YKDN is an acronym for ‘Yaad Kiya Dil Ne’, a Facebook group that I have for songs and music.
There are many Song and Music groups on the Facebook; but, ‘Yaad Kiya Dil Ne‘ is different. Most other groups simply have members putting up urls of songs from YouTube and other sources and then members congratulate the choice of the one who has posted by such comments as “Wow”, “I love this too”, “Really nice” and so on.
‘Yaad Kiya Dil Ne‘ is different and unique. It is a successor to my group ‘Dil Ki Nazar Se‘, which I had to abandon when some of the members insisted on just putting up urls from YouTube with very little or no contribution of their own. Here is the description of ‘Yaad Kiya Dil Ne‘:
“A group for serious music lovers who not just relish putting up and listening to songs but also identify these with Lyricists, Music Directors, Singers and Actors who brought the songs to us. The group pays tributes to these four classes of people on their birth and death anniversaries. The group is also interested in sharing knowledge about all aspects of songs including Raagas. The group also has thematic Music Fests at least once in a month. If you are a casual copy-paste music lover who can copy-paste ten songs (urls) from You Tube in ten minutes, this group is NOT recommended for you.”
The name of the group has been derived from the title of a duet between Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar from the 1953 movie Patita starring Dev Anand and Usha Kiran.”
In the year 2016, on24th of April, the group had its first annual meet at Whispering Winds, Kandaghat (Please read an account of that Meet at ‘Yaad Kiya Dil Ne Group Meet At Whispering Winds, Kandaghat’). Whispering Winds, Kandaghat is my house in Shimla Hills, Himachal Pradesh (Please read: ‘Home Is Where The Heart Is – Kandaghat In Shimla Hills’).
Since then, it is held annually in April.
This year too we had it in April but decided to have a Winter Session of the KLF on 05 and 06 Nov. This was the first time that KLF was held in November.
Following were the participants:
KLF Nite at Hotel Falcon Crest
In winters, because of shorter days, we started as early as at 6:30 PM. After the Welcome Address by me and introductions, we cut the YKDN cake and sang our anthem:
The theme of the evening songs was Tanhayi (Akela and any other synonyms included). It was decided that any Tanha song would do even if the theme-word didn’t appear in mukhada or antara of the song.
Nikki, Renu and Suresh were the judges.
I was the first one to start. I started with a song in Raag Pahadi, the raag of this place in the Himalayas. Mohammad Rafi was given a Filmfare Award for singing it on the lyrics of Majrooh Sultanpuri and composition of Laxmikant Pyarelal for the 1964 movie Dosti:
After this, we had a dozen participants in alphabetical order. These included those who were not physically present but sent their recorded songs.
The first one alphabetically also happened to our newest participant Ashwani Sharma.
He sang a song from the 1949 movie Dillagi starring Shyam and Suraiya. The song was penned by my favourite lyricist Shakeel Badayuni, composed by Naushad and sung by Mohammad Rafi:
Next was Evani Leela’s turn:
She had sent a recording of her song, complete with a description as follows:
Geetkaar shaayad Madhukar Rajasthani.
Sangeet sadabahar sangeetkaar Khayyam.
Rafi ke non filmi bhajanon ne logon ke dilon par Raj kiya tha.
Khaas taur par Krishna bhajan.
Brij ke logon ke saath Krishna ka jo naata tha, unn galiyon se, gopikaon se, gwalon se gayyon se jo unka apnapan tha, woh sabhi ke liye ek madhur ehsaas tha.
Unki bansuri ke deewane brijwasi hi nahin, yamuna bhi dolayman hoti thi.
Itna Prem ka anubhav karaake Jo unn se mooh mod liya, toh wapas mudkar bhi nahin dekha.
Unke virah mein jo bilakhte rahe, rote rahe… Woh aaj tak ro rahe hain.
Unn sab mein mukhyatah RADHA..
Jiske virah ka koi antt hi nahin.
Radha Krishna ke virah mein yugon se akeli akelepan joojh rahi hain. Jinke rishte ke oopar taane diye gaye
Amar bana unka Prem lekin uske liye Radha ko kya khona pada, koi nahin anubhav kar sakta.
Rafi ke swar mein jhalakti hai Radha ki atma ki peeda.
Khayyam se badhkar kaun de sakta itna vedna bhara Sangeet!!
Enjoy karenge iss ummed ke saath.
Leela.”
And then we had JP Singh who, like Ashwani Sharma above, was making his debut appearance in KLF.
He is a wizard in flute and keyboard playing but, in keeping with the spirit of KLF, he decided to sing a Tanhayi song.
His song was from the 1965 movie Himalay Ki God Mein starring Manoj Kumar and Mala Sinha. His song lyrics were penned by Qamar Jalalabadi and composed in Raag Todi by Kalyanji Anandji. Mukesh had sung the original:
Another debut appearance was coming up, at this stage, by Kusum Chaudhary.
She decided to sing Yeh shaam ki tanhayiyan aise mein tera gham from the 1953 movie Aah starring Raj Kapoor and Nargis. The song was penned by Shailendra and composed in Raag Shuddha Kalyan by Shankar Jaikishan, the same raag in which they composed Lata’s Rasik balma:
Next was the recorded song by Nimmi Iyer. She sang Akele hain chale aao, the second female singer, after Evani Leela, who chose to sing Mohammad Rafi.
The song reminded her of her late brother who was fond of it and was a great singer
The song is from the 1967 movie Raaz starring Rajesh Khanna and Babita. It was penned by Shamim Jaipuri and composed by Kalyanji Anandji:
Next participant, Raj Dutta too, sent a link to his song on Smule.
He sang a song from the 1962 movie Bees Saal Baad starring Biswajeet and Wahida Rehman. The song was penned by Shakeel Badayuni who received his third Filmfare Award for another song from the same movie: Kahin deep jale kahin dil. It was composed and sung by Hemant Kumar. I am sharing it here by downloading it from Smule by a Smule Downloader:
And now it was time for Rekha Mittal. She chose to sing this song from the 1961 movie Dharamputra starring, in his debut role, Shashi Kapoor who lip-synced my favourite to Indrani Mukherjee: Bhool sakta hai bhala kaun tumhari aankhen.
This song was penned by Sahir Ludhianvi, composed by N Dutta and sung by Asha Bhosle for Mala Sinha:
Satinder PS Narang, next, had decided to send a link to his singing Ek akela is shahr mein, a Bhupinder song from the 1977 movie Gharonda starring Amol Palekar and Zarina Wahab.
The song was penned by Gulzar and composed by Jaidev:
And then, it was time for Suman Saxena to wow us.
She decided to give us a song from the 1969 movie Talash starring Rajendra Kumar and Sharmila Tagore. The song was originally sung by Lata Mangeshkar on the lyrics of Majrooh Sultanpuri and composition of SD Burman:
And the last one to sing in this part of KLF was Surinder Grewal. He too decided to send us a link to his song on Starmaker.
His song was from the 1971 movie Mere Apne starring Vinod Khanna and Meena Kumari.
The song was originally sung by Kishore Kumar on the lyrics of Gulzar and composition of Salil Chowdhury:
That finishes Part I of KLF, first ever Winter Session , from 05 to 06 Nov.
Please await the remaining parts.
