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this song and today’s movie.
Song – Saawan Ki Raat Kaari Kaari (Meharbaan) (1967) Singer – Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics – Rajinder Krishan, MD – Ravi
Lyrics
saawan ki raat kaari kaari
saawan ki raat kaari kaari
jiyara sataaye morey piyara na aaye
haaye baat takat main to
haari haari haari
saawan ki raat kaari kaari
saawan ki raat kaari
baahar barsat badra pal pal
aur idhar ankhiyan mein jal thhal
baahar barsat badra pal pal
aur idhar ankhiyan me jal thhal
main wo abhaagan radha
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa
main wo abhaagan radha jiske
roothh gaye baanwaari
ee ee ee
saawan ki raat kaari
kaari
saawan ki raat kaari
naina jitna neer bahaaye
aur bhi man ki agan bhadkaaye
naina jitna neer bahaaye
aur bhi man ki agan bhadkaaye
saawan se keh do ab jaaye
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
saawan se
saawan se
saawan se keh do ab jaaye
raakh bhayi phulwaari ee ee
saawan ki raat kaari kaari
saawan ki raat kaaaaaari
saawan ki raat kaaaaari
saawan ki raat kaaaari
saawan ki raat kaari
raat kaari
raat kaaaaari
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir Kapur)
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सावन की रात कारी कारी
सावन की रात कारी कारी
जियरा सताये मोरे पियरा ना आए
हाए बाट तकत मैं तो
हारी हारी हारी
सावन की रात कारी कारी
सावन की रात कारी
बाहर बरसत बदरा पल पल
और इधर अखियों में जल थल
बाहर बरसत बदरा पल पल
और इधर अखियों में जल थल
मैं वो अभागन राधा
आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ
आ आ
मैं वो अभागन राधा
जिसके रूठ गए बनवारी॰ ॰ ॰
सावन की रात कारी
कारी
सावन की रात कारी
नैना जितना नीर बहाये
और भी मन की अगन भड़काए
नैना जितना नीर बहाये
और भी मन की अगन भड़काए
सावन से कह दो अब जाये
आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ
सावन से
सावन से
सावन से कह दो अब जाये
राख़ भई फुलवारी॰ ॰ ॰
सावन की रात कारी कारी
सावन की रात का॰॰आ॰॰आ॰॰री
सावन की रात का॰॰आ॰॰री
सावन की रात का॰॰॰री
सावन की रात कारी
रात का॰॰॰री
रात का॰॰आ॰॰री
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Today 19th December’2021 is the 102nd birth anniversary’ of actor Om Prakash (19.12.1919 – 21.02.1998) whom we have watched performing in many character roles in the Hindi movies.
When I think of the movies of Om Prakash where I watched and liked his performance, it is a long list. I must say I liked his performances in all the movies where I have watched him.
The oldest memory of Om Prakashfor me is the movie ‘Patang-1960’, then ‘Chowkidar-1974’, ‘Sadhu Aur Shaitaan-1968’, ‘Mere Hamdam Mere Dost-1968’, ‘Sajan-1969’ ‘Dus Lakh’ etc. etc. when I was still growing boy.
As a grown-up boy I watched his ‘Laawaris’, ‘Namak Halal’, ‘Rang Birangi’, ‘Naukar Biwi Ka’, ‘Sharabi’, ‘Alag Alag’, ‘Insaniyat Ke Dushman’, and I think ‘Kalyug Aur Ramayan’ was his last movie that I watched.
In between there were many movies from the end-sixties to all seventies like ‘Khandan’, ‘Padosan’, ‘Zanjeer’, ‘Gopi’, ‘Nehle Pe Dehla’, ‘Chupke Chupke’, ‘Roti’, ‘Maa’, ‘Golmaal’ etc etc.
It would be surprising if I say that I have yet to watch ‘Amar Prem’, but I do not remember of watching it.
I may have also missed to note some of his prominent movies in the above list, but then the names I mentioned above are only few for example. I hope to add his list of movies later in future on the blog (may be with a song from his movies).
As I said above, I do not remember any of Om Prakash movies where I do not like his performances (mostly in character roles). He also got to lip sync songs in movies and today on his birth anniversary we are going to enjoy a song from the ‘1973’ movie ‘Archana’ which is performed on screen by Om Prakash.
I had come across this song in November last year when I had shared a song from this movie.
‘Archana-1973’ was directed by for ‘Vikram Pictures’ Bombay. It had Mala Sinha, Sanjeev Kumar, Snehlata with Jagdeep, Manmohan Krishna, Bobby, Jagridar, V. Gopal, Sulochana, Shabnam, Madhu, Sushila, Shibana and Om Prakash and others.
Jr Mehmood makes a special appearance in this movie.
Story of this movie was written by Prof. Tamhane, and screenplay was written by Madhusudan Kalelkar. Dialogues for this movie were written by Anand Romani, editing of this movie was done by Govind Dalwadi.
This movie was passed by Censor Board on 1st October’1973.
This movie has six songs written by Hasrat Jaipuri, Indeevar and Neeraj.
Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohd Rafi and Manna Dey give their voices to the songs in movie.
Music for this movie was composed by Shankar-Jaikishan.
Here is the list of these six songs as per HFGK Vol-V (1971-1980). So far only two songs from ‘Archana-1973’ have been posted on the blog.
| S.No. | Song Title | Lyricist | Posted on |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Jaise …. preetam se pyaar badhha jaaye | Hasrat Jaipuri | |
| 02 | Jab ham hain tere saath… janamdin tujhko | Indeevar | 15.11.2020 |
| 03 | Jiyaa mein laaga more baan preet ka | Hasrat Jaipuri | Being discussed today |
| 04 | Tan mann tere rang rangoongee | Neeraj | 04.01.2012 |
| 05 | Jaane kis roop ki jaadubhari parchhaayi ho | Hasrat Jaipuri | |
| 06 | Jo dil mein chubha… ab bas mein kahaan | Hasrat Jaipuri/Indeevar |
Let us now enjoy today’s song as a tribute to actor Om Prakash who had given us many of his ‘character roles’ to cherish, and songs performed by him remind us of his versatility and effortless performances, in his characteristic style.
In today’s song he is performing in a ‘musical mehfil’ like set up with music artistes around him. There is a ‘Nataraja murti’ in front of him and on the walls of the place he is sitting, there are portraits of famous music artistes around.
Today’s song is sung by Manna Dey, and lyrics are by Hasrat Jaipuri.
As mentioned above music is composed by Shankar-Jaikishan.
Editor’s note:-With this song, Hasrat Jaipuri completes 700 songs in the blog as a lyricist.
Let us enjoy today’s song now …
Video
Audio
Song-Jiya mein laaga more baan preet ka (Archana)(1973) Singer-Manna dey, Lyrics-Hasrat Jaipuri, MD-Shankar Jaikishan
Lyrics
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka aa
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka aa aa aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka aa
bin kaajar thhe nainaa kaaley
ae ae ae ae
bin kaajar thhe nainaa kaaley
bin kaajar
bin kaajar
bin kaajar thhe nainaa kaaley
thhe chitwan ke baan niraale ae
haar na maanen ham dilwaale ae
ham dilwaale ae
ham dilwaale ae
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
tarpat tarpat rain guzaaroon
tarpat
tarpat
rain guzaaroon
rain guzaaroon
tarap
tarap
tarap
tarpat tarpat haan
tarpat tarpat rain guzaaroon
saari rainaa panth nihaaroon
ban ke papeehaa aa
pi ko pukaaroon oon oon oon oon
pi ko pukaaroon
pi ko pukaaroon oon
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
man ki agan se deep jalaaun
oon oon
dha ni
dha ni
dha ni
dha ma gaa aa
ma dha re sa
dha ni dha pa maa ga re sa
saa
saa
maa aa aa aa
man ki agan se deep jalaaun
hardam deepak raag sunaaoon
saari umariyaa aa
gaanaa gaaun
gaanaa gaaun
gaanaa gaaun
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka aa aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka aa
ghaayal hai armaan preet ka aa
jiyaa mein laagaa more baan
preet ka
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
Bedardi preet nahin jaani
Posted on: October 29, 2021
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
This article is his 700th post in the blog.
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O P Nayyar was an odd man out in Hindi film industry as a music director. He did not have the formal or informal training in the music. He did not undergo ‘apprenticeship’ under any music directors. He did not work with Lata Mangeshkar during his entire career as a music director. The top three star-actors of 1950s and 60s – Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor avoided him as a music director after working with him for one or two films. He did not work with Raj Khosla after his spate with him in ‘Ek Musaafir Ek Haseena’ (1962). His egoistic, stubborn, ‘calling spade a spade’ type of nature and some shades of eccentricities should have made him persona non grata in the Hindi film industry. Despite all these odds, he attained the status of one of the top music directors of Hindi films during 1950s and 1960s.
I always felt that O P Nayyar was the ‘Eklavya’ of Hindi film music – a self-trained music director who got inspirations from more than one Dronachaya of music directors – R C Boral, Pankaj Mullick, Ghulam Haider and Anil Biswas. As a teenager, O P Nayyar was fascinated by the films of New Theatres which he watched in Lahore. He was mesmerised by the songs of K L Saigal and Pankaj Mullick which guided him to pursue the singing career. He was a regular singer of bhajans and ghazals on AIR, Lahore in the 1940s until the partition. Two of his Kabir dohas which he used to recite on AIR. Lahore were recorded and released on HMV disc in 1943. He composed his first recorded song – a non-film, ‘preetam aan milo’ in the voice of C H Atma in 1945 which became very popular.
After shifting to Mumbai following the partition, O P Nayyar’s first three films – ‘Aasmaan’ (1952), ‘Cham Chama Cham’ (1952) and ‘Baaz’ (1953) turned out to be the flop films. It was only after a huge box office success of ‘Aar Paar’ (1954) that O P Nayyar established himself as music director and remained one of the top music directors of Hindi films until about end-1960s.
O P Nayyar achieved his musical career progression despite the handicap of his stubbornness and other traits. The same handicap also resulted in his downfall. In 1966, he had a spate with Mohammed Rafi during one of the songs recording of ‘Saawan Ki Ghata’ (1966) after which he did not work with Rafi for a long time. In 1974, Asha Bhosle, his muse of over 15 years, decided to part with him in what appears to be the clash of egos. By this time, Asha Bhosle had also become a force to reckon with in Hindi film music.
O P Nayyar’s musical journey virtually ended by mid-1970 though he did a few sporadic films until 1995. He spent rest of his life in isolation away from film industry and his family until his death in January 2007.
The question that may come to the minds of many Hindi film music enthusiasts as to how O P Nayyar could churn out many beautifully crafted songs based on Hindustani classical raags. In this context, it is worth mentioning the observations of Ustad Ameer Khan when he heard all the 11 songs of ‘Phaagun’ (1958). When O P Nayyar met Ustad Ameer Khan in some context, the latter asked him as to why he had composed all the 11 songs in Raag Pilu. O P Nayyar had no answers except to tell him it was just a coincidence that his compositions matched with Raag Pilu. Incidentally, Ustad Ameer Khan rendered for O P Nayyar, a bandish, jogiya mere ghar aaye in raag Lalit in ‘Raagini’ (1958). In the later years, Ustad Ameer Khan pointed out to him that in akeli hoon main piya aaa from ‘Sambandh’ (1969), he has used about 16 different raagas. Probably, music composition was God’s gift to O P Nayyar.
O P Nayyar has composed many raag-based songs, some of which are semi-classical compositions in the films like ‘Aasmaan’ (1952), ‘Naya Daur’ (1957), ‘Raagini’ (1958), ‘Phaagun’ (1959), ‘Kalpana’ (1960), ‘Phir Wohi Dil Laaya Hoon’ (1963) etc. Almost all of his semi-classical songs have been covered on the Blog. But there is one semi-classical song which did not get as much attention from the Hindi film music lovers as it deserved. The song is from an obscure film ‘Qaidi’ (1957) which is yet to be covered on the Blog.
‘Qaidi (1957) was produced by F C Mehra under his banner, Eagle Films and was directed by Mohammed Hussain. The star cast included Padmini, Suresh, Anwar Hussain, Helen, Agha, Ragini, Leela, Johny Walker, M Kumar, Kamal Mehra, Rajan Kapoor etc. It was a ‘B’ grade action-oriented film. The film was released in January 1957.
The film had 8 songs of which 6 songs have been covered on the Blog. All the songs were written by Jaan Nisaar Akhtar which were set to music by O P Nayyar. I am presenting the 7th song, ‘bedardi preet nahi jaani’ which is a semi-classical song rendered by Asha Bhosle and Usha Mangeshkar. The video clip of the song is not available on any of the video sharing platforms. There is one audio clip which is available with an average sound quality. I have, therefore, made a new video clip from a mp3 clip of the song with me in a better sound quality and have uploaded the same.
From the lyrics as well as taraanas, the song appears to be picturised on two dancers. From the star cast, there are 4 dancers in the film – Padmini, Ragini, Helen and Leela. From the available video clips of the songs, it is observed that Asha Bhosle has sung both for Padmini and Helen in the film. In addition, Shamshad Begum has also sung for Padmini. If the song is used for the dance competition, it is quite likely that the dancers could be Padmini and Ragini as both are trained Bharatnatyam dancers and in the film, Ragini plays the role of Padmini’s friend.
I am not able to tell on which Raag the song has been composed. However, the tune closely resembles that of ae ri jaane na doongi from ‘Chitralekha’ (1964) which, according to Swarganga, is based on Raag Kamod.
Note: In this article, I have taken some inputs from an interview of O P Nayyar which appeared on http://www.cinemasangeet.com. and also from an article on O P Nayyar which was published in millenniumpost.
Audio Clip:
Song-Bedardi preet nahin jaani (Qaidi)(1957) Singers-Asha Bhonsle, Usha Mangeshkar, Lyrics-Jaan Nisaar Akhtar, MD-O P Nayyar
Both
Lyrics
tana naadir dirta ni ta nata taani ee
tana naadir dirta ni ta nata taani ee
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
main to roothhi sajanwaa
jaa tum sang nahin bo….loon
naahi boloo..n
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
jaa jaa jaa jaa re sainyyaan more
kaahe hamri bainyyaan marore
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
jaa jaa jaa jaa re sainyyaan more
kaahe hamri bainyyaan marore
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaa
jaa jaa jaa jaa re sainyyaan more
kaahe hamri bainyyaan marore
ghoonghat ke pat main nahin kholoon
ghoonghat ke pat main nahin kholoon
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
tana naadir dirta ni ta nata taani ee
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
main to roothhi sajanwaa
jaa tum sang nahin bo…loon
naahi boloo…n
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
main na tere bas mein aaun
jaa re jaa nahin ankhiyaan milaaun
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aaaaaaaaaaaaa
main na tere bas mein aaun
jaa re jaa nahin ankhiyaan milaaun/font>
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aaaaaa
main na tere bas mein aaun
jaa re jaa nahin ankhiyaan milaaun
kaahe sainyyaan main teri ho loon
kaahe sainyyaan main teri ho loon
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
tana naadir dirta ni ta nata taani ee
main to roothhi sajanwaa
jaa tum sang nahin bo….loon
naahin boloo…n
bedardi preet nahin jaani ee
tana naadir dirta ni ta nata taani ee
Man bhaawan sangeet suhaawan
Posted on: October 24, 2021
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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The song, tum jo aao to pyaar aa jaaye zindagi mein bahaar aa jaaye was from a ‘B’ grade film, ‘Sakhi Robin’ (1962) sung by Manna Dey and Suman Kalyanpur. The song was written by a then struggling lyricist, Yogesh Gaud which was set to music by Robin Banerjee who was trying to establish himself as the music director in Hindi films but did not succeed. If this song was to appear in an ‘A’ grade film, probably this duet would have been sung by Mohammed Rafi or Mukesh with Lata Mangeshkar. Another popular song, na jaane kahaan tum thhe na jaane kahaan ham thhe from ‘Zindagi Aur Khwaab’ (1961) was sung by Manna Dey with Suman Kalyanpur set to music by Dattaram who was also trying his best to graduate from assistant to Shankar-Jaikishan to an independent music director since 1957.
Personally, I was very happy that these two romantic songs were sung by Manna Dey with Suman Kalyanpur as they broke the monotony of our ears getting flooded with the familiar voices of the topmost male and female playback singers of that time. These two songs became popular as they were regularly played on Vivid Bharati.
What made me to remember these two songs is the 8th Remembrance Day of Manna Dey today, October 24, 2021. It is Manna Dey’s bad luck that his singing versatilities could not be fully exploited by the music directors. He could not become the mainstream playback singer as his contemporary playback singers, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Talat Mehmood and later Kishore Kumar were preferred by producers, directors and actors. Nonetheless, Manna Dey who commenced his playback singing career in Hindi films in 1942 continued to sing until 1990s – a period of 5 decades during which he sang close to 1375 songs in diverse genres in Hindi films and composed songs as a music director for 15 Hindi films.
Probodh Chandra Dey, known by his pet name, Manna Dey (01/05/1919 – 24/10/2013) had the initial training in music from his uncle, K C Dey. When K C Day decided to shift to Mumbai in the early 1942 on the invitation of Chimanlal Trivedi of Laxmi Productions, Manna Dey accompanied him to assist him both in his filmy career as a music director as well as to look after his uncle who was blind. It was K C Dey, who gave Manna Dey his debut song, a duet with Suraiya, jaago aayi usha panchhi bole jaago in ‘Tamanna’ (1942). Neither the songs nor the film created any ripple on the box office front. He also got opportunity to sing three songs in ‘Ram Rajya’ (1943) which was first offerred to K C Dey but declined the offer by saying that he sang only his self-composed songs.
While Manna Dey continued to assist K C Dey, he was entrusted to Ustad Aman Ali Khan of Bhendi Bazar Gharana by his uncle to get him trained as a vocalist in Hindustani classical music. He also took training in learning Urdu to improve his diction. In 1946, K C Dey returned to Kolkata after which Manna Dey assisted music directors Hari Prasanna Das, Khemchand Prakash and S D Burman. Somehow, he detested the work of music direction and instead concentrated on playback singing.
Manna Dey started his playback singing career at a time when Mukesh had started his career as a singer-actor in 1941 followed by Mohammed Rafi in 1944. It would be interesting to know as to how they fared in their initial play-back singing career in the 1940s. As I expected, Mohammed Rafi topped among them with around 325 songs, followed by Mukesh (around 160 songs). Manna Dey came a distant third with around 60 songs only. It was apparent that Manna Dey getting branded as a specialist in classical singing and singing for character actors in the genre of prayer or philosophical songs, had affected his playback singing output significantly.
In the 1950s also, Manna Dey was not yet in the reckoning as one of the main playback singers for the lead actors. The producers/distributors of the films preferred Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, and Talat Mehmood in that order. Manna Dey would get the chance to sing for the lead actors only if the song was based on a classical raagas. Even in other genres of songs, he got only limited opportunity to sing for the lead actors.
In one of his interviews, Manna Dey had revealed that sometime in 1954, he had contemplated to quit the Hindi film industry out of the frustration of not getting opportunity to sing for the lead actors and also in diverse genres. It was his wife, Sulochana Kumaran who encouraged him to give up the defeatist attitude and prove that he could sing any type of songs.
A major opportunity came to Manna Dey in the film ‘Shri 420’ (1954) when Mukesh after singing two songs for Raj Kapoor excused himself from singing more songs as he had signed a contract with the producer of ‘Maashooqa’ (1953) which prohibited him singing in other films until the release of the film. This gave opportunity for Manna Dey as he was chosen to sing for Raj Kapoor for 3 remaining songs. He also sang for Raj Kapoor in ‘Chori Chori’ (1956) and in ‘Parvarish’ (1958). All these songs became very popular. With these success, Shankar-Jaikishan got confidence to make Manna Dey sing 4 songs for Shammi Kapoor in ‘Ujjala’ (1959). But thereafter it was back to square one as in the 1960s, producers and actors preferred Mohammed Rafi and Mukesh over Manna Dey.
Probably, to prove his point that he could sing any genre of songs, in the 1960-70s, he sang a few beautiful non-film songs of the diverse genre such as nazaaron mein ho tum khayaalon mein ho tum, ye aawaara raaten ye khoyi si baaten, ‘nathhili se toota moti re’, ‘saawan ke rimjhim mein thirak thirak naache’ and many more.
In the 1960s, Manna Dey sang diverse types of songs some of which were not to his likings. But he accepted such songs to prove a point that he could sing any genre of Hindi films songs. Since he was regarded as a specialist in classical rendition, some music directors started using his classical rendition in the comical situations. For instance, he sang a Bhairavi thumri, arre hato kaahe ko jhoothhi banaao batiyaan in ‘Manzil’ (1960) which was made very famous by Ustad Faiyyaz Khan. In the similar situation, Manna Dey also rendered phool gendwa na maaro in ‘Dooj Ka Chaand’ (1964). He was also the main voice in one of landmark qawwalis of Hindi films, na to kaarwaan ki talaash hai in ‘Barsaat Ki Raat’ (1960).
Manna Dey also sang fun songs mostly for Mehmood in the 1960s like main tere pyaar mein kya kya na bana dilbar in ‘Ziddi’ (1964), aao twist karen jaag uthha mausam in ‘Bhoot Bangla’ (1965), o meri maina maan le mera kehna in ‘Pyaar Kiye Jaa’ (1966) and the iconic song, ek chatur naar kar ke singaar in ‘Padosan’ (1968).
Despite Manna Dey proving himself to be a versatile singer, he never got his dues that he deserved from Hindi film industry. From his interviews most of which he gave after he took the ‘self-imposed exile’ from Hindi film industry in the 1990s, his frustration about the way he was treated by Hindi film industry is quite apparent. In his interviews, Manna Dey gave a few instances where producers openly said their preference for Mukesh in front of him for the songs he was to sing. Fortunately, in most such cases, the concerned music directors stood for him. One such instance which Manna Dey did not reveal openly but shared with Pulak Bandyopadhyay, the lyricist for Bangla films and non-films songs:
When Manna Dey was rehearsing the song, tere naina talaash karen from ‘Talaash’ (1969) with S D Burman in his music room, O P Ralhan, the producer-director of the film walked in and listened to the song. In the presence of Manna Dey, O P Ralhan asked Burmanda as to why not Mukesh sing. Burmanda replied that Mukesh can not sing this song. O P Ralhan’s repartee to Burmanda was that why did he compose song which could not be sung by Mukesh ? Burmanda lost his cool and told O P Ralhan that if he wants S D Buirman’s music for ‘Talaash’, this song will have this tune and it would be sung by Manna Dey only. If he does not like this arrangement, he can look for another music director. O P Ralhan retreated from his stand. On the day of celebration of the silver jubilee of the film, O P Ralhan said ‘S D Burman Saab, you are our Dada – our eternal Dada’ [from Pulak Bandyopadhyay’s autobiography in Bengali ‘Kathay Kathay Raat Hoye Jay’ quoted in ‘S D Burman – The World of His Music’ by Khagesh Dev Burman (2013)].
Probably, Manna Dey lacked the ‘glamour’ quotient which his contemporaries, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Talat Mehmood and later Kishore Kumar had due to their large and strong fan-followings many of them could turn out to be the ‘fanatic’ fans. A large fan-following drives the box office demand for a playback singer. Nonetheless, Manna Dey has left with us scores of his immortal songs as a proof of his versatility to cherish his memory.
On the occasion of 8th Remembrance Day of Manna Dey, I have selected one of his trade mark semi-classical songs, ‘man bhaawan sangeet suhaawan’ which is the only remaining song from ‘Chandramukhi’ (1960) to be covered on the Blog. The song was written by Bharat Vyas which was set to music by S N Tripathi.
‘Chandramukhi’ (1960) had 8 songs of which 7 songs have been covered on the Blog as under:
| Songs | Date of Posting | Singers |
|---|---|---|
| Nain ka chain churaakar le gayi | 29/03/2010 | Mukesh |
| Aaj rituon ka raaja aaya | 18/04/2011 | Rafi-Suman Kalyanpur |
| Tera man mera man miley preet yoon khile | 20/05/2012 | Lata-Mukesh |
| Nadi kinaare koi pukaare | 09/12/2012 | Geeta Dutt-Rafi |
| Nainon se nainon ki baat huyi | 08/02/2013 | Lata |
| Chaandni jhilmil kare taaron bhari ye raat hai | 03/12/2016 | Sudha Malhotra-Lata |
| Bas gayi hai aankhon mein | 18/12/2020 | Manna Dey-Suman Kalyanpur |
With the last song being covered now, all the songs of ‘Chandramukhi’ (1960) have been covered on the Blog.
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Note: The information used in this article on the life sketch of Manna Dey has been taken from his interviews which appeared on print as well as electronic media.
Audio Clip:
Song-Manbhaawan sangeet suhaawan (Chandramukhi)(1960) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Bharat Vyas, MD-S N Tripathi
Chorus
Lyrics
O…….m
man bhaawan sangeet suhaawan
man bhaawan sangeet suhaawan
madhur madhur madhu been bajaawan
sa ma ma ga dha
pa ma dha ri
sa ni dh pa ma ga ri sa
man bhaawan sangeet suhaawan
aadi bramah lay sur upjaaye ae ae ae
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aadi bramah lay sur upjaaye
sapta suran ke haath sajaaye
mahaguni Naarad ne apni
veena par kiske gun gaa..ye
man bhaawan sangeet suhaawan
saraswati ki taan sureeli
sunkar dharti dol uthhe
aaaaa
aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aaa
saraswati ki taan sureeli
sunkar dharti dol uthhe
jan jan ki sangeet sudha se
dason dishaayen bol uthhe
ma…aa
ma ma dha
ni re gaa re gaa re saa
ni re saa
paa ni saa
jal thhal dole ambar dole
dhara kaa kan kan bol uthe
mahadev kaa maharaag sun
sheshnaag bhi dol uthhe
[Tabla notations recited by
Manna Dey and an unidentified male voice]
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aaa
aa aa aa aaa
aa aa aa aaa
man bhaawan sangeet suhaawan
man bhaawan sangeet suhaawan
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