Old Hindi Film Music

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continuing bull's good work

chahe banaa do
chahe mitaa do
mar bhi gaye to
denge duaen

ud udke kahegi khaak sanam
ye dard-e-muhabbat sehne do
mujhe tumse mohabbat ho gayi hai
mujhe palkon ki chaaon mein rehne do
ehsaan tera hoga mujhpar...

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now for the song i have been meaning to take up:
film gumraah, sahir's lyrics set to tune by ravi and sung by mahendra kapoor for sunil dutt.

chalo ek baar phir se
ajnabi ban jaaye hum dono
chalo ek baar

na main tumse koi ummeed rakhoon
dilnawaazi ki
na tum mere taraf dekho chalak angaar
nazron se
na mere dil ki dhadkan ladkadaaye
meri baaton se
na zaahir ho tumhaari kashm-a-kash ka
raaz nazron se

this song simply blows me away every time i hear it. the lyrics, by the incomparable sahir, are believed to be autobiographical (the story is that he was in love with amrita pritam, but they couldn't come together. he promptly took to the bottle and when he once met her at a party, he sang these lines. of course, the story is probably apocryphal, but it could well have been true, when we take a look at the lines, which could have only written by a man who has lost in love, or one whose genius was unmatched (sahir was reputed to be both).

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hmmm... Wasnt Sahir also the lyricist for the wonderful songs of Guru Dutt's pyaasaa?

Apart from
yeh mahlon yeh takhtOn yeh taajOn ki duniyaa

one song which really stays in mind from that film is

jinhE naaz hai hind par woh kahaan hain?

Cram: Do you have access to lyrics of this one?

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bull,
i do have the tapes. shall listen to them (been so long) and then post the lyrics.

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Time to add my two bits here. It is difficult to list a set of favourites because I have quite a long list. So, I'll start with a couple of songs that are ransacking my mind now...Hemant Kumar 's classics in khamoshi

"Humne dekhi hai un aankhon ki mehak ki khushboo-haath se chooke Inhe rishton ka ilzaam na do;sirf
ehsaas hai yeh..rooh se mehsoos karo-pyar
ko pyar hi rehne do,koi naam na do"


Gulzar at his evocative best(and when you catch gulzar at his best, as Lord Ickenham would say of himself, you have got something). It is so different an approach in the love-cliche ridden HF songs. The lines
"Pyar ko pyar hi rehne do-koi naam na do"
really move me to tears.

The stanzas go:

"Pyar koi bol nahin..pyar awaaz nahin- Ek
Khamoshi hai..sunti hai ,kaha karti hai- na
Yeh bujti hai, na rukti hai-Na tehri hai kabhi.
Noor ki boond hai, sadiyon se baha karti hai"



Hemant Kumar's tune and BGM for the songs deserve mention too. The violins(?) simply tug at your heart's strings...and Lata's immaculate soulful rendition,too! It makes me cry and strangely enough I like it for that quality!
A wholesome(lyrics, music, and rendition) song.

Aaj ki raat from the same movie is another moving one. I'll be back with it.

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Wow! Thanks Raj for remind me again of those beautiful lyrics!

I have a doubt though. Ive always been thinking of the lines as

pyaar koi bOl nahin
pyaar awaaz nahin
Ek khamOshi hai sunti hai
kahI jaatI hai

Is it kahaa kartI hai or kahI jaatI hai
can anyone clarify?

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tum pukar lO is another of Hemant's unforgettable melodies from khaamOshi featuring a young Dharmendra who never shows his face through the movie.

It too has got very touching lyrics which I remember for having learnt the word muktasar, a complicated word to mean "uncomplicated".

hOntOn pE liyE huE
dil ki baat hum
jaagtE rahEngE aur
kitni raat hum
muktasar si baat hai
tumsE pyaar hai
tumhaaraa intezaar hai
tum pukaar lO

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My favourite song (not necessarily from the lyrics' point of view) from Khamoshi is "Vo shaam"
by Kishore. One of his best. I still melt every time I hear it. Will be back with the lyrics later. Don't remember all of it.

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Wow! Am I glad to see this thread. Bumped into it only today.

Talking of Hemant Kumar's creations,
in the same Khamoshi ,KK's "Woh shaam" is one of his very best. Good chorus arrangement too! My most favourite composition of Hemant's is "Kuch dil ne Kahaa, Kuch bhee nahin" by Lata for "Anupama". This is Lata at her sweetest and romantic best. The tune is just a killerand overalll a very sensitive composition. The same movie had songs like Lata's "Dheere Dheere machal Aye Dil-e-Bequaraar" and his own "Yaa dil ki suno duniyawalon". Who can forget his "Kahin deep jale kahin dil" and "Mera dil ye pukare aaja" , both in "Bees saal baad".There was another super Hemant-Lata duet (of course composed by Hemant himself) which goes like "Dekho woh chaand chupke kartha hai kya ishaare".

My other hot favourite HFM composers are SDB, Roshan (my favourite melody maker), Madan Mohan, C Ramachandra, Sajjad Hussain, Anil Biswas, Salilda and RC Boral-Punkaj Mullick. Naushad Ali too was great ,but at times found his melodies lacking that extra bit of emotional touch. SJ were never my favourite composers as their base melodies except for a few like "Rasik Balma", "Dil ki girah Khol do" , "Mujh ko apne gale lagaa lo" were very weak and they followed a formula. Most of their songs would have tunes only for 2 lines. In the sense, there would no strong anu-pallavi and the stanza would be a one-liner (tunewise) and would get repeated 4 or 5 times and then loop back to the pallavi. Their tunes were a bit too simplistic for them to be ranked along with the other greats though commercially they were tops along with OP Nayyar. I am just stating my opinions and hope I have not hurt the sentiments of fellow DFers. Some SDB favourites for Kaushik & Co . (Other than Guide)

Tandi hawayen by Lata. (naujavan)
Remember this was copied in Tamil as "Konjum puraave" sung by MLV.
Chaand phir nikla (Lata) (Paying Guest)
Yehi meri manzil (Lata) (House No 44)
Thum na Jane (Lata) (sazaa)
All songs of "Tere Ghar Ke Saamne".
and many more.

I loved his love-duets , so endearing
kora kaagaz thaa (aradhana)
aaj madhosh hua jaye re (Sharmilee)
Dekho Roota na karo (tere Ghar ke saamne)
Aye maine kasam lee (Tere mere sapne)

Would like to discuss Roshan, my all-time favourite in my future postings.

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This is wonderful Sriram! You have added a real lot of diversity to our discussion here, great!

tum na jaane and chaand phir niklaa are one of my all time favourites of Lata. A really very very young voice of Lata in these songs is extremely enchanting and the emotion she has put into these songs is unbeleivable!

Of course, my lyrics madness wouldnt go away and I do like the lyrics of these songs too...

tum na jaanE kis jahaan mein khO gayE
hum bhari duniyaa mein tanhaa hO gayE

maut bhi aati nahin
aas bhi jaati nahin
dil kO yeh kyaa hO gayaa
kOyi shai bhaathi nahin

loot kar mEraa jahan
chhup gayE hO tum kahaan
tum kahaan tum kahaan tum kahaan...

tum na jaanE kis jahaan mein khO gayE
hum bhari duniyaa mein tanhaa hO gayE

Ek jaan aur laakh gam
ghut kE rah jaayE na dam
aayO tumkO dEkh lein
doobtI nazrOn sE hum

loot kar mEraa jahan
chhup gayE hO tum kahaan
tum kahaan tum kahaan tum kahaan...

tum na jaanE kis jahaan mein khO gayE
hum bhari duniyaa mein tanhaa hO gayE

tum na jaanE kis jahaan mein khO gayE