RRR Songs (Songs of Regret, Repentance and Ruefulness)
I started this new series on 17 Jan 21 on my Facebook Group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne. My efforts failed to involve people in writing their own stuff about songs and music rather than copying and pasting from here and there or worse, just sharing url of songs from YouTube. Hence, I had decided to give the group a burial that it deserved rather than making it like thousands of groups on Facebook about songs with nothing unique about them at all.
Hence this series shifted to my page Lyrical.
I hope you liked RRR Song #12: Rehte the kabhi jinke dil mein. Here is the next song:
Song #13
Woh jo milate the kabhi hamse deewano ki tarah
Majrooh Sultanpuri and Madan Mohan
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A few days ago, I gave you a song Tujhe kya sunayun main dilruba tere saamne mere haal hai and we witnessed the magic of the duo in the 1958 Mahesh Kaul movie Aakhri Dao starring Nutan and Shekhar.
Let us recall some of their other songs. The 1970 Rajinder Singh Bedi movie Dastak starred Sanjeev Kumar and Rehana Sultan. All songs of the movie by the duo made great waves: Baiyan na dharo O balmaa, Mai ri main kaise jahun, Hum hain mataa-e-kuchaa-o-bazaar ki tarah, and Tumase kahun main ek baat.
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Then there was Chirag, the 1969 Raj Khosla movie starring Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh with the song whose title was taken (with permission) from a nazm by Faiz: Teri aankhon ke siva duniya mein rakha kya hai and the title song Chirag dil ka jalao bahut andhera hai.
I have, at another time given you another great song from Aakhri Dao: Hamsafar saath apna chhod chale also by the duo.
It would be easy to conclude that some really great lyrics were composed by the mazestro.
Akeli Mat Jayiyo
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I have taken the present song from the 1963 Nandalal Jaswantlal movie Akeli Mat Jayiyo starring Rajendra Kumar and Meena Kumari.
The song is a great song of ruefulness for love having gone sour. Once again, absolutely great lyrics were composed excellently by Madan Mohan and sung by Lata Mangeshkar for Meena Kumari:
वो जो मिलते थे कभी हम से दीवानों की तरह
आज यूँ मिअल्ते हैं जैसे कभी पहचान न थी
देखते भी हैं तो यूँ मेरी निगाहों में कभी
अजनबी जैसे मिला करते हैं राहों में कभी
इस क़दर उनकी नज़र हम से तो अंजान न थी
वो जो मिलते थे कभी …
एक दिन था कभी यूँ भी जो मचल जाते थे
खेलते थे मेरी ज़ुल्फ़ों से बहल जाते थे
वो परेशाँ थे मेरी ज़ुल्फ़ परेशान न थी
वो जो मिलते थे कभी …
वो मुहब्बत वो शरारत मुझे याद आती है
दिल में इक प्यार का तूफ़ान उठा जाती थी
थी मगर ऐसी तो उलझन में मेरी जान न थी
वो जो मिलते थे कभी …
My Own Poetry
KABHI HAMSE BHI USE PYAR THA
उसे अब हम बुलाते हैं तो आती ही नहीं,
एक समां था जब सोचते थे यह जाती ही नहीं।
कई बार सपनों में खोने का मन करता है,
पर सपनों के उस नगर में अब हमें बुलाती ही नहीं।
एक वक़्त था जब रहते थे उसी की बाहों में,
अब यूं समझो वो सुहाने ख्वाब दिखाती ही नहीं।
उसके आगोश में दिन में भी हम गुम रहते थे,
अब रात को भी अपने पास बुलाती ही नहीं।
आंखे तरसती हैं उसे रखें नज़रों में छुपा के,
वह है के आंखों में अब इठलाती ही नहीं।
जवानी में सोचते थे उसके संग हमें कोई देख न ले,
अब हमारे संग वह जलवे दिखाती ही नहीं।
सारी रात करवटें बदल करते हैं उसी का इंतजार,
हमारी बेकरारी अब करार पाती ही नहीं।
जवानी में इस की कदर करना, दोस्तो,
बुढ़ापे में तो अब नींद आती ही नहीं।
The Song
Meena Kumari, in all situations is known for some elegant acting. She sang a ghazal with her friends in the movie Ghazal: Nagma o sher ki saugat kise pesh karun and she was elegance personified. She sang Dil jo na keh saka in Bheegi Raat and she set the night on fire. And, she enacted this here and it is to be seen to be believed as what good acting can do to a song.
Please enjoy: Woh jo milate the kabhi…
I hope you liked Song #13 in this series.
Please await Song #14: Waqt ne kiya kya hasin sitam.