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

Archive for the ‘Songs picturised at well known locations’ Category


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5730 Post No. : 18252

“Aansoo Aur Muskaan”(1970) was directed by P Madhvan for Screen Gems, Bombay. This “social” movie had Hema Malini, Ajay Sahni, Wonder child Bobby, Jagdeep, David, Suresh, Maruti,Birbal, Prem Kumar, Sadan, Swaraj Kumar, Subba Rao, Raghaviah, Anand, Behari, Pandey, Babu, Kiran, Bindu, Shabnam, Tuntun, Kanakadurga, Shyamala, Udayalakshmi and Om Prakash in it. Kishore Kumar had made a special appearance whereas Padmini and Man Mohan had made guest appearances in the movie.

“Aansoo Aur Muskaan”(1970) had six songs in it. Five songs have been covered in the past.

Here are the details of the songs covered so far:-

SNo in Blog Song Title Singer/s Lyrics Posted On Remarks
18 Guni janon bhakt janon Kishore Kumar Qamar Jalalabadi 5 August 2008 Picturised on Kishore Kumar himself . The song was the fourth most popular song of the year in Binaca Geetmala final programme of 1971
3694 Moti jaisaa rang ang mein Mukesh Indeewar 26 March 2011 Picturised on Parikshit Sahni and Hema Malini
15974 Taare toota karte hain Lata Mangeshkar Indeewar 16 October 2020 Picturised on Hema Malini
16250 Taara koi bhi aaj gagan se toota nahin Lata Mangeshkar Indeewar 8 March 2021 Picturised on child artist Bobby
18229 Na dekho badan hee badan Suman Kalyanpur Indeewar 7 March 2024 Lyrics by Prakashchandra. Song picturised on Hema Malini and Parikshit Sahni

We can observe that the five songs of “Aansoo Aur Muskaan”(1970) covered in the blog were all solo songs. The fifth and final song from the movie is a solo song as well. It is sung by Mahendra Kapoor. Indeewar is the lyricist. Music is composed by Kalyanji Anandji.

The song is picturised as a beggar song on Om Prakash and child artist Bobby. The song is picturised at iconic locations of Mumbai, viz Gateway of India, Hotel Taj, Chaupati etc. We can notice that the place in front of Gateway of India was vacant space half a century from now. 🙂

Lyrics of the song and other details were sent to me by Prakashchandra.

With this song, all the songs of “Aansoo Aur Muskaan”(1970) have been covered in the blog. The movie becomes one of the longest standing unYIPPEED movie in the blog to finally get YIPPEED.


Song-Neki tere saath chalegi baaba (Aansoo aur Muskaan)(1970) Singer-Mahendra Kapoor, Lyrics-Indeewar, MD-Kalyanji Anandji

Lyrics (Provided by Prakashchandra)

neki tere saath chalegi baaba
saath yahi ek baat chalegi baaba
neki tere saath chalegi baaba
saath yahi ek baat chalegi baaba
sang na denge bandhu-baaraati
sang na denge jeevan-saathi
neki tere saath chalegi baaba
saath yahi ek baat chalegi baaba

hai jinke liye toone mahal banaaye
jinke liye toone mahal banaaye
wo na tujhe thhahraayenge bhai
wo na tujhe thhahraayenge
jo tujhko kehte hain sundar
jo tujhko kehte hain sundar
dekh tujhe ghabraayenge
maai dekh tujhe ghabraayenge
aag pe ik din so jaayega
ban ke dhuaan tu kho jaayega
neki tere saath chalegi baaba
saath yahi ek baat chalegi baaba

hai yaad mein teri aansoo bahaa kar
yaad mein teri aansoo bahaa kar
jeevan koi na khoyega aa
jeevan koi na khoyega aa
ek sitaara toot gaya to
ek sitaara toot gaya to
aasmaan kyun royega aa
aasmaan kyun royega
kaise baabul
kaisi maata
matlab kaa hai har ek naata
neki tere saath chalegi baaba
saath yahi ek baat chalegi baaba
sang na denge bandhu-baaraati
sang na denge jeevan-saathi
neki tere saath chalegi baaba
saath yahi ek baat chalegi baaba
neki tere saath chalegi baaba
saath yahi ek baat chalegi baaba
neki teri saath chalegi baaba
saath yahi ek baat chalegi baaba


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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5604 Post No. : 18079 Movie Count :

4852

Producer-director-writer, Basu Chatterjee is one of the earliest filmmakers who brought up middle-class related issues on the big screen with films like ‘Saara Aakaash’ (1969), ‘Piya Ka Ghar’ (1971), ‘Rajnigandha’ (1974), ‘Chhoti Si Baat’ (1975), ‘Chitchor’ (1976), ‘Baaton Baaton Mein’ (1979) and many more. He has also made film with other genres of which ‘Kamla Ki Maut’ (1989) was critically acclaimed. But the film failed at the box office. He went back to his favourite genre of middle class family drama with light comedy, and made for Doordarshan a telefilm, ‘Hamaari Shaadi’ (1990). About 3 months back, Doordarshan uploaded the film in digital format on one of the video sharing platforms, with improved audio-visual quality.

To make the film within the shoestring budget, Basu Chatterjee took the actors who had mostly acted in TV serials or the new comers, for the main characters in the film. The cast included Ajit Pal and Indrani Haldar (debut film) in the lead roles supported by Akhil Mishra, Ravi Baswani, Prem Bedi, Anjan Shrivastav, Manohar Singh, Meenaxi Thakur, Suman Dharmadhikari, Pushpa Verma, Suresh Bhagwat, Javed Khan, etc. The film’s story was written by Umesh Kalbag based on a real-life story of a couple in Mumbai. The film was shot on location in Mumbai. To cut the cost, he barely used film sets and instead Instead he made use of the real houses and office premises.

The film is about a young lover-couple in Mumbai who want to get married against the wishes of girl’s parents. They try the options of court marriage and the temple marriage, but the lawyer and the temple priest create complications for them. Finally, they decide to get married in the house of boy’s boss who will do ‘kanyadaan’ ceremony. Before that, the boy must find a shelter to stay in Mumbai after the marriage. He cannot afford to buy even a small flat or pay high rent. An old lady who has lost his only son, agrees to give the lover-couple a room in her house to stay after the marriage. On the day of the marriage, the girl insists with her husband-in-waiting that her parents be informed of the marriage. The climax is whether girl’s parents bless the couple.

The story of the film in detail is as under:

Pradeep (Ajit Pal) stays in a flat as a paying guest in Mumbai. He has no parents. He has recently got a job as a clerk in a company. In a neighbouring building, Jaya (Indrani Haldar) stays in a flat with her parents and is in her final year of post-graduation. Jaya’s father, Diwan Mahendra Singh (Manohar Singh), a former Diwan with a princely state, is a strict disciplinarian in his house. He is looking for a suitable bridegroom for Jaya in commensurate with his status so that after her post-graduation, she can be married off. So far, he has failed to get a suitable boy for her. Jaya does not like her father’s dictatorial tendencies in the house as well as his choosing a bridegroom without her consent.

Pradeep gets acquainted with Jaya, and they become friends. They frequently meet after office/college hours without the knowledge of Jaya’s parents. They love each other but Pradeep is afraid to propose to her due to his fear of Jaya’s father. It is only when her father is trying to fix another boy from Jaipur as her prospective bridegroom, Jaya reveals to Pradeep the problem at her end and suggests that they should get married quickly by eloping. Pradeep happily agrees to her suggestion.

Pareira (Ravi Baswani), Pradeep’s Man Friday in the office, suggests a court marriage which is quick and cost efficient. However, a court marriage lawyer (Anjan Shrivastav) tries to blackmail Pradeep by telling that Jaya’s father will create problems if he informs him about their impending court marriage. Pradeep drops the idea of the court marriage as Jaya opposes succumbing to lawyer’s blackmail. Pareira again comes to Pradeep’s rescue and suggests the temple marriage. However, the temple priest (again Anjan Shrivastav), knowing the background of the marriage, tries to extract money from Pradeep which Jaya refuses to agree. The lover-couple are back to square one.

Pareira once again find a solution for Pradeep in the office itself. He suggests him to consult their Boss, Sharma ji (Prem Bedi) who had got married in a similar circumstances. Sharma ji who was always aware of Pradeep’s love affairs but behaved as if he was not aware, suggests Pradeep to get married in his house with the offer that he and his wife (Pushpa Verma) will do the ‘kanyadaan’ ceremony. But before that Sharma ji advises him to have a house to stay in after the marriage.

Pradeep goes on searching for a flat but the cost of a flat for him is too high and he does not have that kind of money to buy. He also cannot afford the high rent. Pereira once again comes to his help and guides him to meet Mrs. Maria (Suman Dharmadhikari) who is a widow and stays alone in her bungalow in Bandra. He meets her and she offers him her empty garage with old furniture to stay. However, when Pradeep comes with Jaya for inspection, Maria has a change of heart because she sees in Pradeep, her deceased son. She offers her deceased son’s bedroom in her bungalow for staying after the marriage. She also provides Jaya with bride’s dresses. Pareira has paid for Pradeep’s wedding dress. The marriage date is fixed, and Sharma ji has arranged priest to perform the marriage ceremony in his house.

On the marriage day, Jaya leaves her house in the attire suitable for a bride with jewellery given by her mother to attend her college friend’s wedding in the morning. The plan is that Jaya, after attending her friend’s wedding would leave with the same attire to Sharma ji’s house for her own marriage with Pradeep scheduled in the evening. Pradeep reaches Sharma ji’s house and finds Jaya standing there with a sad face. She tells Pradeep that she had seen how her friend’s parents and other close relatives were happy in performing their daughter’s marriage. She says the she will not marry without involving her parents because the marriage is also a happy occasion for her parents and the close relatives, and their participation is essential.

Disgusted with the sudden change in Jaya’s behaviour, Pradeep rushes to Jaya’s house and meets her father, Diwan Mahendra Singh. He reveals in detail their plan of marriage. After some time, Jaya also joins Pradeep. After hearing this, there is tense moments for everyone in the house as to how Diwan Mahendra Singh would respond. Surprisingly. Jaya’s father gives his blessing for the marriage by saying that he has been searching a suitable boy for Jaya for the last two years but not a single proposal clicked. He was worried as to how he would get her married. The marriage is performed in the presence of Jaya’s parents and the newly married couple shift to Maria’s house. The film ends with Maria giving a traditional welcome to the married couple in her house.

After watching the full film in one sitting, I wondered how Basu Chatterjee could manage to make a full-length feature film of about 1 hour and 45 minutes of duration with a story that can be written in 10 lines. This is made possible mainly due to an excellent screenplay and subtle humour-filled dialogues written by Basu Chatterjee. There is not a single dull moment in the film. The performances of Ajit Pal and Indrani Haldar are excellent. Ravi Baswani’s performance adds to the light comical situations in the film.

‘Hamaari Shaadi’ (1990) had two songs written by Yogesh and set to music by the father-son duo of Salil Chowdhury-Sanjoy Chowdhury. No audio recording of the songs were released. I am presenting the first song, a title song, ‘aisa bhi hota hai do premi kabhi’ to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Kumar Shanu and it is picturised as a background song when two lovers, Ajit Pal and Indrani Haldar decide to meet after office hours. Both of them reach their meeting destination (which I presume is opposite Churchgate railway station). Thereafter, both of them walk, towards Marine Drive keeping the distance so that they appear like strangers to their acquaintances if they see them.

Video Clip


Song-Aisa bhi hota hai do premi kabhi (Hamaari Shaadi)(1990) Singer-Kumar Sanu, Lyrics-Yogesh, MD-Salil Chaudhari

Lyrics

aisa bhi hota hai do premi kabhi
milte hain jaise milen do ajnabi
anjaan se raahon pe chalte hain ye
aisa bhi hota hai do premi kabhi
milte hain jaise milen do ajnabi
anjaan se raahon pe chalte hain ye
chhupke duniya se
pyaar karte hain
koi dekh na le
haan dil mein darte hain
aisa bhi hota hai do premi kabhi
milte hain jaise milen do ajnabi
anjaan se raahon pe chalte hain ye

pyaar ke rang mein
mann ye jab doob jaaye ae
phir ye bandhan kabhi
koi na tod paaye
ye lagan hai jo
ye agan hai jo
jo bujhe na bujhaaye
ye lagan hai jo
ye agan hai jo
jo bujhe na bujhaaye
chhupke duniya se
pyaar karte hain
koi dekh na le
haan dil mein darte hain
aisa bhi hota hai do premi kabhi
milte hain jaise milen do ajnabi
anjaan se raahon pe chalte hain ye ae

jab milan ki ghadi
paas aane lagi hai ae
madhbari saans ye
geet gaane lagi hai
zindagi kitne
pyaar ke sapne
phir sajaane lagi hai
zindagi kitne
pyaar ke sapne
phir sajaane lagi hai
chhupke duniya se
pyaar karte hain
koi dekh na le
haan dil mein darte hain
aisa bhi hota hai do premi kabhi
milte hain jaise milen do ajnabi
anjaan se raahon pe chalte hain ye ae
chhupke duniya se
pyaar karte hain
koi dekh na le
dil mein darte hain


This article is written by nahm, 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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5532 Post No. : 17989

The life lived in this finite world with infinite possibilities is nothing if not the memories collected in the heart and mind. The audio-visual medium, overdose or not, is the ultimate. Some of those lasting memorable visuals are of the silver screen and black & white television screen. I may forget some of the names of those characters and actors, but the emotions conveyed and invoked in those scenes stay with me and have survived the test of time.

One of those lasting memories is of the Pakistani Television series called ‘Dhoop Kinaare’. Those were the times of late 80’s when VCRs were hired along with video cassettes of these serials and people did binge watching of all episodes of the serial. The same as what people do with OTT serials now. But the similarity ends there. These are Urdu Serials written by contemporary literary writers. Zubaan ki shaayistgi was the main attraction plus the packaging in characters.

There was a precursor to ‘Dhoop Kinaare’ titled ‘Ankahee’ which was equally popular. Both different serials but finite ones with happy endings. Though ‘Ankahee’ ends in a twisted kind of happy ending. I have tried to find a good print on YouTube some years ago, of ‘Dhoop Kinare’, but the one I got to see was very bad quality audio/video.

I found this Wikipedia page on ‘Dhoop Kinaare’ to revive my memories and find that it was all of 17 episodes. The page does say that the “In India, the show was remade by Sony Entertainment Television India as ‘Kuch Toh Log Kahenge’. It started on 3 October 2011 and had total of 346 episodes”. Recently Kamath Sir has written a post for the title song of this serial.

The bad quality audio/video meant that I don’t get to hear/understand most of the dialogues being spoken. The facial expressions are also very unclear to view. The memory of watching it on VCR is also a ‘dhundli yaad’ but will serve my purpose here. First is the intense dislike/hatred that Dr. Ahmer (Raahat Kazmi) has for the unknown granddaughter of his foster father. The affection he has for the house, where each nook and corner, has unlimited memories for him with his foster father, who meant the world to him. Yet the father has left the house that they both built together, with their own hands, to the unknown granddaughter. This makes him feel like an orphan all over again as the father gave preference to his blood ties. Rendering him bitter and un-trusting of kind people, in a way.

Dr. Zoya (Marina Khan) works as an intern in the same hospital, where he is the HOD of Pediatrics. He is very derisive in his contempt of what he considers her ineptitude and non-seriousness. This, without knowing that she is the same grand daughter of his foster father, who inherited the house he is so fond of and desperate to buy.

The characters are all woven in the emotions, their past and present hurts. There are stories within them which are revealed in flash back.The treatment of the Indian serial was very different, and it by-passed the ‘house and inheritance’ matter. At least I do not remember it. Glamorous packaging was there in both with romanticism, but in ‘Dhoop Kinaare’ the strong characterization is the lasting take away.

There is a scene when, Dr. Zoya’s father visits Dr. Ahmer at the hospital. He is the first one to discover that Dr. Ahmer is the one trying to buy the house, left to Dr. Zoya by her maternal grandfather. Afterwards, Dr. Ahmer goes with the father to the hospital entrance. As soon as they come outside, the father who is wearing his spectacles, says“matla’a achaanak se abar alood hogaya hai”, meaning ‘the sky is full of clouds all of a sudden’. Dr. Ahmer promptly takes the spectacles of the father and wipes them with a handkerchief before returning it to him. Having realized that Dr. Ahmer is the foster son of his estranged late father-in-law, who never forgave his daughter for marrying a person not approved by him and going away, Dr. Zoya’s father is aware that there are troubles or storms waiting for them in the relationship even before it began.

“matla’a achaanak se abar alood hogaya hai” is the everyday event for people living in hot and humid climes and wearing spectacles. As soon as we come out of an air conditioned space, the spectacles frost over with the humid air vaporizing the cold glass. For clarity in the event happening.

A couple more serials are coming to mind seen at that time, like ‘Parchhaiyan’ and ‘Tanhaaiyan’ with lead actors forming a chain of sorts. ‘Parchhaiyan’ had Rahat Kazmi in lead with Sahira Kazmi (details about them are available in the blog). ‘Ankahi’ had Shehnaz Shaikh with Javed Shaikh. This Shehnaz Shaikh was the lead character in ‘Tanhaaiyan’ and Marina Khan played her younger sister. Then Marina Khan as Dr. Zoya and Rahat Kazmi as Dr. Ahmer in ‘Dhoop Kinaare’. There is another common link in all these serials i.e. all these were written by Haseena Moin. These were the most famous and best serials of that era. It appears so from what I am finding online now. This was the first wave of the Pakistani TV serials, second wave started in 2011 with ‘Humsafar’ of HUM TV.

Haseena Moin has written the script of Raj Kapoor’s ‘Henna’ (1991) also. I have learnt on the net now that Raj Kapoor wanted Shehnaz Shaikh of ‘Ankahi’ and ‘Tanhaaiyan’ fame to do the title role in ‘Henna’. But Shehnaz Shaikh refused, so Haseena Moin recommended Zeba Bakhtiyar for the role. Marina Khan has also acted in one Indian serial titled ‘Tanha’ also written by Haseena Moin for Star Plus in mid-90’s maybe. I found only this title song link on YouTube by Kumar Sanu – “Dekhiye To Lagta Hai, Zindagi Ki Raahon Mein“.

I knew about this serial at StarPlus, having seen it, but cannot remember much about it now. Javed Akhtar is the lyricist of that title song.

I am presenting today another song by Javed Akhtar, sung by Sonu Nigam. This is the last remaining song of the film ‘Dil Chaahta Hai’ (2001). Composers are Shankar Ehsan Loy. The film has 6 songs, five of which are already posted here on our blog.

This is my 4th post of this film’s music score and ‘Tanhaai’ is my favourite, because of Sonu Nigam and also the composition. Unique instruments and their different sound carried the new-ness at the turn of the century to another level in Hindi film music.This song is a solo with no chorus, but still seems like all the elements shown in the picturization are singing the song with Sonu Nigam. There must be a technique of cinematic visualization to sync with the music in this fashion.

As the song ends in the movie, Aakash (Amir Khan) is sitting in the living room of his apartment in Sydney overlooking the harbor. His father has sent him to Australia to look after the business there, so that he grows up and learns to be responsible, as a disciplinary action. Aakash meets Shalini (Priety Zinta) on the flight to Sydney, exactly at interval point in the film and continues to meet up and sing songs and watch operas with her. Now Shalini has gone back to India to marry her fiancé, who is the real son of her foster parents. Aakash has realized that he has fallen hard for Shalini and this is no game. His life is barren and lonely without her.

In the desolate mood, Aakash calls his father, asks for his mother. Father realizes something is amiss, asks him if he is not feeling well. Aakash replies, all is well, and that he is busy whole day and tired by evening. Father feels compassion for once and asks him to come back to India. Inevitable, as the movie had to end sometime.

[Editor’s Note: With this post, the film ‘Dil Chaahta Hai’ joins the ranks of Yippeee’d films on the blog, with all songs convered.]

Song – Tanhaai. . . Tanhaai (Dil Chaahta Hai) (2001) Singer – Sonu Nigam, Lyrics – Javed Akhtar, MD – Shankar Ehsaan Loy

Lyrics

tanhaai ee
eeee eee eeeee
tanhaai eeee
dil ke raaste mein
kaisi thokar
maine khaai
toote khwaab saare
ek mayoosi hai chhaai
har khushi ee
so gai ee
zindagi ee
kho gai ee
tum ko jo pyar kiya maine
to sazaa main paai ee
tanhaai ee
tanhaai ee
meelon hai phaili hui
tanhaai ee
tanhaai ee
tanhaai ee
meelon hai phaili hui
tanhaai ee

khwaab mein dekhaa tha ek aanchal
main ne apne haathhon mein
ab toote sapnon ke sheeshe
chubhte hain in aankhon mein
khwaab mein dekhaa thha ek aanchal
main ne apne haathhon mein
ab toote sapnon ke sheeshe
chubhte hain in aankhon mein
kal koi tha yaheen
ab koi bhi nahin ee ee
ban ke naagin jaise hai
saanson mein lehraai
tanhaai ee
tanhaai ee
palkon pe kitne aansoo hai laai
tanhaai ee
tanhaai ee
palkon pe kitne aansoo hai laai

kyun aisi ummeed ki maine
jo aise nakaam hui ee
door banaai thi manzil to
raste mein hi shaam hui ee
kyun aisi ummeed ki main ne
jo aise nakaam hui ee
door banaai thi manzil to
raste mein hi shaam hui ee
ab kahaan
jaaun main
kis ko samjhaaun main ea
kya main ne chaaha thha
aur kyon qismat mein aai
tanhaai ee eeaaee
tanhaai ee
jaise andheron ki ho gehraai ee

dil ke raaste mein
kaisi thokar
maine khaai
toote khwaab saare
ek mayoosi hai chhaai
har khushi ee
so gai ee
zindagi ee
kho gai ee ee
tum ko jo pyar kiya maine
to sazaa main paai ee
tanhaai ee
tanhaai ee
meelon hai phaili hui
tanhaai ee
tanhaai ee
tanhaai ee
meelon hai phaili huyi
tanhaai ee
tanhaai
tanhaai
tanhaai
tanhaai

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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तन्हाई॰॰ई
ई ई ई ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
दिल के रास्ते में
कैसी ठोकर
मैंने खाई
टूटे ख्वाब सारे
एक मायूसी है छाई
हर खुशी॰॰ई
सो गई॰॰ई
ज़िंदगी॰॰ई
खो गई॰॰ई
तुम को जो प्यार किया मैंने
तो सज़ा मैं पाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
मीलों है फैली हुई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
मीलों है फैली हुई
तन्हाई॰॰ई

ख्वाब में देखा था एक आँचल
मैंने अपने हाथों में
अब टूटे सपनों के शीशे
चुभते हैं इन आँखों में
ख्वाब में देखा था एक आँचल
मैंने अपने हाथों में
अब टूटे सपनों के शीशे
चुभते हैं इन आँखों में
कल कोई था यहीं
अब कोई भी नहीं॰॰ई
बन के नागिन जैसे है
साँसों में लहराई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
पलकों पे कितने आँसू है लाई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
पलकों पे कितने आँसू है लाई

क्यों ऐसी उम्मीद की मैंने
जो ऐसे नाकाम हुई॰॰ई
दूर बनाई थी मंज़िल तो
रस्ते में ही शाम हुई
क्यों ऐसी उम्मीद की मैंने
जो ऐसे नाकाम हुई॰॰ई
दूर बनाई थी मंज़िल तो
रस्ते में ही शाम हुई
अब कहाँ जाऊँ मैं
किसको समझाऊँ मैं
क्या मैंने चाहा था
और क्यों किस्मत में आई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
जैसे अँधेरों की हो गहराई

दिल के रास्ते में
कैसी ठोकर
मैंने खाई
टूटे ख्वाब सारे
एक मायूसी है छाई
हर खुशी॰॰ई
सो गई॰॰ई
ज़िंदगी॰॰ई
खो गई॰॰ई
तुम को जो प्यार किया मैंने
तो सज़ा मैं पाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
मीलों है फैली हुई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
मीलों है फैली हुई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई
तन्हाई॰॰ई

 


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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5456 Post No. : 17871

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Bandish’ from 1969.

I was not aware of this song till 2018 when I took up to present a write-up on singer Jaspal Singh for the song “Jin Khoja Tin Paayian Gehre Paani Paith” from the movie ‘Paayal Ki Jhankaar’ (1980) which was posted on the blog on 02.04.2018. This article is a part of the series I am presenting on the ‘special voices of the seventies’ and Jaspal Singh is one of those voices. So far I have presented nine posts in this series and there are more yet to come in the future.

Jaspal Singh is the singer of today’s song. Let us first go through his journey in Bollywood which I had mentioned in the above post. Since this background is necessary for today’s post also. I am reproducing below, the edited text from the above mentioned post of 02.04.2018.

Jaspal Singh was born on 23rd March 1943 in Amritsar, Punjab. (However on all official records his date of birth had been recorded as 28th March 1943). His father was running a hotel and their hotel was once situated just opposite to the famous Golden Temple in Amritsar’. Their hotel was later demolished and was compensated for by the government, as mentioned by him in his interview on RSTV-Guftagoo. He is one of five siblings – four brothers and one sister, again as per his interview on RSTV-Guftagoo.

Jaspal Singh completed his graduation from Amritsar and later on persuaded LLB from Ghaziabad. However, he was neither interested in business nor doing the advocacy. His only interest was to sing and become a play back singer which his mother and sister supported well. Since his childhood he was fond of singing and he was singing in his school and college functions and was popular among his circles in Amritsar. He was also been invited for singing in functions. He too, like other upcoming singers, was a great fan of Rafi Saab whom he admires a lot. Later on he got a chance to sing with Rafi Saab in films which was a great day for him.

His journey to movies and becoming a play back singer was full of hard work and struggle and he succeeded only because he had this talent, passion and instinct to become a play back singer for movies. It so happened that his sister got married and was settled in Bombay (now Mumbai). This came like a blessing for young Jaspal Singh who thereafter kept visiting Bombay, initially during the summer vacations and thereafter more often, to fulfill his dream of becoming a playback singer for movies.

His sister, knowing about his passion and intentions, persuaded her husband to try that Jaspal Singh gets an opportunity to sing in movies. Their continued efforts resulted in Usha Khanna ji giving him his first break for playback singing in 1969, in the movie ‘Bandish’. His first recorded song was a solo song “Dekho Logo Ye Kaisa Zamaana”, which went quite unnoticed.

Usha Khanna ji give him another chance in 1969 to sing in the movie ‘Anjaan Hai Koi’, this time a duet with Mahendra Kapoor which due to its tune and words was somewhat noticed and reach a larger audience. I have presented this duet of Mahendra Kapoor and Jaspal Singh from ‘Anjaan Hai Koi’ on the blog on 01.02.2023, which is “Beta Khel Mat Matka“.

 In today’s post I am going to present the first song sung by Jaspal Singh for Hindi films which went unnoticed then. For this song Jaspal Singh was credit with his original name i.e. Jaspal Singh Phokela.

‘Bandish’ (1969) was directed by Charandas Shokh for JJ Films, Bombay. It had Sonia Sahni, Shailendra, Azra, Ulhas, Brahmachari, Shyam Kumar, Sarita Devi, SK Prem, Mirza Musharraf, Uma Dhawan, Sushma, Kundan, Dhanraj, Habib, Madhumati, Manmohan and others.

This movie has six songs composed by Usha Khanna. Akmal Hyderabadi is the lyricist of the songs in this movie. Asha Bhonsle, Krishan Kalle, Mohd Rafi, and Jaspal Singh (as Jaspal Phokela) are singers for the songs in this movie. Two songs from this movie have been posted on the blog earlier.

Here is the brief about the story of this movie as mentioned by Shri Arunkumar ji in his comments on the song “Jaaiye Jaaiye Huzoor, Aapko Kis Ne Roka Hai” of this movie posted on the blog earlier.

The story of this film is about CID Inspector Anand, who is a courageous, loyal and is devoted to elimination of traitors of the country. I thought this was CBI’s job, but the producers of this film firmly believed that CID does this work. Anand is sent abroad to many countries and returns victorious every time after eliminating traitors. But the supply of traitors is in plenty in India, hence he is appointed now in India.

He meets Shabnam in a train journey and becomes involved with her. The traitors kidnap Shabnam (why her?) and Anand and they are brought to Lobo’s den. He wants secret information from Anand. That time Anand realizes that Shabnam is their accomplice. He escapes from there and finds out that Shabnam’s father is held by the traitors. After few reels, Anand, as expected, traces the culprits, arrests them and also captures Shabnam. Culprits are handed over to the police and Shabnam, he keeps for himself!

Now coming to the hero of this movie i.e. Shailendra. Here we need to correct ourselves and replace the information about him as mentioned in the song ‘”Abhi To Raat Baaqi Hai“, as there seems to be the ‘same name confusion’ about two different actors named Shailendra.

The lead actor Shailendra in this movie ‘Bandish’ is actually Parduman or Praduman Singh Randhawa. He is the son of Dara Singh from his first wife Bachno Kaur. He was born on 12th April 1946. Dara Singh wanted his eldest son to become a wrestler like him. However Praduman was interested in films.

He was a co-producer of the movie ‘Nasihat’ (1967) with Saudagar. This movie was a home production of Dara Singh where his brother Randhawa was also the actor.

Praduman then appeared in movies like ‘Aankhen’ (1968) (where he played the role of Akram) and ‘Ganga Tera Paani Amrit’ (1971) (where he played the role of Ballu, a friend of Shatrughan Sinha) where he was credited as Parduman.

He handled the publicity of the movie ‘Isi Ka Naam Duniya Hai’ (1962) (with DR Bhonsle and Chandu).* He also worked as title designer for ‘Hare Kaanch Ki Chooriyaan’ (1967) and as a title artist for the movie ‘Upkaar’ (1967).*
*(This information is confirmed from the titles of these three movies)

It is later in ‘Bandish’ that he changed his name for screen as Shailendra. It seems that he quit the film industry later and settled down as a farmer at Meerut (UP). He has two sons and a daughter.

In this regard I would like to mention that the information about Praduman Sing Randhawa mentioned in ‘Wikipedia’ is more authentic in my view compared to other many sources where they have even included the movie ‘Teesri Kasam’ (1966) and many other movies considering him as ‘Shailendra’. However I would request knowledgeable readers to add additional information about him and correct us wherever required. Our dear Prakash ji had mentioned in his comments on the song of ‘Ganga Tera Paani Amrit’ about guessing this person with Shatrughan Sinha as Parduman Randhawa long back.

Well, now coming to today’s song which on screen is performed by the actor–comedian Brahmachari.

I tried to look for detailed information about his journey to films. But sadly there is no biographical information about Brahmachari available as of now. We checked with many sources but as of now only the following information can be presented here.

Born as Murari Lal Vashishtha, Brahmachari started his film career with the movie ‘Dus Lakh’ (1966). He went on to act over one hundred and fifty movies (as per filmography available on internet/YouTube link). We have seen him in many movies e.g. ‘Ek Naari Ek Brahmachari’ (1971), ‘Mere Jeevan Saathi’ (1972), ‘Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka’ (1975), ‘Fakeera’ (1976), ‘Ek Se Badh Kar Ek’ (1976), ‘Kaalia’ (1981) etc. I am not mentioning complete list here in this post. ‘Kaali Topi Laal Roomal’ from the year 2000 is said to be his last movie.

Actor Brahmachari has two sons and a daughter. Both of his sons are famous actor i.e. Puneet Vashishtha and Harsh Vashishtha. His daughter’s name is Renu Sharma. Sunaina Vashishtha is the wife of Brahmachari.

Actor Brahmachari passed away on 1st August’2001. This is mentioned by his son Puneet in his comment on the above ‘YouTube’ link.

Let us now listen to today’s song where Brahmachari is lip syncing for the voice of Jaspal Singh. Also seen in picturisation are many beautiful ladies whom I am unable to identify. That also reminds me of the well-known song “Rekha O Rekha Jab Se Tumhe Dekhapicturised on Brahmachari and Tabassum in the movie ‘Adhikaar’ (1971). I am not aware if he got to perform any other songs too. I think there may be a few more. I request our knowledgeable readers to help add more songs picturised on Brahmachari.

Over to the today’s song now. This song  is a nice song to listen to and watch too. The video of the song has three stanzas whereas the audio has one stanza less. The location of the picturisation of this song looks like Mumbai’s Taj Hotel, Gateway of India,  and around the sea and other locations in Mumbai.

 

Video

Audio

Song – Dekho Logo Ye Kaisa Zamaana (Bandish) (1969) Singer – Jaspal Singh, Lyrics – Akmal Hyderabadi, MD – Usha Khanna

Lyrics

dekho logo
ye kaisa zamaana
sambhaalo sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe
tang libaada
tang badan pe tang libaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada

dekho logo
ye kaisa zamaana
sambhaalo sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe
tang libaada
tang badan pe tang libaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada

nayi zindagi ka naya rang dekho
nayi zindagi ka naya rang dekho
zamaana dikhaata hai ang ang dekho
na aanchal hai laamba
na daaman kuchh zyaada
na aanchal hai laamba
na daaman kuchh zyaada
dekho logo
ye kaisa zamaana
sambhaalo sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe
tang libaada
tang badan pe tang libaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada

badan pairhan mein
samaata nahin hai
badan pairhan mein
samaata nahin hai
chaman ab chaman mein
samaata nahin hai
chhalakne laga hai
suraahi se baada (?)
chhalakne laga hai
suraahi se baada (?)
dekho logo
ye kaisa zamaana
sambhaalo
sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe tang labaada
tang badan pe tang labaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada

idhar dekhiyega
udhar dekhiyega
idhar dekhiyega
udhar dekhiyega
nazar hai pareshaan
kidhar dekhiyega
nigaahen to kam hain
nazaare zyaadaa
nigaahen to kam hain
nazaare zyaadaa
dekho logo
ye kaisa zamaana
sambhaalo sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe
tang libaada
tang badan pe tang libaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada

dekho logo
ye kaisaa zamaana
sambhaalo sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe
tang libaada
tang badan pe tang libaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा

देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा

नई ज़िंदगी का नया रंग देखो
नई ज़िंदगी का नया रंग देखो
ज़माना दिखाता है अंग अंग देखो
ना आँचल है लांबा
ना दामन कुछ ज़्यादा
ना आँचल है लांबा
ना दामन कुछ ज़्यादा
देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा

बदन पैरह्न में
समाता नहीं है
बदन पैरह्न में
समाता नहीं है
चमन अब चमन में
समाता नहीं है
छलकने लगा है
सुराही से बादा (?)
छलकने लगा है
सुराही से बादा (?)
देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा

इधर देखिएगा
उधर देखिएगा
इधर देखिएगा
उधर देखिएगा
नज़र है परेशान
किधर देखिएगा
निगाहें तो कम हैं
नज़ारे ज़्यादा
निगाहें तो कम हैं
नज़ारे ज़्यादा
देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा

देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा


This article is written by Sudhir, 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.

Blog Day :

5419 Post No. : 17776

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2013-2023)– Song No.119
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Ah.. Raj Kapoor – the Showman. Sometimes also referred to as the Greatest Showman of Indian Cinema. A lifetime affair with the camera – very prominently handled both ends, sometimes in front of it, and then also behind it. Starting with childhood appearances accompanying his illustrious father to studios. And on to be a performer himself. And very soon, a producer – to quench his thirst, rather his search, for the ultimate story of love.

Raj Kapoor – the eternal seeker, the eternal explorer – in quest for the meaning of love equation between a man and a woman. All his life he produced films. The subjects, the scenarios varied, but against all the scenarios the unwavering theme, the unchanging premise of emotions flowing from one heart to another.

What does it take to define this equation? He has explored this question incessantly through his films and the music of his films. It is said in the industry – he had a Midas touch for music. No matter which film one picks. There may be commentaries and reviews about the films, but always, the music. The music was always the winner. And it is through the songs and music of his films that he expressed this search, this quest – for the meaning of love – endlessly.

His films almost always bring together the lovers in disparate and trying situations. What does it mean to be in love when, by normal discourse, love may not, cannot happen. And yet it does. From his very first venture as a producer – film ‘Aag’ of 1948, he had Saraswati Kumar Deepak write for him

kahin ka deepak kahin ki baati
aaj baney hain jeevan saathi

These verses kind of set the journey in motion that lasted for almost for four decades till the Showman decided in 1988 to hang up his director’s cap. On and on, one film at time, one can trace this quest for the meaning of love throughout his journey. The words and verses never ever failed to chalk up the emotions that were the matter of his quest. ‘Barsaat’ came in 1949 and with it, it brought the timeless melodies of

o o o,
mujhe kisi se pyaar ho gaya

and

meri aankhon mein bas gaya koi re
mujhe neend na aaye main kya karoon

With ‘Awaara’ of 1951, the theme resounded with the melody of

ghar aaya mera pardesi
pyaas bujhi in nainan ki

In 1953, when ‘Aah’ came to the theater screens, audiences were not so enamored by the sad somber story of a love lost. But yet again, the music said it all, and forever.

sunte the naam hum, jinka bahaar se
dekha to bola jiya jhoom jhoom ke

The journey continued in 1955 with ‘Shri 420’, touching towering heights of emotional expressions with the simplest of words.

ramaiya vasta vaiya
maine dil tujh ko diya

To date, no verse writer worth his salt has expressed this emotion in words more simple than these.

The proverbial icing always has been the on screen presentation of these wonderful melodies. The visions of the song presentation are a heart warming journey of visuals stringed with the words played on arias of melodies that proved to be incomparable even to this day. There is no peer, no comparable expression that can, or that will replicate the emotional highs of

pyaar hua iraar hua hai
pyaar se phir kyon darta hai dil

And the voyage carries on with the search for that promised destination that may reveal that ultimate truth of this mystery of love. ‘Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai’ – 1961. A very brief verse in the middle of a song, seems to encompass the entire story of this quest.

itna sa dil tu de de agar
saara jag tera ho jaaye
saara jag tera ho jaaye

‘Sangam’ came in 1964. It came with a bevy of emotions that crossed through so many layers of the mind’s labyrinths encompassing compassion, sacrifice, friendship, betrayal – and yes, love of course. And the hearts would sing these lines forever

har dil jo pyaar karega
wo gaana gaayega

and

o mere sanam, o mere sanam
do jism magar ik jaan hain hum
ik dil ke do armaan hain hum

Then came the magnum opus in 1970. ‘Mera Naam Joker’ – a commercial disappointment initially which has later ended up becoming a cult film in its own right. A lifetime’s search for love, culminating in show at a circus. One after another, love appears in life of the Joker, but always leaves him alone at the end. And the heart of the Joker has these words to sing

bhoologe tum, bhoolenge wo
par hum tumhaare rahenge sada

Beyond that, now new generations were taking over. Romance and love donned new faces and new dresses in ‘Bobby’ (1973). The words got a different expression, the music changed, but the soul sound of love remained what it has for centuries – unchanged. A new voice was now strumming the drums and saying

. . . par pyaar bhara dil kabhi na todo
is dil mein dilbar rehta

And alongwith came the declaration that

deta hai dil de, badle mein dil ke
. . . . . .   pyar mein sauda nahin

Then in 1978 came another significant milestone in this journey – ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’. With the thesis that the truth is always akin to God, and thus, it is always beautiful. The mind’s conflict between the truth of the beauty and the beauty of imagination is again a timeless discourse, dealt once again with the verses of tradition

bhor bhaye panghat par

and

sainyaan nikas gaye main naa ladi thi

‘Prem Rog’ appeared in 1982 and the Showman’s last venture – ‘Ram Teri Ganga Maili’ appeared in 1985.

‘Prem Rog’ was was a creation that came forth three and a half decades after his quest had debuted in ‘Aag’. And the wonder of the outcome thus far, thirty five years in the making, and the explorer still ended up with the question that started his quest way back in 1948. For in this film, he yet once again poses the question

ye din kyon nikalta hai
ye raat kyon hoti hai
ye peed kahaan se uthti hai
ye aankh kyon roti hi
….
mohabbat hai kya cheez, hum ko bataao
ye kis ne shuru ki, hamen bhi sunaao

The essence of a lifetime of search. At the end of his energies after years of exploring. And the explorer is yet asking the same question. Again. A lifetime spent in synthesis, after having sung so many beautiful verses in its praise, after equating it to God and saying – that which is true, it also is beautiful. And then negating all these achievements, discarding all the experiences of the landmarks of the journeys, the seeker once again picks up the question that had started his journey decades earlier.

And thus remains the enigma – as it is. The final offering of 1985 – ‘Ram Teri Ganga Maili’ brings a last message

sun saiba sun
pyaar ki dhun

Just listen to this aria of love. Do not search it with a question. Just savor the strumming emotions, and let this dhun immerse oneself, take one into the unknown unseen depths. Just relish and delight in this feeling of love – do not ask any questions of it. The wheel of life having come a full circle, and yet a definitive and culminating statement still could not be made. Such is it – the mystery of LOVE.

Ah yes, now for the song presented with this post. 1982 was the year when the young mind was still innocently concerned with the questions about this emotion. The film came along and I do remember I had seen it on the big screen. The analysis of how the realities of the society and the bitter truths of life, were still years ahead in time. The mind always was simply happy at witnessing a happy ending. Always assuming that all the hiccups and tribulations on the way are a conjuring of the story tellers mind, and that lovers are always destined to meet. Ah, the loveliness of that innocence, believing in the good always.

But that discussion in maybe another post, for another song of love.

‘Prem Rog’ is a story of unexpressed love, and maybe also love about which the lovers themselves are not aware. A young girl from a rich traditional family, a young lad – and orphan without any antecedents. And they are good friends, for the boy frequents the home of the girl to do sundry jobs for the household. The girl gets married, and widowed, in quick succession – in like a blink of the eye. Circumstances bring her back to her parent’s home. The contact is re-ignited. And the emotoions that were not expressed not understood till then, now come floating into the heart. There follows a long and grueling struggle, ultimately violent, with the social norms and traditions. However, a happy ending at the end.

I liked the film on two counts. One was a very stark, almost harsh portrayal of the tribulations of a young widow in a very conservative family. And second, it was a refreshing feeing to see Nanda and Tanuja both on screen after a gap. Of course, Shammi Kapoor was the added attraction.

A minor trivia. Padmini Kolhapure, at 17, became the youngest individual recipient of the Filmfare Best Actress Award for this film.

Songs of ‘Prem Rog’ are quite hummable and became very popular in their time. There are 6 songs in this film, five of which are already showcased on our blog. This is the sixth song to make it here, which brings us to declare ‘Prem Rog’ to be Yippeee’d on the blog.

The shooting of this song sequence is something special to mention. The film was shot in the studio and some scenes in and around a farm house on way to Poona. This particular song, no guesses, is shot in the tulip fields at Kukenhoff, close to Amsterdam in Holland. Yes, the same place where the ‘Silsila’ (1981) song “Dekha Ek Khwab To Ye SilSile Huye” was also shot.

It is interesting to note that the song opens with the lead pair on a bicycle. The bicycle looks very typically Indian. So one must assume that the artifact was carried by the shooting team from India to Holland.

The words of the song are very beautifully crafted. As the song opens, Devdhar (role played by Rishi Kapoor) blesses Manorama (role played by Padmini Kolhapure) with the years of his own life. In the first stanza, Manorama tells of the extremely difficult phase she is passing through, and tells Devdhar that she is a flower that has already been plucked from the branch. In the second stanza, Devdhar tells her about the temporary nature of happiness and sorrow in life, and that the days past are already past. In the third stanza there is an exchange. Manorama tells Devdhar that the sleep from her eyes is gone, and also cautions him that the flower he trying to pursue is not sweet any longer. And Devdhar responds that the flower is beautiful and innocent. As we watch the video clip of the song, one can see some realizations dawn on the face of Manorama.

The words are crafted by Pt Narendra Sharma, and give a very sophisticated and literary feel to the verses. Music is by Lakshmi-Pyaare. The singing voices are of Lata Mangeshkar and Suresh Wadkar. Suresh Wadkar had appeared on the film scene as a singer in 1976. This song likely was recorded in 1981.

The video clip has two stanzas, whereas the audio clip carries all the three stanzas. The lyrics given below are based on the audio clip.

Enough said, I believe, so let us get on to listen to this sonorous melody.

 

Video

Audio

Song – Bhanwre Ne Khilaaya Phool, Phool Ko Le Gaya Raaj Kunwar  (Prem Rog) (1982) Singers – Suresh Wadkar, Lata Mangeshkar, Lyrics – Pt Narendra Sharma, MD – Lakshmikant Pyaarelal

Lyrics (by Prakashchandra)

hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm

bhanwre ne khilaayaa phool
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar
hmmm hmmm hmmm
hmmm hmmm hmmm
bhanwre ne khilaayaa phool
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar
bhanwrey tu kehna na bhool
phool tujhe lag jaaye meri umar
bhanwrey ne khilaayaa phool
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar

(lauging sound)

aaa…aaaa…aaaa…aaaa….
aaaaa…aaa…aaaaa….aaaaa….
aaaaaa…aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

(laughing sound)

hmmm hmmm hmmm
(laughing sound)
hmmm hmmm hmmm
(laughing sound)
hmmm hmmm hmmm
(laughing sound)
hmmm hmmm hmmm
(laughing sound)

bhanwre ne khilaaya phool 
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar
bhanwre ne khilaaya phool 
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar
bhanwre tu kehna na bhool
phool tera ho gaya idhar udhar
bhanwre ne khilaaya phool 
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar

hmmm hmmm hmmm
(aaa…aaaaa)
hmmm hmmm hmmm
(ooooooo..ooo)

wo din..n..n..
ab na..aa..aa rahey
kya kya vipda padi phool par
kaise phool kahey
wo din ab na rahey
honi thi ya wo anhonee
jaane isey vidhaata
chhoote sab singaar
giraa gal-haar toota har naata
shesh phool mil gaya dhool mein
kya kya dukh na sahey ae
wo din ab na..aa rahey
bhanwre tu kehna na bhool
phool daali se gaya utar
bhanwre ne khilaaya phool
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar

hmmm hmmm hmmm
(aaa…aaaaa)
hmmm hmmm hmmm
(ooooooo..ooo)

sukh dukh aaye jaaye
jaaye ae ae ae
sukh dukh aaye jaaye
sukh ki bhookh na dukh ki chinta
preet jisey apna..aa..aaye
sukh dukh aaye jaaye
meera ne piya vish ka pyaala
vish ko bhi amrit kar daala
prem ka dhaai akshar padhkar
mast kabeeraa gaaye
sukh dukh aaye jaaye
bhanwre tu kehna na bhool phool
guzre din gaye guzar
bhanwre ne khilaaya phool
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar
hmmm hmmm hmmmmadhur
hmmm hmmm hmmm

aaa..aaa..aaa..aaa..aaaa
aaa…aaaa…aaaa…
aaaa….aaaa
aaa..aaa…aaaa…aaa
o o oo o
oo oooo

na..aa..aa
na re na..aa

phaili phooli phulwaari mein
bhanwraa gunn gunn gunn gunn gunn gunn  gunn gunn gaaye
kaahey sowat nindiya jagaaye ae ae
kaahey sowat nindiya jagaaye
laakhon mein kisi ek phool ne
laakhon phool khilaa..aaye
mand mand muskaaye
haaye kaahey sowat nindiya jagaaye
bhanwre tu kehna na bhool
phool tera madhur nahin madhukar
bhanwre ne khilaayaa phool
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar
bhanwre tu kehna na bhool
phool mera sundar saral sughadh
bhanwre ne khilaayaa phool
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar
(phool mera sundar saral sughadh)
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar
(phool mera sundar saral sughadh)
phool ko le gaya raaj kunwar
(phool mera sundar saral sughadh)

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम

भँवरे ने खिलाया फूल
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
भँवरे ने खिलाया फूल
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर
भँवरे तू कहना ना भूल
फूल तुझे लग जाये मेरी उमर
भँवरे ने खिलाया फूल
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर

(हास्य ध्वनि)

आss आsss आsss आsss
आssss आss आssss आssss
आsssss आsssssssssssss

हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
(हास्य ध्वनि)
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
(हास्य ध्वनि)
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
(हास्य ध्वनि)
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
(हास्य ध्वनि)

भँवरे ने खिलाया फूल
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर
भँवरे ने खिलाया फूल
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर
भँवरे तू कहना ना भूल
फूल तेरा हो गया इधर उधर
भँवरे ने खिलाया फूल
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर

हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
(हास्य ध्वनि)
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
(हास्य ध्वनि)

वो दिन॰॰न॰॰न
अब ना॰॰आ॰॰आ रहे
क्या क्या विपदा पड़ी फूल पर
कैसे फूल कहे
वो दिन अब ना रहे
होनी थी या वो अनहोनी
जाने इसे विधाता
छोटे सब सिंगार
गिरा गल-हार टूटा हर नाता
शेष फूल मिल गया धूल में
क्या क्या दुख ना सहे
वो दिन अब ना रहे
भँवरे तू कहना ना भूल
फूल डाली से गया उतर
भँवरे ने खिलाया फूल
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
(आss आssss)
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
(ओsssssss ओssss)

सुख दुख आए जाये
जाये॰॰ए॰॰ए
सुख दुख आए जाये
सुख की भूख ना दुख की चिन्ता
प्रीत जिसे अपनाए॰॰ए॰॰ए
सुख दुख आए जाये
मीरा ने पिया विष का प्याला
विष को भी अमृत कर डाला
प्रेम का ढाई अक्षर पढ़ कर
मस्त कबीरा गाये
सुख दुख आए जाये
भँवरे तू कहना ना भूल फूल
गुजरे दिन गए गुज़र
भँवरे ने खिलाया फूल
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम
हम्मम हम्मम हम्मम

आs आs आs आs आsss
आss आsss आsss
आsss आsss
आss आss आsss आss
ओ ओ ओs ओ
ओss ओsssssss

ना॰॰आ॰॰आ
ना रे ना॰॰आ

फैली फूली फुवारी में
भँवरा गुन गुन गुन गुन गुन गुन गुन गुन गाये
काहे सोवत नींदिया जगाए॰॰ए॰॰ए
काहे सोवत नींदिया जगाए
लाखों में किसी एक फूल ने
लाखों फूल खिलाये
मंद मंद मुसकाए
हाए काहे सोवत नींदिया जगाए
भँवरे तू कहना ना भूल
फूल तेरा मधुर नहीं मधुकर
भँवरे ने खिलाया फूल
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर
भँवरे तू कहना ना भूल
फूल मेरा सुन्दर सरल सुघढ़
भँवरे ने खिलाया फूल
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर
(फूल मेरा सुन्दर सरल सुघढ़)
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर
(फूल मेरा सुन्दर सरल सुघढ़)
फूल को ले गया राज कुँवर
(फूल मेरा सुन्दर सरल सुघढ़)


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.

Blog Day :

5326 Post No. : 17459

#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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# Desh ki mitti ki khushboo #
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Welcome all to this post under the title ‘Desh Ki Mitti Ki Khushboo’ after a very long gap.

The following three posts were presented on the blog under this caption earlier.

S No Song Date of post
1) Ek thhi maa punyakoti 14 January 2015
2) Sangam mein nahaa lo aur punya kamaa lo 8 february 2016
3) Arun Kiran Sheesh Bhushan 20 february 2016

However this series then went on backburner. When I went abroad for a project assignment for almost three years, this series totally lost its way among other priorities/posts.

When I took up this series I envisaged songs that would discuss folklores, talk about folktales, folksongs, culture, traditions, customs of our Country, patriotic songs, songs that would be based on historical and yes geographical settings of our country too.

I had even decided to include songs based on art and crafts of our country (if there were any).

I was sure that I will be able to find many songs in our films based on the above theme.

Today we resume this series, after a gap of almost seven years. 🙂 Now in the recent months when I was regularly browsing the blog and remaining songs from various decades in the Geet Kosh, I found that there are many songs from movies based on ‘mythology’ which can be included in this series.

So here is a song from the movie ‘Kan Kan Mein Bhagwaan-1963’.

It is the song telling us about the four sacred places (‘chaar dhaam’) viz. Badrinath, Dwarka, Rameshwaram and Jagganathpuri of Hindu religion in our country.

‘Kan Kan Mein Bhagwaan-1963’ was directed by Babubhai Mistry for ‘Roopkalaa Pictures’. It was produced by Mahipatray Shah.

It had Anita Guha, Mahipal, with Ramsingh, Krishnakumari, Kummo Tripathi, and Raja Nene. They were supported by Ratnamala, T.N. Sinha, Prakash, Yunus Parwez, Mridula, Punam Kapoor, Baijnath, Ajit, Rehana, Uma Dutt, R.S. Dube, Munshi, Shekhar, Chand, Devchand, Lal Bahadur, Kishore, Dilawar Khan, Baby Chand, Burhan, Jugal Kishore, Dinanath, Vijay Kumar and Master Aziz.

The story of this movie was written by Vishwanath Pande, C.K. Mast, Pandit Madhur, and S.M. Abbas.
Editing of this movie was done by Ramchandra Mahadik.

‘Kan Kan Mein Bhagwan-1963’ had nine songs, all written by Pandit Bharat Vyas. The music was composed by Pandit Shivaram.

Mahendra Kapoor, Manna Dey, Mukesh and Suman Kalyanpur had given their voices to the songs in this movie.

Mahendra Kapoor had sung six solo songs in this movie and Manna Dey had sung one solo, Mukesh had one duet with Suman Kalyanpur which has been posted on the blog. Suman Kalyanpur had one solo song other than the duet with Mukesh which has also been posted on the blog.

Following is the list of the songs of this movie as appearing in the HFGK Vol-IV (1961-1970).

S.No. Song Title Posted On
01 Sabko naach nachaane waala,/a> 24.11.2011
02 Bhagwaan Krishna ki amar kahaani
03 Jaa jaa jaa chhod de o chhaliyaa 07.08.2010
04 Apne piyaa ki main to bani re joganiya,/a> 25.10.2009
05 Bhaarat bhoomi mahaan hai Being covered in this post
06 Ye duniya banana aur banaa ke phir chalaana 07.08.2020
07 Nadiya na piye kabhi apna jal 15.05.2015
08 Ho o naag devtaa traahimaam paahimam 28.08.2021
09 Kan kan mein bhagwaan

So far, six songs out of the nine songs from this movie have been posted on the blog. We are going to listen to the seventh song from this movie today on the blog.

Today’s song is sung by Mahendra Kapoor and it is a background song. In the picturisation of the song we can see actor Mahipal leaving behind his wife (Anita Guha) and mother (Ratnamala) in the village and setting out for the journey of the four ‘pilgrimage centres’ mentioned in the song. Thus we can see Badrinath, Dwarka, Rameshwar and Jagannath temples shown in the picturisation in the order they are mentioned in the song.

Lyrics for the song are by Bharat Vyas and music is composed by Pandit Shivram.

As I have mentioned in my earlier posts with the songs of this movie, I like the songs from this movie very much and they are a part of my nostalgia of ‘black and white’ movies I watched during my childhood days. The songs of this movie and the movie ‘Janam Janam Ke Phere’ have been embedded on my mind since then.

Let us now listen to and enjoy one more song from ‘Kan Kan Mein Bhagwaan’.

Video

Song-Bharat bhoomi mahaan hai (Kan Kan Mein Bhagwan)(1963) Singer-Mahendra Kapoor, Lyrics-Bharat Vyas, MD-Pandit Shivram

Lyrics

Bharat bhoomi mahaan
teerath iske praan
teerath iske praan

Bharat bhoomi mahaan hai
teerath iske praan hain
chaaron dishaa mein
choumukh deep se
iske chaaron dhaam hain ae
Bharat bhoomi mahaan hai

hey ae ae
hey Badrinarayan dhaam jahaan
Vishnu bhagwaan viraaje he
Vishnu bhagwaan viraaje ae
hey teerath paawan
jan man bhaawan a a
hey teerath paawan
jan man bhaawan
nis din naubat baaje re bhaiyya
nis din naubat baaje he ae

hayee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee

hey Dwaarka mein dekho
Dwaarkadhish ka
sundar roop sajeelaa aa
sundar roop sajeelaa
haye ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee
hey bhaktajanon ke paawan
prem se
jiska aangan geela aa
jiska aangan geela aa
re kaanuda joyi re taari leela
Bharat bhoomi mahaan hai
teerath iske praan hain

aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
dhaam rameshwar baithhe jahaan
aa aa aa
dhaam rameshwar baithhe jahaan
shiv shankar dhyaan lagaaye ae
laage jahaan bhagton ka mela
laage jahaan bhagton ka mela
man vaanchhit phal paaye ae
sa re ga pa sa ga ga re sa
sa pa ga sa ga re sa

arey o o o o o
teenon jagat ke ae naath jahaan
o o o o o o o
teenon jagat ke naath jahaan
hain
so Jagannath ki jhaanki
saanwari soorat
mohini moorat a a a a
nainan ki chhavi baanki ee ee ee ee
nainan ki chhavi baanki ee
o o o
o o o
o o
nainan ki chhavi baanki

chaar dhaam ki anupam mahima aa
ved puraan bhi gaayen
jug jug ka
agyaani praani
mahaagyaani ban jaaye
is dharti ko pranaam hai
jahaan santon ka vishraam hai
chaaron dishaa mein
choumukh deep se
iske chaaron dhaam hain ae
Bharat bhoomi mahaan hai
Bharat bhoomi mahaan hai


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.

Blog Day :

5175 Post No. : 17148

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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2012-2022) – Song No. 95
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Hullo Atuldom

Today’s Blog 10-Year Challenge (2012-2022) – Song No. 94 is the trigger for this post. A movie listed therein has only one song posted in the blog. Today is a good enough date/ day to have one more.

The list of songs that were published on this date ten years ago are:-

Blog post number Song Movie (Year) Remarks
6662 Chhuk chhuk chhainyyaan chhaiyyaan Shehnaayi (1947) Movie YIPPEED by now
6663 Ek baar phir se aaja dil mein mere samaa jaa Elaan (1947) Movie YIPPEED by now
6664 Ye thhandi hawaa rangeen fizaa Son of Alibaba (1955) 3 songs out of 8 covered. Fourth song covered today (18 september 2022)
6665 Pyaar beqaraar hai pyaar ki pukaar sun Yahudi Ki Beti(1956) 4 songs out of 8 covered by now
6666 Yaad jab aaye teri Mohar (1959) Movie YIPPEED by now
6667 Taash ke baawan patte Tamanna(1969) 3 songs covered out of 5 by now
6668 Naghma hamaara gaayega ye zamaana Bundlebaaz (1976) Movie YIPPEED by now
6669 Sajna ka kangna kangna mein heera Sitaaraa (1980) Movie YIPPEED by now
6670 Tumse hi roshan hai raat meri Lorie (1984) One song out of 4 covered by now

I am bringing on-board a song from the 1984 release “Lorie”. In this post Atulji has listed the cast of “Lorie”, and an outline of the movie’s plot- courtesy Prakashchandraji.

Today’s song (I think) is one that shows Geeta Malhotra’s (Shabana Azmi) love for children. It is written by Bashar Nawaz and Khayyam is the music director. Asha Bhonsle, Jagjit Kaur and Pamela Chopra are the playback singers used for this song. It is shot around popular spots of Mumbai like Juhu Beach, Chota Kashmir & the picnic spot that are inside Mumbai’s Aarey Milk Colony (which used to be a preferred picnic destination for most schools during my schooldays). The lasst stanza is at Borivali National Park which has since 1996 been renamed Sanjay Gandhi National park.

I was reminded that today is Shabana’s birthday when I saw ‘Rangoli’ on Doordarshan this morning. Wishing her all the best as she turns 72 today.

Video

Audio

Song-Gudiya chidiya chaand chakori (Lorie)(1984) Singer-Asha Bhonsle,Lyrics-Bashar Nawaz, MD-Khayyam
Chorus
Pamela Chopra
Jagit Kaur

Lyrics (Provided by Prakashchandra)

gudiya chidiya chaand chakori
haathi ghoda doodh katori
atkal batkal khel tamaasha
bachpan jaise sapnon ki dori
gudiya chidiya chaand chakori
haathi ghoda doodh katori
atkal batkal khel tamasha
bachpan jaise sapnon ki dori
gudiya chidiya chaand chakori

lallalalla
lalalaalala
lallallalla
lallalalla
laalaalaalala
lallallalla

luk chhup luk chhup
pariyaan aayen aen aen
meethhe meethhe geet sunaayen
aa aa aa aa aa
luk chhup luk chhup
pariyaan aayen aen aen
meethhe meethhe geet sunaayen
pariyaan kaisi hoti hain didi
main batlaaun didi jaisi
hahahaha
nahin mere taaron
tum sab jaisi
gudiya chidiya chaand chakori
haathi ghoda doodh katori
atkal batkal khel tamaasha
bachpan jaise sapnon ki dori
gudiya chidiya chaand chakori

lallalalla
lalalalala
laallallaalala

gulshan gulshan rut matwaali ee ee
bachpan bagiya phoolon waali
aaa aaa
aa aa aa aa

gulshan gulshan rut matwaali ee ee
bachpan bagiya phoolon waali
phoolon ka raaja kaun hai didi
main batlaaun apni didi
chal deewaani apni
didi hai raani

achcha
gudiya chidiya chaand chakori
haathi ghoda doodh katori
atkal batkal khel tamasha
bachpan jaise sapnon ki dori
gudiya chidiya chaand chakori

udti udti titli boli ee ee
aao khelen aankh micholi
aaa aaa
aa aa aa aa

udti udti titli boli ee ee
aao khelen aankh micholi
didi titli ke rang kitne
didi ke aanchal mein jitne
hahahaha
na munni
tere sapne jitne
gudiya chidiya chaand chakori
haathi ghoda doodh katori
atkal batkal khel tamaasha
bachpan jaise sapnon ki dori
lalla lalla
lalla lalla


This article is written by nahm, 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.

Blog Day :

5017 Post No. : 16925

Memories of visit to London in September 2021

This post has been a long time in arriving actually.  We went to UK not as tourist, but to see family, mainly the daughter of the family and the new grand-daughter.  We came back to Mumbai in October’21.  Lot of water has flown down the bridge since then and the grand daughter is growing by leaps and bounds since we were with her, by the grace of Almighty.

Upon returning, I found myself under pressure to find a song good enough, to write a post covering the visit.  I looked, searched and watched, found many songs, newer ones mainly filmed in the UK, and some also showing locations of the London city.  It has been a favorite location for Hindi film picturization of film makers since the 60’s, i.e. when the trend of filming on location really started in the industry. Unfortunately, I was less than satisfied with the newer songs, and characteristically, was reluctant to post a new song, which had song/dance, band/bajaa/baraat routine. The songs were quite good in their own genre, I might yet post at least one of them.

And all this while, Avinash ji has been doing a series of the songs of 70’s decade and his posts appear regularly. Now Avinash ji has also acquired a new degree, I have deduced from the Peevisie’s Mom’s post.  Congratulations to the happy parents and best wishes for the daughter and the son-in-law.

One lucky day, while browsing the YouTube, I found this Rafi-Asha duet from the film ‘Professor Pyarelal’ (1981).  It is a happy sounding romantic song and a much heard on the radio, which makes it a dear familiar friend, in my opinion.  The song is filmed in London, mostly around the city center area, around Thames River, Westminster Abbey, the London Clock Tower etc.  The famous London Tower Bridge is also visible in all its centuries old splendor.

Centuries old splendor is the term I was looking for to describe the architectural beauty of London city and its many monuments.  It is evident that it is one of the oldest surviving cities of the world.  And it has managed to maintain its beauty and its instinct for survival, adaptability to the modern times and modern architectural and infrastructure requirements can only be applauded and wondered at.

My search for a suitable song for this post ended the day I saw this song on YouTube.  But the actual writing kept getting deferred.  I thought this was a late 70’s song, and was apprehensive that Avinash ji or someone else may post this song and I will lose the opportunity to write this post.  Now I find that this movie is from 1981.  But the songs were released and popular for some years before the movie eventually released after production delays.

Getting back to the brief about our visit. As soon as we arrived in UK, various scheduling and planning for visits to different places were underway.  My uncle, our host, insisted upon a visit to London city.  The planning for the London city was so short, due to the leave constraints of my son-in-law, that I was on the verge of postponing it to the next visit.  But the window of opportunity, and my son’s contention that everybody is going to ask, “hey you went to England and didn’t see London!”, decided in favor of the visit, so it happened.

London and some other landmark locations of England are a part of the consciousness. Just as we exist, these buildings – man made creations – also exist, and are famous for the events, known as historical turning points. Unlike other major cities of the modern world, London has seen wars too and has been destroyed and built again many times over, from what ever history I have read about it. England, on the whole has had a most violent history, in the medieval and pre-medieval eras. The fault lines between the Welsh, Scots, Irish and Brits, is evident even today in the various ruins and forts, and castles.  But they did learn their lesson that divided they fall, decided to unite at some given point in history to conquer the world.  I think it was the threat of the Romans that eventually united the British Isles. The glue could only have been an ideology of self-interest, binding the factions despite bitter animosity and gruesome wars behind them. Maybe the Protestant church had something to do with it, so Britain rose to great heights as a dominant civilization in the world and they were motivated enough to write and re-write the worlds history, literally and figuratively.  British historians are also a notorious breed.  Their language, is the dominant language in the world for centuries now.  The rise of the British Empire took centuries to happen, where as the fall was swift in the 19th and 20th century.  But the cultural and linguistic dominance continues to remain on top now, and for the foreseeable future too in the 21st century.  Willingness to adapt to other cultures and language habits is said to be a major factor in the success of the English language.   Historically speaking, the Roman empire was greater and more successful in the world, before the new found land of Americas.  But the impact is all but lost in today’s world.  The geopolitical scenario keeps changing with time and passing of centuries. These changes happen faster now in a matter of decades.  There are catalysts recognizable and visible to these power shifts. This is a very heavy and deep topic, so better to leave it here.

Yes, I had to chalk out a fool proof plan and schedule, wherein a few places I wanted to visit, were not missed.  Lords cricket ground and Thames River cruise were two things I was not willing to miss.  So we worked around this, to do the Lords tour, city ride in the red bus, short cruise of Thames river, Madame Tussaud’s, Harrods, a long walk inside the Hyde Park, especially where equestrian clubs are situated, visit to Science Museum and Natural History Museum (free entry), Bakers Street and Sherlock Holmes Museum, etc.  We gave a miss to Tower of London and Buckingham Palace tours, as they were more time consuming and also expensive. The London Eye is also a popular choice, which we could not take.  Other tourist locations in UK also have a giant wheel rides, as an attraction. The Giant wheel is a common feature in other places, like Dubai, Sydney, etc. I am wondering why we don’t have a thing like this in Mumbai.

We were based in Manchester, so could visit the nearby areas too like Lake District, North Wales, Blackpool, Lancaster, Chester, Preston etc. We passed through Oxford too on our way back from London. When we had arrived in UK, everyone told us the weather is good for only 2-3 days, so enjoy as much as you can, as it is really foul from September onward.  But luckily the weather held for the entire period of our stay, and we had rains to enjoy only in North Wales and for an hour or two in London, while we were riding the red bus and we had to cross the Bridge near Westminster on foot as we missed the stop for the Westminster Pier.  A part of the song I am presenting is filmed on the same bridge, where Zeenat Aman is standing in the middle of the road and crosses to join Dharmendra on the curb. The famous Tower Bridge is now painted in azure blue. I find that the Bridge has been painted blue since 1977, but in the song, it is not looking blue, so the song was filmed before 1977, it would seem.

Some trivia about the film:

This film took so long to complete – five years – and its plot was so convoluted that after director Brij had finished shooting it, nobody could figure out how to put the film together. The producers had then called in Hrishikesh Mukherjee to edit and salvage the film. He was credited prominently in the film’s posters and publicity material.

Astonishingly, no part of the city which is showcased as the beautiful attractions, looks old or dilapidated. All of them look freshly painted and well maintained, except for the bridges on the Thames River and the Westminster Abbey, which is the family church of the British Royals. London is best enjoyed on foot, I was told and I agree. After covering a few miles on foot, in and around Exhibition Street, Marylebone, Kensington, Hyde Park, we can be surprised and find the unexpected. In fact, the most parts of UK are best enjoyed on foot, which is the common consensus. Walking trails are taken as granted in different parts of UK.

I am told that the whole of UK is connected through rivers and canals and one can go from anywhere to anywhere on a boat. I was mentally prepared to be impressed by all that I was going to see in this visit, but was more than impressed and wish to do more trips which include visits to the remaining places in England, Scotland and Wales.

We took a pre-booked guided tour of the Lord’s cricket ground at the MCC.  Seeing the many Indian in the group taking the tour, the guide asked us “Where is Sachin Tendulkar’s home?”.  The common answer was the obvious – Mumbai.  But the guide insisted that “No. Sachin’s home is right here in Marylebone.” No surprises there too, for the evidence is everywhere in London especially, that who can afford to, would prefer to stay in London. On the other hand, Sachin Tendulkar was here in Mumbai in February 2022, as we all saw him attending the funeral of Lata Mangeshkar.  Incidentally, I could not find Sachin Tendulkar’s name in the list of Test centurions at the Lords. Extensive lists are put up inside the Pavilion, of all centurions and also 5+ wicket takers in an innings.  The guide was in full form and regaled us with a story about the ‘death row’ in the viewers gallery or members gallery.  There are two such galleries, one for the home team and one for the away team. As both India and West Indies are ‘away teams’, I guess the away team gallery was the one, where Kapil Dev stood with the Prudential Cup trophy after his team’s victory in 1983 World Cup. The original Prudential Cup is still there in the small Museum for memorabilia, related to the MCC.

I have read and heard at various places, that London was the favourite place in the world for Rafi Sahab also. He is said to have been fond of the city, as his sons are settled there.

I can go on remembering things and my impressions of the visit, but the post is got to end somewhere. The song being presented in this post is filmed in London on Dharmendra and Zeenat Aman. Rafi Sahab and Asha Bhonsle are giving playback to them in the song written by Rajendra Krishan and composed by Kalyanji-Anandji.

This duet is typical of the Kalyanji-Anandji style of duet composition, sounding very similar to the Rafi-Asha duet from ‘Qurbani’. We the radio fans, listened to the song in late 70’s, loved and liked it, but had all but forgotten it. Even the links on YouTube are few, with only one video available.

Video

Audio

Song – Tere Siwa Na Kisi Ka Banoonga (Professor Pyaarelal) (1981) Singer – Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Lyrics – Rajendra Krishan, MD – Kalyanji Anandji
Mohammed Rafi + Asha Bhosle

Lyrics

tere siwa na
kisi ka banoonga aa
tere siwa na
kisi ka banoonga
khoon e jigar se
ye likh ke main doonga
ye waada aa
ye wada raha dilruba aa
ye wada raha dilruba aa
qadmon mein tere
jannat hai meri
ho ke rahoongi
hamesha main teri
ye waada aa
ye waada raha saajna aa
ye waada raha saajna

aayenge mausam
aayenge mausam
jaayenge mausam
hum ko sada
saath paayenge mausam
koi saaz badle
koi raag badle
na badlegi apni
muhabbat ki sargam
har saans meri
tere liye hai ea
har saans meri
tere liye hai
yeh waada raha saajna
yeh waada raha saajna aaa
tere siwa na
kisi ka banoonga
khoon e jigar se
ye likh ke main doonga
ye waada aa
ye wada raha dilruba aa
ye wada raha dilruba aa

awaaz de ke ea
awaaz de ke
jo roke zamaana
zamaane ki baaton
mein hargiz na aana
aankhon mein aankhen
baahon mein baahen
daale huey saathh chalte hi jaana
tera pyaar hi to
meri zindagi hai
tera pyaar hi to
meri zindagi hai
ye waada raha dilruba
ye waada raha dilruba
qadmon mein tere
jannat hai meri
ho ke rahoongi
hamesha main teri
ye waada aa aa
ye waada raha saajna
ye waada raha saajna
saajna
ye waada raha saajna
saajna
ye waada raha saajna

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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तेरे सिवा ना
किसी का बनूँगा
तेरे सिवा ना
किसी का बनूँगा
खून ए जिगर से
ये लिख के मैं दूँगा
ये वादा॰॰आ
ये वादा रहा दिलरुबा
ये वादा रहा दिलरुबा

कदमों में तेरे
जन्नत है मेरी
हो के रहूँगी
हमेशा मैं तेरी
ये वादा॰॰आ
ये वादा रहा साजना
ये वादा रहा साजना

आएंगे मौसम
आएंगे मौसम
जाएंगे मौसम
हमको सदा साथ पाएंगे मौसम
कोई साज बदले
कोई राग बदले
ना बदलेगी अपनी
मोहब्बत की सरगम
हर सांस मेरी
तेरे लिए है
हर सांस मेरी
तेरे लिए है
ये वादा रहा साजना
ये वादा रहा साजना
तेरे सिवा ना
किसी का बनूँगा
खून ए जिगर से
ये लिख के मैं दूँगा
ये वादा॰॰आ
ये वादा रहा दिलरुबा
ये वादा रहा दिलरुबा

आवाज़ दे के॰॰ए
आवाज़ दे के
जो रोके ज़माना
जमाने के बातों में
हरगिज़ ना आना
आँखों में आँखें
बाहों में बाहें
डाले हुये साथ चलते ही जाना
तेरा प्यार ही तो
मेरी ज़िंदगी है
तेरा प्यार ही तो
मेरी ज़िंदगी है
ये वादा रहा दिलरुबा
ये वादा रहा दिलरुबा
कदमों में तेरे
जन्नत है मेरी
हो के रहूँगी
हमेशा मैं तेरी
ये वादा॰॰आ
ये वादा रहा साजना
ये वादा रहा साजना
साजना
ये वादा रहा साजना
साजना
ये वादा रहा साजना


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Blog Day :

4580 Post No. : 16193 Movie Count :

4406

Hullo Atuldom

We are on the last date of the first month of the 21st year of the 21st century.

January happens to be a cold month in the northern hemisphere of the earth. And India is in the middle of having winter which is characterized by fog, mist, cold winds etc depending on the Latitude that one resides on. When I used to be in Mumbai, the closest I came to experiencing ‘Sardi’, ‘Thandi’ etc was in the last week of December or first week of January. That too in the morning hours, till about 8 o’clock, then the thermometer would read round about 27 and 30 degrees Celsius during the day. I don’t remember seeing fog or mist there, but I had different climatic experiences once we shifted to Bangalore. I have seen all winter related features which last from November to January end with temperatures dropping to 10 degrees etc. Now in my current station, which is in the midst of lots of greenery and away from the hustle bustle of city-life, though the temperature did not touch 10 degrees on any day, we have been experiencing thick fog, cold winds, cold floors, etc.

All this talk of winter and cold climate, in addition to sharing pictures of fog with friends and family reminded me of a whole set of songs:- ‘jab chali thandi hawa’, ‘thandi hawaa yeh chaandni suhaani’, ‘thandi hawaa kaali ghaata aa hi gayi jhoom ke’, ‘thandi hawaayen lehraake aayen’, ‘thandi thandi hawaa mein dil lalchaaye’, ‘mujhko thand lag rahi hain’ etc etc.

The songs that I have mentioned are all popular numbers from their times. But the movies of the new century are no different. They also have songs where the different characters are reacting to cold climates with lots of guts- it takes a lot of guts to shoot these songs in cold climates, with snow etc for added effect and in costumes that are of the thinnest fabric possible like chiffon, lace etc. (Possibly the only climate appropriate dressing was Saira Banu in ‘Junglee’ and some other heroines of the ’60s and Hema Malini in a few movies of the ’70s, recently I re-saw “Dost”.) For further enhancement of the scene we may even see short dresses with long boots. My sympathies with all the female actors who have done those songs and scenes. And what do the male actors wear in such songs- long coats, mufflers, gloves etc.

In the build up to this post I recalled a 23 year old song. This song was shot in the cold climes of Australia. I had mentioned this movie to fellow-atulites, on our WhatsApp group last week, when the India- Australia cricket series was on. The uniqueness about this song is the heroine is dressed in climate appropriate clothes and we have the hero trying to be MANLY and showing of his biceps etc in half-jacket and jeans. I also read the heroine reminiscing about how the actor was shivering during the shoot.

I am talking of Preity Zinta and Bobby Deol. The movie was “Soldier” which was released in 1998. It was produced by Ramesh Taurani of Tips Records and directed by the director-duo: brothers Abbas-Mustan. It had Anu Malik as music director and Sameer was the lyricist. It was the third highest grossing album of 1998 behind “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” and “Dil Se”.

This was Preity Zinta’s debut movie though she had signed “Kya Kehna” before this. “Dil Se” and “Soldier” have billed Preity Zinta as debutant; Preity had a supporting role in “Dil Se”. She was born in Shimla on 31st January. So today is her Birthday. Last I had written a post for her birthday was when she turned 40.

She has taken a sabbatical from acting a few times since 2009 for the sake of her IPL team. She has married her long-time American partner in 2016. In her career of almost 25 years, she has acted with all the top actors of the ’90s and later years. She has also acted in a movie with Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Kapoor where her character was negative and Schizophrenic. She was praised for her portrayal of the character. She also appeared alongside The Big B in an English language film that was directed by Rituparno Ghosh “The Last Lear” in 2007, this was a film-inside-a-film drama. She has also played the traditional glamorous actress in movies. She has shared screen space with top actresses like Madhuri Dixit, Rani Mukherjee etc too.

Today’s song is to wish Bobby Deol too, even if belatedly for his birthday which was on 27th, he turned 52. Born as Vijay Singh Deol into the film industry as the youngest child of Dharmendra and Prakash Kaur. He first faced the camera when he was 5 or 6 year old as the baby Dharam in “Dharam Veer” (1977). His first adult role was in “Barsaat” (1995) where another star-child Twinkle Khanna made her debut. He has one more “Barsaat” (2005) in the list of his films. He has appeared in a few mutli-starrers and also shared screen space with his father and brother in a few of their home productions. The “Yamla Pagla Deewana” series was good to see due to the Deols even if the story was lame, tame or weak. It is always entertaining to see the Deols.

Audio

Video

Song-Soldier Soldier meethhi baaten bol kar (Soldier)(1998) Singer-Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu, Lyrics-Sameer, MD-Anu Malik
Chorus

Lyrics

laaaa lalala laaa
lalala laaa laa laa la
hmmm hmm hmm hmm
he he he he he
lalala laaa laa laa la

ku ku ku ku ku
ku ku ku ku ku ku ku
kuu kuu kuu kuu kuu

oooo
yoon milaake nazar,
kar ke jaadugari
deke dard-e-jigar,
aage peechhe dol kar
soldier soldier
meethhi baatein bol kar
dil tu churaa le gayaa aa
soldier soldier
meethhi baatein bol kar
dil tu churaa le gayaa aa aa aa
soldier soldier
meethhi baatein bol kar
dil tu churaa le gayaa

oooo
yoon milaake nazar,
kar ke jaadugari
deke dard-e-jigar
aage peechhe dol kar r r
soldier soldier
meethi baatein bol kar
dil teraa udaa le gayaa

na na na meri haan ban gayi
tu tu tu meri jaan ban gayi
aji kyun kyun kyun
mujhe pyaar ho gayaa
yun yun yun
iqraar ho gayaa

qasam se tu badaa jhoothaa
hooo sanam tune mujhe loota
hooo yoon milaake nazar,
kar ke jaadugari
deke dard-e-jigar,
aage peechhe dol kar r r
soldier soldier
meethhi baatein bol kar
dil tu churaa le gayaa

kuku ku ku ku ku
aa aa aa
mere paas toh zaraa

jaa jaa jaa
koi pyaas na jagaa
kyaa kyaa kyaa
koi dard uthha kyaa

haan haan haan
mera haal hai buraa
tujhe aaye koi jaadu
mera mujh pe nahi qaabu
hey yoon milaake nazar,
kar ke jaadugari
deke dard-e-jigar,
aage peechhe dol kar r r
soldier soldier
meethhi baatein bol kar
dil teraa udaa le gayaa

soldier soldier
meethhi baatein bol kar
dil tu churaa le gayaa aa aa
soldier soldier
meethi baatein bol kar
dil teraa udaa le gayaa aa aa


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Blog Day :

4566 Post No. : 16166

76th Birthday of Javed Akhtar
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Gham-e-dil sunnane ko jee chaahtaa hai
Tumhen aazmaane ko jee chaahtaa hai

Sunaa hai ke jab se bohat door ho tum
Bohat door jaane ko jee chaahtaa hai

Unhen ham se koyi shikaayat nahin hai
Yunhi rootth jaane ko jee chaahtaa hai

Faqat hai yahi unn ki nazron ka dhokaa
Ke dhoke mein aane ko jee chaahtaa hai

Duaa hai ke ham se woh sau baar rootthen
Hamaara manaane ko jee chaahtaa hai

Nazar wo na aayen par unn ki gali mein
Yunhi aane jaane ko jee chaahtaa hai

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I could not find whose ghazal is this is, but giving it here as it rhymes with the title of the movie ‘Dil Chahta hai” (2001).

The song is a duet by Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan. All the songs of this film are penned by Javed Akhtar and composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. At the turn of the century, the melodious songs, sufiana, fusion, newer music instruments were all the new fad. And the foreign location shoots were also back with a bang in mainstream hindi films. It was not only the Yash Chopra films that were shot in Switzerland etc. There is the whole world to explore and Hindi films have been shot at many locations.

The film ‘Dil chahta hai’(2001) was shot at Australia, when the character Akash played by Amir Khan, moves to Sydney to look after his father business operation in Australia. The character of Akash was the meaty one in the film, with all the jokes to crack, all the drama to enact. It was the role of Sameer played by Saif Ali Khan that was less complex, understated but full of contradictions. Akshaye Khanna’s character was Siddarth, the quite sensitive artist, who looks at the world through the artistic eye.

I saw the movie again recently after this last post and thought again, that it is hard to believe that it is a 20 year old movie. Obviously made at the turn of the century, it has those vintage mobile phones, which look like antiques to today’s generation. Our generation has seen the most sweeping changes in lifestyle, of all the previous generations. The earlier generations, had very less comforts than us but I dare say their happiness quotients was higher than us, as they had less expectations and desires. The more our generation has achieved, it wants more of it, the comforts and the excitement, and thus losing out on the contentment in life.

Moving to the film, it has a few one liner jokes that have become a part of lingo between friends in my generation, like “hum log cake khaane ke liye kahin bhi jaa sakte hain”, ‘Waise bhi perfection ko improve karna mushkil hotaa hai”, ‘Kitni ajeeb baat hai, ke ham teenon hi Sydney jaa rahe hain – tum, main aur yeh flight” wagera wagera !

The song of this post is a duet by Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik, with composers producing unique musical sounds, using newly invented music instruments. The song is shot in and around Sydney, in parks showing ancient trees, with Amir and Priety take the arial tour in a helicopter, overlooking the famous Lotus shaped Opera house at the famous harbor, picnic in the garden near the marina, travel in the city bus etc. I am not sure if one of the parks shown is the Botanical garden or not. The characters are having food at the cafes, and roaming around down town or up town whichever way you want to look at it, walking the harbour bridge which has the railway, road and walkway on the same level, while singing this song. Literally a steel sheet re-enforced ghat is shown to emphasis the line ‘pyaar ke ghat jo utarte hain’, which is carpeted with Chinese grass :-).

After one such outing the couple is returning home by the metro train, when Priety misses it, and left alone at the platform, while the train moves away. While Priety is waiting, an old man looking like a poor street person is approaching her and she is scared. At the same time Aamir returns by the returning train, and seeing that the old man has scared Preity, goes and hugs the old man saying ‘did she scare you?” ‘she did? how mean of her”. This is a movie and hence the joke. The big city crime scene is not a joke anywhere in the world.

Australia is a unique country, in a sense second only to USA. USA has a lot more mixture of different races. But Australia is something, which never sought independence from the colonial powers, because by the time the British empire was done with the continent, the aboriginals were extinct and the survivors were the one who had come to serve the British interests. So, no nativity and no going back to the past and not much history recorded of the pre-colonial era. Only to look towards the future, which is not a bad state to be in, all things considering. No wonder, it has been the land of opportunities for European, Asians, chinese, afrikans and Polynesians alike in the 20th century. It thrives in its solitary splendor in the southern hemisphere with jewel like cities dotting its coast line. The Chinese might have been the neighbors of long forgotten aboriginal races of the continent, as the continent is a snug fit into the south china sea. When the continents were a single land mass, of course.

Today is the 76th Birthday of Javed Akhtar, so to celebrate, here is this new age song penned by him. A poet is a champion who plays with words, and Javed Akhtar is a champion of champions in this regard.


Song-Jaane kyun log pyaar karte hain (Dil Chaahta Hai)(2001) Singers-Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Lyrics-Javed Akhtar, MD-Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Lyrics

Jaane kyun log pyaar karte hain
jaane kyun wo kisi pe marte hain
jaane kyun log pyar karte hain
jaane kyun wo kisi pe marte hain
jaane kyun u u
jaane kyun
jaane kyun
jaane kyun
jaane kyun

pyaar mein
sochiye to bas gham hain
pyar mein
jo sitam bhi hon kam hain
pyaar mein
sar jhukaana padtaa hai
dard mein
muskuraana padtaa hai
zehar kyun zindagi mein bharte hain
jaane kyun log pyaar karte hain
jaane kyun uun
jaane kyun
jaane kyun
jaane kyun
jaane kyun

pyar bin jeene mein
rakkhaa kya hai
pyaar jis ko nahin wo
tanhaa hai
pyaar bin jeene mein
rakkhaa kya hai
pyaar jis ko nahin wo
tanhaa hai
pyar sau rang le ke aata hai
pyar hi zindagi sajaata hai
log chhup chhup ke pyaar karte hain
jaane kyun saaf kehte darte hain
jaane kyun oon
jaane kyun
o jaane kyun
jaane kyun
jaane kyun

pyaar bekaar ki museebat hai
pyaar har tarah khoobsoorat hai
ho pyar se ham dur hi achchhe
arre pyaar ke sab roop hain sachche
ho ooo
pyar ke ghaat jo utarte hain
doobte hain na wo ubharte hain
jaane kyun
jaane kyun
pyaar to khair sabhi karte hain
jaane kyun aap hi mukarte hain
jaane kyun
jaane kyun

jaane kyun
jaane kyun
jaane kyun


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