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 #7: Main ye soch kar uske dar se utha tha. Here is the next song:
Song #8
Jaane kahan gaye woh din
The Days We Wistfully Remember
Nostalgia is a great feeling. Even the days of old that we disliked we remember them wistfully as the days we derived maximum pleasure from.
For example, when we were students in a classroom, we hated sitting there staring at a blackboard and a more somber teacher. However, in our middle and old age, our number one nostalgia is about our school days!
As far as Love is concerned, when it goes sour, we wistfully remember those days when our beloved used to hang on every word that we would say or not say, every gesture, every feeling, everything.
Hasrat Jaipuri
These are exactly the emotions portrayed by Hasrat Jaipuri in this 1970 movie Mera Naam Joker that was produced and directed by Raj Kapoor on a story by KA Abbas. The song instantly became a super hit as were the other songs of the movie. The movie didn’t do commercially very well. However, later, it is recognised as one of the most iconic movies of Raj Kapoor.
Hasrat Jaipuri was used to expressing emotions with dexterity as much as building up the romance. One of his best is from a Shammi Kapoor starrer Pagla Kahin Ka: Tum mujhe youn bhula na paoge.
Shankar Jaikishan
Shankar Jaikishan were very well versed with raagas and went beyond some of the raagas to compose their songs. Of course, the raag that was their (Jaikishan’s) favourite was Bhairavi. There are movies in which they have composed as many as four songs in this pious raag.
Their second most favourite raag (Shankar’s) was Shivaranjani. One of the best that they composed by Raj Kapoor’s Sangam song: O mere sanam. This one is equally good, if not more.
Raag Shivaranjani
Shivaranjani’s Jati is Audhav-Audhav, that is pentatonic in both ascent (Aaroha) and descent (Avaroha);Madhyam and Nishad are the swar that are varjya, Gandhar is Komal. Rest all are shuddha swar. This raag and Bhopali are similar except that in Bhopali, even Gandhar is shuddha whereas it is Komal in Shivaranjani.
The raag is to be normally performed at midnight.
Lyrics
जाने कहाँ गए वो दिन, कहते थे तेरी राह में
नज़रों को हम बिछाएंगे
चाहे कहीं भी तुम रहो, चाहेंगे तुमको उम्र भर
तुमको ना भूल पाएंगे
जाने कहाँ गए वो दिन …
मेरे कदम जहाँ पड़े, सजदे किये थे यार ने – २
मुझको रुला रुला दिया, जाती हुई बहार ने
जाने कहाँ गए वो दिन …
अपनी नज़र में आज कल, दिन भी अंधेरी रात है – २
साया ही अपने साथ था, साया ही अपने साथ है
जाने कहाँ गए वो दिन …
इस दिल के आशियान में बस उनके ख़याल रह गये
तोड़ के दिल वो चल दिये, हम फिर अकेले रह गये
जाने कहाँ गए वो दिन …
My Own Poetry
KOI LAUTA DE WOH DIN
मुझे याद आते हैं बचपन के वो पल,
लगता न था कभी आएगी कल,
मासूमियत में कह देते थे दोस्तों को:
मैं आता हूँ तेरे पीछे, तूँ चल।
एक एक करके होने लगे वो विदा,
जो रात को भी न होते थे जुदा,
हमारी फुसफ़साहट भी वो सुन लेते थे,
अब नहीं पहुंचती उन तक मेरी सदा।
आती हैं वो सब शरारतें याद,
पेड़ से तोड़े आम का अलग था स्वाद,
क्या लुत्फ था उन हरकतों का,
हालांकि बहुत मार खाई उनके बाद।
क्या अजब खेल था लुकन छिपाई।
कब दिन शुरू हुआ और कब रात आयी,
सब सांझेदारी में बराबर के हकदार थे,
न कोई चीज़ अपनी, न कोई चीज़ परायी।
लगता न था वो प्यारे दिन गुज़र जाएंगे,
तिनके तिनके से बनाये घरोंदे बिखर जाएंगे,
ज़िन्दगी की ऊंचाईयां चढ़ने की ख्वाइश में,
जहां चढ़े बैैठे थे वहीं से उतर जााएंगे।
काश रोक लेते वो दिलकश समां,
हम सब संग संग थे उस जगह जहां,
ढूंढते फिरते हैं उस बीते ज़माने को,
कोई तो बता दो वो बचपन गया है कहां।
The Song
Please enjoy Mukesh singing for Raj Kapoor: Jaane kahan gaye woh din….
I hope you liked Song #8 in this series.
Please await Song #9: Woh tere pyar ka gham.
