Category: Music and Cinema

Let me recall this one from his 1953 movie Patita starring Dev Anand and Usha Kiran. A song from this movie has a mukhada that is the title of a Facegroup group of mine: Yaad Kiya Dil Ne; though penned by Hasrat Jaipuri. Indeed, when it came to S-J’s songs, we always keep going, like a metronome, between Shailendra and Hasrat.

Patita has two other songs penned by Shailendra: Kisi ne apna bana ke mujhako muskarana sikha diya, and Hai sabase madhur woh geet jise ham dard ke sur mein gaate hain.

However, my favourite in Lyrical excellence is Mitti se khelate ho baar baar kis liye.

The second stanza is particularly powerful.

Please enjoy: Mitti se khelate ho baar baar kis liye….

MiTTii se khelate ho baar-baar kis liye
TuuTe hu_e khilauno.n se pyaar kis liye

banaake zi.ndagaaniyaa.N bigaa.Dane se kyaa milaa
merii ummiid kaa jahaa.N ujaa.Dane se kyaa milaa
aa_ii thii do dino.n kii ye bahaar kis liye

zaraa sii dhuul ko hazaar ruup naam de di_e
zaraa sii jaan sar pe saat aasamaan de di_e
barabaad zi.ndagii kaa ye si.ngaar kis li_e

zamiin Gair ho ga_ii ye aasamaa.N badal gayaa
hawaa ke ruK badal ga_e har ek phuul jal gayaa
bajate hai.n ab ye saa.Nso.n ke taar kis li_e

If there is a song from a movie that I like, especially if it is an old one, I avoid seeing the movie lest I should be disappointed with the movie, its setting and the picturisation of the song.

My most favourite rain song ever is O sajana barkha bahaar aayi. It haunts me during the rains and it fascinates me otherwise. When I hear the notes of it and the lyrics, my heart goes aflutter. I build up my own scene around the songs and do not like the realm of my own imagination to be broken.

Shailendra certainly has the quality that tickles my imagination.

Even though the movie is a Bimal Roy movie, I avoided having a conflict between my own imagination and that of the movie’s.

However, yesterday I saw the movie with its story (a light-hearted satire/comedy, which no one can believe Bimal Roy would have directed!) written by Salil Chowdhury.

When I listen to the song, I imagine it as the picturisation of rain and the longing of a woman in rain for her lover without any necessity of a video! However, when I saw the movie and the song, I realised that the director and the music director too have done outstandingly well and the lyrics come out alive and throbbing with their handling.

Salil da, of course, composed the song in Raag Khammaj, Tal Kaherava. He thought about it with the swishing of his Ambassador car’s wipers in the rain. It is a late evening Raaga and that’s precisely the time in the movie too.

Shailendra was able to say it in a few words that would take volumes otherwise. Lata singing for Sadhana brought out the longing even more.

Please enjoy: O sajana barkha bahar aayi…..

(o sajanaa, barakhaa bahaara aaI
rasa kii phuhaara laaI, a.Nkhiyo.n me pyaar laaI ) – 2
o sajanaa

tumako pukaare mere mana kaa papiharaa – 2
miiThii miiThii aganii me.n, jale moraa jiyaraa
o sajanaa …

(aisI rimajhima me.n o saajan, pyaase pyaase mere nayana
tere hii, khvaaba me.n, kho gae ) – 2
saa.nvalii salonii ghaTaa, jaba jaba chhaaI – 2
a.Nkhiyo.n me.n rainaa gaI, nindiyaa na aaI
o sajanaa …

1958: “Yeh Mera Deewanapan Hai” (Yahudi)
1959: “Sab Kuch Seekha Hamne” (Anari)
1968: “Main Gaoon Tum So Jao” (Brahmchari)

These awards were instituted in 1958. This means that Shailendra had won the first two awards after their institution, before Shakeel won the next one for the 1960 film Chaudhvin Ka Chand. And then of course, Shakeel did a hat-trick.

Day before yesterday I saw a Bimal Roy movie Parakh. Yahudi was another Bimal Roy movie. Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Sohrab Modi, Nazir Hussain, and Nigar Sultana starred in the movie. It was based on a play Yahudi Ki Ladki by Agha Hashar Kashmiri, a classic in Parsi-Urdu theatre, about persecution of Jews in the Roman Empire. Hindi cinema, at that time was opening out to situations around the world.

1958 was only the 6th Filmfare Awards and already Best Lyricist award was introduced. Mukesh sang this song on the composition by Shankar Jaikishan.

Please enjoy: Yeh mera deewanapan hai yaa mohabbat ka saroor….

dil se tujhako bedilii hai, mujhako hai dil kaa guruur
tuu ye maane ke na maane, log maane.nge zuruur

ye meraa diivaanaapan hai, yaa muhabbat kaa suruur
tuu na pahachaane to hai ye, terii nazaro.n kaa qusuur
ye meraa diivaanaapan hai …

dil ko terii hii tamannaa, dil ko hai tujhase hii pyaar
chaahe tuu aae na aae, ham kare.nge i.ntazaar
ye meraa diivaanaapan hai …

aise viiraane me.n ik din, ghuT ke mar jaae.nge ham
jitanaa jii chaahe pukaaro, phir nahii.n aae.nge ham
ye meraa diivaanaapan hai …

Once, S-J promised Shailendra that they would recommend him to other music directors; but, later totally forgot about it. I have already told you that writing lyrics was the only life Shailendra had. So, he sent them a note after reasonable time had elapsed. The note said: “Chhoti si ye duniya, pehchaane raaste hain; kahin to miloge to poochhenge haal“.

Shankar-Jaikishan straightway understood that Shailendra was conveying to them about failed promise. However, the lines that Shailendra wrote were so good, loaded and with light ruefulness that they used it in a song.

The movie was the 1962 movie Rungoli that starred (exactly like the 1956 movie New Delhi that I saw last night): Kishore Kumar and Vyjayanthimala.

The film had the following songs:

1. Chhoti Si Ye Duniya, Pahachaane Raasate Hain – Kishore Kumar
2. Choti Si Ye Duniya Pehchane Raaste Hai – Lata Mangeshkar
3. Hum Tum Ye Khoyi Khoyi Rahe, Chanchal Isharon Se – Lata Mangeshkar , Mukesh
4. Ek Nazar Kisi Ne Dekha Aur Dil Hua Deewana – Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
5. Jaao-jaao Nand Ke Lala Tum Jhoote – Lata Mangeshkar
6. Rangoli Sajaao Re, Teri Paayal Mere Git – Kishore Kumar
7. Sagar Pe Aaj Maujon Ka Raaj, Bechain Hai Nazaara – Lata Mangeshkar
8. Hum Bechare Pyar Ke Maare, Aur Tum To Tum Ho – Kishore Kumar
9. Chaau Chaau Bombiyana, Ishq Hai Maraz Purana – Manna Dey

Credits for the lyrics of the songs were shared between Shailendra and Hasrat Jaipuri.

Please enjoy: Chhoti si ye duniya pehchaane raaste hain….

chhoTii sii ye duniyaa, pahachaane raste.n hai.n
tum kabhI to miloge, kahii.n to miloge to puuchhe.nge haal
chhoTii sI …

ham to ye samajhe.nge hamane ek patthar ko puujaa
lekin tumako apane jaisA nahii.n milege duujaa, nahii.n milegaa duujaa
chhoTii sii ye duniyaa …

siikhaa nahii.n hamaare dil ne pyaar me.n dhiiraj khonaa
aag me.n jal ke bhI jo nikhaare, hai vohii sachchaa sonaa, hai vohI sachchaa sonaa
chhoTii sii ye duniyaa …

dil kI daulat mat Thukaraao, dekho pachhatAoge
aaj chale jaate ho jaise, lauT ke bhI aaoge, lauT ke bhI aaoge
chhoTii sii ye duniyaa …

The most popular song (internationally) that was ever written by a Hindi films lyricist was actually written by Shailendra and at a very early stage in his career. I am talking about the title song of the 1951 Raj Kapoor movie Awaara. I need not repeat it that the song was a hit song across lands and oceans: China, Middle East, Europe and even Americas.

Recently, a WhatsApp video is going around with Turkish President singing the song at a public function. Of course, in Turkey Awaara was remade as Avare (1964) starring the Turkish actor Sadri Alışık, along with actress Ajda Pekkan.

In 2012, Time Magazine included Awaara and Anari amongst the 100 Best Movies Of All Times.

Shankar Jaikishan, of course, composed the song in their favourite Raaga: Raag Bhairavi, Tal Kaherava.

Please enjoy: Awaara hoon…..

(aavaaraa huu.N, aavaaraa huu.N
yaa gardish me.n huu.N aasamaan kaa taaraa huu.N ) – 2
aavaaraa huu.N, aavaaraa huu.N

gharabaar nahii.n, sa.nsaar nahii.n
mujhase kisIko pyaar nahii.n – 2
usapaar kisiise milane kaa iqaraar nahii.n
mujhase kisIko pyaar nahii.n – 2
sunasaan nagar anjaan Dagar kaa pyaaraa huu.N
aavaaraa huu.N, aavaaraa huu.N

aabaad nahii.n barabaad sahii
gaataa huu.N khushiike gIt magar – 2
zakhmo.n se bharaa siinaa hai meraa
ha.nsatii hai magar ye mast nazar
duniyaa .a.a.a
duniyaa me.n tere tiir kaa yaa takadiir kaa maaraa huu.N
aavaaraa huu.N, aavaaraa huu.N
yaa gardish me.n huu.N aasamaan kaa taaraa huu.N
aavaaraa huu.N, aavaaraa huu.N

1. “Jaane Kaise Sapno Main” – Lata Mangeshkar
2. “Sanware Sanware Kahe Mose” – Lata Mangeshkar
3. “Kaise Din Beete, Kaise Beeti Ratiyan” – Lata Mangeshkar
4. “Bahut Din Huye” – Mahendra Kapoor
5. “Hai Re Woh Din Kyon Na Aaye” – Lata Mangeshkar

Each one of them has that pull that tugs at the chords of one’s heart. The film stars Balraj Sahni and Leela Naidu in lead roles. Leela Naidu was Miss India before joining films and this was her debut movie. The movie is all about the idealist village doctor Balraj Sahni ignoring the desires and aspirations of his city bred wife Anuradha (Leela Naidu) who, before she married him, had interest in music and singing (she was a singer on the All India Radio).

This sensitive theme was handled by Hrishikesh Mukherjee very well indeed. And, to help him build up the theme were Shailendra’s lyrics in the above songs and Sitar Maestro Ravi Shankar’s compositions (one of the rare movies with him as Music Director).

I am particularly fond of this one penned by Shailendra and composed by Pandit Ravi Shankar in Manj Khammaj, Tal Dadra.

Please enjoy: Kaise din beete kaise beeti ratiyan, piya jaane na….

ha~~ay~
kaise din biite kaise biitii ratiyaa
piyaa jaane na
haay

nehaa lagaa ke mai.n pachhataa_ii
saarii saarii rainaa nindiyaa na aa_ii
jaan ke dekho mere jii kii batiyaa
piyaa jaane na
haay
kaise din biite kaise biitii ratiyaa
piyaa jaane na

rut matavaalii aa ke chalii jaaye
man me.n hii mere man kii rahii jaaye
khilane ko tarase nanhii nanhii kaliyaa.N
piyaa jaane na
haay
kaise din biite kaise biitii ratiyaa
piyaa jaane na

kajaraa na sohe gajaraa na sohe
barakhaa na bhaaye badaraa na sohe
kyaa kahuu.N jo puuchhe mose morii sakhiyaa.N
piyaa jaane na
haay
kaise din biite kaise biitii ratiyaa
piya jaane na

We just finished listening to 1960 Hrishikesh Mukherjee movie Anuradha’s number full of pathos of a woman ignoring her own desires and aspirations for her idealist husband Balraj Sahni who is devoted to his patiens in a village where there is no amusement for her at all. The song is: Kaise din beete kaise beeti ratiyan piya jaane na.

Let me take you now to the 1963 Bimal Roy movie Bandini with Nutan in the title role and Ashok Kumar and Dharmendra in leading roles.

The movie had a debut song by Sampooran Singh Kalra who took over the nom de plume of Gulzar: Mora gora ang layi le. The rest of the songs were penned by Shailendra:

1. Mora Gora Ang Laile Lata Mangeshkar
2. Jogi Jabse Tu Aaya Lata Mangeshkar
3. O Janewale Ho Sake To Laut Ke Aana Mukesh
4. O Panchhi Pyare Sanjh Sakare Asha Bhosle,
5. Ab Ke Baras Bhejo Asha Bhosle
6. O Mere Majhi Mere Sajan Hai S.D. Burman
7. Mat Ro Mata Lal Tere Manna Dey

All songs are masterpieces both in the excellence of their lyrics as well as the beautiful compositions by Sachin Dev Burman. I think the most poignant song is Ab ke baras. Sachin da composed it in Raag Pilu, the same raag in which OP Nayyar composed many of his songs including the 1958 movie Phagun song picturised on Madhubala: Piya, piya na laage mora jiya. The only difference is that whilst Phagun song is in Tal Kaherava, the Bandini song is in Tal Dipchandi (Moghali).

Please enjoy a masterpiece by Shailendra: Ab ke baras bhej bhaiya ko babul……

ab ke baras bhej bhaiyaa ko baabul
saavan ne liijo bulaay re
lauTe.ngii jab mere bachapan kii sakhiiyaa.N
dejo sa.ndeshaa bhiyaay re
ab ke baras bhej bhiiyako baabul …

ambuvaa tale phir se jhuule pa.De.nge
rimajhim pa.De.ngii phuhaare.n
lauTe.ngii phir tere aa.Ngan me.n baabul
saavan kii Tha.nDii bahaare.n
chhalake nayan moraa kasake re jiyaraa
bachapan kii jab yaad aae re
ab ke baras bhej bhiiyako baabul …

bairan javaanii ne chiine khilaune
aur merii gu.Diyaa churaaii
baabul kii mai.n tere naazo.n kii paalii
phir kyo.n huii mai.n paraaii
biite re jag koii chiThiyaa na paatii
na koii naihar se aaye, re
ab ke baras bhej bhiiyako baabul …

The songs of this movie are fondly remembered even more than 50 years of their first appearance in the movie. Bimal Roy wanted SD Burman to compose the songs but Sachin da suggested to him that for what Bimal Roy had in mind, Salil Chowdhury would be better.

These are certainly amongst the best of Salil da:

1. “Aaja Re Pardesi” Lata Mangeshkar 04:26
2. “Chadh Gayo Papi Bichhua” Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey 05:23
3. “Dil Tadap Tadap Ke” Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar 03:27
4. “Ghadi Ghadi Mora Dil Dhadke” Lata Mangeshkar 03:11
5. “Hai Bichhua Hai Re Hai” Lata Mangeshkar 01:55
6. “Ham Haal-e-Dil Sunaenge” Mubarak Begum 03:26
7. “Jungle Mein Mor Naacha” Mohammad Rafi 03:07
8. “Kancha Le Kanchi Lai Lajo” Asha Bhonsle, Sabita Chowdhury & Ghulam Mohammad 03:24
9. “Suhana Safar Aur Yeh Mausam” Mukesh 03:44
10. “Tan Jale Man Jalta Rahe” Dwijen Mukherjee 03:22
11. “Toote Huye Khwabon Ne” Mohammad Rafi 03:42
12. “Zulmi Sang Aankh Ladi” Lata Mangeshkar 04:05

Hats off to Shailendra to have written the lyrics of all these songs. And the only reason that he didn’t receive the Best Lyricist award for any of these was because he was getting the award for the title song of Awara, the very first Best Lyricist Award.

Aja re pardesi became the most memorable song of the movie and certainly amongst the best of Lata Mangeshkar too (as acknowledged by the Nightingale of India herself). Salil da composed it in Raag Bageshri and Tal Kaherava (the fast version of it).

Please enjoy: Aja re pardesi, main to kab se khadi is paar….

aa jaa re .a.a.a paradesii
mai.n to kab se kha.Dii is paar
ye a.Nkhiyaa.N, thak ga_ii pa.nth nihaar
aa jaa re, paradesii

(tum sa.ng janam janam ke phere
bhuul gaye kyuu.N saajan mere ) – 2
ta.Dapat huu.N mai.n saa.njh savere, o …
aa jaa re, mai.n to kab se kha.Dii is paar …

(mai.n nadiyaa phir bhii mai.n pyaasii
bhed ye gaharaa baat zaraa sii ) – 2
bin tere har raat udaasii, o …
aa jaa re, mai.n to kab se kha.Dii is paar …

mai.n diye kii aisii baatii
jal na sakii jo bujh bhii na paatii
aa mil mere jiivan saathii, o …
aa jaa re, mai.n to kab se kha.Dii is paar …

I am sure the more I write about Shailendra, the more you must be convinced that my having chosen him immediately after Shakeel Badayuni is not merely by fluke. By the way, this happens to be his birth-month too, having been born on 30th Aug in the year 1921 in Rawalpindi in then India, now Pakistan.

Tonight I am going to give you songs that he penned for his first movie: the 1949 Barsaat that happens to be also the debut movie of Shankar Jaikishan. It was also the debut movie of Nimmi and the first movie in which credit for playback singing was given to Lata Mangeshkar.

Here are all those debut artistes together in the title song of the movie. S-J composed it in a Raaga that turned out to be their favourite – Raag Bahiravi, that is. Tal Kaherava.

Please enjoy the very first song of Shailendra, S-J, Nimmi and Lata Mangeshkar (for which she was given credit on the screen): Barsaat mein hum se mile tum sajan tum se mile hum…..

ko : tak dhinaa dhin
dhinaa dhin
tak dhinaa dhin
barasaat me.n
ko : tak dhinaa dhin
barasaat me.n hamase mile tum sajan tumase mile ham
barasaat me.n
ko : tak dhinaa dhin
barasaat me.n hamase mile tum sajan tumase mile ham
barasaat me.n
ko : tak dhinaa dhin

priit ne si.ngaar kiyaa
mai.n banii dulhan -2
sapano.n kii rimajhim me.n
naach uThaa man
meraa naach uThaa man
aaj mai.n tumhaarii hu_ii tum mere sanam
tum mere sanam
barasaat me.n
ko : tak dhinaa dhin
barasaat me.n hamase mile tum sajan tumase mile ham
barasaat me.n
ko : tak dhinaa dhin

naino.n se jhaa.nkii jo
merii mast jawaanii
duniyaa se kahatii phire
dil kii kahaanii
mere dil kii kahaanii
unakii jo huu.N mai.n
unase kaisii sharam

ye samaa.N hai jaa rahe ho
kaise manaa_uu.N -2
mai.n tumhaarii raah me.n ye
nain bichhaa_uu.N -2
tum naa jaa_o tumako merii
jaan kii qasam -2

der naa karanaa kahii.n ye
aas chhuuT jaaye
saa.Ns TuuT jaaye
tum naa aa_o dil kii lagii
mujhako hii jalaaye
Kaaq me.n milaaye
aaG kii lapaTo.n me.n pukaare ye meraa man
mil naa sake haay mil naa sake ham -2

1. “Chhod Gaye Balam” Hasrat Jaipuri Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar 4:28
2. “Jiya Beqarar Hai” Hasrat Jaipuri Lata Mangeshkar 3:10
3. “Barsaat Mein Humse Mile” Shailendra Lata Mangeshkar 5:00
4. “Hawa Mein Udta Jaye” Ramesh Shastri Lata Mangeshkar 2:30
5. “Zindagi Mein Hardam Rota Hi Raha” Hasrat Jaipuri Mohammed Rafi 2:51
6. “Patli Kamar Hai” Shailendra, Akhilesh Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar 5:17
7. “Bichhde Hue Pardesi” Hasrat Jaipuri Lata Mangeshkar 3:28
8. “Mujhe Kisi Se Pyaar Ho Gayaa” Jalal Malihabadi Lata Mangeshkar 2:46
9. “Meri Aankhon Mein Bas Gaya Koi Re” Hasrat Jaipuri Lata Mangeshkar 2:47
10. “Ab Mera Kaun Sahara” Hasrat Jaipuri Lata Mangeshkar 3:15
11. “Jiya Beqarar Hai” Instrumental 2:29

If you have had a look at the list, you would know that the only other song that Shailendra wrote in his debut movie was Patli kamar hai, tirchhi nazar hai.

It has been sung by Mukesh for a licentious Prem Nath who is at pains to drive into Raj Kapoor, his best friend, that life is to be enjoyed with various women, clubs, drinks and all that and that love or true love is for the nincompoops.

Shailendra with his mastery over lyrics was able to contrast the licentious conduct of Prem Nath with the true love of Nimmi who loved him that way whilst he merely flirted with her as he did with others.

Of course, Lata sang for Nimmi.

Please enjoy: Patli kamar hai tirchhi nazar hai….

patalii kamar hai tirachhii nazar hai
khile phuul sii terii javaanii
koii bataaye kahaa.N qasar hai
o~ aajaa mere man chaahe baalam
aajaa teraa aa.Nkho.n me.n ghar hai

mai.n cha.nchal mad_mast pavan huu.N
jhuum jhuum har kalii ko chumuu.N
bichha.D gayii mai.n ghaayal hiraNii
tumako Dhuu.NDhuu.N ban ban ghuumuu.N
merii zi.ndagii mast safar hai
patalii kamar hai …

tum bin naino.n kii barasaate.n
rok na paa_uu.N laakh manaa_uu.N
mai.n bahate dariyaa kaa paanii
khel kinaaro.n se ba.Dh jaa_uu.N
ba.Ndh na paa_uu.N
nayaa nagar nit nayii Dagar hai
patalii kamar hai …

In this movie, as with Bimal Roy’s Bandini, Shailendra paired with SD Burman and created some exceedingly great songs:

1. “Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna” Lata Mangeshkar Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
2. “Din Dhal Jaaye” Mohammed Rafi Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
3. “Gaata Rahe Mera Dil” Kishore Kumar & Lata Mangeshkar Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
4. “Kya Se Kya Ho Gaya” Mohammed Rafi Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
5. “Piya Tose Naina Laage Re” Lata Mangeshkar Waheeda Rehman
6. “Saiyaan Beimaan” Lata Mangeshkar Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
7. “Tere Mere Sapne” Mohammed Rafi Dev Anand & Waheeda Rehman
8. “Wahan Kaun Hai Tera” Sachin Dev Burman Dev Anand
9. “He Ram Hamare Ramchandra” Manna Dey & Chorus Dev Anand
10. “Allah Megh De Paani De” Sachin Dev Burman Dev Anand

Each one of the songs is as much a classic as the movie and yet, after winning the first two Filmfare Best Lyricist awards in 1958 and 1959, it wasn’t until the 1968 movie Brahamachari (Main gaayun tum so jaao) that another Filmfare award was given to him!

In that year when Guide was released, the Best Lyricist award went to Majrooh Sultanpuri for his Chahunga main tujhe saanjh savere for Dosti. Shailendra was not nominated for any of the songs of Guide but for Sangam’s Dost dost na raha.

Award or no award, this happens to be my favourite song from Guide for its lyrics, music and picturisation.

Please enjoy: Din dhal jaaye haay raat na jaay…..

din Dhal jaaye haay, raat naa jaay
tuu to na aae terii, yaad sataaye, din Dhal jaaye

pyaar me.n jinake, sab jag chho.Daa, aur hue badanaam
unake hii haatho.n, haal huaa ye, baiThe hai.n dil ko thaam
apane kabhii the, ab hai.n paraaye
din Dhal jaaye haay …

aisii hii rim-jhim, aisii fuvAre.n, aisii hii thii barasaat
khud se judaa aur, jag se paraaye, ham dono.n the saath
phir se vo saavan, ab kyuu.N na aaye
din Dhal jaaye haay …

dil ke mere tum, paas ho kitanii, phir bhii ho kitanii duur
tum mujh se mai.n, dil se pareshaa.N, dono.n hai.n majabuur
aise me.n kisako, kaun manaaye
din Dhal jaaye haaye …

Shailendra wrote nearly a hundred songs more than Shakeel Badayuni; 859 to Shakeel’s 761. And hence, it is but natural that we take up quite a few of his songs.

In his case, I have decided not to go chronologically or by any plan or scheme but to give you the songs as they come to me. Suffice it to say that I am a ‘Lyrical’ man and good lyrics hold attraction for me.

The other day I gave you two songs from his debut film: the 1949 movie Barsaat.

He and Hasrat Jaipuri were the lyricists with music director Shankar Jaikishan to make songs for Raj Kapoor movies.

I saw the movie Shree 420 exactly a year back, in Aug 2015. In this movie, Shailendra and Hasrat didn’t divide the songs equally between themselves. Shailendra penned 5 to Hasrat’s 3:

1 “Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwaala” Manna Dey Shailendra 5:36
2 “Ichak Dana Beechak Dana” Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar Hasrat Jaipuri 5:08
3 “Mera Juta Hai Japani” Mukesh Shailendra 4:33
4 “Mudh Mudh Ke Na Dekh” Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey Shailendra 6:34
5 “O Janewale” Lata Mangeshkar Hasrat Jaipuri 2:20
6 “Pyar Hua Iqrar Hua” Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey Shailendra 4:22
7 “Ramaiya Vastavaiya” Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh Shailendra 6:10
8 “Sham Gayi Raat Aayi” Lata Mangeshkar Hasrat Jaipuri 4:00

Just like the title song of Awara that became an international hit, one song of this movie became a global hit. My ship INS Himgiri made a port call at Odessa (in USSR then and now in Ukraine) in Aug 1975 and many Russians on the street would be humming this song.

The singing voice of Raj Kapoor: Mukesh, sang it. Shankar Jaikishan composed it in Raag Bhairavi (their favourite, as I have already told you several times) and in Tal Kaherava.

Please enjoy a song that is meaningful for our Independence Day 28 hours away: Mera joota hai Japani….phir bhi dil hai Hindustani…

Meraa juutaa hai jaapaanii, ye pataluun i.ngalistaanii
sar pe laal Topii ruusii, phir bhii dil hai hi.ndustaanii
meraa juutaa…

nikal pa.De hai.n khulii sa.Dak par
apanaa siinaa taane – (2)
ma.nzil kahaa.N kahaa.N rukanaa hai
uupar vaalaa jaane – (2)
ba.Dhate jaaye.n ham sailaanii, jaise ek dariyaa tuufaanii
sar pe laal…

uupar niiche niiche uupar
lahar chale jiivan kii – (2)
naadaa.N hai.n jo baiTh kinaare
puuchhe.n raah vatan kii – (2)
chalanaa jiivan kii kahaanii, rukanaa maut kii nishaanii
sar pe laal…

ho.nge raaje raajaku.Nvar ham
biga.De dil shahazaade – (2)
ham si.nhaasan par jaa baiThe
jab jab kare.n iraade – (2)
suurat hai jaanii pahachaanii, duniyaa vaalo.n ko hairaanii
sar pe laal…

A movie was titled on the last part of the mukhada of the song; ie, Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani.

Another very popular song from the movie was a song about the homecoming of Raj Kapoor amidst his people (the poor people on the streets of Bombay) from whom he had departed to taste the life of the high and the mighty by being as deceitful as them; and that’s why the title: Shree 420, a man who indulges in deceit and fraud.

Hats off to Shailendra for the title of the song: Ramaiyya Vastavaiyya that he took from Telugu. The literal translation is: Ram, I knew you’d come (return).

This song has been sung in three parts: Mohammad Rafi for one of the street cronies of Raj Kapoor, Lata Mangeshkar for Nargis and in the end Mukesh for Raj Kapoor.

As with the first song Mera joota hai Japani, this too was composed by S-J in Raag Bhairavi but the Tal is Dadra/Hinch.

Please enjoy: Ramaiyya vastavaiyya….

ramayyaa vastaavayyaa, ramayyaa vastaavayyaa – 2
maine dil tujhako diyaa – 2
haa.N ramayyaa vastaavayyaa, ramayyaa vastaavayyaa

naino.n me.n thii pyaar kii roshanii
terii aa.Nkho.n me.n ye duniyaadaarii na thii
tuu aur thaa teraa dil aur thaa
tere man me.n ye miiThii kaTaarii na thii
mai.n jo dukh paauu.N to kyaa, aaj pachhataauu.N to kyaa
maine dil tujhako diyaa – 2
haa.N ramayyaa vastaavayyaa, ramayyaa vastaavayyaa …

us desh me.n tere parades me.n
sone chaa.ndii ke badale me.n bikate hai.n dil
is gaa.Nv me.n dard kii chhaa.nv me.n
pyaar ke naam par hii ta.Dapate hai.n dil
chaa.Nd taaro.n ke tale, raat ye gaatii chale
maine dil tujhako diyaa – 2
haa.N ramayyaa vastaavayyaa, ramayyaa vastaavayyaa …

aa …
yaad aatii rahii dil dukhaatii rahii
apane man ko manaanaa na aayaa hame.n
tuu na aae to kyaa bhuul jaae to kyaa
pyaar karake bhulaanaa na aayaa hame.n
vahii.n se duur se hii, tuu bhii ye kah de kabhii
maine dil tujhako diyaa – 2
haa.N ramayyaa vastaavayyaa, ramayyaa vastaavayyaa …

rastaa vahii aur musaafir vahii
ek taaraa na jaane kahaa.N chhup gayaa
duniyaa vahii duniyaavaale vahii
koii kyaa jaane kisakaa jahaa.N luT gayaa
merii aa.Nkho.n me.n rahe, kaun jo tujhase kahe
maine dil tujhako diyaa – 2
haa.N ramayyaa vastaavayyaa, ramayyaa vastaavayyaa …

Here is an iconic duet from the movie sung by Mukesh for Raj Kapoor and Lata Mangeshkar for Nargis.

This is the thrid song from the same movie that S-J composed in Raag Bhairavi, Tal Kaherava. Once again, enjoy the beauty of the lyrics of Shailendra.

The image of Nargis and Raj Kapoor under an umbrella in rain has withstood the vagaries of time and has prevailed as the image of a loving couple in a their first romantic moments. It has been copied in many movies and stage performances.

Please enjoy: Pyaar hua iqraar hua….

pyaar huaa iqaraar huaa hai
pyaar se phir kyo.n Darataa hai dil
(kahataa hai dil, rastaa mushkil
maaluum nahii.n hai kahaa.N ma.nzil ) – 2
pyaar huaa iqaraar huaa …

dil kahe is maa.ng ko, mai.n taaro.n se sa.nvaar duu.N
tumase nayaa sa.nsaar luu.N, tumako nayaa sa.nsaar duu.N
chaa.Nd aur suuraj, diip gagan ke
is dharatii pe utaar duu.N
aahaa haa aahaa haa, aa …
pyaar huaa iqaraar huaa …

raato.n daso.n dishaao.n se, kahe.ngii apanii kahaaniyaa.N
priit hamaare pyaar kii, doharaae.ngii javaaniyaa.N
mai.n na rahuu.Ngii, tum na rahoge
phir bhii rahe.ngii nishaaniyaa.N
aahaa haa aahaa haa, aa …
pyaar huaa iqaraar huaa …

In the last five days we have taken up 15 of his songs.

Tonight I start with a favourite of mine, penned by him for the 1959 movie Chhoti Behan starring Balraj Sahni and Nanda. As with most of his songs, it has been composed by Shankar Jaikishan and sung by Mukesh. The song has been picturised on Rehman and the best ever on him.

Now, why is this a favourite of mine? Simply because it was composed by S-J in Raag Jhinjhoti, the same raaga in which Naushad composed the best of Shakeel: Mere mehboob tujhe. I was able to observe and then convey to you that many of the songs composed in Jhinjhoti have the element of self-pity in them; eg, Ghungroo ki tarah bajata hi raha hoon main; Koi hamdam na raha, koi sahaara na raha; Mose chhhal kiye jaaye; Tum mujhe youn bhula na paayoge. So is this song. The Tal is Kaherava.

Please enjoy: Jaayun kahan bata ai dil…….

jaa_uu.N kahaa.N bataa ai dil
duniyaa ba.Dii hai sa.ngadil
chaa.Ndanii aa_ii ghar jalaane
sujhe na ko_ii ma.nzil
jaa_uu.N kahaa.N bataa …

banake TuuTe yahaa.N aarazuu ke mahal
ye zamii.n aasamaa.N bhii gaye hai.n badal
kahatii hai zi.ndagii is jahaa.N se nikal
jaa_uu.N kahaa.N bataa …

haay is paar to aa.Nsu_o.n kii Dagar
jaane us paar kyaa vo kise hai khabar
Thoka.re.n khaa rahii har kadam par nazar
jaa_uu.N kahaa.N bataa …

If the last song that I gave you was called a ‘favourite’ by me, I don’t really know what I should call this? It often tugs at the strings of my emotions and makes me repeatedly conscious of its great lyrics, sadness of notes and awesome singing.

It is from the 1957 movie Ek Gaon Ki Kahani in which Talat Mehmood sang and acted opposite Mala Sinha. It has been composed by the same composer who worked with Shailendra one year later in Madhumati: Salil Chowdhury.

Please close your eyes and listen to: Raat ne kyaa kyaa khwab dikhaye…..

raat ne kyA kyA khvAb dikhaaye
ra.ng bhare sau jaal bichhAye
A.Nkhe.n khulI to sapane TUTe
rah gaye Gam ke kaale sAye
raat ne …

o … (ham ne to chaahA bhUl bhI jAye.n
vo afasAnA kyo.n dohorAye.n ) – 2
dil rah rah ke yaad dilAye
raat ne kyA kyA …

(dil me.n dil kA dad.r chhupAye
chalo jahA.n qismat le jAye ) – 2
duniyA parAyI log parAye
raat ne kyA kyA …

To end tonight, I give you a matching song from the 1962 movie Haryali Aur Rasta. The movie starred two actors whose style of acting was the same: in-your-face acting: Manoj Kumar and Mala Sinha. I who have always admired subtlety and sensitivity of acting just couldn’t stand them.

However, just look at their luck; the best of the songs in this movie (and several others) have been on them:

“Teri Yaad Dil Se Bhulaane Chala Hoon” (Shailendra) Mukesh
“Allah Jaane Kya Hoga Aage” (Hasrat Jaipuri) Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh
“Yeh Hariyali Aur Yeh Rasta” Lata Mangeshkar
“Parwano Ki Raah Mein” Asha Bhosle
“Kho Gaya Hai Mera Pyar” (Hasrat Jaipuri) Mahendra Kapoor
“Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani” (Shailendra) Lata Mangeshkar
“Dil Mera Chup Chap Jala” Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh
“Bol Meri Taqdeer Mein Kya Hai- I” (Shailendra) Lata Mangeshkar
“Bol Meri Taqdeer Mein Kya Hai – II” (Shailendra) Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh

Manoj and Mala apart, nothing takes away the excellence of the songs penned by Shailendra in the movie. Teri yaad dil se bhulane chala hoon was composed by Shankar Jaikishan in Raag Tilak Kamod, Tal Kaherava.

Please enjoy: Teri yaad dil se bhulane chala hoon…..

terii yaad dil se, bhulaane chalaa huu.N
ke khud apanii hastii, miTaane chalaa huu.N – 2
terii yaad …

ghaTaao.n tumhe.n saath denaa pa.Degaa – 2
mai.n phir aaj aa.Nsuu bahaane chalaa huu.N
bahaane chalaa huu.N
terii yaad …

kabhii is jagah khvaab dekhe the maine – 2
vahii KAk apanii u.Daane chalaa huu.N
u.Daane chalaa huu.N
terii yaad …

Having finished seeing 1953 movie Patita on my computer last night, I completed seeing 74 movies on my com in about a year and a half, Of course, Shaielndra’s three songs in the movie were great. The one that I gave you: Mitti se khelte ho baar baar kis liye must rank amongst his finest. The other two: Hai sabase madhur woh geet jise hum dard ke sur mein gaate hain; and Kisi ne apana bana ke mukhako muskarana sikha diya also tell of his mastery.

But, today, I start with another Bimal Roy movie (two of his movies Bandini and Madhumati had Shailendra’s lyrics in the songs except Mora gora rang layi le penned by Gulzar). This is the 1953 classic Do Bigha Zameen starring Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy. I saw the movie on 08/09 May this year when I was in my home-station Kandaghat.

Surprisingly, being a 1953 movie, when it was a done thing to have a dozen songs in the movie, Do Bigha Zameen had only four songs; it rode on the acting skills of Balraj Sahni and Bimal Roy’s superb direction. Just like Bimal Roy’s Parakh, it had a story written by Salil Chowdhury and all songs and background music was also composed by Salil da.

Have a look at the songs:

1. “Aaja ri aa nindiya tu aa” – Performed by Lata Mangeshkar
2. “Ajab tori duniya ho mere raaja” – Performed by Mohammed Rafi
3. “Dharti kahe pukaar ke” – Performed by Manna Dey, Lata Mangeshkar & chorus
4. “Hariyaala saawan dhol bajaata aaya” – Performed by Manna Dey, Lata Mangeshkar & chorus

We shall take up Aaja ri aa nindiya tu aa. Bimal Roy, very cleverly and poignantly brings out the contrast in this song between the poor Nirupa Roy working as a maid in the house of Meena Kumari; the latter singing a lullaby to put her child to sleep whilst Nirupa Roy’s lad (in earlier scenes) sleeps hungry. Shailendra came up with superb lyrics as follows:

aa jaa re aa ni.ndiyaa tuu aa
jhilamil sitaaro.n se utar aa.Nkho.n me.n aa sapane sajaa

soI kalI soyaa chaman pIpal tale soI havaa
sab ra.ngaa ik ra.ng me.n tuune ye kyaa jaaduu kiyaa
aa jaa …

sa.nsaar kii raanI hai tuu raa jaa hai meraa laaDalaa
duniyaa hai merii god me.n soyaa huaa sapanaa meraa,
aa jaa …

Whereas Raj Kapoor used Shailendra for romantic songs (some of the best romantic songs of Raj Kapoor movies have been penned by him), Salil da made use of his sensitivity to come up with such numbers as the Do Bigha Zameen lullaby that I gave you or Parakh‘s: O sajana barkha bahaar aayi.

It is not as if Salil da was beyond romantic duets. Indeed, some of the romantic duets that he made with Shailendra are amongst the most enchanting in Hindi films.

Here is one of them. It is from the 1960 movie Usne Kaha Tha starring Sunil Dutt and Nanda. Talat Mahmood and Lata Mangeshkar have sung for them.

Please enjoy: Aha rimjhim ke yeh pyaare pyaare geet liye….

t: aahaa rimajhim ke ye pyaare pyaare giit lie
aaI raat suhaanii dekho priit lie
miit mere suno zaraa havaa kahe kyaa, aa …
suno to zaraa, jhii.ngar bole chiikiimiikii chiikiimiikii
rimajhim ke ye pyaare pyaare giit lie
## Then Lata repeats it##

t: (khoii sii bhiigii bhiigii raat jhuume
aa.Nkho.n me.n sapano kii baaraat jhuume ) – 2
dil kii ye duniyaa aaj baadalo.n ke saath jhuume
aahaa rimajhim ke ye …

l: (aa jaao dil me.n basaa luu.N tumhe.n
naino.n kaa kajaraa banaa luu.N tumhe.n ) – 2
jaalim zamaane kii nigaaho.n se chhupaa luu.N tumhe.n
aahaa rimajhim ke ye …

t: (haath.on me.n tere meraa haath rahe
dil se jo nikalii hai vo baat rahe ) – 2
meraa tumhaaraa saarii zindagii kaa saath rahe
aahaa rimajhim ke ye …

This is from the 1959 movie Love Marriage starring Dev Anand and Mala Sinha and would remind you of the two Salil da’s number in Dev Anand-Mala Sinha starrer (though with Majrooh’s lyrics) Maya: Jaa re jaa re udhja re panchhi and Tasveer teri dil mein jis din se utaari hai.

Shankar Jaikishan composed it in Raag Kirwani, Tal Khareva. It has been sung by Lata Mangeshkar for Mala Sinha and of course Shailendra‘s lyrics are simply bewitching.

Please enjoy: Kahe jhoom jhoom raat ye suhaani….

kahe jhuum-jhuum raat ye suhaanii
piyaa haule se chhe.Do dubaaraa
vahii kal kii rasiilii kahaanii
kahe jhuum-jhuum raat …

sun ke jise dil meraa dha.Dakaa
laaj ke sar se aa.Nchal sarakaa
raat ne aisaa jaaduu pheraa
aur hii nikalaa ra.ng sahar kaa
kahe jhuum-jhuum raat …

mastii bharii ye Kaamoshii
chup huu.N kha.Dii dekho mai.n kho_ii sii
dekh rahii huu.N mai.n ek sapanaa
kuchh jaagii sii kuchh so_ii sii
kahe jhuum-jhuum raat …

tan bhii tumhaaraa man bhii tumhaaraa
tumase hii baalam jag ujiyaaraa
rom-rom meraa aaj manaa_e
chhuuTe kabhii na saath tumhaaraa
kahe jhuum-jhuum raat …

The lyrics of this song are a suggestion about how to live life. Coincidentally, today itself, my sister Surekha Saini, put up a quote: “If you develop a habit of praying to God for others, you will never need to pray for yourself”. The song amplifies this further to say that living for others is actual life.

Once again, it is Mukesh singing the lyrics of Shailendra, on S-J‘s composition.

Please enjoy: Kisi ki muskrahaton pe ho nisaar….

kisii kii muskuraahaTo.n pe ho nisaar
kisiikaa dard mil sake to le udhaar
kisiike vaaste ho tere dil me.n pyaar
jiinaa isii kaa naam hai
kisii kii …

(maanaa apanii jeb se fakiir hai.n
phir bhii yaaro.n dil ke ham amiir hai.n ) – (2)
miTe jo pyaar ke liye vo zindagii
jale bahaar ke liye vo zindagii
kisii ko ho na ho hame.n to aitabaar
jiinaa isii kaa naam hai

(rishtaa dil se dil ke aitabaar kaa
zindaa hai hamii.n se naam pyaar kaa ) – (2)
ke mar ke bhii kisii ko yaad aaye.nge
kisii ke aa.Nsuo.n me.n muskuraaye.nge
kahegaa phuul har kalii se baar baar
jiinaa isii kaa naam hai

On Facebook, I have chosen this as my own profile song since I strongly feel that it is better not to be too clever, cunning or worldly-wise.

As expected, Shankar Jaikishan have composed it in their favourite Raag Bhairavi, Tal Kaherava.

As also expected Mukesh has sung this. Here is a picture of Shailendra with Jaikishan, Shankar and Mukesh with their awards:

Please enjoy: Sab kuchh seekha hamane, na seekhi hoshiyari….

Sab kuchh siikhaa hamane naa siikhii hoshiyaarii
Sach hai duniyaavaalo.n ki ham hai.n anaa.Dii

Duniyaa ne kitanaa samajhaayaa
Kaun hai apanaa kaun paraayaa
phir bhii dil kii choT chhupaa kar
hamane aapakaa dil bahalaayaa
khud pe mar miTane kii ye zid thii hamaarii (2)
sach hai duniyaavaalo.n ki ham hai.n anaa.Dii

Asalii nakalii chehare dekhe
Dil pe sau sau pahare dekhe
mere dukhate dil se puuchho
kyaa kyaa khvaab sunahare dekhe
TuuTaa jis taare pe nazar thii hamaarii (2)
sach hai duniyaavaalo.n ki ham hai.n anaa.Dii

Dil kaa chaman uja.Date dekhaa
Pyaara kaa ra.nga utarate dekhaa
hamane har jiine vaale ko
dhan daulat pe marate dekhaa
dil pe marane vaale mare.nge bhikhaarii (2)
sach hai duniyaavaalo.n ki ham hai.n anaa.Dii

The song Tera jaana has been sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Once again, Shankar Jaikishan have composed it in their favourite Raaga Bhairavi, Tal Kaherava. It is a sad song since Nutan and Raj Kapoor have parted never to meet again. However, the beat is fast and both the interludes are different and beautiful.

Please enjoy: Tera jaana dil ke armaano ka lut jaana….

( tera jaanaa
dil ke aramaano.n kaa luT jaanaa ) -2
ko_ii dekhe -2
ban ke taqadiiro.n kaa miT jaanaa
teraa jaana

teraa Gam terii Kushii
meraa Gam merii Kushii
tujhase hii thii zindagii
ha.Ns kar hamane thaa kahaa
jiiwan bhar kaa saath hai
ye kal hii kii baat hai
aa

teraa jaanaa
dil ke aramaano.n kaa luT jaanaa
ko_ii dekhe -2
ban ke taqadiiro.n kaa miT jaanaa
teraa jaana

jab-jab chandaa aayegaa
terii yaad dilaayegaa
saarii raat jagaayegaa
mai.n ro kar rah jaa_uu.Ngii
dil jab zid par aayegaa
dil ko kaun manaayegaa
aa
teraa jaanaa
dil ke aramaano.n kaa luT jaanaa
ko_ii dekhe -2
ban ke taqadiiro.n kaa miT jaanaa
teraa jaana

I hope you liked my choice of 25 of his best songs. Please await another 25 in Part II.

Not surprisingly then, that the second most favourite Lata song has also been composed by S-J. They chose the same raaga in which my most favourite song ever of any artiste has been composed: Raag Jhinjhoti (and the song everyone in my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne knows is Mere mehboob tujhe meri mohabbat ki kasam). Jhinjhoti is a raaga named after an apsara and Hindi films songs based on it (my own observation) often bring in feelings of self-pity such as in “Tum mujhe youn bhula na paaoge” and “Mere mehboob tujhe” and of course the Mamta song picturised on Suchitra Sen: “Rehte the kabhi jinake dil mein hum jaan se bhi pyaron ki tarah“.

The song is from the 1956 movie Basant Bahaar and its lyrics are a marvel produced by the great Shailendra. Its tal is Tintal.

Why would a song picturised on a courtesan evoke such strong feelings in me? Well, courtesans were essentially a part of our culture. One of them (Anarkali) nearly married a would be emperor. In Shashi Kapoor’s movie Utsav, he brought out how important a courtesan (Rekha as Vasantsena) was in our society. In the movie Amrapali (based on a true story), the king Ajatashatru wages a war to get her (Vyjayanthimala in the title role) and she finally takes to Buddhism! By the way, Amrapali had some of her best songs including the iconic Tumhen yaad karte karte jaayegi rayn saari (also created for her by the team of Shailendra and Shanakar Jaikishan).

Hindi films directors of yore, often used the courtesans to express the feelings of the heroines (eg in Chhote Nawab song, the first song of RD Burman with Lata ji (composed in Raag Malgunji): Ghar aaja ghir aaye badraa saanwariya.

I can go on and on but the song is dear to me. Kumkum as Radhika does a very becoming dance on the song.

Please enjoy: Jaa jaa re jaa baalmwa…….

jaa jaa re jaa, baalamavaa
sautan ke sa.ng raat bitaa_ii
kaahe karat ab jhuuTii batiyaa.N
jaa jaa re jaa, baalamavaa

Gair ke ghar karii raat jagaa_ii
mose kahe tere binaa nii.nd na aayii
kaiso harajaa_ii daiyyaa
jaa jaa re, jaa baalamavaa …

kaa.Ndhe lagaa laayii bindiyaa kisiikii
jaanuu.N mai.n churaayii tuune nindiyaa kisiikii
laaj na aayii tohe
jaa re jaa, jaa re jaa, jaa re jaa, baalamavaa …

Talking about good lyrics, some of the best songs of Lata ji have been penned by Rajendra Krishan and Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and in the next two songs I shall give you both.

Rajendra or Rajinder Krishan’s 1958 movie Adalat was a major success for him and he cemented his pairing with Madan Mohan to create some of the best Lata Mangeshkar songs. As I never grow tired of saying it, the Top 10 Lata songs have Rajinder Krishan and Madan Mohan in large measure.

Adalat starred Pradeep Kumar, Nargis and Pran and the story of her having been forced to become a courtesan is the same as Suchitra Sen’s Mamta or dozens of other pics that Hindi films dished out.

The songs of the movie were not as commonplace as the story and are amongst the best of Lata. Have a look:

1. “Zameen Se Hamen Aasmaan Par” Asha Bhosle, Mohammad Rafi 03:44
2. “Yun Hasraton Ke Daag Mohabbat Mein” Lata Mangeshkar 04:00
3. “Dupatta Mera Malmal Ka” Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt 02:49
4. “Jaana Tha Humse Door Bahaane Bana Liye” Lata Mangeshkar 03:20
5. “Unko Yeh Shiqaayat Hai Ki Hum Kuchh Nahin Kehte” Lata Mangeshkar 04:31
6. “Ja Ja Re Ja Saajna (slow)” Lata Mangeshkar
7. “Ja Ja Re Ja Saajna (fast)” Asha Bhosle 05:50
8. “Jab Din Haseen Dil Ho Jawaan” Asha Bhosle, Mohammad Rafi 04:07

Lets start with the lyrics of top most: Youn hasraton ke daag mohabbat mein dho liye. Marvel at the outstanding beauty of the lyrics:

Ghar se chale the ham to khushi ki talaash mein,
Gham raah mein padhe the wahin saath ho liye

And then take up the 4th one: Jaana tha humse door bahaane bana liye and look at these outstanding lyrics:

dil ko mile jo daaG jigar ko mile jo dard
un daulato.n se hamane khazaane banaa liye

But the song with the most powerful lyrics is the 5th one: Unako yeh shikayat hai ke hum kuchh nahin kehate.

This was composed by Madan Mohan in Raag Malgunji, Tal Dadra, the same raag in which RD Burman composed his first Lata song: Ghar aaja ghir aaye badra saanwariya in Chhote Nawab.

Please enjoy: Unako ye shikaayat hai ke ham kuchh nahin kehate….

un ko ye shikAyat hai ke ham, (kuchh nahI.n kahate – 2)
apanI to ye aadat hai ke ham, (kuchh nahI.n kahate – 2)

majabUr bahaut karatA hai ye, (dil to zubaa.n ko – 2)
kuchh aisI hI haalat hai ke ham, (kuchh nahI.n kahate – 2)
apanI to ye aadat …

kahane ko bahaut kuchh thA agar, (kahanepe aate – 2)
duniyA kI inaayat hai ke ham, (kuchh nahI.n kahate – 2)
apanI to ye aadat …

kuchh kahanepe tUfAn (uThA letI hai duniyA – 2)
ab isape qayAmat hai ke ham, (kuchh nahI.n kahate – 2)
apanI to ye aadat …

Why do I like this song from the 1962 movie Anpadh (Illiterate) even though the movie, as seen by me, was just an average movie and the heroine was Mala Sinha who is as far from being my favourite heroine as you can get?

The reason are three. One, the lyrics by Raja are just superb. Look at this expression:

Padh gayi dil pe mere aap ki parchhayiyan,
Har taraf bajane lagi sainkadon shahnaayiyan.

Second is the composition by the maestro Madan Mohan whom Lata ji used to call “Madan bhaiyya”. Some of her best songs have been composed by him including Lag jaa gale se phir ye haseen raat ho na ho (I never get tired of telling you that it is is in Raag Pahadi), Naino mein badra chhaye (Raag Bhimpalasi) and Bairan neend na aaye mohe (Raag Kafi).

And lastly, the singing by her in her young voice has made this song not only my favourite but that of millions. Madan Mohan composed it in Raag Adana, a raag of late night (the raag being a blend of Raag Darbari Kanada and Malhar) and in Tal Rupaktal.

Please enjoy: Aap ki nazaron ne samajha pyaar ke kaabil mujhe….

aap kii nazaro.n ne samajhaa, pyaar ke kaabil mujhe
dil kii ai dha.Dakan Thahar jaa, mil ga_ii ma.nzil mujhe
aap kii nazaro.n ne samajhaa

jii hame.n ma.nzuur hai, aapakaa ye faisalaa – 2
kah rahii hai har nazar, ba.ndaa-paravar shukariyaa
do jahaa.N kii aaj khushiyaa.N ho ga_ii.n haasil mujhe
aap kii nazaro.n ne samajhaa …

aap kii ma.nzil huu.N mai.n merii ma.nzil aap hai.n – 2
kyuu.N mai.n tuufaan se Daruu.N mere saahil aap hai.n
koii tuufaano.n se kah de, mil gayaa saahil mujhe
aap kii nazaro.n ne samajhaa …

pa.D ga_ii dil par merii, aap kii parchhaa_iyaa.N – 2
har taraf bajane lagii.n saika.Do.n shahanaa_iyaa.N
ha.Nsake apanii zi.ndagii me.n, kar liyaa shaamil mujhe
aap kii nazaro.n ne samajhaa …

(Continuing Chronologically for Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 Yesterday (02 Aug 16) in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Yesterday, the final day of the countdown, saw the 100th song being a song from the 1965 Nisar Ahmad Ansari movie Zindagi Aur Maut that starred Bela Bose, Nilofar, Pradeep Kumar, and Johnny Walker.

I also mentioned that in his filmy career of 18 years, it was the first of the two times that he paired with C Ramchandra.

His next movie was the 1965 movie Bedaag, an R Bhattacharya movie starring Manoj Kumar, Nanda and Shashikala. It had the following songs:

01 Zindagi Ke Mod Par Jo Mohammed Rafi
02 Maine Ai Jaan-E-Wafa Tumase Mohabbat Ki Hai Mohammed Rafi, Suman Kalyanpur
03 Aankho Aankho Me Naa Janey Kya Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi
04 Haye Re Mai To Prem Diwana Manna Dey, Manoj Kumar
05 Sachhi Tumhari Preet Ho Ram Mohammed Rafi
06 Nikolasa Mere Sanam Jhum Le Zara Sa Asha Bhosle
07 Bedhadak Dalo Rang Dalo Dalo Asha Bhosle

All songs were composed by Roshan.

Please enjoy Mohammad Rafi sing: Zindagi ke mod par jo koi raasta mila, teri gali se jaa mila….

zindagii ke mo.D par jo ko_ii raastaa milaa
terii galii se jaa milaa -2

aaj khaate hai.n Thokare.n shahar me.n zindagii ke ham -2
tujhase chale the duur-duur Gam kii sharaab pii ke ham -2
terii taraf bahak ga_e -2
aisaa hame.n nashaa milaa

teraa Kyaal chho.D ke ba.Dh ga_ii.n aur ulajhane.n
tere hii naam kii sadaa detii hai dil kii dha.Dakane.n -2
ab ye hii sochate hai.n ham ruuTh ke tujhase kyaa milaa -2

tujhase ko_ii garaz nahii.n phir bhii hai terii aarazuu
dil ne tujhe bhulaa diyaa phir bhii hai dil me.n tuu hii tuu -2
tujhase bichha.D ga_e to ab -2
teraa hame.n pataa milaa -2
terii galii se jaa …

(Continuing Chronologically for Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 Yesterday in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

OP Ralhan’s 1965 movie Phool Aur Patthar was the next movie for which Shakeel Badayuni penned the songs.

This movie was a milestone in the career of Dharmendra. His debut movie was the 1960 movie Dil Bhi Tera Ham Bhi Tere. He worked, thereafter, in such movies as Soorat Aur Seerat (1962), Bandini (1963), Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya (1966) and Dulhan Ek Raat Ki (1967) (all with Nutan), and in Anpadh (1962), Pooja Ke Phool (1964), Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (all with Mala Sinha), and in Akashdeep with Nanda, with Saira Banu in Shaadi and Ayee Milan Ki Bela (1964) and with Meena Kumari in Main Bhi Ladki Hoon (1964), Kaajal (1965), and Poornima (1965).

With this movie, that is, Phool Aur Patthar, Dharmendra emerged as an actor to reckon with. Indeed, he got his first Filmfare Best Actor nomination for this movie.

The film had the following songs, all penned by Shakeel:

1.”Sheeshe Se Pee Ya” Asha Bhosle Picturized on Shashikala
2.”Sun Le Pukar” Asha Bhosle
3.”Zindagi Mein Pyar Karna” Asha Bhosle Picturized on Shashikala
4.”Mere Dil Ke Andar” Mohammad Rafi This song is a qawwali.
5.”Layi Hai Hazaron Rang” Asha Bhosle Future item queen Laxmi Chhaya is one of the dancers featured in this song.
6.”Tum Kaun? Mamul” Mohammad Rafi

If you recall, when I covered the 1961 movie Ganga Jamuna, I had given in the list of songs a courtesan song: Tora man badha paapi saanwariya re. A beautiful mujra on that song was performed by the cabaret queen Helen. However, I had not given that song that time as I was running out of time.

Here, at least, I am giving you a courtesan song, performed by Shashikala. Phool Aur Patthar was the tenth movie in which Shakeel paired with Ravi after the 1960 movie Ghunghat.

Please enjoy: Sheeshe se pi ya paimaane se pi…..

(shiishe se pii, yaa paimaane se pii
yaa merii aa.Nkho.n ke maiKaane se pii
par pii diivaane, Kushii se jii diivaane) -2
shiishe se pii, yaa paimaane se pii

(husn kha.Daa hai terii raaho.n me.n
Daal de baahe.n zaraa baaho.n me.n) -2
raat suhaanii hai, bahakii javaanii
pii le nigaaho.n hii nigaaho.n me.n

(jaan le aa.Nkho.n ke ishaaro.n ko
luuT le duniyaa kii bahaaro.n ko) -2
mai.n huu.N sanam terii
tujhako qasam merii
chhe.D le tuu bhii dil ke taaro.n ko

(dekh ye gha.Dii phir naa aayegii
zulfo.n kii ghaTaa phir naa chhaayegii
baat samajh merii
kal ye umar terii
mausam kii tarah biit jaayegii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6TuMP0ynOE

(Continuing Chronologically for Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 Yesterday in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Was Shakeel a natural lyricist for Bhajans? I would think so if you recollect the number of extremely popular bhajans that he penned.

This bhajan is a cry for help by Meena Kumar as Shanti. She doesn’t want the love of her life: Dharmendra as Shaka to die after having been severely beaten up when he wants to abandon his life as a criminal and return to goodness. Shanti owes a lot to Shaka since he, as a criminal, having a heart of gold, takes care of her when he had entered her house to burgle and found that her relatives had left her there alone to die of plague.

Having given credit to Shakeel for this bhajan, we need to now appreciate Asha Bhosle as a singer. I gave you the first song of the movie, Sheeshe se pi, a nautch-girl number sung so sexily by her. And here in this bhajan she brings out the pathos of a woman for her husband.

Lastly, I am sure, you would have noticed that Ravi was a music director who mastered emotions of extreme pain and despondency in his notes beautifully (we are yet to come to his masterly songs in Do Badan) and this is one of those songs.

Please enjoy: Sun le pukaar aayi…..

diyaa naa bujhe mere ghar kaa
merii taqadiir ke maalik

sun le pukaar aa_ii aaj tere dvaar -2
leke aa.Nsu_o.n kii dhaar mere saa.Nvare -2
mai.n to ek bhiikh maa.Nguu.N tose phailaa ke haath re
sun le pukaar …

binatii karuu.N mai.n tose jag ke khivaiyaa -2
Duub na jaa_e merii aashaa kii naiyaa -2
kisako dikhaa_uu.N jaa ke dard mai.n apanaa
ko_ii nahii.n hai meraa ( kR^iShN kanhaiyaa ) -2
sun le pukaar …

maine prabhu aaj tak kuchh nahii.n maa.Ngaa -2
aaj to daan de-de apanii dayaa ke
badale me.n chaahe merii jaan bhii le-le
bachaa le sahaaraa daataa ( is dukhiyaa kaa ) -2
sun le pukaar …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcjAoTFV-q8

(Continuing Chronologically for Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 Yesterday in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

We have just started taking up the songs of 1966 Raj Khosla movie Do Badan starring Manoj Kumar, Asha Bhosle and Simi Grewal, the movie being a remake of 1951 movie Deedar starring Dilip Kumar, Nargis and Nimmi. Shakeel Badayuni was common for both the movies!

In this movie, Mohammad Rafi ended up singing some of his best Shakeel Badayuni songs for Manoj Kumar who didn’t know A of acting. Anyway, that didn’t take away the intensity of the songs.

This was composed by Ravi in Raag Bhairavi, Tal Kaherava.

Please enjoy a beauty of a song both for its lyics and composition: Bhari duniya mein aakhir dil ko behlaane kahan jaayen…..

bharii duniyaa me.n aaKir dil ko samajhaane kahaa.N jaae.n
muhabbat ho ga_ii jinako vo diivaane kahaa.N jaae.n

lage hai.n shammaa par pahare zamaane kii nigaaho.n ke
jinhe.n jalane kii hasarat hai vo paravaane kahaa.N jaae.n

sunaanaa bhii jinhe.n mushkil chhupaanaa bhii jinhe.n mushkil
zaraa tuu hii bataa ai dil vo afasaane kahaa.N jaae.n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2MYdf1zQ2Q

(Continuing Chronologically for Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 Yesterday in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

One thing remarkable about Shakeel and Rafi was that they made and sang songs for anyone at all. So, if they could make songs for comedians like Johnny Walker, there was absolutely no harm in making songs for a joker like Manoj Kumar too.

Following in the footsteps of the great Naushad Ali, Ravi composed the next song in Raag Darbari Kanada (Recall Naushad’s song in this Raag from Mughal-e-Azam: Muhabbat ki jhooti kahani pe roye in the same Tal and I had mentioned that Tansen from Akbar’s Darbar had brought this Raag from the South and Naushad having selected this Raag to express Anarkali’s feeling of despair in the reign of Akbar was irony indeed). Tal is Kaherava. And the despondency too is comparable to Anarkali’s.

Please enjoy Rafi sing: Raha gardishon mein hardam mere ishq ka sitaara…..

(I hope, ladies and gentlemen, you know the meaning of the word: Gardish. It means Revolution, Rotation, Wandering about in misfortune)

rahaa gardisho.n me.n haradam mere ishq kaa sitaaraa
kabhii Dagamagaayii kashtii, kabhii luT gayaa kinaaraa

koii dil kaa khel dekhe, ki muhabbato.n kii baazii
vo qadam qadam pe jiite, mai.n qadam qadam pe haaraa

ye hamaarii badanasiibii jo nahii.n to aur kyaa hai
ki usii ke ho gaye ham, jo na ho sakaa hamaaraa

pa.De jab Gamo.n ke paale, rahe miTake miTanevaale
jise maut bhii na puuchhaa, use zi.ndagii ne maaraa

(Continuing Chronologically for Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 Yesterday in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

If you think that the last two songs of Mohammad Rafi for the 1966 Raj Khosla movie: Bhari duniya mein aakhir dil ko behlaane kahan jaayen, and Raha gardishon mein hardam mere ishq ka sitaara, brought the house down due to the excellence of their lyrics by Shakeel and composition by Ravi, then wait for the next song; a song about the acceptance of the fate by the hero, in this case (sadly) Manoj Kumar.

Mohammad Rafi, once again sang it with his usual passion.

Please enjoy: Naseeb mein jisake jo likha tha….

nasiib me.n jisake jo likhaa thaa
vo terii mahafil me.n kaam aayaa
kisii ke hisse me.n pyaas aaii
kisii ke hisse me.n jaam aayaa

mai.n ik fasaanaa huu.N bekasii kaa
ye haal hai merii zi.ndagii kaa
na husn hii mujhako raas aayaa
na ishq hii mere kaam aayaa
nasiib me.n …

badal ga_ii.n terii ma.nzile.n bhii
bichha.D gayaa mai.n bhii kaaravaa.n se
terii muhabbat ke raaste me.n
na jaane ye kyaa makaam aayaa
nasiib me.n …

tujhe bhulaane ki koshishe.n bhii
tamaam naakaam ho ga_ii hai.n
kisii ne zikr-e-vafaa kiyaa jab
zubaa.N pe teraa hii naam aayaa
nasiib me.n …

(Continuing Chronologically for Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 Yesterday in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

After watching the sad songs of Shakeel sung by Rafi (made sadder still if one has to watch Manoj Kumar lip-sync them), we come to a song of extreme despondency (sung by Lata Mangeshkar for Asha Parekh; making it one movie in which Asha Bhosle (with her Jab chali thandi hawa) and her sister Lata, both sang for Asha Parekh)

Ravi composed it in Raag Asavari, a raag of the morning signifying here teo things: one, she cannot go to sleep even in the wee hours of the morning, thinking of him; and two, she is hoping for the ‘morning’ in her love when things would become brighter from the dark despondency that hangs around her).

Lying on the bed, Asha didn’t have much to act on and yet she has brought out superb histrionics (in sharp comparison to the other ‘badan’ in the movie: Do Badan).

Please enjoy: Lo aa gayi unaki yaad, woh nahin aaye….

lo aa gayii unakii yaad, vo nahii.n aaye

dil unako dhuundta hai, Gam ke si.ngaar kar ke
aa.Nkhe.n bhii thak gayii hai.n, ab i.ntazaar kar ke
ik aas rah gayii hai, vo bhii na TuuT jaaye
lo aa gayii unakii yaad …

ruuThii hai.n aaj ham se, tanahaa_iyaa.N hamaarii
vo bhii na paaye shaayad, parachhaa_iyaa.N hamaarii
ba.Dhate hii jaa rahii hai.n, maayuusiyo.n ke saaye
lo aa gayii unakii yaad …

lau tharatharaa rahii hai, ab shamm-e-muhabbat kii
uja.Dii huii muhabbat, mahamaa.N hai do gha.Dii kii
mar kar hii ab mile.nge, jii kar to mil na paaye
lo aa gayii unakii yaad …

(Continuing Chronologically for Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 Yesterday in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

As we end tonight, here is the second of the six songs the 1966 AR Kardar movie Dil Diya Dard Liya that we should be taking up. Whilst the excellence of the songs of Do Badan can actually be contrasted with those of this movie, one must heave a sigh of relief that one can watch some superb acting in this movie as compared to pedestrian acting in the previous one.

The next song is about Shankar (Dilip Kumar) having returned as King of Belapur and finding his beloved Roopa (Waheeda Rehman) walking arm in arm with Satish (Rehman). He takes to drinking, much to the ecstasy of Ramesh (Pran) since a drunk king is well suited to squander his money on such luxuries that ramesh can provide.

In this song, however, Dilip Kumar brings out that no wine/liquor can amuse him anymore. The lyrics by the greatest lyricist in the world are crafted to perfection; viz: Main koi patthar nahin insaan hoon, kaise kehdoon gham se ghabraata nahin…

Naushad Ali, the pioneer of having brought songs into the movies. which were based on classical raagas, composed it in little known Raag called Janasamohani, Tal Dadra. Dil Diya Dard Liya songs are amongst the best sung by Mohammad Rafi and this one is particularly beautiful.

Please enjoy: Koi saagar dil ko behlaata nahin….

koii saagar dil ko bahalaataa nahii.n – 2
bekhudii me.n bhii qaraar aataa nahii.n, koI saagar …

mai.n koI patthar nahii.n inasaan huu.N – 2
kaise kah duu.N Gam se ghabaraataa nahii.n
koI saagar …

kal to sab the kaaravaa.N ke saath saath – 2
aaj koI raah dikhalaataa nahii.n
koI saagar …

zi.ndagii ke aa_ine ko to.D do – 2
isame.n ab kuchh bhii nazar aataa nahii.n
koI saagar …

(Continuing Chronologically for the Second of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Yesterday, we started taking up songs of the 1966 AR Kardar movie Dil Diya Dard Liya starring Dilip Kumar as Shankar, Waheeda Rehman as Roopa, Pran as Ramesh and Rehman as Satish.

This was the seventh movie Shakeel did with Abdul Rashid Kardar, with whom he had done his first movie – the 1947 Dard. His sixth movie with Kardar was the 1953 movie Dil-e-Nadaan. Hence, he was back with AR Kardar after 14 years.

This also happened to be the last movie that he did with him. The songs of the movie are still remembered as some of the best penned by Shakeel, composed by Naushad and sung by Mohammad Rafi.

We took up just two songs yesterday: the happy song, Sawan aaye ya na aaye, and Koi Sagar dil ko behlata nahin.

When Shankar had been dropped from the height of Rani Roopmati palace, by the henchmen of Ramesh (Pran) and he had been revived as the King of Belapur, Roopa (Waheeda) had been patiently waiting for him. Indeed, one reason why she had decided to tie up with Satish (Rehman) was to stop the wagging tongues of people as she was forced to stay in his house due to her poor situation after her brother Ramesh (Pran) had squandered all of their father’s money on wine and women.

This song, sung by Lata Mangeshkar was in those days of intezaar for her love to return.

The mukhada of this song gave rise to the title of a latter day movie.

Please enjoy: Phir teri kahani yaad aayi, phir tera fasaana yaad aaya…..

phir terii kahaanii yaad aaI phir teraa fasaanaa yaad aayaa
phir aaj hamaarii aa.Nkho.n ko
phir aaj hamaarii aa.Nkho.n ko, ek Kvaab puraanaa yaad aayaa
phir terii kahaanii yaad aaI …

jalate hai.n chiraago.n kii suurat
har shaam terii ham yaado.n me.n
jab subah ko shabanam rotii hai
kho jaate hai.n ham fariyaado.n me.n – 2
jab dil ne koI aavaaz sunii
jab dil ne koI aavaaz sunii, teraa hii taraanaa yaad aayaa
phir terii kahaanii yaad aaI …

shaayad kabhii milanaa ho jaae
baiThe.n hai.n isii aramaan me.n ham
tuune to kinaare paa hii liye
ulajhe hai.n magar tuufaan me.n ham
ai jaan-e-vafaa phir aaj hame.n
ai jaan-e-vafaa phir aaj hame.n,
pichhalaa vo zamaanaa yaad aayaa
phir terii kahaanii yaad aaI …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zsjnE7CZmQ

(Continuing Chronologically for the Second of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

All my boyhood memories of excellent, powerful, heart-touching lyrics with that last song and with other songs of the movie.

Shankar (Dilip Kumar) after seeing Roopa (Waheeda Rehman), his beloved, walking arm in arm with Satish (Rehman) is not just devastated but full of feelings of vengeful regret.

These are reflected superbly in the title song of the movie sung by Mohammad Rafi for Dilip Kumar. Anyone can guess that such a song would be composed in the raag of the evening, Raag Kalyan and that’s exactly what Naushad did. Tal was Kaherava.

Please enjoy: Dilruba maine tere pyaar mein kyaa kyaa na kiya, dil diya dard liya….

dilarubaa maine tere pyaar me.n kyaa-kyaa naa kiyaa
dil diyaa dard liyaa -2
kabhii phuulo.n me.n guzaarii kabhii kaa.NTo.n pe jiyaa
dil diyaa dard liyaa -2

zindagii aaj bhii hai bekhudii aaj bhii hai
pyaar kahate hai.n jise vo Kushii aaj bhii hai
maine din-raat mohabbat kaa terii jaam piyaa
dil diyaa dard liyaa -2
dilarubaa maine tere …

kyaa kahuu.N tere li_e maine aa.Nsuu bhii pi_e
kabhii Kaamosh rahaa kabhii shikave bhii ki_e
kar liyaa chaaq garebaa.n kabhii daaman ko siyaa
dil diyaa dard liyaa -2
dilarubaa maine tere …

pyaar kii aan hai tuu dil kaa aramaan hai tuu
kaun duniyaa se Dare jab nigehabaan hai tuu
apanii kashtii ko sahaare pe tere chho.D diyaa
dil diyaa dard liyaa -2
dilarubaa maine tere …

(Continuing Chronologically for the Second of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

The hallmark of a genius is that he is good at all kinds of songs. We have seen earlier even a pop penned by him Ding dong ding lala sung by Geeta Dutt. We have seen children’s songs that he wrote, bhajans, songs of joy, songs of sadness, and songs of mujra.

The second last song from this movie that I am going to give you is a mujra song: Haay haay rasiya tu bada bedardi to depict the profligacy of Pran. Predictably, it has been sung by Asha Bhosle.

Naushad, the pioneer and master of Raaga based songs, composed in Raag Pilu, Tal Dadra.

Please enjoy: Haay haay rasiya tu bada bedardi…..

uThii-uThii ye nigaahe.n

haay haay rasiyaa tuu ba.Daa bedardii -2
jiyaraa moraa jaane qasak tore man kii -2
ho rasiyaa tuu ba.Daa bedardii
haay haay rasiyaa tuu ba.Daa bedardii -2

batiyaa.N jhuuThii torii ( nainaa chhal se bhare ) -2
kohuu naa priit kare tore sa.ng raam kare
tore sa.ng haa haa haa haa raam kare
lobhii torii nazare.n ho lobhii torii nazare.n
lobhii torii nazare.n ho torii nazare.n hai.n khoTii torii marajii
ho rasiyaa tuu ba.Daa …

jiyaa ke bain piyaa kachhahuu jaane nahii.n -2
kachhahuu jaane nahii.n
zulmii moraa kahaa haay zulmii moraa kahaa ekahuu maane nahii.n
kare manamaanii ho kare manamaanii dikhaa_e Kudagarjii
ho rasiyaa tuu ba.Daa …

kaahe kaa maan kare kaahe ko Dhaa_e julam
( priit kii haay pa.De ) -2 to pe o bairii balam
jaa re nahii.n maanuu.Ngii ( jaa re nahii.n maanuu.N ) -2
ho jaa re nahii.n maanuu.Ngii saiyyaa.N torii marajii
ho rasiyaa tuu ba.Daa …

(Continuing Chronologically for the Second of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Up to now, it would have occurred to you that each one of the 1966 movie Dil Diya Dard Liya has been not just a masterpiece but also composed by Naushad in a raaga like the 1952 Baiju Bawra songs. Also, you would have noticed another quality that the lyrics and the notes stay with you long after you have finished listening to the song. How many others had this quality?

Sadly, that brings us to the last song of the movie that I selected for you: Guzre hain aaj ishq mein; the song with an intent to seek revenge for having been betrayed in love.

Once again, by now, knowing Naushad, you can predict the raag. Yes indeed, it is Raag Darbari Kanada, Tal Dadra, which suits Dilip as the king of Belapur. As a king, he uses the pronoun Hum rather than Main of the common man.

This song is immediately after he sees his beloved Waheeda Rehman walking arm in arm with Pran!

Please enjoy: Guzre hain aaj ishq mein hum us mukaam se….

guzare hai.n aaj ishq me.n ham us maqaam se
nafarat sii ho ga_ii hai muhabbat ke naam se

hamako na ye gumaan thaa, o sa.ngadil sanam
raah-e-vafaa se tere bahak jaae.nge qadam
chhalakegaa zahar bhii terii aa.Nkho.n ke jaam se

o bevafaa teraa bhii yuu.N hii TuuT jaae dil
tuu bhii ta.Dap-ta.Dap ke pukaare haay dil
teraa bhii saamanaa ho kabhii, Gam kii shaam se

ham vo nahii.n jo pyaar me.n rokar guzaar de.n
parachhaaI.n bhii ho terii to Thokar se maar de.n
vaaqif hai.n ham bhii Kuub har ek i.ntaqaam se

(Continuing Chronologically for the Second of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

His next movie was another Nisar Ahamad Ansari movie (earlier I gave a song from his 1965 movie Zindagi Aur Maut composed by C Ramchandra: Dil laga kar ham ye samajhe).

I am not giving you the song that I had selected of the 1967 movie Wahan Ke Log since this song: Ham tumase mohabbat karke sanam duniya ka fasaana bhool gaye was sung by Mukesh and I gave it to you in the same tribute on Mukesh’s Birth Anniversary on 22 Jul.

That brings us to the 52nd movie of Shakeel Badayuni, a movie whose story was based on Alexandre Dumas’s story: The Corsican Brothers. Tapi Chanakya, the director, called it Ram Aur Shyam with Dilip Kumar acting both the roles. Originally, Vyjayanthimala and Mumtaz were cast to do the roles that were eventually done by Waheeda Rehman and Mumtaz.

The story based on twins was repeated in several Hindi movies: Seeta Aur Geeta, Chaalbaaz, Krishan Kanhaiya to name a few.

This was the 23rd movie in which Shakeel paired with Naushad Ali. Have a look at the songs of the movie:

1.”Aaj Ki Raat Mere” – Mohammad Rafi
2.”Aaj Sakhi Re Piya More Ghar” – Lata
3. “Aayee Hai Bahar Mite Zulmo” – Mohammad Rafi & Chorus
4. “Dheere Dheere Bol Koi Sun Lega” – Asha Bhosle, Mahendra Kapoor
5. “Main Hoon Saqi Tu Hai Sharabi” – Lata, Mohammad Rafi
6. “Maine Kab Tujh Se Kaha Tha” – Lata Mangeshkar
7. “O Balam Tere Pyar Ki Thandi Aa” – Mohammad Rafi & Asha

I love the first song of the movie not just for its lyrics but also because it has been composed in Raag Pahadi, Tal Kaherava. Also, the era of Mohammad Rafi, is the most nostalgical era for most lovers of Hindi songs.

Please enjoy: Aaj ki raat mere dil ki salaami le le….

ye raat jaise dulhan ban gaI hai chiraago.n se
karu.ngaa ujaalaa mai.n dil ke daaGo.n se

aaj kii raat mere, dil kii salaamii le le
dil kii salaamii le le
kal terii bazm se diivaanaa chalaa jaaegaa
shammaa rahe jaaegii paravaanaa chalaa jaaegaa

terii mahafil tere jalave ho.n mubaarak tujhako
terii ulfat se nahii.n aaj bhii inakaar mujhe
teraa may-khaanaa salaamat rahe ai jaan-e-vafaa
muskuraakar tuu zaraa dekh le ik baar mujhe
phir tere pyaar kaa mastaanaa chalaa jaaegaa

maine chaahaa ki bataa duu.N mai.n haqiiqat apanii
tuune lekin na meraa raaz-e-muhabbat samajhaa
merii ulajhan mere haalaat yahaa.N tak pahu.nche
terii aa.Nkho.n ne mere pyaar ko nafarat samajhaa
ab terii raah se begaanaa chalaa jaaegaa

tuu meraa saath na de raah-e-muhabbat me.n sanam
chalate-chalate mai.n kisii raah pe mu.D jaauu.ngaa
kahakashaa.n chaa.nd sitaare tere chuume.nge qadam
tere raste kii mai.n ek dhuul huu.N u.D jaauu.ngaa
saath mere meraa afasaanaa chalaa jaaegaa

(Continuing Chronologically for the Second of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

This story of Ram (Dilip Kumar) with all his property getting routinely whipped by his cunning brother-in-law Gajendra (Pran) until Ram gets replaced by the street smart, and tough Shyam (Dilip Kumar) became a common story in Hindi films. And then Shyam, in the role of Ram teaches a lesson to Gajendra (Pran) and all those who earlier attacked the docile Ram.

The story calls for certain comicality of role play, which Dilip Kumar, though being a tragedy king, did so superbly that he won the Filmfare Best Actor award that year (all other awards went that year to Upkaar but mercifully Manoj Kumar was spared the mortification of winning Best Actor award with his diastrous acting).

The next song is a happy Dilip Kumar song, Shyam role acting his twin brother Ram.

Please enjoy: Aayi hain baharen mite zulmo sitam….

(rafii: aa_ii hai.n bahaare.n miTe zulm-o-sitam
pyaar kaa zamaanaa aayaa duur hue Gam
raam kii lilaa ra.ng laa_ii
koras: a-haa haa
rafii: shaam ne ba.nsii bajaa_ii
koras: a-haa haa-haa ) -2

rafii: chamakaa hai inasaaf kaa suuraj phailaa hai ujaalaa
koras: ujaalaa,
chamakaa hai inasaaf kaa suuraj phailaa hai ujaalaa
rafii: na_ii uma.nge.n sa.ng laayegaa har din aanevaalaa
koras: aanevaalaa,
na_ii uma.nge.n sa.ng laayegaa har din aanevaalaa
rafii: ho ho
munnaa giit sunaayegaa
Tunnaa Dhol bajaayegaa
koras: munnaa giit sunaayegaa, Tunna Dhol bajaayegaa
rafii: sa.ng-sa.ng merii chhoTii munnii naachegii chham-chham

rafii + koras:
aa_ii hai.n bahaare.n miTe zulm-o-sitam
pyaar kaa zamaanaa aaya duur hue Gam
raam kii liilaa ra.ng laa_ii
koras: a-haa haa
rafii: shaam ne ba.nsii bajaa_ii
koras: a-haa haa-haa

rafii: ab na ho.nge majabuurii ke is ghar me.n afasaane
koras: ab naa ho.nge majabuurii ke is ghar me.n afasaane
rafii: pyaar ke ra.ng me.n ra.ng jaaye.nge sab apane begaane
koras: pyaar ke ra.ng me.n ra.ng jaaye.nge sab apane begaane
rafii: ho ho ho
sab ke din phir jaaye.nge
ma.nzil apanii paaye.nge
jiivan ke taraane milake gaaye.nge haradam
rafii + koras + ‪#‎male‬# koras:
ho
aa_ii hai.n bahaare.n miTe zulm-o-sitam
pyaar kaa zamaanaa aaya duur hue Gam
rafii + #male# koras:
raam kii liilaa ra.ng laa_ii
koras: a-haa haa
rafii + #male# koras:
shaam ne ba.nsii bajaa_ii
koras: a-haa haa-haa

(Continuing Chronologically for the Second of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Lets us now take up one of the two delightful duets from the movie. This has been sung by Lata for Waheeda Rehman and Mohammad Rafi for Dilip Kumar.

It crossed various boundaries of popularity during those days.

Please enjoy: Main hoon saaqi, tu hai shraabi….

la : mai.n huu.N saaqii tuu hai sharaabii-sharaabii -2
ra : tuune aa.Nkho.n se pilaa_ii vo nashaa hai ke duhaa_ii
har taraf dil ke chaman me.n phuul khile hai.n gulaabii-gulaabii
la : mai.n huu.N saaqii …

ishq me.n jiinaa sa.mbhal ke dil kaa paimaanaa naa chhalake
bahakii-bahakii terii nazare.n Kvaab dikhalaatii hai.n kal ke -2
ra : terii mahafil me.n o saaqii ham chale aa_e nashe me.n
ab to bas ye hai tamannaa umr kaT jaa_e nashe me.n -2
la : ishq hai terii savaalii -2
husn hai meraa javaabii-javaabii
ra : tuu hai saaqii mai.n huu.N sharaabii-sharaabii

mai.n terii duniyaa me.n aa ke rah gayaa khud ko bhulaa ke
kyaa ho anjaam naa jaane hosh ulfat me.n ga.nvaa ke -2
la : bekhudii ke ye taraane yuu.N hii gaa_e jaa diivaane
ishq ra.ng laa_egaa apanaa aa ga_e ab vo zamaane -2
ra : terii mastaanii ye baate.n
do : aa aa
terii mastaanii ye baate.n dil pe laa_e.N naa Karaabii-Karaabii
la : mai.n huu.N saaqii …

(Continuing Chronologically for the Second of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

The last song from the 1967 movie ram Aur Shyam is also a duet; but, between the other pair: that is Dilip Kumar as Ram and Mumtaz. What a challenge it must have been for Dilip Kumar to paly two diametrically opposite roles?

This too is as popular today as it was 50 years ago.

Please enjoy: O balam teri pyaar ki thandi aag mein jalate jalate….

aa : o baalam tere pyaar kii Tha.nDii aag me.n jalate-jalate -2
mai.n to haar ga_ii re -4
ra : luuT liyaa dil tuune meraa raah me.n chalate-chalate -2
nainaa maar ga_ii re -4

aa : mai.n huu.N baavariyaa terii saa.Nvariyaa dil se jaanaa naa
ra : aaj milii ho jaise akelii kal bhii chalii aanaa
aa : chandaa aur suuraj kii tarah roz nikalate-Dhalate
mai.n to haar ga_ii re -2
ra : luuT liyaa dil …
aa : baalam tere …

ra : Daal ke jaaduu ruup kaa tuune dil meraa chhiinaa
aa : priitam tuune priit jagaa dii chhe.D ke man biinaa
ra : naino.n me.n bhar ke pyaar kaa kajaraa akhiyaa.N malate-malate
nainaa maar ga_ii re -2
aa : baalam tere …

(Continuing Chronologically for the Second of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

And the last song for the day, with just two more days and 15 songs to go.

It is a qawwali sung by Mohammad Rafi, Manna Dey and Asha Bhosle.

Please enjoy the ever popular: Main idhar jaaun ya udhar jaayun….

bhari mehfil me chheda hai
kisi ne dil ke taro ko
mubarak ho ye jashn bekarari bekararo ko
hajaro shamme jalkar
dil ko kar deti hai diwana
aur unake bich me ghir kar
yehi kehta hai parwana
main idhar jaau ya udhar jau
main idhar jaau ya udhar jau
badi mushkil me hu ab kidhar jau
badi mushkil me hu ab kidhar jau
mai idhar jaau ya udhar jau

aaj aankho me utar aaya hai
koi tasbir-e-muhabbat bankar
aaj chilman se najar aaya hai
ek afsana hakikat bankar
jindagi mil gayi mujhko lekin
aaj bhi usse badi duri hai
aaj bhi usse badi duri hai
josh kehta hai pakad le daman
hosh kehta hai ki majburi hai
hosh kehta hai ki majburi hai

udhar hai sabar ki manjil
idhar betab yeh dil hai junun-e-shauk me
ye faisala karna bhi mushkil hai
mai idhar jau ya udhar jau
khank bankar hi kyu na bikhar jau
khank bankar hi kyu na bikhar jau
mai idhar jau ya udhar jau

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys7DuVThytA

(Continuing Chronologically for the Third of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Six movies to go until the 1969 movie Beti with just 12 more songs. I am not going to give you Beti’s Mukesh song on Sonik Omi’s composition: Ye kyaa kiya re duniyawaale since I already gave that to you on the Birth Anniversary of Mukesh on 22nd July.

Lets start with the 1967 movie Noor Jehan, directed by M Sadiq, the second movie of M Sadiq for which Shakeel penned the songs, after the 1954 movie Shabaab starring Bharat Bhushan and Nutan, with the ever-enchanting song Chandan ka palna resham ki dori.

The movie starred Pradeep Kumar and Meena Kumari, Johnny Walker, Lalita Pawar, Sheikh Mukhtar and Helen.

This was the second and the last movie Shakeel did with Roshan after the 1965 movie Bedaag.

The movie had the following songs:

1. Aa gayaa lab pe afasaanaa\-e\-aashiqii
2. Aap jabase qariib aa_e hai.n
3. Mohabbat ho ga_ii hai mere meharabaa.N ko
4. Raat kii mahafil suunii suunii
5. Sharaabii\-sharaabii ye saawan ka mausam
6. Vo mohabbat vo wafaa_e.N kis tarah ham bhuul jaa_e.N

The first one is a beautiful duet between Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhosle singing for Pradeep Kumar and Meena Kumari.

As in the last movie Palki, the Urdu tehzeeb of addressing between a man and woman is very much present here too. The lyrics are out of this world; especiallu ‘Ham khud apne nahin paraaye hain’!

Please enjoy: Aap jab se kareeb aaye hain….

ra : aap jab se qariib aa_e hai.n
pyaar ke ra.ng dil pe chhaa_e hai.n

jalavaa-e-yaar hai nigaaho.n me.n
phuul bikhare hu_e hai.n raaho.n me.n
duur tak zindagii ke saa_e hai.n
aap jab se qariib …

aa : dil ne halkii sii choT khaa_ii hai
zindagii ab samajh me.n aa_ii hai
ham khud apane nahii.n paraa_e hai.n
aap jab se qariib …

ra : aapase apane dil ko haar ke ham
is qadar Kush hai.n aap hii kii qasam
jaise duniyaa ko jiit laa_e hai.n
aap jab se qariib …

aa : khair ho ishq ke fasaane kii
lag na jaa_e nazar zamaane kii
had se aage qadam ba.Dhaa_e hai.n
aap jab se qariib …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3yjjserZMU

(Continuing Chronologically for the Third of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Just twelve more songs to go now and soon I am going to be assailed by withdrawal symptoms!

This would rank amongst the best songs sung by Suman Kalyanpur. It is in Raag Malhar, Raag Gaur Malhar to be exact and yes, it is about sawan. Tal is Jhaptal.

The picturisation of the song and the histrionics of Meena Kumari are both superb.

Please enjoy: Sharaabi sharaabi ye sawan ka mausam….

sharaabii-sharaabii ye saawan kaa mausam
Kudaa kii qasam Kuubasuurat na hotaa
agar isame.n ra.ng-e-muhabbat na hotaa
sharaabii-sharaabii …

suhaanii-suhaanii ye koyal kii kuuke.n
uThaatii hai.n siine me.n rah-rah ke huuke.n
chhalakatii hai mastii ghane baadalo.n se
ulajhatii hai.n nazare.n hasii.N aa.Nchalo.n se
ye pura_nuur ma.nzar
ye pura_nuur ma.nzar ye ra.ngiin aalam
Kudaa kii qasam Kuubasuurat na hotaa
agar isame.n ra.ng-e-muhabbat na hotaa
sharaabii sharaabii …

gulaabii-gulaabii ye phuulo.n ke chehare
ye rimajhim ke motii ye buu.Ndo.n ke sehare
kuchh aisii bahaar aa ga_ii hai chaman me.n
ke dil kho gayaa hai isii a.njuman me.n
ye mahakii nashiilii
ye mahakii nashiilii havaao.n kaa paracham
Kudaa kii qasam Kuubasuurat na hotaa
agar isame.n ra.ng-e-muhabbat na hotaa
sharaabii sharaabii …

ye mausam salonaa ajab Gul khilaa_e
uma.nge.n ubhaare ummiide.n jagaa_e
vo betaabiyaa.N dil se Takaraa rahii.n hai.n
ke raato.n kii nii.nde.n u.Dii jaa rahii.n hai.n
ye sahar-e-jawaanii
ye sahar-e-jawaanii ye Kvaabo.n kaa aalam
Kudaa kii qasam Kuubasuurat na hotaa
agar isame.n ra.ng-e-muhabbat na hotaa
sharaabii sharaabii …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmjOSy_EbxU

(Continuing Chronologically for the Third of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Just eleven more songs to go now.

Jab “aakhri” lafz lab pe aata hai Shakeel ke liye,
Aisa lagta hai saans ruk si jaati hai,
Dil bekasi se maayus ho uthata hai,
Zubaan na jaane kyun ladhkhadaati hai,
Shayari o naghmagari aur bhi bahut suni hai lekin,
Shakeel ki hai jo hardam yaad aati hai.

You can imagine what must be happeninbg with me as we near the end! With a heavy heart I have to tell you this is the last from the movie Noor Jahan that I am giving you.

And, it is the best! It has been sung by Lata Mangeshkar.

Please enjoy: Raat ki mehfil sooni sooni…..

raat kii mahafil suunii suunii
aa.Nkhe.n puranam dil naakaam
sahame sahame aramaano.n kaa
honaa hii thaa ye a.njaam …

bhuul gaye the apanii hastii
ishq-o-vafaa ke josh me.n ham
sab kuchh khokar bebas hokar
ab aaye hai.n hosh me.n ham
pyaase rah gaye dil ke armaan
chhuuTaa saaqii TuuTaa jaam
honaa hii thaa ye a.njaam …

sar ko jahaa.N Takaraaye jaake
aisii ko_ii diivaar nahii.n
haaye rii qismat ham duniyaa me.n
pyaar ke bhii haqadaar nahii.n
dil hotaa jo apane bas me.n
lete na ham pyaar kaa naam
honaa hii thaa ye a.njaam …

raat ki mahafill suunii suunii …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LORrizj2Tc

(Continuing Chronologically for the Third of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Just ten more songs to go now.

The 1967 SS Balan movie Aurat had Rajesh Khanna and Padmini in the lead roles, besides Feroze Khan, Pran.

This movie is a remake of 1966 Tamil movie Chitthi (meaning ‘step-mother’) played by Padmini in the lead role and R. Muthuraman as her younger brother. It is one of the first significant on screen roles for Rajesh Khanna, then a new comer to screen.

The movie had the following songs penned by Shakeel Badayuni and composed by Ravi, the 12th and the last movie in which they were together:

1 “Humein Tumse Mohabbat Hai” Asha Bhosle
2 “Meri Gaadi Undan Khatola” Mohammed Rafi
3 “Nari Jeevan” Lata Mangeshkar
4 “Nari Jeevan -v2” Lata Mangeshkar
5 “Nindiya Ki Nagri” Lata Mangeshkar
6 “Shola Ulfat Ka” Mohd Rafi, Asha Bhosle
7 “Yeh Kaun Hai” Asha Bhosle, Mahendra Kapoor

Lets listen to the first song picturised on Nazima. The best part is that in order to express her love for Rajesh Khanna, she isn’t singing but plays a record!

Please enjoy: Hamen tumase muhabbat hai magar ham keh nahin sakate……

hame tumse mohabbat hai
magar hum kah nahi sakte
hame tumse mohabbat hai
magar hum kah nahi sakte
juba par ek hakikat hai
magar hum kah nahi sakte
hame tumse mohabbat hai

kabhi hasrat kabhi arman
kabhi dhadkan kabhi uljhan
ajab is dil ki halat hai
magar hum keh nahi sakte
hame tumse mohabbat hai

hamara hale dil sunne ko
tum bechain baithe ho
hamara hale dil sunne ko
tum bechain baithe ho
hame kahne ki fursat hai
magar hum kah nahi sakte
hame tumse mohabbat hai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diXQSGo8fzI

(Continuing Chronologically for the Third of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Just eight more songs to go now from four movies.

Lets take the next song from the 1968 movie Sunghursh, a song that Naushad composed in Raag Bhairavi.

The lyrics are as exquisite as the composition of the pair who made the hit movie Gunga Jamuna seven years before: Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala.

Lata Mangeshkar sang it.

Please enjoy: Mere paas aao nazar to milaao…..

mere paas ao nazar to milao
mere paas ao nazar to milao
in ankho me tumko jawani milegi
mere paas ao nazar to milao
suno to zara dhadkane mere dil ki
inhi me tumhari kahani milegi
mere paas ao nazar to milao

mere thartharate huye in labo par
tumhara hi koyi tarana milega
meri bahki nazro me
meri bahki nazro me khoyi huyi si
tumhari hi koyi nishani milegi
mere paas ao nazar to milao
suno to zara dhadkane mere dil ki
inhi me tumhari kahani milegi
mere paas ao nazar to milao

chalo aaj tumko
chalo aaj tumko gale se laga lu
tumhare liye har qasam tod dalu
kare jo sitam ha
kare jo sitam vo haseen aur honge
yaha husn ki meharbani milegi
mere paas ao nazar to milao

muhabbat ki baho me akar to dekho
kaleje pe mujhko lagakar to dekho
machalta sisakta
machalta sisakta hua dil milega
tadapti huyi zindgani milegi
mere paas ao nazar to milao
suno to zara dhadkane mere dil ki
inhi me tumhari kahani milegi
mere paas ao nazar to milao

(Continuing Chronologically for the Third of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Just seven more songs to go now from four movies.

I hate to use the word ‘last’ pertaining to anything to do with Shakeel Badayuni. However, here is the last song that I have planned to give you from the 1968 movie Sunghursh.

Sunghursh had only solo numbers as you must have seen in the list that I gave you in the beginning. This has been sung by Mohammad Rafi.

Please enjoy: Ishq deewana husn bhi ghayal….

ishq divana husn bhi ghayal
ishq divana husn bhi ghayal
donon taraf ik dard-e-jigar hai
dil ki tadap ka hal na puuchho
dil ki tadap ka hal na puuchho
jitani idhar hai utani udhar hai, ishq divana

apane fasane dil ke tarane
ya tum samajho ya ham jane
tumako hamare dil ka pata hai
hamako tumhare dil ki kabar hai
ishq divana husn bhi ghayal, ishq divana

bikhari zulfe anchal dhalaka
lab pe tabassu halka halka
pyar me ham to khoye hai lekin
aaj tumhe bhi hosh kidhar hai
dil ki tadap ka hal na puchho
dil ki tadap ka hal na puchho
jitani idhar hai utani udhar hai, ishq divana

chand-sitare shok nazare
lutna le sab ruup tumare
husn ko rakhana sabse bacha ke
dekho tumhin pe sabaki nazar hai
ishq divana husn bhi ghayal
ishq divana husn bhi ghayal
dono taraf ik dard-e-jigar hai
dil ki tadap ka hal na puuchho
dil ki tadap ka hal na puuchho
jitani idhar hai utani udhar hai, ishq divana

(Continuing Chronologically for the Third of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Just six more songs to go now from three movies: Baazi, Aadmi and Beti, other than the 1969 movie Beti Mukesh song that I have already given you on Mukesh’s birth anniversary on 22nd Jul.

Baazi was a unique movie in that for the first and the last time Kalyanji Anandji paired with Shakeel Badayuni.

It was a movie directed by Moni Bhattacharya and starred Dharmendra, Waheeda Rehman, Mehmood, Johnny Walker, Helen, Keshto Mukherjee and Chand Usmani.

It had the following songs:

1 “Dil Toota Roye Naina” Asha Bhosle
2 “Ek Anar Do Bimar” Manna Dey
3 “Main Hasina Nazneena” Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle
4 “Aa Mere Gale Lag Ja” Lata Mangeshkar
5 “Pyar Ki Baaten Hamko Na Samjhao” Asha Bhosle

I have kept this song especially for you since it has the two sisters: Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle singing for the dancing duo on stage: Waheeda Rehman and Helen, in competition with each other.

Please enjoy: Main haseena nazneena koi mujhasa nahin….

mai hasina naznena mai hasina naznena
koi mujhsa nahi koi mujhsa nahi nahi
mai samina mah jabina mai samina mah jabina
mujhme kya kya nahi mujhme kya kya nahi nahi

mai kayamat ki pahchan hu ek biijli or tufan hu
mai mohabbat hu iman hu ek ashik ka arman hu
jo mere paas aye sukune dil paye
fir jaye na wo kahi kahi mai hasina naznena
koi mujhsa nahi koi mujhsa nahi nahi

mai hasu to chaman bhi khile pyar ki jindagi bhi mile
mai jalu to patanga jale maut mere kahe par chale
nigaho se mai khelu are jisko bhi mai dekhu
wo jaan dede wahi wahi mai samina mah jabina
mujhme kya kya nahi mujhme kya kya nahi nahi

pyar ki mai hu ek dasta mere dam se hai dunia jawa
mai nahi to bahare kaha mere bas me hai sara jaha
mai hu shola mai hu shabnam
mai hu nagma mai hu sargam
haar chuke hai mere aage ye chand or sitare
ye asma ye zami mai hasina mai shamina
koi mujhsa nahi mujhme kya kya nahi nahi
mai hasina mai shamina koi mujhsa nahi
mujhme kya kya nahi nahi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaz75nazARM

(Continuing Chronologically for the Third of Four Days after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Just five more songs to go now from last two movies: Aadmi and Beti, other than the 1969 movie Beti Mukesh song that I have already given you on Mukesh’s birth anniversary on 22nd Jul.

Aadmi 1968 was the last time in the history of Hindi cinema when we saw the best quartet in movies together: Shakeel Badayuni as lyricist, Naushad as Music Director, Mohammad Rafi as Singer and Dilip Kumar as Actor.

The film stars Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Manoj Kumar, Simi Garewal and Pran; and was directed by A Bhimsingh.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you remember that last scene in the 1975 movie Sholay when Sanjeev Kumar as Thakur tells Amjad Khan as Gabbar Singh: Tere liye to mere pair hi bahut hain.

Well, Aadmi had Dilip Kumar on the wheel-chair and he acted so superbly that the bozo Manoj Kumar would have wanted to be in a coffin.

The movie had the following songs:

1.Aaj purani raahon se – Mohammad Rafi
2. Kal ke sapne aaj bhi – Lata Mangeshkar
3. Kaisi Haseen Aaj – Mohammad Rafi and Talat Mahmood
4. Kaari badariya – Lata
5. Mein tooti hui ek naiya – Mohammad Rafi
6. Na aadmi ka koi bharsa – Mohammad Rafi

I have decided to give you four songs from the movie. Lets take the first song and then we shall have remaining three tomorrow.

Please enjoy: Aaj puraani raahin se koi mujhe awaaz na de….

aaj puraanii raaho.n se, koI mujhe aavaaz na de
dard me.n Duube giit na de, gam kaa sisakataa saaz na de

biite dino.n kii yaad thii jiname.n, mai.n vo taraane bhuul chukaa
aaj na_ii ma.nzil hai merii, kal ke Thikaane bhuul chukaa
na vo dil na sanam, na vo diin-dharam
ab duur huu.N saare gunaaho.n se

jiivan badalaa duniyaa badalii, man ko anokhaa GYaan milaa
aaj mujhe apane hii dil me.n, ek nayaa inasaan milaa
pahu.Nchaa huu.N vahaa.N, nahii.n duur jahaa.N, bhagavaan kii nek nigaaho.n se

TuuT chuke sab pyaar ke ba.ndhan, aaj koii za.njiir nahii.n
shiishaa-e-dil me.n aramaano.n kii, aaj koii tasviir nahii.n
ab shaad huu.N mai.n, aazaad huu.N mai.n, kuchh kaam nahii.n hai aaho.n se

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdl7qIzxnNc

(Continuing Chronologically for the last day (Fourth Day) after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

We had taken up just one song of the 1968 A Bhimsingh movie Aadmi starring Dilip Kumar, Manoj Kumar and Waheeda Rehman; the movie being the 26th movie of Shakeel pairing with his mentor Naushad Ali.

By the time Shakeel was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and he was put up in a sanatorium in Panchgani, Naushad started paying him ten times the fees for his songs so as to help him get over his situation.

Shakeel succumbed to TB on 20th April 1970. This was therefore the last movie in which Shakeel, Naushad, Rafi and Dilip Kumar were together, the quartet who made the best songs in Hindi movies.

We took up Aadmi’s Aaj puraani raahon se koi mujhe awaaz na de.

Aadmi was a remake of Tamil film Alayamani starring Sivaji Ganesan. The story:

“Rajesh (Dilip Kumar) is orphaned at a very young age and comes from a very wealthy and noble family, but is very insecure. His childhood sweetheart Meena tragically dies and Rajesh substitutes her with a doll. When he finds that another young boy has touched the doll, he starts a fight with him, and ends up murdering him. Years later, Rajesh, now a grown man, still has the doll in his closet and he has now fallen in love with a woman named Meena (Waheeda Rehman). He becomes engaged to her after the approval of his best friend, Dr. Shekhar (Manoj Kumar). However, Rajesh and Meena have an automobile accident, in which Rajesh becomes paralysed and uses a wheelchair. It is then that Rajesh finds out that Shekhar and Meena are having an affair. His old murderous and possessive hatred surfaces again and his best friend Shekhar’s life is in danger”

Here is a song that both the friends sing for the same woman: Waheeda Rehman as Meena; Rafi for Dilip Kumar and Talat Mehmood for Manoj Kumar.

Please enjoy: Kaisi haseen aaj baharon ki raat hai….

ra: kaisii hasiin aaj bahaaro.n kii raat hai
ek chaa.Nd aasamaa.n pe hai ek mere saath hai

ma : dene vale tuu ne to koii kamii na kii
ab kis ko kyaa milaa ye muqaddar kii baat hai

ra : chhaaya hai husn-o-ishq pe ek ra.ng-e-beKudii
aate hai.n zi.ndagii me.n ye aalam kabhii kabhii
har Gham bhuul jaao khuushii kii baaraat hai
ek chaa.Nd aasamaa.n pe hai ek mere saath hai

ma : aaii hai vo bahaar ki naGame ubal pa.De
aisii khuushii hai ki aa.Nsuu nikal pa.De
ho.nTho.n pe hai.n duaae.n magar dil pe haath hai
ab kis ko kyaa milaa ye muqaddar kii baat hai

ra : mastii simaT ke pyaar ke gulashan me.n aa gaii
ma : merii khuushii bhii aap ke daaman me.n aa gaii
bha.Nvaraa kalii se duur nahii.n saath saath hai

(Continuing Chronologically for the last day (Fourth Day) after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

In his previous film Sunghursh in the same year, Naushad Ali received the criticism that though he had tried to compose the songs as suited for the Avadh region wherein Banares, the venue of the movie was, he hadn’t done as much justice to the songs as he normally did.

He made up in a huge manner in Aadmi and was back to his usual excellence.

The third song of the movie is a solo by Lata Mangeshkar singing for Waheeda Rehman.

Please enjoy: kal ke sapane aaj bhi aana….

kal ke sapane aaj bhii aanaa
priitam ko bhii saath me.n laanaa
kal ke sapane …

aaj bhii din hai madhur suhaanaa baaj rahii hai man kii baa.Nsuriyaa
naino.n ke taT pe prem ke path pe lauT ke ab to aajaa saa.Nvariyaa
mai.n bhii sunaa_uu.N dil kaa taraanaa -2
kal ke sapane …

jhuumate baadal gaate jharane aaj kisii ko Dhuu.NDh rahe hai.n
mai.n to ye jaanuu.N saare nazaare sajanaa tumako Dhuu.NDh rahe hai.n
aaj mujhe bhii daras dikhaanaa -2
kal ke sapane …

merii nagariyaa aa more rasiyaa Dagar-Dagar mai.n a.Nkhiyaa.N bichhaa_uu.N
dil me.n biThaa ke nain milaa ke janam-janam kii pyaas bujhaa_uu.N
tohe sikhaa_uu.N priit nibhaanaa -2
kal ke sapane …

(Continuing Chronologically for the last day (Fourth Day) after Reaching the Mark of 100 in Countdown to His Birth Centenary)

Last song of the movie Aadmi is last of an era of Shakeel, Naushad, Rafi and Dilip Kumar.

After Na milata gham to barbaadi ke afsane kahan jaate of 1954 movie Amar, this is the most ironical song penned by Shakeel. Therefore, after all these years, he didn’t leave irony. Nor did irony leave him.

In his most famous ghazal sung by Begum Akhtar, it is this irony that gave vent to the famous couplet:

“Jab hua zikr zamaane mein mohabbat ka, Shakeel,
Mujhako apne dil-e-nakaam pe rona aaya”.

As if his own life was reflected in this last song he portrayed similar irony when he wrote:

“Na aadmi ka koi bharosa, na dosti ka koi thikaana,
Wafa ka badla hai bewafai, ajanb zamaana hai ye zamaana”.

teri mohabbat pe shak nahi hai
teri wafao ko maanta hu
magar tujhe kiski aarju hai
main ye hakikat bhi jaanta hu

na aadami ka koyi bharosa
na dosti ka koyi thikana
wafaa kaa badalaa hain bewafayi
ajab jamana hain yeh jamana
na aadami ka koyi bharosa

naa husn me ab woh dilakashee hai
naa ishk me ab woh jindagi hai
jidhar nigaahe uthake dekho
sitam hain dhokhaa hain berukhi hai
badal gaye jindagee ke nagame
bikhar gayaa pyaar kaa tarana
badal gaye jindagee ke nagame
bikhar gayaa pyaar kaa tarana
na aadami ka koyi bharosa

dawa ka badale me jeher de do
utaar do mere dil me khanjar
lahu se sincha tha jis chaman ko
uge hain shole ussi ke andar
mere hee ghar ke charaag ne khud
jala diya mera aashiyana
mere hee ghar ke charaag ne khud
jala diya mera aashiyana
na aadami ka koyi bharosa
na dosti ka koyi thikana
wafaa kaa badalaa hain bewafayi
ajab jamana hain yeh jamana

He gave songs for Aurat, he wrote songs for Aadmi. He wrote songs for Mother India, he wrote for Beti!

Beti, 1969 was directed by Harmesh Malhotra and was the first and the only movie in which his lyrics were composed into songs by Sonik-Omi.

The movie starred Nanda as Sudha Verma who wanted to be ideal daughter or Beti for her parents Kishore Sahu (Mr. Verma) and Kamini Kaushal (Mrs. Verma). Unfortunately, her mother passes away and her father remarries Kamla (Shyama) who has no interest in the welfare of her daughter who has started loving Dr Rajesh (Sanjay Khan).

The movie had the following songs:

1. Aaja Nindiya Suhani
2. Hasin Zulfo Ka Rang De Do
3. Shyam Dhun Lagi Hari Nam Dhun Lagi
4. Lehnga Manga De Mere Babu
5. Yeh Kya Kiya Re Duniyawale
6. Ek Mithi Nazar Phul Barsa Gayi
7. Mere Mehboob Tu Mujhako

We took up Mukesh’s Ye kya kiya re duniyawale on his birth anniversary on 22 July. A similar song in the movie has been sung by Rafi too. I didn’t give you the title song of Mere Mehboob.

But, here is another mere mehboob song.

Please enjoy: Mere mehboob tu mujhako na bana aur deewana….

mera karar hai tu meri jindagi hi tu hai
na koi gair hu mai na ajnabi hi tu hai
mere mahbub tu mujhko na bana or diwana
mere mahbub tu mujhko na bana or diwana
tu wahi meri shama hai mai wahi tera parwana
mere mahbub tu mujhko

pyar ka rishta koi na jane mai samjhu ya tu pahchane
pyar ka rishta koi na jane mai samjhu ya tu pahchane
humne gujari thi bahare kabhi milke
yad karo wo jamana mere mahbub tu mujhko
na bana or diwana mere mahbub tu mujhko

dekh wo meri pichli wafaye aankho se teri chalki jaye
dekh wo meri pichli wafaye aankho se teri chalki jaye
khel nahi hai rok lena dil ka tufan ye bhi na tune jana
mere mahbub tu mujhko na bana or diwana
mere mahbub tu mujhko

pyar me apne mujhko yaki hai
manu mai kaise tu wo nahi hai
pyar me apne mujhko yaki hai
manu mai kaise tu wo nahi hai
meri hi yade hai chupaye dil ye tera lakh bane anjana
mere mahbub tu mujhko na bana or diwana
tu wahi meri shama hai mai wahi tera parwana
mere mahbub tu mujhko

Ladies and gentlemen, I couldn’t put up yesterday since we had a power breakdown that was rectified only by lunch time today. I still have 18 of his movies to go with 53 songs that I had originally selected. Hence, after the countdown until 02 Aug, from his birth anniversary, we shall probably have to continue for another two parts! I had, in between, decided to increase the number of songs everyday but that has not been possible since I couldn’t spare that kind of time.

On day #28 (actually day before yesterday), I gave you two songs from his 1963 movie Bin Baadal Barsaat starring Biswajeet and Asha Parekh. On that night, I actually saw the movie with the magic of Jab jaag uthe armaan, and Zindagi kitani khobsurat hai.

Today, lets take up the third song that I had selected for you: Ik baar zara phir keh do sharma ke mujhe deewaana.

It is a duet between Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar singing for Biwajeet and Asha Parekh. Composition is that of Hemant Kumar.

Please enjoy: Ik baar zara phir keh do sharma ke mujhe deewana….

he: ik baar zaraa phir kah do
mujhe sharmaake tum diivaanaa
la: aisii miiThii-miiThii baate.n karake
kahaa.N siikhaa hai dil kaa lubhaanaa
he: o jaan-e-jaa.n
ik baar zaraa phir kah do
mujhe sharmaake tum diivaanaa
la: uu.N-huu.N % (OYE HOY, mar jaawaaN)
he: dil lekar raho duur huzuur na hamase
karo itanaa Guruur na hamase
la: o sajanaa, meraa haar si.ngaar tumhii.n ho
meraa dam hai tumhaare hii dam se
he: tum shamaa ho to mai.n huu.N parvaanaa
la: aisii miiThii-miiThii baate.n karake
kahaa.N siikhaa hai dil kaa lubhaanaa
he: o jaan-e-jaa.n
ik baar zaraa phir kah do
mujhe sharmaake tum diivaanaa
la: uu.N-huu.N % (OYE HOY, mar jaawaaN)

he: suno dilbar ye jo diip khushii kaa jalaa hai
meraa pyaar isii me.n Dhalaa hai
la: meraa dil bhii piyaa leke tumhaaraa sahaaraa
na_ii raah pe aaj chalaa hai
he: di_aa tumhii.n ne ummiido.n ko Thikaanaa
la: aisii miiThii-miiThii baate.n karake
kahaa.N siikhaa hai dil kaa lubhaanaa
he: o jaan-e-jaa.n
ik baar zaraa phir kah do
mujhe sharmaake tum diivaanaa
la: uu.N-huu.N % (OYE HOY, mar jaawaaN)

he: tum chaaho to mai.n to.Dake laa duu.N sitaare
ki ho tum mujhe jaan se pyaare
la: kyaa maa.Nguu.N jab mil ga_e tum mujhe sajanaa
mai.n to aa ga_ii bas me.n tumhaare
he: meraa dil hai tumhaaraa nazaraanaa
la: aisii miiThii-miiThii baate.n karake
kahaa.N siikhaa hai dil kaa lubhaanaa
he: o jaan-e-jaa.n
ik baar zaraa phir kah do
mujhe sharmaake tum diivaanaa

% (slow, conversational tempo)

he: kaho na
la: diivaanaa
he: phir kaho
la: diivaanaa
he: phir kaho
la: dii-vaa-na

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ogTW0c6Muo

Day #29 of 31
Song #86

As we come to the next movie of Shakeel, and I have selected as many as five songs of the movie for you, you are bound to ask me: “Is it Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala’s Leader?” I can only answer with a firm: Yes indeed it is.

This was his 21st movie with the music director and his mentor Naushad Ali. The story was written by Dilip Jain. The movie was produced by Sashadhar Mukherjee and directed by Ram Mukherjee.

The movie had the following songs:

1 “Apni Azadi Ko Hum” Mohammed Rafi 4:38
2 “Dayya Re Dayya” Asha Bhosle 7:12
3 “Ek Shahenshah Ne Banwa Ke” Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar 5:16
4 “Hameen Se Muhabbat” Mohammed Rafi 3:21
5 “Mujhe Duniya Walo” Mohammad Rafi 4:25
6 “Tere Husn Ki Kya Tarif Karun” Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar 4:42
7 “Aaj Hai Pyar Ka Faisla” Lata Mangeshkar 3:30
8 “Aaj Kal Shauqe Deedar Hai” Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhonsle 4:16

Let’s take one of the most popular patriotic songs of our era. This was sung by Mohammad Rafi. Various other artisetes have performed this song in the last 52 years.

Leader was one of the first few movies that exposed the politician-criminal nexus.

Please enjoy: Apni azaadi ko ham hargiz mitaa sakate nahin….

apanii aazaadii ko ham haragiz miTaa sakate nahii.n
sar kaTaa sakate hai.n lekin sar jhukaa sakate nahii.n

hamane sadiyo.n me.n ye aazaadii kii nemat paaii hai
saika.Do.n qurabaaniyaa.N dekar ye daulat paaii hai
muskaraakar khaaii hai.n siino.n pe apane goliyaa.N
kitane viiraano.n se guzare hai.n to jannat paaii hai
Kaak me.n ham apanii izzat ko milaa sakate nahii.n

kyaa chalegii zulm kii ahale vafaa ke saamane
jaa nahii.n sakataa koii sholaa havaa ke saamane
laakh fauje.n le ke aaii aman kaa dushman koii
ruk nahii.n sakataa hamaarii ekataa ke saamane
ham vo patthar hai.n jise dushman hilaa sakate nahii.n

vaqt kii aazaadii ke ham saath chalate jaae.nge
har qadam par zi.ndagii kaa ruK badalate jaae.nge
gar vatan me.n bhii milegaa koI gaddaar-e-vatan
apanii taaqat se ham usakaa sar kuchalate jaae.nge
ek dhokhaa khaa chuke hai.n aur khaa sakate nahii.n

Day #29 of 31
Song #87

The last song for Day #29:

The 1964 movie Leader got Dilip Kumar yet another Filmfare Best Actor award. You can make out why. On one hand he had this super joshila patriotic song: Apni azaadi ko ham hargiz mita sakte nahin. One the other hand, he had this naughty (deliberately so) sharaabi song!

The best part is that the most versatile Mohammad Rafi sang this too with equal ease, on Naushad’s composition.

Please enjoy: Mujhe duniyawaalo shraabi na samajho….

(mujhe duniyaa vaalo.n, sharaabii na samajho
mai.n piitaa nahii.n huu.N, pilaayii gayii hai ) – 2
jahaa.N bekhudii me.n kadam la.Dakha.Daaye
vahii raah mujhako dikhaayii gayii hai
mujhe duniyaa vaalo.n sharaabii na samajho
mai.n piitaa nahii.n huu.N pilaayii gayii hai

nashe me huu.N lekin mujhe ye khabar hai
ke is zindagii me.n sabhii pii rahe.n hai
kisii ko mile hai.n chhalakate piyaale
kisiiko nazar se pilAyii gayii hai
mujhe duniyaa vaalo.n …

zamaane ke yaaro.n, chalan hai.n niraale
yahaa.N tan hai.n ujale, magar dil hai.n kaale
ye duniyaa hai duniyaa yahan mAr Dar ke
dilo.n kii kharaabii chhupaayii gayii hai
mujhe duniyaa vaalo.n …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAgcmS4sir0

Appreciating Good Lyrics
Song #29

Last three days of the countdown and I have to select, from the remaining ones, the best three. In this process, ladies and gentlemen, if I miss out any of your favourites, please forgive me.

As you are aware, I started these posts more than three weeks ago to bring home the point that whilst we genuinely love everything that Shakeel wrote, many other contemporary poets and lyricists were also good and popular.

It is, therefore, worth recalling their lyrics too in addition to Shakeel’s. It was the era of good lyrics.

So far, we have taken up in the last twenty-eight days:

1. Shailendra with his Kuchh aur zamaana kehta hai.
2. Rajinder Krishan with his Mujhase mat poochh mere ishq mein.
3. Kaifi Azmi with his Jaane kyaa dhoondati rehati hain ye aankhen mujh mein.
4. Sahir Ludhianvi with Aurat ne janam diya mardon ko.
5. Majrooh Sultanpuri with Teri aankhon ke siwa duniya mein rakha kyaa hai.
6. Jaan Nisar Akhtar with his Mujhape ilzaam-e-bewafai hai.
7. Hasrat Jaipuri with his Aansu bhari hain ye jeevan ki raahen.
8. Qamar Jalalabadi with his Ai meri zindagi tujhe dhoondun kahan.
9. Raja Mehdi Ali Khan with Mera sundar sapna beet gaya.
10. Indeevar with Bade armaano se rakha hai balam teri kasam.
11. DN Madhok with Man ka taar hila ja
12. Kidar Sharma with Teri duniya mein dil lagta nahin waapas bula le.
13. Kavi Pradeep with Insaan ka insaan se ho bhaichara.
14. Pt. Indra Chandra with Baag laga doon sajani.
15. Anjaan with Tumhen zindagi ke ujaale mubarak.
16. Anand Bakshi with Chand si mehbooba ho meri kab.
17. Prem Dhawan with Seene mein sulagate hain armaan.
18. Neeraj with Aaj ki raat badi shokh badi natkhat hai.
19. Bharat Vyas with Saranga teri yaad mein.
20. Gulzar with his Tum pukaar lo, tumhaara intezaar hai.
21. Pt. Narendra Sharma with Woh chand nahin hai dil hai.
22. Pandit Sudarshan with Zindagi hai pyaar se pyaar se bitaaye jaa.
23. PL Santoshi with O neend naa mujhako aaye.
24. Farooq Qaiser with Saari saari raat teri yaad sataye.
25. Naqsh Lyalpuri with Main to har mod par tujhako doonga sadaa.
26. Arzoo Lucknowi with Karun kyaa aas niraas bhaii.
27. Tanvir Naqvi with Awaaz de kahan hai.
28. Gulshan Bawra with Tumhen yaad hoga kabhi hum mile the.

Today we take up our 29th Lyricist Khumar Barabankwi‘s creation.

I had to keep, for the last three days, some of the best. And, you will agree with me that Khumar is amongst the best with such delightful songs as: Bhula nahin dena ji bhula nahin dena, Dil ki mehfil saji hai chale aayiye, Saaj ho tum awaaz hoon main, and his famous ghazal that Hariharan sang as late as in 1994: Mujhe phir wohi yaad aane lage hain, jinhe bhholne mein zamaane lage hain!

First of all, Barabanki, the place of birth of Muhammad Haider Khan, who later took up the takahllus of Khumar (Intoxicated; from the Arabic word for wine=khum), is less than 300 kms from Badayun in Uttar Pradesh, the birthplace of Shakeel! This is roughly the distance between Delhi and Chandigarh.

Khumar was born there on 20 Sep 1919, three years after Shakeel.

Unlike Shakeel (Handsome), who had only a distant uncle who was interested in poetry, Khumar had a whole family: His father Dr. Ghulam Haider wrote salams and marsiyas under pen name ‘Bahar’. “His uncle ‘Qaraar Barabnkvi’ was a well-known poet of Barabanki who guided Khumar in young age and did Islah (Corrections) to his poetry. His brother Kazim Haider ‘Nigar’ who died in early age was also a poet”.

Jigar Moradabadi, who inspired Majrooh Sultanpuri too, inspired Khumar in mushairas.

His first movie was also an AR Kardar movie with Music Director Naushad: the 1946 movie Shahjehan with KL Saigal in the title role. By now you recall that Shakeel’s was AR kardar’s 1947 movie Dard with Naushad with the most beautiful song: Afsaana likh rahi hoon.

Khumar too penned a Tasveer song that became super hit. Whereas, Shakeel wrote the 1952 movie Deewana song sung by Mohammad Rafi (I have already given you that): Tasveer banaata hoon teri khoon-e-jigar se; Khumar wrote an equally beautiful number for the 1955 movie Baradari that was composed not by Naushad but by Nashad!

At this juncture, you are bound to ask me if I live by music and songs to know these details. Well, I live by Shakeel’s songs and I also know, by comparison, matching lyrics. My adoration is, therefore, not mere fancy.

There is one more why I should like this Tasveer song too quite a lot and for those who have been following me, here is the hint: It has something in common with Shakeel’s Chaudhvin ka chand ho, Suhaani raat dhal chuki, and Tanvir Naqvi’s Awaaz de kahan hai (that I gave you day before yesterday).

Okay, that was easy to guess; thank you for being in sync with me. These were all composed in the Raag of my home-station (in the hills): Raag Pahadi. This one, though is in Tal Kaherava.

Please enjoy Talat Mehmood sing: Tasveer banata hoon, tasveer nahin banati…..

tasaviir banaataa huu.N, tasaviir nahii.n banatI, tasaviir nahii.n banatI
ek khvaab saa dekhaa hai, taabIr nahii.n banatI, tasaviir nahii.n banatI
tasaviir banaataa huu.N …

bedard muhabbat kA, itanaa saa hai afasaanaa – 2
nazaro.n se milii nazare.n, mai.n ho gayaa dIvaanaa
ab dil ke bahalane kii, tadabIr nahii.n banatI, tasaviir nahii.n banatI
tasaviir banaata huu.N …

dam bhar ke liye merI, duniyA me.n chale aao – 2
tarasii huI aa.Nkho.n ko, phir shakl dikhaa jaao
mujhase to merI biga.Dii, takadIr nahii.n banatI, tasaviir nahii.n banatI
tasaviir banaata huu.N …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OwjFboPjSc

Day #30 of 31
Song #88

Last two days of the countdown to the Birth Centenary of Shakeel Badauni. It is literally an august month in which someone as Shakeel (handsome) as him should be born. They say ‘Handsom is that who handsome does’. In his case he wrote handsomely.

Likhane waalon ne bahut likhe dil ke kalaam,
Ham to phir bhi rahe Shakeel ke ghulaam,
Woh dard ke afsaane sunaate rahe,
Ham sunte rahe aur karte rahe jhuk ke salaam.

The 1964 movie Leader, however, had no “dard ke afsaane” since it was a rebellious movie. However, it had a song that was of a genre’ for which Shakeel got two of his Filmfare awards; that is, to describe the beauty of the woman.

This was as popular, if not more, as the other Husn songs; though a little bit on the naughty side, in keeping with the image of Dilip Kumar in the movie.

Being a duet, it has been sung by Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar. Naushad composed it in the evening Raaga: Kalyan, Tal Kaherava.

Please enjoy the ever popular: Tere husn ki kyaa tareef karun, kuchh kehte huye bhi darta hoon…..

rafii: (dhiime)
tere husn kii kyA taariif karuu.N
kuchh kahate hue bhI Darataa huu.N

(tej)
tere husn kii kyA taariif karuu.N
tere husn kii
tere husn kii kyA taariif karuu.N
kuchh kahate hue bhI Darataa huu.N
kahii.n bhuul se tU nA samajh baiThe
kii mai.n tujhase mohabbat karataa huu.N

lataa: mere dil me.n kasak sI hotI hai, mere dil me.n
mere dil me.n kasak sI hotI hai
tere raah se jab mai.n guzaratii huu.N
is baat se ye nA samajh lenaa
kii mai.n tujhase mohabbat karatii huu.N

rafii: (terI baat me giito.n kii saragam
terI chaal me paayal kii chham chham ) – 2
koI dekh le tujhako ek najar – 2
mar jaae.n terI aa.Nkho.n kasam
mai.n bhI huu.N ajab ik dIvaanaa
marataa huu.N nA aahe.n bharataa huu.N
kahii.n bhuul se tU nA samajh baiThe
kii mai.n tujhase mohabbat karataa huu.N

dono: aa…

lataa: (mere saamane jab tU AtA hai
jii dhak se meraa ho jaataa hai ) – 2
letii hai tamannaa a.nga.Daayii – 2
dil jaane kahaa.N kho jaataa hai
mahasuus ye hotA hai mujhako
jaise mai.n terA dam bharatii huu.N
is baat se ye nA samajh lenaa
kii mai.n tujhase mohabbat karatii huu.N

rafii: tere husn kii kyA taariif karuu.n
kuchh kahate hue bhI Darataa huu.N
kahii.n bhuul se tU nA samajh baiThe
kii mai.n tujhase mohabbat karataa huu.N

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UL0b6PMJJA

Day #30 of 31
Song #89

So far, you would have noticed, that the 1964 movie Leader songs happen to be full of zest, as was the case with Shakeel’s 1960 movie Kohinoor that was devised to give a happy break to the “tragedy king” Dilip Kumar since he had gone into depression doing all the lugubrious roles.

In Leader, Dilip Kumar was a lawyer who had taken to publishing a newspaper. Vyjayanthimala was a princess that he had started loving. She joined him in exposing the criminal-politician nexus. But, he himself was accused of murdering a political leader in the run-up to the general elections.

This song is Dilip Kumar’s response to the anger of Vyjayanthimala and also became very popular. Once again, Mohammad Rafi sang it.

Please enjoy: Hamin se mohabbat, hamin se ladaayi, are maar daala duhaai duhaai….

hamii.n se muhabbat hamii.n se la.Daa_ii
are maar Daalaa duhaa_ii duhaa_ii
abhii naasamajh ho uThaao na Kha.njar – 2
kahii.n mu.D na jaaye tumhaarii kalaa_ii

sitam aaj mujh par jo tum Dhaa rahii ho ho
ba.Dii Khuubasuurat nazar aa rahii ho
ye jii chaahataa hai ke Khud jaan de duu.N -2
muhabbat me.n aaye na tum par buraa_ii

hame.n husn kii har adaa hai gavaaraa
hasiino.n kaa Gussaa bhii lagataa hai pyaaraa
udhar tum ne tiir-e-nazar dil pe maaraa – 2
idhar hamane bhii jaan par choT khaa_ii
% I may be wrong about this last line

karo Khuun tum yuu.N na mere jigar kaa
bas ik vaar kaafii hai tirchhii nazar kaa
yahii pyaar ko aazamaane ke din hai.n – 2
kiye jaao ham se yuu.N hii bevafaa_ii

Day #30 of 31
Song #90

And now for the last (the fifth one that I had promised) song of the 1964 movie Leader starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala, the 21st movie in which Shakeel Badayuni paired with Naushad Ali.

I have always shown this song for the contrasting styles of Shakeel Badayuni and Sahir Ludhianvi. Sahir’s focus of poetry was the social inequities of that era and hence Taj Mahal was a symbol of the inequities between an emperor and the poor people. Hence he wrote:

“Ek Shahenshah ne banwa ke haseen Taj Mahal,
Ham gareebon ki mohabbat ka udhaya hai mazaak”

The same Taj Mahal, to Shakeel, was a symbol of Love.

Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar sang this song together for Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala when they visit the Taj Mahal.

Naushad, the master of compositions in Raagas, based it on Raag Lalit, Tal Dadra.

Please enjoy: Ek shahenshah ne banwa ke haseen Taj Mahal,
Saari duniya ko mohabbat ki neeshani di hai…

ek shahanshaah ne banavaa ke hasI.n taajamahal
saarii duniyaa ko muhabbat kii nishaanii dii hai
isake saaye me sadaa pyaar ke charche ho.nge
khatm jo ho naa sakegii vo kahaanii dii hai
ek shahanshaah ne banavaake …

taaj vo shammaa hai ulfat ke sanam khaane kii
jisake paravaano me mufalis bhii zaradaar bhii hai
sa.ng-e-maramar me samaae hue khvaabo.n kii qasam
marahale pyaar ke aasaan bhii dush{}vaar bhii hai.n
dil ko ek josh iraado.n ko javaanii dii hai
ek shahanshaah ne banavaake …

taaj ik zindaa tasavvur hai kisii shaayar kaa
isaka afasaanaa hakiikat ke sivaa kuchh bhii nahii
isake aagosh me aakar ye gumaa.n hotaa hai
zindagii jaise muhabbat ke sivaa kuchh bhii nahii
taaj ne pyaar kii maujo.n ko ra_vaanii dii hai
ek shahanshaah ne banavaake …

ye hasI.n raat ye mahakii huii puranUr fazaa
ho ijaazat to ye dil ishq kaa izahaar kare
ishq insaan ko insaan banaa detaa hai
kisakii himmat hai muhabbat se jo inakaar kare
aaj takadIr ne ye raat suhaanii dii hai
ek shahanshaah ne banavaake …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TehJFYrDFJw

Appreciating Good Lyrics
Song #30

Last two days of the countdown and you would be surprised that if a lyricist of the calibre of Khumar Barabankwi came up on the third last day and today I have someone of the high calibre of Asad Bhopali, who would be there on the last day?

Have faith in my planning please.

As you are aware, I started these posts more than three weeks ago to bring home the point that whilst we genuinely love everything that Shakeel wrote, many other contemporary poets and lyricists were also good and popular.

It is, therefore, worth recalling their lyrics too in addition to Shakeel’s. It was the era of good lyrics.

So far, we have taken up in the last twenty-nine days:

1. Shailendra with his Kuchh aur zamaana kehta hai.
2. Rajinder Krishan with his Mujhase mat poochh mere ishq mein.
3. Kaifi Azmi with his Jaane kyaa dhoondati rehati hain ye aankhen mujh mein.
4. Sahir Ludhianvi with Aurat ne janam diya mardon ko.
5. Majrooh Sultanpuri with Teri aankhon ke siwa duniya mein rakha kyaa hai.
6. Jaan Nisar Akhtar with his Mujhape ilzaam-e-bewafai hai.
7. Hasrat Jaipuri with his Aansu bhari hain ye jeevan ki raahen.
8. Qamar Jalalabadi with his Ai meri zindagi tujhe dhoondun kahan.
9. Raja Mehdi Ali Khan with Mera sundar sapna beet gaya.
10. Indeevar with Bade armaano se rakha hai balam teri kasam.
11. DN Madhok with Man ka taar hila ja
12. Kidar Sharma with Teri duniya mein dil lagta nahin waapas bula le.
13. Kavi Pradeep with Insaan ka insaan se ho bhaichara.
14. Pt. Indra Chandra with Baag laga doon sajani.
15. Anjaan with Tumhen zindagi ke ujaale mubarak.
16. Anand Bakshi with Chand si mehbooba ho meri kab.
17. Prem Dhawan with Seene mein sulagate hain armaan.
18. Neeraj with Aaj ki raat badi shokh badi natkhat hai.
19. Bharat Vyas with Saranga teri yaad mein.
20. Gulzar with his Tum pukaar lo, tumhaara intezaar hai.
21. Pt. Narendra Sharma with Woh chand nahin hai dil hai.
22. Pandit Sudarshan with Zindagi hai pyaar se pyaar se bitaaye jaa.
23. PL Santoshi with O neend naa mujhako aaye.
24. Farooq Qaiser with Woh jab yaad aaye bahut yaad aaye.
25. Naqsh Lyalpuri with Main to har mod par tujhako doonga sadaa.
26. Arzoo Lucknowi with Karun kyaa aas niraas bhaii.
27. Tanvir Naqvi with Awaaz de kahan hai.
28. Gulshan Bawra with Tumhen yaad hoga kabhi hum mile the.
29. Khumar Barabankwi with Tasveer banaata hoon tasveer nahin banati.

Today we take up our 30th and 2nd last Lyricist Asad Bhopali’s creation.

Asad Bhopali was born as Asadullah Khan on 10th Jul 1921 (5 years after Shakeel), in Bhopal. Just four days back I gave you the contribution of Arzoo Lucknowi and that poet and lyricist was indirectly responsible for getting Asad in the movies. Well, what happened was that Arzoo migrated to Pakistan after writing just two songs of the 1949 movie Duniya and the makers of the movie: Fazli Brothers were looking for a new Lyricist. This is somewhat similar to how C Ramchandra came in to compose the songs of the 1953 movie Anarkali after its original composer Vasanth Prakash died after recording just one Geeta Dutt song: Aa jaane wafa.

After having taken the first step to become a lyricist in 1949 movie Duniya, Asad established himself with the 1951 BR Chopra movie Afsana.

He went on to write such beautiful numbers as:

1. Zindagi bhar gham judaai ka mujhe tadpaayega in 1957 movie Miss Bombay, a composition of hansraj Behl sung beautifully by Mohammad Rafi.
2. Main khushnaseeb hoon mujhako kisi ka pyaar mila in 1962 movie Tower House starring Ajit and Shakeela; a composition of Ravi sung by Mukesh.
3. Sau baar janam lenge, sau baar fanaa honge in 1963 movie Ustaadon Ke Ustaad starring Pradeep Kumar and Shakeela, a composition of Ravi sung by Rafi.
4. Ajnabee tum jaane pehchaane se lagate ho in 1965 movie Hum Sab Ustaad Hain, a composition of Laxmikant Pyarelal sung as a duet by Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar.
5. Ham tumase judaa hoke mar jaayege ro ro ke in 1965 movie Ek Sapera Ek Lutera starring Feroze Khan; a composition of Usha Khanna sung by Rafi.

You would also recall his having penned the songs of the 1989 movie Maine Pyaar Kiya with such songs as Dil deewana bin sajna ke maane na; and Kabootar jaa jaa jaa.

For its lyrical excellence and matching lyrics with Shakeel Badayuni, lets take up the very first song that comes to one’s mind when one thinks of Asad Bhopali.

This all-time super-hit song is from the 1963 movie Parasmani starring Geetanjali and Mahipal and sung for them by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi. Laxmikant Pyarelal composed it in Raag Kalyan, Tal Kaherava.

Please enjoy: Woh jab yaad aaye bahut yaad aaye….

vo jab yaad aae bahut yaad aae
Gam-e-zi.ndagii ke a.ndhere me.n hamane
chiraag-e-muhabbat jalaae bujhaae

aahaTe.n jaag uThii.n raaste ha.ns diye
thaamakar dil uThe ham kisii ke liye
ka_ii baar aisaa bhii dhokhaa huaa hai
chale aa rahe hai.n vo nazare.n jhukaae

dil sulagane lagaa ashq bahane lage
jaane kyaa-kyaa hame.n log kahane lage
magar rote-rote ha.nsii aa ga_ii hai
Kayaalo.n me.n aake vo jab muskuraae

vo judaa kyaa hue zi.ndagii kho ga_ii
shammaa jalatii rahii roshanii kho ga_ii
bahut koshishe.n kii.n magar dil na bahalaa
ka_ii saaz chhe.De ka_ii giit gaae

Day #31 of 31
Song #91

And finally the last day of the countdown. Tonight, I shall be posting a total of ten songs (still maintaining the chronological order) so as to make it a hundred before Shakeel’s birth centenary only a few hours away now.

His next movie in 1964 Kaise Kahoon was a unique one in that for the first time since 1947 movie Dard (his first one), for the first time in his 42 movies until then, he paired with Sachin Dev Burman.

The movie had seven songs as below:

1. Dil kaa dard niraalaa
2. Haule\-haule jiyaa Dole
3. Kaise kahuu.N tujhase jiyaa kii mai.n batiyaa.N
4. Man se chi.ntaa kii ghaTaa duur ho jaa
5. Manamohan man me.n ho tumhii.n
6. Tum hame.n pyaar karo yaa na karo
7. Kisi ki mohabbat mein.

We shall be taking up two of these.

The first one, Manmohan man mein ho tumhin, was composed by SD Burman in Raag Adana, Tal Tintal. The bhajan once again reflects the mastery of Shakeel over this genre’ of music.

Mohammad Rafi, Sudha Malhotra and SD Batish have sung this.

Please enjoy: Manmoham man mein ho tumhin….

shi : a~ tanu~~um aa~ aa~ aa aa~
su : aa~ aa~ aa~ aa~ aa~
shi : aa~ manamohan man me.n ho tumhii.n
ra, su : manamohan man me.n ho tumhii.n
more a.ng a.ng tumhii.n samaaye
jaano ya jaano na ho tumahii
manamohan man ## SDB joins in, R+S fade out ## me.n …
R: manamohan man me.n man me.n
S: ho tumhii.n ho tumhii.n ho tumhii.n
R+S=manamohan man me.n ho tumhii.n
more a.ng a.ng tumhii.n samaaye
jaano yaa jaano naa ho tumhii.n
manamohan ## SDB joins in, R+S fade out ## man me.n …

SDB: dekh dekh torii chhab saa.Nvariyaa
R+S: dekh dekh torii chhab saa.Nvariyaa
banii hai raadhaa tumharii baa.Nvariyaa
rom rom tumhare guN gaaye
maano yaa maano naa ho tumhii.n
manamohan man ## R fade out, S alone ## me.n
R: dekh dekh torii chhab saa.Nvariyaa
S: ho~o bani hai raadha tumharii baa.Nvariyaa
R+S: dekh dekh torii chhab saa.Nvariyaa
banii hai raadhaa tumharii baa.Nvariyaa
rom rom tumhare guN gaaye
maano yaa maano na ho tumhii.n
manamohan man(R fade out, S alone) me.n
R: a~ aa~
S: aa~ aa~ a~

Day #31 of 31
Song #92

The 1964 movie Kaise Kahoon was directed by Atma Ram and starred Biswajeet with Nanda.

We shall take up another song from the movie; a song that reflects the same kind of irony that was there in Amar’s Na milata gham to barbaadi ke afsaane kahan jaate. Indeed, the reason that I ahave labelled him the King of Irony is only for these kind of songs.

As with the Amar song, this too has been sung by Lata Mangeshkar, exactly ten years after the Amar song.

Please enjoy: Tum hamen pyaar karo yaa na karo, ham tumhen pyaar kiye jaayenge…..

tum hame.n pyaar karo yaa na karo
ham tumhe.n pyaar ki_e jaa_e.Nge
chaahe qismat me.n Kushii ho ke na ho
Gam uThaakar hii ji_e jaa_e.Nge
tum hame.n pyaar …

ham nahii.n vo jo Gam-e-ishq se ghabaraa jaa_e.N
ho ke maayuus zubaa.N par ko_ii shikavaa laa_e.N
chaahe kitanaa hii ba.Dhe dard-e-jigar
apane ho.nTho.n ko si_e jaa_e.Nge
tum hame.n pyaar …

tum salaamat ho to ham chain bhii paa hii le.nge
kisii suurat se lagii dil kii bujhaa hii le.nge
pyaar kaa jaam mile yaa na mile
ham to aa.Nsuu bhii pi_e jaa_e.Nge
tum hame.n pyaar …

to.D dii aas to phir itanaa hii ehasaan karo
dil me.n rahanaa jo na chaaho to nazar hii me.n raho
Thes lagatii jo hai dil par to lage
Gam uThaakar hii ji_e jaa_e.Nge
tum hame.n pyaar …

Day #31 of 31
Song #93

We progress to the 1964 movie Door Ki Awaz in which Shakeel Badayuni was back with Ravi, the 9th movie of the pair together (they would do three more: Phool Aur Patthar, Do Badan, and Aurat; but those I shall take up after tomorrow).

The movie had the following songs; a most successful movie as far as songs were concerned:

1.”Husn Se Chand Bhi Sharmaya Hai ” – Mohammed Rafi
2. “Ek Musafir Ko Dunia Me Kya Chahiye ” – Mohammed Rafi
3. “Hum Bhi Agar Bachche Hote, Happy Birthday To You” – Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi, Manna Dey
4. “Muqaddar Aajamaanaa Chaahataa Hoon” – Mohammed Rafi
5. “Banaa Ke Meraa Muqaddar, Kyaa Yun Hi Ruth Ke” – Mohammed Rafi
6. “Dil Mera Aaj Kho Gaya Hai Kahin “- Mohammed Rafi
7. “Tut Gayi Mere Man Ki Muraliya ” – Asha Bhosle
8. “Mohe Tirchhi Najariya Na Maro” – Asha Bhosle
9. “Haathon Men Haath Honthon Pe Afasaane Pyaar Ke ” – Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi

We shall be taking up as many as five of these songs; it is easy to guess which of these five!

Since two of the songs of Husn with Ravi got Shakeel two consecutive Filmfare awards: Chaudhvinh ka Chand, and Husn waale tera jawaab nahin, it was hoped that this too may fetch another. It didn’t but it is still a beautiful song on beauty of a female.

Please enjoy Mohammad Rafi sing: Husn se chand bhi sharmaaya hai…

( husn se chaa.Nd bhii sharamaayaa hai
terii suurat ne gazab Dhaayaa hai ) -2

haay in pyaar me.n Duubii hu_ii aa.Nkho.n kii qasam
aadamii kyaa hai farishto.n ke bahak jaa_e.N qadam
bin pi_e mujhape nashaa chhaayaa hai
terii suurat ne …

jab se paayaa hai tujhe hosh nahii.n hai mujhako
yaa to ye sach hai ki dekh rahaa huu.N tujhako
yaa ko_ii Kvaab nazar aayaa hai
terii suurat ne …

muskaraa_e.N jo tere lab to bahaare.n aa_ii.n
khil ga_e phuul pa.Dii terii jahaa.N parachhaa_ii.n
tuune gulashan meraa mahakaayaa hai
terii suurat ne …

Day #31 of 31
Song #94

The 1964 movie Door Ki Awaz was directed by Devendra Goel and starred Joy Mukherjee, Saira Bano, Pran, Johnny Walker and Om Prakash.

Lets take up the third song from the movie. It is a children’s song and just like Shakeel’s Dadi amma, dadi amma maan jaayo; and Nanha munna rahi hoon, it is the evergreen birthday song.

Please enjoy Mohammad Rafi, Asha Bhosle and Manna Dey sing: Ham bhi agar bachche hote….

ham bhii agar bachche hote -2
naam hamaaraa hotaa gabaluu babaluu
khaane ko milate laDDuu
aur duniyaa kahatii #‪#‎happy‬ birthday to you##
##happy birthday to you##

ko_ii laataa gu.Diyaa, moTar, rel
to ko_ii laataa phirakii, laTTuu
ko_ii chaabii kaa TaTTuu
aur duniyaa kahatii ##happy birthday to you##
##happy birthday to you##

( kitanii pyaarii hotii hai ye bholii sii umar
na naukarii kii chintaa na roTii kii phikar ) -2
nanhe-munne hote ham to dete sau hukum
piichhe-piichhe #‪#‎papa‬-mummy## banake naukar
#‪#‎chocolate‬, biscuit, toffee## khaate aur piite dudduu
aur duniyaa kahatii ##happy birthday to you##
##happy birthday to you##

( kaise-kaise naKare karate gharawaalo.n se ham
pal me.n ha.Nsate pal me.n rote karate naak me.n dam ) -2
akka.D-bakka.D lukka-chhupii kabhii chhu_aa-chhuu
karate din bhar hallaa-gullaa da.ngaa aur udham
aur kabhii zid par a.D jaate jaise a.Diyal TaTTuu
aur duniyaa kahatii ##happy birthday to you##
##happy birthday to you##

( ab to ye hai haal ke jab se biitaa bachapan
maa.N se jhaga.Daa baap se Takkar biiwii se anaban ) -2
kolhuu ke ham bail bane hai.n dhobii ke gadhe
duniyaa bhar ke DaNDe sar pe khaaye.n danaadan
bachapan apanaa hotaa to na karate Dhe.Nchuu-Dhe.Nchuu
aur duniyaa kahatii ##happy birthday to you##
##happy birthday to you##

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM9pkTUQgvk

Day #31 of 31
Song #95

As promised, the fifth song of the day is the third song from the 1964 movie Door Ki Awaz. Johnny Walker was given a number of super hit songs by Op Nayyar such as Ai dil hai mushkil jeena yahan. SD Burman gave him the famous Sar jo tera chakraaye in 1957 movie Pyaasa.

Here in Door Ki Awaz, Ravi gave him two super hit songs: Ham bhi bachche hote that we listened to just now and this train song that is so funny. It was very popular during our times.

This was sung by Mohammad Rafi.

Hats off to both Shakeel and Rafi for such comical songs too, whilst their forte’ was serious and sad songs; the hallmark of geniuses.

Please enjoy: Ik mussafir ko duniya mein kyaa chahiye….

ik musaafir ko duniyaa me.n kyaa chaahi_e
sirf tho.Dii sii dil me.n jagah chaahi_e
baiTh jaa_uu.N

o moTe laalaa tuune kiyaa hai kaisaa chhal
#‪#‎Ticket‬## teraa #‪#‎single‬## magar tuu #‪#‎double‬## -2
khisak zaraa pyaare sarak zaraa pyaare -2
aisii #‪#‎body‬## me.n dil bhii ba.Daa chaahi_e
ik musaafir ko …

o lambii daa.Dhii vaale tuu gussaa mat kar
hame.n bhii jagah de-de zaraa Kudaa se Dar
khisak zaraa pyaare sarak zaraa pyaare -2
teraa #‪#‎photo‬## na teraa pataa chaahi_e
ik musaafir ko …

ham par bhii kar do zaraa inaayat kii nazar
Kushii se kaT jaa_e hamaaraa bhii safar
khisak zaraa pyaare sarak zaraa pyaare -2
yuu.N kisii kaa na dil to.Danaa chaahi_e
ik musaafir ko …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ZW2vcdF7Y

Day #31 of 31
Song #96

We have two more songs to go from the 1964 Devendra Goel movie Door Ki Awaz starring Joy Mukherjee, Saira Bano, Pran, Om Prakash and Johnnie Walker.

Imagine the dictates of the movie script that Shakeel had to pen funny and children’s songs and he did that with ease.

This one is light-hearted and naughty romance between Joy Mukherjee and Saira Bano. It has been sung by Mohammad Rafi.

Please enjoy: Dil mera aaj kho gaya hai kahin, aap ke paanv ke neeche to nahin?

dil meraa aaj kho gayaa hai kahii.n
aapake paa.Nv ke niiche to nahii.n

yuu.N nazar pher ke mat jaa_i_e ruki_e to zaraa
aapako merii qasam Thahari_e suni_e to zaraa
hai jahaa.N aap meraa dil hai vahii.n
aapake paa.Nv ke …

kis tarah dil kii mai.n tauhiin ga.nvaaraa kar luu.N
aapakii bholii nigaaho.n pe bharosaa kar luu.N
dil churaataa nahii.n hai kaun kahii.n
aapake paa.Nv ke …

dil churaayaa ho to pahaluu me.n chhupaa_e rakhi_e
zindagii bhar mujhe diivaanaa banaa_e rakhi_e
lekin ek baar dilaa diiji_e yaqii.n
aapake paa.Nv ke …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehel_F2AJbg

Day #31 of 31
Song #97

Four songs of 1964 movie Door Ki Awaz so far and all funny, comical and light-hearted. At this juncture you are bound to ask me wasn’t there a single song in the movie that was sad and hence in sync with the skill of Shakeel?

Well, indeed, there was one and Mohammad Rafi sang it so well that it was an instant super-hit.

Please enjoy: Kyaa younhi rooth ke jaane ko mohabbat ki thi….

banaa ke meraa muqaddar bigaa.Dane vaale
javaab de o meraa ghar ujaa.Dane vaale

kyaa yuu.N hii ruuTh ke jaane ko mohabbat kii thii -2
zindagii merii miTaane ko mohabbat kii thii
kyaa yuu.N hii …

aa.Nkh me.n aa.Nsuu lab pe kahaanii terii
mujhako ta.Dapaatii hai din-raat nishaanii terii
kyaa mujhe tuune rulaane ko mohabbat kii thii
kyaa yuu.N hii …

o mujhe bhuulane vaale tuu kahaa.N hai aajaa
kyaa hu_ii mujhase Kataa ye to zaraa batalaa jaa
yaa ye kah de ke dikhaane ko mohabbat kii thii
kyaa yuu.N hii …

Day #31 of 31
Song #98

Last three songs to complete the 100 songs for the hundredth birth anniversary of the greatest poety and lyricist: Shakeel from a small town of Badayun in West UP.

That would leave us some thirty songs or so that I have selected for you until his last movie, the 1969 movie Beti. We shall take up these in the four days after the centenary so as to complete five weeks of the tribute in totality. Still to come will be songs of, for example, Do Badan, Dil Diya Dard Liya, Palki, Noorjehan, Sughursh and Aadmi.

Have patience. I shall not leave you before we have completed all.

Lets take his 45th movie, a S Khalil movie titled Benazir, the second and the last movie in which SD Burman paired with him.

The movie had the following songs:

1. Gam nahin gar zindagi veeran hai Asha Bhonsle
2. Main shola main barkha Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd. Rafi
3. Mil ja re jane jana Lata Mangeshkar
4. Dil mein ek jane tamanna ne Mohd. Rafi
5. Alvida jaane wafa meri manzil aa Lata Mangeshkar
6. Baharon ki mehfil suhani rahegi Lata Mangeshkar
7. Husn ki baharen liye aaye they sanam Lata Mangeshkar
8. Mubarak hai woh dil jisko kisi se Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Usha Mangeshkar
9. Ya gafoor rahim ya allah

You would have noticed that Shakeel was back in this movie with sad songs that he was best at.

Lets take up the first song. It is said that Meena Kumari wasn’t an accomplished dancer like Vyjayanthimala, Asha Parekh and others. However, what she wanted to convey through dancing, she always did, backed by superb histrionics.

She did it in this song sung by Asha Bhosle on a composition by SD Burman.

Please enjoy: Gham nahin gar zindagi veeran hai….

miinaa kumaarii
hame.n apanaa ilaaz-e-dard-e-dil karanaa bhii aataa hai
ham aise jiine waale hai.n jinhe.n maranaa bhii aataa hai

Gam nahii.n
( Gam nahii.n gar zi.ndagii viiraan hai
ishq par ye jaan bhii qurbaan hai ) -2
Gam nahii.n gar zi.ndagii viiraan hai

hamane sab kuchh kho ke sab kuchh paa liyaa -2
apane dil ko har tarah har tarah samajhaa liyaa
ab ko_ii hasarat hai naa aramaan hai -2
Gam nahii.n gar zi.ndagii viiraan hai
ishq par ye jaan bhii qurbaan hai
Gam nahii.n gar zi.ndagii viiraan hai

chand aa.Nsuu pyaar kii daulat nahii.n -2
ro ke jiine me.n ko_ii ko_ii lazzat nahii.n
ha.Ns ke mar jaanaa wafaa kii shaan hai
ishq par ye jaan bhii qurbaan hai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gQdpw78-9A

Day #31 of 31
Song #99

The second song of the 1964 movie Benazir that I have selected for you has been sung by Mohammad Rafi.

As the second last song for the countdown to his birth centenary, it is a show case song of his lyrical excellence.

Also, brief though the appearances of Shashi Kapoor and Tanuja in the movie, they both did very well indeed. Shashi always has done a good job acting on good poetry, eg, in Kanyadaan (Hasrat Jaipuri’s): Meri zindagi mein aate to ye aur baat hoti; and in Dharamputra: Bhool sakata hai bhala kaun tumhaari aankhen? (Sahir’s).

Please enjoy this happy Shakeel song: Dil mein ek jaane tamanna ne jagah paayi hai…..

aaj shiishe me.n baar-baar unhe.n dil kii suurat dikhaa_ii detii hai
apanii suurat nazar nahii.n aatii merii suurat dikhaa_ii detii hai

dil me.n ek jaan-e-tamannaa ne jagah paa_ii hai
aaj gulashan me.n nahii.n ghar me.n bahaar aa_ii hai

aa gayaa aa gayaa mere tasavvur me.n ko_ii paradaanashiin -2
aaj har chiiz nazar aatii hai mujhako hasii.n
kyaa karuu.N mai.n ba.Dii dilakash merii tanhaa_ii hai
aaj gulashan me.n nahii.n …

bahakii-bahakii nashaa-e-husn me.n kho_ii-kho_ii
jaise Kyaalo.n kii ra.ngiin rubaa_ii ko_ii
dil ke shiishe me.n parii ban ke utar aa_ii hai
aaj gulashan me.n nahii.n …

husn ke saamane izahaar-e-vafaa hai mushkil -2
kaash chhup kar hii vo sun le meraa naalaa-e-dil
jisane pyaar kii ma.nzil mujhe dikhalaa_ii hai
aaj gulashan me.n nahii.n …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh5DSQSIHjw

Day #31 of 31
Song #100

The hundredth song for the hundredth birth anniversary of Shakeel Badayuni – my all time favourite poet and lyricist. His songs, ghazals and nazams strike the right chords with me and make me wistfully recall that era when good lyrics ruled the movies. Indeed, some movies became super-hits only on the strength of their songs.

His 46th movie was a Nisar Ahmad Ansari movie called Zindagi Aur Maut, in which, for the first time, he paired with Music Director C Ramchandra of Anarkali fame.

The 1965 movie Zindagi Aur Maut was a low budget movie; a spy thriller. It starred Bela Bose, Nilofar, Pradeep Kumar, and Johnny Walker.

There is a song in the movie that is the perfect song to end this 100 songs tribute. It is a happy song too!

It was sung by Mahendra Kapoor and also by Asha Bhosle.

Please enjoy: Dil laga kar ham ye samajhe zindagi kyaa cheez hai…

#‪#‎Asha‬##

baad muddat ke mile to, is tarah dekhaa mujhe
jis tarah ek ajanabii par ajanabii Daale nazar
aapane ye bhii na sochaa dostii kyaa chiiz hai

pahale-pahale aap hii apanaa baiThe hame.n
phir na jaane kisali_e dil se bhulaa baiThe hame.n
ab hu_aa maaluum hamako beruKii kyaa chiiz hai

pyaar sachchaa hai meraa to dekh lenaa, ai sanam
aap aakar to.D de.nge Kud merii za.njiir-e-Gam
bandaa par.hvar jaan le.nge bandagii kyaa chiiz hai

#‪#‎Mahendra‬ Kapoor##

dil lagaakar ham ye samajhe, zi.ndagii kyaa chiiz hai
ishq kahate.n hai.n kise aur, aashiqii kyaa chiiz hai

haay ye ruKasaar ke shole, ye baahe.n marmarii
aapase milakar ye do baate.n, samajh me.n aa ga_ii.n
dhuup kisakaa naam hai aur chaa.Ndanii kyaa chiiz hai

aapakii shoKii ne kyaa-kyaa, ruup dikhalaa_e hame.n
aapakii aa.Nkho.n ne kyaa-kyaa, jaam pilavaa_e hame.n
hosh kho baiThe to jaanaa, beKudii kyaa chiiz hai

aapakii raaho.n me.n jabase hamane rakhaa hai qadam -2
hamako ye mahasuus hotaa hai ki hai.n ma.nzil pe ham
koii kyaa jaane mohabbat kii khushii kyaa chiiz hai

Appreciating Good Lyrics
Song #31

No looking down but let me see how many of you have been able to guess the last lyricist in the countdown so as to make the last day special? Please write in the comments below if you were indeed able to guess.

As you are aware, I started these posts more than three weeks ago to bring home the point that whilst we genuinely love everything that Shakeel wrote, many other contemporary poets and lyricists were also good and popular.

1. Shailendra with his Kuchh aur zamaana kehta hai.
2. Rajinder Krishan with his Mujhase mat poochh mere ishq mein.
3. Kaifi Azmi with his Jaane kyaa dhoondati rehati hain ye aankhen mujh mein.
4. Sahir Ludhianvi with Aurat ne janam diya mardon ko.
5. Majrooh Sultanpuri with Teri aankhon ke siwa duniya mein rakha kyaa hai.
6. Jaan Nisar Akhtar with his Mujhape ilzaam-e-bewafai hai.
7. Hasrat Jaipuri with his Aansu bhari hain ye jeevan ki raahen.
8. Qamar Jalalabadi with his Ai meri zindagi tujhe dhoondun kahan.
9. Raja Mehdi Ali Khan with Mera sundar sapna beet gaya.
10. Indeevar with Bade armaano se rakha hai balam teri kasam.
11. DN Madhok with Man ka taar hila ja.
12. Kidar Sharma with Teri duniya mein dil lagta nahin waapas bula le.
13. Kavi Pradeep with Insaan ka insaan se ho bhaichara.
14. Pt. Indra Chandra with Baag laga doon sajani.
15. Anjaan with Tumhen zindagi ke ujaale mubarak.
16. Anand Bakshi with Chand si mehbooba ho meri kab.
17. Prem Dhawan with Seene mein sulagate hain armaan.
18. Neeraj with Aaj ki raat badi shokh badi natkhat hai.
19. Bharat Vyas with Saranga teri yaad mein.
20. Gulzar with his Tum pukaar lo, tumhaara intezaar hai.
21. Pt. Narendra Sharma with Woh chand nahin hai dil hai.
22. Pandit Sudarshan with Zindagi hai pyaar se pyaar se bitaaye jaa.
23. PL Santoshi with O neend naa mujhako aaye.
24. Farooq Qaiser with Saari saari raat teri yaad sataaye.
25. Naqsh Lyalpuri with Main to har mod par tujhako doonga sadaa.
26. Arzoo Lucknowi with Karun kyaa aas niraas bhaii.
27. Tanvir Naqvi with Awaaz de kahan hai.
28. Gulshan Bawra with Tumhen yaad hoga kabhi hum mile the.
29. Khumar Barabankwi with Tasveer banaata hoon tasveer nahin banati.
30. Asad Bhopali with Woh jab yaad aaye.

Today we take up our 31st and last Lyricist SH Bihari‘s creation, the most under-rated of all Lyricists in the Hindi film industry.

Shamshul Huda Bihari (SH Bihari) was born in 1922 in the district of Ara in Bihar and died on 25 Feb 1987 of a heart attack. He graduated from Presidency College in Calcutta.

In 1947, he moved to Bombay from Calcutta and took up writing lyrics for Hindi songs in the movies. In the late fifties and sixties, his work, particularly his partnership with composer OP Nayyar and the singer Asha Bhosle was exceptionally popular.

His debut in Hindi movies was with the 1954 movie Shart, wherein two of his songs are my all time favourites: Naa yeh chand hoga naa sitaare rahenge; and Dekho woh chand chhupake karta hai kyaa ishaare. These are particularly dear to me since they have been sung by my favourite singer Hemant Kumar.

Some of his other popular songs are (not in any order):

1. Aap youn hi agar hamase milate rahe (Mohammad Rafi, Asha Bhosle singing on the composition of OP Nayyar in 1962 movie Ek Musafir Ek Haseena)
2. Chain se hamako kabhi aap ne jeene na diya (Asha Bhosle singing on OP Nayyar’s composition in 1973 movie Praan Jaaye Par Vachan Na Jaaye)
3. Yeh hansta hua karvaan zindagi ka na poochho chala hai kidhar (Ek Jhalak, 1956)
4.bahut shukriya badi mehrbaani meri zindagi mein huzoor aap aaye (Ek Musafir Ek Haseena, 1962)
5.Taarif karoon kya uski jisne tujhe banaya (Kashmir Ki Kali, 1964)
6. Zara haule haule chalo more saajna ham bhi peechhe hain tumhaare (Sawan Ki Ghata, 1966)
7.Yyehi woh jagah hai yehi woh fiza hai jahaan par (Yeh Raat Phir Na Aayegi, 1966)
8. Kajra mohabbatwaala ankhiyon mein aisa daala kajre ne le lee meri jaan (Kismat, 1968)
9. Laakhon hain yahan dilwale.
10. Mera pyaar woh hai ke.

I can go on and on since SH Bihari actually wrote some of the most romantically fresh numbers in the movies.

Matching lyrics with Shakeel Badayuni? I can think of several even though sad and deep numbers wasn’t his forte in comparison to ever-green romantic songs.

In comparison to his Phir thes lagi dil mein phir yaad ne tadpaaya, Raaton ko chori chori bole mera kangana, Ham pe ilzaam ye kyun hai ke mohabbat ki hai, and Woh hanske mile hamase ham pyaar samajh baithe; I have selected a very early song of his.

It is from the 1954 movie Gawaiyya. It has been composed by Ram Ganguly and it happens to be my favourite SH Bihari sad song.

It has been sung by Surendra. Later, Talat Mehmood too sang it.

Please enjoy: Teri yaad ka deepak jalata hai din raat mere veerane mein…..

terii yaad kaa diipak jalataa hai din raat mere viiraane me.n
vo paagalapan jo pahale thaa ab bhii hai tere diivaane me.n

din raat meraa Gam ba.Dhataa gayaa par terii muhabbat kam na huii
jo lutf ta.Dapane me.n paayaa vo baat kahaa.N mar jaane me.n

ik aag sulagatii rahatii hai har vaqt meraa dil jalataa hai
hai shauq magar kuchh aur abhii jalane kaa tere paravaane me.n

Ladies and gentlemen, with this I complete 31 days of Countdown to the Birth Centenary of Shakeel Badayuni who was born on 03 Aug 1916 in the small town of Badayun in UP.

I completed the countdown in five parts and I have still not finished with his songs. From more than 750 songs that he penned, I selected 135 to give you and we still have 35 songs to go until his last movie: the 1969 movie Beti.

These I shall cover in Part VI.

I hope you liked my selection so far including one each of 31 of his contemporary lyricists in a feature called ‘Appreciating Good Lyrics’.

Please remain with me for the last 35 songs in Part VI.

In chronological order, with a few exceptions, we had taken up the songs of Shakeel Badayuni from 1947 to the 1962 Guru Dutt movie Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam that had songs written by Shakeel and composed by Hemant Kumar.

The movie starred Meena Kumari as Chhoti Bahu, Guru Dutt as Atulya Chakraborty ‘Bhootnath’, Rehman as Chhote Sarkar, Waheeda Rehman as Jaba and Nazir Hussain as Subinay Babu (Jaba’s father).

The movie was about the rot in West Bengal’s feudal society.

We have already taken up three songs from the movie: Saaqiya aaj mujhe neend nahin aayegi, Piya aiso jiya mein samayi gaiyo re, and Na jaayo sainya chhuda ke bainya. The first one was picturised on the courtesan Minoo Mumtaz with Rehman and his cronies viewing the dance, the second one on Meena Kumari and the third one on Meena Kumari and her husband Rehman.

The next one has haunting tune. It displays the agony of a young married Meena Kumari for her husband Rehman whilst she is alone in the haveli and he is out enjoying the company of courtesans. It has been sung equally hauntingly by Geeta Dutt.

Please enjoy: Koi door se awaaz de, chale aayo….

diye bujhe bujhe, nainaa thake thake
piyaa dhiire dhiire, chale aao – 3

koI duur se aavaaz de chale aao
chale aao – 3

(raat raat bhar i.ntazaar hai
dil dard se beqaraar hai ) – 2
saajan itanaa to naa ta.Dapaao, chale aao
chale aao – 3
koI duur …

(aas to.Dake mukh mo.Dake
kyaa paaoge saath chho.Dake ) – 2
mere man ko ab yuu.N naa itanaa tarasaao
chale aao – 3
koI duur …

Day #22 of 31
Song #64

We are continuing with the songs of the 1962 Guru Dutt movie Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam.

So far all the songs that we have taken up are on Sahib and Bibi, that is on Rehman and Meena Kumari.

Now, lets take up songs on Ghulam and his love: Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehman, the contrast being all the more sharp as they had simple life as compared to the feudal lords.

This has been sung by Asha Bhosle for Waheeda Rehman singing for the naivete of Guru Dutt.

Please enjoy: Bhanvara bada nadaan haay….

bha.Nvaraa ba.Daa naadaan haay
bagiyan kaa mehamaan haay
phir bhii jaane na jaane na jaane na
kaliyan kii musakaan haay
bha.Nvaraa ba.Daa naadaan …

kabhii u.D jaaye kabhii ma.nDaraaye
bhed jiyaa ke khole na
saamane aaye nain milaaye
mukh dekhe kuchh bole na, vo mukh dekhe kuchh bole na
bha.Nvaraa ba.Daa naadaan haay …

akhiyo.n me.n rajake chale bach bachake
jaise ho koii begaanaa
rahe sa.Ng dil ke mile nahii.n milake
banake rahe vo anjaanaa, ho banake rahe vo anjaanaa
bha.Nvaraa ba.Daa naadaan haay …

koii jab roke koii jab Toke
gun gun karataa bhaage re
na kuchh puuchhe na kuchh buujhe
kaisaa anaa.Dii laage re, vo kaisaa anaa.Dii laage re
bha.Nvaraa ba.Daa …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHyRikMZXqw

Day #22 of 31
Song #66

Guru Dutt as Bhootnath and Waheeda Rehman as Jaba were shown in the movie as innocent and shy couple in contrast to Meena Kumari as Chhoti Bahu of the haveli longing for her husband Rehman as Chhote Sarkar.

This song depicts that Waheeda was unable to bring out her feelings for a shy and naive Guru Dutt and hence had to do without it.

Please enjoy: Meri baat rahi meri man mein……

merii baat rahii mere man me.n
kuchh kah na sakii ulajhan me.n
mere sapane adhuure, hue nahii.n puure
aag lagii jiivan me.n
merii baat rahii mere man me.n …

o rasiyaa, man basiyaa
rag rag me.n ho tum hii samaaye
mere nainaa kare bainaa
meraa dard na tum sun paaye
jiyaa moraa pyaasaa rahaa saavan me.n
merii baat rahii mere man me.n …

kuchh kahate, kuchh sunate
kyo.n chale gaye dil ko masal ke
merii duniyaa huii suunii
bujhaa aas kaa diipak jal ke
chhaayaa re andheraa merii akhiyan me.n
merii baat rahii mere man me.n …

tum aao ki na aao
piyaa yaad tumhaarii mere sa.ng hai
tumhe kaise ye bataa_uu.N
merii priit kaa niraalaa ek ra.ng hai
laagaa ho ye nehaa jaise bachapan me.n
merii baat rahii mere man me.n …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH90122MXws

Appreciating Good Lyrics
Song #22

As you are aware, I started these posts more than two weeks ago to bring home the point that whilst we genuinely love everything that Shakeel wrote, many other contemporary poets and lyricists were also good and popular.

It is, therefore, worth recalling their lyrics too in addition to Shakeel’s. It was the era of good lyrics.

So far, we have taken up in the last twenty-one days:

1. Shailendra with his Kuchh aur zamaana kehta hai.
2. Rajinder Krishan with his Mujhase mat poochh mere ishq mein.
3. Kaifi Azmi with his Jaane kyaa dhoondati rehati hain ye aankhen mujh mein.
4. Sahir Ludhianvi with Aurat ne janam diya mardon ko.
5. Majrooh Sultanpuri with Teri aankhon ke siwa duniya mein rakha kyaa hai.
6. Jaan Nisar Akhtar with his Mujhape ilzaam-e-bewafai hai.
7. Hasrat Jaipuri with his Aansu bhari hain ye jeevan ki raahen.
8. Qamar Jalalabadi with his Ai meri zindagi tujhe dhoondun kahan.
9. Raja Mehdi Ali Khan with Mera sundar sapna beet gaya.
10. Indeevar with Bade armaano se rakha hai balam teri kasam.
11. DN Madhok with Man ka taar hila ja
12. Kidar Sharma with Teri duniya mein dil lagta nahin waapas bula le.
13. Kavi Pradeep with Insaan ka insaan se ho bhaichara.
14. Pt. Indra Chandra with Baag laga doon sajani.
15. Anjaan with Tumhen zindagi ke ujaale mubarak.
16. Anand Bakshi with Chand si mehbooba ho meri kab.
17. Prem Dhawan with Seene mein sulagate hain armaan.
18. Neeraj with Aaj ki raat badi shokh badi natkhat hai.
19. Bharat Vyas with Saranga teri yaad mein.
20. Gulzar with his Tum pukaar lo, tumhaara intezaar hai.
21. Pt. Narendra Sharma with Woh chand nahin hai dil hai.

Today we take up our 22nd Lyricist Pandit Sudarshan‘s creation.

Not many people know about Pandit Sudarshan but when I say that his was the first song that was recorded when playback singing was introduced in Hindi films, then you would want to know more about him.

I have, several times mentioned, that the so called Hindi movies had dialogues and songs in Urdu those days even though the likes of Munshi Premchand and Pandit Sudarshan tried their hand at writing in Hindi. The reason that the Urdu writers succeeeded more eminently in Hindi films was because the Hindi writers made it too literary and didn’t connect as well with the masses as the Urdu writers did; both Hindi and Urdu being indigenous languages of India.

Pt. Sudarshan’s short novel Haar Ki Jeet was much talked about when I was in school and used to be compared with Munshi Premchand’s writings.

Pandit Sudarshan was born as Badrinath Sharma in Silakot (now in Pakistan) in 1896, the second child of a rich family of six children. After completing his graduation from Silakot, he started writing for a magazine in Lahore called ‘Hazaar Dastaan’.

By the way, he started his own newspaper in Urdu which grabbed extensive circulation.

In 1932 he shifted to Calcutta, the that time heart of Hindi film industry and within two years wrote his first movie story Ramayan that starred Prithviraj Kapoor. Sudarshan also directed the movie.

Pandit Sudarshan joined the company ‘New Theatres’ which had such artistes on its rolls as Pankaj Mullick, KC Dey and Kidar Sharma. There was no playback singing during those days and artistes used to sing their own songs.

As you probably know by now, in 1935, New Theatres introduced playback singing in their movie Dhoop Chhaon with the song: ‘Main khush hona chaahun, khush ho naa sakun’. You are also probably aware of this, since I had mentioned it in my Incredible Nostalgia songs that all the ten songs of the movie, including this, were composed by RC Boral and sung by Parul Ghosh, Suprova Sarkar, and Harimati.

Matching lyrics of this pioneer of playback singing lyricist? Well, I would recall his 1941 movie Sikandar’s song. This too starred Prithviraj Kapoor in the title role. It was composed by Rafiq Ghaznavi and Mir Saheb and sung by Khan Mastana and chorus.

So, in a way, together with this tribute to my most favourite Shakeel Badayuni on his forthcoming Birth Anniversary on 03 Aug, I also seem to be covering the history of playback singing lyric-writing in India!

Please enjoy: Zindagi hai pyaar se, pyaar se bitaaye jaa….

zi.ndagii hai pyaar se, pyaar me.n bitaaye jaa
husn ke huzuur pe apanaa dil luTaaye jaa
apanaa sar jhukaaye jaa

zi.ndagii hai ek raat, pyaar us me.n hai chiraaG
ye chiraaG jitanii der jal sake jalaaye jaa
raushanii luTaaye jaa

zi.ndagii hai ek baaG, pyaar is me.n hai bahaar
us me.n aa.Nkh kaa Kumaar Daal kar milaaye jaa
shauq se pilaaye jaa

zi.ndagii hai ek ju_aa, duur se dekhataa hai kyaa
aage ba.Dh kar apanii jaan, daav par lagaaye jaa
ha.Nsake maat khaaye jaa

zi.ndagii junuun hai junuun se nibhaaye jaa
tu apane azm ko Kudaa-e-zindagii banaaye jaa
aasmaa.N pe chhaaye jaa

husn hai shabaab hai, vaqt laajavaab hai
mai.n bhii chehachahaa uThuu.N, tuu bhii chehachahaaye jaa
bansarii bajaaye jaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jztnRh5J2as

Day #23 of 31
Song #67

In 1962, after Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, for which Hemant Kumar composed the music, Shakeel Badayuni penned songs for Hemant Kumar’s own production Bees Saal Baad. Hemant da also composed the songs.

The film’s story was an adaptation of the 1951 Bengali thriller Jighansa, which itself was based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of Baskervilles. The movie, in its credits, acknowledges that.

Bees Saal Baad got its name from the events after twenty years of a lustful Thakur in a village raping a young girl, who kills herself. Gradually, the Thakur and his siblings are killed as if by a spirit. In the end is the denouement.

The movie’s song Kahin deep jale kahin dil got for Shakeel his third and last Filmfare award for Best Lyricist. It got for Lata too another Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer.

Here is the list of songs that Shakeel penned for the movie and which Hemant Kumar composed:

1. “Bekarar Karke Hume” – Hemant Kumar
2. “Kahin Deep Jale Kahin” – Lata Mangeshkar
3. “Sapne Suhane” – Lata Mangeshkar
4. “Yeh Mohabbat Mein” – Lata Mangeshkar
5. “Zara Nazaron Se Kah Do Ji” – Hemant Kumar
6. “Ai mohabbat meri duniya mein tera kaam na tha” – Lata

Beqraar karke hamen youn na jaayiye is amongst the most popular songs of Shakeel. For me, it is triple joy since it has not only been composed by Hemant Kumar but also sung by him; my favourites all the way.

Please enjoy: Beqraar karke hamen youn naa jayiye….

(beqaraar karake hame.n yuu.N na jaaiye
aapako hamaarii kasam lauT aaiye ) – 2

dekhiye vo kaalii kaalii badaliyaa.N
zulf kii ghaTaa churaa na le kahii.n
chorii chorii aake shokh bijaliyaa.N
aapakii adaa churaa na le kahii.n
yuu.N qadam akele na aage ba.Dhaaiye
aapako hamaarii…

(dekhiye gulaab kii vo Daaliyaa.N
ba.Dhake chuum le na aap ke qadam ) – 2
khoe khoe bha.Nvare bhii hai.n baaG me.n
koii aapako banaa na le sanam
bahakii bahakii nazaro.n se khud ko bachaaiye
aapako hamaarii…

zindagii ke raaste ajiib hai.n
iname.n is tarah chalaa na kiijiye
khair hai isii me.n aapakii huzuur
apanaa koii saathii Dhuu.NDh liijiye
sunake dil kii baat naa muskuraaiye
aapako hamaarii…

Day #23 of 31
Song #68

We were taking up the songs of Shakeel’s 1962 movie Bees Saal Baad, a movie produced by the Singer-Music Director Hemant Kumar and directed by Biren Nag in his directorial debut.

We took up the popular Hemant Kumar song on his own music Beqraar karke hamen youn na jayiye, which is as popular today, as it was 54 years ago.

Lets now take up the song for which Shakeel Badayuni received his third and last Best Lyricist Filmfare Award.

The song appears to be played in the movie mysteriously when Biswajeet goes hunting for the mmystery series killer. It finally comes out that it is sung by Waheeda Rehman, Manmohan Krishan’s daughter in the movie. She and Biswajeet had started loving each other and the song was meant to keep him going the harm’s way.

As I have already told you, Lata Mangeshkar received Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer award for the song that year.

Hemant Kumar composed it in Raag Shivaranjani and in Tal Kaherava.

Please enjoy: Kahin deep jale kahin dil…..

kahii.n diip jale kahii.n dil
zaraa dekh le aa kar paravaane
terii kaun sii hai ma.nzil
kahii.n diip jale kahii.n dil

meraa giit tere dil kii pukaar hai
jahaa.N mai.n huu.N vahii.n teraa pyaar hai
meraa dil hai terii mahafil
zaraa dekh le aa kar paravaane
terii kaun sii hai ma.nzil
kahii.n diip jale kahii.n dil

naa mai.n sapanaa huu.N naa ko_ii raaz huu.N
ek dard bharii aavaaz huu.N
piyaa der na kar, aa mil
zaraa dekh le aa kar paravaane
terii kaun sii hai ma.nzil
kahii.n diip jale kahii.n dil

dushman hai.n hazaaro.n yahaa.N jaan ke
zaraa milanaa nazar pahachaan ke
ka_ii ruup me.n hai.n qaatil
zaraa dekh le aa kar paravaane
terii kaun sii hai ma.nzil
kahii.n diip jale kahii.n dil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEKyWum3IDc

Day #23 of 31
Song #69

This song is picturised on a young Waheeda Rehman as Radha in the movie. Waheeda is a living legend. However, when she was a young girl, for example in Guru Dutt’s movie C.I.D. (Kahin pe nigaahen kahin pe nishaana) or with Dev Anand in Kala Bazaar (Sach huye sapane tere) or in Guru Dutt’s 12 O’ Clock (Kaisa jaadu balam tune daara), she was the very epitome of innocence and ‘ladakpan’.

This song in the movie is about ‘ladakpan’ and Shakeel has done full justice to the feelings of a girl coming of age.

The song is played as a background music in 1963 Jyoti Swaroop movie Bin Baadal Barsaat, for which too Hemant Kumar composed the music.

Please enjoy: Sapane suhaane ladakpan ke….

(sapane suhaane la.Dakapan ke
mere naino.n me.n Dole bahaar ban ke ) – 2

jab chhaae ghaTaa matavaalii, mere dil pe chalaae aarii
ghabaraaye akele manavaa, mai.n leke javaanii haarii
kaise kaTe.n din ulajhan ke
koI laade zamaane vo bachapan ke
sapane suhaane …

jab duur papiihaa bole, dil khaaye meraa hichakole
mai.n laaj me.n mar-mar jaauu.N, jab phuul pe bha.nvaraa Dole
chhe.De pavaniyaa taraane jab man ke
mujhe bhaaye na ra.ng ye jiivan ke
sapane suhaane …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByDc8LfkwNk

Appreciating Good Lyrics
Song #23

As you are aware, I started these posts more than two weeks ago to bring home the point that whilst we genuinely love everything that Shakeel wrote, many other contemporary poets and lyricists were also good and popular.

It is, therefore, worth recalling their lyrics too in addition to Shakeel’s. It was the era of good lyrics.

Today we take up our 23rd Lyricist PL Santoshi‘s creation.PL Santoshi was born as Pyarelal Shrivastava on 07 Aug 1916, just four days after Shakeel, but in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

He was a celebrated writer-director during 1950s and 60s starting with Guru Dutt and his friend Dev Anand starrer Hum Ek Hain in 1946. He tried his hand at various movies such as 1947 Shehnai, 1948 Khidki, 1950 Sargam, 1952 Shin Shinaki Boobla Boo, 1953v Baba Ek Chor, 1955 Sabase Bada Rupaiya, 1957 Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke and Garma Garam and 1959 Pehli Raat. Except for the 1947 Shehnai, all failed at the box-office until he made the 1960 Bharat Bhushan and Madhubala starrer Barsaat Ki Raat.

PL Santoshi also wrote songs in films starting with the 1940 movie Pagla, that is six years before he took up directing. This was followed by songs in Akela (1941), Station Master (1942), Hum Ek Hain (1946), Sangram (1950),Saudagar (1951), Ghayal (1951), Anhoni (1952), Chalis Baba Ek Chor ( 1954), Dulhan (1958), and Holiday In Bombay (1963).

He also tried his hand at screenplay/dialogue writer. He expired on 7 September 1978, in Bombay.

His son Rajkumar Santoshi is a director of Hindi movies.

One of the songs that he wrote is a favourite of mine. It is duet between my favourite singer Hemant Kumar with Lata Mangeshkar. Kalyanji Anandji composed it for the 1958 movie Post Box No. 999.

Please enjoy: O neend na mujhako aaye…..

he: o nii.nd na mujh ko aae,
dil mera ghabaraae
chup ke chup ke, koii aa ke,
soyaa pyaar jagaae
la: o nii.nd …

he: soyaa huaa sa.Nsaar hai,
soyaa huaa sa.Nsaar
mai.n jaaguu.N yahaa.N,
tuu jaage vahaa.N,
ek dil me.n dard dabaae

do: o nii.nd …

la: ek biich me.n diivaar hai,
ek biich me.n diivaar
mai.n ta.Dapuu.N yahaa.N,
tuu ta.Dape vahaa.N,
haay chain jiyaa ko nahii.n aae

do: o nii.nd …

he: mai.n huu.N yahaa.N beqaraar
tuu hai vahaa.N beqaraar
mai.n gaauu.N yahaa.N
tuu gaaye vahaa.N
dil ko dil bahalaae

do: o nii.nd …

Day #24 of 31
Song #70

We have taken up three songs of the 1962 Hemant Kumar movie Bees Saal Baad directed by Biren Nag. We have also seen, as with Khamoshi that songs of Hemant Kumar’s own production are very good indeed, besides having that little bit of enigma that makes us listen to them over and over again.

We take up one more song from the movie before moving on.

Shakeel is known for his sad songs and so far we have taken up a romantic number in Beqraar karke hamen youn na jaayiye, a mystery song in Kahin deep jale kahin dil and a girlhood song Sapne suhaane ladakpan ke.

Here is the sad song picturised on Waheeda Rehman, sung by Lata Mangeshkar.

This song brings out the best of Shakeel: Gham and Irony.

Please enjoy: Aye mohabbat meri duniya mein tera kaam na tha….

ai mohabbat merii duniyaa me.n teraa kaam na thaa
tuu naa aa_ii thii to Gam kaa bhii kahii.n naam na thaa
ai mohabbat merii duniyaa …

jaane kyuu.N aaj hai shikavaa mujhe duniyaa bhar se
isase pahale to kisii par ko_ii ilzaam na thaa
ai mohabbat merii duniyaa …

merii qismat ki mujhe ashq hii piine ko mile
mere hisse me.n mohabbat kaa ko_ii jaam na thaa
ai mohabbat merii duniyaa …

dene vaale mujhe kyo.n tuune mohabbat de dii
kyaa mujhe ishq se pahale ko_ii aaraam na thaa
ai mohabbat merii duniyaa …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPf9T1O8aEI

Day #24 of 31
Song #71

In the year 1963 Shakeel Badayuni penned lyrics for the songs of seven movies including Mere Mehboob. I know what you are thinking of and you are right; there is no way that I can give you just three songs a day in the next seven days left with us to complete the countdown and cover all his movies up to the 1969 movie Beti, his last. Hence, this is what I am going to do:

I am going to increase the number of songs per day.

Lets take up the first movie Nartaki of 1963, his fourth one with music director Ravi and third one with director Nitin Bose after 1951 movie Deedar and 1961 movie Ganga Jamuna.

The movie starred Nanda and Sunil Dutt and Bimal Roy did the editing of the film.

The movie had the following songs:

1 “Zindagi Ke Safar Men Akele Thay Ham” Mohammed Rafi
2 “Hum Tumse Mohabbat Kar Baithe” Mahendra Kapoor
3 “Zindagi Ki Uljhanon Ko Bhool Kar” Asha Bhosle
4 “Aaj Duniya Badi Suhani Hai” Asha Bhosle
5 “Insaan Mohabbat Mein” Asha Bhosle
6 “Agar Koi Humko Sahara Na Dega” Usha Mangeshkar
7 “Tumne Ankho Se Pee Ho To” Asha Bhosle
8 “Pucho Koi Sawal Bacho Pucho Koi Sawal” Usha Khanna, Usha Mangeshkar, Kamal Barot, Mohammed Rafi

The first song sung by Mohammad Rafi was a gem. Anyone knowing me would know that songs in a boat of this nature are ‘fantasy songs’ for me. The other one is also picturised on Sunil Dutt, but with Madhubala (not a Shakeel song: Chand sa mukhada kyun shartmaaya).

Please enjoy: Zindagi ke safar mein akele the ham, mil gaye tum to dil ko sahaara mila….

zi.ndagii ke safar me.n, akele the ham
mil gae tum to dil ko sahaaraa milaa
aa gae ik nae raaste par qadam
jab tumhaarii nazar kaa ishaaraa milaa

zi.ndagii ko tamannaa thii hamaraaz kii
paaz-e-dil kii zaruurat thii aavaaz kii
tumane jab muskuraakar pukaaraa hame.n
zi.ndagii ko khushii kaa nazaaraa milaa

ab zamaane kaa Dar hai na duniyaa kaa Gam
apanii taqadiir par naaz karate hai.n ham
aaj aa.Nkho.n ko jalave tumhaare mile
aaj haatho.n ko daaman tumhaaraa milaa

Day #24 of 31
Song #72

Old timers like me would be full of nostalgia when you see the next song of the 1963 movie Nartaki directed by Nitin Bose. Nanda herself brought out in an interview with a journalist, “It was Nitin Bose who extracted the best from me as an actress in Nartaki. He followed Satyajit Ray’s style of realistic film making and advised me to use the least amount of makeup”.

And this in a movie in which she was the Nartaki (courtesan dancer), who has dreamt of better life through literacy.

Anyway, here is her famous dance and song as a tawaif. It was very popular during our days and you would recall the mastery of Shakeel over the lyrics.

Please enjoy Asha Bhosle sing (try to follow the dialogue between Sunil Dutt and Nanda before the song): Zindagi ki uljhano ko bhool kar, aaj masti mein guzaaren raat bhar, subah jab hogi to dekha jaayega….

zindagi ki uljhano ko bhul kar aaj masti me gujaro rat bhar
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
zindagi ki uljhano ko bhul kar aaj masti me gujaro rat bhar
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega

aaj saki bhi hai or mahfil bhi hai
aaj saki bhi hai or mahfil bhi hai
aaj nagma bghi hai saze dil bhi hai
aaj nagma bghi hai saze dil bhi hai
zindagi me bekhudi bhi shamil hai
rat aayi aisi laut kar aaj masti me gujaro rat bhar
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
zindagi ki uljhano ko bhul kar aaj masti me gujaro rat bhar
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega

aaj dil ka rang bhi mastana hai
aaj dil ka rang bhi mastana hai
chhalka chhalka hosh ka paymana hai
chhalka chhalka hosh ka paymana hai
har hakikat aaj ek fasana hai
muskurakar dil ki har ek chot par
aaj masti me gujaro rat bhar
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
zindagi ki uljhano ko bhul kar aaj masti me gujaro rat bhar
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega

jeet lo ulfat ki bazi har ke jeet lo ulfat ki bazi har ke
hai maje inkar me ikarar ke hai maje inkar me ikarar ke
jhum lo dam bhar nashe me pyar ke
har game dunia se hoke bekhabar
aaj masti me gujaro rat bhar
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
zindagi ki uljhano ko bhul kar aaj masti me gujaro rat bhar
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega
subah jab hogi to dekha jayega ho dekha jayega

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptn6uxK6m7E

Appreciating Good Lyrics
Song #24

As you are aware, I started these posts more than two weeks ago to bring home the point that whilst we genuinely love everything that Shakeel wrote, many other contemporary poets and lyricists were also good and popular.

It is, therefore, worth recalling their lyrics too in addition to Shakeel’s. It was the era of good lyrics.

Today we take up our 24th Lyricist Farooq Qaiser‘s creation.Farooq Qaiser or Faruk Kaiser (not to be confused with the Pakistani lyricist of the same name) was born on my birthday, 6th June, in 1918, two years after Shakeel Badayuni.

His education was in Bombay and he developed a taste for creative writing. Faruk’s love for poetry and his friendship with neighbour Kamran Khan (father of Farah Khan and Sajid Khan) were instrumental in his developing an enthusiasm for the creative works of Hindi Cinema. While Kamran Khan produced and acted in films, Faruk was introduced into the Hindi films as an assistant director. He went on to direct several movies until he found his niche as a lyricist.

Until his death on 20 Nov 1987, he wrote approximately 400 songs for over 100 movies.

As far as matching lyrics to Shakeel Badayuni are concerned, Farooq’s lyrics for the song Saari saari raat teri yaad sataaye are not only iconic but the first song that comes to mind when you think of him (the other being his 1963 movie Shikaari song: Chaman ke phool bhi tujhako gulaab kehate hain).

Saari saari raat teri yaad sataye is from the 1958 movie Aji Bas Shukriya that starred Geeta Bali with Suresh. The song was sung by Lata Mangeshkar and was really very popular during our days.

Roshan composed the song on a Punjabi dhun.

Please enjoy the ever popular: Saari saari raat teri yaad sataye…..

(saarii saarii raat terii yaad sataaye)-2
priit jagaaye hame.n nii.nd naa aaye re
niind naa aaye
saarii saarii raat terii yaad sataaye

(ik to balam terii yaad jalaaye
duuje cha.ndaa aag lagaaye)-2
aag lagaaye terii priit jagaaye re
nii.nd naa aaye
saarii saarii raat terii yaad sataaye

(terii lagan banii rog saa.Nvariyaa
kaise biite baalii umariyaa
(baalii umar morii ba.Daa ta.Dapaaye re)-2
nii.nd naa aaye
saarii saarii raat terii yaad sataaye

(priit lagaa ke hue tum to paraaye
pyaas jiyaa ki kaun bujhaaye)-2
kaun bujhaaye koii ye samajhaaye re
nii.nd naa aaye
saarii saarii raat terii yaad sataaye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQaLUtuI8Xw

Day #25 of 31
Song #73

In the next movie, the 1963 Nisar Ahmad Ansari movie Mulzim, Shakeel once again paired with Ravi, his fifth movie with him. The movie starred Pradeep Kumar with Shakila and Helen and had the following songs:

1. “Deewana Keh Ke Aaj Mujhe Phir Pukariye” – Mohammed Rafi
2. “Sang Sang Rahenge Tumhare O Huzur (Sad)” – Mohammed Rafi
3. “Kuwa Paas Tu Phir Bhi Pyasa (Jai Bolo Badri Vishal Ki )” – Mohammed Rafi
4. “Aate Hi Jawani Ka Mausam” – Asha Bhosle
5. “Ishq Walo Pe Zamane Ki Nazar” – Mohammed Rafi
6. “Main Bajewala Bawa Na Bhut Na Koi Chalava” – Mohammed Rafi
7. “Sang Sang Rahenge Tumhare O Huzur (Happy)” – Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle

The first song became very popular and is one of my favourites. It was composed by Ravi in Raag Gara, Tal Dadra.

Please enjoy: Deewana keh ke aaj mujhe phir pukariye….

diivaanaa kah ke aaj mujhe phir pukaari_e
haazir huu.N ko_ii tiir-e-nazar dil pe maari_e
diiwaanaa kah ke …

lag jaa_e aapako naa kisii kii nazar kahii.n -2
ghar jaa ke apane husn kaa sadakaa utaari_e
haazir huu.N ko_ii …

zulfe.n sa.Nvaarane se banegii na ko_ii baat -2
uThi_e kisii gariib kii qismat sa.Nvaari_e
haazir huu.N ko_ii …

ik baar kar hii diiji_e is dil kaa faisalaa -2
rah-rah ke yuu.N nigaah kaa Ka.nzar naa maari_e
haazir huu.N ko_ii …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3d1mQ9zkik

Day #25 of 31
Song #74

And that brings me to Shakeel’s 36th movie in Hindi films: the 1963 Harnam Singh Rawail produced and directed movie Mere Mehboob that starred Rajendra Kumar, Sadhana, Nimmi, Ashok Kumar, Pran, Johnny Walker and Ameeta.

Please do remember that the title song of the movie is too dear to me to be put up anywhere by me. I donot think that there is any matching song in the Hindi movies though the title song of Barsaat Ki Raat, penned by Sahir Ludhianvi comes close to its lyrical excellence. Perhaps a day will come when I can actually put up the song.

Here is the list of the songs of the movie:

1. “Mere Mehboob Tujhe” Mohammad Rafi 8:12
2. “Tere Pyar Mein Dildar” Lata Mangeshkar 3:03
3. “E – Husn Jara Jaag” Mohammad Rafi 3:31
4. “Mere Mehboob Mein Kya Nahin” Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle 4:11
5. “Tumse Izhar – E -Haal Kar Baithe” Mohammad Rafi 3:28
6. “Janeman Ek Nazar Dekh Le” Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle 3:37
7. “Yaad Mein Teri” Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammad Rafi 4:27
8. “Allah Bachaye Naujawano Se” Lata Mangeshkar 4:27
9. “Mere Mehboob Tujhe (Female)” Lata Mangeshkar 4:45

And of course, Shakeel was back with Naushad in this movie; the 19th movie that they did together.

Lets begin with a song which is counted amongst the best of Yaad songs, sung by Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar.

Please enjoy: Yaad mein teri jaag jaag ke ham…..

yaad me.n terI jaag-jaag ke ham
raat bhar karavaTe.n badalate hai.n
har gha.Dii dil me.n terI ulfat ke
dhiime dhiime chiraaG jalate hai.n

jabase tUne nigaah pherii hai
din hai suunaa to raat a.ndherii hai
chaa.Nd bhI ab najar nahii.n AtA
ab sitaare bhI kam nikalate hai.n
yaad me.n terI jaag-jaag ke ham …

luT gayii vo bahaar kI mahafil
chhuT gayii hamase pyaar kI ma.nzil
zi.ndagii kI udaas rAho.n me.n
terI yaado.n ke sAth chalate hai.n
yaad me.n terI jaag-jaag ke ham …

tujhako paakar hame.n bahaar milii
tujhase chhuTakar magar ye baat khulii
baaGabaan hii chaman ke phuulo.n ko
apane pairo.n se khud masalate hai.n
yaad me.n terI jaag-jaag ke ham …

kyA kahe.n tujhase kyuu.n huii duurii
ham samajhate hai.n apanii majabuurii
tujhako maaluum kyA ke tere liye
dil ke gam aa.Nsuo.n me.n Dhalate hai.n
yaad me.n terI jaag-jaag ke ham …

Day #25 of 31
Song #75

Mere Mehboob was one of those rare movies shot on the campus of Aligarh Muslim University. Whilst studying in this university Anwar Hussain played by Rajendra Kumar falls in love with Husna Begum, played by Sadhana. Of course he doesn’t know her as Husna at that time because, as per Muslim tradition, she is veiled. It is only when Anwar seeks a job from Nawab Buland Akhtar Changezi played by Ashok Kumar and the latter asks him to teach his sister Husna that he realises that she is the veiled woman he is in love with.

There are various twists in the story after that, of course.

Please enjoy Mohammad Rafi sing: Aye husn zara jaag tujhe ishq jagaaye…..

ai husn zaraa jaag tujhe ishk jagaaye
badale merii takadIr jo tU hosh me.n aaye (2)

ye pyaara ke nagame ye muhabbat ke taraane
tujhako ba.De aramaan se laayaa huu.N sunaane
ummId mere dil kii kahii.n TUT na jaaye
ye husn …

saaz-e-dile khaamosh me.n ek soj jagaa de
tU bhii merii Avaaz me.n Avaaz milaa de
aayaa huu.N tere dar pe ba.Dii aas lagaaye
ye husn …

ai shammaa tU aajaa zaraa chilamanase nikalake
hasarat hai ki rahaa jaa_uu.n terii aag me.n jalake
paravaanaa vo kyaa tujhape jo miTakar naa dikhaa de
ye husn …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnFYfKahhdY

Appreciating Good Lyrics
Song #25

As you are aware, I started these posts more than two weeks ago to bring home the point that whilst we genuinely love everything that Shakeel wrote, many other contemporary poets and lyricists were also good and popular.

It is, therefore, worth recalling their lyrics too in addition to Shakeel’s. It was the era of good lyrics.

Today we take up our 25th Lyricist Naqsh Lyalpuri‘s creation.Naqsh Layalpuri was born as Jaswant Rai Sharma on 24 Feb 1928 in Layalpur (now in Pakistan). Son of an engineer, he refused to follow in the footsteps of his dad and went to Lahore to study literature. He started participating in mushairas. After independence and partition he moved to Lucknow with family. Later he moved to Mumbai in 1951 to seek career in films and settled there as a lyricist. He wrote lyrics of the songs of many films including Chetna (1970), Dil Ki Rahen (1973), Call Girl (1974), Khandaan (1979). He also wrote more than 350 songs for 40 Punjabi films.

Although only 12 years younger to Shakeel, Naqsh bloomed late with songs like Rasme-e-ulfat ko nibhaayen to nibhaayen kaise and Maana teri nazar mein tera pyaar ham nahin that he wrote after the death of Shakeel.

However, here is one from 1970 movie Chetna that starred Rehana Sultana starring with Anil Dhawan. I recall, the film posters of this movie with Rehana’s naked legs replacing the A in Chetna. It was also to indicate that the movie was for adults only.

Sapan Jagmohan composed this song and Mukesh sang it.

Please enjoy: Main to har mod par tujhako doonga sada….

mai.n to har mo.D par tujhako duu.Ngaa sadaa
merii aavaaz ko dard ke saaz ko tuu sune naa sune
mai.n to har mo.D …

mujhe dekhakar kah rahe hai.n sabhii mohabbat kaa haasil hai diivaanagii -2
pyaar kii raah me.n phuul bhii the magar maine kaa.NTe chune
mai.n to har mo.D …

jahaa.N dil jhukaa thaa vahii.n sar jhukaa mujhe ko_ii sajado.n se rokegaa kyaa -2
kaash TuuTe.n naa vo aarazuu ne merii Kvaab jo hai.n bune
mai.n to har mo.D …

merii zindagii me.n yahii Gam rahaa teraa saath bhii to bahut kam rahaa -2
dil ne saathii mere terii chaahat me.n the Kvaab kyaa-kyaa bune
mai.n to har mo.D …

tere gesu_o.n kaa vo saayaa kahaa.N vo baa.Nho.n kaa terii sahaaraa kahaa.N
ab vo aa.Nchal kahaa.N merii palako.n se jo bhiige motii chune
mai.n to har mo.D …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kh5Ssc3uyI

Day #26 of 31
Song #76

We had taken up two songs of the 1963 movie Mere Mehboob, a movie directed by Harnam Singh Rawal and starring Rajendra Kumar and Sadhana. This was the 19th movie, out of 36, in which Shakeel was with Naushad.

This song was sung by both the sisters: Lata and Asha singing for Sadhana and Ameeta respectively. It has the tune of a qawwali. However, both the actresses dance on it.

Please enjoy: Mere mehboob mein kyaa nahin, woh to laakhon mein hain ik haseen……

la: mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n kyA nahii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n
vo to laakho.n me.n hai ek hasii.n
vo to laakho.n me.n hai ek hasii.n, ek hasii.n

aa: mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n, kyA nahii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n
bholii suurat adA naazanii.n
bholii suurat adA naazanii.n, naazanii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n, kyA nahii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n

la: aa .a .a
meraa mahabuub ek chaa.Nd hai
husn apanA nikhaare hue
aa: o .a .a
la: aasamaan kA farishtaa hai vo
ruup insaan kA dhare hue
aa: o .a .a
la: rashk-e-jannat hai vo mahazabii.n
rashk-e-jannat hai vo mahazabii.n, mahazabii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n, kyA nahii.n

aa: aa .a .a
maah ho anjum ho yA kaikashaa.n
sabase pyaaraa hai meraa sanam
la: aa .a .a
aa: usake jalavo.n me.n hai vo asar
hosh u.D jaaye allaah qasam
la: aa .a .a
aa: dekhale gar use tU kahii.n
dekhale gar use tU kahii.n, tU kahii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n, kyA nahii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n

la: meraa mahabuub hai jaaneman
karavaa kadamaah ruuh gulabadan
aa: meraa dilavar hai aisA javaan
ho bahaaro.n me.n jaise chaman
la: usakii chaalo.n me.n aisI lachak
jaise phuulo.n ki Daalii hile
aa: usakii aavaaz me.n vo khanak
jaise shiishe se shiishaa mile
usake a.ndaaz hai dilanashii.n
dono: bholii suurat adA naazanii.n, naazanii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n, kyA nahii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n

aa: tere afasaano.n me.n merI jaan
hai jhalak merI afasaano.n ki
la: daastaane.n hai milatii huii.n
allaah ham dono paravaano.n
dono: paravaano.n kii
dono: ek hii shamaa ho nA kahii.n
vo to laakho.n me.n hai ek hasii.n, ek hasii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n, kyA nahii.n
mere mahabuub me.n kyA nahii.n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32PEkUnjbIM

Day #26 of 31
Song #77

I am taking up just one more song from Mere Mehboob before moving on to the next movie. This has been sung by Mohammad Rafi. This is from those days when it wasn’t the done thing to mention to your beloved about your love. Indeed, in many songs of that era, one would go about it very indirectly, such as “Mujhe tumase mohabbat hai magar main keh nahin sakta” or “Mohabbat jo karte hain woh, mohabbat jataate nahin; dhadakane apne dil ki kabhi kisi ko sunaate nehin”.

Here, Rajendra Kumar blames it on bekhudi (intoxication) for having expressed his feelings.

Please enjoy Mohammad Rafi sing: Unase izhaar-e-haal kar baithe…

aaj furakat kA khvaab TuuT gayaa
mil gaye tum hijaab TuuT gayaa

tum se izahaar-e-haal kar baiThe
bekhudii me.n kamaal kar baiThe
tum se izahaar-e-haal …

kho gaye husn kI bahaaro.n me.n
kah diyaa raaz-e-dil ishaaro.n me.n
kaam ham bemisaal kar baiThe
bekhudii me.n kamaal kar baiThe
tum se izahaar-e-haal …

kitane majabuur ho gaye dil se
soche samajhe bagair qaatil se
zindagii kA savaal kar baiThe
bekhudii me.n kamaal kar baiThe
tum se izahaar-e-haal …

ye adaae.n ye shokhiyaa.n taubaa
bas khudaa hii khudaa hai us dil kA
jo tumhaaraa khayaal kar baiThe
bekhudii me.n kamaal kar baiThe
tum se izahaar-e-haal …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fmYt9Qa_BA

Day #26 of 31
Song #78

After Mere Mehboob, Shakeel’s 20th movie with Naushad, the next movie in which he wrote songs was the 1963 movie Kaun Apna Kaun Praya with Waheeda Rehman in the lead role. This was the 6th movie that he did with Ravi, after he started with Ghunghat in 1960.

This movie had only six songs as follows:

1 “Zaraa Sun Hasinaa Ai Naazanin” Mohammed Rafi
2 “Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya” Mohammed Rafi
3 “Aashiq Hu Apne Pyar Ke Johar Dikhaunga” Mohammed Rafi
4 “Zindagi Bhar Yahi Ikrar Kiye Jayenge” Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle
5 “Aaya Bahar Ka Zamana” Asha Bhosle
6 “Allah Kare Mai Bhi Dulhan Ban Jau” Asha Bhosle, Shamshad Begum

Lets listen to Mohammad Rafi singing Zara sun haseena ai nazneen. This has been composed by Ravi in the same Raag Pahadi in which he composed the title song of Chaudhvin Ka Chand. The Chaudhvin Ka Chand song was in Tal Kaherava whereas Zara sun is in Rupak Tal.

Please enjoy: Zara sun haseena ai naaznin….

zaraa sun hasiinaa ai naazanii.n
meraa dil tujh hii pe nisaar hai
tere dam se hii mere dilarubaa
merii zi.ndagii me.n bahaar hai

hu_ii jab se mujh pe terii nazar
mai.n huu.N apane aap se beKabar
hu_aa jab se dil me.n teraa guzar
mujhe chain hai na qaraar hai

tere husn se jo sa.Nvar ga_ii
vo fizaa_e.n mujhako aziiz hai.n
terii zulf se jo lipaT ga_ii.n
mujhe un havaa_o.n se pyaar hai

ye hasiin phuulo.n kii Daaliyaa.N
tujhe de rahii hai salaamiyaa.N
mujhe kyo.n na rashq ho ai sanam
tere saath fasl-e-bahaar hai

Appreciating Good Lyrics
Song #26

As you are aware, I started these posts more than two weeks ago to bring home the point that whilst we genuinely love everything that Shakeel wrote, many other contemporary poets and lyricists were also good and popular.

It is, therefore, worth recalling their lyrics too in addition to Shakeel’s. It was the era of good lyrics.

Today we take up our 26th Lyricist Arzoo Lucknowi‘s creation.

Arzoo Lucknowi was amongst the pioneer lyricists of the Hindi film industry that originated in Calcutta in the 1930s before shifting to Bombay in 1942. He was on the films scene much before Shakeel Badayuni and his contemporaries Sahir and Majrooh arrived. He wrote for the Hindi cinema’s first superstars KL Saigal (eg, Karun kya aas niras bhayi in 1939 movie Dushman) and Kanan Devi (Street Singer 1938).

“Syed Anwar Hussain ‘Arzoo Lakhnavi’ (1873-1951) was an outstanding representative of ‘Dabistan-e-Lakhnau’ or the Lucknow School of Urdu poetry. However while retaining the tradition’s motifs and focus, he chose a straighter style over its intricate flourishes, and use only Urdu without recourse to Arabic or Persian – despite his considerable knowledge of both.”

In his film career, he was as versatile. If in Saigal’s “Street Singer”, he could pen “Jeevan been madhur na baaje jhoote padh gaye taar/Bigde kaath se kaam bane kya megh baje na malhaar”, he could also compose ghazal “Sukoon dil ko mayassar gul-o-samar mein nahi/Jo aashiyaan mein hai apne vah bagh bhar men nahi”.

He has some 25000 ghazals credited to him.

Lets look at the lyrical excellence of the 1939 movie Dushman’s song picturised on its lead cast: KL Saigal and also sung by him. It is a composition of Pankaj Mullick.

Please enjoy: Karun kyaa aas niraas bhaii…..

karu kya aas nirash bhayi
karu kya aas nirash bhayi
karu kya aas nirash bhayi
karu kya aas nirash bhayi
deeya bujhe phir se jal jaye
raat andheri jaye din aaye
deeya bujhe phir se jal jaye
raat andheri jaye din aaye
mitthi aas hai jyot akhiyan ki
mitthi aas hai jyot akhiyan ki
samjh gayi to gayi
karu kya aas nirash bhayi
karu kya aas nirash bhayi
karu kya aas nirash bhayi

jab na kisi ne raah sujhai
dil se ek aawaz ye aayi
jab na kisi ne raah sujhai
dil se ek aawaz ye aayi
himmat baandh sambhal badh aage
rok nahi hai koi
himmat baandh sambhal badh aage
rok nahi hai koi
kaho na aas nirash bhayi
kaho na aas nirash bhayi

karna hoga khun ka pani
dena hogi har kurbani
himmat hai itni to samjh le
himmat hai itni to samjh le
aas bandhegi nayi
aas bandhegi nayi
kaho na aas nirash bhayi
kaho na aas nirash bhayi
kaho na aas nirash bhayi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNOexCr-AA

Day #27 of 31
Song #79

The next movie of Shakeel was the 1963 movie Grihasti, which was the 7th movie that he did with the Music Director Ravi, with whom he received two out of three of his Filmfare Best Lyricist Awards.

The movie was directed by Kishore Sahu, the same Kishore Sahu who was the archaelogist Marco in Dev Anand’s Guide, who neglected his wife Rosie (Waheeda Rehman) until Raju Guide (Dev Anand) ‘guided’ her to become a dancer and his beloved. Kishore Sahu directed the movie for SS Vasan of Gemini Studios, the makers of family dramas.

Here is the list of songs of the movie:

1 Jaane Teri Nazaron Ne Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
2 Aaj Mili Ek Ladki Mohammed Rafi
3 Jeevan Jyot Jale Asha Bhosle
4 Ja Ja Re Ja Deewane Ja Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle
5 Wo Aurat Hai Jo Insano Ki Mohammed Rafi
6 Zara Dekh Sanam Lata Mangeshkar
7 Payal Khul Khul Jaaye Ram Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle
8 Ding Dong Ding Lalla Geeta Dutt
9 Khile Hai Sakhi Aaj Phulwa Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar

Asha Bhosle‘s rendition of the song “Jeevan Jyot Jale” won her the “Mian Tansen Award”. The song was cited as the best song of 1963 out of the 544 songs released that year from a total of 77 films.

The song is picturised on Rajshree and Nirupa Roy.

Ravi composed the song in Raag Sohani, and Tal Tintal.

Please enjoy the marvel of a song: Jeevan jyot jale….

jivan jyot jale
jivan jyot jale
kou na jane kab nikse din
kou na jane kab nikse din
aur kab raat dhale
aur kab raat dhale
jivan jyot jale
jivan jyot jale

bhor bhye to man muskaye
bhor bhye to man muskaye
sanjh bhye to neer bahaye
ek pal maan kare sansari
ek pal maan kare sansari
ek pal hath male
ek pal hath male
jivan jyot jale
jivan jyot jale

man mala me daar wo moti
man mala me daar wo moti
aa aa aa
man mala me daar wo moti
jisme jali ho prem ki jyoti
uski naiya paar hai jag me
uski naiya paar hai jag me
ja ke kaaj bhale
ja ke kaaj bhale
jivan jyot jale
jivan jyot jale
jyot jale
jyot jale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UemDW8KonE8

Day #27 of 31
Song #80

First of all, if you marveled at the mastery of Shakeel over the lyrics of Jeevan Jyot Jale, a classical song, it would come as a surprise to see him pen a pop song!

This song was another song of 1963 movie Grihasti that became veru popular. It was sung by Geeta Dutt.

Please enjoy: Dong dong ding dong ding lala….

ding dong ding dong ding lala
ho koi dil ko sambhalo mera dil chala
ding dong ding dong ding lala
ho koi dil ko sambhalo mera dil chala
gun gun bole kano me ras ghole
sang sang dole koi bhanwara
ding dong ding dong ding lala
koi dil ko sambhalo mera dil chala
ding dong ding dong ding lala
ho koi dil ko sambhalo mera dil chala
gun gun bole kano me ras gole
sang sang dole koi bhanwara
ding dong ding dong ding lala

chori chori bagiya me aane laga vo
bholi bhali kali mai to batiyo me aa gayi
mera na raha ye dil mera
ding dong ding dong ding lala
ho koi dil ko sambhalo mera dil chala
ding dong ding dong ding lala
ho koi dil ko sambhalo mera dil chala
gun gun bole kano me ras gole
sang sang dole koi bhnwara
ding dong ding dong ding lala

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxmC4J1KPbU

Day #27 of 31
Song #81

With that we come to the next movie, the 1963 OP Ralhan movie Gehraa Daag, which was a crime thriller starring Rajendra Kumar, Mala Sinha, Madan Puri (almost a must for crime thrillers), Usha Kiron and Laita Pawar.

Since this too had Ravi’s music, it became the eighth movie since 1960 movie Ghunghat in which Shakeel paired with Ravi.

The movie had the following songs:

1. “Aaj Udta Hua Ek Panchhi Zindagi Bhar Me Aaya Phir Naye Mastiya Sath Le Chal” – Mohammed Rafi
2. “Tumhe Pake Hamne Jahan Pa Liya Hai” – Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi
3. “Bhagvan Ik Kusur Kee Itanee Badee Saja” – Mohammed Rafi
4. “Kaise Kahoon Main Baat Jiya Ki Sanwariya Pyar Me Tere Ho Gayi Mai Toh Bawariya” – Asha Bhosle
5. “Main Teri Hui Re Balma” – Asha Bhosle
6. “Subah Ka Bhoola” – Asha Bhosle

Please enjoy: Tumhen paa ke ham ne jahan paa liya hai…..

aa : tumhe.n paa ke hamane jahaa.N paa liyaa hai -2
zamii.n to zamii.n aasamaa.N paa liyaa hai
ra : tumhe.n paa ke …

aa : miTaa na sakegii jise ab Kizaa.N bhii
jalaa na sake.ngii ab bijaliyaa.N bhii
mohabbat kaa vo aashiyaa.N paa liyaa hai
tumhe.n paa ke …

ra : zamaane ke Gam pyaar me.n Dhal ga_e hai.n -2
ummiido.n ke laakho.n di_e jal ga_e hai.n -2
ke jabase tumhe.n meharabaa.N paa liyaa hai
tumhe.n paa ke …

aa : jahaa.N se mohabbat kii raahe.n milii hai.n
ra : vahii.n se merii gardishe.n tham ga_ii hai.n
do : na bichha.De.nge ham kaaravaa.N paa liyaa hai
tumhe.n paa ke …

Appreciating Good Lyrics
Song #27

As you are aware, I started these posts more than two weeks ago to bring home the point that whilst we genuinely love everything that Shakeel wrote, many other contemporary poets and lyricists were also good and popular.

It is, therefore, worth recalling their lyrics too in addition to Shakeel’s. It was the era of good lyrics.

Today we take up our 27th Lyricist Tanvir Naqvi‘s creation.He was born on 6th February 1919 in Lahore. His real name was Syed Khursheed Ali and he was a lyricist who had carved out a niche for himself in the cine world from the early 40s right till his death in 1972.

He was much sought after as a songwriter. After partition, Tanvir Naqvi migrated to Pakistan and for over 15 years remained one of the leading lyricist of Urdu and Punjabi films. He died on November 1, 1972 in Lahore.

As far as matching lyrics to Shakeel Badayuni are concerned, there must be a large gap between you and I if you have to ask as to which of his songs I am going to put up!

In any case, even with the Raag of the song you would have guessed the song: Raag Pahadi and Tal Dadra.

As if it is still left for me to tell you, it is from the 1946 Anmol Ghadi starring Noorjahan (who is also the singer of the song with Surendra), Suraiyaa and Suresh.

Please enjoy the best of Tanvir Naqvi: Awaaz de kahan hai…..

aavaaz de kahaa.N hai duniyaa merI javaa.N hai
aabaad mere dil me.n ummiid kaa jahaa.N hai
duniyaa merI javaa.N hai …

aa raat jaa rahI hai
yuu.n jaise chaa.Ndanii kI
baaraat jaa rahI hai
chalane ko ab falak se
taaro.n kaa kaaravaa.N hai
aise me.n tU kahaa.N hai
duniyaa merI javaa.N hai …

kismat pe chhaa rahI hai
kyo.n raat kii siyaahii
vIrA.N hai merI nii.nde.n
taaro.n se le gavaahii
barabaad mai.n yahaa.N huu.N
aabaad tU kahaa.N hai
bedard aasamaa.N hai …

aavaaz de kahaa.N hai …

Day #28 of 31
Song #82

In yesterday’s songs, we had taken up a song from the 1963 OP Ralhan movie Gehra Daag starring Rajendra Kumar and Mala Sinha.

The storyline of this crime thriller:

“Shanker (Rejendra Kumar) lives a poor lifestyle along with his elder sister, Usha (Usha Kiran), and a younger sister, Asha Mumtaz), in a town called Baksar. Both he and Usha attend the same college. One day a student, Ram (Ram Mohan), attempts to molest Usha, Shanker intervenes, arguments lead to fisticuffs, and Ram ends up getting killed. Shanker is arrested, tried in Court, and sentenced to 14 years in jail. While there he gets the news that Usha has married Ramesh (Madan Puri), and has given birth to two sons, Tinku and Chimpu. Due to his good behavior, he gets discharged after 10 years, returns home and on the way there rescues an elderly woman (Lalita Pawar), who had fallen from the boat, meets her daughter, Shobha (Mala Sinha), and both fall in love. Upon arrival at home, he is given a warm welcome by everyone, and this is when Shanker finds out that Usha has told everyone that he was employed in Africa for 10 years. Ramesh picks an eligible young man for Asha to get married to but on the day of the marriage, the Prosecuting Attorney recognizes Shanker.”

He cannot obliterate the Gehra Daag (dark Stain) from his life; can he?

This song from the movie is signature Shakeel all the way.

Please enjoy: Bhagwan ik qusuur ki itani badhi sazaa……

bhagavaan ik qusuur kii itanii ba.Dii sazaa
duniyaa terii yahii hai to duniyaa se mai.n chalaa
bhagavaan ik qusuur …

duniyaa ke zaalimo.n ne chalaa_ii.n vo aa.Ndhiyaa.N
saare chiraaG bujh ga_e mai.n dekhataa rahaa
duniyaa terii yahii hai …

mai.n ye samajh rahaa thaa mere daaG dhul ga_e
hogaa kuchh aur Kuun-e-jigar ye pataa na thaa
duniyaa terii yahii hai …

mujh saa badanasiib na hogaa jahaan me.n
jo bhii milaa usii ne gunahagaar hii kahaa
duniyaa terii yahii hai …

Day #28 of 31
Song #83

That brings us to the 41st of Shakeel Badayuni’s movies (out of a total of 59) and the third one with Hemant Kumar since the 1962 Guru Dutt movie Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam.

The 1963 movie Bin Baadal Barsaat was directed by Jyoti Swaroop and happened to be last movie in which Shakeel paired with Hemant.

Its story:

“Seventy years ago the wealthy Thakur of Neelamghat had an affair with a gypsy girl, and then married another woman. The gypsy girl’s dad placed a curse on the entire Thakur family that whenever a male marries, his wife will die in mysterious circumstances after an year. The curse has come true over the years, and none of the Thakurs have escaped it’s wrath. The latest Thakur, Prabhat (Biswajeet) has now come to settle in Neelamghat, and is attracted to the local doctor’s daughter, Sandhya Gupta (Asha Parekh). When Dr. Gupta proposes marriage, Prabhat tells them about the gypsy curse, and both father and daughter scoff at this. They quickly change their minds one night, when they find Prabhat dressed as a groom, getting ready to marry a reincarnated gypsy girl.”

Some likeness there to another movie for which Shakeel wrote lyrics and Hemant da composed the songs: Bees Saal Baad also starring Biswajeet (Hindi movies makers never got rid of a story until they had extracted the last drop of juice from it!)

The film had as good songs as Bees Saal Baad:

1. Zindagi Kitni Khubsurat Hai, Aiye Apki Zarurat Hai
2. Ik Baar Zaraa Phir Kah Do, Mujhe Sharmaake Tum Divaanaa
3. Jab Jaag Uthe Aramaan, To Kaise Nind Aaye
4. Zindagi Kitni Khubsurat Hai, Aiye Apki Zarurat Hai (by Lata)
5. Mariz-e-ishq Hu Aye Janeman
6. Khushi Bhi Mili Humko
7. Dil Me Teri Yaad Sanam
8. Bin Badal Barsaat Na Hogi

Please enjoy this classic from Hemant Kumar on his own music: Zindagi kitani khoobsurat hai....

zi.ndagI kitanI khUbasUrat hai, Aiye ApakI zarUrat hai
zi.ndagI kitanI …

ArazUo.n ke diye, Aj raushan kIjiye
Ae hai.n milane ko ham, zi.ndagI bhar ke liye
kyA hasI.n rAt kyA muhUrat hai, zi.ndagI kitanI …

yU.N na ab sharamAiye, yU.N na ab ghabarAiye
phUl ke ghU.NghaT se ab, chA.NdanI barasAiye
chA.NdanI rAt kyA zarUrat hai, zi.ndagI kitanI …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfuSTwwBrZg

Day #28 of 31
Song #84

Here is a second song from the 1963 movie Bin Badal Barsaat and this is everyone’s favourite. Hemant Kumar sang this on his own music.

The picturisation, the music and the lyrics are simply exquisite. Dev Anand and Hema Malini copied this picturisation in their Pal bhar ke liye koi hamen pyaar kar le from the 1970 movie Johnny Mera Naam.

Please enjoy: Jab jaag uthe armaan to kaise neend aaye….

jab jaag uThe aramaa.n to kaise nii.nd aae
ho ghar me.n hasii.n mehamaa.n to kaise nii.nd aae, nii.nd aae
jab jaag uThe aramaa.n to kaise nii.nd aae

(ye raat ye dil kii dha.Dakan ye ba.Dhatii huii betaabii
ik jaam kii khaatir jaise bechain ho koii sharaabii ) – (2)
sholo.n me.n girii ho jaan to kaise nii.nd aae
jab jaag uThe aramaa.n to kaise nii.nd aae

(nazadiik bahut hai ma.nzil phir bhii hai Gazab kii duurii
ai dil ye tuu hii batalaa de ye kaun sii hai majabuurii ) – (2)
jab soch me.n ho inasaa.n to kaise nii.nd aae
ho ghar me.n hasii.n mehamaa.n to kaise nii.nd aaye, nii.nd aae
jab jaag uThe aramaa.n to kaise nii.nd aae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtXj_AbLKPM

Appreciating Good Lyrics
Song #28

As you are aware, I started these posts more than three weeks ago to bring home the point that whilst we genuinely love everything that Shakeel wrote, many other contemporary poets and lyricists were also good and popular.

It is, therefore, worth recalling their lyrics too in addition to Shakeel’s. It was the era of good lyrics.

So far, we have taken up in the last twenty-seven days:

1. Shailendra with his Kuchh aur zamaana kehta hai.
2. Rajinder Krishan with his Mujhase mat poochh mere ishq mein.
3. Kaifi Azmi with his Jaane kyaa dhoondati rehati hain ye aankhen mujh mein.
4. Sahir Ludhianvi with Aurat ne janam diya mardon ko.
5. Majrooh Sultanpuri with Teri aankhon ke siwa duniya mein rakha kyaa hai.
6. Jaan Nisar Akhtar with his Mujhape ilzaam-e-bewafai hai.
7. Hasrat Jaipuri with his Aansu bhari hain ye jeevan ki raahen.
8. Qamar Jalalabadi with his Ai meri zindagi tujhe dhoondun kahan.
9. Raja Mehdi Ali Khan with Mera sundar sapna beet gaya.
10. Indeevar with Bade armaano se rakha hai balam teri kasam.
11. DN Madhok with Man ka taar hila ja
12. Kidar Sharma with Teri duniya mein dil lagta nahin waapas bula le.
13. Kavi Pradeep with Insaan ka insaan se ho bhaichara.
14. Pt. Indra Chandra with Baag laga doon sajani.
15. Anjaan with Tumhen zindagi ke ujaale mubarak.
16. Anand Bakshi with Chand si mehbooba ho meri kab.
17. Prem Dhawan with Seene mein sulagate hain armaan.
18. Neeraj with Aaj ki raat badi shokh badi natkhat hai.
19. Bharat Vyas with Saranga teri yaad mein.
20. Gulzar with his Tum pukaar lo, tumhaara intezaar hai.
21. Pt. Narendra Sharma with Woh chand nahin hai dil hai.
22. Pandit Sudarshan with Zindagi hai pyaar se pyaar se bitaaye jaa.
23. PL Santoshi with O neend naa mujhako aaye.
24. Farooq Qaiser with Saari saari raat teri yaad sataaye.
25. Naqsh Lyalpuri with Main to har mod par tujhako doonga sadaa.
26. Arzoo Lucknowi with Karun kyaa aas niraas bhaii.
27. Tanvir Naqvi with Awaaz de kahan hai.

Today we take up our 28th Lyricist Gulshan Bawra‘s creation.

He was born Gulshan Kumar Mehta on 12 Apr 1937 in Sheikhupura, near Lahore (now in Pakistan). He was only ten when he saw his father and his cousin’s family massacred during the Partition riots. His elder sister brought him to Jaipur and thereafter he went to Delhi for further education.

He came to Bombay in 1955 to write for Hindi films.

Kalyanji (-Anandji), then on his own as Kalyanji Virji Shah, gave him his first opening in Chandrasena (1959) in the song ‘Main kya jaanu kahan laage yeh saawan matwala re’ sung by Lata Mangeshkar.

Since then, in his 42 years old career, he has written 240 songs for 42 movies and had also acted. His two songs: Upkaar song: Mere desh ki dharti; and Zanjeer song: Yaari hai imaan mera, got him two Filmfare awards.

Matching lyrics with Shakeel? I can think of at least two: Chand ko kyaa maaluum chahata hai use koi chakore from 1966 movie Lal Bangla, a song sung by Mukesh; and Aapse hamako bichhade huye ek zamaana beet gaya, sung by poor man’s Mukesh: Manhar with poor man’s Lata Mangeshkar: Suman Kalyanpur for the 1969 movie Vishwas.

However, the song that I am going to give is one of his earliest successes and dear to me as having been sung by my favourite Hemant Kumar. The name of this 1959 movie is Satta Bazaar. And of course you already know the song, a duet between Hemant da and Lata Mangeshgkar on the music and composition of Kalyanji Anandji.

Please enjoy: Tumhen yaad hoga kabhi ham mile the….

he: (tumhe.n yaad hogaa kabhii ham mile the ) -2
muhabbat kii raaho.n me.n mil ke chale the
la: bhuulaa do muhabbat me.n ham tum mile the
sapanaa hii samajho ke mil ke chale the …

he: (Duubaa huu.N Gam kii gaharaa_iyo.n me .n
saharaa hai.n yaado.n kaa tanahaa_iyo.n me.n ) -2
saharaa hai.n yaado.n kaa tanahaa_iyo.n me.n …

la: (kahii.n aur dil kii duniyaa basaa lo
qasam hai tumhe.n vo qasam to.D Daalo) -2
qasam hai tumhe.n vo qasam to.D Daalo …

he: (na_ii dil kii duniyaa basaa na sakuu.Ngaa
jo bhuule ho tum vo bhulaa na sakuu.Ngaa) -2
jo bhuule ho tum vo bhulaa na sakuu.Ngaa …

la: (agar zi.ndagii ho apanii hii bas me.n
tumhaarii qasam ham na bhuule.n vo qasame.n) -2
tumhaarii qasam ham na bhuule.n vo qasame.n …

With that we come to the end of the fourth week of Countdown to the Birth Centenary of Shakeel Badayuni.

Please await the Final Part leading to a month of 31 days and then four days after that so as to complete five weeks of this tribute.