Beautiful Duet Series
I started this series on my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne on 23 Aug 20. Since then, many other members have put up these songs. Here, I shall be giving you one of my own, per day.
Last time, I gave you Beautiful Duet #27 – Yaad mein teri jaag jaag ke hum. So here, then, is the next one:
Song #28
Aankhon mein kya ji? Rupahla baadal
Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik, Majrooh and SD Burman
During the Taare, Sitaare Songs Fest I gave you a song of the 1951 movie Baazi; the song having been penned by Sahir Ludhianvi, composed by SD Burman and sung by Geeta Roy. That song in Raag Pahadi is a personal favourite with me and in my Raaga Based Songs series it appears as early as at #7!
If that song displays the chemistry between Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik (nee’ Mona Singha) (she did her college time in Shimla’s St Bede’s College whilst Dev Anand was a student of Government College, Dharamshala. Surely, the hills lent them their charm and spontaneity).
In Baazi, Kalpana Kartik was three years away from marrying Dev Anand (they secretly married on the sets of 1954 movie Taxi Driver). In Nau Do Gyarah, this movie, they were three years into their marriage and the chemistry is even more there.
Nau Do Gyarah
It was an important movie in Hindi films. This was the debut directorial attempt by Dev Anand’s brother Vijjay Anand who proved to be as good a director as Dev Anand was as an actor or brother Chetan Anand was as Director.
Sahir and SD Burman fell apart after 1957 movie Pyaasa and this was the first movie with Majrooh after Sahir – SD Burman break up (though Majrooh had penned for SD Burman before too.
The Song
It is one of the first tete-a tate songs as duet that became fashionable later; eg, Baagon mein bahar hai.
This volley of dialogues between the hero and the heroine was given playback by Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle. Here is the tete-a-tete:
आँखों में क्या जी
रुपहला बादल
बादल में क्या जी
किसी का आँचल
आँचल में क्या जी
अजब सी हलचल
रंगीं है मौसम
तेरे दम की बहार है
फिर भी है कुछ कम
बस तेरा इंतज़ार है
देखने में भोले हो
पर हो बड़े चंचल
आँखों में क्या जी…
झुकती हैं पलकें
झुकने दो और झूम के
उड़ती हैं ज़ुल्फें
उड़ने दो होंठ चूम के
देखने में…
झूमें लहराएं
नयना मिल जाये नैन से
साथी बन जाएं
रस्ता कट जाये चैन से
देखने में…
My Own Poetry
Meri Zindagi Aapki Aankhon Tale
आपकी आँखों में मुझे वह झलक मिल जाती है,
ज़िन्दगी दफ़अतन और हसीन हो जाती है I
लोग देखते हैं प्यार दिलरुबा की आँखों में,
मुझे तो सारी कायनात नज़र आ जाती है I
ये आँखें नहीं हैं मेरी ज़िन्दगी की रहनुमा हैं,
ज़िन्दगी के मायने यकीनी मुझे समझाती हैं I
कई बार सोचता हूँ कह दूँ इनसे मैं दिल की बात,
क्या कहूं हया मेरी आंखों में छलक जाती है I
सबेरे का सूरज इनकी पलकें खुलने का इशारा है,
रात का अँधेरा पलक झुकने पे ले आती हैं I
ज़िन्दगी में लाखों ग़म इधर उधर बिखरे हों तो क्या,
ज़िन्दगी के सारे ग़म इनकी लौ भुलाती हैं I
मुझे अब इनके सिवा कुछ और न चाहिए, रवि,
जन्नत – ऐ – खुदा खुद बा खुद मिल जाती है I
The Song
Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy: Aankhon mein kya ji? Rupahla baadal…
I hope you liked my choice of Beautiful Duet #28.
Please await Beautiful Duet #29- Pyaar hua ikraar hua.
