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Blog 10-Year Challenge (2011-2021) – Song No.21
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This day ten years ago was 2 April 2011. That day, a saturday, saw as many as six songs (from six different movies) getting covered in the blog.
Here are the details:-
| Blog post number | Song | Movie (Year) | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3722 | Bhagwaan mere gyaan ke deepak ko jalaa de | Pujaari(1946) | 4 songs covered out of 10 so far |
| 3723 | Sab kuchh lutaayaa hamne aakar teri gali mein | Chunariyaa(1948) | 7 songs covered out of 10 so far |
| 3724 | Dekho dekho jee piyaa milan ke din aaye | Darogaji(1949) | 11 songs covered out of 12 so far |
| 3725 | Pardesi se lag gayi preet re | Jaan Pehchaan(1950) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 3726 | Nainaa hain jaadoo bhare | Bedard Zamaanaa Kyaa Jaane(1959) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
| 3727 | Raat chup hai chaandni madhosh hai | Ustaadon Ke Ustaad(1963) | Movie YIPPEED by now |
Six songs from six different movies in a day ! So that was a normal day for the blog. Right ! Not really. This day ten years ago was a special day not only for me but for many millions others. It was a day when India vs Sri Lanka world cup cricket final was being played at Mumbai. Exactly ten years have passed. But the memories of that day and also memories of the days preceding the final are still fresh in my mind.
The final post of the blog was posted at 12:31 PM and then I began to follow the final on TV, which was a day night match.
That tournament was emotionally quite a draining experience for me, and for millions of other cricket lovers as well.
The emotional toll on the Indian cricket lovers began not in 2011 but from the previous world cup of 2007. In that world cup, an overconfident and complacent Indian team lost to Bangladesh in their inaugural match. That loss saw them bow out of the world cup at the group stage itself. A most humiliating and inglorious world cup exit it was.
Heads rightly rolled after that.
A few months later, another world cup of a new kind called T20 world cup was organised. BCCI, smarting from the ODI world cup fiasco, did not want to participate, but ICC arm twisted them into participating in it. BCCI responded by sending a team shorn of stars. It was led by a freshly anointed captain in Dhoni. All big names (Tendulkar. Dravid, Ganguly, Kumble, Zaheer Khan) were missing from the team. Names like Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Yusuf Pathan, Joginder Sharma, R P Singh were included. This reluctantly sent team, against all odds, went on to lift the T20 world cup title ! And the erstwhile reluctant BCCI suddenly turned T20 enthusiast. They soon devised a T20 tournament called IPL and showed ECB how to market T20 and rake in unimaginable amount of money while at it.
Enthused by the success of India in 2007 T20 world cup, BCCI bid to host ODI world cup in India and neighbouring countries and succeeded in the bid. It was similar to BCCI bid in 1987, after their team’s unexpected win in the 1983 world cup.
2007 ODI World cup saw India (and also Pakistan) getting eliminated in the grouop stages itself. Indian elimination after just three matches meant that many Indian fans (who constitute the biggest cricket following group in the world) lost interest in the world cup after Indian elimination. Espn star sports, that had won the TV rights to telecast this world cup may have lost heavily due to this. So the format of 2011 was changed. Now there were two groups of 7 teams each. Top four finishers of each group qualified for the quarterfinals. This format (similar of the format of 1996 world cup) ensured that good teams would not get eliminated because of one bad day in the tournament. Each team would play six matches in group stage. A team could qualify even if they finished fourth in the group after losing two matches. So, teams like India and Pakistan would not get eliminated after one bad match. Similarly teams like Bangladesh and Ireland (that had one good day against India and Pakistan respectively), will not qualify after just one fluke win.
And that is exactly how it happened. India qualified by finishing second in the group whereas Pakistan qualified after topping their group. Bangladesh this time were soundly thrashed not only by India, but also by South Africa and West Indies. They did score one lucky win against England, but that solitary win failed to ensure their qualification.
Qualifying for the knockout was easy this time for India, but if they wanted to advance deep into the knockout stage then they needed to finish at the top. While India won against every other team, and they were very well placed against South Africa at 267/1, Indian batting collapsed inexplicably and they were bowled out for 296, losing 9 wickets for 29 runs and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. This result made them finish second in the group. Reward- they were pitted against defending champions Australia in the quarterfinals, who were world champions for three world cups in a row. Fortunately, Indians showed nerves to steel and went on to defeat Australia in the semi final. Their “reward”- a semi final meeting against Pakistan- a team that had no weak link in bowling. In this semi final, Indian batting struggled throughout. Tendulkar top scored with 85 after half a dozen reprieves through dropped catches, DRS review overturned an onfield out decision etc. Thanks to some valuable runs by Raina towards the end, India reached 260, their lowest total in the tournament. In the prevous match, India had chased 260 against Australia, and thewre was no reason why Pakistan could not do the same. Thankfully, Pakistan kept losing wixckets at crucial moments, just when it looked that they had things in control, and India sneaked through by 29 runs.
Final was against Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka were a side that had players eminently suited for this world cup conditions. They had some batsmen who could remorselessly pile on the runs and they had spinners who controlled the middle overs and choked runs. Sri Lanka had lost only one match, and that was against Pakistan, their nemesis team in world cups. Otherwise they were unbeaten. Their match against Australia was washed out. They defeated other opponents with ease. In the quarter final, they restricted England score and chased that with ease. They did the same against New Zealand in the semi final.
In the final, Sri Lanka won the toss and batted first. They piled on a big total of 274/6. Mahela Jaywardane, as was his wont, scored an unbeaten century.
When India began their chase, Sehwag was out for a second ball duck. India 0 for 1. Six overs later, Tendulkar too fell. India 31 for 2 and in deep trouble. Memories of world cup final 2003 chase began to haunt Indian fans, when India were 59 for three and were never in the game after that. With my experience, I had learnt the lesson that Tendulkar and Sehwag would perform in group matches, but not in the final. So both of them letting the side down in the big final was par for the course.
Fortunately, this team had Gautam Gambhir, who would perform in the final. He had performed in the World T20 Final in 2007 which India had won. Here too, he, in the company of rising star Virat Kohli began to repair the damage. The two took the score to 114, when Kohli fell. Target was 161 runs away, and India had to score at an asking rate of 5.7 for more than 28 overs. The Sri Lankan attack had not allowed any team other than Pakistan to score so many runs in this tournament. The next batsman scheduled to come in was Yuvraj. He had a great world cup with bat and ball, but he had fallen for a first ball duck in the semi final. And here, against Muralitharan, he would have been like a cat on the hot tin roof. As Kohli departed, fans were greeted by the sight of not Yuvraj, but Dhoni emerging out of the pavilion.
Gambhir and Dhoni saw off the threats of Muralitharan and co. The Sri Lankan modus operandi in this world cup was to harvest loads of wickets in the middle overs and cripple the opposition batting line up, which would then collapse to a total smaller than 230. Only Pakistan (batting first) had scored 277 against them. Sri Lanka had restricted England to 229 in the quarterfinal, New Zealand to 217 (in semi final) and 153 (in group match). Zimbabwe scored 188, Kenya 142, and Canada 122 against sri Lanka. So with the exception of Pakistan (batting first) no other team had succeeded in handling Sri Lankan bowling attack in the tournament.
Gambhir and Dhoni dented the Sri Lankan bowling attack. India were 223 when Gambhir had a momentary brain fade and he was out bowled for 97, when he was so close to a well deserved century. Only 41 runs were needed in 8.4 overs. Only seven more overs were needed to reach the winning total. Dhoni sealed the match with a well chronicled six.
That win now meant that India had won the ODI world cup in this century itself and we were no longer confined to reminisce and gloat about the title win in the past century. So someone like Ashish Nehra too joined the ranks of 1983 “pundit” like Madanlal as someone who is much in demand as TV cricket expert thanks to that world cup title victory in 1983. 🙂
Present generation cricket lovers can now honestly say that they were around when India won the ODI world cup. 🙂 People like us are of course luckier. We saw Indian world cup win in 1983 too. 🙂
On that day ten years ago, one song of “Pujaari”(1946) was covered in the blog. “Pujaari”(1946) was directed by Aspi for Ardeshir M Irani Productions, Bombay. The movie had Mumtaz Shanti, Masood, Bipin Gupta,Mustafa,P.D.Lal, Yashwant Dave, Anita Sharma, Tasneem, Baby Mumtaz Aka Madhubala etc in it. This movie had ten songs in it and four songs have been covered so far.
Today, exactly ten years later, here is another song from “Pujaari”(1946) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Feroz Dastoor. ali Sahab is the lyricist. Music is composed by Hansraj Bahl.
Lyrics of this song were sent to me by Prakashchandra.
This post appears late at night. At this time ten years ago, entire India had burst into wild celebrations just as Dhoni hit the winning six and then the team as performing a victory lap around the Wankhede stadium.
Audio link:
Song-Piyaa milan ko chali kaamini karke haar singaar (Pujaari)(1946) Singer-Feroz Dastoor, Lyrics-Wali Sahab, MD-Hansraj Bahl
Lyrics (Provided by Prakashchandra)
piyaa milan ko o o o
piyaa milan ko
chaley kaamini
karke haar singaa..aa..aaar
karke haar singaar
naainan mein raadhaa ki moorat
naainan mein raadhaa ki moorat
man mein Krishna muraar..aa…aaar
mann mein Krishna muraar
haan aan aan haaan aaan
piyaa milan ko chaley kaamini
karke haar singaaa..aar
karke haar singaar
taaron ki chhaiyyaan mein uthhkar
chupke chupke mandar jaanaa
pawan chaley ae ae ae ae ae ae ae ae
pawan chaley to dar kar ruknaa..aaa
pawan chaley to dar kar ruknaa
ruk kar
apnaa
haath ??aanaa
ruk kar
apnaa
haath ??aanaa
chhip chhip karnaa pyaa…aaar
chhip chhip karnaa pyaar aa..aaa…aan..aa
piyaa milan ko chaley kaamini
karke haar singaa..aar
karke haar singaar
honthon pe geethon ka raainaa
naainan se gangajal behnaa
mann hi mann mein ae ae
mann hi mann mein
mann behlaakar
mann behlaakar
mukh par
pee kaa
naam naa laakar
mukh par pee ka naam naa laakar
degi tann mann waa..aaar
degi tann mann wa..aa..aaar
aaa..aaa..aaa…aaa
piyaa milan ko
aa..aaan..aaan…aaan
piyaa milan ko chaley kaamini
karke haar singaa..aaar
karke haar singaar
Nainon ki nagri mein aa ke
Posted on: December 26, 2011
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Welcome all to the 5200th offering on this blog. An enchanting journey that continues to grow from strength to strength, has reached another landmark today. It seemed just like yesterday that we hit the 5000 mark (it was on 13th November), and lo, we are already 200 songs even beyond that magic number today. Congratulations to all, and especially to Atul ji, for being the consistent driving force behind this effort. Besides being the 5200th post, this write up also celebrates the century of songs on this blog, by the music director Hansraj Behl.
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Bairan nindiya kyun nahin aaye
Posted on: December 18, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
What an endearing song, and what a mellifluous voice. Such a wonderful gem of a song, from the first film for which Hansraj Behl composed the music. The film is ‘Pujari’ from 1946. This was the debut year for Hansraj Behl, and 3 films containing his compositions were released that year. As per records, this film is he first one for which he started composing.
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Madhubala (born 19 feb 1933) made her screen debut at a very young age of about 8-9 years in 1942 in the movie “Basant” as a child artist under the name of Baby Mumtaz. She worked under this name for the next few years as a child artist. She began working in grown up roles in late 1940s, when she was barely 15 years of age, and it was sometime in late 1940s- early 1950s that she was given the screen name of Madhubala with which she is known today.
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