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4950 Post No. : 16814

AR Rehman – The Musician of 21st Century – 3

84th Birthday of Waheeda Rehman on 3rd February 2022

46th Birthday of Abhishek Bachchan on 5th February 2022

The songs of the movie ‘Delhi-6’ are among my favorite music scores by AR Rehman. I rate this qawwaali from the movie, for which I wrote a post back in 2012 as among the best of hindi film songs in this genre.  The links of two songs posted in the blog are given below:

Arziyaan saari main chehre pe likh ke laaya hoon (Delhi 6)
Ye Dilli hai mere yaar (Delhi 6)

 

AR Rehman is also a product of advertising industry, as he started his career is advertising. The one ad I remember is of ‘Garden-Vareili” as composed by AR Rehman. He soon proved his mettle as a talented musician at a very young age working in Tamil and Hindi films, mainly with Mani Rathnam.  Many of his severest critics will agree that, ARR revolutionized the Hindi film music scene in the 90’s and changed the sound of songs completely.  Few of the other musicians have been able to imitate him or his style.  Most of them thought it better to keep to sufiaana or import some songs from other countries like Pakistan or Egypt etc. then try to surpass ARR in creativity.  In many aspects this revolution is even bigger than the reinvention of HFM in 1950 with ‘Barsaat’, by Shankar-Jaikishan.  I am not going towards RDB reinvention, as I have a different opinion about that than the popular conception.

So, Rehman was here, working simultaneously in Mumbai and South, with more focus on southern language films.  This continued till he went truly international and collaborated with other musicians of the west and worked in Hollywood.  Among all these, the Bollywood film work was never his sole focus.  He diversified and did select few films for the Hindi film industry.  The biggies and the not so biggies did go to Chennai to rope him in to give music to their films.  And he has been selective about the projects he takes.  Although he has given 1 or 2 music scores which were not up to the mark, in my opinion.

But overall, his work is critically acclaimed, in all the big banner films like ‘Lagaan’, ‘Guru’, ‘Rang De Basanti’, ‘1947 Earth’, ‘Yuvraaj’ etc. and the Jewel in the crown song of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.  His mini bio is here.

Recently, he has been seen performing live at a special Pavilion dedicated for him and his troupe at DUBAIEXPO2020.  We did go to explore the expo, but ARR was not performing in the first week.  We landed in Dubai the night before the EXPO was to open, so the ‘raunaq’ at Dubai airport was to be seen to be believed.  But that is a subject of another post.

As post no. 3 of the series, I am presenting this song from ‘Delhi-6’, which has folk origins, or ‘traditional’ as the lyrics are credited. Though some sources are crediting Prasoon Joshi as the lyricist.  Unusual song for ARR, but the hall mark of his fusion and composition with vocals, where musical instruments could be used is visible.   And ARR thrives on the unusual, those who have followed his career will agree.

Waheeda Rehman, the graceful dancing star and an actor of repute of last century and a character actor in current century, celebrated her 84th birthday two days ago.  Born in 1938, which makes her just 18 years old when she debuted in Hindi films with ‘CID’ (1956).  I am presently watching that movie (in installments), so can vouch that she does look very young, despite the heavily made up/get up in the film.   Lot of other information about her is available here.

Abhishek Bachchan is celebrating his 46th birthday today.  As is the ‘chalan’ nowadays for celebrities, he must be somewhere exotic to ring in the birthday.

Both Waheeda Rehman and Abhishek Bachchan are featuring in this song, where Waheeda Rehman, Aditi Rao Hydari, Supriya Pathak and others are singing the song on screen, playback by Rekha Bharadwaj.  Sonam Kapoor and Om puri are also seen, who are not taking part in the song, filmed on the terrace of the houses in old Delhi area of Chaandni Chowk.

I think Abhishek Bachchan is an underrated and under utilized actor in the Hindi film scene.  It can’t have been easy to follow in the giant leaps of Amitabh Bachchan and the remarkable footsteps of Jaya Bachchan.

Simple orchestration and simple filming.   This is a folk song, and it mentions the town of Raipur in the stanza.

What could the term “Sasural genda phool” mean ? I think it means, though ‘sasural’ or the ‘In-laws place’ looks like a Marigold, but our attachment is full of fragrance is great and long lasting.  The appearances can be deceptive.

Video

Audio

Song – Sasuraal Genda Phool (Delhi-6) (2009) Singer – Rekha Bhardwaj, Lyrics – Traditional, MD – AR Rehman

Lyrics

veyh
veyh
veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh

saiyyan chhed deve
nanand chutki leve
sasural genda phool
saas gaali deve
devari samjha leve
sasural genda phool
chhodaa baabul ka angnaa
bhave deraa piyaa ka ho oo
saas gaari deve
devarji samjha leve
sasural genda phool
saiyyan hain vyapari
chale hain pardes
sooratiyaa nihaarun
jiyaara bhaari hove
sasural genda phool
hmmm mmmm
hmmm mmmm

saas gaari deve
devarji samjha leve
sasural genda phool
saiyyan chhed deve
nanand chutki leve
sasural genda phool
hmmm mmmm
hmmm mmmm
chhodaa baabul ka angnaa
bhave deraa piyaa ka ho oo

bush-shirt paheene
khaayike beedaa paan
poore raipur se alag hai
saiyyan ji ki shaan
sasural genda phool
saiyyan chhed deve
nanand chutki leve
hoen hoen hoeh

sasural genda phool
saas gaari deve
hoen hoen hoeh
devariji samjha leve
sasural genda phool
chhodaa baabul ka angnaa
hoen hoen hoeh
bhave deraa piyaa ka ho oo

hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
veyh veyh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh
hoen hoen hoeh


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Blog Day :

4868 Post No. : 16662 Movie Count :

4541

Yearwise discussion of Lata Mangeshkar songs in HFM: Part LX: Year 2008 and 2009
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In this episode, the 60th episode, we were supposed to cover Lata Mangeshkar songs that she sang in Hindi movies released in 2008.

But I was not able to locate any Lata Mangeshkar songs from movies released in 2008. Movies released during the next year, viz 2009 had just one movie where the voice of Lata Mangshkar was present. So in this episode we discuss a Lata Mangeshkar song from movies of 2009.

Here are the details of songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar in Hindi movies released in 2009 :-

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
1 Jail Shamir Tandon 0 1 1 0 0 0 Ajay Kumar Garg
Total 1 movie 1 MD 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 lyricist

Lata Mangeshkar worked with 1 music director and 1 lyricist in this one movie released in 2009.

Laxmikant Pyarelal were the most prolific music directors with Lata, with 664 songs in HFM with Lata Mangeshkar by the end of 2007. 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 275 songs. Other top music directors for Lata Mangeshkar were Chitragupta (239), Madan Mohan (204), 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 3742 songs out of 5241 songs that Lata Mangeshkar had sung in Hindi movies till end of 2009. Anand Bakshi with 731 songs was the top lyricist with Lata Mangeshkar. Other leading lyricists with Lata Mangeshkar were Rajinder Krishan (555), Majrooh Sultanpuri (407), 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 3252 songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar till that time.

Here is the summary of Lata Mangeshkar’s playback career in Hindi movies till end of 2009 :

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 17 movies 51 57 42 8 4 3
1949 40 movies 142 160 105 35 13 7
1950 36 movies 116 143 93 32 14 4
1951 49 movies 190 223 158 52 10 3
1952 43 movies 151 177 138 31 4 4
1953 45 movies 170 195 149 35 5 6
1954 43 movies 142 172 144 23 4 1
1955 50 movies 173 218 177 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 190 211 131 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 100 151 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 62 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 60 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 4 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 2 14 7 7 0 0
1997 5 movies 1 21 2 14 4 1
1998 3 movies 4 11 3 7 0 1
1999 7 movies 3 14 6 7 0 1
2000 2 movies 3 5 1 2 0 2
2001 6 movies 2 12 6 5 0 1
2002 2 movies 1 8 3 5 0 0
2003 NIL movies 0 0 0 0 0 0
2004 1 movie 4 9 2 4 0 3
2005 3 movies 1 4 3 1 0 0
2006 1 movie 1 1 0 1 0 0
2007 1 movie 1 1 0 1 0 0
2008 0 movie 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 1 movie 0 1 1 0 0 0
Total upto 2009 1881 movies 3764 5241 3387 1515 213 126

“Jail”(2009) was the sole movie released in 2009 that had the voice of Lata Mangeshkar in it as a playback singer.

“Jail”(2009) was directed by Madhur Bhandarkar for Bhandarkar Entertainment, Bombay. The movie had Neil Nitin Mukesh, Mugdha Godse, Arya babbar,Chetan Pandit, Rahul Singh, Vinay Arvind Lad, Ashok Samarth, Sandip Mehta, Navneet Parihar, Manish Mehta, G.K.Desai, Raj Nair, Ali Quli, Parvez Khan, Jignesh Joshi, Kamlesh Sawant, Ashok Kumar Beniwal, Ashish, Varun Vardhan, Nasser Abdullah, Shrirang Deshmukh, Yakub Sayad, Ghanshyam Garg, Milind Joshi, Dinkar Gavande, Gopal K. Singh, Vandana Dhankar, Vijay Govind Badlani, Akhilesh Kumar, Alok Kumar, Vickey Tulsekar, Amit Sinha, Apurv Ratan, Asha Kothari, Bhanu Mehta, Devendra Gautam, Mahendra Kumar Srinivas, Giridhari lal, Arun Singh, Balwant Jadhav, Bharat R Shroff, Dharmenra Kumar Tripathi, F.Olivira, Ajay Bhatia, Hemant Vasant Samat, Jaya Kolekar, Madhukar Patre, Javed Rizvi, Kunal Sharma, Gurudatt Sharma, Yogesh Dwarakadas Thakar, Vivek Joshi, Vipul Bhatt, Umesh Sharma, Suresh Somaiya, Yogesh Tondak, Sanjeev Siddharth, Ranjana Yadav, Rajveer Singh Gaur, Pramod Bangale, Vijay Shetty, Narendra Jain, Mukesh Raj Singh, Mohd. Sabir Shaikh, Mukesh Trivedi(Gopi), Nikita Babu, Pankaj Janwar, Rajendra Jadhav, Ramesh Vichare, Sanjay Pati, Shekh Rasool, Sunil More, Syed Firoz Ashraf, Vipin Kumar Singh, Vishwajeet Barua etc in it. Guest appearance were made by Sayali Bhagat, Atul Kulkarni, Kaveri Jha and Mukkesh Tyagi.

“Jail”(2009) had five songs in it. Lata Mangeshkar had sung one solo song in it.

Here is that Lata Mangeshkar Song from “Jail”(2009). The song is penned by Ajay Kumar Garg. Music is composed by Shamir Tandon.

The song is picturised as a background song, with Neil Nitin Mukesh playing the hapless prisoner behind bars.

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

With this song, “Jail”(2009) makes its debut in the blog.

Audio

Video

Song-Daata sun le maula sun le (Jail)(2009) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Ajay Kumar Garg, MD-Shamir Tandon

Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)

daata sun le
maula sun le ae
daata sun le
maula sun le ae
raahon se meri kaante chun le
dar pe khade hain sar ko jhukaaye
itni si araj hamaari ee
daata sun le, maula sun le
daata sun le
maula sun le ae
daata sun le

raat to kaali hai
din bhi andhera hai
raat to kaali hai
din bhi andhera hai
apni palkon ki
tu chhaanv mein rakhna
jeevan ki dori ko tu thhaamke rakhna
haathon mein tere hi
hai duniya hamaari ee
daata sun le
maula sun le ae
daata sun le
maula sun le ae
daata sun le

galtiyaan jo hamne ki
wo maaf kar dena
mann mein sachchaayi ka aa
vishwaas bhar dena
raatein gujarti hain
aankhon hi aankhon mein
kuchh phool dhoondhte hain
kaanton se bhari shaakhon mein
saanson ki dharti pe hamri paap ka parbat bhaari ee
daata sun le
maula sun le ae
daata sun le
maula sun le ae
daata sun le
maula sun le ae
maula aaa sun le
daata aaa sun le ae
maula aaaa sun le ae ae


This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.

Blog Day :

4455 Post No. : 15929 Movie Count :

4369

Hullo Atuldom

A few phrases and idioms are coming to my mind as I sit to write this post.

“Chip off the old block” meaning “jaisa baap waisa beta”. I am talking of an actor who is representing Gen”X” of the family of entertainers, following in the footsteps of his father, uncles, grandfather, granduncles, great grandfather and great great grandfather. In fact a few of his cousins are also active in carrying the family flag of entertaining the country with their acting talents. This is one talented clan.

But I will not use the public’s favorite word ‘Nepotism’ here because being a star son will only help you get an entry to the producers’ and production house’s offices. They may be nice to you and offer you a role too but after that it is purely the business that the film generates and how much that the audience loves you that decides which direction your career goes. We can name any number of actors whose careers have fallen by the roadside for want of success.

Coming back to the “chip of the old block” that I started the post with, he started out as an assistant to Sanjay Leela Bhansali when he made “Black” (2005). Sanjay Leela Bhansali also gave him his debut film “Saawariya” in 2007 for which the music director was Monty Sharma, another person trying his hand at carrying the family flag- he is Pyarelal Sharma’s nephew.

We are here wishing Ranbir Kapoor on his 38th birthday. He is as versatile as any other of his family in emoting, comedy, dance and every aspect of acting. He has had a fair bit of successful movies and he was simply amazing in the comic climax at the villain’s den in the movie “Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Dastaan”. He was able to stay in step with Madhuri in the “ghagra” song. He is the recipient of awards for various categories. He was fortunate to have worked with his parents in “Besharam” and also his granduncle in “Rockstar”.

I am a little confused as to which will be an appropriate song to go with this post, because the songs in his movies had good lyrics, choreography and were all eye-pleasing. I am going to settle for a song from “Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahaani” which has lyrics by Irshad Kamil and music by Pritam Chakraborty. The movie was a remake of a 2005 Telugu hit and got Ranbir a critics award of best actor. Rajkumar Santoshi was the director and Katrina Kaif, Upen Patel, Darshan Jariwal, Smita Jaykar, Govind Namdeo and Zakir Hussain as the don who has a gang that cannot do anything right. Ranbir and Katrina played characters that have a speech problem every time they get emotional.

I find the names of singers who are new to me – Naresh, Atif Aslam, Soham Chakraborty, Kailash Kher (this one I have heard for some time now) and Ashish Pandit. This is an all-male song.

Audio

Video

Song-Tu jaane naa (Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Daastaan)(2009) Singers-Naresh, Atif Aslam, Soham Chakrabarthy, Kailash Kher, Ashish Pandit, Lyrics-Irshad Kamil, MD-Preetam

Lyrics

kaise bataayen
kyun tujhko chaahe
yaraa bata na paaye
baatein dilon ki
dekho zubaani
aankhen tujhe samjhaayen
tu jaane naa aa aa
tu jaane naa
tu jaane naa aa aa
tu jaane naa

milke bhi hum na mile
tumse na jaane kyun
milon ke hai faasle
tumse na jaane kyun
anjaane hain silsile
tumse na jaane kyun
sapne hain palkon tale
tumse na jaane kyun oon oon
kaise bataayen
kyun tujhko chaahen
yaraa bata naa paayen (aaaaa)
baatein dilon ki (aaaa)
dekho zubaani
aankhen tujhe samjhaaye
tu jaane na aa aa(aaaaa)
tu jaane na (aaaa)
tu jaane na aa aa (aaaaa)
tu jaane na (aaaa)

nigaahon mein dekho meri jo hai bas gaya
wo hai milta tumse hu bahu
ho o o
jaane teri aankhen thi ya baatein thi wajah
huye tum jo dil ki aarzoo
tum paas hoke bhi
tum aas hoke bhi ee
ehsaas hoke bhi apne nahim
aise hain hamko gile
tumse na jaane kyun
meelon ke hai faasle
tumse na jaane kyun oon oon
tu jaane na aa aa
tu jaane na
tu jaane na aa aa
tu jaane na
o jaane na jaane na jaane na aa
haan aan
tu jaane na

khyaalon mein laakhon baatein yoon toh keh gaya aa
bola kuchh na tere saamne
o o o
huye na begaane bhi tum hoke aur ke ae
dekho tum na mere hi bane
afsos hota hai
dil bhi ye rota hai ae
sapne sanjota hai
pagla hua soche ye
hum thhe mile
tumse na jaane kyun
meelon ke hain faasle
tum se na jaane kyun
anjaane hain silsile
tumse na jaane kyun
sapne hain palkon tale
tumse na jaane kyun oon oon
kaise bataayen
kyu tujhko chaahen
yaraa bata na paayen
baatein dilon ki
dekho zubaan ki
aankhen tujhe samjhaayen
tu jaane na aa aa
tu jaane na,
tu jaane na aa aa
tu jaane na
tu jaane na aa aa
tu jaane na,
tu jaane na aa aa
tu jaane na
tu jaane na aa aa
tu jaane na


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Atul ji’s 10K Song Milestone Celebrations – 9
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I am an Atulite and I am proud of it. It is an honor to be associated with a blog that drips pure love of music. Like almost all Indians I love Hindi film music. But I cannot claim to be knowledgeable about it. I do know many songs but that is not a qualification. There are thousands of songs out there, many of which have fallen into oblivion. It is the die-hard music lovers that keep track of these songs and chase them with an assiduity that would make Sherlock Holmes feel jealous.

I am amazed when some of my friends are able to name the movie, singer, lyricist and music director as soon as the song is mentioned. Some Atulites could also tell you charming little stories behind the making of each song. Delving here, I have discovered gorgeous songs that not much known but are as precious as Koh-i-Noor.
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Atul Song-A-Day 10K Song Milestone Celebrations –31
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When I was pointed into the right direction, i.e. JK Rowling and Harry Potter, then the mystery dissolved away, and the nickname ‘Peevesie’ came out in a better light. And after spending maybe an hour with her, the significance of the nickname also eased itself into my mind. In the Harry Potter series, Peeves is a poltergeist at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, since c. 993. Fond of mischief and chaos, he is known as the spirit of chaos around the school. And so, picking up from her favorite series of teenage adventures, the daughter of Peevesie’s Mom selected this nickname for herself. Hmmm. . . is it that the daughter of Peevesie’s Mom selected this nickname for herself and was then known as Peevesie, or is it that she picked this nickname and then her mom came to be known as Peevesie’s Mom – it is getting a little mixed up in the order in which the things may have happened.
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I am not a great travelogue writer, though my husband is always after me to write something about the various trips we undertake. But this time I am going to try my hand at describing a trip I went for in the first few days of May. To accomplish that I have decided to take a break from my list of romantic songs (in my march onto 10000) and write about a lovely encounter with a known unknown person who is a friend for the last 5- 6 years without ever having met.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in 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.

About a month back, I, my wife and four of my close relatives visited Leh-Ladakh on a two week’s trip. Rather than a relaxed holiday, the trip was an experience in itself. A flight from Delhi for Leh meant that there would be an altitude gain from 292 metres in Delhi to 3550 metres in Leh in about one hour time. It was the best option from the point of view of acclimatisation at a higher altitude. So we had to confine ourselves to our hotel rooms in Leh for 24 hours without doing much of an exertion as part of acclimatisation processes for getting used to the lesser oxygen at higher altitude. Furthermore, during our trip, we were to cross three very high altitude mountain passes – Khardung La, the world’s highest motorable road (5600 metre or 18380 feet above sea level) for visiting Nubra Valley, Chang La, the world’s third highest motorable road (5360 metres or 17585 feet) for visiting Pangong Lake and Fotu La ( 4100m or 13480 feet) for going to Kargil. Fortunately, we did not face much of a problem except some mild altitude sickness experienced by two of my relatives which got resolved quickly as we descended.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

daraaren daraaren hain maathhe pe maula
marammat muqaddar ki kar do maula

These lines written by Prasoon joshi for this qawwali in the film Delhi – 6 have a fascination, that in indescribable. But still let me try.
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