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Hullo Atuldom
6th February 2022 followers of Indian music, across the genres of Bhav-geet, Film Sangeet, Bhajans and any other that we can think of, lost the most accomplished, sought after, loved (& any other add-ons that we know of) singer. She went by the name Lata Mangeshkar fondly addressed as Lata Didi by the multitude of her followers. She was the go-to voice (a modern day term for first choice) of all music composers for their debut films – remember ‘ghar aaja ghir aayi’ RD Burman, ‘Parasmani’ & its songs which was the first released film of Laxmi- Pyare. Even Madan Mohan is said to have approached Lata Mangeshkar to sing for his debut film ‘Aankhen’ but could get her into the recording room only for his next ‘ Adaa’ which released in 1951.
“Patita” (1980) was a movie that had music by Bappi Lahiri. He had Lata Mangeshkar sing some melodious songs which are in the “not so easily recalled” category. Songs like ‘baithe baithe aaj aayi mere mann mein’; “sunte sunte yeh meri kahaani” which were filmed on a very young Shoma Anand. The other actors in the film were Mithun Chakravarty, Raj Kiran, Vikram, Seema Deo, Ramesh Deo, Madan Puri, Sulochana etc. The movie was directed by I. V. Sasi who remade it from his own Malayalam film & Mukul Roy was the producer. Anand Bakshi was the lyricist for the film. The film had 5 songs of which 3 were Lata Mangeshkar solos & 2 Kishore Kumar solos. One Of Kishore Kumar solos is already on the blog with a post by Avinashji on 4 August 2018:-
Dil dhhak dhhak karne laga
Here is the next song today to wish the bright eyed, sweet looking Shoma Anand on turning 65 today. She made her debut in 1976 with Pramod Chakravarty’s “Barood” where Rishi Kapoor was her costar. She was a regular in many movies of the 70s, 80s, & 90s; though her run as lead actress was limited she was seen very often as the scheming sister-in-law, daughter-in-law etc. in family-dramas. She was most appreciated for playing BINA MATHUR in Ekta Kapoor’s (first television production) HUM PAANCH; a full-on comedy show.
The song with this post is a song which speaks about the aspirations of a young girl. I recall seeing this film on TV a few years back but cannot recall when the song happens, after she comes in contact with which of the heroes. From the video it looks like Raj Kiran is the trigger for the song but Vikram is also seen keeping an eye on the singer.
Thanking Bappida (whose death anniversary was yesterday) for giving us this Lata Mangeshkar melody.
Song-Baithhe baithhe aaj aayee mere man mein(Patita)(1980) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Lyrics
baithhe baithhe aaj aayi mere man mein
ban jaaun main ghata
ud jaaun gagan mein
o baithhe baithhe aaj aayi mere man mein
ban jaaun main ghata
ud jaaun gagan mein
ud jaaun gagan mein aen aen aen
baithhe baithhe aaj aayi mere man mein
ban jaaun main ghata
ud jaaun gagan mein
ud jaaun gagan mein
ud jaaun gagan mein
ud jaaun gagan mein
ud jaaun gagan mein
kabhi kheloon main phoolon se
kabhi saawan ke jhoolon se
kabhi kheloon main phoolon se ae
kabhi saawan ke jhoolon se
daali daali pe main lahraaun oon
baithhe baithhe aaj aayi mere man mein
ban jaaun main hawa
kho jaaun chaman mein
kho jaaun chaman mein aen aen
ud jaaun gagan mein
ud jaaun gagan mein
ye jo subah naweli hai ae
raina ki saheli hai
ye jo subah naweli hai ae
raina ki saheli hai
donon hans ke gale mil rahe hain aen
baithhe baithhe aaj aayi mere man mein
ban jaaun main ?? is madhur milan mein
is madhur milan mein aen aen
ud jaaun gagan mein
ud jaaun gagan mein
phool saare nahin khilte ae
chaand sabko nahin milte
phool saare nahin khilte ae
chaand sabko nahin milte
dhoondhhoon main kahaan phir ujaala aa
baithhe baithhe aaj aayi mere man mein
ban jaaun main diya
jal jaaun agan mein
jal jaaun agan mein aen aen
ud jaaun gagan mein
ud jaaun gagan mein
ud jaaun gagan mein
ud jaaun gagan mein
Nazron mein jaadoo bharaa
Posted on: January 23, 2024
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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In the 1970s, Basu Chatterjee was one of those Hindi film directors who made films on the stories which a majority of the filmi audience could relate to their own every day life. Starting with ‘Saara Aakaash’ (1969), he made the classic films such as ‘Rajanigandha’ (1974), ‘Chhoti Si Baat’ (1975), ‘Chitchor’ (1976), ‘Khatta Meetha’ (1977), ‘Swaami’ (1977), ‘Baaton Baaton Mein’ (1979), ‘Shaukeen’ (1982) etc. But in 1990s and thereafter, Basu Chatterjee seems to have lost his magic touch to his ‘middle of the road’ cinemas.
‘Gudgudee’ (1997) was one of his such films which failed to attract the filmgoers and get critical appreciations. It was a romantic comedy inspired from the Hollywood film, ‘The Seven Year Itch’ (1955). The film was produced by Mahesh Bhatt under the banner of Plus Films and was directed by Basu Chatterjee. The cast included Anupam Kher and Pratibha Sinha in the lead roles, supported by Deb Mukherjee, Prateeksha Lonkar, Jugal Hansraj, Satish Kaushik, Naresh Suri, Mushtaq Ahmed, Jaya Bhattacharya etc. Shah Rukh Khan was the narrator at the beginning of the film.
The story of the film is as under:
Middle-aged Ajay Prasad (Anupam Kher) is a businessman based in Jaipur who stays with his wife, Sunita (Prateeksha Lonkar) and a school going son, Raja (Master Wajid). He is absent-minded and forgetful. Another problem with Ajay Prasad is that he imagines to be a charming person and women get attracted to him easily. He concocts many such stories about this to his friend, Shekhar (Deb Mukherjee) who has come to stay with him. Because of his imagination, any woman who comes to his contact , Ajay thinks that she has fallen for him, even with his own office secretary.
Ajay Singh receives an invitation from his close friend to attend a marriage in Mumbai with his family which is a three-day functions followed by a visit to Goa. His wife and son cannot accompany him to visit Mumbai as his son has to prepare for the school examinations. His wife, Sunita reminds him that as per the doctor’s advice, he is not to take alcoholic drinks and to control his imagination about women getting attracted towards him like a magnet. She also tells him to buy a teddy bear doll for Raja in Mumbai.
Ajay reaches Mumbai and he is received at the airport by Rabindranath (Satish Kaushik) who is going to be his attendant during his stay in Mumbai. An exclusive car and a fully furnished flat for his stay have been arranged. Ravi drops him at his rented flat. While taking the lift, Chandni (Pratibha Sinha), joins him in the lift. She stays in the adjoining flat on rental basis. She is a model who acts in advertising films. She is aspiring to be an actress to enjoy a luxurious living. She has a child-like behavior with some eccentricities.
Chandni often visits Ajay’s flat on some or other pretexts. Ajay starts imagining that even Chandni has fallen for his charm. The fact is that she is visiting his flat just to enjoy the air-conditioning in his flat whereas she has only a fan in her rented flat. But Ajay is reminded of his wife’s warning to avoid imagining about women. So, he behaves with Chandni just as a gentleman will behave with a lady. At the same time, he starts imagining that in his absence in Jaipur, Shekhar is flirting with his wife.
In the adjoining flat of Chandni, a budding singer (Jugal Hansraj) stays who likes her and dreams of marrying her. But Chandni is not interested in him though as a neighbor, she talks well with him.
During one of Chandni’s visit to his flat, Ajay nearly losses his gentlemanly behavior by trying to take her in his arms. But he loses balance and falls on her. He is terribly embarrassed as he has succumbed to his weak moment. However, Chandni is not perturbed as she consoles him by telling that such incidences often happen with her while shooting for advertising films. After this incidence, Ajay starts imagining, rather day-dreaming, that she has told her friends in TV channels about this incidence which is being telecast on news channels. He also imagines that his wife has seen the reporting of this incidence of TV and she would be coming to Mumbai. That evening, Ajay attends the marriage reception of his friend’s daughter where he meets a psychiatrist, Dr. Soormawala (Mushtaq Ahmed). He tells him that these type of the incidences often happen with middle-aged married persons. Without solving his problems, Dr. Soormawaala advises Ajay to read his book on this subject.
The next day, Chandni pays a visit to Ajay and tells him that for the last three nights, she did not have a proper sleep due to the fan in her flat not working. She has a shoot next day and she needs to have a sound sleep before the shoot. She requests Ajay to allow her to sleep in his flat on his sofa. Ajay agrees but he offers his bed room to her and he sleeps on the sofa in the living room. Next morning, Ajay finds his friend from Jaipur, Shekhar on his door. He says since he was on a personal visit to Mumbai, Sunita has told him to collect the teddy bear doll from him to take it back to Jaipur. Somehow, Ajay sends him out of his flat on some pretext as he does not want him to know that Chandni is in his flat which can create misunderstanding.
Fed up with the tension of imagining what the society would say about Chandni’s frequent visits to his flat and also spending a night in his flat, Ajay decides to leave for Jaipur, cutting short his stay in Mumbai and skipping his visit to Goa. When Chandni is about to leave his flat, Ajay informs her that he is returning to Jaipur by the earliest flight and she can stay in this flat for some more days for which he would speak to his host. Chandni thanks him for allowing her to stay in his flat. From the feedback, Ajay has given to her about his wife, she gives a piece of advice to Ajay that his wife has seen him to be a simple, shy, soft and of smiling nature and therefore, she does not need to keep a tag on him as to what he does when away from her. The film ends with Ajay giving a counter advice to Chandni that her singer friend has the same attributes worthy of her husband. If she agrees, she should get married to him and he would definitely attends the marriage.
After watching this film, I also watched ‘The Seven Year Itch’ (1955). The Hindi film is almost scene by scene replica of the original English version. The mannerisms of Anupam Kher and Pratibha Sinha in the film are partially inspired from those of Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe, respectively. Even some of the costume used by Pratibha Sinha in the film almost resembles that of Marilyn Monroe, especially of her cream color dress. There are some minor differences, like instead of Evelyn Keyes (wife of Tom Ewell in the film) going on a picnic with her son and a friend, it is Anupam Kher in Hindi film who is on a visit to Mumbai. While opening the champagne bottle, Tom Ewell’s finger gets stuck in the bottle, while in Hindi film, Anupam Kher’s finger gets stuck in Coca Cola bottle. I did not find in the credit titles any acknowledgement of the original story of the film.
Despite good performances by Anupam Kher and Pratibha Sinha, ‘Gudgudee’ (1997) flopped at the box office and currently, it has become an obscure film. The main reason for audience’s lack of interest in the film is that not only the end of the film, but also each and every actions of the main characters in the film are predictable. Also, Basu Chatterjee seems to have succumbed to the formula of mainstream Bollywood films with a couple of long duration songs which give the impression of ‘item songs’. Nonetheless, the film is interesting enough for an one-time watch.
‘Gudgudee’ (1997) had six songs written by Yogesh Gaud (4) and Amit Khanna (2) which were set to music by Bhappi Lahiri. I am presenting the first song from the film, “Nazaron Mein Jaadoo Bhara” to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Shivaji Chattopadhyay on the words of Amit Khanna.
The tune of the song sounds familiar to me and the orchestration song sounds akin to that of RD Burman. I think, the tune of the song sounds close to “Dil Ki Umangen Hain Jawaan from ‘Munim ji’ (1954) under the music direction of SD Burman. Probably, Bappi Lahiri seems to have deliberately done this composition in the light of the background to the song in the film. The import of the first line of “Dil Ki Umangen Hain Jawaan” has the same as ‘nazron mein jaadoo bharaa’. The middle-aged Anupam Kher’s has the aspiration of a young heart.
Before the song gets played in the film, Pratibha Sinha enters the flat of Anupam Kher with soft drinks bottles to enjoy the drink in the air-conditioned atmosphere. She suggests to listen to a ghazal. Anupam Kher switches on the tape recorder and the this song starts playing. Anupam Kher has inclination to flirt with Pratibha Sinha but limits his flirtation to dancing with her. After the end of the song, momentarily, Anupam Kher losses his control and tries to take Pratibha Sinha in his arms when he slips and both fall on a food trolley.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Nazron mein jaadoo bharaa (Gudgudee)(1997) Singers-Shivaji Chattopadhyay, Lyrics-Amit Khanna, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Female Voice
Lyrics (based on audio clip):
nazron mein jaadoo bhara
chaahon mein kho jaa zara
tanhaa na ab hum rahen
baahon mein so ja zara…aa
pa pa paa
pa ra pa pa
pa pa
pa pa paa..
nazron mein jaadoo bhara
chaahon mein kho jaa zara
tanhaa na ab hum rahen
baahon mein so ja zara…aa
pa pa paa
pa ra pa pa
pa pa
pa pa paa…
akeli hai hansinee
rootha hai uska piya
akeli hai hansinee
rootha hai uska piya
mana legi usey pyaar se
khud se hai waada kiya
nazron mein jaadoo bhara
chaahon mein kho jaa zara
tanhaa na ab hum rahen
baahon mein so ja zara…aa
pa pa paa
pa ra pa pa
pa pa
pa pa paa
ik lay mein do sur sajen
geet aisa gunguna
ik lay mein do sur sajen
geet aisaa gunguna
saanson ke taaron pe tu
dhun milan ki suna
nazron mein jaadoo bhara
chaahon mein kho ja zara
tanhaa na ab hum rahen
baahon mein so jaa zara…aa
pa pa paa
pa ra pa pa
pa pa
pa pa paa…
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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नज़रों में जादू भरा
चाहों में खो जा ज़रा
तन्हा ना अब हम रहें
बाहों में सो जा ज़रा॰॰आ
पा पा पाs
पा रा पा पा
पा पा
पा पा पाs
नज़रों में जादू भरा
चाहों में खो जा ज़रा
तन्हा ना अब हम रहें
बाहों में सो जा ज़रा॰॰आ
पा पा पाs
पा रा पा पा
पा पा
पा पा पाs
अकेली है हंसिनी
रूठा है उसका पिया
अकेली है हंसिनी
रूठा है उसका पिया
मना लेगी उसे प्यार से
खुद से है वादा किया
नज़रों में जादू भरा
चाहों में खो जा ज़रा
तन्हा ना अब हम रहें
बाहों में सो जा ज़रा॰॰आ
पा पा पाs
पा रा पा पा
पा पा
पा पा पाs
इक लय में दो सुर सजें
गीत ऐसा गुनगुना
इक लय में दो सुर सजें
गीत ऐसा गुनगुना
साँसों के तारों पे तू
धुन मिलन की सुना
नज़रों में जादू भरा
चाहों में खो जा ज़रा
तन्हा ना अब हम रहें
बाहों में सो जा ज़रा॰॰आ
पा पा पाs
पा रा पा पा
पा पा
पा पा पाs
Jeene ki ek adaa hai
Posted on: December 12, 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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‘Film Hi Film’ (1983), was produced by Shahab Ahmed and was directed by Hiren Nag. The film starred Pran in a role of a film producer with Seema Deo as his wife and Ramesh Deo as his Secretary. Rest of the cast consisted of Raj Kishor, Birbal, Mohan Choti, Pandit Iqbal, Mulchand, and the new faces, Furqan, Bipin, Sonia and Beena. The screenplay and dialogues were written by Kamaleshwar. It was a novel idea to incorporate scenes and songs from some of the incomplete/shelved films of 1950s, 60s and 70s into the story of the film.
The film is about an old-time filmmaker, Seth Gyanchand Shah (Pran), one of the top film producers, who has now become a pauper. He recalls his golden days of film making while giving an interview for a documentary film for which he gets a fee of Rs.50000/-. With this money in hand, he is tempted to make a new beginning as a film producer by taking new faces and training them for acting in the film. How he faces the enormous problems of arranging finance, overcomes other obstacles to complete and release the film is the essence of the story.
Shahab Ahmed who had earlier produced ‘Cinema Cinema’ (1979) was on a visit to Bombay Film Laboratory. He found to his dismay that there were umpteen cans of incomplete films lying there. Such films included those made by film directors like Ramesh Saigal, (‘Sikhwa’, 1954), Vinod Kumar (‘Ye Basti Ye Log’ – 1958), Manibhai Vyas (‘Reporter’ – 1960), R S Tara, (‘Picnic’ – 1960), Nandlal Jaswantlal (‘Behrupia’- 1964), K Asif, (‘Sasta Khoon Mehnga Paani’-1964), Kishore Sahu (‘Naya Mandir’-1961 and ‘Jahaan Miley Dharti Aakaash’-1962), Raj Khosla. (‘Saajan Ki Galiyaan’ – 1968), Surendra Mohan (‘Khuda Gawaah’-1970), ‘Kailash Kapoor (‘Ek Thhi Chaadar Ek Thhi Sudha’ – 1970) and many more. There were more than 2000 incomplete films lying in the laboratory. Shahab Ahmed thought that why should film audience be deprived of such abandoned films for which producers and artists had made enormous efforts. So, he came with the idea of incorporating scenes and songs from a few select such films to make a full-length feature film. Thus, the idea of making ‘Film Hi Film’ (1983) was born. [Source: ‘…..and Pran’ by Bunny Rueben (2005)].
The gist of the story of the film is as under:
Seth Gyanchand Shah (Pran) has been a successful filmmaker for over 3 decades. However, for the film under production, he is short of finance to commence the film’s last schedule of shooting. He goes to his co-producer, Jamnadas requesting him to contribute his share of finance for the film. He shows his inability to pay his share of money under the pretext that his funds are locked in other business.
Savitri (Seema Deo), who is already disgusted with her husband’s filmmaking business, refuses to take money from her wealthy father to finance the film. Instead, she leaves the house and shifts to her parental house. Caught in a bind, Gyanchand sells his house and the car and borrow money against promissory notes to complete the film. After the release of the film, Gyanchand is financially broke. His cheques bounce. His creditors file a criminal case against him for cheating and is awarded imprisonment of 5 years.
After the release from the jail, Gyanchand lives alone in a hutment. One day, a documentary film maker who is planning a film on Gyanchand visits him with his team to interview him. At first, he refuses to give interview but agrees after he is told that his experience in the filmmaking of over 3 decades would be helpful to the new generation of film makers. He starts with his first experience of visiting a film’s shooting in a studio. As he talks about his experiences, the scenes and songs from a few unreleased films appear on the screen as supplements to his talks.
At the end of the interview, Gyanchand is paid Rs.50000/- as his honorarium. Gyanchand is happy and he immediately thinks of making a new film. But making a film with this sum is not going to be easy. Some of the artists and crew who had earlier worked with him in his good days volunteer to work for him free. He selects 4 new actors to whom he imparts training in acting and dialogue delivery. He promises all of them that if the film is successful, he would pay them. Savitri, who comes to know about her husband’s new film from a film magazine, visits him and gives all her jewelleries for raising finance for the film by saying that ‘agar film tumhaari zindagi hai to tum meri zindagi ho’.
Gyanchand completes the film. However, no distributor is willing to even watch the film leave alone the distribution on the ground that the audience would not like his old style of film making. Frustrated by his inability to get the film released, Gyanchand comes home, and he is about the destroy the film’s negatives when all his actors prevent him from doing so. At that moment, Jamnadas, his former co-producer visits him and volunteers to distribute his film as a penance for not financially helping him earlier. The film gets released and receives good response from the audience during which his wife, Savitri joins him in celebrations.
I had watched this film some year back and I had liked it. In fact, at that time, I felt sympathetic to the character played by Pran who has given a good performance. However, when I watched once again on a video sharing platform, I felt that a good subject with a novelty of using clips from some unreleased films have been attempted with an amateurish way by the director and probably the editor as well.
‘Film Hi Film’ (1983) had 11 songs of which 9 songs were incorporated in the film from unreleased films. Only 2 songs were recorded for the film afresh which were written by Indeevar and set to music by Bappi Lahiri. Of the 9 songs from unreleased films, 3 songs have been already covered on the Blog under the films’ original titles.
I am presenting the first of the two songs specifically recorded for the film, ‘jeene ki ek adaa hai humko to ek nasha hai’ rendered by Kishore Kumar. The song appears in the film when shooting of dance song is going on in the presence of film’s producer, Seth Gyanchand Shah (Pran) and his Secreatary, Girdhari (Ramesh Deo). The last stanza of the song is repeated twice in the film in the background – once when Pran is signing promissory notes, selling his bungalow and car etc to borrow funds to finance the film and the second time when he gets 5 years imprisonment and is in the jail.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Jeene ki ek adaa hai (Film Hi Film)(1983) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Indeewar, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Chorus
Lyrics (based on video clip):
Scene 1
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tu ru ru
tu ru ru ru ru…
tu ru ru
tu ru ru ru ru…
tu ru ru
tu ru ru ru ru…
tu ru ru
tu ru ru ru ru…
jeene ki ek adaa hai
humko to ek nashaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
jiske liye jeena hai
jiske liye marnaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
jeene ki ek adaa hai
humko to ek nashaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
ye hi haqeeqat ye hi sapnaa
yahi manzil yahi rastaa apnaa
ye hi haqeeqat ye hi sapnaa
yahi manzil yahi rastaa apnaa
aankhon mein jo.. phirtaa hai
dil par jo likhaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
jeene ki ek adaa hai
humko to ek nashaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
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Scene-2
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ek ek deepak bujhte dekhaa
humne khud ko bikte dekhaa
ek ek deepak bujhte dekhaa
humne khud ko bikte dekhaa
honthh hanse dil royaa hai
kho ke jise na khoyaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
jeene ki ek adaa hai
humko to ek nashaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
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Scene-3
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ek ek deepak bujhte dekhaa
humne khud ko bikte dekhaa
ek ek deepak bujhte dekhaa
humne khud ko bikte dekhaa
honthh hanse dil royaa hai
kho ke jise na khoyaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Hullo Atuldom
Vani Jairam (30th November 1945- 4th February 2023) was a playback singer who was known to easily adapt to any difficult composition & vocal range. She was the youngest artist to be awarded the “Sangeet Peet Samman”. She won the National Film Awards for Best Female Playback Singer three times and also has won State Government awards from the states of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. In 2012, she was honoured with the ‘Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award – South’ for her achievements in South Indian film music. She has recorded songs in most Indian languages except Sanskrit. She was well versed in various forms of music -Carnatic, Hindustani, thumri, ghazal, and bhajan. Apart from singing, she was also a songwriter, composer, and painter.
She was born “Kalaivani”, in Vellore, Madras Presidency of British India into a family of classically trained musicians as the fifth daughter among six daughters & three sons. She was attracted to Hindi film songs as she used to be glued to Radio Ceylon. It seems she used to memorize and reproduce the entire orchestration of the songs that used to repeatedly play on the Radio. At the age of 8 she is said to have given her first public performance on All India Radio Madras.
She was employed in a bank at the time of her marriage & managed a transfer to Mumbai. She started learning Hindustani Classical, on being persuaded by her husband, from Ustad Abdul Rehman Khan of Patiala Gharana, & gave a public concert in 1969. Around the same time, she was introduced to music composer Vasant Desai who was recording with Kumar Gandharva (at that time). He heard her voice & she got to sing along with Kumar Gandharva in that album which was well received by the Marathi audience. Her road to popular film music began in 1971 with “Guddi” for which her mentor Vasant Desai was the music director. She went on to sing for Chitragupta, Naushad, Madan Mohan, O.P. Nayyar, R.D. Burman etc. etc. Films from South India came into her kitty from 1973 when she recorded for music director S.M. Subbaiah Naidu, unfortunately neither that film nor that song was released. Her first released Tamil song was for a 1973 film which was with T M Soundararajan. 1973 also saw her sing for the Malayalam film ‘Swapnam’ under Salil Choudhary music direction. She was popular in Telugu, Kannada, Odia, Gujarathi, Marathi, Marwari, Bengali, Bhojpuri, etc.
She has around 250 songs to her name in Hindi films (I am clueless about her non-film songs). She is most remembered for her rendition of Meera bhajans under Pt. Ravi Shankar’s music direction for the 1979 film “Meera” for which she won her first Filmfare award of Best Playback Singer in 1980.
I could have easily picked a song from that film for today’s post- there are still 6 songs of that film to choose from. But I am also trying to remember the popular music director of the 1980s & part of 1990s with this post. Hindi film music lovers love him for many of his compositions but still hate the songs that he gave us post 1983. He was one music director who we just cannot ‘close our ears or eyes to’. Some purists didn’t like what he served us but we cannot deny that his ‘tohfa tohfa tohfa’, ‘nainon mein sapna’, ‘I am a disco dancer’, etc are popular even today. We love his ‘maathe ki bindiya boley’ as much as ‘sainyya bina ghar soona soona’. And the list of ‘loved songs’ by this composer may be bigger than the list of ‘not-so-loved’ songs.
I am sure readers would have guessed that I am referring to Bappi Lahiri who was born as Alokesh Lahiri in 1952 on November 27th. His parents were (also) singers & musicians. His maternal family included the Ganguly brothers i.e. Kishore Kumar, Anoop Kumar, Ashok Kumar were his maternal uncles & Amit Kumar is a cousin. He came to Mumbai at the age of 19, & first gave music to a Bengali film. His first Hindi film was ‘Nanha Shikaari’ (1973).
In my personal opinion the best song by Bappi Lahiri that Vani Jairam sang was this, which is already posted on our blog.
Today for Vani Jairam’s birth anniversary (she would have been 78) we shall have a song from the 1985 release “Wafadaar”. The songs of the film were written by Indeevar & Bappi Lahiri was the music director. It starred Rajnikanth, Padmini Kolhapure, Vijeta Pandit, Anupam Kher, Sushma Seth, Satyen Kappu, Ashalata Wabgaonkar, Asrani, Paintal, Dinesh Hingoo, Viju Khote & Kadar Khan with Shakti Kapoor. The film was directed by Dasari Narayan Rao & produced by Shrikant Nahata. I am sure it must have been a remake of some Telugu or Tamil film.
With two heroines the story may have been a love-triangle but the main plot was Anupam Kher plotting to obtain Sushma Seth’s wealth by wooing & marrying her daughter Padmini Kolhapure. For this he take the help of his servant Rajnikanth, who catches on to Anupam Kher’s intentions and protects Padmini, falls in love with her & marries her to happily-live-ever-after SIMPLE!
Let us listen to this melodious song in Vani Jairam’s voice which gives us a very different (for those times) Bappi Lahiri.
Audio
Video
Song-Mere sajna sang sang mujhe tum rakhna (Wafadaar)(1985) Singer-Vani Jairam, Lyrics-Indeewar, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Lyrics
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aa
o o
o o o
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
mere devta
tumse hi to
mere devta
tumse hi to
mandir hai mera angna aa
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
Seeta ke man mein Raam base jaise
mere man mein rahna sada tum aise
Seeta ke man mein Raam base jaise
mere man mein rahna sada tum aise
sukh dukh ke tum saathi mere kabhi juda na karna aa
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
mere devta
tumse hi to
mere devta
tumse hi to
mandir hai mera angna aa
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
chhoti si pyaari si bagiya hamaari
maange pyaar ki chhaaya tumhaari
chhoti si pyaari si bagiya hamaari
maange pyaar ki chhaaya tumhaari
laaj ki bindiya yoon hi chamke
sach ho har ek sapna aa
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
mere devta
tumse hi to
mere devta
tumse hi to
mandir hai mera angna aa
mere sajna aa aa
sang sang mujhe tum rakhna
Yaari hai phoolon se meri yaari hai
Posted on: June 19, 2023
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Hullo Atuldom
19th June is the birthday of actor Raj Kiran. He will be 73 today.
Recently I saw Mahesh Bhatt’s ‘Arth’ (1982) and I thought such a good-looking person. He was playing the part of Raj who falls in love with the recently jilted Pooja (Shabana Azmi); that was an odd pairing. But they looked good together. Raj Kiran had made his debut in 1975 through BR Ishara’s ‘Kaagaz Ki Nao’ with Sarika as his co-star. His next release was ‘Shiksha’ (1978) which was directed by S Ramanathan. It was produced by Tarachand Barjatya – meaning Rajshri productions.
The movie had Urmila Bhatt and Iftekhar playing Raj’s parents. Beena Banerjee & Benjamin played villagers who lives are effected by Vijay Gupta’s (Raj Kiran) reckless driving. Vijay’s father is a strict person who feels that giving him a proper punishment for this recklessness will make his son a better person. So instead of bailing him out of the situation the father throws him out of the house. Vinay takes up a job as a driver at a rich man’s place (I think that was Pinchoo Kapoor) under a new name – Vinay & also doesn’t disclose his lineage. Vinay (a.k.a Vijay) also comes across the family that was effected by his recklessness, helps them in various ways so that they come to terms with and out of their misfortune. That was the simple story of ‘Shiksha’.
Bappi Lahiri was the music director of the songs in this movie which were written by Gauhar Kanpuri. I have seen the shoot of a part of the opening song of this film.
The music-part of the song before an antara was shot on the road out side the building which was my maayka. There was a lot of activity on our road on that day. Suddenly we saw a few shops spring up. Then we found the reason for all the activity as we saw large reflectors, and crowds build up. Now, there is a park opposite my building at Andheri where suddenly there were people sitting under huge beach-style umbrellas. I think that was the time of some holidays or vacation so we kids (all aged below 12) were allowed lots of time in the park by our parents. Then we saw a car drive up with a whole lot of men and ramming through the newly set up shops. Then the shops got reset and the same thing happened again. Sometime later, a person involved in all of this came up and rang the bell at my home asking for water, cold if possible. And my mom gave him a few bottles of water that is when she made inquiries about what the shoot was all about. I remember that she gathered info that it was a new boy who was playing the hero, and this is going to be part of the song. I don’t know if she recognized Jagdeep who was the only known face in the whole setup; maybe she would have if he was not in that funny wig.
If we see the video of the song this incident happens from 3:52, when the car is shown driving from under a flyover which is the Gokhale Bridge of Andheri West. The vehicle drives past Barucha Baug also known as Parsi Colony (in our area). The cars comes down the road and takes a left turn and runs into those shops. My building is seen in the background at 3:58 seconds into the song. The building in the background at 4.02 was the staff quarters of Tata Housing Centre (where my aunt used to stay; in fact her house itself is seen very clearly). This 20 seconds of the song was shot on a sunny day outside my home in Andheri. One can say ‘My personal 20 seconds of Bollywood’ 🙂 with my building and Tata colony being seen again at 4.18 of the song.
Now the readers may have guessed the reason that I have chosen this Bappi Lahiri sung & directed song to go with today’s post that is wishing Raj Kiran a very Happy Birthday. He is said to have gone missing for the last few decades; his last released film was ‘Chudail No. 1’ in 1999.
Then I read Rishi Kapoor’s quote somewhere “I’ve been wondering where Raj had disappeared. The question was haunting me for a very long time. Then these rumours of Raj being no more began doing the rounds. I was really disturbed. How can a colleague with whom I shared a really good times, just vanish from the face of earth? I decided to look up Raj’s elder brother Govind Mahtani to find out about Raj. I was so relieved when Govind told me that Raj was alive. But he was confined to an institution in Atlanta due to health problems. … apparently, he looks after his own treatment by working within the institution. It’s a heart-rending situation for an actor who was so successful at one time”.
Hope this once upon a time handsome looking actor is fine.
Video
Audio
Song-Yaari hai phoolon se meri yaari hai (Shiksha)(1978) Singer-Bappi Lahiri, Lyrics-Gauhar Kanpuri, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Chorus
Lyrics
yaari hai
phoolon se meri yaari hai
pyaari hai ae
kali bhi mujhe pyaari hai
din doobey yaa shaam dhaley
gaatey huye
hum to chaley
arre yaari hai
phoolon se meri yaari hai
arre pyaari hai ae
kali bhi mujhe pyaari hai
din doobey yaa shaam dhaley
gaatey huye
hum to chaley
yaari hai
phoolon se meri yaari hai
laa laalaa
laaa laalaalaalaa
laaa laa laa
laa laa laa laa
jab hum jhoomen
ambar ghoomey
chalte hain to
raahen chale saathh mere
mastaaane hum
hum ko kya gham
rehti hardam
manzil mere haath mein ae ae
arre yaari hai
phoolon se meri yaari hai
pyaari hai ae
kali bhi mujhe pyaari hai
din doobey yaa shaam dhaley
gaatey huye
hum to chaley
arre yaari hai
phoolon se meri yaari hai
laaa laalaaaa
laaa laalaalaalaa
laaa laa laa
laaa laaa laa laa laa
aandhi toofaan
baadal bijli
ban ke tan ke
rukte nahin ham kahin
duniya mein to
jo hai ab hai
apna sab hai
kal hamne dekha nahin een een
arre yaari hai
phoolon se meri yaari hai
arre pyaari hai ae
kali bhi mujhe pyaari hai
din doobey yaa shaam dhaley
gaatey huye
hum to chaley
arre yaari hai
phoolon se meri yaari hai
arre pyaari hai ae
kali bhi mujhe pyaari hai
laaa laalaalaa
laaa laalaalaalaa
laaa laa laa laa
laa laaa laa laa laa
ho ho
laaa laalaalaa
laaa laalaalaalaa
laaa laa laa laa
laa laaa laa laa laa
ho ho
laaa laalaalaa
laaa laalaalaalaa
laaa laa laa laa
laa laaa laa laa laa
ho ho
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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यारी है
फूलों से मेरी यारी है
प्यारी है
कली भी मुझे प्यारी है
दिन डूबे या शाम ढले
गाते हुये हम तो चले
अरे यारी है
फूलों से मेरी यारी है
अरे प्यारी है
कली भी मुझे प्यारी है
दिन डूबे या शाम ढले
गाते हुये हम तो चले
अरे यारी है
फूलों से मेरी यारी है
लाss ला ला ला लाल्ला ला लाs
लाss ला ला ला लाल्ला ला लाs
जब हम झूमें
अबार घूमे
चलते हैं तो
राहें चलें साथ में
मस्ताने हम
हम को क्या ग़म
रहती है हरदम
मंज़िल मेरे हाथ में
यारी है
फूलों से मेरी यारी है
प्यारी है
कली भी मुझे प्यारी है
दिन डूबे या शाम ढले
गाते हुये हम तो चले
अरे यारी है
फूलों से मेरी यारी है
लाss ला ला ला लाल्ला ला लाs
लाss ला ला ला लाल्ला ला लाs
आँधी तूफान
बादल बिजली
बन के तन के
रुकते नहीं हम कभी
दुनिया में तो
जो है अब है
अपना सब है
कल हमने देखा नहीं
अरे यारी है
फूलों से मेरी यारी है
प्यारी है
कली भी मुझे प्यारी है
दिन डूबे या शाम ढले
गाते हुये हम तो चले
अरे यारी है
फूलों से मेरी यारी है
ला ला ला लाss ला लाss
ला ला ला ला लाss लाss लाल्ला
हो हो
ला ला ला लाss ला लाss
ला ला ला ला लाss लाss लाल्ला
हो हो
ला ला ला लाss ला लाss
ला ला ला ला लाss लाss लाल्ला
हो हो
ला ला ला लाss ला लाss
ला ला ला ला लाss लाss लाल्ला
हो हो
Ye zindagi chaman hai
Posted on: May 12, 2023
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (Debutant Movie- Kismat/Qismat-1980)
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With this post we introduce the movie ‘Qismat-1980’ on the blog.
Movies with this title-Kismat or Qismat were made and released in the years ‘1943’, ‘1956’(Qismat), ‘1968’, ‘1980’(Qismat), ‘1995’(Qismat) and in the year ‘2004’.
(I hope all them brought good ‘fortunes’ to the ‘producers’ of the movies 🙂 ).
Out of these the movies released in ‘1943’, ‘1956’ and ‘1968’ have already been represented on the blog.
I was longing to present this movie on the blog as it serves the purpose of bringing ‘movies with the same title on the blog’ (at least till the decade of 1971-1980).
‘Qismat-1980’ was directed by Bhishm Kohli for ‘Pashupati Pictures, Bombay’.
It had Ranjeeta, Mithun Chakravarty, Shakti Kapoor, Shivangi Kolhapure (debutant movie), T.P. Jain, Urmila Bhatt, Dulari, Gautam Sarin, Tarun Ghosh, Vimal Chopra, Rajeev, Bholu Vadhawan, Gurbachan, Om Shivpuri, Baby Pinki, Master Bobby, Neelofar, Birbal, Rajat, Lateef and others.
Jalal Agha had a guest appearance in this movie.
This movie was a ‘social movie’, passed by Censor Board on 18.08.1980.
‘Qismat-1980’ has six songs written by Amit Khanna and composed by Bappi Lahiri. Asha Bhonsle, Manna Dey, Yesudas, Kishore Kumar and T. Meena had given their voices to the songs in this movie.
Here is the list of the songs in this movie with their respective singers.
| SNo. | Song Title | Singer/s |
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| 01 | O… kuchh chhup chhup ke aate hai | Asha Bhonsle |
| 02 | Aa… arey masti… masti kahaan hai mastaana aa gaya hai | Manna Dey |
| 03 | Ye zindagi chaman hai | Yesudas, chorus |
| 04 | Gir ke sambhalte hain ham | Kishore Kumar |
| 05 | Ik to main jawaan us pe tu yahaan | Asha Bhonsle |
| 06 | Mehboob ki mehbooba ko lalkaaro nahin | T. Meena |
Today we present a song sung by Yesudas from this movie. I became aware of this song more than one decade later when I got to listen to it on radio.
I have not watched this movie ‘Qismat’ and also not aware of how it did fare at the box office then.
A partial video of the tsong is available where we can see Mithun Chakravarty lip-syncing this song and trying to console and motivate Ranjeeta on the screen.
Lyrics for the song are by Amit Khanna. Music is composed by Bappi Lahiri. This must be one of the best songs that Bappi Da has composed in the decade of 1971-1980.
Let us now listen to the song…
Audio
Video partial
Song-Ye zindagi chaman hai (Qismat)(1980) Singer-Yesudas, Lyrics-Amit Khanna, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Chorus
Lyrics
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
ye zindagi chaman hai
sukh dukh
phool aur kaante ae
ham tum baaghbaan hain
kyun naa mil kar inko baanten
ye zindagi chaman hai
sukh dukh
phool aur kaante ae
ham tum baaghbaan hain
kyun naa milkar inko baanten aen
aa aa aa
ha aa aa
o o o o o
hmm hmm hmm
ho mushqil dagar
yaa lambaa safar
ho chaahe anjaanaa nagar
din ho yaa raat
chalenge saath
ban ke sadaa ham hamsafar
kabhi naa kabhi
kahin naa kahin
bol uthhenge ye sannaate
ye zindagi chaman hai
sukh dukh
phool aur kaante ae
ham tum baaghbaan hain
kyun naa milkar inko baanten aen
aa aa
aa haa aa
aa aa aa
hmm hmm hmm
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
hamesha khushi
tumko miley
saayaa bhi gham ka door rahe
aankhon mein ho
sapney naye
masti mein ae tu choor rahe
jeenaa usi ko
ye raas aaye
hans kar jo jeewan kaate
ye zindagi chaman hai
sukh dukh
phool aur kaante ae
ham tum baaghbaan hain
kyun naa milkar inko baanten
aa aa
aa haa aa
aa aa aa
hmm hmm hmm
ye zindagi chaman hai
sukh dukh
phool aur kaante ae
ham tum baaghbaan hain
kyun naa milkar inko baanten aen
aa aa aa
aa haa aa
hmm hmm hmm
Ae dilwaale aao
Posted on: April 14, 2023
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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2013-2023) – Song No.79
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On this date ten years ago (14 April 2013), six songs from five different movies were covered in the blog. Here are the details:-
| Post No | Song Title | Name of the movie | Remarks |
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| 7895 | Husn kehta ja raha hai | Humaayun (1945) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 7896 | Main to odhoon gulaabi chundariya aaj | Humaayun (1945) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 7897 | Karte ho mujhse kitni muhobbat | Bekhabar (1965) | 6 songs covered out of 7 by now |
| 7898 | So jaa re so jaa mere raajdulaare | Zimbo (1958) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 7899 | Aate hain chale jaate hain | Yaadgaar(1984) | One song covered out of 7 by now |
| 7900 | Kaun meri preet ke pehle | Parineeta (1953) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
We observe that three movies (out of five) whose songs were covered on this date ten years ago (14 April 2013) have since been YIPPEED in the blog. That leaves us with two movies that are unYIPPEED and therefore eligible for Blog Ten Year Challenge today (14 April 2023).
The first unYIPPEED movie has already been taken up earlier in the day under BTYC.
The second movie that is eligible for BYTC today is “Yaadgaar”(1984).
“Yaadgaar”(1984) was produced by R C Prakash and directed by Dasari Narayan Rao for Shiv Shakti Films, Madras. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Kamal Haasan, Poonam Dhillon, Tanuja, Jamuna(south), Purnima, Sujit Kumar, Dina Pathak, Rajindernath, Bhagwan Dada, Yunus Parvez, Mohan Choti, Rajkishore, Raja Duggal, Shivraj, Dinesh Hingoo, Manmaujee, Master Chaitanya, Raghuveer, Shailesh, Johny-Whisky, Madhu Malhotra, Vijay Arora, Raza Murad, Baby Meena etc in it.
“Yaadgaar”(1984) had six songs in it. One song from the movie is covered in the blog.
Today, exactly ten years later, here is the second song from “Yaadgaar”(1984) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Runa Laila. Indeewar is the lyricist. Music is composed by Bappi Lahiri. The song is picturised on Poonam Dhillon who plays a blind flower seller lady singing this song on public places selling flowers.
Lyrics of the song and other details were sent to me by Prakashchandra.
Audio link:
Video link:
Song-Ae dilwaale aao (Yaadgaar)(1984) Singer-Runa Laila, Lyrics-Indeewar, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
aaaa aaa aaa aaa
aaa aaa aaa aaa
aaaa aaa aaa aaa
ho o o o
aei dilwaaley aao o o o
nazron waaley aao o o
pyaar milaa kar
dard main bechoon
tum koyi mol lagaao o o
zakhmon ke badley
phool khareedo
apne ghar ko sajaao o
ae dilwaale aao o o o
aei dilwaaley aao o o o
nazron waaley aao o o o oo
sehraa baandho
sej sanwaaro
yaa devon pe chadhaao o o
rangeen nazaarey
phool ye pyaarey
dil ke sahaarey le jaao o
aaj kisee kee majbooree par
zaraa taras to khaao
pyaar milaa kar
dard main bechoon
tum koyi mol lagaao
zakhmon ke badley ae
phool khareedo
apne ghar ko sajaao
ae dil waaley aao oo o oo
ae dilwaaley aao o o o
nazron waaley aao
aaa aaa aaa aaaaa
aaa aaa aaa aaaaa
aaa aaa aaa aaaaa
aaa aaa aaa aaaaa
andhiyaaron se ae
likhee gayee hai
mere bhaag ki rekhaa aaa
khush hoon main phir bhee
jag ki buraayi ko
aankhon se ae nahin dekhaa
tootey huye
phoolon ko dekhoon
toot ke bhee muskaao
pyaar milaakar dard main bechoon
tum koyi mol lagaao
zakhmon ke badley ae
phool khareedo
apne ghar ko sajaao
ae dil waaley aao o o o
ae dilwaaley aao o o o
nazron waaley aao
aaa aaa aaa aa aaa
aaa aaa aaa
ooo oooo
Aisa to socha na thhaa
Posted on: February 23, 2023
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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#the Decade of Eighties – 1981 – 1990 #
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The song being presented in this post is from the ‘1983’ movie ‘Pasand Apni Apni’.
I have no recollection of having watched this movie anytime.
This movie had made its debut on the blog way back in ‘2012’ on 26.08.2012. So this movie has already completed its ‘ten-year’ run (and more than that) on the blog.
“Pasand Apni Apni” was directed by Basu Chatterjee for ‘Cine Eye’ Films. Basu Chatterjee also produced this movie and had written its screenplay and dialogues too.
The star cast of this movie included Mithoon Chakravarty, Rati Agnihotri, Utpal Dutt, Subiraj, Kumud Tripathi, Javed Khan, Manik Choudhury, Madhumita Das, Roopdarshini, Ranjana Sachdev, Manik Dutt, Subroto Mahapatra, Khoka Mukherjee, Reetu Saha, Meena Shrivastava, Gajendra, Dev Sharma, Azmat Khan, Sahgal, Kartik, Jemini Kumar, Sov Sen, Gautam Chakravarty, B.N. Bhattacharya, Bankey Vishwanath and Lakhan Singh.
This movie introduced Anjali Naidu and child artiste Atul Agnihotri.
Ashok Kumar, Jayshree T., Shibani, Dinesh Hingoo, and Asha Lata had a guest appearance in this movie.
Story of this movie was written by Teerth Chatterjee and Eric Martin. And editing of this movie was done by Kamal Saigal.
This movie was passed by Censor Board on 07.10.1983.
This movie has six songs. Three songs each werewritten by Anjaan and Yogesh.
As mentioned above one song from this movie – arre wo dene waala –has been posted on the blog more than ten years ago.
Today’s song is sung by Asha Bhonsle and it is background song. It is poignant song which happens in the movie when the two lovers have developed misunderstandings I guess. Part of the song is picturised in ‘local train’ (Mumbai?).
We can see Rati Agnihotri, Mithun Chakravarty, Ashok Kumar, and others in the picturisation.
Lyrics for this song are by Anjaan and music is composed by Bappi Lahiri.
Lyrics of this song were sent by Prakashchandra.
Let us listen to the song which is a nice song. I don’t think I am familiar with the other songs of this movie so I would listen to them now. 🙂
Audio
Video
Song-Aisa to socha na thhaa (Pasand Apni Apni)(1983) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Anjaan, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)( based on audio clip)
aisaa to sochaa na thhaa aa
kaise ye kyaa ho gayaa aa aa
aisaa to sochaa na thhaa aa aa aa
kaise ye kyaa ho gayaa aa
pyaar kaa aa
woh samaa aa aa
kab kahaan aan aa
kho gayaa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aisaa to sochaa na thhaa aa
kaise ye kyaa ho gayaa aa
anjaan raahon mein kyun…un
miltey hain do ajnabee ee
ik pal mein ban jaayein kyun..un
ik dooje ki zindagi
oo oo oo
anjaan raahon mein kyun..un
miltey hain do ajnabee ee ee
ik pal mein ban jaayein kyon..on
ik doojey ki zindagee ee
jo nahin een honaa thhaa aa
woh yahaan aan
ho gayaa aa aa aa aa
aisaa to sochaa na thhaa aa aa
kaise ye kyaa ho o o o gayaa aa
saathi bichhad jaate hain aen
kis mod pe chhod ke ae ae
sapne bikhar jaate hain aen ae
maasoom dil tod ke
ho o oo oo
saathi bichhad jaate hain aen
kis mod pe chhod ke ae ae
sapne bikhar jaate hain aen ae
maasoom dil tod ke ae
jal gaye ae
do jahaan aan aan
sab dhuaan…aan ho gayaa aa aa aa aa
aisaa to sochaa na thhaa aa aa
kaise ye kyaa ho o gayaa aa
pyaar kaa aa woh samaa aan aa
kab kahaan aan aa
kho gayaa aa aa aa
aisaa to sochaa na thhaa aa aa
aisaa to sochaa aa na thhaa aa aa aa aa
Main hoon Rana main hoon Raja
Posted on: February 12, 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
At the outset let me wish an active Atulite on his birthday. These days his status has changed from ‘active’ to ‘hyper-active’ Atulite. He is the major guest contributor for the blog these days. It is almost like he has taken it upon himself that the blog should continue its race towards centuries at superfast pace; so much so that, the century number 174 happened in 28 days- the fastest since 23rd March 2018. In fact January 2023 saw a 100 posts- the last time this happened was also in March of 2018 (118 posts). 53 of the 100 posts of January was by this hyper-active guest contributor who goes by the name Avinash Scrapwala- and it should be kept in mind that none of his posts are SCRAP they are all good to read with accurate lyrics and most of his 688 posts have lyrics in Devnagri script too. (the number for this stands at 410).
Avinashji, Wishing you lots & lots of free hours so that you can keep sending gems to Atulji & Sudhirji to post here on the blog. May you reach your next milestone here quickly. Wish you a very Happy Birthday. 🙂
12th February happens to be the birth anniversary of a yesteryear actor who didn’t loose steam till almost the very end (his last release was in 2007 & he passed away in 2013). He was so versatile that he managed to make people hate the characters he enacted as villain, love his characters of father/ grandfather etc. He was a constant in the film industry from 1940. He had acted in 22 films before 1947 after which he came to Bombay (post partition of India after Indian Independence). After a brief gap, his career took off again from 1948. Then there was no stopping till 1998 when (at 78) he had health and age related issues. Then he cut down his work but still made exceptions when Amitabh Bachchan approached him with characters in his productions “Mritudaata” and “Tere Mere Sapne” where special arrangements were made to accommodate the actor’s health problems.
We are remembering the actor who played varied characters for over 50 years. We are remembering Pran Saab (as the industry used to address him – is what I have read at various places).
I had written this post in 2019. Where in I had written this:-
“The year 1972 saw a new genre of films wherein two actors who were past their prime – 61 and 52 was definitely not the age where actors play college students or young characters- were playing the central characters in a movie where the lead actor or the supposed- hero played second fiddle to these two. I am talking of “Victoria No 203″ by Brij Sadanah. Brij himself made another movie a few years later “Chori Mera Kaam” with these two seniors playing central characters. I am talking of an all-time favourite Jodi of cinelovers – Ashok Kumar and Pran.”
That was part of a post for a song from “Raaja aur Raana” (1983). I had not seen the movie at the time of writing that post, have not seen even now. But I have discovered, subsequently, that Ashok Kumar & Pran feature in almost all the songs of the film. There is a song in the voices of Mahendra Kapoor and Shailendra Singh that can be said to be a tribute to the character the legendary duo played in “Victoria No 203”. The duo regale us with their “do-bechaare-binaa-sahaare/” style antics. There is a female voice too in this song, which is lip synced by Manorama, which I am unable to identify and cannot find mention on any of the known internet sites.
“Raaja Aur Raana” was directed by Shibu Mitra and produced by S.K. Kapur. It had a cast of Ajit, Shakti Kapoor, Puneet Issar, Madhu Malhotra, Chand Usmani, Aaloka etc etc supporting Ashok Kumar and Pran. The songs were written by Verma Malik and Bappi Lahiri was the music director.
Here is the lovable jodi of ‘Raja aur Rana’ a.k.a Ashok Kumar & Pran on Pransaab’s birth anniversary
Song-Main hoon Rana main hoon Raja (Raja aur Rana)(1983) Singers-Shailendra Singh, Mahendra Kapoor, unknown female voice, Unknown mushtanda voice, unknown hijra voice, Lyrics-Verma Malik, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Shailendra Singh + Mahendra Kapoor
Lyrics
hum do brahmchaari
karke taiyyaari
hum do brahmchaari
karke taiyyari
dhoondhe tera thhikaana
main hoon raja
main hoon rana
ae main hoon raja
main hoon rana
humen jaane hai ye saara zamaana
poorab paschhim uttar dakshin
chala jo tu paataal
kahin bhi ghus ja
kahin bhi chhup ja
lenge tujhe nikaal
are poorab paschhim utar dakshin
chala jo tu paataal
arre kahin bhi ghus ja
kahin bhi chhup ja
lenge tujhe nikaal
haan ab na chalegi teri chaal
baahar aaja tejalaal
haan ab na chalegi teri chaal
baahar aaja tejalaal
kya
teri ye majaal
ye mushtande maar ke dande
kar na de dono ko thande
bhaag ke jaan bachaana
main hoon raja
haan ho main hoon rana haan
main hoon raja
main main main hoon rana
hum do brahmchari
karke taiyyari
dhoondhe tera thikaana
ho tu hai raja
o tu hai rana
haan hume jaane hai ye saara zamaana
dhha
tikd dhaa
tikd dhaa
tikd dhaa
tikd dhaa
tikd dhaa
dha ha tun tun
naanaa tikdig
tigdig
tigdig dhagadha gadha
nana
katdha katdha katdha
na na
katdha katdha katdha
waah re ustaad
waah re ustaad
dil mein bas gayi teri yaad
waah re ustaad
waah re ustaad
dil mein bas gayi teri yaad
main sadke jaaun pyaarelaal
tumne kiya hai bada kamaal
main sadke jaaun pyarelaal
tumne kiya hai bada kamaal
khoob bajaate ho tum ye saaz
kitni meethi hai ye aawaaz
khoob bajaate ho tum ye saaz
kitni meethi hai ye aawaaz
khoobsoorat hai ye andaaz
chhupa hai ismein kaun sa raaz
waah re ustaad
waah re ustaad
chhupa hai ismein kaun sa raaz
waah re ustaad
waah re ustaad
chhupa hai ismein kaun sa raaz
raaz
raaz ki baat kah doon to
jaan mehfil mein phir kya ho
raaz kahne se pahle tum
zara anjaam soch lo
ishaaron ko agar samjho
raaz ko raaz rahne do
waah re ustaad
waah re ustaad
dil mein bas gayi teri yaad
waah re ustaad
waah re ustaad
dil mein bas gayi teri yaad
haan arre
aaja aaja mere raja
nahin to baja degi ye baaja
tera bheja mera kaleja
mil gaye mila na teja
are tu hi uska pata koi deja
humse bottle le leja
arre tera bheja mera kaleja
mil gaye mila na teja
haan
tu hi uska pata koi deja
humse bottle leja
jaldi se baahar aaja
nahin to todenge darwaaza
aa gaye rana raja
main hoon raja
main hoon rana
o main hoon raja
main main main hoon rana
are sultana
are rihana
are aao rukhsaana
aa gaye raja rana
are inko bata de apna thikaana
aa mere raja godi mein aaja
aa mere rana tere sang jaana
chaahe roke saara zamaana
pyaar se mujhko gale lagaalo
bahut dinon ki pyaas bujha le
aaj mujhe baahon mein bhar le
jo teri marji hai tu karle
jahaan jahaan jaaoge wahin main jaaungi
har din raat mein tere kaam aaungi
hum donon ki khoob nibhegi
apni jodi khoob sajegi
main teri laila
tu mera majnu
tera mera puraana yaaraana
lo aa gaye dekho dekho
haaye haaye raja rana
aaja aaja mere godee mein aaja
jo tere marji mein karle aaja aaja
baahon mein bhar le
haaye haaye main kurbaan
arre bhaago bhaago rana
na idhar ke na udhar ke
ho ho ho chal chal chal raaja
are kaise maarte hai dhakke
aa gaye hain chakke
bhaago bhaago ae bhaago bhaago ae
ae ae
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