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Main Ek Sadi Se Baithi Hoon
Posted on: February 6, 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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Lata Mangeshkar – 1929-2022
A lifetime of music passed by, and then today morning, that voice of the century descended into the forever sleep, from where no one returns. The fears have been there for almost a month – the time she spent in the hospital. And there were prayers also – prayers by millions – millions who have loved and revered this voice that has been singing for the past almost seventy five years. This voice will not be heard again.
And yet, this voice will continue to ring till there is time, and there are lovers of music. Her legacy and her memories will keep alive. Thousands of songs that have been sung by her and recorded – these songs will continue to please the ears till there music lives. The voice will live forever.
नाम गुम जाएगा
चेहरा ये बादल जाएगा
मेरी आवाज़ ही पहचान है. . .
Goodbye Didi. . . it has been a terrific inning – 1929 – 2022.
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Recently when I updated my list of pending songs shared earlier, I noted that the top two songs are from the movie ‘Lekin’ (1990). Both the songs were shared long back in 2012. Since these were pending since long, I thought I should try to add a write-up to them and send for posting. I like all the songs from this movie very much, and I must have listened to them innumerable times.
I was staying at Kota (Rajasthan) then when the music for this film was released. I had bought the cassette for this film on 12.01.1991. (The film was dedicated to the ‘girl child’). Music was released by HMV in September’1990. That is now almost thirty-one years back now. Hushh…!! how time flies? … 😊 to me its only like few months back. Only thing is now I didn’t get to listen these songs regularly because the cassette-recorder-player has gone out of order and cannot be repaired now. (Maybe I need to buy a new one. Otherwise, I am afraid that the cassettes will also deteriorate).
I like the songs of this movie very very much, but I did never get to watch this movie. When I checked on internet the movie was already available, so I decided to watch it, and had watched it few weeks back. Sadly, the film available seems to be a re-recorded one and not an original print. Also, this version has the songs deleted from it. And that means all songs are deleted from this version. Though videos of the songs are available separately. But their absence from the movie takes out all the joy of enjoying the movie. But nevertheless, one can enjoy this movie for the mystery it contains.
I liked this movie very much. It has all the ingredients that I love to watch – the palaces of Rajasthan, the ruins, the sand-dunes, train journey, the inside view of the special coaches of the train (in this case it the first class coach, I think), library, books, mystery wrapped in time, wandering soul (we can see that 😊 in the movie), and above all the captivating and mesmerizing music – classical as well as folk of Rajasthan – the thrill of those ‘Ragas’ -the poetry in the songs – the divine singing voice – all these takes one to a different planet. I would not like to spoil the interest of those who intend to watch this movie, so I will not write much about the movie in details.
This movie is said to be inspired from one the famous Rabindranath Tagore story ‘Kshudhit Paashaan’ (Angry Stones).
[Auth. Note: I do have this story book in my library and this I realized when I read about this movie based on this story and then I remember, yes, I think I have this book. Then I look for it in the shelves and it was there. No mystery in this 😊 my younger daughter always pushes me to read the books that I have collected and not to add newer ones unless I read the older ones all 😊.]
Coming back to the today’s movie now. ‘Lekin’ was directed by Gulzar for Dinanath Kala Mandir. Hridaynath Mangeshkar and Bal Phoole were the producers of this movie. It was presented by Lata Mangeshkar. The star cast includes Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Amjad Khan, Alok Nath, Moon Moon Sen, Vijayendra Ghatge, Beena, Manohar Singh, Ram Mohan, Ajit Vachhani, Sunil Advani, Shabir Abbas, Masood Akhtar, Yash Sharma, GP Singh, Bashir Khan, Mohafiz Haider, S Madan, Harmeet Singh, Umesh Vyas, Mansi Upadhyay, Sapna Awasthy, Rashmi, Ahmed Siddiqui, and Baby Shabana Khan. Hema Malini made a guest appearance in this movie. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 29.08.1990.
Story of this movie is written by Gulzar. Gulzar also wrote the screenplay, dialogues, and lyrics for this movie. Editing of this movie was done by Sadanand Shetty, Ravi and Aadinath Mangeshkar.
This movie had eight soundtracks as mentioned on the blurb of the cassette and the details are given below.
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Sl. No. |
Song Title | Singer/s |
Posted On |
| 01 | Yaaraa Seeli Seeli | Lata Mangeshkar | |
| 02 | Sunio Ji Ek Araj Mhaari | Lata Mangeshkar | 26.10.2012 |
| 03 | Surmai Shaam Jis Tarah | Suresh Wadkar | |
| 04 | Kesariya Balamaa | Lata Mangeshkar | |
| 05 | Kesariya Balamaa | Lata Mangeshkar | |
| 06 | Joothhe Nainaa Bole | Asha Bhonsle, Satyasheel Deshpande | |
| 07 | Main Ek Sadee Se | Lata Mangeshkar | |
| 08 | Jaa Jaa Re | Lata Mangeshkar, Hridaynath |
Coming back to the today’s song it is sung by Lata Mangeshkar and on screen lip-synced by Dimple Kapadia. This song is beautifully picturized in the ruins and deserts of Rajasthan. I am sure listening to this song will give one a lot of pleasure and will take one far away in the ‘desert’. I stayed at Kota for almost eight years, but never visited the ‘desert-triangle’. I wish I will visit them soon. Though during my stay, I visited palaces and forts at Jaipur, Udaipur, Chittorgarh, Bundi and at Kota. Whenever I visit there, I used to jokingly say my friends that in my previous birth I was a King and ruled there 😊 …
As mentioned above only one song from this movie has been posted on the blog on 26.10.2012 just few months more and this movie will complete a decade on the blog. Let us now listen to the today’s song.
Main ek sadi se baithhi hoon
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Song – Main Ek Sadi Se Baithi Hoon (Lekin)(1990) Singer – Lata Mangeshkar, Lyrics – Gulzar, MD – Hridaynath mangeshkar
Lyrics
hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm hmm hmm
hmm hmm
main ek sadi se baithhi hoon
main ek sadi se baithhi hoon
is raah se koi guzra nahin
kuchh chaand ke rathh to guzre thhe
kuchh chaand ke rathh to guzre thhe
par chaand se koi utara nahin
main ek sadi se baithhi hoon
main ek sadi se baithhi hoon
din raat ke donon pahiye bhi
kuchh dhool udaa kar beet gaye
beet gaye
din raat ke donon pahiye bhi
kuchh dhool udaa kar beet gaye
main man aangan mein baithhi rahi
main man aangan mein baithhi rahi
choukhat se koi guzraa nahin
main ek sadi se baithhi hoon
main ek sadi se baithhi hoon
aakash bada boodhaa baba
sab ko kuchh baant ke jaata hai
jaata hai
aakash bada boodhaa baba
sab ko kuchh baant ke jaata hai
aankhon ko nichoda maine bahut
aankhon ko nichoda maine bahut
par koi aansoo utra nahin
main ek sadi se baithhi hoon
main ek sadi se baithhi hoon
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir Kapur)
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हम्म हम्म हम्म
हम्म हम्म हम्म हम्म
हम्म हम्म हम्म हम्म
हम्म हम्म
मैं एक सदी से बैठी हूँ
मैं एक सदी से बैठी हूँ
इस राह से कोई गुज़रा नहीं
कुछ चाँद के रथ तो गुजरे थे
कुछ चाँद के रथ तो गुजरे थे
पर चाँद से कोई उतरा नहीं
मैं एक सदी से बैठी हूँ
मैं एक सदी से बैठी हूँ
दिन रात के दोनों पहिये भी
कुछ धूल उड़ा कर बीत गए
बीत गए
दिन रात के दोनों पहिये भी
कुछ धूल उड़ा कर बीत गए
मैं मन आँगन में बैठी रही
मैं मन आँगन में बैठी रही
चौखट से कोई गुज़रा नहीं
मैं एक सदी से बैठी हूँ
मैं एक सदी से बैठी हूँ
आकाश बड़ा बूढ़ा बाबा
सब कुछ बाँट के जाता है
जाता है
आकाश बड़ा बूढ़ा बाबा
सब कुछ बाँट के जाता है
आँखों को निचोड़ा मैंने बहुत
आँखों को निचोड़ा मैंने बहुत
पर कोई आँसू उतरा नहीं
मैं एक सदी से बैठी हूँ
मैं एक सदी से बैठी हूँ
Beet gaya din raah takat man haara
Posted on: May 6, 2015
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 sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
VINTAGE SHAMSHAD BEGUM….Song No. 3
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Today’s song is from film Namumkin-46. It is a duet of Shamshad Begum and K.S.Ragi.
We are accustomed to see only the usual regular well known names, but when some new or unknown name appears, our brows are raised and we wonder who this singer is. Same thoughts came to my mind when I first came across his name few years back. One would immediately think of the singers in a Gurudwara, who are also called Raagis. I tried and tried very hard, but except that he hailed from Andhra pradesh, I could not get any other information on him. Then one fine morning K S Ragi’s daughter appeared on RMIM forum and gave some more information. Though even this was very meagre, still at least something was there.
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Ab tak na aaye sanwariya
Posted on: March 7, 2013
Today (7 march 2013) is the first death anniversary of Ravi (3 march 1926- 7 march 2012). On this occsion, here is a song from “Khaamosh Nigaahen” (1989) which was the last Hindi movie of Ravi as a music director. This movie was a home production of Ravi. It was produced and directed by Ajay Sharma, (Ravi’s son) under the banner of Ajay Films. The movie had Rakesh Roshan, Deepti Naval, Swaroop Sampat, Agha, Shashikala, Urmila Bhatt, Shubha Khote, Iftekar, Dalip Tahil, Manmohan Krishna etc in it.
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Bahut din beete beete re
Posted on: April 18, 2012
“Sant Gyaneshwar” (1964) was a Ranglok Production. It was directed by Manibhai Vyas. This low budget B grade movie had Sudhir Kumar, Jeevan, Sulochana, Ullhas, Asit Sen, Babloo, Shahu Modak, Surekha etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusist of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Asha Bhonsle – the name that conjures up the racy and spicy sounds of ‘udlayee udlayee udlayee o’, a voice that has a chirp, and an impish and naughty flavor to it, and the versatility that adorns thousands of music creations that have become a hallmark in the annals of Hindi film music. The second of the famous siblings of the Mangeshkar clan, Asha ji was born on this day in 1933. She started singing for films at a very young age of 10 years. Although her released recordings in 1950s were second only to Lata, she was considered as the singer for “bad girls” and vamps, and got the assignments that were turned down by Lata, Geeta Dutt and Shamshad Begum. Her voice started getting noticed from films like Sangdil (1952), Parineeta (1953) and Boot Polish (1954). And then came the real recognition of her talent in the mid 1950s, under the baton of OP Nayyar, with hits like CID (1956) and Naya Daur (1957). She became the voice of Helen, and has sung most of the songs that Helen has performed on the screen. Helen ji used to attend the song recording sessions personally, to better get a feel of how the song is to be performed.
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Baithhi hoon main nain bichhaaye
Posted on: July 8, 2011
When one watches Hindi movies of the past, including their songs, and compare them with the present time, one notices that people back then had too much of time and patience. Means of instant communications were not there. People (namely the lady or parents) who will have their beloved husband/son gone to a distant place for work,will not hear from him for years, and they will patiently wait. One can not imagine people to have this kind of time and patience in today’s world.
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Hum intezaar karenge
Posted on: January 18, 2009
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I may not be the only person to note that majority of songs in Bollywood are about love. In these songs, the lead actors would fall in love and then sing love songs.
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This song is a forgotten gem from 1970s. I call it a gem on several counts.
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This song is one of the earliest hits of Rafi. It came about in 1949 in a movie called Dulari and it went a long way in establishing Rafi as the most sought after male playback singer for the next two decades. This song was such a refreshing change from the usual songs of that era which used to be songs influenced by K L Sahgal’s singing style. Rafi’s singing in this song set the tone for the modern way of singing playback songs in Bollywood which continues to be followed to this date.
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