I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 18 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
This is the Song #32 in the series. I hope you liked Song #31 – Raaton ko chori chori.
Song #32
Tera jaana
Theme-word: Jab jab chanda aayega teri yaad dilayega, Saari raat jagayega
Once Again a Zindagi and Raat Song
In this song she (Nutan) mentions Zindagi first: Tera gham teri khushi, Mera gham meri khushi, Tujhse hi thi zindagi.
I have once again decided in favour of Raat. After all, I started the series with: Saari saari raat teri yaad sataye.
Shankar Jaikishan – Shailendra
I freak out on this song as one of the best compositions of my favourite duo: Shankar Jaikishan. Every movie of theirs had a song composed in the queen of ragas: Bhairavi, the raga most suited to express devotion. There were movies in which as many as four songs were composed by the duo in this raga. Jaikishan named his daughter Bhairavi because of his devotion to this devotional raga.
Other than Shakeel-Naushad, the guys who put me in a trance because of their compositions were the best duo ever of Shankar Jaikishan. There was this element of timelessness about their compositions.
Despite the best of lyrics and compositions, the songs would have been not even half the success they were if it hadn’t been for their outstanding composition and interludes. So much so that you pay more attention to the songs when the interludes appear.
I believe that the guys who had the best and most memorable interludes in their songs were the best music duo of Shankar and Jaikishan. They treated each song as a unique audience experience and interludes were significant part of their songs.
The guy who did it for Shankar Jaikishan to provide us with this memorable song arrangement was a Goan music arranger by the name of Sebastian D’Souza. If you notice a quality of music in Shankar Jaikishan songs wherein the music is not apologetically in the background but stand out as much as the lyrics and the voice, then it is thanks to Sebastian.
He was an arranger for Op Nayyar but started coming into prominence with S-J from their Awara days.
What did he and Shankar Jaikishan did in this song? It is a piano accordion song. First let me tell you a little controversy about S-J’s use of accordion. Their instrumentalist Vistasp Balsara claimed that many of the accordion sounds in the S-J numbers were produced by him on harmonium including for Awara hoon. However, there is no doubt about this song. It is actually on accordion, the instrument that S-J used the best.
Secondly, they made sad songs on fast happy beats so that music would be in prominence and you were taken in by singing, acting and cinematography. This aspect was untried by MDs earlier. However, many of S-J’s sad songs have fast lively tunes about them. In this, in the first interlude, the sound of accordion with percussion actually has the effect of enhancing your heartbeat to the level of Nutan’s for having lost the love of her life. In the second interlude it is mainly accordion but a little calmed down to take her from the level of first shock to acceptance that he would be no more with her.
Anari – 1959 Movie
Shankar Jaikishan were a total musical experience that seamlessly fitted into the scheme of the director, in this case Hrishikesh Mukherjee and the song, its lyrics, its composition, arrangement, singing by Lata Mangehskar, cinematography, emotions and histrionics were all parts of a complete experience that the audience must get whilst watching the song. I am sure, at some time or the other in the song you shift to walking into the hearts of Nutan and Raj Kapoor. So powerful is this experience.
I have my hair standing on ends when I listen to the song, particularly the interludes. Here is one song that you enjoy with all your senses focused on the song and not just ears. You enjoy the outstanding lyrics by Shailendra too, which is part of the overall experience and don’t stand out by themselves.
My Own Poetry
My similar poetry? I have several but I think this one comes closest:
SULAGTE AANSU
वो लौटा रहें हैं मेरा सामान,
और जला रहे हैं सब कुछ,
मेरी आरज़ू है सितमगर
मेरे अश्क भी जला दें
ताके दिल के समुन्दर में
वो तूफ़ान फिर ना उभरे;
जो मरहले खड़े थे
उन्हें ठोकर से मिटा दें
काश हम ना होते वो ना होते,
और ये आरज़ू ना होती
तेरी आँखों में जो सरूर था
वो सरूर भी हटा दें
मैं भूल गया हूँ सब कुछ,
तेरे प्यार की नज़र में
मेरी कौन सी है मंजिल
मुझे कुछ तो अब पता दें
अब दिल न हो, प्यार ना हो,
और ना रहे उनकी यादें,
कोई उनसे जाके कह दे,
मेरी हस्ती ही मिटा दें
The Song
Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy: Tera jaana dil ke armaano ka lut jaana….
( तेर जाना
दिल के अरमानों का लुट जाना ) -२
कोई देखे -२
बन के तक़दीरों का मिट जाना
तेरा जाना
तेरा ग़म तेरी ख़ुशी
मेरा ग़म मेरी ख़ुशी
तुझसे ही थी ज़िन्दगी
हँस कर हमने था कहा
जीवन भर का साथ है
ये कल ही की बात है
आ
तेरा जाना
दिल के अरमानों का लुट जाना
कोई देखे -२
बन के तक़दीरों का मिट जाना
तेरा जाना
जब-जब चन्दा आयेगा
तेरी याद दिलायेगा
सारी रात जगायेगा
मैं रो कर रह जाऊँगी
दिल जब ज़िद पर आयेगा
दिल को कौन मनायेगा
आ
तेरा जाना
दिल के अरमानों का लुट जाना
कोई देखे -२
बन के तक़दीरों का मिट जाना
तेरा जाना….
I hope you liked my choice of Raat or Din Song #32.
Please await Raat or Din Song #33- Pardesiyon se na akhiyan milana.
