Archive for the ‘Songs of 1996’ Category
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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‘Adhikaar’ (1996) was a TV Serial which was telecast in 1996-99 on ZEE TV. The serial was directed by Lekh Tandon. The main actors in the serial were Rajeev Varma, Smita Jaykar, Arundhati Ganorkar, Bharat Kapoor, Vineeta Malik, Shefali Shetty (Shah), Irrfan Khan, Divya Seth, Sachin Khedekar, Sangeeta Ghosh, Zia Hamid, Ashalata, Muneera Surati, Neha Sharad, Arundhati Rao, Mangla Kenkare, S M Zahir, Anang Desai, Sooraj Thapar and many more.
I had seen a few episodes of serial when it was telecast. I have also watched a few episodes of the serial recently on a video sharing platform. In the male dominated society, women are treated as subordinate, and they are not encouraged to air their views openly in a family gathering. The Serial highlights the problems of women faced in two families, a Hindu and a Muslim family with different perspectives.
Amita (Shefali Shetty) is an outspoken girl in the family of lawyer who defies the conventional tradition of agreeing to dictates of her parents (Bharat Kapoor and Veena Malik) if, in her view, the dictates are not rational. While not agreeing with her parents, she gives her reasons for that which makes her parents speechless. Shama (Arundhati Ganorkar), her college friend, also faces the same dictates from her parents. She protests but she is not as bold as Amita to defy. She does agree with most of her parents’ advice even though she is not in agreement with them. One thing in common about both of them is that in order to avoid subordinate existence within the family, they feel that they have to get educated and become economically independent. Amita’s family has the monetary ability to spend on higher education but are not keen for her higher education. On the other hand, Shama is in danger of losing her college education due to financial reasons.
Raja Sahab (Rajeev Varma) and his wife Shahida (Smita Jaykar) have been married for 20 years but she remains childless. He divorces her and gets married to Shama against her wish for her parents for financial reasons. After divorce, his first wife is relocated in servant’s quarters. Shama tries to correct Raja Sahab by telling her that she has no problem if his first wife stays in the same house but in vain. At the same time, Raja Sahab is not averse to Shama continuing the college education. After the death of Raja Sahab, Shama continues the education to become a lawyer with the help of her lawyer friend, Ali (Sachin Khedekar). Then, there is a character of inqilabi shayar Abid (Irrfan Khan) who loves Shama’s sister, Zubeida, but she is afraid to tell her mind to the mother.
The sum and substance of this serial is that a better status for women irrespective of their religion leads to the creation of a well-balanced society. At the outset, the serial looks feminist. But Reoti Saran Sharma, the story writer has nicely brought out women’s empowerment without taking an anti-male stance in the story. Some of the male characters in the story become the facilitators for the equal rights to the women in their family.
In most of the TV serials of that time, it was common to have title songs which, in nutshell, give the main theme of the story. But in ‘Adhikar’ (1996), apart from the short title song, there are some full-fledged songs just like in Hindi films. I am presenting a ghazal ‘meri talaash chhod de tu mujhko paa chuka’ written by Naqsh Layallpuri which is recited by Sonu Nigam. The ghazal is set to music by Talat Aziz.
The original ghazal is of 7 she’rs of which only the first 6 she’rs have been included in the recitation. The ‘maqta’ (last she’r) not included is as under:
paani se ‘Naqsh’ kab hui roshan yeh zindagi
main apne aansuon ke diye bhi jala chuka
The ghazal is picturised on Irrfan Khan in a private mushaira in which Zubeida (Divya Seth) is present. The background to this picturisation is that Abid (Irrfan Khan) who is an inqilabi poet, often gets jail terms for writing the inflammatory poems. This time after he is released from the jail, he visits Zubaida’s house to tell her that he still wants to marry her. Her mother and sister, Shama are present, and they are surprised. Later, Shama comes to know from Zubeida that she met Abid for the first time in a mushaira in which he recited his ghazals. So, this is a flashback scene.
Video Clip
Audio Clip:
Song-Meri talaash chhod de tu mujhko paa chukaa (Adhikaar)(TV Serial)(1996) Singer-Sonu Nigam, Lyrics-Naqsh Llayalpuri, MD-Talat Aziz
Lyrics (Based on Video Clip)
meri talaash chhod de
meri talaash chhod de
tu mujhko paa chuka
meri talaash chhod de
tu mujhko paa chuka
meri talaash chhod de
tu mujhko paa chuka..aa
main soch ki hadon se
main soch ki hadon se
bahut door jaa chuka
main soch ki hadon se
bahut door jaa chuka
meri talaash chhod de
tu mujhko paa chuka
logon daraana chhod do
tum waqt se mujhe
logon daraana chhod do
tum waqt se mujhe..ae
ye waqt baar baar
mujhe aazmaa chuka
ye waqt baar baar
mujhe aazmaa chuka
main soch ki hadon se
bahut door jaa chuka
badlega ankareeb yeh
dhaancha samaaj kaa..aa
badlega ankareeb yeh
dhaancha samaaj kaa
badlega ankareeb yeh
dhaancha samaaj kaa..aa
iss baat par main doston
iss baat par main doston
imaan laa chuka
iss baat par main doston
imaan laa chuka
meri talaash chhod de
tu mujhko paa chuka..aa
main soch ki hadon se
bahut door jaa chuka
ab tum mere khayaal ki
parvaaz dekhna
ab tum mere khayaal ki
parvaaz dekhna..aa
main ik ghazal ko zindagi
main ik ghazal ko zindagi
apni bana chuka
main ik ghazal ko zindagi
apni bana chuka..aa
meri talaash chhod de
meri talaash chhod de
ae sone waalon neend ki
ae sone waalon neend ki
chaadar utaar do
ae sone waalon neend ki
chaadar utaar do..o o
kirnon ke haath subah kaa
kirnon ke haath subah kaa
paighaam aa chuka
kirnon ke haath subah kaa
paighaam aa chuka..aa
main soch ki hadon se
bahut door jaa chuka
meri talaash chhod de
tu mujhko paa chuka
Raajaa ki aayee hai baaraat
Posted on: March 21, 2023
This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Hullo Atuldom
Born into the film industry. Married into another famous movie-making family. Debut film (in Hindi) with a star-son; a Khan at that. In fact, heroes in her first six films had KHAN as their last name.
I am speaking of Rani Mukherjee who was born into the Mukherjee-Samarth family. Her father Ram Mukherjee was the son of Ravindramohan Mukherjee who was Sashadhar Mukherjee’s (founder of Filmalaya studios) brother. Her mother is the playback singer Krishna Mukherjee. Additionally her brother is director Raja Mukherjee. So that is Rani’s maayka.
She is married to Aditya Chopra; Yash Chopra’s son. ‘Shadaab Khan’ (Amjad Khan’s son) in ‘Raja ki Aayegi Baraat’; ‘Aamir Khan’ in ‘Ghulam’; ‘Shahrukh Khan’ in ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’; ‘Faraaz Khan’ (son of Yusuf Khan a.k.a Zebisco of ‘Amar Akbar Anthoy’) in ‘Mehndi’; ‘Salman Khan’ in ‘Hello Brother’; were her first five movies with the Khans. The sixth film, that I spoke of at the start of this post, ‘Mann’ had Rani only for a song where she shared screen time with Aamir Khan for a song.
Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Abhishek Bachchan, Govinda, where the other heroes she was usually cast opposite in the first few years of her career. She also played Kamal Haasan’s wife in ‘Hey Ram’; incidentally Shahrukh Khan also had a role in the film, not opposite Rani though.
Subsequent films saw her in a few two-heroine films like ‘Chori Chori Chupke Chupke’; ‘Kahin Pyaar Na ho jaaye’; ‘Mujhse Dosti Karoge’ etc.
Movies with Rani Mukherjee were full of good songs, and commercial entertainers. Today she turns a year older- 45 to be exact.
Last Friday saw the release of “Mrs Chatterjee v/s Norway” which has Rani playing a mother and the promos show her to be playing some kind if activist. She has been seen in this type of movies since 2011 when she appeared in ‘No one killed Jessica’.
The song with this post is from her debut film ‘Raja ki Aayegi Baraat’ (1996). Other than Rani Mukherjee & Shadaab Khan the film also had Saeed Jaffery, Raja Murad, Gulshan Grover, Divya Dutta, Asrani, Shashi Sharma, Mohnish Behl, Goga Kapoor, Yunus Parvez etc. in the cast. The film showed Rani playing a girl with happy dreams of marriage and a rosy life. These dreams are shattered when Shadaab Khan enters her life, rapes her to avenge her humiliating him etc. But Shadaab is forced to marry Rani as a punishment for his crime against her by the judge played by Yunus Parvez. Rani uses this opportunity to get even with her tormentor but the couple end up falling in love and the marriage becomes a success. There are some twists and turns before the movie ends in a “marriage baraat”; the kind which Rani had dreamt of.
Let us wish Rani a Happy Birthday with this song which sees Rani living her dream of a “Grand Baraat” at her wedding.
Song-Raaja ki aayee hai baaraat (Raja Ki aayegi Baaraat)(1996) Singer-Vijeyta Pandit, Lyrics-Sameer, MD-Aadesh Srivastava
Female chorus
Lyrics
raaja ki aayi hai baaraat mere aangan mein
raaja ki aayi hai baaraat mere aangan mein
main to naachoon hilaa ke roomaal mere aangan mein
aangan mein
sabke chehre khil rahe hain
masti aisi hai chhaayi
haaye
masti aisi hai chhaayi
phool barse
rang bikhre
mil rahi hai badhaayi
haaye haaye
mil rahi hai badhaayi
ye to bade hi shagun ki hai baat mere aangan mein
raaja ki aayi hai baaraat mere aangan mein
main to naachoon hilaa ke roomaal mere aangan mein
aangan mein
dulhe raaja janch rahe hain
baandh ke sar pe sehra
haaye
baandh ke sar pe sehra
is khushi mein lag raha hai
waqt jaise ho thahra
haaye haaye
waqt jaise ho thahra
saath dulhan ke saj gayi raat mere aangan mein
raaja ki aayi hai baaraat mere aangan mein
main to naachoon hilaa ke roomaal mere aangan mein
aangan mein
bhaabhi meetha munh karaaye
note bahnon ne waare
haaye haaye
note bahnon ne waare
bin piye hi jhoom rahe hain paapa jee bhi hamaare
haaye
paapa jee bhi hamaare
aisi khushiyon ki huyi barsat mere aangan mein
raaja ki aayi hai baaraat mere aangan mein
main to naachoon hilaa ke roomaal mere aangan mein
aangan mein
oye
oye
oye oye oye
Palkon pe chalte chalte
Posted on: February 11, 2023
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Amol Palekar has mostly been identified with some of his ‘boy-next-door’ type of roles in Hindi films like ‘Rajnigandha’ (1974), ’Chhoti Si Baat’ (1976) ‘Chitchor’ (1976) ‘Gharonda’ (1977) ‘Golmaal’ (1979), Baaton Baaton Mein’ (1979) etc. In some of his interviews, he always claimed that he became the actor by accident, the producer by compulsion, the director by choice and artist (painter) by nature. Before debuting as an actor in Hindi films, Amol Palekar was deeply involved with experimental Marathi and Hindi theatres, both as an actor and a director. Even after his popularity as an actor had soared, he continued to get involved in the experimental theatres.
With the trait of experimentation in his DNA, Amol Palekar debuted in the film direction with his Marathi film, ‘Akriet’ (1981 – English title: Unimaginable). This was the first Marathi film to win a Special Jury Award at Nantes Film Festival in France. He debuted in Hindi film as a director in ‘Ankahee’ (1985, English title: Unspoken), followed by ‘Thhoda Sa Roomaani Ho Jaaye’ (1990). He has so far directed about 15 films in Hindi, Marathi, and English. All the films which he has directed so far are away from mainstream commercial films. Almost all his films have one common theme, women emancipation.
‘Daayra’ (1996, English title: The Square Circle) was Amol Palekar’s third film as a director which explored the wider gamut of companionship beyond man-woman relationship. The film’s story was written by Novelist, Timeri Murari who also wrote screenplay and co-produced the film with Parvesh Sippy. The story is mainly focused around a relationship between a transvestite man who moves in the public wearing women’s dress and a kidnapped girl who after escaping from the kidnappers, wears man’s dress to feel safe in the public.
Amol Palekar wanted an actor to look like a macho man and not an effeminate for the role of transvestite. The main roles were first offered to Milind Soman and Madhu Sapre who after some hesitation, declined to work in the film. Finally, a friend from the theatre suggested Nirmal Pandey’s name who readily agreed to do the role. Sonali Kulkarni who was still in the college at that time was selected for the girl’s role. The film was extensively shot outdoor in the tribal belt of Odisha.
The film faced problems with the Indian Censor Board which gave it ‘A certificate with some cuts in the scenes and dialogues. Amol Palekar had no problem with ‘A’ Certificate but refused to cut any scenes or dialogues from the film. So, the film did not get Censor Certificate and hence did not get released in India in the theatres or through DVD format. The film was, however, premiered at Toronto Film Festival on September 12, 1996 and subsequently screened at London Film Festival on June 13, 1997 and in France on July 9, 1997. About two years later, the film was released in the theatres in the UK, France, United States, Canada, Australia without songs. The film ran for 8 weeks at the West End theatre, London. The film’s DVD was released in the UK and elsewhere (except India) in February 2015.
‘Daayra’ (1996) received the Special Jury Award at the 44th National Film Awards (1996) for sensitive handling of a challenging theme concerning the neglected and marginalized section of the society. At the Festival de Valenciennes in France, the Grand Prix Jury jointly awarded the Best actor and actress Award to Sonali Kulkarni and Nirmal Pandey, respectively. ‘Time’ magazine called ‘The Square Circle’ (Daayra) one of the best 10 films of 1997.
It is very unfortunate that ‘Daayra’ (1996) which has been critically acclaimed both in India and abroad, did not get released in India.
The film’s synopsis which I have culled out from a website on Timeri Murari, the story and screenplay writer and the co-producer of the film, is reproduced below (with my additions in parenthesis):
An innocent village girl (Sonali Kulkarni), on the eve of her marriage, finds her whole secure life shattered by an unexpected event (she is kidnapped to be sold in brothel). She finds herself far from home, facing an alien, predatory world, with no experience of dealing with it. Only through good fortune, after a brutalising experience, a reluctant stranger (Nirmal Pandey) befriends her. He is a Transvestite, a wise, witty character on a journey of his own. He’s an entertainer (as a female folk singer and a dancer), earning a living from his performances in villages and on the roadside. She forces him to help her get home. In order to ensure she makes the journey safely and without further harm befalling her, he disguises her as a Man.
They start together on the road. The girl now acting the man, the man now a woman, on a journey, which neither knows where, or how it will end. Like a ‘La Starda’ (the Italian film released in 1954), this is the dramatic story of two people travelling along an endless road, all alone, beyond the boundary of ordinary society, outcasts, slowly coming to terms with each other and the world around them. He teaches her his craft and together they entertain the passing parade of people they come across. The film is also filled with the humour of their many experiences.
At the same time, for the girl, this is a journey of discovering the freedom of being a man in a male chauvinistic Indian society. Her suppressed spirit soars. She no longer has to behave as the servile, traditional woman. But they can’t deny their destinies of being a woman and a man who have gradually fallen in love with each other. So, towards the end of their journey, they revert to their sexual identities to fulfil this love. But a journey once begun can never end. Nor can the traveller return to be the person she/he once was. Her past won’t accept her (in the village) and her future is now irrevocably intertwined with her lover, the transvestite, come what may.
‘Daayra’ (1996) has 6 songs (including one multiple version song), all written by Gulzar and set to music by Anand-Milind. I am not a great admirer of Anand-Milind’s musical compositions. But in this film, his musical composition is outstanding. All the 5 songs are melodious with least ‘noises’ from the orchestrations. Gulzar’s lyrics are unusual. Unfortunately, with film remaining unreleased in India, all the songs have remained unknown to most of the people in India until 2015 when SAREGAMA released the songs in mp3 clips.
I am presenting the first song from the film, ‘palkon pe chalte chalte jab unghne lagti hain’ – a lullaby sung by Yesudas. There is also Asha Bhosle version of the song. In the absence any child actor in the film, I guess the lori is for each other – Sonali Kulkarni and Nirmal Pandey. I guess, both the versions of the lori may have been partly picturised in keeping with the trend in off-beat films.
It is a beautiful lori with unusual lyrics penned by Gulzar. The musical prelude and interludes are equally pleasing to the ears.
Audio Clip (Yesudas version):
Audio Clip: (Asha Bhosle version):
Song-Palkon pe chalte chalte (Daayra)(1996) Singer-Yesudas/ Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Gulzar, MD-Anand Milind
Lyrics
palkon pe chalte chalte jab oonghne lagti hain
so jaa aankhen soti hain to udne lagti hain
palkon pe chalte chalte jab oonghne lagti hain
so jaa aankhen soti hain to udne lagti hain
saundhe se aakaash pe neele bajre behten hain
paakhi jaisi aankhen sapne chugne lagti hain
palkon pe chalte chalte jab oonghne lagti hain
so jaa aankhen soti hain to udne lagti hain
saundhe se aakaash pe neele bajre behten hain
paakhi jaisi aankhen sapne chugne lagti hain
pighli huyi hai geeli chaandni
kachhi raat kaa sapna aaye
hmm hmm hmm hmm
thhodi si jaagi
thhodi si soyi
neend mein koi apna aaye
hmm hmm hmm hmm
neend mein halki khushbooyen si ghulne lagti hain
so jaa aankhen soti hain to udne lagti hain
saundhe se aakash pe neele bajre behten hain
paakhi jaisi aankhen sapne chugne lagti hain
aankhon se kehna
lori mein behna
raaton ka koi chhor nahin
hmm hmm hmm hmm
tere to aur bhi honge sapne
mera to koi aur nahin
hmm hmm hmm hmm
bolti aankhen neend mein sapne sun’ne lagti hain
so jaa aankhen soti hain to udne lagti hain
saundhe se aakaash pe neele bajre behten hain
paakhi jaisi aankhen sapne chugne lagti hain
palkon pe chalte chalte jab oonghne lagti hain
so jaa aankhen soti hain to udne lagti hain
saundhe se aakaash pe neele bajre behten hain
paakhi jaisi aankhen sapne chugne lagti hain
Chup tum raho chup ham rahen
Posted on: February 7, 2023
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Sudhir Mishra has been known for making off-beat/parallel Hindi films. ‘Ye Wo Manzil To Nahin’ (1988) was his first off-beat film as a director. The film won the National Film Award for the best debut film of a director. Thereafter, he directed another 15 off- beat films, the last being ‘Afwaah’ (2022) which is awaiting release. Off-beat films, by their very nature, would attract only a select group of audiences. Hence, it is not likely that most of these films would qualify as box office hits. I have not heard of any of Sudhir Mishra’s films as box office success. Some of his films first got released in the international film festivals. Almost all of his films were critically acclaimed. Despite this, it was difficult to manage theatrical release for some of his films.
Sudhir Mishra is a member of the political family. His grandfather, Dwarka Prasad Mishra was a freedom fighter and a veteran in Congress Party. He was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for two terms. His uncle, Brajesh Mishra was in Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and thereafter the National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Despite this, Sudhir Mishra and his younger brother, Sudhanshu Mishra chose career in Hindi films. They both moved to Pune from Lucknow and thereafter to Mumbai in 1980. Sudhir Mishra started his career as assistant director and scriptwriter in Kundan Shah’s ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’ (1983) and later worked with Saeed Akhtar Mirza in ‘Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho’ (1984) and with Vidhu Vinod Chopra in ‘Khamosh’ (1985). So, one can say that Sudhir Mishra’s foundation in Hindi film industry started with off-beat films.
With this brief introduction of Sudhir Mishra, today, I have taken for discussion, his 4th off-beat film, ‘Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahin’ (1996) which was produced by Plus Films of Mahesh Bhatt and Amit Khanna. According to Imtiaz Hussein, the dialogue writer, the film’s original title was ‘Nishachari’ which was changed just before the finalisation of the film’s credit titles. Sudhir Mishra has taken actors for the film mostly from theatres and TV industry. The cast included Nirmal Pandey, Tara Deshpande, Smriti Mishra, Ashish Vidyarthi, Virendra Saxena, Manoj Pahwa, Saurabh Shukla, Murad Ali, Deepak Qazir, Vijay Raaz etc. It is Nirmal Pandey’s first film in a lead role and the first film for Madhavan also who did the role of a club singer. I had watched this film on Youtube sometime back. To recapture my memory, I once again watched the film on OTT platform recently.
The story of the film was written by Sudhanshu Mishra which was based on an incidence happened with him in the night in Pune. During his night stroll, he caught hold of a man and slapped him for teasing a girl. The man was later identified as the brother of a local don. For the next one week, Sudhanshu Mishra confined himself in the campus of FTII where he was a student. [Source: Amar Ujaala, June 6, 2020]. Taking this incident as a base, he added other characters in the story in which during few hours of one night, things go wrong with an advertising executive, Aditya (Nirmal Pandey), his wife Pooja (Tara Deshpande), his lover, Malavika (Smriti Mishra), the Don, Ramanbhai (Ashish Vidyarthi) who is unintentionally slapped by Aditya and Vilas (Saurabh Shukla), till recently, a close confidant of the Don and now a suspect of colluding with Don’s rival.
The Don, having got shamed by an unintentional slap by Aditya and watched by his henchmen as also of his rivals in the hotel lobby is bent upon killing Aditya who is on the run. However, Don is unaware that Vilas, his one-time confidant, is after his life as Vilas suspects that his wife was shot dead by Don. Aditya faces marital problems as Pooja suspects that he is in relationship with Malavika. But Aditya is unable to explain his life threatening situation to his wife as he is on the run. Malavika is confused as to whether Aditya really loves her. Rajesh (Manoj Pahwa), Aditya’s close friend is helping him in running away from the Don. But there is a hidden agenda of Rajesh. Inspector Patankar who is in the pay packet of Don, has his agenda to get rid of him at opportune time as a part of an encounter killing. In short, one incident in the night reveals the hidden nature of the major characters in the film.
Sudhir Mishra presented the story very well as a director without creating any confusion in the minds of the audience despite many characters entangled in the plot. The crisp editing by the film’s editor and his wife, Renu Saluja has made the film a fast-paced thriller. There are some good dialogues as satires on the society. For instance, when the cronies of Don entered Aditya’s flat to search him, they are surprised by the extravagance style of living in the flat. One of the cronies says that they should talk to Don to get them a flat like this. The other says that he can forcefully occupy this flat. The third one says that there is something called law. The first one retorts ‘where is the law? Have we not made an unauthorized entry in the flat?’.
Among the main actors, Ashish Vidyarthi in the role of Don Ramanbhai gives an excellent performance. After the end of the film, I get an impression that Ashish Vidyarthi would get more sympathy from the audience than the hero, Nirmal Pandey though the latter has also given good performance. If I was to select the most outstanding scene in the film, it would be the one in which Nirmal Pandey unintentionally slaps Ashish Vidyarthi, the Don. The stunned reactions of Ashish Vidyarthi for a minute or so is marvelous. He is ashamed in front of his cronies as well as the cronies of his rival gang. His reputation as a Don is at stake especially if it becomes a front-page news in the newspapers, next morning. So, he has to kill Aditya before the dawn even if he knows that it was unintentional slap. This is the irony in the life of a Don.
The film got released in Mumbai in one theatre, Minerva that too in the pre-matinee slot of 10.00 a.m. I believe, similar was the fate of the film in about dozen theatres elsewhere in India. In short, the film did not get theatres for regular shows. The film was critically acclaimed but, as per the Box Office India report, the film could barely recover the cost of production over a period of time (probably with T V and OTT rights).
The film has six songs, barring a couple of songs, rest of the songs have been partially used in the film’s soundtrack though the mp3 clip versions have full songs. All the songs have been written by Nida Fazli which were set to music by M M Kreem (known as M M Keeravani in Telugu Films and Marakatha Mani in Tamil Films). This was his second independent Hindi film, the first being ‘Criminal’ (1995). Earlier, he was associated in Hindi dubbed films, mostly from Telugu original films.
I am presenting the first song from ‘Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahin’ (1996) to appear on the Blog. The song is ‘chup tum raho chup ham rahen’ sung by K S Chithra and M M Kreem who rendered his first Hindi song for this film, lip syncing for debutant Madhavan and for Nirmal Pandey in Flash-back scenes. The situation in the film is that the advertising agency in which Aditya (Nirmal Pandey) is an Executive, has hosted a party in a hotel lawn. In the same hotel, Don with his henchmen have gathered to question Vilas, once a close confidant of Don who is now suspected of working for a rival gang. In a way, through this club song, the director attempts to introduce all the main characters in the film with their activities. Nirmal Pandey as Aditya, the Advertising Executive, Tara Deshpande as Pooja, his wife, Smriti Mishra as Malvika, Aditya’s love interest, Ashish Vidyarthi, the Don, Murad Ali as Chotu, Don’s favourite henchman and other henchmen.
In this song, there is a couple of flashback scenes of Nirmal Pandey and Smriti Mishra to establish their extra-marital relationship. There is also a scene in which the waiter, while serving tea to Don, gives him the duplicate key of the hotel room (in which Saurabh Shukla in the role of Vilas is hiding with his wife). This song, therefore, subtly gives the audience how the story has evolved around Aditya and Malavika and how it is going to unfold for Ashish Vidyarthi and Saurabh Shukla.
The orchestration of the song and the rhythmic style reminds me of R D Burman.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Chup tum raho chup ham rahen (Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahin)(1996) Singers-K S Chithra, M M Kreem, Lyrics-Nida Fazli, MD-M M Kreem
Lyrics (Based on Audio Clip)
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
khaamoshi ko khaamoshi se..ae
zindagi ko zindagi se
baat karne do…o o o
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen…aen
chup tum raho
chup hum rahen
khaamoshi ko
khaamoshi se ae
zindagi ko
zindagi se
baat karne do…o o o o
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
chup tum raho
aankhon mein kho jaayen aankhen
bole haath se haath
aankhon mein kho jaayen aankhen
bole haath se haath
baahon mein chhup kar
saanson se jaise dole raa….t
ungliyon ko
ungliyon se ae
mausamon ko shokhiyon se
baat karne do…o o o o
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
khamoshi ko khamoshi se ae
zindagi ko zindagi se
baat karne do…o o o o
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen aen
chup tum raho
la la la la la
la la la
la la la la la
la la la
honthon par
honthon se likhen
bin shabdon ke geet
honthon par
honthon se likhen
bin shabdon ke geet
dharti se ambar tak goonje
jismon ka sang……eet
bekhudi ko o
bekhudi se ae
aashiqi ko o
aashiqi se
baat karne do…o o
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
chup tum raho chup
ham rahen
chup tum raho
chup ham rahen
chup tum raho
ham rahen
tum raho
tum raho
Ho laagi prem dhun laagi
Posted on: November 11, 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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“Dhun-1996” was directed by Mahesh Bhatt. It was produced by Beena Aziz. It had Talat Aziz, Sangeeta Bijlani, Swapna, Anupam Kher, Avtar Gill, Mushtaq Khan, Javed Khan, Makrand Deshpande, Suhas Bhalekar, G.P. Singh and others.
Lyrics for the songs in this movie were written by Anand Bakshi and music was composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
This movie was passed by Censor Board on 31.01.1996.
Today 11th November 2022 is the sixty-seventh birthday of the renowned Ghazal Singer Talat Aziz.
Talat Aziz was born on 11th November 1956 in Hyderabad, India.
Here is a brief about his biography and his journey to films which I have taken from an online website which had this long biography of him mentioned with one of his LP record. I have not taken it in all but edited it for a brief presentation here today.
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Aziz was born to Abdul Azeem Khan and Sajida Abid, a famous Urdu writer and poet. He attended Hyderabad Public School and then joined The Indian Institute of Management and Commerce for his B.Com (Hons) Course.
His family loved fine arts and used to organise Mehfils in their house, inviting artists and poets like Jagjit Singh and Jan Nisar Akhtar. This greatly influenced him and he started learning music from an early age. Aziz is married to Bina Aziz, a famous painter and art curator. They have two sons, Adnan Aziz and Shayaan Aziz.
Talat Aziz took his initial training in music from Kirana Gharana. He was trained primarily by Ustad Samad Khan and later by Ustad Faiyyaz Ahmed Khan. After the initial training, Aziz learnt music from the Ghazal maestro Mehdi Hassan. On many occasions, like on a concert tour of the US and Canada in 1986, he shared the stage with him on concerts in India and abroad. Mehdi Hasan Saheb once remarked on Talat’s purity of voice and how well he learnt and imbibed Mehdi Saheb’s knowledge and ‘gaayaki’ and yet carving his own path.
He released his first album in Feb 1980, under the baton of Jagjit Singh. Jagjit Singh composed this album titled ‘Jagjit Singh presents Talat Aziz’. This was a runaway hit and the ghazals from this album like ‘Kaise Sukoon Paoon, Chahenge Tujhe par… to name a few which are still favourites of all ghazal lovers.
Subsequently in 1981 Khayyam Saheb the legendary music director introduced Talat Aziz in the classic film ‘Umrao Jaan’ with the famous ghazal’ Zindagi Jab bhi’ and followed it by ‘Bazaar’, with the immortal ghazal ‘ Phir Chhidi Raat’ which he sang along with Lata Mangeshkar.
He has also sung film songs composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal in the film Dhun (where he also acted as a main lead and sang a bhajan along with Mehdi Hasan). Also the song he sung under Rajesh Roshan in the film ‘Daddy ‘ Aaina mujhse meri’ which became very popular.
All these numbers are still most sought after in his concerts. Talat has also composed music for ‘TV serials’ and has also acted in several of them. He composed music for ‘tele-serials’ like ‘Deewar’, ‘Baaz’, ‘Adhikaar’, ‘Ghutan’, ‘Sailaab’, ‘Aashirwaad’ and the magnum opus, ‘Noorjehan’. He also composed the music and sang too for a feature film titled ‘Majaz-Ae Ghame dil’ recently in ‘2016’. This film was produced by Shakeel Akhtar and was a biography of the iconic poet ‘Majaz Luckhnawi’. As an actor he has acted in serials like ‘Sahil’, ‘Manzil’, ‘Dil Apna Aur Preet Parayee’ and Noorjehan a TV serial written by Nida Fazli.
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There is a long list of his celebrity friends from his fraternity and of course from the film industry as well. There are many famous public and political personalities who appreciated him and are a big admirers of him. There is also a long list of his concerts and the feathers which he has in his cap coming for the appreciation of his art and love people showered on him.
Today I am presenting a song from the movie ‘Dhun’. This song has been in my memory since long though I am now forgetting the dates. I think the album of this movie was released in ‘1991’ as mentioned in the above article, but as per’ Hindi Filmography’ (1986-2000) this movie was passed by Censor Board on 31.01.1996.
(I am some time loosing track of those years in my life 🙂 ).
I would request knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this movie and its songs.
The above article also mentions the following about this movie.
‘Dhun’ which was directed by Mahesh Bhatt where had Talat Aziz and his co-stars were Anupam Kher and Sangeeta Bijlani with the music by Laxmikant Pyarelal and lyrics by Anand Bakshi. The music album was released by HMV in 1991 at a glittering event where all the who’s who of the Indian Film industry were present. The music album was a hit. Songs like ‘Yaad Aane wale’, ‘Laagi Prem dhun laagi’, ‘Main Aatma’ are still remembered by music lovers. One interesting fact is that Mehdi Hasan sang a bhajan along with Talat “Main aatma tu Parmaatma” for the first time in an Indian film.
When I fall in love with music I was always aware of the songs Talat Aziz sung for ‘Umrao Jaan’ and ‘Baazaar’ but during those years (1985-1988) I came across his ghazal album ‘Suroor’ which had the ‘ghazal’ ‘aisa lagtaa hai zindagi tum ho’ which I liked very much and love it very much even now. Those days one of my bosses who was interested more in listening ghazals had a lot of collection of cassettes and I got to listen many of Talat Aziz’s albums then.
Today, I am more than happy that I had this opportunity to present a song and wishing a very happy birthday to Talaz Aziz Saab on the blog.
We wish him a very happy and cheerful birthday with a happy, healthy, wealthy and peaceful life ahead in the future.
Let us now enjoy today’s composition …
With this song, this movie ‘Dhun-1996’ makes its debut on the blog.
Audio
Song-Ho laagi prem dhun laagi (Dhun)(1996) Singer-Talat Aziz, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal
Chorus
Lyrics
ho o o
ho o o
ho o o
ho o
hey
hey
hey hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey hey
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho jaagi
prem dhun jaagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
prem ki dhun mein
ek deewaanaa
saari raat na soya
prem ki dhun mein
ek deewaani
saari raat jaagi
re jaagi
laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho jaagi prem dhun jaagi
sabse chhupke
chori chori
miltey rahe chaand chakori
sabse chhupke
chori chori
miltey rahe chaand chakori
khoob chali ye aankh michauri
aankh michauri
jab tak baat rahi ghar mein
ye bhed na koyi jaanaa
akhbaaron mein khabar chhapi
jab ladki ghar se bhaagi re bhaagi
laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho jaagi prem dhun jaagi
prem
prem ka koyi naam na lena
haathon se dil thhaam na lena
prem ka koyi naam na lena
haathon se dil thhaam na lena
sar pe ye ilzaam na lena
naam na lena
prem se isiliye to sabko
log manaa karte hain
prem mein chhodke duniya
kitne log huye bairaagi
re laagi
laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho jaagi prem dhun jaagi
la la la la la la la la la la laa
la la la la la laa
la la la la la la la la la la laa
la la la la la laa
koyi isko chhoo na paaye
aankhon se dekhi na jaaye
koyi isko chhoo na paaye
aankhon se dekhi na jaaye
cheez hai ye kya haaye haaye
haaye haaye
prem ki dhun aataa jaata
ik mast hawaa ka jhonka
koyi pakad sakaa na peechhe
saari duniya bhaagi
re bhaagi
laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
prem ki dhun jo sun letaa
wo rehtaa nahin akela
laakhon aur hazaaron uske
ban jaate hain saathi
re saathi
laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho jaagi prem dhun laagi
(ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho jaagi prem dhun jaagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi
ho laagi prem dhun laagi)
Nashaa nashaa nashe mein hum
Posted on: September 19, 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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Welcome all to this post that I am presenting here to wish ‘happy birthday’ today to a very special person Maqsood Mehmood Ali better known to us as Lucky Ali.
He was born on 19th September 1958 and that means he turned sixty-four today.
He sung his first Hindi movie song in the 1978 movie ‘Ek Baap Chhe Bete’ which was produced and directed by his father – the famous comedian – Mehmood.
He must have been 18-19 years old at that time.
Later in the 1990s he emerged as a ‘significant figure’ in the world of ‘Indipop’ with several singles and albums. I was posted at Phulpur-Allahabad then. I had also bought his albums and liked the numbers in it very much.
Lucky Ali has also done acting in few movies e.g., ‘Kaante’, ‘Sur’ etc.
I would also like to reproduce here what ‘Wikipedia’ has mentioned about him
“Best known for his music, singing, and acting, Ali has also bred horses, worked on an oil rig off the coast of Pondicherry in South India, cleaned and sold carpets and is a farmer with a strong opinion on organic methods in farming.”
Lucky Ali has a long musical journey, and we will surely be discovering more about him in future posts on the blog.
Recently I watched one of his videos on YouTube produced by Curly Tales. In this video he was shown in his farmhouse and many other locations in Bengaluru especially the many famous food spots and just in his very natural ‘avtaar’. I liked this video very much and I simply loved it.
He has carved a special niche for himself in the heart of music lovers, and we all love him very much.
Lucky Ali has troubled relationship with his father Mehmood in his childhood. Mehmood was a very busy actor then and couldn’t give much of his time for his family. Lucky Ali had to live in Board School in Mussoorie for his studies.
Later he became addicted of ‘marijuana’ too. His fight with ‘Marijuana’ led Mehmood to present this issue in this movie ‘Dushman Duniya Ka’ where is his youngest son Manzoor Ali played the lead role.
As mentioned in ‘Wikipedia’ Lucky Ali didn’t like the story of this movie as it lacked hope, since the actor or the drug-addicted young son kills his mother in the movie.
Today on his birthday I am presenting a song from the 1996 movie ‘Dushman Duniya Ka’.
Lucky Ali sang a song in this movie which was lip-synced on screen by his younger brother Manzoor Ali. The song is about ‘nashaa’.
‘Dushman Duniya Ka-1996’ was directed by Mehmood. It was produced by Ashok Mishra, Babubhai and Masoom Ali. It had Jeetendra, Sumalatha, Manzoor Ali (debut movie), and Mehmood. This movie also introduced Laila, Master Abhishek, and Nasir. They were supported by Ali Asgar, Wahid, Kailash, Punjabi, Anil Mehta, Fardeen, Gopal, Meghani, Neeraj Mishra, Salman, Raju Malhotra, Zaid Khan, Vishwanath, Krishna Bansal, Sweety Pareeikh, Baby Somaiya and Shweta.
Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan had a special appearance in this movie. Ashok Kumar, Farida Jalal, Anjana Mumtaz, Rita Bhaduri, Raza Murad, Manmauji, Birbal, Liliput, Junior Mehmood and Johny Level had a friendly appearance in this movie.
This movie was written by Late Aziz Quaisi and Editing of this movie was done by S. Heera.
This movie was passed by Censor Board on 30.08.1996 with ‘restricted viewing certificate’ (A).
This movie had seven songs of which the lyrics were written by Ravindra Jain. Music was composed by Anu Malik.
Let us now enjoy today’s song and wish a ‘very happy birthday’ to Lucky Ali and thank him for all the musical memories he has given to us and his songs (he is also a songwriter) which have a therapeutic effect on our mind and souls.
Song-Nasha nasha nashe mein hum (Dushman Duniya Ka)(1996) Singer-Lucky Ali, Lyrics-Ravindra Jain, MD-Anu Malik
Lyrics
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashey mein ham
dhuaan dhuaan aa
ye zindagi
yahin basi hai
hamaari jannat
yahi miley ae hamen khushi
nashaa nashaa
nashey mein ham
dhuaan dhuaan aa
ye zindagi
yahin basi hai
hamaari jannat
yahi miley ae hamen khushi
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
ho o ise ne zindaa rakkhaa hai
isi ne maara hai ae
goli se choli daaman ka
saath hamaara hai
nashey ne apnaaya hai
jab sab ne dutkaara hai
isi liye to hamko ye
jaan se pyaara hai ae
nashaa nashaa
nashey mein ham
dhuaan dhuaan aa
ye zindagi
yahin basi hai
hamaari jannat
yahin miley ae hamen khushi
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
ho o o hamne isko chhoda
isne hamko chhoda nahin
chhod bhi den to
duniyawaale karte nahin
yakeen
ab to yahin pe jeena hamko
marnaa hamen yahin
nashaa nashaa
nashey mein ham
dhuaan dhuaan aa aa
ye zindagi
yahin basi hai
hamaari jannat
yahi miley ae hamen khushi
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
ho o o
mat poochho is nashey ne
kya kya chhin liya hamse ae
jaan se pyaara yaar hamaara
judaa kiya hamse
har apnaa begaana
dekho aaj khafaa hamse
sab kuchh chhootaa
magar na chhootaa
haay nashaa hamse
nashaa nashaa
nashey mein ham
dhuaan dhuaan aa
ye zindagi
yahin basi hai
hamaari jannat
yahin miley ae hamen khushi
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa
nashey mein ham
nashey mein ham
dhuaan dhuaan aa
ye zindagi
ye zindagi
yahin basi hai
yahin basi hai
hamaari jannat
hamaari jannat
yahin miley ae hamen khushi
hamen khushi
nashaa nashaa
nashaa nashaa aa
Chhota sa ghar banaayen
Posted on: September 6, 2021
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Yearwise discussion of Lata Mangeshkar songs in HFM: Part L: Year 1996
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In this episode, the 50th episode, we discuss Lata Mangeshkar songs that she sang in Hindi movies released in 1996.
In 1996, 102 Hindi movies containing 588 songs were released. Lata Mangeshkar got to sing in 5 of these movies and she sang 14 songs in these movies. So Lata Mangeshkar’s voice was heard in 5 % of the movies released in 1996. Her voice was heard in 2.4 % of the songs appearing in the movies of 1996.
Here are the details of songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar in Hindi movies released in 1996 :-
| S N | Movie | Music director | Lata song in the blog | Lata HFM songs recorded in the year | Lata solo songs | Male duet | Female duet | Other songs | Lyricists |
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| 1 | Aurat Aurat Aurat | Laxmikant Pyarelal | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Anand Bakshi |
| 2 | Maachis | Vishal Bhardwaj | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Gulzar |
| 3 | Megha | Ram Laxman | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Ravinder Rawal |
| 4 | Prem Granth | Laxmikant Pyarelal | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Anand Bakshi |
| 5 | Vishwaasghaat | Shyam Surender | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Rani Malik |
| Total | 5 movies | 4 MDs | 0 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 lyricists |
Lata Mangeshkar worked with 4 music directors and 4 lyricists in these 5 movies released in 1996. Laxmikant Pyarelal were the most prolific music directors with Lata, with 664 songs in HFM with Lata Mangeshkar by the end of 1996. Shankar Jaikishan with 457 songs in the voice of Lata Mangeshkar were in the second position. R D Burman with 332 Lata Mangeshkar and Kalyanji Anandji with 307 songs were next ahead of C Ramchandra with 274 songs. Other top music directors for Lata Mangeshkar were Chitragupta (239), Madan Mohan (195), S D Burman (179),Naushad (146), Roshan (144), Hemant Kumar (127), Anil Biswas (120), Bappi Lahiri (112), Rajesh Roshan (111), Salil Chaudhary (109), Husnlal Bhagatram (108), and Vasant Desai (104). Together these seventeen music directors composed 3728 songs out of 5144 songs that Lata Mangeshkar had sung in Hindi movies till end of 1996. Anand Bakshi with 700 songs was the top lyricist with Lata Mangeshkar. Other leading lyricists with Lata Mangeshkar were Rajinder Krishan (555), Majrooh Sultanpuri (406), Shailendra (361), Hasrat Jaipuri (301), Prem Dhawan (201), Bharat Vyas (193), Shakeel Badayuni (189), Sahir Ludhianvi (161) and Indeewar (156). These ten lyricists had penned 3220 songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar till that time.
Here is the summary of Lata Mangeshkar’s playback career in Hindi movies till end of 1995 :
| Year | Movie count | Lata song in the blog | Lata HFM songs recorded in the year | Lata solo songs | Male duet | Female duet | Other songs | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 3 movies | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1947 | 3 movies | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1948 | 16 movies | 50 | 50 | 37 | 6 | 4 | 3 | |
| 1949 | 38 movies | 138 | 157 | 103 | 35 | 12 | 7 | |
| 1950 | 36 movies | 115 | 143 | 93 | 32 | 14 | 4 | |
| 1951 | 49 movies | 189 | 223 | 158 | 52 | 10 | 3 | |
| 1952 | 43 movies | 150 | 177 | 138 | 31 | 4 | 4 | |
| 1953 | 45 movies | 170 | 195 | 149 | 35 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1954 | 43 movies | 142 | 172 | 144 | 23 | 4 | 1 | |
| 1955 | 50 movies | 172 | 218 | 177 | 30 | 10 | 1 | |
| 1956 | 49 movies | 174 | 204 | 153 | 35 | 13 | 3 | |
| 1957 | 47 movies | 132 | 160 | 110 | 38 | 7 | 5 | |
| 1958 | 35 movies | 104 | 132 | 95 | 25 | 10 | 1 | |
| 1959 | 58 movies | 189 | 211 | 131 | 68 | 12 | 1 | |
| 1960 | 48 movies | 142 | 166 | 102 | 50 | 9 | 5 | |
| 1961 | 44 movies | 128 | 152 | 88 | 55 | 5 | 4 | |
| 1962 | 40 movies | 119 | 129 | 84 | 40 | 5 | 0 | |
| 1963 | 37 movies | 105 | 111 | 62 | 38 | 8 | 3 | |
| 1964 | 46 movies | 123 | 133 | 91 | 31 | 8 | 3 | |
| 1965 | 42 movies | 84 | 91 | 71 | 17 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1966 | 49 movies | 105 | 133 | 110 | 14 | 8 | 1 | |
| 1967 | 44 movies | 94 | 106 | 67 | 38 | 8 | 3 | |
| 1968 | 33 movies | 84 | 84 | 59 | 19 | 5 | 1 | |
| 1969 | 43 movies | 78 | 97 | 67 | 27 | 2 | 1 | |
| 1970 | 54 movies | 91 | 130 | 84 | 39 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1971 | 52 movies | 107 | 126 | 71 | 52 | 3 | 0 | |
| 1972 | 62 movies | 99 | 151 | 86 | 60 | 3 | 2 | |
| 1973 | 60 movies | 93 | 138 | 94 | 37 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1974 | 55 movies | 71 | 104 | 66 | 33 | 0 | 5 | |
| 1975 | 45 movies | 61 | 90 | 50 | 35 | 3 | 2 | |
| 1976 | 41 movies | 58 | 97 | 53 | 39 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1977 | 50 movies | 50 | 96 | 59 | 27 | 8 | 2 | |
| 1978 | 46 movies | 59 | 90 | 48 | 34 | 3 | 5 | |
| 1979 | 42 movies | 38 | 66 | 37 | 25 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1980 | 43 movies | 28 | 71 | 43 | 21 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1981 | 46 movies | 40 | 88 | 48 | 34 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1982 | 45 movies | 28 | 82 | 41 | 37 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1983 | 33 movies | 29 | 73 | 36 | 37 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1984 | 39 movies | 11 | 70 | 32 | 33 | 4 | 1 | |
| 1985 | 40 movies | 21 | 72 | 39 | 31 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1986 | 27 movies | 3 | 41 | 22 | 17 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1987 | 12 movies | 4 | 21 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1988 | 21 movies | 9 | 43 | 24 | 17 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1989 | 19 movies | 10 | 38 | 20 | 16 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1990 | 9 movies | 4 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1991 | 16 movies | 6 | 57 | 35 | 20 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1992 | 12 movies | 3 | 25 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1993 | 14 movies | 3 | 49 | 22 | 23 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1994 | 12 movies | 5 | 39 | 9 | 28 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1995 | 4 movies | 2 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1996 | 5 movies | 0 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total upto 1996 | 1845 movies | 3729 | 5144 | 3353 | 1466 | 208 | 117 |
It can be seen from the table of 1996 that Lata Mangeshkar sang 14 songs in 5 movies released in 1996.
No song sung by Lata Mangeshkar in movies of 1996 has been covered in the blog. So all the 14 songs 5 movies of 1996 sung by Lata Mangeshkar are yet to be covered in the blog.
Alphabetically “Aurat Aurat Aurat”(1995) is the first movie of 1996 that offers us a Lata Mangeshkar song to be covered in the blog.
“Aurat Aurat Aurat”(1995) was produced by Premji and directed by K Vishwanath for Suchitra Films Private Limited. The movie had Rekha, Rakesh Roshan, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Aruna Irani, Vinod Mehra, Neeta Mehta,Ram. P.Sethi, Dharmesh Tiwari, Pavan Malhotra, Mathur, T.P.Jain, Viju Khote, Shreeram Lagoo,Deepak Qazir, Dilip Dhawan, Dina Pathak etc in it.
The movie was a badly delayed movie. Its shooting began in early 1980, it finally received its censor certificate in 1994 and the movie was released in 1996, Vinod Mehra, the lead actor of the movie had expired several years ago.
The movie had seven songs in it. Two of these songs, which are two versions of the same song, had the voice of Lata Mangeshkar in them.
Here is the Lata Mangeshkar song from “Aurat Aurat Aurat”(1995). The song is sung by Talat Aziz and Lata Mangeshkar. Anand Bakshi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal.
The song is picturised on Rekha and Vinod Mehra.
Lyrics of the song and other details have been sent by Prakashchandra.
With this song, “Aurat Aurat Aurat”(1996) makes its debut in the blog.
Happy version (Audio full):
Happy version video (Partial)
Sad version audio:
Song-Chhota sa ghar banaayen (Aurat Aurat Aurat)(1996) Singers-Talat Aziz, Lata, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal
Both
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
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Happy version
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chhotaa aa saa ghar
banaayein aen
sapnon ki chaandni se aey ae
jo hamein aen aen naheen milaa woh
chalo maa..aang len kisee se
chhotaa aa sa ghar banaayein aen
sapnon ki chaandni se ae
jo hamein aen aen naheen milaa woh
chalo maang len aen ae kisee se
chhotaa aa saa ghar banaayein
sapnon ki chaandni se ae
jo hamein aen naheen milaa woh
chalo maa..aaang len ae kisee se
chhotaa saa ghar banaa..aaayein aen
chaaron taraf sajaaeyein
apney aey ae sapan saloney ae
rakhoongi main kahaan par
bachchon ke sab khilauney
unkee jagahey ae banaa len
unnkee jagahey aey ae banaa len
aangan mein hum abhee se ae
chhotaa aa saa ghar banaayein
sapnon ki chaandnee se
jo hamein aen aen naheen milaa woh
chalo maang len kisee se
chhotaa aa aa saa ghar banaa..aaayein aen
kaafi hai jo milaa hai ae
baaqi kaa gham naheen hai aey ae
kaafi hai jo milaa hai ae ae
baaqi kaa gham naheen hai aey ae ae
chaahat kaa ek pal bhi
barson se kam naheen hai aey ae
mujhko ye pyaa..aar teraa
mujhko o o ye pyaar teraa
pyaaraa aa hai zindagi se
chhotaa aa saa ghar banaayein aen
sapnon ki chaandnee se aey ae
jo hamein aen aen naheen milaa woh
chalo maang lein aen kisee se
chhotaa saa ghar banaayein aen
ye dil tumaharey dil se ae
kitnaa aa aa qareeb hogaa
lekin naseeb jaaney
woh din naseeb hogaa
hum itney khush huye to o
hum itney khush huye to o
mar jaayengey ae khushee se
chhotaa aa saa ghar banaayein aen (chhotaa aa saa ghar banaayein aen)
sapnon ki chaandni se aey ae (sapnon ki chaandni se aey ae )
jo hamein aen aen (jo hamein aen aen )
naheen milaa woh (naheen milaa woh)
chalo maang ley aey ae kisee se
chhotaa saa ghar banaa…aaaa…aaayein aen
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Sad version
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ye dil tumharey dil se ae
kitnaa aa qareeb hogaa
lekin naseeb jaaney
woh dil naseeb hogaa
hum itney khush huye to
hum itney khush huye to
mar jaayeingey aen khushee se
chhotaa aa saa ghar banaayein
sapnon ki chaandni se aey ae
jo hamein aen aen naheen milaa aa woh
chalo maang len aen kisee se ae
chhotaa saa ghar
banaayein aen
This article is written by Peevesie’s Mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Hullo Atuldom
A very Happy Republic day to one and all.
“India is my country
And all Indians are my brothers and sisters.
I love my country, and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage.
I shall always strive to be worthy of it.
I shall give respect to my parents, teachers, and all elders and treat everyone with courtesy.
To my country and my people, I pledge my devotion.
In their well being and prosperity alone, lies my happiness
Jai Hind!.”
This is the national pledge which is commonly found printed in the opening pages of the school text books and calendars. It is recited in the morning assembly of most Indian schools. It is part of the Indian Constitution. It is commonly recited by Indians in unison at public events, Independence day, Republic day etc. At least it used be so when I was a student, don’t know if this is still in practice. We all know who wrote the National Anthem or the National song but the author of the National Pledge is largely unknown. His name is P.V. Subba Rao who was a Telugu author and bureaucrat who composed the pledge when he was serving as District Treasury Officer in Vishakapatnam district in 1962/63. It was subsequently translated into other languages. Apparently Subba Rao himself was unaware of the Pledge having been adopted as National Pledge till he heard his grand daughter reading it from a textbook.
Hope we all get back to taking the pledge today on our 71st Republic day.
“Diljale” (1996) had music by Anu Malik and Javed Akhtar was the lyricist. It was produced by Paramjeet Baweja and directed by Harry Baweja; Karan Razdan (of the popular Doordarshan serial “Rajani” fame) was its story-screenplay-dialogue writer. It had a cast headed by Sonali Bendre- Ajay Devgan- Madhoo- Parmeet Sethi and Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor, Himani Shivpuri, Farida Jalal, Akash Khurana, Master Raju (as Raju Shrivastav), Rakesh Bedi, Tinnu Anand, Aroon Bakshi, Gulshan Grover etc in the supporting cast.
It was the story of Shyam (Ajay Devgan) who is the son of a patriotic village leader (Akash Khurana) who is in love with Radhika (Sonali Bendre) daughter of the local politician and an erstwhile Rajasaheb. The Raja cannot digest the love between the college students because of economic and class differences. He also cannot tolerate the village leader who is an obstacle in his aim to usurp the land of the villagers. The Raja, with the help of the local corrupt cop Gulshan Grover manages to frame the village leader and brand Shyam a terrorist when the latter goes to question the Raja’s actions. This causes a rift between the lovers.
Shyam manages to escape and finds refuge with Dara (Amrish Puri) and his gang who are basically pawns at the hand of India’s enemies. Shyam as Shaka tries to settle scores with Rajasaheb, and in process a few of his associates are captured by the army. Dara and his gang then hijack a bus of Vaishnodevi pilgrims so that they can pressurize the army into releasing their gang members. Radhika and her aunt are also part of the hostages. This provides the ex-lovers opportunity to clarify misunderstandings. The movie then proceeds to the climax with Shaka/ Shyam managing to avenge his father’s humiliation etc. He also manages to bring a change in the thinking of Dara and his gang who surrender to the army when they see that Shaka steps on a landmine that was meant to blow them up. All-in-all it was an entertaining movie but IMHO the solution to the terrorist problem, as shown in the movie, was rather lame.
“Diljale” had Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Poornima, Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan and Master Aditya Narayan who has now grown into an adult and is a singer, composer and television host now. We have one song already in the blog out of the eight or nine songs that the movie had.
Today’s song is a two-version song. In the first version we have Akash Khurana lip-syncing to Kumar Sanu and tutoring his son about the motherland. The son lip-syncs to Aditya Narayan. This version has all the trappings of a National Day song with flag unfurling, releasing doves and Hindu Muslim bhaichara or unity as one may choose to view it. The second version starts as an antakshari played by the captives of Dara and gang and culminates as the patriotic song sung by Radhika in Kavita Krishnamurthy’s voice.
Incidentally 25th January happened to be Kavita Krishnamurthy’s 63rd birthday. She was born in Delhi as Sharada Krishnamurthy. She is married to Dr. L. Subramaniam a renowned composer, violinist, and conductor who is trained in Carnatic classical music as well as Western Classical music. Kavita got an opportunity to sing under the auspices of Hemant Kumar for a Bengali film in 1971 when she was still in college and Lata Mangeshkar was her co-singer. Hemantda’s daughter was instrumental in reintroducing Kavita to Hemantda and he began using her for his live performances. Manna Dey spotted her in one of these shows and then she sang a few advertisement jingles. Until 1985, when “Pyar Jhukta Nahin” happened, Kavita was a dubbing artist for many composers. “tumse milkar, na jaane kyun” and “Pyar Jhukta Nahin” was the turning point of her career. Here is wishing Kavita Krishnamurthy a life filled with happiness and music and good health.
Happy Republic Day once again.
Part I
Part II
Song-Mera mulk mera desh mera ye watan (Diljale)(1996) Singers-Kumar Sanu, Aditya Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Lyrics-Javed Akhtar, MD-Anu Malik
Chorus
Lyrics
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Part I
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mera mulk mera desh
mera ye watan
shaanti ka unnati ka pyaar ka chaman
iss ke waaste nisaar hai
mera tan
mera mann
ae watan ae watan ae watan
jaaneman jaaneman jaaneman
mera mulk mera desh mera ye watan
shaanti ka unnati ka pyar ka chaman
aaa aahaha ha
aaa aahaha ha
aaaaaa a aaaaaa
aaaaaaaa
apne is chaman ko swarag hum banaayenge
kona kona apne desh ka sajaayenge
jashn hoga zindagi ka
honge sab magan
honge sab magan
iske waaste nisaar hai mera tan mera man
ae watan ae watan ae watan
jaaneman jaaneman jaaneman
mera mulk mera desh
mera ye watan
shaanti ka unnati ka
pyaar ka chaman
mera mulk mera desh mera ye watan
shaanti ka unnati ka pyaar ka chaman
mera mulk mera desh mera ye watan
shaanti ka unnati ka pyaar ka chaman
iske waaste nisaar hai
mera tan
mera man
ae watan ae watan ae watan
jaaneman jaaneman jaaneman
ae watan ae watan ae watan
jaaneman jaaneman jaaneman
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Part II
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hai na bolo bolo,
hai na bolo bolo
papa bolo bolo,
mummy bolo bolo
papa ko mummy se
mummy ko papa se
pyaar hai
pyaar hai
pyaar hai
hum tum
ek kamre mein band hon
aur chaabhi kho jaaye
nainon ki bhool bhulaiya mein
bobby kho jaye
hum tum, ek kamre me band ho
aur chabhi kho jaaye
ek do teen char panch chhe
saat aath nau das gyarah barah terah
ek do teen
char panch chhe
sat aath nau das gyarah barah terah
tera karoon din gin gin ke intzaar
aaja piya aayi bahaar
tera karoon din gin gin ke intzar
aaja piya aayi bahaar
roop tera mastana, pyaar mera deewaana
roop tera mastana, pyaar mera diwana
bhool koi hamse na ho jaaye
roop tera mastana, pyaar mera deewaana
bhool koi hamse na ho jaaye
raat nasheeli mast samaa hai
aaj nashe mein saara jahaan hai
haaye sharaabi mausam bahkaaye ae ae
roop tera mastana, pyaar mera diwana
bhool koi hamse na ho jaaye
ae bhai
ae bhai zara dekh ke chalo
aage hi nahin peechhe bhi
daayen hi nahi, baye bhi
upar hi nahi, neeche bhi
ae bhai, ae bhai zara dekh ke chalo
aage hi nahin pichhe bhi
daye hi nahin baye bhi
upar hi nahin neeche bhi ae bhai
eena meena deeka
eena meena deeka, daaye dama deeka
maka naka naka
cheeka peeka reeka
hey
eena meena deeka, daye dama dika
maka naka maka naka
peeka peeka rola rika
rampam posh saramm posh
rampam posh saramm posh
rampam posh saramm posh
rampam posh saramm posh
eena meena deeka
kya karen kya na karen ye kaisi mushkil haye
kya kare, kya na kare, ye kaisi mushkil haye
koi to bata de, iska hal o mere bhai
ke ek taraf isse pyar kare
aur usko hi, ye kahne se daren hum
mera mulk, mera desh, mera ye watan
shaanti ka, unnati ka, pyaar ka chaman
mera mulk
mera desh
mera ye watan
shaanti ka
unnati ka, pyaar ka chaman
iske waaste nisaar hai
mera tan
mera man
ae watan
ae watan
ae watan
jaaneman
jaaneman
jaaneman
kal ke saare waade aaj tootne lage
haath mein jo haath thhe wo chhootne lage
kaash laut aaye pahle jaisa apna man
ae watan, ae watan, ae watan
jaaneman, jaaneman, jaaneman
mera mulk mera desh mera ye watan
shaanti ka unnati ka pyaar ka chaman
mera mulk mera desh mera ye watan
shaanti ka
De Taali, De De De De Taali
Posted on: June 20, 2020
This article is written by Peevesie’s Mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Hullo Atuldom
In one of his recent posts our Avinash ji has suggested that there should be a category of posts – ‘Post inspired by fellow Atulite’ or ‘Post inspired by Atulite WA group chat’. I would like to borrow a phrase from Sudhir ji ‘thank you for the nudge’ and direct it towards Avinash ji. If not for Avinash ji I would have written this post a month later. Don’t know how I mixed up dates. And there have been posts wherein Atul ji has credited me with being good at remembering dates. It is not so Atul ji, calendars also need reminders.
I am 100% sure that the followers of this blog and non-followers too will be aware of a movie that released in the 70s. 1975 to be exact. It went by the name ‘Sholay’. It was a multi-star-cast movie that ran for years in a single cinema hall in Mumbai. This blog has already covered each and every song possible from that movie with detailed posts accompanying them. I am sure, the readers are wondering, why I am revisiting the movie then? Well ‘Sholay’ is something like an ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ (1977) or any other formula movie. ‘AAA’ had a lost-and-found formula which was repeated in many movies after it. ‘AAA’ itself was a copy of numerous movies preceding it with the lost-and-found theme. It can be safely said that Indian movies thrive as much on the stories of the Ramayan and Mahabharata as they do on the lost-and-found theme.
So, where does ‘Sholay’ fit, in the scheme of things? Well, the ‘Thakur-Dacoit-Hired help’ formula has been repeated in a few movies too. Personally I have seen three movies on that story-line, there may be more. Two of them had a female for Thakur. That is, someone out to avenge the injustice meted out to her assisted by guys – ladies were SUPPOSED to be naajuk, bebas, etc. and a widow to add masala to the story. I am sure a woman of the new millennium will protest at the description of bebas, naajuk – even I will protest. There were Basanti and Radha as love interests in ‘Sholay’ – all the remakes also had ladies to distract the Veeru and Jai of the remakes.
Yesterday I saw ‘Army’ which had released on 28th June 1996 i.e. exactly 8 days short of 24 years ago. It was directed by Raam Shetty, produced by Nitin Manmohan and Mukul Anand and had music by Anand Milind. This is one of the ‘Sholay’ remakes that I spoke of in the previous paragraph. It has Sridevi playing a pregnant widow out to avenge her husband’s death for which she takes the help of five prisoners who are on the death-row. I hope the ‘Sholay’-connect has been explained. Explaining further- there it is two prisoners, here it is five. There the prisoners escape hoodwinking the ‘Angrezon ke zaamane ka Jailor‘; here Sridevi helps the prisoners get out of prison using sleep-inducing sweets. In ‘Sholay’; the thakur’s house was on a hillock overlooking the village, even that was replicated in ‘Army’. The prisoner’s are holed up in a secluded house that overlooks the area adjoining the palace of Sridevi’s tormentor. This was then the background of the movie from which I am presenting a song to our today’s birthday boy.
Coming back to the thoughts expressed in the opening paragraph, I asked Avinash ji if he was aware of the favourites of our today’s birthday boy. Favourite actor, singer, music director etc. Both of us thought hard and found that we don’t know much about his favourites but he knows all of us fairly well. What I do know, he has a ‘more than’ good knowledge about cricket and movies. He loves his pets and they are the family that live with him as his wife is working in a different town and daughter is a student elsewhere. Of late I have discovered that he has a love for the progresses that the country has made in the various sectors post the ’98 Pokharan tests. He is proud to be employed in the biggest service provider of the nation.
In addition to all that he has a unique sense of humor, which surfaces often on the blog in his posts and is given the title “Atulism” by our very own Rajaji.
Its is the birthday of the brain behind this blog, our Ranchiwala Gaanewala (Sudhir ji’s title for him). Wish you a very Happy Birthday Atul ji from your Army of contributors. We wish you all the best with lots of fun and music.
Today’s song is a lively song where the prisoners are having a party-like song and dance before escaping from the prison. It is sung by Alka Yagnik, Abhijeet and Vinod rathod. The two male singers are playback for Ravi Kishan. Ronit Roy, Sudesh Berry, Mohnish Behl and Harish who feed the jailor Kiran Kumar a laddo during the song and the favour is returned by the jailor. So when the song ends the rest of Sridevi’s Army have to bodily carry him out of the prison. It was an entertaining movie but becomes too violent towards the end. Whatever gory violence was snipped out of ‘Sholay’ found itself here.
Once again wishing our leader Atul ji a very Happy Birthday
Song – De Taali, De De De De Taali (Army) (1996) Singer – Alka Yagnik, Abhijeet, Vinod Rathod, Lyrics – Sameer, MD – Anand Milind
Chorus
Lyrics
hae haa ho
hae haa ho
hae haa ho
hae haa ho
hae haa ho
hae haa ho
hae haa ho
chaudi chaudi sadak nahin
koi tadak ya bhadak nahin
oonche oonche ghar nahin
lafda jhagda darr nahin
shor sharabaa yahaan nahin
khoon kharaba yahaan nahin
kehne wale jail kahein
par yahaan badi khush haali
de taali de de de de taali
de taali de de de de taali
chaudi chaudi sadak nahin
koi tadak ya bhadak nahin
oonche oonche ghar nahin
lafda jhagda darr nahin
shor sharaba yahan nahin
khoon kharaba yahan nahin
kehne wale jail kahein
par yahan badi khush haali
de taali de de de de taali
de taali de de de de taali
aaaa aaaa aaaa
hansi udaaye yaar hamaari
baat koi na maane
hum kaise andar aayein hain
koi bhi na jaane
baahar jeena hai to yaaro paisa chaahiye
khaana peena hai to yaaro paisa chaahiye
naukri maangoon to sarkaar paisa maange
khaali ghoomoon to dost yaar paisa maange
taxi chalaoon hawaldaar paisa maange
ghar jo jaoon to parivaar paisa maange
kisi bank mein mera koi khata nahin
koi fokat mein khaana khilaata nahin
apna to yeh kehna hai
humko andar rehna hai
apna toh yeh kehna hai
humko andar rehna hai
yahan toh apni zindagi hai tension se khaali
de taali de de de de taali
de taali de de de de taali
hae haa ho
hae haa ho
bina degree ke kaam yahaan sab ko mile
kaam karte hi daam yahaan sab ko mile
yahaan time se roti sab ko mile
dal chaawal boti sab ko mile
bina bhaade ke kholi sab ko mile
arre yaar humjoli sab ko mile
haan haa haa haaa
hoo hoo oo
aaj ka din bhi achha din hai
sundar bada muhoorat hai
tum jaise logon ki pyaare
baahar bahut zaroorat hai
baahar jao
jaa ke duniya walon ko samjhao
subah shaam marne waalon ko tum jeena sikhlaao
jo bhi baahar jayega woh jeevan bhar pachhtayega
jo bhi baahar jaayega
woh jeevan bhar pachhtayega
baahar jaake milegi humko nafrat gurbat gaali
de taali de de de de taali
de taali de de de de taali
chaudi chaudi sadak nahin
koi tadak ya bhadak nahin
oonche oonche ghar nahin
lafda jhagda darr nahin
shor sharaba yahaan nahin
khoon kharaba yahaan nahin
kehne wale jail kahein
par yahaan badi khush haali
de taali de de de de taali
de taali de de de de taali
hae haa ho
hae haa ho
hae haa ho
hae haa ho
Gaate thhe pahle akele
Posted on: November 21, 2019
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My stint as a post writer for the blog started with this song from the film “Gumnaam”. This was a Helen song, and I chose it as the song for my first post in the blog for no particular reason. Maybe it was not yet posted in the blog was the only trigger, apart from my husband suggesting it.
Another remarkable thing about my first posts was that, it got posted within a few hours of sending the mail. There were very few outside contributors who were writing posts back than in 2012, could have been one of the factors in being given such priority treatment 🙂 . Guest posters were few and lyrics contributors were many. I was one of the early song lyric contributors. Those were very heady days of finding known, much loved songs not yet posted in the blog. I remember with fondness, sending lyrics of some of my all-time favourite songs like “ ab to hai tum se har khushi apni” from “Abhimaan” and the hauntingly beautiful rendition of ‘hai tere saathh meri wafaa” from “Hindustan ki Qasam”.
Now I am a veteran of 302 lyrics and 243 posts, at last count. Lyrics contribution has stopped for obvious reason that, if I can write posts also that why would somebody else want to write them for the songs which I want posted in the blog. Sometimes I think, I should go back to sending lyrics contributions, also for no particular reason. You see random thought in the mind don’t necessarily have to be for a reason or logic.
Similar way my posts are written straight from the heart and not with too much deliberations. Though at times they may seem so, if I quote some poems and my own ‘essay’s. There have been a few posts by me which had on length discussions (my own seesaw of thoughts – if they can be called discussions) not related in anyway to the songs accompanying the posts. Some of the posts were direct from the heart and reflected my feelings, impressions etc. No matter what I have enjoyed my experience here, much misunderstood and all. I feel that language can only be source of communication, which is one dimensional only.
Going back to my first post – A Helen song. Helen Anne Richardson Khan (born Helen Anne Richardson on 21 November 1938), best known as Helen. She is turning 81 on 21st November, 2019, and this is posts to celebrate her persona and her contribution in her chosen field. Having stated this there is not much about ‘Helen’ I will be writing.
In the post (My first post) I had this to say about the film ‘Khaamoshi”(1996):
‘Not that have anything against Jatin-Lalit, in fact their score for ‘Khaamoshi – The Musical ” is one of my few favourites in this two decades. The other day, I looked up the songs of this film, solely for the Helen song “Gaate thhe pehle akele aaj gaata hai saara jahaan”, trying to find a better alternative to this song from “Gumnaam” which I am supposed to discuss. Yeh dil sun rahaa hai, mausam ki sargam ko sun, jaana suno ham tum pe marte hain, hayya haaya ho let it let let it go, and aaj main uper aasman neeche are all competing for the best song of the film(Khaamoshi-The Musical).’
Having said this much about the film in the post, I have so far managed to post only one song. So I have chosen a “Helen” song with a difference from this film as this birthday post.
In this song, Helen playing the matriarch of a Goan family, ‘Mariamma’ in the film is trying to make the best of the situation where ‘A Piano’ being family heirloom is sold to the local antique collector, Raghuvir Yadav. The Piano is maybe last thing remaining which belonged Mariamma’s husband and her link with him. As the Piano is taken away, there is procession of villagers singing and dancing, Mariamma is a part of it with her grandchildren. The Piano is finally taken away abroad a ferry, and she cannot follow it anymore. She has tried her best to mollify the children that all is not lost and those things which are lost, eventually comeback. As the song ends, Mariamma is also seen going beyond the horizon. That’s the end of the ‘Mariamma too in the film.
The singers are Kavita Krishnamoorthy, Shradha and Khusnum. The later two are new names for the blog, who sing for the kids. There is a lot of chorus and unique composition in its own way. Jatil-Lalit are the composers and Majrooh Sultanpuri is the lyricist of this beautiful song. Helen as the Anglo-Indian elderly widow in the black and white dress, made a charming grandmother in the film. With her demise, Annie’s(Manisha Koirala) child hood is also over. The film, if the readers have not seen it, is to be recommended for any student of cinema. The reasons of this recommendation are many, and songs also is one of the reasons.
The audio version and the film version are the same, but both links are given, just that we can hear the song twice, if seen only once. Again.
Audio
Video
Song-Gaate thhe pehle akele (Khaamoshi)(1996) Singers-Kavita Krishnamoorthy, Shraddha, Khushnum, Lyrics-Majrooh Sultanpuri, MD-Jatin Lalit
Chorus
Lyrics
Hey mauj me le chalo mil ke baaja
Hey raja odhe sambhaal
Hey mauj me le chalo mil ke baaja
Hey raja odhe sambhaal
Gaate thhe pehle akele
Aaj gaata hai saara jahaan
Kaisa khushi ka samaa hai
Pi ke aansoo hanso re sanaa
Pyaar se muskuraa
Kya huaa bhool jaa
Hey mauj me le chalo mil ke baaja
Hey raja odhe sambhaal
Hey mauj me le chalo mil ke baaja
Hey raja odhe sambhaal
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
Jo kho gayaa
Uss ka gham kya
Jo paas hai
Woh hai kam kya
Baat achhi hai naa
Baat sachchi hai naa
Baaje re baaja hamaaraa
Naache re sansaar saaraa
Pyaar se muskuraa
Kya huaa bhool jaa
Gaate thhe pehle akele
Aaj gaata hai saara jahaan
Kaisa khushi ka samaa hai
Pi ke aansoo hanso re sanaa
Pyaar se muskuraa
Kya huaa bhool jaa
aye haathh-gaadi nahin yeh hai baaja
Hey raaja odhe sambhaal
aye haathh-gaadi nahin yeh hai baaja
Hey raaja odhe sambhaal
ho o o o
ho o ho ho
ho o o o
ho o ho ho
Ham to sunaa jo jaataa hai
Wo laut kar phir aataa hai
Baat achhi hai naa
Baat sachchi hai naa
Baaje re baaja hamaaraa
Naache re sansaar saaraa
Pyaar se muskuraa
Kya huaa bhool jaa
Gaate thhe pehle akele
Aaj gaata hai saara jahaan
Kaisa khushi ka samaa hai
Pi ke aansoo hanso re sanaa
Pyaar se muskuraa
Kya huaa bhool jaa
Hey mauj me le chalo mil ke baaja
Hey raja odhe sambhaal
Hey mauj me le chalo mil ke baaja
Hey raja odhe sambhaal
Aa aaaa Aaaaa
Aaaaaaaaa
Aaaaaaaaa
Aaaaaaaaa
Hey mauj me le chalo mil ke baaja
Hey raja odhe sambhaal
Hey mauj me le chalo mil ke baaja
Hey raja odhe sambhaal
Hey mauj me le chalo mil ke baaja
Hey raja odhe sambhaal
Hey mauj me le chalo mil ke baaja
Hey raja odhe sambhaal
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Devnagri script Lyrics (Provided by nahm)
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हे मौज में ले चलो मिल के बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
हे मौज में ले चलो मिल के बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
गाते थे पहले अकेले
आज गाता है सारा जहां
कैसा खुशी का समां है
पी के आँसू हंसो रे सना
प्यार से मुस्कुरा
क्या हुआ भूल जा
हे मौज में ले चलो मिल के बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
हे मौज में ले चलो मिल के बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
जो खो गया
उसस का ग़म क्या
जो पास है
वो है कम क्या
बात अच्छी है ना
बात सच्ची है ना
बाजे रे बाजा हमारा
नाचे रे संसार सारा
प्यार से मुस्कुरा
क्या हुआ भूल जा
गाते थे पहले अकेले
आज गाता है सारा जहां
कैसा खुशी का समां है
पी के आँसू हंसो रे सना
प्यार से मुस्कुरा
क्या हुआ भूल जा
ए हाथ गाड़ी नहीं ये है बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
ए हाथ गाड़ी नहीं ये है बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
हो ओ
हो हो हो हो
हो ओ
हो हो हो हो
हो ओ
हो हो
हो हो हो
हो हो हो
हो हो हो
हो हो हो
हम तो सुना
जो जाता है
वो लौट कर
फिर आता है
बात अच्छी है ना
बात सच्ची है ना
बाजे रे बाजा हमारा
नाचे रे संसार सारा
प्यार से मुस्कुरा
क्या हुआ भूल जा
हा गाते थे पहले अकेले
आज गाता है सारा जहां
कैसा खुशी का समां है
पी के आँसू हंसो रे सना
प्यार से मुस्कुरा
क्या हुआ भूल जा
हे मौज में ले चलो मिल के बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
हे मौज में ले चलो मिल के बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
आ आ आ आ आ
हे मौज में ले चलो मिल के बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
हे मौज में ले चलो मिल के बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
हे मौज में ले चलो मिल के बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
हे मौज में ले चलो मिल के बाजा
हे राजा ओढ़े संभाल
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