Posts Tagged ‘Zubeida’
Door kahin ik aam ki bagiya
Posted on: February 6, 2023
This article is written by nahm, 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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Tribute to Lata Mangeshkar – 1
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A R Rahman – The Musician of 21st Century – 5
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On February 06, 2022 the voice fell silent forever. Today is the first Remembrance Day of ‘Nightingale of India’. We can give her many adjective call her ‘Andaleeb-e-hindostan’ or ‘hindustan ki bulbul’. The government of India has awarded her the highest civilian award of ‘bharat ratna’.
I turn to Iqbal for inspiration. I was hoping to find something suitable for this occasion, as ‘bulbul’ figures prominently in Allama Iqbal’s poetry. I am not going too deep in the interpretation of this one, just reproducing the ghazal, with the translation in English, which I found on one of the sites on Allama Iqbal.
Ye Surood-e-Qumri-o-Bulbul Faraib-e-Gosh Hai
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Ye Surood-e-Qumri-o-Bulbul Faraib-e-Gosh Hai
Batin-e-Hangama Abad-e-Chaman Khamosh Hai
These songs of turtle doves and nightingales are merely ear’s illusion
Behind this uproar the world of the garden is silent
Tere Pemanon Ka Hai Ye Ae Mai-e-Maghrib Asar
Khanda-Zan Saqi Hai, Sari Anjuman Be-Hosh Hai
O Western wine the effect of your goblets is only this
That cup‐bearer is laughing and the entire assembly is unconscious
Dehr Ke Gham Khane Mein Tera Pata Milta Nahin
Jurm Tha Kya Afreenish Bhi Ke Tu Ru-Posh Hai
In the world’s sorrowful house you are not traceable
Was creation also a crime so Your nature is concealed?
Ah, Dunya Dil Samajhti Hai Jise, Woh Dil Nahin
Pehlu-e-Insan Mein Ek Hangama-e-Khamosh Hai
Ah! What the world considers heart is not heart
In the human breast this is a silent tumult
Zindagi Ki Rah Mein Chal, Lekin Zara Bach Bach Ke Chal
Ye Samajh Le Koi Meena Khana Bar-e-Dosh Hai
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Walk on the path of life but walk carefully
Understand that some glass work is on your shoulders
Jis Ke Dam Se Dilli-o-Lahore Hum Pehlu Huwe
Ah, Ae Iqbal! Woh Bulbul Bhi Ab Khamosh Hai
Through whom Delhi and Lahore were drawn together
Ah! Iqbal that nightingale is silent now.
This ghazal talks of Nightingale’s song, silence behind noises of the world, effect of wine (of power) on those who enjoy power, the role of ‘saaqi’ in this process, the true beauty of creation being invisible and untraceable in this sad world, a silent tumult in the human chest, the heart without characteristics of a real heart, an advice to be careful in the world as one carries delicate matters as baggage, etc.
The ghazal ends, stating that the nightingale which brought ‘Dilli’ and ‘Lahore’ closer is silent now. How appropriate!
It is just co-incidence that I started this post with the sentence ‘On February 06, 2022 the voice fell silent forever’ and afterwards found this ghazal which ends with a similar refrain. As expected, Iqbal never fails to impress, with vocabulary, which is unusual, yet relatable.
I will at least make a trilogy of posts as a tribute to a legend among all Indian artists. It disturbs me to hear people criticise her, whenever her name is mentioned in informal talks, during lunch time etc. Even without actively trying to dominate the hindi films singers’ field, which some allege Lata Mangeshkar did, she would have dominated and overshadowed her competition. There was lot of focus, dedication, talent, devotion to her singing and single-minded ambition involved in making her the voice of the nation, and it gave her the heights and glory, which she deserved and no one else could have achieved.
And the perfectionist in her would not have settled for anything less. There are hundreds of her songs, which are a legacy too varied, for any body to emulate. I have always held her voice, the shine of it, close to my heart. As a professional, she held the belief that she is the best and she would be the best. In this she was her own competition, and she competed with no one else.
Though the world of music does not consider hindi film music as a serious form of music. The format of writer, composer and singer being different persons, is a factor in this non-recognition. Despite this Lata Mangeshkar’s status as Indian vocalist is hers alone and this cannot be overstated and over rated.
This fact was amply acknowledged by the new age musician like A. R. Rehman. Lata Mangeshkar sang very few songs in the last 20 years, but majority of these songs are for ARR. ARR is forever, having unknown singers from his academy sing his songs. Many of the established playback singers of hindi films have sung for him, 1, 2 or 3 songs for him. Lata Mangeshkar would top this list with Sukhwinder Singh, as film after film, he had her sings bhajans, fusion songs and lullabies and sad songs. From ‘Dil Se’ to ‘Rang De Basanti’ to ‘Pukar’, the songs are many.
I am presenting here one such lullaby from the film Zubeida (2001), one of the well-known songs by Lata-ARR. The poetry is by Javed Akhtar.
Two songs from “Zubeida”(2001) are already on the blog:-
| Song | Date of posting |
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| Dheeme dheeme gaaun dheere dheere gaaun | 29 May 2019 |
| Mehandi hai rachnewaali | 4 October 2014 |
As a lullaby goes, this is softer and having a story of a ‘Shehzadi’. As all are asleep, the Shehzadi comes down from her home in the stars, to the child’s house. She brings with her all the sweet dreams with her and arranges those dreams on the child’s eyelashes. How endearingly the scene for the child to go to sleep is created, making he or she secure in the knowledge that the princess is going to come and give him sweet dreams as soon as he or she sleeps.
With ARR’s orchestration yet to reach the pinnacle in the new century, this is one of the best scores of that period. I have my favourites in this film’s songs too. But this ‘lori’ becomes all time classic in this genre, with Lata’s singing, not to mention the imagery of dreams brought down from the shining stars, that Javed Akhtar created.
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Song-Door kahin ik aam ki bagiya (Zubeida)(2001) Singer-Lata Mangeshkar, Lyrics-Javed Akhtar, MD-A R Rahman
Lyrics
hmmm mmm mmmm
hmmm hm hmmhmmhmm
hmmm mmm mmmm
hmmm hm hmmhmmhmm
aa aaaa
aahaahaa aaaa haaaaa
door kahin ik aam ki bagiyaa aa
door kahin ik aam ki bagiyaa
bagiyaa mein hai
thhandi chhaaon
chhaaon mein ik kachcha rastaa
raste mein pyaara sa gaaon
gaaon mein ik chhota sa ghar
ghar mein ik ujlaa sa aangan
aangan mein chandan ka palna
palne mein chandaa sa munnaa
aaa…
munne ki aankhon mein nindiyaa aa
door kahin ik aam ki bagiyaa
bagiyaa mein hai
thhandi chhaaon
chhaaon mein ik kachcha rastaa
raste mein pyaara sa gaaon
neele neele aasmaan mein
taaron ka hai ek nagar
jagmag jagmag ik taare par
ek shehzaadi ka hai ghar
chupke chupke raat ko uthh ke
dhyaan se dekhe koyi agar
jhilmil jhilmil hai taare mein
uss shehzaadi ke zevar
shehzaadi ithhlaaye
shehzaadi ye gaaye
door kahin ik aam ki bagiyaa aa
aadhi raat jab ho jaati hai
jab duniya so jaati hai
taaron se shehzaadi utar ke
munne ke ghar aati hai
meethhe meethhe saare sapne
apne saathh woh laati hai ae
sote munne ki palkon pe
ye sapne woh sajaati hai ae
sirhaane wo aaye
haule se wo gaaye
door kahin ik aam ki bagiyaa aa aa
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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dheeme dheeme gaaun
hmmm
dheere dheere gaaun
haule haule gaaun
tere liye piyaa………..
How sweet is Kavita Krishnamurthy sounding, never has she been sweeter than she is here. This has to be the best of Kavita and the best of A. R. Rehman too. I have been listening to this song since last few days and been enamoured by it. So much so that I have looked up the 2006 survey conducted by Outlook magazine to see if this song finds a place in it.
Usually I compliment a song by calling it a gem of a song. But for this one, I will be specific and call it a ‘diamond’ of a song. There is a street called ‘Khade Bazaar’ in Belgaum and we as children would loosely translate it to ‘Standing street’. Come to think of it, it must mean ‘Diamond market’ because ‘khada’ means stone in Marathi. ‘Khade’ is a word used for diamonds too.
When A. R. Rehman first arrived in the hindi film industry with ‘Roja” (1992), his type of music was a total revelation to the industry. The listeners jaded from the trash dished out in the name of music by MD’s in the 80’s were pleasantly surprised in the early part of 90’s. Melody was making a comeback and songs began to add to the appeal of films. The duo’s like Nadeem-Shravan, Anand-Milind and Jatin-Lalit were all contributed to this revival and had a lion’s share in the popular chartbusters of the 90’s. Some of these new generation MD’s were capable of rehashing two/three older songs and creating a new melody. But they created melodious songs, just not very original. A. R. Rehman was the only one creating original compositions and experimenting with instruments. All of them, between them managed to take the hindi film songs appeal to international audiences in to the next millenia too, the malady of plagiarism, notwithstanding. Some more plagiarism from the likes of Anu Malik, Pritam, etc add a bit more creativity from the southern music director like Ilyaraja and M M Kreem(atleast they sounded original to me), indian film music was a huge business internationally.
To add to the appeal of this music and to add to the commercial success among the subcontinent diaspora in UK and North America, the inclusion of fresh voices from across the border became an acceptable norm.
Coming back to Roja and A. R. Rehman. A. R. Rehman has started composing jingles of advertisements as a youngster. The songs of Roja were all masterpieces and it looked like he won’t be able to surpass it. But surpass he did with scores for films like Lagaan, Bombay, Guru, Taal, Delhi 6 to name a few. He is one of the achiever of modern day india in the creative field with an Oscar too and unsurpassed international recognition for his music.
The song presented is from the film ‘Zubeida’ written by Khalid Mehmood and directed by Shyam Benegal. One of the trio of films he made based on stories connected with his own real life. The central protagonist Zubieda played superbly by Karishma Kapoor is the daughter of a big filmmaker, but she is denied a film career. This is a period film situated in post partition period. She ends up with a broken marriage with a Pakistani and a son. She meets a price from ‘Rajasthan’ who plays polo matches in Mumbai, and the rest is history. There are a few goods reviews of the film on imdb site.
There was a surprise in store for me as I tried to find the song links of this film. I found one song audio link, with the cover of CD , which said Farrokh Rattonsey’s “Zubieda’. Again I go into flashback to 1990-91 when I had worked in the offices of the Rattonsey’s cleaving company at Santacruz 
for a few months. They had film production company named Yelahanka Productions, and made two films that I remember, i.e. Khuddar and Kaash. They are old money of Mumbai, had businesses varying from Diamond cleaving to horse breeding. Their horses have made a name nationally and internationally from what I had gathered while working in their office, and have seen the news in later years too. They also used to publish india’s only/first magazine about race horses and breeding, named “Indian Thorough bred”. It used to be an annual or bi-annual issue. The office of ITB was situated in the same building as the cleaving company office.
Yes … and this diamond of a song. Music score for this film is among A. R Rehman’s best, but this particular number with the trademark longish mukhda and antara’s and amazing rendition by Kavita Krishnamurthy makes in the best song of the decade. Karishma Kapoor is singing this song as ‘Zubieda’ soon after marrying her price charming Manoj Bajpai. Really Karishma is more charming of the couple, with her 50’s style understated sophistication and looking far too innocent. The camera angles are not trying to make her look beautiful and just succeeding in making her look a young, bruised and innocent deer. The deer who is impoverish for love, happy and dances elegantly like a peacock.
Zubeida’s fear and insecurities are all expressed in the song. The subtlety in expressions is the hallmark, which makes this song stand apart from other songs of this genre. Kavita Krishnamurthy’s slight variations while repeating the mukhda each time and the gradual changes in rhythm are appealing to the finer senses. It is almost five and half minute long with only two stanzas. Something special which makes us wish that it will continue forever and not end.
The lyricist is Javed Akhtar and this song is sheer poetry visually also.
Audio
Video
Song-Dheeme dheeme gaaun (Zubeida)(2001) Singer-Kavita Krishnamoorthy, Lyrics-Jawed Akhtar, MD-A R Rahman
Lyrics
dheeme dheeme gaaun
hmmm
dheere dheere gaaun
haule haule gaaun
tere liye piyaa
dheeme dheeme gaaun
hmmm
dheeme dheeme gaaun
dheere dheere gaaun
haule haule gaaun
tere liye piyaa
gun gun main gaati jaaun
chhun chhun paayal chhankaaun
sun sun kab se dohraaun
piyaa piyaa piyaa aa
gulshan mehke mehke
ye man behke behke
aur tan dehke dehke
kyun hai bataa piyaa
man ki jo haalat hai ye
tan ki jo rangat hai ye
teri muhobbat hai ye
piyaa
piyaa piyaa
gun gun main gaati jaaun
chhun chhun paayal chhankaaun
sun sun kab se dohraaun
piyaa
piyaa piyaa aa
piyaa piyaa
o o o o
zindagi mein tu aaya to
dhoop mein milaa saaya to
jaage naseeb mere
o o o o
anhonee ko thha honaa
dhool ban gayi hai sonaa
aa ke qareeb tere
o o o o
pyaar se mujh ko
tu ne chhuaa hai
roop sunehraa tab se huaa hai
rang aur kya
mujh mein piyaa
o o o o o o o o
teri nigaahon mein hoon
teri hi baahon mein hoon
khwaabon ki raahon mein hoon
piyaa
piyaa piyaa
gun gun main gaati jaaun
chhun chhun paayal chhankaaun
sun sun kab se dohraaun
piyaa piyaa piyaa aa
piyaa piyaa
o o o o
o o o o
main ne jo khushi paayee hai
jhoom ke jo rut aayi hai
badle na rut wo kabhi ee
o o o o
dil ko devtaa jo laage
sar jhukaa hai jis ke aage
toote na but wo kabhi
o o o o
kitni hai meetthhee
kitni suhaanee
tu ne sunaayee
hai jo kahaani
main jo kho gayee
nayee ho gayee
ho o o o
o o o o
aankhon mein taare chamke
raaton mein jugnu damke
mit gaye nishaan gham ke
piyaa
piyaa piyaa
gun gun main gaati jaaun
chhun chhun paayal chhankaaun
sun sun kab se dohraaun
piyaa piyaa piyaa aa
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Devnagri script lyrics (Provided by nahm)
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धीमे धीमे गाऊँ
हम्म म म
धीरे धीरे गाऊँ
हौले हौले गाऊँ
तेरे लिए पिया आ
धीमे धीमे गाऊँ
हम्म म म
धीमे धीमे गाऊँ
धीरे धीरे गाऊँ
हौले हौले गाऊँ
तेरे लिए पिया आ
गुन गुन मैं गाती जाऊं
छुन छुन पायल छंकाऊँ
सुन सुन कब से दोहराऊँ
पिया पिया पिया आ
गुलशन महके महके
ये मन बहके बहके ए
और तन दहके दहके
क्यूँ हैं बता पिया आ
मन की जो हालत है ये
तन की जो रंगत है ये
तेरी मोहब्बत है ये
पिया
पिया पिया आ
गुन गुन मैं गाती जाऊं
छुन छुन पायल छंकाऊँ
सुन सुन कब से दोहराऊँ
पिया पिया पिया आ
पिया पिया
ओ ओ ओ ओ
ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ
ज़िंदगी में तू आया तो
धूप में मिला साया तो
जागे नसीब मेरे ए
ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ
प्यार से मुझ को ओ ओ
तू ने छुआ है
रूप सुनहरा तब से हुआ है
रंग और क्या
मुझ में पिया
ओ ओ ओ
ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ
तेरी निगाहों में हूँ
तेरी ही बाहों में हूँ
ख्वाबों की राहों में हूँ
पिया
पिया पिया आ
गुन गुन मैं गाती जाऊं
छुन छुन पायल छंकाऊँ
सुन सुन कब से दोहराऊँ
पिया पिया पिया आ
पिया पिया
ओ ओ ओ ओ
ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ
मैं ने जो खुशी पायी है
झूम के जो रूत आई है
बदले न रूत ये कभी ई
ओ ओ ओ ओ
दिल को देवता जो लागे
सार झुका है जिस के आगे
टूटे न बूत वो कभी
ओ ओ ओ ओ
कितनी है मीठी
कितनी सुहानी
तू ने सुनाई
है जो कहानी
मैं जो खो गाई
नई हो गई
ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ ओ
आँखों में तारे चमके
रातों में जुगनू दमके
मिट गए निशान ग़म के
पिया
पिया पिया आ
गुन गुन मैं गाती जाऊं
छुन छुन पायल छंकाऊँ
सुन सुन कब से दोहराऊँ
पिया पिया पिया आ
Mehandi hai rachnewaali
Posted on: October 4, 2014
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
SONGS FROM ARTISTE NAME FILMS…..Song No. 8
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Today’s song is from film Zubeidaa-2000. It is sung by Alka Yagnik and the MD is A R Rahman.
Zubeidaa was a film (one of the only 2 such films in India ), made on the life of actress Zubeida, who operated during 1937 to 1949. This Zubeida is NOT the Alam Ara fame Zubeida. That Zubeida had left films in 1935,after marrying a very rich Jahagirdar-Raja Dhanraj Gir ji from Hyderabad (Deccan).
Read more on this topic…
Badla dilwaayegaa yaa rab
Posted on: March 14, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today’s date, 14th March, is an anniversary of another sort, very intimately related with Hindi films and Hindi film songs. Today is the 82nd anniversary of the birth of the Hindi film song. It was this day, that the first talkie film of the Hindi screen was exhibited for the first time. The film is ‘Aalam Ara’, and the first public exhibition of this film occurred on 14th March, 1931, at a theatre named Majestic in Bombay. With the release of this film, the silent moving pictures acquired a voice, the story acquired the spoken word, and the medium changed forever with the infusion of the most significant element in the repertoire of Hindi cinema – music and songs.
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