These blogs, one part in a week, have been reconstructed from my Facebook Page: Lyrical whereat I am attempting a four week tribute to Shakeel Badayuni leading up to his Birth Centenary on 03 Aug 2016.
I love the date of 03 Aug 1916 when my favourite poet and lyricist Shakeel Badayuni was born in the small town of Badayun in Uttar Pradesh state. That part of the country was milling with all kinds of poets at that time and Shakeel (literally ‘Handsome’) was greatly influenced by this poetical atmosphere.
His father, Mohammed Jamaal Ahmed Sokhta Qadiri, arranged tuition for Shakeel in the prevalent languages of that time: Urdu (a language indigenous to India), Arabic, Persian, and Hindi.
Shakeel appeared to have given his heart to learning these so well that the greatest ghazal (in Urdu) of its times, Aye mohabbat tere anjaam pe rona aaya (sung by Begum Akhtar), and the greatest Hindi bhajan of all times, Man tadpat Hari darshan ko aaj, were both penned by him.
In the Aligarh Muslim University, whereat he received his college education, he frequently took part in mushairas and won.
The first one to sign him for the movies was someone who stayed as his friend, guide and mentor for his life: Naushad Ali. This was for the 1947 AR Kardar movie Dard.
I feel that the name of the movie itself portended the genre’ of songs and ghazals that he excelled at: there was always love, always dard, always gham, and always great deal of irony.
Even if he had written nothing else, other than Aye mohabbat tere anjaam pe rona aaya, he would have obtained adequate glory to be counted amongst the best. But, he wrote and wrote and excelled in all genres of songs, including children’s songs, bhajans, ghazals and songs depicting the beauty of a woman (husn).
Here is my own attempt at why we love his poetry:
Hamen Shakeel ki shayari kyun pasand hai? Dil ke taar baja kar woh chala jaata hai, Phir ham chain o neend apni kho dete hain Guzra hua zamaana hamen yaad aata hai Kyaa rang tha, kyaa noor tha, gham-e-aashiqi thi Woh aalam dil-e-jahan pe chha jaata hai Door kahin Naushad ki mausiqi ki dhun bajti hai Dil khud-ba-khud gaata hai aur sunaata hai Waah Shakeel, mar ke bhi tum zinda hi rahe Har haseen naghma tumhaari Yaad dilaata hai.
Day #1 of 31 Song #1
Let me start with his song (I am initially not going to put up songs in any order; but, the way and the time they impinge on the chords of my heart) that Naushad Ali composed in the Raaga of my home in the hills: Raag Pahadi.
It is also appropriate to start with this Raag since some of Shakeel’s best songs were set in this Raaga such as Chaudhvinh Ka Chand (for which he got his first Filmfare Best Lyricst award in 1961, though with Ravi), Aaj ki raat mere dil ki salaami le le (Ram Aur Shyam), Koi pyaar ki dekhe jaadugari (Kohinoor), and O door ke musaafir (Udan Khatola).
The tal in this song is Kaherava.
Only yesterday, my friend Anand Desai, whilst giving his third post on the musical instruments used in Hindi songs, in our Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne, wrote about the trumpet. This is what he had to say about the song:
“Accomplished Trumpeters use a blocker called the “Mute” for a subtle and a muzzled effect which allows the player to depict the mood on the screen… examples of this Mute effect are in Awaaz de kahan hai; Suhani raat dhal chuki naa jaane tum kab aaoge).”
And then I saw the video of the live singing of this song, the link to which I am giving here.
Of course, Pahadi is not so much a Raaga as a ‘dhun’. Soundofindia.com describes Raag Pahadi as: “The raga is like a lover, unruffled in union, serene in separation, powerful enough to achieve eternal union, but resigned to the painful parting ordained by destiny.”
This description of Raag is as if describing this most enchanting song put together by Shakeel, Naushad and Rafi.
nazaare .a .a .a apanii mastiyaa.n
dikhaa dikhaa ke so gaye
sitaare .a .a .a apanii raushanii
luTaa luTaa ke so gaye
har ek shammaa jal chukii
naa jaane tum kab aaoge
suhaanii raat Dhal chukii …
ta.Dap rahe hai.n ham yahaa.N – 2
tumhaare i.ntazaar me.n – 2
(khizaa kaa ra.ng, aa chalaa hai
mausam-e-bahaar me.n ) – 2
mausam-e-bahaar me.n
havaa bhii rukh badal chukii .a .a .a
naa jaane tum kab aaoge
suhaanii raat Dhal chukii
naa jaane tum kab aaoge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nfG4vmyhds
Song #2
He started writing songs for the Hindi movies, as I said, with the 1947 movie Dard when Naushad Ali took him up as the lyricist for the songs of the movie. His very first song became a popular song of those times: Afsana likh rahi hoon.
The movie was directed by Abdul Rashid Kardar and was a movie of Kardar Productions house. Munawwar Sultana was the main lead of the movie and Suraiyya as the second lead.
(Pic courtesy: mio.to)
Some people say that Shakeel was “lucky” to get unprecedented success in his very first movie itself. I, being amongst his biggest fans, am not surprised at all! Shakeel, throughout his life, never seemed to have written with pen and paper. I feel that he wrote from heart directly to our hearts. Here is my own take on that:
Kalam ka kalaam to bahut shaayar likhate the, Shakeel to dil se dilon ke taar milaate the, Waise to duniya mein sukhanwar ki kami naa thi, Shakeel nazaara-e-naghma hu-ba-hu dikhate the.
There were as many as ten songs in the movie Dard:
1 “Afsana Likh Rahi Hoon” Uma Devi
2 “Aaj Machi Hai Dhum” Uma Devi
3 “Yeh Kaun Chala Yeh Kaun Chala” Uma Devi
4 “Betaab Hai Dil Dard-E-Mohabbat Ke Asar Se” Uma Devi, Suraiya
5 “Beech Bhanvar Men Aan Phansa Hai” Suraiya
6 “Dil Dhadke Aankh Meri Phadke” Suraiya
7 “Hum Thay Tumhare Tum Thay Humare” Suraiya
8 “Chale Dil Ki Duniya Barbaad Kar Ke” Suraiya
9 “Yeh Afsana Nahin Zalim Mere Dil Ki Haqeeqat Hai” Shamshad Begum
10 “Ham Dard Kaa Afsana Duniya Ko Suna Denge” Shamshad Begum
Uma Devi, of course, later got recognition as the obese comedy actress Tun Tun. But, here she sang for Shakeel and Naushad.
The lyrics of the song are as if telling the tale (afsaana) of the future life of Shakeel as the lyricist par excellence, if you change from female to male, ie, instead of likh rahin hoon to likh rahan hoon!
jab tuu nahii.n to kuchh bhii nahii.n hai bahaar me.n
nahii.n hai bahaar me.n
jii chaahataa hai muu.Nh bhii
jii chaahataa hai muu.Nh bhii na dekhuu.N bahaar kaa
aa.Nkho.N me.n rang bhar ke tere i.ntazaar kaa
afasaanaa likh rahii huu.N
haasil hai.n yuu.N to mujhako zamaane kii daulate.n
zamaane kii daulate.n
lekin nasiib laa_ii
lekin nasiib laa_ii huu.N ik soGavaar kaa
aa.Nkho.N me.n rang bhar ke tere i.ntazaar kaa
afasaanaa likh rahii huu.N
aajaa ki ab to aa.Nkh me.n aa.Nsuu bhii aa gaye
aa.Nsuu bhii aa gaye
saaGar chhalak uThaa
saaGar chhalak uThaa mere sabr-o-qaraar kaa
aa.Nkho.N me.n rang bhar ke tere i.ntazaar kaa
afasaanaa likh rahii huu.N
Song #3
Nearly two years before Shakeel was born, Akhtari Bai Faizabadi was born in the same state of Uttar Pradesh, not very far from Badayun. It is as if God had intended that if He would put on earth such an eloquent poet and lyricist, the people deserve a heavenly voice to sing those ghazals. Akhtari Bai Faizabadi soon came to be known as Begum Akhtar, the khitaab of Begum signifying that she was known as Mallika-e-Ghazal (Queen of Ghazal).
Shakeel would have deserved nothing less!
Jazbaat ka ghazal taq laana Shakeel ka tha kaam, Tarannum mein use sajaana Begum ka tha payaam, Dard-e-dil ki daastaan ka agaaz to sab ne suna hai, Gaur farmaayiye ishq-e-muhabbat ka anjaam.
I don’t think that you require any more guessing as to what I am leading to.
This is not on the music of Naushad but that of Murli Manohar Swarup.
Please enjoy: Aye mohabbat tere anjaam pe rona aaya…..
Ai mohabbat tere a.njaam pe ronaa aayaa jaane kyuu.N aaj tere naam pe ronaa aayaa
yuu.N to har shaam umiido.n me.n guzar jaatii thii aaj kuchh baat hai jo shaam pe ronaa aayaa
kabhii taqadiir kaa maatam kabhii duniyaa kaa gilaa ma.nzil-e-ishq me.n har gaam pe ronaa aayaa
jab hu_aa zikr zamaane me.n mohabbat kaa ‘Shakeel’ mujhako apane dil-e-naakaam pe ronaa aayaa
Day #2 of 31 Song #4
What an era it was when we used to go to movies whose songs were penned by Shakeel Badayuni, composed by Naushad Ali, sung by Mohammad Rafi and lip-synced by Dilip Kumar; each one of them being the best in their particular fields.
Shakeel Badayuni was elder to Naushad by three years, Dilip Kumar by six years and Mohammad Rafi by eight years.
Those were the days when the success of the movie depended largely on its songs. Whilst Naushad Ali was considered the greatest composer of those times, considerable credit must go to Shakeel for having given the soul to those songs.
As I go along, I shall give you the names of the movies. However, even if you recall just a few of them such as Baiju Bawra, Mother India, Udan Khatola, Mughal-e-Azam, Ganga Jamuna, Leader, Ram Aur Shyam, Dulari, Ghughat, Kohinoor, Son of India, Do Badan and Dil Diya Dard Liya, you would know that you are being transported into a world from where you don’t want to return.
It was common for people to forget all aspects of the movie but remember the lyrics. They might have even forgotten his name but lyrics would still be remembered.
In my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne, for example, one of the friends brought out that her favourite ghazal was Aye mohabbat tere anjaam pe rona aaya. However, she remembered it as Begum Akhtar’s ghazal and was surprised when I told her that the poet is Shakeel!
Yesterday, I re-introduced Begum Akhtar to you as god-sent to sing his ghazals. Mohammad Rafi, however, needs no introduction. My friend Binu Nair, the founder of Rafi Foundation, is fond of quoting Manna Dey when he said that when it came to the rankings amongst male playback singers, position #1 to #10 were occupied by Mohammad Rafi. No one could hold a candle to him. He sang, it appeared to us, effortlessly. But, when you try to sing some of his songs, it occurs to you how difficult these are.
One such song is from the 1952 movie Baiju Bawra, the only movie for which Naushad Ali received the Filmfare Best musician award.
(Poster courtesy: www.youtube.com)
The movie was directed by Vijay Bhatt who made such movies as Ram Rajya (1943), Vikramadita (1945), Ramayan (1954), Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959), Haryali Aur Raasta (1962) and Himalaya Ki God Mein (1965).
All songs of Baiju Bawra were penned by Shakeel Badayuni and each one was composed by Naushad in a classical raga. Have a look:
1. “Tu Ganga Ki Mauj” (Raga Bhairavi) Mohammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
2. “Aaj Gawat Man Mero Jhoomke” (Raga Deshi) Ustad Amir Khan, D. V. Paluskar
3. “O Duniya Ke Rakhwale” (Raga Darbari) Mohammad Rafi
4. “Door Koi Gaye” (Raga Desh) Lata Mangeshkar, Shamshad Begum & chorus
5. “Mohe Bhool Gaye Sanwariya” (Raga Bhairav with traces of Raga Kalingda) Lata Mangeshkar
6. “Jhoole Mein Pawan Ki Aai Bahar” (Raga Pilu) Mohammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
7. “Man Tarpat Hari Darsan Ko Aaj” (Raga Malkauns) Mohammad Rafi
8. “Bachpan Ki Muhabbat” (Based on Maand) Lata Mangeshkar
9. “Insaan Bano” (Raga Todi) Mohammad Rafi
10. “Tori Jai Jai Kartar” (Raga Puriya Dhanashree) Ustad Amir Khan
11. “Langar Kankariya Ji Na Maro” (Raga Todi) Ustad Amir Khan, D. V. Paluskar
12. “Ghanana Ghanana Ghana Garjo Re” (Raga Megh) Ustad Amir Khan
13. “Sargam” (Raga Darbari) Ustad Amir Khan
We are going to take up O duniya ke rakhwaale in Raag Darbari. This raag was believed to have originated in Kanada region and brought to Emperor Akbar’s court by Mian Tansen. The movie has Baijnath Mishra (called Baiju Bawra, or Baiju the Crazy) seeking revenge on Tansen for the death of Baiju’s father by defeating him in singing!
Rafi has set such high standards in singing this song, that no one has ever attempted to sing it alive in a concert. The high pitched ending is just out of this world.
It was all made possible by the exquisite lyrics of Shakeel.
Please enjoy: O duniya ke rakhwaale….
bhagavaan, bhagavaan … bhagavaan
o duniyaa ke rakhavaale, sun dard bhare mere naale
sun dard bhare mere naale
aash niraash ke do ra.ngo.n se, duniyaa tuune sajaaI
nayyaa sa.ng tuufaan banaayaa, milan ke saath judaaI
jaa dekh liyaa harajaaI
o … luT gaI mere pyaar kii nagarii, ab to niir bahaa le
ab to niir bahaa le
o … ab to niir bahaa le, o duniyaa ke rakhavaale …
aag banii saavan kii barasaa, phuul bane a.ngaare
naagan ban ga_ii raat suhaanii, patthar ban gae taare
sab TuuT chuke hai.n sahaare, o … jiivan apanaa vaapas le le
jiivan dene vaale, o duniyaa ke rakhavaale …
chaa.nd ko Dhuu.NDhe paagal suuraj, shaam ko Dhuu.NDhe saveraa
mai.n bhii Dhuu.NDhuu.N us priitam ko, ho naa sakaa jo meraa
bhagavaan bhalaa ho teraa, o … qismat phuuTii aas na TuuTii
paa.nv me.n pa.D gae chhaale, o duniyaa ke rakhavaale …
mahal udaas aur galiyaa.n suunii, chup-chup hai.n diivaare.n
dil kyaa uja.Daa duniyaa uja.Dii, ruuTh gaI hai.n bahaare.n
ham jiivan kaise guzaare.n, o … ma.ndir girataa phir ban jaataa
dil ko kaun sambhaale, o duniyaa ke rakhavaale …
o duniyaa ke rakhavaale
rakhavaale
rakhavaale
rakhavaale … (throat bleeding pitch !!)
Song #5
What a song that was in Raag Darbari!
In my own words:
Shakeel naghmagar (lyricist) nahin, the ek awwal sunaar, Geet aise likhe hain jaise heeron se jadhe hon haar, Har ek lafz ki alag pehchaan aur chamak hai, Dil chahata hai sune aur dekhen baar baar.
One such song that we would like to listen to over and over again was written by him for the 1962 movie Bees Saal Baad that was produced by my favourite singer Hemant Kumar and directed (debut) by Biren Nag.
A song from the movie Kahin deep jale kahin dil won Shakeel Badayuni his third Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist.
But, the song that we shall never get tired of listening to is Beqraar karke hamen youn naa jaayiye. Of course, one must admire the remarkably impressive singing by Hemant Kumar and also his composition and music. But, what I wrote about each word being a gem to be arranged in a necklace is very much evident in this song.
In just one song of three stanzas, Biswajeet was able to convey to Waheeda Rehman the effect of her beauty, cautioned her about going alone in a garden full of her fans such as roses and moths, and finally suggesting to her to have him as her companion for life!
(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…
Song #6
Whilst Beghum Akhtar sang some of his non-filmy ghazals, the best filmy ghazals of Shakeel Badayuni were sung by both Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar. But, the fact is that they sang some of his non-filmy ghazals too.
Here is one of my favourites by Lata Mangeshkar: Aank se aankh milata hai koi…
Aa.Nkh se aa.Nkh milaataa hai ko_ii
Someone is making his eyes rest on mine
Dil ko khii.Nche liye jaataa hai ko_ii
Someone is tugging at my heart
Vaa-e-hairat ke bharii mahafil me.n
Alas in this party full of wonder
Mujh ko tanhaa nazar aataa hai ko_ii
I find someone is alone
Sub.h ko KHunuk fanaa.oñ ki qasam
I vow by the happy weather of the morning
Roz aa aa ke jagaata hai ko_ii
Someone comes again and again to awaken me
Manzar-e-husn-e-do-aalam ke nisaar
Offering of the spectacle of the beauty of two world
Mujh ko aa-iina dikhaataa hai ko_ii
Someone is showing me the looking-glass
Chaahiye Khud pe yaqiin-e-kaamil
One should have firm belief on oneself
Hausalaa kis kaa ba.Dhaataa hai ko_ii
Who is there to provide encouragement?
Sab karishmaat-e-tasavvur hai “Shakeel”
All are miracles of imagination, Shakeel
Varanaa aataa hai na jaataa hai ko_ii
Else no one comes, no one goes
Appreciating Good Lyrics Song #1
Now that I have started putting up posts on my Facebookl page ‘Lyrical‘ (shared here as well as in Facebook group ‘Chalta Hai’) as part of the Countdown to the Birth Centenary of Shakeel Badayuni on 03 Aug, I have also decided to give you matching lyrics by other great lyricists.
I am, as you already know, a ‘Lyrical’ man in the same sense (though lacking in equivalent excellence) as my friend Anand Desai is an Instrumental man.
I also feel – and I was just responding to a comment by Ashwani Sharma, whose dad was a great Urdu poet – that Lyricist and Poets are not horses in a race; to be bet upon and cheered to win every time. Hence, if someone is a favourite lyricist or a poet of yours, it simply means that you appreciate all good lyrics and the lyrics of this particular one best synchronise with your emotions and memories.
In the era when I was brought up, good lyrics simply ruled the scene. We may not remember the story-line of a movie after so many decades, but we do remember the lyrics. I gave Ashwani Sharma several examples, such as Rajinder Krishan’s:
“Ghar se chale the ham to khushi ki talaash mein,
Gham raah mein khade the wahin saath ho liye,
Khud dil se dil ki baat kahi aur ro liye.”
If you have seen the movie Adaalat, you would know how aptly the lyrics fit with the story-line and the emotions of Nargis.
Shailendra Kesarilal was one such lyricist. He was born on 30th Aug 1921 in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). He and Hasrat Jaipuri associated with Shankar Jaikishan to create some of the best known songs in the Hindi movies.
His son Dinesh Shankar Shailendra brought out to us during the Shankar Jaikishan Music Foundation’s Mumbai meet that amongst all of them, Shailendra was the only one who knew English and hence all contracts for the S-J and Hasrat were perused by him for correctness before asking them to sign!
If Raj Kapoor hadn’t noticed his poetry in a mushaira in Bombay in the year 1947, Shailendra would have probably continued working in the railways! And then first Aag (1948) and then Barsaat (1949) took place. Shailendra thereafter took us on a better journey than he would have in the Indian Railways.
There are hundreds of his lyrics to appreciate. I am particularly fond of Patita’s Mitti se khelte ho baar baar kis liye and this from the 1965 movie Chhoti Chhoti Baatein that starred Nadira and Motilal.
The movie was written, produced and directed by Motilal. As some of you would know, Motilal died before the movie was released.
You would also appreciate the setting of this great song (and I urge you to see it please) in a boat.
Whilst giving you the description of Raag Sarang in Lyrical, I had mentioned the various names by which Sarang is known, the most popular being Brindavani Sarang. This is, however, composed in Gaur Sarang by Anil Biswas and the tal is Dadra.
Singing for Nadira is Meena Kapoor. She became famous for her 1957 movie Pardesi song: Rasiya re man basiya re. She was, of course married to Anil Biswas. Many people used to comment upon the likeness of her voice to Geeta Dutt with whom she was a friend.
But, this song has to be appreciated most for its exquisite lyrics by Shailendra!
Please enjoy: Kuchh aur zamaana kehta hai…..
kuchh aur zamaanaa kahataa hai, kuchh aur hai zidd mere dil kii
mai.n baat zamaane kii maanuu.N, yaa baat sunuu.N apane dil kii
kuchh aur zamaanaa kahataa hai …
duniyaa ne hame.n berahamii se
Thukaraa jo diyaa, achchhaa hii kiyaa
naadaan ham samajhe baiThe the
nibhatii hai yahaa.N dil se dil kii
kuchh aur zamaanaa kahataa hai …
inasaaf, muhabbat, sachchaa_ii
vo raham-o-qaram ke dikhalaave
kuchh kahate zubaa.N sharamaatii hai
puuchho na jalan mere dil kii
kuchh aur zamaanaa kahataa hai …
go bastii hai insaano.n kii
insaan magar Dhuu.NDhe na milaa
patthar ke buto.n se kyaa kiije
fariyaad bhalaa TuuTe dil kii
kuchh aur zamaanaa kahataa hai …
Day #3 of 31 Appreciating Good Lyrics Song #2
The era in which Shakeel Badayuni was active, belonged to Lyricists. Since the success of the movies’ success primarily depended upon their songs, and since songs were appreciated for their lyrics, the Lyricists were centre stage.One such lyricist of that era was Rajinder Krishan (he also wrote his name as Rajendra Krishan). I think of him as ‘Simla boy’ (my home station) since although he was born in Jalalapur Jatan (that part of Gujarat, which is now in Pakistan), his boyhood and early manhood was spent in Simla where he was a clerk in the municipal office.
I share another interesting thing with him, in that a quarter of century later after he was born, I too was born on the 6th of June!
Even before I was born, he left Simla (now Shimla) and came to Bombay (now Mumbai) to try his luck in the Hindi film industry that had shifted there from Calcutta (now Kolkata).
One of the first music directors that he was associated with as Lyricist (initially, he tried his hand as a screenwriter) was C Ramchandra.
The movie from which I have taken this song to tell you about matching lyrics with Shakeel Badayuni was the 1953 movie Anarkali (earlier he wrote lyrics for the songs of Amar Kahani (1949; with MD Husanlal Bhagatram), Albela (1951; with C Ramchandra), Araam (1951; with Anil Biswas) and Ladki (1953; with R. Sudarsanam and Dhaniram).
Ananrkali was his second movie with C Ramchandra. Initially the MD was Vasant Prakash and after his death C Ramchandra took over. Its 11 songs were penned by four lyricist: Rajinder Krishan penned four of them and the others were by Shailendra, Hasrat Jaipuri and Jaan Nisar Akhtar (Jawed Akhtar’s father).
Some of you would tell me that Rajinder Krishan’s best lyrics are to be found in Adaalat (1958) and Jahan Ara (1964). But, those we shall come to later. Lets get on with 1953 movie Anarkali.
The story is thew same as that of Mughal-e-Azam (which came later) and hence I shall not repeat that. Pradeep Kumar acted as Prince Salim, Bina Rai as the courtesan Anarkali in the court of Emperor Akbar and Noor Jahan as Nur Jehan.
I feel that Rajinder Krishan excelled in the lyrics of this song in the very early stages of his career. The third stanza is so exquisite that at least I am rendered speechless with its simple beauty.
One more thing. Seven years later, Shakeel and Naushad created the songs of Mughal-e-Azam and they became iconic. However, Anarkali songs are as fondly remembered as of Mughal-e-Azam.
Please enjoy: Mujhase mat poochh tere ishq mein kyaa rakha hai….
dil kii lagii hai kyaa, ye kabhii dil lagaake dekh
aa.Nsuu bahaake dekh kabhii muskaraake dekh
paravaanaa jal rahaa hai magar jal rahaa hai kyaa
ye raaz jaananaa hai to khud ko jalaake dekh
mujh se mat puuchh mere ishq me.n kyA rakhaa hai
ek sholaa hai jo siine me.n chhuupaa rakhaa hai
daag-e-dil daag-e-jigar daag-e-tamannaa lekar (2)
mai.n ne viiraan bahaaro.n ko sajaa rakhaa hai
mujh se mat puuchh
hai zamaanaa jise betaab miTaane ke liye (2)
mai.nne us yaad ko siine se lagaa rakhaa hai
mujh se mat puuchh
bhUlanevaale tujhe dard-e-muhabbat kii kasam (2)
mai.n ne is dard me.n duniyA ko bhulaa rakh hai
mujh se mat puuchh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdm-YmBriS0
Song #7
You would have noticed, ladies and gentlemen, that I have started giving you (one post a day titled ‘Appreciating Good Lyrics’). This is intended to contrast his poetry/lyrics with other contemporaries such as Rajinder Krishan, Shailendra, Sahir Ludhianvi, Kaifi Azmi, Hasrat Jaipuri, and Jaan Nisar Akhtar. The idea is to show you that Shakeel was active during a time when songs were appreciated because of their good lyrics as the primary requirement. Enjoy those posts too.
Writing about Shakeel Badayuni is to relive that era when great stories, dialogues, histrionics, and songs made the movies into what they were.
Lets take one of Shakeel’s early movies: the 1951 movie Deedar. It was one of the earliest movies in which Shakeel wrote the songs, Naushad composed them, Mohammad Rafi sang and Dilip Kumar enacted.
The movie stars both Nargis and Nimmi opposite Dilip Kumar (Shamu) as Mala and Champa respectively. The story was that of unfulfilled love between two childhood friends: Shamu and Champa, whose love was nipped in the bud due to class inequalities. Traumatised and blinded, he earns living singing but deep down he searches for his childhood love to have her Deedar (face to face).
The story was repeatedly mentioned by Vikram Seth in his popular novel A Suitable Boy. A remake of this story was done by Raj Khosla at the behest of Manoj Kumar and this was called Do Badan. Interestingly, even Do Badan had songs written by Shakeel Badayuni, though composed by Ravi.
Deedar’s songs were composed by Naushad and have a look at the list:
1. Bachpan Ke Din Bhoola Na Dena – Male Mohammad Rafi
2. Hue Hum Jinke Liye Barbad – I Mohammad Rafi
3. Hue Hum Jinke Liye Barbad – II Mohammad Rafi
4. Naseeb Dar Pe Tera Aazmane Aya Hon Mohammad Rafi
5. Meri Kahani Bhoolne Wale Mohammad Rafi
6. Dekh Liya Maine Kismat Ka Tamasha Mohammad Rafi & Lata Mangeshkar
7. Tu Kon Hai Mera Kehde Balam Lata Mangeshkar
8. Le Ja Meri Duayeein Le Ja Lata Mangeshkar
9. Duniya Ne Teri Duniyawale Lata Mangeshkar
10. Bachpan Ke Din Bhoolana Dena – Female Shamshad Begum & Lata Mangeshkar
11. Chaman Mein Rakhe Verana Shamshad Begum
12. Nazar Phero Na Humse Shamshad Begum & G. M. Durrani
You would have noticed two things in the above list. One, that GM Durrani, who was Mohammad Rafi’s guru, also sang with him in the same movie!
Two, that whenever you post a song of Shakeel Badayuni, you have to sadly and automatically think of all the others that you ain’t putting up!
Mohammad Rafi sang this for Dilip Kumar.
Naushad, who was really very well versed with Raagas, set this in Raag Tilang that I haven’t yet taken up with you here on Lyrical.
All those, like me, who have read and routinely read Sri Guru Granth sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs, would be familiar with this Raag. In the SGGS, there are as many as 20 hymns in this Raag, that has its origin in Sufi tradition and has fair sprinkling of Islamic vocabulary: Guru Nanak (6 hymns), Guru Ram Das (3), Guru Arjan(5), Guru Tegh Bahadur (3), Kabir (1) and Namdev (2).
Raag Tilang has intrinsic sense of yearning in it (it belongs to the Khammaj thaat) and it is reflected very well in this song.
Please enjoy: Meri kahaani bhoolne waale, tera jahan aabaad rahe….
mere giit sune duniyaa ne magar
meraa dard koI na jaan sakaa
ek teraa sahaaraa thaa dil ko
par tuu bhii na mujhe pahachaan sakaa
bachapan ke vo giit puraane aaj tujhe na yaad rahe
merii kahaanii
mai.n apanaa fasaanaa kah na sakaa
mere dil kii tamannaa dil me.n rahii
lo aaj kinaare par aake
aramaano.n kii kashtii Duub ga_ii
qismat ko ma.nzuur yahii thaa lab par mere fariyaad rahe
merii kahaanii
Song #8
The era that I was talking about not just belonged to Shakeel, Naushad, Rafi, Lata, but any attempts to discount the effect of their priceless creations is an effort to rewrite that nostalgia imprinted on our minds.
Lets take one of Lata Mangeshkar at this stage.
The 1955 movie Uran Khatola was indeed produced by the music director Naushad and hence you can be assured of the best of the songs in the movie. Dilip Kumar acted opposite Nimmi.
The story was repeated in Hindi movies a number of times and Dilip Kumar starrer Taraana with Madhubala has almost the same story.
Here is the story from Wiki:
“Kashi (Dilip Kumar) travels by an ill-fated plane, which crashes on the outskirts of an isolated city that is ruled by women, who worship Sanga, their God. Kashi is rescued by pretty Soni (Nimmi) and taken to her home, where she lives with her widowed dad, and brother, Hira (Agha). Since the roads are blocked, Kashi is unable to return home, and in order to continue to stay here, he must first obtain permission from the Raj Rani (Surya Kumari), the ultimate ruler. He meets with her and she finds him attractive and charming, and invites him to stay with her at her palace and sing for him, which he does. Kashi and Soni have given their hearts to each other, they meet secretly, with Soni disguised as a man, Shibu. Raj Rani finds out that a Kashi is ignoring her love for a mere peasant.
And….it is in this song!
Naushad composed the song in Raag Bihag. We have already taken up this Raag on Lyrical when I told you that the mood of the Raag is celebratory and is normally played at marriages.
If you recall Lyrical’s cover picture showed the song ‘Tere sur aur mere geet’ from Goonj Uthi Shehnai.
Please enjoy: Hmaare dil se na jaana, dhoka na khaana, duniya badhi beimaan….
hamaare dil se na jaanaa,dhokaa na khaanaa,duniyaa ba.Dii beimaa.n
o piyaa duniyaa badii beimaa.n
hamaare dil se na jaanaa,dhokaa na khaanaa,duniyaa ba.Dii beimaa.n
hamaare
(mai.n huu.n jii pyaar kii pahalii nishaanii)-2
(aa.Nkho.n se aaj kahuu.n dil kii kahaanii)-2
o~oo~ sun lo jii pai.nyaa pa.Duu.N ho~oo~
(dekho jii vinatii karuu.n)-2
ho~oo~,hamaare ghar laaj nibhaanaa
dil na dukhaanaa
balamaa kahanaa meraa maan
oo~ piyaa duniyaa ba.Dii beimaa.n
hamaare …
(miiThe do bol yahaa.n,mushakil hai bolanaa)-2
(duniyaa kii riit(?) kabhii,man ke na kholanaa)-2
o~oo~ jhuuTii hai priit yahaa.n,ho~oo~
(koii na miit yahaa.n)-2
ho~oo~,buraa hai aaj zamaanaa
TuuTe jiyaa naa
ulajhan me.n hai merii jaan
oo~ piyaa duniyaa ba.Dii beimaa.n
hamaare …
Song #9
If you notice, I have been giving you two songs followed by a ghazal everyday.
The cover picture shows only one ghazal singer: Begum Akhtar who sang several of his ghazals.
Another singer who added his name into the list of immortal ghazal singers was Talat Mehmood. Coincidentally, Talat being almost eight years younger to Shakeel Badayuni was also from Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow. His kind of romantic and tragic singing suited the lyrics of Shakeel.
Here is he singing Shakeel’s famous ghazal: Meri zindagi hai zaalim tere gham se aashkara…
Merii zindagii hai zaalim, tere Gam se aashkaaraa
My life is a manifestation of your sorrow, O tyrant
Teraa Gam hai dar-haqiiqat mujhe zindagii se pyaaraa
The truth is that your sorrow is dearer to me than my life
Vo agar buraa na maane to jahaa.N-e-rang-o-buu me.n
If she won’t mind then in this world of colour and fragrance
Mai.n sukuun-e-dil kii Khaatir koii Dhuu.NDh luu.N sahaaraa
May I search for support for the sake of peace of my heart?
Ye fulak fulak havaaye.N ye jhukii jhukii ghaTaaye.N
These happy winds, these low rain bearing clouds
Vo nazar bhii kyaa nazar hai jo samajh na le ishaaraa
What kind of eye is that which can’t take this hint?
Mujhe aa gayaa yaqii.n saa yahii hai merii ma.nzil
I have come to believe that this is my destination
Sar-e-rah jab kisii ne mujhe daffa’atan pukaaraa
On the road when someone called me spontaneously
Mai.n bataauu.N farq naasih, jo hai mujh me.n aur tujh me.n
I can tell you my counsellor, the difference between you and me
Merii zindagii talaatum, terii zindagii kinaaraa
My life is like a sea-storm, your life is like a shore
Mujhe guftaguu se ba.Dakar Gam-e-izn-e-guftaguu hai
More than the conversation, I have grief of permission to converse
Wahii baat puuchhte hai.n jo na kah sakuu.N dobaaraa
She asks me about that thing that I can’t repeat
Koii aye ‘Shakeel’ dekhe, ye junuu.N nahii.n to kyaa hai
Someone should see this, Shakeel, isn’t it madness
Ke usii ke ho gaye ham jo na ho sakaa hamaaraa
That I became hers but she couldn’t be mine
Day #4 of 31 Appreciating Good Lyrics Song #3
In the last two days I have given you lyrics as under:1. Shailendra’s: Kucch aur zamaana kehta hai.
2. Rajinder Krishan’s: Mujhase mat poochh tere ishq ne kyaa rakha hai.
Lets take one of Kaifi Azmi today. His real name was Sayyid Akhtar Hussein Rizvi. He was born in a village Mizwaan in the district Azamgarh of Uttar Pradesh. His daughter Shabana is a celebrated actress in Hindi movies and son Baba a cinematographer.
Kaifi Azmi was a known poet in the mushairas of that era and as late as in 1970, when I was studying in Government College Dharamshala in Kangra District of Himachal, I heard him in a mushaira in our college.
I like Kaifi’s lyrics and poetry for one unique quality: he’d use very simple words to convey very strong and deep thoughts. Rather than trying to impress you with the different and complex words in the Urdu language, he’d rely more on the play of words.
I am fond of giving this example from Hanste Zakhm:
Dil ki naazuk ragen tootati hain, Yaad itana bhi koi na aaye.
Or, from Kohra (the song picturised on Biswajeet’s first licentious wife, before he married Waheeda rehman):
Haal ye hai masti kaa, saans lagi thamane Utane rahe pyaase ham jitani bhii pi hamane
Or from Guru Dutt’s movie Kaagaz Ke Phool:
Jaaenge kahaan poochhataa nahin Chal pade magar raastaa nahin Kyaa talaash hai kuchh pataa nahin Bun rahe hain dil khvaab dam-ba-dam
Let me take you now to the 1961 movie Shola Aur Shabnam, which had the first major role by Dharmendra though he had acted in two movies before that: Dil Bhi Tera Ham Bhi Tere and Boy Friend.
The film, directed and written by Ramesh Saigal was about a young man (my namesake Ravi played by Dharmendra) torn between love for his long lost childhood sweetheart (Tarla Mehta), and devotion towards a friend (M Rajan) who has helped set him up in his career.
This song brings out the feelings of Ravi (Dharmendra) so well in such simple words. Pay particular attention to the last lines:
Kaise baazaar ka dastoor tumhen samjhaayun, Bik gaya jo woh khareeddaar nahin ho sakta.
Khaiyyam, who was known to give the gentlest of the music, made equally gentle music for these powerful lyrics of Kaifi Azmi. Hats off to Dharmendra that in his first major movie he should attempt such serious and sad role.
By this time, you would have already seen my bias towards the Raag of the hills, my home station, and I am not going to deny it. This too has been set by Khaiyyam in Raag Pahadi in Tal Dadra.
Please enjoy one of Kaifi’s best: Jaane kyaa dhoondati rehati hain ye aankhen mujh mein….
jaane kyaa Dhuu.NDhatii rahatii hai.n ye aa.Nkhe.n mujhame.n
raakh ke Dher me.n sholaa hai na chi.ngaarii hai
ab na vo pyaar na usakii yaade.n baakii
aag yuu.N dil me.n lagii kuchh na rahaa kuchh na bachaa
jisakii tasviir nigaaho.n me.n liye baiThaa ho
mai.n vo diladaar nahii.n usakii huu.N khaamosh chitaa
zi.ndagii ha.Ns ke na guzaratii to bahut achchhaa thaa
khair ha.Ns ke na sahii ro ke guzar jaayegii
raakh barabaad muhabbat kii bachaa rakhii hai.n
baar-baar isako jo chhe.Daa to bikhar jaayegii
aarazuu jurma vafaa jurma tamannaa hai gunaaha
ye vo duniyaa hai jahaa.N pyaar nahii.n ho sakataa
kaise baazaar kaa dastuur tumhe.n samajhaauu.N
bik gayaa jo vo khariidaar nahii.n ho sakataa …
Day #4 of 31 Song #10
We have already taken up a song from the 1952 movie Baiju Bawra. So strong was thew focus on songs and ghazals in the movies that the makers of the movies sought to have singing hero or heroines in the movies. Bharat Bhushan himself acted in singing roles in several of his movies. Besides Baiju Bawra in which he had the title role, he acted in the title role in the 1954 movie Mirza Ghalib. In 1956 movie Basant Bahar, he as Gopal, the son of an astrologer wasn’t interested in astrology but in music. He did the title role in 1959 movie Kavi Kalidas. He was a shayar in 1960 movie Barsaat Ki Raat and finally as the great musician Tansen in 1962 movie Sangeet Samrat Tansen.
The people lapped up all the movies based on music and poetry.
Two years after the success of Baiju Bawra, Bharat Bhushan (typified as the poet/shayar/musician in Hindi movies, in the same manner as Amitabh Bachchan was typified as the angry-young-man) acted in the 1954 movie Shabaab (Youth). Nutan acted as the female lead.
The movie was made, like Baiju Bawra, to bring out the power of music. Bharat Bhushan is the musician. He falls in love with a lost princess, Nutan. Love always had enemies during those days. The king and his men oppose their love. In the end, Bharat Bhushan wins the heart of Nutan but loses his life.
When Shakeel and Naushad are together, you can laways expect magic and it did happen in the movie. Have a look at the list of the songs:
1. Daya Kar He Giridhar Gopal – Amir Khan – Raga Multani
2. Mehlon Mein Rahne Wale – Mohammed Rafi
3. Mar Gaye Ham Jeete Ji Malik – Lata Mangeshkar
4. Bhagat Ke Bas Mein Hai Bhagwan – Manna Dey
5. Jogan Ban Jaungi Saiyan Tore Karan – Lata Mangeshkar
6. Lagi More Man Ki O Sajna – Shamshad Begum
7. Yehi Armaan Lekar Aaj Apne Ghar Se – Mohammed Rafi
8. Jo Main Janti – Lata Mangeshkar
9. Man Ki Been Matwari Baje – Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar – Raga Bahar with a trace of Raga Basant
10. Chandan Ka Palna Resham Ki Dori – Lata Mangeshkar, Hemant Kumar
11. Aaye Na Balam Wada Karke – Mohammed Rafi
Today, whilst writing about the other contemporary lyricists, I wrote about the simplicity of the lyrics of Kaifi Azmi. Shakeel excelled in this too.
Lets take up a favourite (also since it is sung by Hemant Kumar) song of mine. Both Lata and Hemant have sung it. The Raag is another very popular raaga in the Hindi movies: Raag Pilu. The taal is Dipchandi (lamplight) also known as Chanchar or Chochar. Some of the other songs that I like in Dipchandi taal are: Ishaaron ishaaron mein dil lene waale, Allah tero naam, Ab ke baras bhej bhaiyya ko baabul, and Piya tose naina laage re that was on Rupak as well as Dipchandi taal.
Please enjoy: Chandan ka palna, resham ki dori….
sa.ngiit hai shakti ii{sh}var kii har sur me.n base hai.n raam
raagii ko sunaaye raag madhur, rogii ko mile aaraam
The last song must have surely put you to sleep and taken you to the dreamworld across the skies. Chandan ka palna, being the best lullaby, has that effect. If Bharat Bhushan was typified as a musician/shayar/poet in the movies, Nutan was often portrayed as the one who had lost her sleep. She did that in Milan, in Dulhan Ek Raat Ki and here in Shabaab!
Lets go back a little to 1949 AR Kardar movie Dillagi.
Another thing that I want to bring out, in addition to the strong stress on lyrics in the songs, was that for a movie to be successful at the box-office, it’d better be tragic! Mughal-e-Azam’s success, to a great extent, has been traced by film analysts to strong underlying tragedy.
Dillagi was a romantic tragedy too based on Emile Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, that was later adapted into Dil Diya Dard Liya, which was another of Shakeel-Naushad movies.
The actor Shyam gave his life-time’s bast performance in Dillagi. Suraiyya acted opposite him.
As always, lets have a look at the list, to reinforce the fact about the primacy of songs in the movies of that era:
1 Tu Mera Chand Suraiya
2 Is Duniya Mein Dil Ka Lagana Kheil Nahin Mohammed Rafi
3 Murliwale Murli Baja Suraiya
4 Char Din Ki Chandni Thi Phir Andheri Raat Hai Suraiya
5 Duniya Kya Jaane Suraiya
6 Nirala Mohabbat Kaa Dastur Dekha Suraiya
7 Tera Khayal Dil Se Bhulaya Na Jayega Suraiya
8 Le Ke Dil Chupke Se Kiya Majboor Suraiya
9 Tu Mera Chand, Mein Teri Chandani Shyam, Suraiya
10 De Dhil De Dhil O Ree Sakhi Uma Devi, Shamshad Begum
Lets take up this duet of Shyam and Suraiyya singing for themselves. The song is on a theme that’s always close to my heart.
Please enjoy: Tu mera chand main teri chandini……
tuu meraa chaa.Nd mai.n terii chaa.Ndanii
mai.n teraa raag tuu merii raaginii
o, nahii.n dil ka lagaanaa koii dillagi, koii dillagi
saath hii jiinaa saath hii maranaa
ulfat kii hai riit, haa.N, ulfat kii hai riit
pyaar kii muralii haradam gaaye terii lagan ke giit
mai.n teraa raag tuu merii raaginii
tuu meraa chaa.Nd mai.n terii chaa.Ndanii
o, nahii.n dil ka lagaanaa …
bhuul na jaanaa rut ye suhaanii
ye din aur ye raat, haa.N, ye din aur ye raat
jab tak chamake chaa.Nd sitaare, dekho chhuuTe na saath
tuu meraa chaa.Nd mai.n terii chaa.Ndanii
mai.n teraa raag tuu merii raaginii
o, nahii.n dil ka lagaanaa …
Song #12
Now that I have given you two of his songs on Chand and Chandini, I should probably end with a Chand ghazal. In his characteristic style, it is a sad ghazal.
There wasn’t a poet and lyricist like him. Probably, there won’t ever be. He used words as a goldsmith uses gold to make beautiful ornaments.
This is his second best ghazal sung by Shanti Heranand. She was a disciple of Begum Akhtar who was fired with the desire to popularise the genre’ of singing of her idol.
Please enjoy: Nazar Nawaz nazaron mein ji nahin lagata….
Nazar nawaaz nazaron mein ji nahin lagata,
Woh kyaa gaye ki bahaaron mein ji nahin lagata.
My heart cannot find joy in sights that are pleasing to the eye
She left and now spring cannot amuse me
(Nazar nawaaz=Pleasing to the eye)
Shab-e-firaaq ko ai chaand aa ke chamka de,
Nazar udaas hai taaron mein ji nahin lagata.
Only moon (her) can come and brighten the night of separation
My sight is sad, stars cannot amuse me
(Shab-e-firaaq=Night of separation/longing)
Gham-e-hayaat ke maare to ham bhi hain lekin,
Gham-e-hayaat ke maaron mein ji nahin lagata.
Even I am a victim of sorrow of life, but
I do not find amusement in the midst of other victims of sorrow of life.
(Gham-e-hayaat=Sorrow of life)
Na poochh mujhase tere gham mein kyaa guzarti hai,
Yahi kahunga hazaaron mein ji nahin lagata.
Don’t ask me how I spend my time in your sorrow
I shall say only this that I don’t find amusement in the midst of thousands
Kuchh is qadar hai gham-e-zindagi se dil maayus,
Khizaan gayi to bahaaron mein ji nahin lagata.
In this manner is the heart saddened by sorrow of life
That when autumn was over, spring doesn’t amuse me
Fasaana-e-shab-e-gham khatm hone waala hai,
Shakeel chand sitaaron mein ji nahin lagata.
Story of the night of grief is about to end now
Shakeel, (now) moon and the stars don’t amuse me anymore
(Fasaana-e-shab-e-gham=Story of the night of grief)
Day #5 of 31 Appreciating Good Lyrics Song #4
These posts started three days 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.
So far, we have taken up in the last three 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.
Tonight we take up Sahir Ludhianvi‘s.
Sahir was born as Abdul Hayee on 8th March 1921. Sahir means ‘Wakeful’ or ‘Magician’ and this poet from Karimpura, Ludhiana actually awakened us with his poetry as a magician.
His mother Sardar Begum suffered at the hands of his father who eventually remarried. Some of Sahir’s poetry reflects that angst about the treatment of women. Sahir gained fame in his college (Khalsa College, Ludhiana) reading out his poems and giving his fiery speeches.
Sahir didn’t marry though he was romantically inclined to Amrita Pritam and later to the singer Sudha Malhotra.
Sahir’s style of poetry was different from Shakeel’s. Indeed, Shakeel was exclusively a poet of Love whereas almost all other poets of that era, including Sahir, wrote about the social conditions prevalent in the country including poverty.
For example, if Shakeel wrote for a Leader song, about Taj Mahal:
“Ek Shehanshah ne banwa ke haseen Taj Mahal, Saari duniya ko mohabbat ki nishaani di hai, Iske saaye mein sadaa pyaar ke charche honge Khatam jo ho naa sakegi wo kahani di hai”
Sahir’s was to be critical of Shahjehan for the ostentation:
“Ek Shaehanshah ne banwa ke haseen Taj Mahal, Ham gareebon ki mohabbat ka udhaaya hai mazaak, Mere mehboob kahin aur mila kar mujhako.”
Many of his fans consider Sahir Ludhianvi as the greatest poet and lyricist of that era.
These do not include me though I was brought up in a place close to Sahir’s. As I told you a favourite is not someone like a horse who wins all races for you. A favourite is the one who comes closest to your emotions and moods. Shakeel does that for me.
Sahir received Filmfare awards for Best Lyricist twice: once for the Taj Mahal song: Jo waada kiya wo nibhaana padhega; and once for the title song of Yash Chopra’s Kabhie Kabhie, which some feel was tailored on his own biography in part.
Lets take a very expressive song from his 1958 BR Chopra movie Sadhana that starred Vyjayanthimala as a prostitute in love with a professor Sunil Dutt.
The film was about rehabilitation of prostitutes and stirred the conscience of the society towards them.
Datta Naik composed the song almost like a nazm, which it was.
Please enjoy: Aurat ne janam diya mardon ko, mardon ne use bazaar diya….
aurat ne janam diyaa mardo.n ko, mardo.n ne use baazaar diyaa
jab jii chaahaa kuchalaa masalaa, jab jii chaahaa dutkaar diyaa
tulatii hai kahii.n diinaaro.n me.n, bikatii hai kahii.n baazaaro.n me.n
na.ngii nachavaaii jaatii hai, aiyyaasho.n ke darabaaro.n me.n
ye vo beizzat chiiz hai jo, ba.nT jAtI hai izzatadaaro.n me.n
mardo.n ke liye har zulm ravaa.N, aurat ke liye ronaa bhii khataa
mardo.n ke liye laakho.n seje.n, aurat ke liye bas ek chitaa
mardo.n ke liye har aish kaa haq, aurat ke liye jiinaa bhii sazaa
jin hoTho.n ne inako pyaar kiyaa, un hoTho.n kaa vyaapaar kiyaa
jis kokh me.n inakaa jism Dhalaa, us kokh kaa kaarobaar kiyaa
jis tan se uge kopal ban kar, us tan ko zaliil-o-khAr kiyaa
mardo.n ne banaayii jo rasme.n, unako haq kaa faramaan kahaa
aurat ke zindaa jal jaane ko, kurbaanii aur balidaan kahaa
qismat ke badale roTii dii, usako bhii ehasaan kahaa
sa.nsaar kii har ek besharmii, gurbat kii god me.n palatii hai
chakalo.n me.n hii aa ke rukatii hai, faako.n me.n jo raah nikalatii hai
mardo.n kii havas hai jo aksar, aurat ke paap me.n Dhalatii hai
aurat sa.nsaar kii qismat hai, fir bhii taqadiir kii hotii hai
avataar payambar janatii hai, phir bhii shaitaan kii beTii hai
ye vo badaqismat maa.N hai jo, beTo.n kii sez pe leTii hai
Day #5 of 31 Song #13
I gave you a list of all ten songs of Shakeel’s first movie, the 1947 movie Dard with Music Director Naushad. I hope you noticed a curious fact that all ten songs were sung by women: Uma Devi (Tun Tun), Suraiyya and Shamshad Begum.
Lets take his second movie: the 1948 movie Anokhi Ada and have a look at the songs:
1 Kyun Unhe Dil Diya Surendra, Suraiya Shakeel Badayuni
2 Kahe Jiya Dole Ho Kaha Nahi Jaye Uma Devi (Tun Tun) Shakeel Badayuni
3 Ye Pyaar Ki Baaten Ye Safar Bhul Na Jaanaa Mukesh Shakeel Badayuni
4 Jale Na Kyun Parwana Surendra Anjum Pilibhiti
5 Bade Bhole Bhale Hai Dil Lene Wale Surendra Anjum Pilibhiti
6 Aaj Kaha Jaa Ke Nazar Shamshad Begum Shakeel Badayuni
7 Nazar Mil Gayi Jane Kiski Nazar Se Shamshad Begum Shakeel Badayuni
8 Bhulane Vaale Yaad Na Aa Mukesh Shakeel Badayuni
9 Bhool Gaye Kyo De Ke Sahara Mukesh, Shamshad Begum Shakeel Badayuni
10 Kabhi Dil Dil Se Mukesh Shakeel Badayuni
11 Manzil Ki Dhun Me Jhumate Gaate Chale Chalo Mukesh Shakeel Badayuni
12 Dil Ko Laga Kar Humne Kuchh Bhi Na Paaya Uma Devi Shakeel Badayuni
Please notice the following:
A. Two of the songs were penned by Anjum Pilbhiti.
B. Mohammad Rafi, who excelled in singing Shakeel-Naushad songs had still not entered the scene with them.
C. Surendra and Mukesh vied with each other to sing Shakeel-Naushad.
This song and the dialogues in between are seven and half minutes of fascinating interplay of emotions in a love traingle between Naseem Bano, Surendra and Prem Adib, and I urge you to please see it. It would tell you how, Shakeel Badayuni, in his very first movie wherein he could express both male and female emotions in the songs, excelled (his first movie Dard, as I said, had only female songs).
Naushad composed this song in Raag Darbari Kanada and taal Kaherava.
Please enjoy: Kabhi dil se dil takraata to hoga….
kabhii dil dil se Takaraataa to hogaa-2
unhe meraa Khayaal aataa to hogaa-2
naa rukate ho.nge jab aa.Nkho.n me aa.Nsuu-2
aa.Nkho.n me aa.Nsuu
to paimaanaa to paimaanaa chhalak jaataa to hogaa
unhe …
vo paa lete to ho.nge dil pe kaabu, dil pe kaabu-2
unhe ye bhii-2 kamaal aataa to hogaa
kabhii dil …
Song #14
I forgot to mention in the last song from 1948 movie Anokhi Ada that it was the first movie in which Mehboob Khan took Shakeel as the lyricist. He repeated this in his Aan (1952), Amar (1954), Mother India (1957), and Son of India (1962) which was his last movie as director.
We jump to Shakeel-Naushad’s 1950 movie Babul and once again notice in the list of songs that I shall give you that Mohammad Rafi hadn’t yet arrived on the scene!
The movie starred Dilip Kumar, Munnawar Sultana and Nargis. It was produced by Naushad and was directed by FU Sunny.
Have a look at the songs:
1 Duniya Badal Gayi Talat Mahmood, Shamshad Begum 3:30
2 Dhadke Mera Dil Shamshad Begum 3:37
3 Chhod Babul Ka Ghar Shamshad Begum 3:15
4 Kisi Ke Dil Men Rahna Tha Shamshad Begum, Lata Mangeshkar 3:37
5 Lagan More Man Ki Lata Mangeshkar, Munawar Sultana 3:12
6 Mera Jeevan Saathi Bichhad Gaya Talat Mahmood 3:40
7 Milte Hi Ankhen Dil Hua Diwana Shamshad Begum, Talat Mahmood 3:11
8 Panchhi Ban Mein Lata Mangeshkar 3:03
9 Husn Walon Ko Na Dil Do Talat Mahmood 3:31
10 Jadoo Bhare Nainon Men Shamshad Begum, Dilip Kumar 3:29
11 Na Socha Tha Yeh Shamshad Begum 3:32
You would agree with me that each one is a gem. Chhod babul ka ghar became the standard song for the bidaai in all weddings. Kisi ke dil mein rehna tha, Mera jeevan saathi bichhad gaya, and Milte hi aankhen dil hua diwana kis ka all became popular hits.
However, for the lyrical excellence, I have chosen for you this number sung by Talat Mehmood. You would enjoy the light-hearted, carefree acting by Dilip Kumar rather than the tragic and sad one that he was branded as.
Please enjoy: Husn waalon ko na dil do mitaa dete hain….
husn vaalo.n ko na dil do ye miTaa dete hai.n
zi.ndagii bhar ke liye rog lagaa dete hai.n
khuub karate hai.n ye biimaar-e-muhabbat kaa ilaaj
dard ba.Dhataa hii rahe aisii davaa dete hai.n
haay kuchh in kii muhabbat kaa bharosaa hii nahii.n
pahale dil lete hai.n phir dil ko bhulaa dete hai.n
dil lagaaye na zamaane me.n hasiino.n se ko_ii
log kahate hai.n ki ye dil ko dagaa dete hai.n
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AragPXmpGnU
Song #15
Naushad was the music director for fourteen of AR Kardar’s movies; the 1947 movie Dard being the first one in which he took Shakeel as the lyricist. The 1951 movie Jadoo was AR Kardar’s second last movie with Naushad. After that Naushad was MD only for Deewana (1952), the same year when Naushad also did Baiju Bawra, the only movie for which he received the Filmfare Best Music Director award.
Here is from Wikipedia:
“The film revolves around a young singer and dancer, Sundari (Nalini Jaywant), who is involved with crooks, but falls in love with a police constable, Pritam (Suresh). The plot of the film was inspired from The Loves of Carmen (1948), directed by Charles Vidor and starring Rita Hayworth.”
The movie was the second of the Shakeel-Naushad duo movies (the first one being the 1949 movie Dulari with the song Suhaani raat dhal chuki) in which Mohammad Rafi sang a song (solo) and another with Shamshad Begum and Zohra Ambalewali.
Have a look at the songs that Shakeel wrote:
1 Pyar Ke Sagar Se Nikli Mohammed Rafi
2 Ulajh Gaya Jiya Mera Nainon Ke Jaal Me Lata Mangeshkar
3 Gin Gin Taare Main Haar Gai Raat Ko Lata Mangeshkar
4 Lo Pyar Ki Ho Gayi Jeet Lata Mangeshkar
5 Insan Badalte Rehte Hain Lata Mangeshkar
6 Jab Nain Milein Nainon Se, Laaraa Lu Shamshad Begum
7 Ek Do Tin Chaar, Roop Ki Dushman Paapi Duniya Shamshad Begum
8 Ae Ji Thandi Sadak Hai Thandi Sadak Shamshad Begum
9 Lelo Lelo Phuldani Lelo Shamshad Begum, Zohrabai Ambalewali, Mohammed Rafi
Pyar ke sagar se nikli is an important song for me since it is just the second movie song that Mohammad Rafi sang solo in a movie with the duo of Shakeel Badayuni and Naushad.
Please enjoy: Pyar ke sagar se nikli moti ke badle ret…
pyaar ke saagar se nikalii motii ke badale ret
ab pachhataaye kyaa hoye jab chi.Diyaa.N chug ga_ii.n khet
o
ek jhuuTh hai
ek jhuuTh hai jisakaa duniyaa ne
rakhaa hai muhabbat naam
are rakhaa hai muhabbat naam
dhokhaa hai jise
dhokhaa hai jise kahate hai.n wafaa
bas dekh liyaa anjaam
are bas dekh liyaa anjaam
( paanii sii nazar, patthar saa jigar
bedard tujhe pahachaan gaye ) -2
ham pyaar kii nagarii me.n aa kar
dastuur yahaa.N ke jaan gaye
milatii hai Kushii
milatii hai Kushii dam bhar ke liye
rone ko hai subah-o-shaam -2
haay bas dekh liyaa
bas dekh liyaa anjaam
( na puuchh hu_aa jo haal meraa
ek terii nazar ke dhokhe se ) -2
jaise ko_ii jalataa diip bujhe
bas ek hawaa ke jho.nkhe se
dil de ke hame.n
dil de ke hame.n kuchh bhii na milaa
bekaar huye badanaam
haay bas dekh liyaa
bas dekh liyaa anjaam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEcln91GjkY
Day #6 of 31 Appreciating Good Lyrics Song #5
As you are aware. I started these posts four days 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.
So far, we have taken up in the last four 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.
Tonight we take up Majrooh Sultanpuri‘s.
Majrooh is the fifth of our lyricists who was a contemporary of Shakeel Badayuni. Out of all these six (*including Shakeel), three have been from Uttar Pradesh, which says something about that region producing some great poets and lyricists.
Majrooh Sultanpuri was born on 01 Oct 1919 as Asrar ul Hassan Khan in a Tarin Pashtun family, in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh. His father was an officer in the police department, but, preferred to send his son for traditional madrasa (Urdu school) rather than provide him with English schooling.
He tried his hand at being a quack until he was noticed in a mushaira in Sultanpur.
He was a disciple of the great Urdu poet Jigar Moradabadi. When he visited Bombay in 1945 to participate in a mushaira, the director Abdul Rashid Kardar noticed him and invited him to write for the movies. Majrooh turned it down as he looked down upon movies! He was persuaded through his mentor Jigar Moradabadi and then there was no turning back.
Many traditionalists of the Urdu literature, however, felt that Majrooh sold his soul to the Hindi films and that he could have emerged a great poet in the likeness of Ghalib and Jigar.
The takhalus Majrooh means “injured” or “wounded”.
Majrooh was awarded, in 1993, the highest award – Dadasaheb Phalke award – for his lifetime contribution towards lyrics and poetry. He was the first lyricist ever to be given that award. For the film Dosti, that made Laxmikant Pyarelal famous, he was awarded the Filmfare Best Lyricist Award for the song: Chahunga main tujhe saanjh savere.
For someone who didn’t want to join Hindi movies, Majrooh emerged as a natural lyricist, very popular, very romantic without too deep poetry. I won’t like to compare him with Shakeel since Shakeel maintained the purity of Urdu lyrics and traditional Urdu poetry style.
Most of Majrooh’s songs are of Dil vil pyaar vyaar main kyaa jaanu,. Baahon mein chale aao, Bangle ke peechhe, Ye raaten ye amusam nadi ka kinaara, and Dekho mausam kyaa bahaar hai. However, some of his lyrics are still comparable to Shakeel’s such as Hui shaam unaka khayaal aa gaya, Woh jo milate the kabhi, Rahe na rahe ham, Chhupa lo youn dil mein pyaar mera, Tu kahe agar jeevan bhar main geet sunaata jaayun, Mujhe dard-e-dil ka pata na tha, Hamaare baad ab mehfil mein afsaane bayaan honge, and the great song on eyes: Teri aankhon ke siwa duniya mein rakha kyaa hai.
The last one is from the 1969 movie Chirag. Hats off to Majrooh for writing this at the age of fifty! Hats off to Madan Mohan too for having composed it in Raag Jhinjhoti, the raag named after an apsara. There are two versions of this song: Mohammad Rafi singing for Sunil Dutt and Lata Mangeshkar singing for Asha Parekh.
The lyrics are exquisite and each word hangs of the notes of the composition like raindrops from green leaves.
Please enjoy: Teri aankhon ke siwa duniya mein rakha kyaa hai….
terii aa.Nkho.n ke sivaa duniyaa me.n rakkhaa kyaa hai
ye uThe.n subah chale, ye jhuke.n shaam Dhale
meraa jiinaa meraa maranaa inhii.n palako.n ke tale
terii aa.Nkho.n ke sivaa …
(rafii)
palako.n kii galiyo.n me.n chehare bahaaro.n ke ha.Nsate hue
hai.n mere Kaabo.n ke kyaa-kyaa nagar iname.n basate hue
ye uThe.n subah chale …
iname.n mere aanevaale zamaane kii tasviir hai
chaahat ke kaajal se likhii huii merii taqadiir hai
ye uThe.n subah chale …
(lataa)
Thokar jahaa.N maine khaaI inho.nne pukaaraa mujhe
ye hamasafar hai.n to kaafii hai inakaa sahaaraa mujhe
ye uThe.n subah chale …
ye ho.n kahii.n inakaa saayaa mere dil se jaataa nahii.n
inake sivaa ab to kuchh bhii nazar mujhako aataa nahii.n
ye uThe.n subah chale …
Day #6 of 31 Song #16
We were talking about the 1952 movie Deewana, the last of the fourteen movies of AR Kardar for which Naushad was the music director.
With Shakeel, the first one, the 1947 movie Dard, had no male songs. The second one, the 1951 movie Jadoo had only one solo by Mohammad Rafi: Pyar ke sagar se nikli moti ke badle ret.
The third one too had just one solo song from Mohammad Rafi but it turned out to be a great one.
As usual, have a look at the lsit of songs:
1. Mora Nazuk Badan – Suraiya
2. Dil Mein Aa Gaya Koi – Suraiya
3. Jeene Diya Na Chain Se – Suraiya
4. Lagi Hai Manmandir – Suraiya
5. Mere Chand Mere Lal – Suraiya, Lata Mangeshkar
6. Tasveer Banata Hoon Teri – Mohammed Rafi
7. Teer Khate Jayenge – Lata Mangeshkar
8. Yeh Duniya Kaisi Hai – Hridayanath Mangeshkar
9. Humein Jo Koi Dekhle – Shamshad Begum
It is only after this that Mohammad Rafi would arrive in a big way with the 1952 movie Baiju Bawra with songs like Man tadpat Hari darshan ko aaj and O duniya ke rakhwaale, and Tu Ganga ki mauj.
After the success of the all time popular and Mohammad Rafi’s first song with Shakeel: Suhaani raat dhal chuki, here is the next popular hit of Rafi with Shakeel.
Please enjoy: Tasveer banaata hoon teri khoon-e-jigar se….
tasaviir banaataa huu.N terii Kuun-e-jigar se
Kuun-e-jigar se
dekhaa hai tujhe mai.n ne muhabbat kii nazar se
are, muhabbat kii nazar se
jitane bhii mile ra.ng vo sabhii bhar diye tujh me.n
haay, bhar diye tujh me.n
ik ra.ng-e-vafaa aur hai, laa_uu.N vo kidhar se
are laa_uu.N vo kidhar se
tasaviir banaataa huu.N terii …
saavan terii zulfo.n se ghaTaa maa.Ng ke laayaa
haay, maa.Ng ke laayaa
bijalii ne churaa_ii hai ta.Dap terii nazar se
are, ta.Dap terii nazar se
tasaviir banaataa huu.N terii …
mai.n dil me.n biThaa kar tujhe ruKsat na karuu.Ngaa
haay, ruKsat na karuu.Ngaa
mushkil hai teraa lauT ke jaanaa mere ghar se
are jaanaa mere ghar se
tasaviir banaataa huu.N terii …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvs7V66eGck
Day #6 of 31 Song #17
You must have seen my obsession with tracing the history of Mohammad Rafi singing Shakeel’s songs. It is as if Shakeel wrote his best only for him.
It is not true. The first of Shakeel’s is sung by Uma Devi (Tuntun) and Mohammad Rafi arrived only two years later with Suhaani raat dhal chuki in 1949 Dulari. Even two years later, Rafi had sung only two solos of Shakeel Badayuni.
I am giving you this background because many of us believe that the best songs in Hindi movies have been made by the quartet of Shakeel-Naushad-Rafi-Dilip and yet Rafi took quite some time in arriving on the scene.
When he did in a big way with 1952 movie Baiju Bawra, it wasn’t a Dilip Kumar movie but a Bharat Bhushan movie with Meena Kumari who bagged the Best Actress award for the movie.
I have already given you a song from the movie: O duniya ke rakhwaale composed by Naushad in raag Darbari Kanada.
Now, with the short biography of Shakeel Badayuni that I have given you, you have to imagine him writing for Baiju Bawra‘s songs wherein he is told not to write in Urdu, his strong point!
This was exactly the greatness of this greatest poet and lyricist. He delightfully surprised everyone by writing in shudh Hindi.
Indeed, the song that I have to give you now is regarded as the greatest Hindi bhajan ever written in Hindi movies. It is considered the standard for bhajans.
The song was composed by Naushad in Raag Malkauns, a derivation of Malkaush, a combination of Mala (garland) and Kaushik (serpents). Naturally, the Raaga is a Shiva Raag; believed to have been composed by Parvati to calm down an enraged Shiva.
In the movie Baiju Bawra too, one has to admire the musical acumen of Naushad to have composed in this raag since here too it has a calming effect on Baiju’s Guru Hari.
The tal is Tintal.
Without further ado, please enjoy: Man tadpat Hari darshan ko aaj….
man ta.Dapat hari darasan ko aaj
more tum bin biga.De sakal kaaj
aa, vinatii karat, huu.N, rakhiyo laaj, man ta.Dapat…
tumhare dvaar kaa mai.n huu.N jogii
hamarii or nazar kab hogii
sun more vyaakul man kii baat, ta.Dapat harii darasan…
bin guruu GYaan kahaa.N se paauu.N
diijo daan harii gun gaauu.N
sab gunii jan pe tumhaaraa raaj, ta.Dapat harii…
muralii manohar aas na to.Do
dukh bha.njan more saath na chho.Do
mohe darasan bhikshaa de do aaj de do aaj, …
Day #6 of 31 Song #18
It is almost criminal not to listen to all the songs of Baiju Bawra, once one has started. However, it is just a month long tribute as a countdown to his Birth Anniveray on 03 Aug, with less than a hundred songs that I can give you.
Still, I cannot resist giving you this number that Naushad composed in Raag Bhairavi, by that time, the favourite Raaga of another great music director (the greatest duo the world has ever seen) Shankar Jaikishan.
Please see in this song, how well Naushad could get the beat right in taal Dadra.
And Shakeel, he just made this song an iconic song in Hindi movies, the kind that you can’t get out of your system.
Please enjoy in Raag Bhairavi: Tu Ganga ki mauj main Jamuna ka dhaara….
akelii mat ja_iyo raadhe jamunaa ke tiir
o jii o
tuu ga.ngaa kii mauj mai.n jamunaa kaa dhaaraa
ho rahegaa milan, ye hamaaraa
ho hamaaraa tumhaaraa rahegaa milan
ye hamaaraa tumhaaraa
agar tuu hai saagar to majhadhaar mai.n huu.N, majhadhaar mai.n huu.N
tere dil kii kashtii kaa patavaar mai.n huu.N, patavaar mai.n huu.N
chalegii akele na tumase ye naiyaa, na tumase ye naiyaa
mile.ngii na ma.nzil tumhe bin khevaiyaa, tumhe bin khevaiyaa
chale aao jii, chale aao jii
chale aao maujo.n kaa le kar sahaaraa, ho rahegaa milan
ye hamaaraa tumhaaraa rahegaa milan, ye hamaaraa tumhaaraa
bhalaa kaise TuuTe.nge ba.ndhan ye dil ke, ba.ndhan ye dil ke
bichha.Datii nahii.n mauj se mauj milake, hai mauj mil ke
chhupoge bha.Nvar me.n to chhupane na de.nge, to chhupane na de.nge
Dubo de.nge naiyaa tumhe.n Dhuu.NDh le.nge
banaaye.nge ham, banaaye.nge ham
banaaye.nge tuufaa.N ko lekar kinaaraa, ho rahegaa milan
ye hamaaraa tumhaaraa rahegaa milan, ye hamaaraa tumhaaraa
DIL BHAR AAYA
I must be a bundle of emotions!
Today, I had to put up the Baiju Bawra songs as part of my ongoing tribute for Shakeel Badayuni. Knowing what happened to me last year when I saw the movie, I was careful to finish putting these songs before going for my evening walk.
But, then…I made the mistake (I would never do it with Mere Mehboob) of listening to Tu Ganga ki mauj. Tears came naturally again! Where has that era gone? Why can’t we have it again? You have to play the song to feel the emotions.
Here were my Facebook Group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne‘s reactions to it when I felt the same way last year: Go through them nostalgically.
As you are aware, I started these posts five days 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 four 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.
Tonight we take up Jaan Nisar Akhtar‘s.
Jaan Nisar Akhtar was born a little more than two years before Shakeel, on the 18th Feb 1914 in Gwalior. Unlike Shakeel, who was the first to venture into poetry (only a distant uncle was a poet), Jaan Nisar Akhtar’s father Muztar Khairabadi was poet as was his father’s elder brother, Bismil Khairabadi.
Like many other poets of that era, including Shakeel, he was part of Progressive Writers Movement.
He shifted to Bhopal from Gwalior where he took up job as Head of Department for Urdu and Persian.
In 1949 he shifted to Mumbai and met progressive writers like Rajider Singh Bedi and Mulk Raj Anand. It was only six years later, when he was 41 years old that success came his way when he wrote lyrics of the songs for the movie Yasmin.
And then for the next three and half decades he penned lyrics in the movies until his death on 16 Aug 1976. His son Jawed Akhtar is also a lyricist in the movies.
My friend Vipan Kohli wants me to come straightway to his Shankar Hussain song: Aap youn faaslon se guzarte rahe. But, Shankar Hussain was a 1977 movie and we are still at some early stages.
I, therefore, give you a song from his first movie, the 1955 Yasmin, written, produced and directed by Abdul Rashid Kardar and starring Vyjayamthimala, Suresh and Jayant.
This was composed by C Ramchandra.
The voice is that of Lata Mangeshkar.
Please enjoy: Mujhape ilzaam-e-bewafai hai….
mujhape ilzaam-e-bewafaaii hai
ai muhabbat terii duhaaii hai
mujhape ilzaam-e-bewafaaii hai …
usane Thaanii hai zulm Dhaane kii
mujh me.n himmat hai Gam uThaane kii
Kush ho, ai dil! tujhe miTaane kii, miTaane kii
aaj usane qasam to khaaii hai
ai muhabbat terii duhaaii hai
mujhape ilzaam-e-bewafaaii hai …
tuu huaa dil se kab judaa kah de
mujhase kyuu.N ho gayaa Kafaa kah de
tuu hii i.nsaaf se zaraa kah de, zaraa kah de
kisane shart-e-wafaa bhulaaii hai
ai muhabbat terii duhaaii hai
mujhape ilzaam-ebewafaaii hai …
hai gawaaraa teraa sitam mujh ko
har jafaa hai terii karam mujh ko
jaan jaae, nahii.n hai Gam mujh ko
jab muhabbat pe baat aaii hai
ai muhabbat terii duhaaii hai
mujhape ilzaam-e-bewafaaii hai …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ7wx4KnBL0
Day #7 of 31 Song #19
The success of 1952 movie Baiju Bawra did wonders for the career of Shakeel Badayuni. Ghulam Mohammad, although seven years older to Naushad was an assistant to Naushad in Diwana and emerged on his own in 1952 movie Ambar or Amber (Sky) that starred Raj Kapoor and Nargis. Shakeel was asked by Ghulam Mohammad to pen the songs and he did the following:
1 “Hum Tum Yeh Bahar Dekho Rang Laya Pyar” Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
2 “Shama Jali Parwana Aaya” Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
3 “Dhoom Dhadaka” Mohammed Rafi, Shamshad Begum
4 “Churakar Dil Ko Chale Jaana” Mohammed Rafi
5 “Duniya Mein Nahin Koi Yaar” Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
6 “Tootegi Na Pyar Ki Dor” Lata Mangeshkar
7 “Rote Hain Naina Gham Ke Maare” Mohammed Rafi, Shamshad Begum
8 “Ham Pyar Tumhin Se Karte Hai” Lata Mangeshkar
9 “Dil Deke Sanam Tumhe Pachhtaye” Lata Mangeshkar
10 “Duniya Mein Nahin Koi Yaar” Lata Mangeshkar
The movie was a suspense thriller with Nargis as Rajkumari Amber trying to avenge the murder of her estranged father. Baby Tanuja played Nargis as a child initially.
Some of the best duets in the Hindi movies are between Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar. Lets take up a delightful one from this movie: Hum Tum Yeh Bahar, Dekho Rang Laya Pyar.
ra : ( ham-tum ye bahaar
dekho ra.ng laayaa pyaar
barasaat ke mahiine me.n
la : rimajhim ye phuhaar
dil gaaye re malhaar
ik aag liye siine me.n ) -2
do : ho
ra : ho
la : ho
ra : ( terii zulfo.n kii ye ra.ngat hai
jo baadal banake chhaa_ii hai ) -2
jo baadal banake chhaa_ii hai
la : terii aa.Nkho.n kii ye mastii hai
jo saawan banake aa_ii hai
ra : meraa dam jab tak
rahe pyaar kii chamak
mere dil ke nagiine me.n
ham-tum yah bahaar …
la : rimajhim ye phuhaar
dil gaaye re malhaar
ik aag liye siine me.n
la : o
ra : o
la : ( duniyaa ko hamaarii ho na Kabar
aa.Nkho.n me.n ishaare ho jaaye.N ) -2
aa.Nkho.n me.n ishaare ho jaaye.N
ra : ulafat bhii chale aisaa jaaduu
dushman bhii hamaare ho jaaye.N
la : Gam dil se ho duur
naa ho ko_ii majabuur
phir aaye mazaa jiine me.n
do : rimajhim ye phuhaar
dil gaaye re malhaar
ik aag liye siine me.n
ham-tum ye bahaar
dekho ra.ng laayaa pyaar
barasaat ke mahiine me.n
rimajhim ye phuhaar
dil gaaye re malhaar
ik aag liye siine me.n
ho
ho
Day #7 of 31 Song #20
From the next movie, the 1952 movie Aan (Pride), Shakeel started an association with a great movie director and producer Mehboob Khan that lasted for several movies including Amar, Mother India, and Son of India.
Aan was India’s first techniclour movie. It had Dilip Kumar, Nimmi and Premnath in lead roles, together with Nadira in her debut role as a replacement for Nargis, the original choice. Nadira was the haughty princess Rajshree whose horse was tamed by Jai Tilak (Dilip Kumar), a commoner, who finally was able to tame the arrogant princess too!
Naushad and Shakeel gave us the following songs in the movie:
1 Maan Mera Ehsan Mohammed Rafi Shakeel Badayuni 02:48
2 Dil Mein Chhupake Pyar Ka Mohammed Rafi 02:55
3 Tujhe Kho Diya Hamne Lata Mangeshkar 03:14
4 Aaj Mere Man Mein Sakhi Lata Mangeshkar 03:55
5 Mohabbat Choome Jinke Haath Mohammed Rafi 03:36
6 Gao Tarane Man Ke Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar & Shamshad Begum 04:41
7 Takra Gaya Tumse Mohammed Rafi 03:44
8 Khelo Raang Hamare Sang Lata Mangeshkar & Shamshad Begum 04:18
9 Aag Lagi Tan Man Mein Shamshad Begum 03:32
10 Mein Raani Hoon Raja Ki Shamshad Begum
Lets take the most popular of these, the first one. Please notice that by now Mohammad Rafi is with Sahkeel and Naushad in a huge manner.
Please enjoy: Maan mera ehsaan, are nadaan….
maan meraa ahasaan are naadaan ke maine
tujhase kiyaa hai pyaar
maine tujhase kiyaa hai pyaar
merii nazar kii dhuup na bharatii ruup to hotaa
husn teraa bekaar
maine tujhase kiyaa hai pyaar
maan meraa …
ulafat na sahii nafarat hii sahii
is ko bhii muhabbat kahate hai.n
tuu laakh chhupaae bhed magar ham
dil me.n samaae rahate hai.n
tere bhii dil me.n aag uThii hai jaag zabaa.n se
chaahe na kar iqaraar
maine tujhase kiyaa hai pyaar
merii nazar kii …
apanaa na banaa luu.N tujhako agar
ik roz to meraa naam nahii.n
patthar kaa jigar paanii kar duu.N ye
to koii mushkil kaam nahii.n
chho.D de ab ye khel tuu kar le mel mere sa.ng
maan le apanii haar
maine tujhase kiyaa hai pyaar
maan meraa …
Day #7 of 31 Song #21
Okay, back to a AR Kardar movie, the 1953 movie Dil-e-Nadaan. I have already told you that Diwana of 1952 was Naushad’s last of the 14 movies with AR Kardar. Hence, in this movie, his protege Ghulam Mohammad took over with Shakeel.
The movie starred Talat Mehmood and Shyama.
Ghulam Mohammad’s compositions in this movie included some of the finest numbers of Talat Mehmood. Here is the list of those songs:
1 Zindagi Denewale Sun, Teri Duniya Se Dil Bhar Gaya Talat Mehmood
2 Jo Khushi Se Chot Khaye, Woh Jigar Kaha Se Laaun Talat Mehmood
3 Ye Raat Suhani Raat Nahin Ae Chand Sitaron So Jao Talat Mehmood
4 Muhabbat Ki Dhun Bekararo Se Poochho Talat Mahmood, Sudha Malhotra, Jagjit Kaur
5 Teri Khaatir Sitam Dil Par Talat Mahmood
6 Chanda Gaye Ragni Cham Cham Barse Jagjit Kaur
7 Khamosh Zindagi Ko Ek Afsana Mil Gaya Jagjit Kaur
8 Na Wo Humare Na Dil Humara Sudha Malhotra
9 Lijo Babul Hamara Salaam Re Asha Bhosle
I am going to give you the second song since it has some remarkably fine lyrics by Shakeel and also because it happens to be a favourite of my late father.
Please enjoy Talat Mahmood sing Shakeel’s: Jo khushi se chot khaaye wo jigar kahan se laayun….
terI khAtir sitam dil pe gavaaraa kar liyaa mai.nne
kahaa kisane muhabbat se kinaaraa kar liyaa mai.nne
jo khushI se choT khaaye,
vo jigar kahaa.N se laauu.n – 2
kisii aur ko jo dekhe,
vo najar kahaa.N se laauu.n – 2
jo khushI se choT khaaye
mujhe terI aarazuu hai,
mere dil me.n tuu hii tuu hai – 2
base gair jisame.n aa kar,
mai.n vo ghar kahaa.N se laauu.n – 2
jo khushI se choT khaaye
terI berukhii pe sadake,
terI har adaa pe kurbaa.n – 2
kare aur ko jo sajade,
mai.n vo sar kahaa.N se laauu.n – 2
jo khushI se choT khaaye
vo jigar kahaa.N se laauu.n – 2
jo khushI se choT khaaye
Appreciating Good Lyrics Song #7
This has come last here, rather than at the beginning of the day since on Day #1 of my Countdown, I didn’t think of including other lyricists, as a comparison.
As you are aware, I started these posts six days 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 six 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.
Tonight we take up our seventh lyricst, Hasrat Jaipuri‘s creation.
Hasrat and Shailendra were two of the lyricists that were noticed by Prithviraj Kapoor/raj Kapoor and took up making lyrics for the music duo of Shankar-Jaikishan. S-J earned the sobriquet of being “House Musicians” of Raj Kapoor. Most often than not, in Raj Kapoor movies the songs were penned by either Shailendra or Hasrat.
How poor the lyricists were was narrated to us by the director Sudhakar Sharma during the Shankar Jaikishan Music Foundation Meet in Mumbai on 19th June. He had written some songs for Shankar for the film Gori. One day, he wanted to get from Shankar his own songs. But, he was in Mahim and Shankar’s studio in Kala Ghoda in Bombay. So, Sudhakar said, he sold kerosene from his stove so that he could buy a return fare ticket by local train to Churchgate and then walk to Kala Ghoda. He said when he reached there, Shankar was not there and he was shoed away even though he introduced himself as the lyricist of the song that was playing in the studio. He said that on his way down he chanced to meet Shankar who gifted him four LPs and a few cassettes of his own songs!
Well, same was the case with Hasrat! Even though he started writing at the age of 12 years (he was born on 15 Apr 1922, six years after Shakeel), when he moved to Bombay at the age of 18, he worked as a bus-conductor at a monthly salary of 11 rupees a month!
Hasrat’s first song for the 1949 movie Barsaat (the debut movie of Shankar Jaikishan too and Shailendra too) made him famous: Jiya beqraar hai. Even the sad song picturised on Nimmi: Chhod gaye baalam was also his creation.
He was awarded Filmfare Best Lyricst award twice, both times for non-Raj Kapoor movies: for the song Baharon phool barasaao for Rajendra Kumar in the 1966 movie Suraj, and for Zindagi ek safar hai suhaana for Rajesh Khanna for the 1971 movie Anadaz.
Of course what I regard as the best song of Lata Mangeshkar, Rasik balmaa, has been penned by him. He maintained the excellence of his lyrics all along his long career that lasted until 1971 when after Jaikishan’s death Raj Kapoor turned to other lyrcisrs. Hasrat died on 17th Sep 1999.
As far as matching lyrics to Shakeel are concerned, Hasrat gave us several songs starting with his first movie Barsaat and going on to Sehra and Suhagan. His Tum mujhe youn bula na paaoge for Shammi Kapoor in Pagla Kahin Ka is a personal favourite.
But, perhaps the song that is iconic is from a Raj Kapoor starrer Parvarish. I used to hear it often in the parties in our colony in Mandi town of Himachal.
The 1958 movie Parvarish was directed by S Bannerjee and starred Mala Sinha opposite Raj Kapoor.
The song also happens to be the best of singer Mukesh.
Music Director Dattaram composed it in Raag Kalyan (a raag of the evening) in Jhaptaal Taal. Marvel at the lyrical excellence of the line:
Shabnam bhi roye main woh aasmaan hoon (that’s Hasrat’s imagination for you).
Please enjoy: Aansu bhari hain ye jeevan ki raahen….
aa.Nsuu bharii hai.n ye jiivan kii raahe.n
koii unase kah de hame.n bhuul jaae.n
aa.Nsuu …
vaade bhulaa de.n qasam to.D de.n vo – (2)
haalat pe apanii hame.n chho.D de.n vo
unhe.n ghar mubaarak hame.n apanii aa.Nhe.n
koii unase kah de …
barabaadiyo.n kii ajab daastaa.N huu.N – (2)
shabanam bhii roe mai.n vo paasabaa.N huu.N
aise jahaa.N se kyuu.N ham dil lagaae.n
koii unase kah de …
aa.Nsuu …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyK-ZNZ7T-E
With that we come to the end of the first week of Countdown to the Birth Centenary of Shakeel Badayuni.
Please await the Part II with the second week of the Countdown.
As I brought out in the introduction of ‘A Hundred Ghazals In Hindi Movies – Part I’, ‘A Hundred Ghazals In Hindi Movies – Part II’, and ‘A Hundred Ghazals in Hindi Movies – Part III’, the ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in ancient Arabic poem in Arabia long before the birth of Islam. The term Ghazal is of North African and Middle Eastern origin. Its root term in Arabic is “gh-zl” and is derived from the Arabian panegyric qasida.
The ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century due to the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new Islamic Sultanate. Although the ghazal is most prominently a form of Dari poetry and Urdu poetry, today it is found in the poetry of many languages of the Indian sub-continent.
I gave you 18 Ghazals in Part I starting with Shakeel Badayuni‘s Na milata gham to barbaadi ke afsaane kahan jaate, to Rajinder Krishan‘s Jahan Ara ghazal sung by Talat Mahmood: Phir wohi shaam wohi gham wohi tanhaayi hai. In between I packed ghazals by Kaifi Azmi, Sahir Ludhianvi, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Muztar Khairabadi, Hasrat Mohani, Hasrat Jaipuri, Jaan Nisar Akhtar, Majrooh Sultanpuri, and Farooq Qaiser.
I followed it up with another 18 Ghazals in Part II starting with Mohammad Rafi singing Sahir Ludhianvi‘s ghazal Tum ek baar mohabbat ka imtehaan to do for the 1960 movie Babur, to Lata Mangeshkar singing Jaan Nisar Akhtar‘s Aap youn faaslon se guzarte rahe for the 1977 movie Shankar Hussain. In between I gave you ghazals sung by Mubarak Begum, and ghazals of Mirza Ghalib, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Rajinder Krishan, Gulzar, Bashar Nawaz and Mir Taqi Mir.
I followed the second part with another 16 Ghazals in Part III, starting with Talat Mehmood singing Sardar Jafri’sShaam-e-gham ki kasam, aaj gamgeen hain ham, Aa bhi jaa, aa bhi jaa, aaj mere sanam…. modified by Majrooh Sultanpuri for the 1953 movie Footpath and ending with Lata Mangeshkar singing Sahir Ludhianvi’s Jurm-e-ulfat pe hamen log saza dete hain, Kaise nadaan hain sholon ko hawa dete hain… for the 1963 movie Taj Mahal. In between I gave you three more ghazals by Talat Mehmood, one sung together by Mohammad Rafi and Mahendra Kapoor, a ghazal of Hassan Kamal, a few of Majrooh sultanpuri, one of Anand Bakshi and a few for which the great music director Roshan composed music.
Lets resume our journey into the fascinating world of Ghazals.
Ghazal #53
Mahendra Kapoor
He was born on 9th January 1934 in Amritsar, not too far from the birth place of his guru, guide and mentor Mohammad Rafi.
He made a distinct identity of his own with his smooth silky voice.
He excelled in ghazal singing too.
Mahendra Kapoor
I particularly like his rendition of Qamar Jalalabadi’s most famous ghazal: Rafta rafta woh hamare dil ke armaan ho gaye that he sang with Asha Bhosle. The 1966 movie Ham Kahan Jaa Rahe Hain starred Neena and Prakash and had Basant Prakash’s music.
Please enjoy: Rafta rafta woh hamare dil ke armaan ho gaye…
raftaa raftaa vo hamaare dil ke armaa.N ho gae
pahale jaa.N, phir jaan-e-jaa.N
phir jaan-e-jaanaa.N ho gae
raftaa raftaa…
raftaa raftaa vo merii taskii.n kaa saamaa.N ho gae
pahale dil phir dil_rubaa phir dil ke mehamaa.N ho gae
raftaa raftaa…
raftaa raftaa un kii aa.Nkho.n kaa nashaa ba.Dhane lagaa
pahale may phir maikadaa phir may kaa tuufaa.N ho gae
raftaa raftaa …
raftaa raftaa husn nikharaa aur nikharataa hii gayaa
pahale gul phir gul_badan phir gul ba_daamaa.N ho gae
raftaa raftaa …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQg5eddcz1A
Ghazal #54
Mahendra Kapoor
I have given you a few ghazals of Mahendra Kapoor and today I gave you his rendition of Qamar Jalalabadi’s most popular Rafta rafta woh hamaare dil ke armaan ho gaye.
SH Bihari as a lyricist was certainly most under valued lyricist. One composer who brought out the best in him was OP Nayyar. The two of them made 1960 movie Kashmir Ki Kali songs immortal.
SH Bihari – the most under-rated Lyricist
Here is one of SH Bihari’s ghazals on the music of OP Nayyar for the 1968 movie Kahin Din Kahin Raat. Once again, it has been sung by Mahendra Kapoor and Asha Bhosle.
When the ghazal finally starts in the video, you won’t believe such a lovely ghazal is hidden in the initial fast music.
Please enjoy: Ham pe ilzaam ye kyun hai ki mohabbat ki hai……
( ham pe ilzaam ye kyuu.N hai
ki mohabbat kii hai ) -2
hamane to aapako puujaa hai
ibaadat kii hai
ham pe ilzaam ye kyuu.N hai
ki mohabbat kii hai
( hamane kab aapase maa.Ngaa hai
wafaa_o.n kaa silaa ) -2
( kab sunaa aapane hamase ko_ii
shiqawaa yaa gilaa ) -2
( hamane kab dil ke ta.Dapane kii
shiqaayat kii hai ) -2
hamane to aapako puujaa hai
ibaadat kii hai
( Gam nahii.n isakaa agar aap
hamaare naa huye ) -2
( Gam to ye hai ke tumhaare bhii
tumhaare na huye ) -2
( aapane jinake liye aaj ye
haalat kii hai ) -2
hamane to aapako puujaa hai
ibaadat kii hai
ham pe ilzaam ye kyuu.N hai
ki mohabbat kii hai
Ghazal #55
Shakeel Badayuni
I can never have enough of Shakeel. He wrote exactly how I would like to write, except that I cannot have his mastery over words.
Shakeel Badayuni – the King of Irony
This ghazal from the 1962 movie Son OF India has everything that you look for in a ghazal: superb music by Naushad and excellent singing by Mohammad Rafi and tons of irony since Shakeel was the King of Irony.
Please enjoy: Zindagi aaj mere naam se sharmaati hai…
zindagii aaj mere naam se sharamaatii hai
apane haalaat pe mujhe khud hii ha.Nsii aatii hai
zindagii aaj mere …
ek Gam chain se jiine nahii.n detaa mujhako -2
ek ulajhan hai jo aksar mujhe ta.Dapaatii hai
zindagii aaj mere …
is tarah chho.D ke nikalaa huu.N mai.n apanii ma.nzil
jaise hasarat ko_ii siine se nikal jaatii hai
zindagii aaj mere …
raah chalate hu_e kuchh soch ke ruk jaataa huu.N -2
har qadam par ko_ii bhuulii hu_ii yaad aatii hai
zindagii aaj mere …
Ghazals #56
Shakeel Badayuni
As I said, I can never have enough of Shakeel. He wrote the best songs and the finest ghazals in Hindi movies.
This one is a favourite of mine from the 1962 movie Mulzim and is pictured on Pradeep Kumar and doe eyed Shakeela. Music was composed by Ravi. Mohammad Rafi was the singer.
Please enjoy: Deevana keh me aaj mujhe phir pukaariye…
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
Ghazal #57
Shakeel Badayuni
The 1967 movie Palki starred Rajendra Kumar and Waheeda Rehman and had two beautiful ghazals sung by Mohammad Rafi. One of these I have decided to share with you. It is on Naushad’s music.
Please enjoy: Kal raat zindagi se mulakaat ho gayi….
kal raat zindagii se mulaaqaat ho ga_ii
lab tharatharaa rahe the magar baat ho ga_ii
kal raat zindagii …
ek husn saamane thaa qayaamat ke ruup me.n
ek Kvaab jalvaagar thaa haqiiqat ke ruup me.n
cheharaa vahii gulaab kii ra.ngat li_e hu_e
nazare.n vahii payaam-e-muhabbat li_e hu_e
zulfe.n vahii ki jaise dhu.Ndhalakaa ho shaam kaa
aa.Nkhe.n vahii jin aa.Nkho.n pe dhokhaa ho jaam kaa
kuchh der ko tasallii-e-jazbaat ho ga_ii
lab tharatharaa rahe …
dekhaa use to daaman-e-ruKsaar nam bhii thaa
vallaah usake dil ko kuchh ehasaas-e-Gam bhii thaa
the usakii hasarato.n ke Kazaane luTe hu_e
lab par ta.Dap rahe the fasaane ghuTe hu_e
kaa.NTe chubhe hu_e the sisakatii uma.ng me.n
Duubii hu_ii thii phir bhii vo vafaa_o ke ra.ng me.n
dam bhar ko Katm gardish-e-haalaat ho ga_ii
lab tharatharaa rahe …
e merii ruuh-e-ishq merii jaan-e-shaayarii
dil maanataa nahii.n ki tuu mujhase bichha.D ga_ii
maayuusiyaa.N hai.n phir bhii mere dil ko aas hai
mahasuus ho rahaa hai ke tuu mere paas hai
samajhaa_uu.N kis tarah se dil-e-beqaraar ko
vaapas kahaa.N se laa_uu.N mai.n guzarii bahaar ko
majabuur dil ke saath ba.Dii ghaat ho ga_ii
lab tharatharaa rahe …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3a0TCdSUj4
Ghazal #58
Hasrat Jaipuri
Hasrat Jaipur was born as Iqbal Hussain on 15th April 1922. At the age of 18 he came to Bombay and started his career as a bus conductor at a monthly salary of eleven rupees. At a mushaira in Bombay, he was heard by Prithvi Raj Kapoor who recommended him to his son Raj Kapoor and Raj saab took him for Barsaat recording his first song: Jiya beqraar hai and his second song Chhor gaye baalam.
From there started an unbreakable association between Hasrat Jaipuri, Shankar Jaikishen and Raj Kapoor and his singing voice Mukesh. One of their most famous songs Aansu bhari hain yeh jeevan ki raahen is considered the standard bearer of songs in Hindi movies of old.
His title song for the 1968 movie Mere Huzoor was so popular a ghazal that many people would spontaneously sing it everywhere. Mohammad Rafi is the singer.
Please enjoy: Rukh se zara naqaab utha do mere huzoor….
apane rukh pe nigaah karane do
khuubasuurat gunaah karane do
rukh se pardaa haTaao jaan-e-hayaa
aaj dil ko tabaah karane do
rukh se zaraa naqaab uThaa do, mere huzuur
jalvaa phir ek baar dikhaa do, mere huzuur
tum hamasafar mile ho mujhe is hayaat me.n -2
mil jaae chaa.Nd jaise koii suunii raat me.n
jaage tum kahaa.N ye bataa do, mere huzuur
rukh se…
husn-o-jamaal aapakaa shiishe me.n dekh kar -2
madahoshh ho chukaa huu.N mai.n jalavo.n kii raah par
Gar ho sake to hosh me.n laa do, mere huzuur
rukh se…
vo marmarii se haath vo mahakaa huaa badan -2
Takaraayaa mere dil se, muhabbat kaa ek chaman
mere bhii dil kaa phuul khilaa do, mere huzuur
rukh se…
apane rukh pe nigaah karane do
khuubasuurat gunaah karane do
rukh se pardaa haTaao jaan-e-hayaa
aaj dil ko tabaah karane do
rukh se zaraa naqaab uThaa do, mere huzuur
jalvaa phir ek baar dikhaa do, mere huzuur
tum hamasafar mile ho mujhe is hayaat me.n -2
mil jaae chaa.Nd jaise koii suunii raat me.n
jaage tum kahaa.N ye bataa do, mere huzuur
rukh se…
husn-o-jamaal aapakaa shiishe me.n dekh kar -2
madahoshh ho chukaa huu.N mai.n jalavo.n kii raah par
Gar ho sake to hosh me.n laa do, mere huzuur
rukh se…
vo marmarii se haath vo mahakaa huaa badan -2
Takaraayaa mere dil se, muhabbat kaa ek chaman
mere bhii dil kaa phuul khilaa do, mere huzuur
rukh se…
Ghazal #59
Hasrat Jaipuri
He was awarded the Filmfare Best Lyricist award twice: once for his song that became super hit in Andaz: Zindagi ek safar hai suhaana; and the other for Baharon phool barsaayo in Rajendra Kumar movie Suraj. This means that his efforts for Raj Kapoor were never recognised by the Hindi film industry. Even for 1968 movie Mere Huzoor he missed out on getting Best Lyricist award (he wasn’t even nominated!) and the award went to Gulshan Bawra for his Upkaar song: Mere desh ki dharti. Even Anand Bakshi didn’t get that year for his Milan songs and Sahir too didn’t get for Neele gagan ke tale.
Anyway, such is luck.
This ghazal of his is close to my heart. It is from another Raaj Kumar movie (like Mere Huzoor): the 1971 movie Laal Patthar in which Raaj Kumar starred opposite Hema Malini.
Predictably, the ghazal has Shankar Jaikishen’s music and Mohammad Rafi’s voice.
Please enjoy: Unake khayaal aaye to aate chale gaye….
un ke Kayaal aae to aate chale gae
diivaanaa zi.ndagii ko banaate chale gae
jo saa.ns aa rahii hai usii kaa payaam hai
betaabiyo.n ko aur ba.Dhaate chale gae
is dil se aa rahii hai kisii yaar kii sadaa
viiraan meraa dil thaa basaate chale gae
hosh-o-havaas pe mere bijalii sii gir pa.Dii
mastii bharii nazar se pilaa ke chale gae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjr8Q_i-Kc0
Ghazal #60
Hasrat Jaipuri
This ghazal penned by Hasrat Jaipuri is amongst the best of Mohammad Rafi in Hindi movies. It is from the 1956 movie Raajhath starring Pradeep Kumar and Madhubala. No surprise, again, about the music director. It is Shankar Jaikishen again.
Please enjoy a ghazal very close to my heart: Aaye bahar ban ke lubha kar chale gaye…
aa_e bahaar ban ke lubhaa kar chale ga_e
kyaa raaz thaa jo dil me.n chhupaa kar chale ga_e
aa_e bahaar ban ke …
kahane ko vo hasiin the aa.Nkhe.n thii.n bevafaa
haay aa.Nkhe.n thii.n bevafaa
kahane ko vo hasiin the aa.Nkhe.n thii.n bevafaa
haay
daaman merii nazar se bachaa kar chale ga_e
aa_e bahaar ban ke …
itanaa mujhe bataa_o mere dil kii dha.Dakano.n
haay dil kii dha.Dakano.n
itanaa mujhe bataa_o mere dil kii dha.Dakano.n
haay
vo kaun the jo Kvaab dikhaakar chale ga_e
aa_e bahaar ban ke …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aBsePa-LJU
Ghazal#61
Naqsh Lyallpuri
He was born Jaswant Rai Sharma in Lyallpur (Punjab). His interest in literature, specially Urdu literature, started as a young boy. He became aware of his talent when his school teacher borrowed his notebooks at the end of the year because of the poems he wrote on them.
After Partition, he moved to Lucknow with his family. He moved to Bombay to find a job and ended up working at the Department of Post and Telegraph. He quit soon after thanks to the monotony of job and his keen interest in making a career in Hindi films. His film career began in 1952, when an introduction to film maker Jagdish Sethi led to his first song – “Agar Teri Ankhon Se Ankhen Mila Doon” (“Jaggu”, 1952). However, success eluded him for many years and he sustained himself through B and C grade Hindi films as well as Punjabi films. His first big hit came with “Main To Har Mod Par Tujhko Doonga Sada” (“Chetana”, 1970), almost two decades after his debut in Hindi films.
Naqsh Lyallpuri with Lata Mangeshkar (Pic courtesy: www.hindu.com)
Lets start with his most famous ghazal for the 1973 movie Dil Ki Raahen starring Rehana Sultan and Rakesh Pande. Who could have given better music for it than the maestro himself: Madan Mohan. Lata Mangeshkar sang it beautifully.
Please enjoy: Rasmen ulfat ko nibhaayen to nibhaayen kaise….
rasm-e-ulfat ko nibhaae.n to nibhaae.n kaise
har taraf aag hai daaman ko bachaae.n kaise
rasm-e-ulfat ko nibhaae.n…
dil kii raaho.n me.n uThate hai.n jo duniyaa vaale -2
koii kah de ke voh diivaar giraae.n kaise -2
rasm-e-ulfat ko nibhaae.n…
dard me.n Duube hue naGame hazaaro.n hai.n magar -2
saaz-e-dil TuuT gayaa ho to sunaae kaise -2
rasm-e-ulfat ko nibhaae.n…
bojh hotaa jo Gamo.n kaa to uThaa bhii lete -2
zi.ndagii bojh banii ho to uThaae.n kaise -2
rasm-e-ulfat ko nibhaae.n…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxMW7klhq_U
Ghazal #62
Naqsh Lyallpuri
For someone who took more than a decade to establish himself in Hindi movies, Naqsh Lyallpuri wrote some excellent songs and ghazals.
This one is gentle since it has Khaiyyam’s music. As a rare interesting point, it has Sulakshna Pandit’s voice.
Sulakshna Pandit
This is from the 1981 movie Ahista Ahista and pictured on Padmini Kolhapur and is very very good.
Please enjoy: Maana teri nazar mein tera pyaar ham nahin….
maanaa terii nazar me.n teraa pyaar ham nahii.n
kaise kahe.n ke tere talabaGaar ham nahii.n
tan ko jaalaake raaKh banaayaa, bichhaa diyaa
lo ab tumhaarii raah me.n diivaar ham nahii.n
sii.nchaa thaa jisako hamane tamanna ke khoon se
chaman me.n us bahaar ke haqadaar ham nahii.n
dhokha diyaa hai khud ko mohabbat ke naam par
ye kis tarah kahe.n ke gunehagaar ham nahi.n
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaiMGBoF4FQ
Ghazal#63
Naqsh Lyallpuri
Here is one of his earliest popular ghazals sung by Asha Bhosle. It is from the 1968 movie Teri Talaash Mein starring Kumkum. Sapan-Jagmohan composed the music for it.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find the original video for it.
Nevertheless, please enjoy: Raaz-e-dil hamase kaho ham to koi gair nahin….
raaz-e-dil ham se kaho ham to ko_ii Gair nahii.n
yuu.N pareshaan na ho ham to ko_ii Gair nahii.n
raaz-e-dil ham se …
mahakii mahakii sii ye tanahaa_ii gilaa karatii hai
Gair tum bhii na raho ham to ko_ii Gair nahii.n
raaz-e-dil ham se …
kisii hamadard ko kuchh dard ba.nTaa lene do
dard tanahaa na saho ham to ko_ii Gair nahii.n
raaz-e-dil ham se …
Ghazal #64
Naqsh Lyallpuri
As I mentioned earlier, for someone who took his time establishing himself, he finally ended up penning some really fine ghazals. This one from 1979 movie Khandaan is a favourite. The movie starred Jumping Jack Jeetu, Bindiya Goswami and Sulakshana Pandit. Music was composed by Khaiyyam and Lata ji sang it.
Please enjoy: Ye mulaqaat ik bahaana hai….
ye mulaaqaat ik bahaanaa hai
pyaar kaa silasilaa puraanaa hai
dha.Dakane dha.Dakano.n me.n kho jaaye.n
dil ko dil ke qariib laanaa hai
Kvaab to kaa.Nch se bhii naazuk hai
TuuTane se inhe.n bachaanaa hai
man meraa pyaar kaa shivaalaa hai
aap ko devataa banaanaa hai
mai.n huu.N apane sanam ke baaho.n me.n
mere qadamo.n tale zamaanaa hai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCa1-MmF38o
Ghazal #65
Shahryar
Akhlaq Mohammad Khan ‘Shahryar’ (16 June 1936 – 13 February 2012), was an Indian academician, and a doyen of Urdu poetry in India. As a Hindi film lyricist, he is best known for his lyrics in Gaman (1978) and Umrao Jaan (1981) directed by Muzaffar Ali. He retired as the head of Urdu Department at the Aligarh Muslim University, and thereafter he remained sought after name in mushairas or poetic gatherings, and also co-edited the literary magazine Sher-o-Hikmat.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for Khwab Ka Dar Band Hai (1987), and in 2008 he won the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award and only the fourth Urdu poet to win the award. He has been widely acknowledged as the finest exponent of modern Urdu poetry.
I start with his ghazals tonight and will continue tomorrow.
This of course is from 1981 movie Umraao Jaan based on the novel by the same name by Mirza Hadi Ruswa (1905). The movie won six Filmfare Award including Best Actress Rekha, Best Music Director Khaiyyam and Best Direction and Best Singer Lata.
However, Shahryar didn’t win any award.
Shahryar (Pic courtesy: www.thewire.in)
Nevertheless, the ghazals of this movie are amongst the best in Hindi movies.
Lets start with this one sung by Talat Aziz for Farooq Sheikh.
Please enjoy: Zindagi jab bhi teri bazm mein laati hai hamen…
zi.ndagii jab bhii terii bazm me.n laatii hai hame.n
ye zamii.n chaa.Nd se behatar nazar aatii hai hame.n
surkh phUlo.n se mahak uThatI hai.n dil kI rAhe.n
din Dhale yU.N terI AvAz bulAtI hai hame.n
zi.ndagii …
yAd terI kabhii dastak kabhii saragoshI se
raat ke pichhale pahar roz jagaatI hai hame.n
zi.ndagii …
har mulAqAt kA a.njaam judAI kyU.N hai
ab to har vaqt yahI baat satAtI hai hame.n
zi.ndagii …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82tyHLrjuBo
Ghazal#66
Shahryar
I have enjoyed putting up these Ghazals for you for almost three weeks now.
My idea was to give you the hundred best ghazals in Hindi movies. From last night, some sadness is coming to me now that in another week or ten days it would be over.
Last night I had embarked on the great Urdu poet Shahryar. I had given you his ghazal sung by Talat Aziz for the 1981 movie Umrao Jaan starring Rekha, Farooq Sheikh and Naseeruddin Shah.
Here is another ghazal from the same movie sung by Asha Bhosle on Khaiyam‘s music.
Please enjoy: Justaju jisaki thi us ko to na paaya hamane……
justajuu jisakii thii us ko to na paayaa hamane
is bahaane se magar dekh lii duniyaa hamane
tujhako rusavaa na kiyaa Khud bhii pashemaa.N na huye
ishq kii rasm ko is tarah nibhaayaa hamane
kab milii thii kahaa.N bichha.Dii thii hame.n yaad nahii.n
zi.ndagii tujhako to bas Khvaab me.n dekhaa hamane
ai ‘Ada’ aur sunaaye bhii to kyaa haal apanaa
umr kaa lambaa safar tay kiyaa tanahaa hamane
‘adaa” was taKallus of umraao jaan ‘adaa’ in the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMppeXU7Fl4
Ghazal #67
Shahryar
The 1981 movie Umrao Jaan was full of excellent ghazals.
Here is another one put together by the same combine of Shahryar, Khaiyyam and Asha Bhosle.
Please enjoy: In aankhon ki masti ke mastaane hazaaron hain…
in aa.Nkho.n kii mastii ke mastaane hazaaro.n hai.n
in aa.Nkho.n se vaabastaa afasaane hazaaro.n hai.n
in aa.nkho.n…
ik tum hii nahii.n tanhaa, ulafat me.n merii rusavaa
is shahar me.n tum jaise diivaane hazaaro.n hai.n
in aa.Nkho.n…
ik sirf ham hii may ko aa.Nkho.n se pilaate hai.n
kahane ko to duniyaa me.n mayakhaane hazaaro.n hai.n
in aa.Nkho.n…
is shamm-e-farozaa.N ko aa.ndhii se Daraate ho
is shamm-e-farozaa.N ke paravaane hazaaro.n hai.n
in aa.Nkho.n…
Ghazal # 68
Shahryar
The 1981 movie Umrao Jaan’s ghazals not only were very popular but also left you gaping with their excellence of lyrics by Shahryar and music by Khaiyyam.
This was the most popular, sung by Asha Bhosle.
Please enjoy: Dil cheez kyaa hai aap meri jaan leejiye…
dil chiiz kyaa hai, aap merii jaan liijiye
bas ek baar meraa kahaa, maan liijiye
is a.njuman me.n aapako aanaa hai baar baar
diivaar-o-dar ko gaur se pahachaan liijiye
% is the last word naaz?
maanaa ke dosto.n ko nahii.n dostii kaa naaz
lekin ye kyaa ke gair kaa ahasaan liijiye
kahiye to aasamaan ko zamiin par utaar laae.n
mushkil nahii.n hai kuchh bhii agar Thaan liijiye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60O11sF9_-o
Ghazal # 69
Shahryar
The 1981 movie Umrao Jaan’s ghazals not only were very popular but also left you gaping with their excellence of lyrics by Shahryar and music by Khaiyyam.
Here is another one sung by Asha Bhosle and pictured on Rekha who in the title role won the Best Actress Award.
Please enjoy: Ye kyaa jagah hai dosto, ye kaun sa dyaar hai….
ye kyaa jagah hai dosto.n, ye kaun saa dayaar hai
had-e-nigAh tak jahA.n gubAr hI gubAr hai
ye kyA jagah hai dosto.n
ye kis mukaam par hayaat, mujhako leke aa gaI
na bas khushI pe kahA.n, na Gam pe ikhtiyaar hai
ye…
tamAm umr kA hisAb mA.ngatI hai zindagI
mA.ngatI hai zindagI
ye merA dil kahe to kyA, ye khud se sharmasAr hai
ye khud se sharmasAr hai
ye…
bulA rahA kyA koI chilamano.n ke us taraf
chilamano.n ke us taraf
mere liye bhI kyA koI udAs beqarAr hai
udaas beqarAr hai
ye…
(A nazm not in the song, but is there in the movie)
na jisakI shakal hai koI, na jisakA naam hai koI
ik aisI shai kA kyo.n hame.n azal se intazaar hai
ye…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moJUfnqRqZE
That brings us to the end of Part IV of A Hundred Ghazals in Hindi Movies. We have had a total of 69 ghazals so far.
Please let me know in the comments below if some ghazal of yours should appear in the Top 100. I shall try to accommodate. Only, please remember two things: One, there are still two more parts to go with a total of 31 ghazals. And, secondly, these are not the best ghazals in all fora; these are only considered the best that appeared in Hindi movies.
तुम रूठो तो मेरी गलती, मैं रूठूँ तो मेरी I
दोनों रुख़ से जीत हुई है, ऐ सनम अब तेरी I
जीत के तुझे वह मिल गया जो हार के मुझे मिल न पाया I
फिर भी लगता है तेरे दिल पे पढ़ा है कोई ग़म का साया I
तुम चाहो तो चाहत है, मैं चाहूँ तो भूल है मेरी I
दोनों रुख़ से जीत हुई है, ऐ सनम अब तेरी I
काश जो अब तुम समझ रही हो, वह पहले ही समझती I
कदम कदम पे बात बात पर मुझसे ना उलझती I
गाली गलोज और इल्ज़ामों की तुमने लगाई थी ढेरी I
दोनों रुख़ से जीत हुई है, ऐ सनम अब तेरी I
मैं मायूस उदास ज़रूर हूँ, लेकिन हूँ नहीं तनहा I
याद है मुझको संग बिताया हर एक अनोखा लम्हा I
मेरी मुहब्बत साथ रहती है, बनके याद सुनहरी I
दोनों रुख़ से जीत हुई है, ऐ सनम अब तेरी I
मुझे तुमसे कोई शिकवा नहीं, ना है कोई शिकायत I
इक तरफ़ा प्यार की, तेरी महफ़िल में थी रिवायत I
तुम्हें ज़िन्दगी की खुशियां मुबारक, मेरे लिए चोट है गहरी I
दोनों रुख़ से जीत हुई है, ऐ सनम अब तेरी I
इक डोर थी जो अब टूटने को है , सजाई थी ख़्वाबों की जन्नत I
इक सांस है जो अब झूटने को है, मांगी थी ज़िन्दगी की मन्नत I
तेरी कामयाबी पर, कबूल हो बधाई अब मेरी I
दोनों रुख़ से जीत हुई है, ऐ सनम अब तेरी I
(Pic courtesy: america.pink)
Tum rootho to meri galti, main roothun to meri,
Dono rukh se jeet hui hai, ai sanam ab teri.
Jeet ke tujhe woh mil gaya, jo haar ke mujhe mil naa paaya,
Phir bhi lagta hai tere dil pe padha hai koi gham ka saaya;
Tum chaaho to chaahat hai, main chaahun to bhool hai meri,
Dono rukh se jeet hui hai, ai sanam ab teri.
Kaash jo ab tum samajh rahi ho, wo pehle hi samajhati,
kadam kadam pe baat baat par mujhase na ulajhati.
Gaali galoz aur armaano ki tumane to lagaayi thi dheri,
Dono rukh se jeet hui hai, ai sanam ab teri.
Main maayus udhass zaroor hoon, lekin hoon nahin tanha,
Yaad hai mujhako sang bitaaya, har ek anokha lamha.
Meri mohabbat sang rehti hai, banake yaad sunehri,
Dono rukh se jeet hui hai, ai sanam ab teri.
Mujhe tumase koi shikwa nahin, naa hai koi shikaayat,
Ik tarfa pyaar ki, teri mehfil mein thi riwaayat.
Tumhen zindagi ki khushiyan mubarak, mere liye chot hai gehri,
Dono rukh se jeet hui hai, ai sanam ab teri.
Ik dore thi jo ab tootne ko hai, sajaayi thi khwaabon ki jannat,
Ek saans hai jo ab jhootne ko hai, maangi thi zindagi ki mannat.
Teri kamyaabi pe, ai dost, qabool ho badhaayi meri,
Dono rukh se jeet hui hai, ai sanam ab teri.
हम एक, हमारी एक……….. ज़िन्दगी,
कभी एक दूजे की, कभी खुदा की बंदगी I
पैंतीस साल पहले जो मांगी थी दुआ,
उसी का तो अब तक है सिलसिला,
नज़रों का एक होना तो सुनते आये थे,
पर यहाँ तो दिल, ख्वाब, सब एक हुआ I
हम एक, हमारी एक ………….पहचान,
एक दूसरे में बस्ती है अपनी जान I
गरीब थे हम, पर बने रहे अमीर,
हम ही तो थे कल के राँझा और हीर,
दोस्तों ने जिन्हे हमें धनि बनाया,
कहा: “यही तो हैं प्यार की तस्वीर” I
हम एक, हमारी एक ……….. कोशिश,
क्या खूब बनी प्यार की बन्दिश I
ज़िन्दगी में आये कई चढ़ाव उतार,
हम एक संग पहुंचे उनके पार,
ऐसे ही बनी रहे हमारी छोटी सी ज़िन्दगी,
ऐसे ही बना रहे हमारा छोटा सा परिवार I
हम एक, हमारी एक ………. दास्तान,
तू मेरा जहान, मैं तेरा जहान I
कई बरस बाद, हम हवा में समा जाएंगे,
किसी को फिर नज़र नहीं आएंगे,
पर फिर भी देखना लोग भूलेंगे नहीं,
जब प्यार का ज़िक्र हो, हम याद आएंगे I
हम एक, हमारी एक ……… फ़रियाद,
प्यार हमारा बना रहे, मरने के भी बाद I
Ham ek, hamari ek ………. zindagi,
Kabhi ek duje ki, kabhi khuda ki bandagi.
Paintees saal pehle jo maangi thi duaa,
Usi ka to ab taq hai silsila,
Nazaron ka ek hona to sunate aaye the,
Par yahan to dil, khwaab, sab ek huaa.
Ham ek, hamaari ek ………. pehchaan,
Ek doosre mein basti hai apani jaan.
Ghareeb the hum par bane rahe ameer,
Hum hi to the, kal ke Ranjha aur Heer,
Doston ne jinhe hamen dhani banaaya,
Kaha: “Yahi to hai pyaar ki tasveer”
Hum ek, hamaari ek …….. koshish,
Kyaa khoob bani pyaar ki bandish.
Zindagi mein aaye kayi chadhaav utaar,
Hum ek sang pahunche unake paar,
Ek hi bani rahe hamaari chhoti si zindagi,
Ek hi bana rahe hamaara chhota sa parivaar.
Hum ek, hamaari ek …….. dastaan,
Tu meraa jahaan, main tera jahaan.
Kayi baras baad, hum hawa mein samaa jaayenge,
Kisi ko phir nazar nahin aayenge,
Par phir bhi dekhana, log bhulenge nahin,
Jab pyaar ka zikr ho, hum yaad aayenge.
Hum ek, hamaari ek …… fariyaad,
Pyaar hamaara bana rahe, marne ke bhi baad.
तू भी देखना एक ऐसा भी दिन आएगा,
आंसुओं से मेरे तेरा दिल पिघल जाएगा
मेरी ना श से तुझे कोई शिक्वा ना होगा
तेरे दिन तो क्या जहान संवर जाएगा
प्यार और इश्क़ मुझे करना ही ना था
घुट घुट रोज़ मुझे मरना ही ना था
अब सोचता हूँ क्यों चला गया वहां
तेरी राहों से मुझे गुज़रना ही ना था
सोचा था ज़िन्दगी का हमसफ़र मिला है
मेरी तनहा रातों का सहर मिला है
हम जिसे पीते रहे दवा जान के, ऐ दिल,
अब पता चला के ज़हर मिला है
खैर ग़म- ऐ-इश्क़ की कोई तो होगी मंज़िल
यह बेवफा निकली, यह हर वक़्त रही संगदिल
यह ज़िन्दगी तो रो रोके गुज़ार दी हमने
आने वाली ज़िन्दगी शायद ना हो मुश्किल
चलो इंतजार करते है! चलो इंतज़ार करते हैं!
ठोकर खा चुके हैं फिर भी प्यार करते हैं
तेरे वादे पे तो तमाम उम्र गुज़र गयी लेकिन
हम अब मौत की वफ़ा का ऐतबार करते हैं|
Tu bhi dekhna ek aisa bhi din aayega,
Aansuyon se mere tera dil pighal jaayega
Meri naa sh setujhe koi shikwa na hoga
Tere din to kyaa jahan sanwar jaayega
Pyaar aur ishq mujhe karna hi na tha
Ghut ghut roz mujhe marna hi naa tha
Ab sochata hoon kyun chala gaya wahan
Teri raahon se mujhe guzarna hi naa tha
Socha tha zindagi ka hamsafar mila hai
Meri tanha raaton ka sehar mila hai
Ham jise peete rahe dawa jaan ke ai dil,
Ab pata chal ke zehar mila hai
Khair gham-e-ishq ki koi to hogi manzil
Yeh bewafa nikali, yeh har waqt rahi sangdil
Ye zindagi to ro ro ke guzaar di hamane
Aane waali zindagi shaayad naa ho mushqil
Chalo intezaar karte hain! Chalo intezaar karte hain!
Thhokar kha chuke hain phir bhi pyaar karte hain
Tere waade pe to tamaam umr guzr gayi lekin
Hum ab maut ki wafa ka aitbaar karte hain|
As I brought out in the introduction of ‘A Hundred Ghazals In Hindi Movies – Part I’, and ‘A Hundred Ghazals In Hindi Movies – Part II’, the ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in ancient Arabic poem in Arabia long before the birth of Islam. The term Ghazal is of North African and Middle Eastern origin. Its root term in Arabic is “gh-zl” and is derived from the Arabian panegyric qasida.
The ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century due to the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new Islamic Sultanate. Although the ghazal is most prominently a form of Dari poetry and Urdu poetry, today it is found in the poetry of many languages of the Indian sub-continent.
I gave you 18 Ghazals in Part I starting with Shakeel Badayuni‘s Na milata gham to barbaadi ke afsaane kahan jaate, to Rajinder Krishan‘s Jahan Ara ghazal sung by Talat Mahmood: Phir wohi shaam wohi gham wohi tanhaayi hai. In between I packed ghazals by Kaifi Azmi, Sahir Ludhianvi, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Muztar Khairabadi, Hasrat Mohani, Hasrat Jaipuri, Jaan Nisar Akhtar, Majrooh Sultanpuri, and Farooq Qaiser.
I followed it up with another 18 Ghazals in Part II starting with Mohammad Rafi singing Sahir Ludhianvi‘s ghazal Tum ek baar mohabbat ka imtehaan to do for the 1960 movie Babur, to Lata Mangeshkar singing Jaan Nisar Akhtar‘s Aap youn faaslon se guzarte rahe for the 1977 movie Shankar Hussain. In between I gave you ghazals sung by Mubarak Begum, and ghazals of Mirza Ghalib, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Rajinder Krishan, Gulzar, Bashar Nawaz and Mir Taqi Mir.
Lets resume our journey into the fascinating world of Ghazals.
Ghazal #37
Talat Mehmood
He was born on 24th Feb 1924 in Lucknow. He died on 9th May 1998 in Mumbai. He left behind a legacy of a unique style of playback singing and ghazal singing. Indeed, he was known as the Ghazal King in Hindi films.
I have already given you his ghazals for the movie Jehan Ara and Dekh Kabira Roya.
His finest ghazal ever was for the 1953 movie Footpath. This is a Sardar Jafri ghazal modified for the film by Majrooh Sultanpuri. It has Khaiyyam‘s gentle music. It is as popular today as it was 62 years ago.
Please enjoy: Shaam-e-gham ki kasam, aaj gamgeen hain ham, Aa bhi jaa, aa bhi jaa, aaj mere sanam….
shaam-e-Gam kii qasam aaj Gamagii.n hai.n ham
aa bhii jaa aa bhii jaa aaj mere sanam
shaam-e-Gam kii qasam
dil pareshaan hai.n raat viiraan hai.n
dekh jaa kis tarah aaj tanahaa hai.n ham
shaam-e-Gam kii qasam
chain kaisaa jo pahaluu me.n tuu hii nahii.n
maar Daale na dard-e-judaaI kahii.n
rut ha.nsii.n hai.n to kyaa chaa.Ndanii hai to kyaa
chaa.Ndanii zulm hai aur judaaI sitam
shaam-e-Gam kii qasam
ab to aajaa ke ab raat bhii so gaI
zindagii Gam ke seharaav me.n kho gaI (2)
Dhuu.NDhatii hai.n nazar tuu kahaa.N hai.n magar
dekhate dekhate aayaa aa.Nkho.n me.n Gam
shaam-e-Gam kii qasam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qT1uuxzvGA
Ghazal #38
Talat Mehmood
This is a favourite of mine picturised on V Shantaram and his two wives Jayshree and Sandhya. It is the best of the ghazals of Noor Lucknowi and it has C Ramchandra‘s music. The name of this 1952 movie is Parchhain. Parchhain is cited as one of the films produced by Shantaram that was of “exceptional merit”. The story revolves around a man who is accidentally blinded by a woman whom he falls in love with, only to lose her when he regains his sight.
Please enjoy: Mohabbat hi naa jo samajhe who zaalim pyaar kyaa jaane….
muhabbat hii na jo samajhe, vo zaalim pyaar kyaa jaane
nikalatii dil ke taaro.n se, jo hai jha.nkaar kyaa jaane
muhabbat hii na jo samajhe …
use to qatl karanaa aur ta.Dapaanaa hii aataa hai
galaa kisakaa kaTaa kyuu.Nkar kaTaa talavaar kyaa jaane – 2
muhabbat hii na jo samajhe …
davaa se faayadaa hogaa ki hogaa zahar-e-qaatil se
% zahar-e-qaatil = killer’s poison
maz.r kii kyaa davaa hai ye koii biimaar kyaa jaane
muhabbat hii na jo samajhe …
karo fariyaad sar Takaraa_o apanii jaan de Daalo – 2
ta.Dapate dil kii haalat husn kii diivaar kyaa jaane – 2
muhabbat hii na jo samajhe …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_gGECgVTUM
Ghazal #39
Talat Mehmood
What did we like about the Jehan Ara ghazal that I had given you earlier? Well, other than Talat Mehmood‘s singing, it had Madan Mohan‘s music.
This combination motivates me to give you another. This too has Rajinder Krishan‘s lyrics. Of course, you know the general story of the 1964 movie Jahan Ara starring Bharat Bhushan as Mirza Yusuf Changezi and Mala Sinha as Jahan Ara the daughter of Shah Jehan from Mumtaz. Mumtaz, whilst dying takes a promise from Jahan Ara that she, Jahan Ara, would look after Shah Jahan in Mumtaz’s absence and she was forced to sacrifice her love for Mirza. He, however, believed that one day she would return to him. And that’s how this ghazal came about in the form of an epistle from him to her in her isolation.
Please enjoy: Main teri nazar ka saroor hoon, Tujhe yaad ho ki naa yaad ho….
mai.n terI nazar kA suruur huu.N
tujhe yaad ho ke nA yaad ho
tere paas rahake bhI dUr huu.N
tujhe yaad ho ke nA yaad ho
mai.n terI nazar kA suruur huu.N
(mujhe aa.Nkh se to giraa diyaa
kaho dil se bhI kyA bhulaa diyaa ) – 2
terI aashiqii kA Guruur huu.N
tujhe yaad ho ke nA yaad ho
mai.n terI nazar kA …
(terI zulf hai mere haath me.n
ke tU aaj bhI mere saath hai ) – 2
tere dil me.n bhI mai.n zaruur huu.N
tujhe yaad ho ke nA yaad ho
mai.n terI nazar kA …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPZv_2uHMdE
Ghazal #40
Talat Mehmood
Talking about Rajinder Krishan brings me straight to the 1961 movie Chhaya starring Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh. This ghazal has Salil da‘s music. It is, of course, one of the best ghazals of Talat Mehmood.
Talat Mahmood and Salil Chowdhury
Please enjoy: Aansu samajh ke kyon mujhe aankh se tune giraa diya….
aa.Nsuu samajh ke kyo.n mujhe aa.Nkh se tuune giraa diyaa
motii kisii ke pyaar kaa miTTii me.n kyo.n milaa diyaa
aa.Nsuu samajh ke kyo.n mujhe
naGmaa huu.N kab magar mujhe apane pe koii naaz thaa -2
gaayaa gayaa huu.N jis pe mai.n TuuTaa huaa vo saaz thaa
jis ne sunaa vo ha.Ns diyaa, ha.Ns ke mujhe rulaa diyaa
aa.Nsuu samajh ke kyo.N mujhe …
jo naa chaman me.n khil sakaa mai.n vo gariib phuul huu.N
jo kuchh bhii huu.N bahaar kii chhoTii sii ek bhuul huu.N
jis ne khilaa ke khud mujhe, khud hii mujhe bhulaa diyaa
aa.Nsuu samajh ke kyo.n mujhe
merii Kataa muaaf mai.n bhuule se aa gayaa yahaa.N
varanaa mujhe bhii hai khabar meraa nahii.n hai ye jahaa.N
Duub chalaa thaa nii.nd me.n achchhaa kiyaa jagaa diyaa
aa.Nsuu samajh ke kyo.n mujhe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZiooSLGPLE
Ghazal #41
Mohammad Rafi and Mahendra Kapoor
I am sorry but every now and then I have a deep-rooted desire to get back to my favourite poet and lyricist Shakeel Badayuni. This ghazal has been sung by Mohammad Rafi and Mahendra Kapoor together. It is from the 1968 movie Aadmi starring Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman and Manoj Kumar.
Mohammad Rafiand Mahendra Kapoor
Predictably, it has Naushad‘s music.
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
Ghazal #42
Hasan Kamaal
He was born on 1st January 1943 in Lucknow. I have already given you two of his ghazals: one for the movie Nikaah sung by and picturised on Salma Agha: Dil ke armaan aansuyon mein beh gaye and the other for the movie Aitbaar sung by Bhupinder and Asha Bhosle and picturised on Suresh Oberoi and Dimple Kapadia: Kisi nazar ko tera intezzaar aaj bhi hai.
Hasan Kamaal (Pic courtesy: www.youtube.com)
Here is a ghazal of his for the 1985 movie Tawaif sung by Mahendra Kapoor with Ravi‘s music.It is picturised on Rishi Kapoor.
Please enjoy: Tere pyaar ki tamanna gham-e-zindagi ke saaye….
tere pyaar kii tamannaa Gam-e-zi.ndagii ke saaye
ba.Dii tez aa.Ndhiyaa.N hai.n ye chiraaG bujh na jaaye
na fizaa.N hai apane bas me.n na nazar me.n hai kinaaraa
kahii.n mere dil kii kashtii na bha.Nvar me.n Duub jaaye
koii hal tuu hii bataa de mere dil kii kashamakash kaa
tujhe bhuulanaa bhii chaahuu.N terii yaad hii sataaye
hai ajiib dastaa.N kuchh ye hamaarii dastaa.N bhii
kabhii tum samajh na paaye kabhii ham sunaa na paaye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Ji_j4vW50
Ghazal #43
Majrooh Sultanpuri
He was born on 1st of Oct 1919 at Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Before his death on 24th May 2000 in Mumbai, he packed in more than five decades of being a lyricist in Hindi movies.
He was a leading light of Progressive Writers Movement. However, his contemporaries felt that he deviated from Urdu shayari and ghazals into popular songs.
Nevertheless, he still ended up writing some beautiful ghazals. One of them was the best of Talat Mehmood and I have already given you that: Shaam-e-gham ki kasam, aaj ghamgeen hain ham…
His most famous ghazal in Hindi movies, however, has been sung by Lata Mangeshkar and has been picturised on Suchitra Sen for the 1966 movie Mamta. Music was composed by Roshan.
Please enjoy: Rehate the kabhi jinake dil mein ham jaan se bhi pyaaron ki tarah…
rahate the kabhii jinake dil me.n
ham jaan se bhii pyaaro.n kii tarah
baiThe hai.n unhii ke kuuche me.n
ham aaj gunahagaaro.n kii tarah – 2
daavaa thaa jinhe.n hamadardii kaa
khud aake na puuchhaa haal kabhii – 2
mahafil me.n bulaayaa hai ham pe – 2
ha.Nsane ko sitamagaaro.n kii tarah – 2
rahate the…
baraso.n se sulagate tan man par
ashko.n ke to chhii.nTe de naa sake – 2
tapate hue dil ke zakhmo.n par – 2
barase bhii to a.ngaaro.n kii tarah – 2
rahate the…
sau rup dhare jiine ke liye
baiThe hai.n hazaaro.n zahar piye – 2
Thokar naa lagaanaa ham khud hai.n – 2
giratii huii diivaaro.n kii tarah – 2
rahate the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPnGL5y-gY
Ghazal #44
Majrooh Sultanpuri
His part of the world produced some great Urdu poets and it was felt that he sacrificed serious Urdu poetry in favour of populism.
Yet, he penned some really good ghazals. One of these was a reworded copy of famous Mir Taqi Mir‘s ghazal Patta patta boota boota haal hamaara jaane hai.
He did it for the 1972 movie Ek Nazar starring Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bahaduri. It was sung by Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar on the music of Laxmikant Pyarelal.
pattaa pattaa buuTaa buuTaa
haal hamaaraa jaane hai, pattaa pattaa…
jaane na jaane gul hii na jaane
baag to saaraa jaane hai, pattaa pattaa…
koii kisii ko chaahe, to kyuu.n gunaah samajhate hai.n log
koii kisii kii khaatir, tarase agar to ha.Nsate hai.n log
begaanaa aalam hai saaraa, yahaa.N to koii hamaaraa
dard nahii.n pahachaane hai, pattaa pattaa…
chaahat ke gul khile.nge, chalatii rahe hazaar aa.Ndhiyaa.N
ham to kisii chaman me.n, baa.Ndhe.nge pyaar kaa aashiyaa.N
ye duniyaa bijalii giraae, ye duniyaa kaa.NTe bichhaae
ishq magar kab maane hai, pattaa pattaa…
dikhalaae.nge jahaa.N ko, kuchh din jo zindagaanii hai aur
kaise na ham mile.nge, hamane bhii dil me.n Thaanii hai aur
abhii matavaale dilo.n kii, muhabbat vaale dilo.n kii
baat koii kyaa jaane hai, pattaa pattaa…
Ghazal #45
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Some of his finest songs were penned for the 1970 Rajinder Singh Puri movie Dastak starring Sanjeev Kumar and Rahana Sultan.
All these had Madan Mohan‘s music.
Please enjoy Lata Mangeshkar singing: Ham hain mataa-e-kuchaa-o-bazaar ki tarah..
ham hai.n mataa-e-kuuchaa-o-baazaar kii tarah
uThatii hai har nigaah khariidaar kii tarah
vo to kahii.n hai.n aur magar dil ke aas paas
magar dil ke aas paas
phiratii hai koii shah nigaah-e-yaar kii tarah
ham hai.n …
majaruuh likh rahe hai.n vo ahal-e-vafaa kaa naam
ahal-e-vafaa kaa naam
ham bhii kha.De hue hai.n gunahagaar kii tarah
ham hai.n …
Some more ashar from the ghazal that are not used in the film version
is kuu-e-tishnagii me.n bahut hai ke ek jaam
haath aa gayaa hai daulat-e-bedaar kii tarah
siidhii hai raah-e-shauq par yuu.N hii kabhii kabhii
Kam ho ga_ii hai gesuu-e-diladaar kii tarah
ab jaa ke kuchh khulaa hunar-e-naakhuun-e-junuun
zaKm-e-jigar hue lab-o-ruKsaar kii tarah
Ghazal #46
Happy Birthday Shashi Kapoor
(On my Facebook Page Lyrical when this was put up)
He was born on this day, 18th March, in the year 1935. The Kapoor family under the patriarch Prithviraj Kapoor: Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor gave us some of the most intense and natural acting in the Hindi movies and continue to do so in the third generation of Ranbir Kapoor (grandson of Raj Kapoor from Rishi Kapoor); Karishma and Kareena (granddaughters of Raj Kapoor from Randhir Kapoor); Kunal, Karan and Sanjana Kapoor (children of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal).
Each one had/has a unique style of acting. Shashi, for example, emerged as the chocolate boy of Hindi film industry.
It is difficult to imagine him singing ghazals. However, I have already given you a few days earlier his most famous ghazal for the movie Kanyadaan wherein he played the role of a poet. The ghazal was: Meri zindagi mein aate to kuchh aur baat hoti. He just stands and sings in a black achkan and looks cute.
Here is another one of his ghazals for the 1961 movie Dharamputra wherein he acted opposite Indrani Mukherjee. The ghazal writer was Sahir Ludhianvi and the music by N Dutta. The singer is Mahendra Kapoor.
Mohammad Rafi, Talat Mehmood, Indrani Mukherjee, Sahir Ludhianvi and N Dutta (picture courtesy: Bollywoodirect)
Please enjoy: Bhool sakta hai bhala kaun tumhaari aankhen….
bhuul sakataa hai bhalaa kaun ye pyaarii aa.Nkhe.n
ra.ng me.n Duubii huii nii.nd se bhaarii aa.Nkhe.n
bhuul sakataa hai bhalaa kaun …
merii har sos ne har soch ne chaahaa hai tumhe.n
jab se dekhaa hai tumhe.n tab se saraahaa hai tumhe.n
bas ga_ii hai.n merii aa.Nkho.n me.n tumhaarii aa.Nkhe.n
ra.ng me.n Duubii huii nii.nd se bhaarii aa.Nkhe.n
bhuul sakataa hai bhalaa kaun …
tum jo nazaro.n ko uThaao to sitaare jhuk jaaye.n
tum jo palko.n ko jhukaao to zamaane ruk jaaye.n
kyuu.N na ban jaaye.n in aa.Nkhon kii pujaarii aa.Nkhen
ra.ng me.n Duubii huii nii.nd se bhaarii aa.Nkhe.n
bhuul sakataa hai bhalaa kaun …
jaagatii raato.n ko sapano.n kaa khazaanaa mil jaaye
tum jo mil jaao to jiine ka bahaanaa mil jaaye
apanii qismat pe kare naaz hamaarii aa.Nkhen
bhuul sakataa hai bhalaa kaun ye pyaarii aa.Nkhe.n
ra.ng me.n Duubii huii nii.nd se bhaarii aa.Nkhe.n
bhuul sakataa hai bhalaa kaun …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDE2vaArWsY
Ghazal #47
Happy Birthday Shashi Kapoor
Now that through two of his ghazals (both in which he acted as a poet: In Kanyadaan and Dharamputra) I have proved to you that even the chocolate boy of Hindi movies Shashi Kapoor could also act on ghazals, it won’t come as a surprise to you when I give you one of his ghazals that was most popular during our days.
It is from the 1970 movie My Love in which he acted opposite Sharmila Tagore. The ghazal was written by Anand Bakshi and it has Daan Singh’s music. It is one of the best ghazals sung by Mukesh.
Anand Bakshi (Pic courtesy: ibnlive.com)
Please enjoy: Zikr hota hai jab qayamat ka tere jalvon ki baat hoti hai….
zikr hotaa hai jab qayaamat kaa tere jalavo.n kii baat hotii hai
tuu jo chaahe to din nikalataa hai tuu jo chaahe to raat hotii hai
zikr hotaa hai jab …
tujhako dekhaa hai merii nazaro.n ne terii taariif ho magar kaise
ke bane ye nazar zubaa.N kaise ke bane ye zubaa.N nazar kaise
naa zubaa.N ko dikhaa_ii detaa hai naa niGaaho.n se baat hotii hai
zikr hotaa hai jab …
tuu chalii aa_e muskuraatii hu_ii to bikhar jaa_e.n har taraf kaliyaa.N
tuu chalii jaa_e uTh ke pahaluu se to uja.D jaa_e.n phuulo.n kii galiyaa.N
jis taraf hotii hai nazar terii us taraf qaayanaat hotii hai
zikr hotaa hai jab …
tuu niGaaho.n se naa pilaa_e to ashq bhii piine vaale piite hai.n
vaise jiine ko to tere bin bhii is zamaane me.n log jiite hai.n
zindagii to usii ko kahate hai.n jo guzar tere saath hotii hai
zikr hotaa hai jab …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OsS35MlDx4
Ghazal #48
My Dad’s Favourite Ghazal
How well songs and ghazals connect generations! How many times I listened to my father sing the Talat Mehmood version of this ghazal from the 1957 movie Ek Saal starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala?
These are (both Lata and Talat Mehmood versions) are the strongest lyrics written by Prem Dhawan. Ravi composed the music.
(Pic courtesy: www.youtube.com)
I am giving you both the versions.
Please enjoy: Sab kuchh luta ke hosh mein aaye to kyaa kiya?
#Lata version
na puuchho pyaar kii hamane vo haqiiqat dekhii
vafaa ke naam pe bikatii hu_ii ulfat dekhii
kisii ne luuT liyaa aur hame.n Kabar na hu_ii
khulii jo aa.Nkh to barbaad muhabbat dekhii
sab kuchh luTaa ke hosh me.n aa_e to kyaa kiyaa
din me.n agar charaaG jalaa_e to kyaa kiyaa
(mai.n vo kalii huu.N jo na bahaaro.n me.n khil sakii) -2
vo dil huu.N jisako pyaar kii ma.nzil na mil sakii
ma.nzil na mil sakii
patthar pe hamane phuul cha.Dhaa_e to kyaa kiyaa
(jo mil na sakaa pyaar Gam kii shaam to mile)-2
ik bevafaa se pyaar kaa a.njaam to mile
(ai maut jald aa) -2 zaraa aaraam to mile
do din Kushii ke dekh na paa_e to kyaa kiyaa
# Talat version
karate rahe Kizaa.N se ham saudaa bahaar kaa
badalaa diyaa to kyaa ye diyaa unake pyaar kaa
sab kuchh luTaa ke hosh me.n aaye to kyaa kiyaa? -2
din me.n agar charaaG jalaaye to kyaa kiyaa?
sab kuchh luTaa ke hosh me.n aaye to kyaa kiyaa? -2
ham badanasiib pyaar kii rusavaa_ii ban gaye -2
Kud hii lagaa ke aag tamaashaa_ii ban gaye,
tamaashaa_ii ban gaye
daaman se ab ye shole bujhaaye to kyaa kiyaa?
din me.n agar charaaG jalaaye to kyaa kiyaa?
sab kuchh luTaa ke hosh me.n aaye to kyaa kiyaa? -2
le-le ke haar phuulo.n ke aa_ii to thii bahaar -2
nazare.n uThaake hamane hii dekhaa na ek baar
dekhaa na ek baar
aa.Nkho.n se ab ye parade haTaaye to kyaa kiyaa?
din me.n agar charaaG jalaaye to kyaa kiyaa?
sab kuchh luTaa ke hosh me.n aaye to kyaa kiyaa? -2
Ghazal #49
Roshan
Talking about Madhubala, I just can’t get this ghazal out of my system. It haunts me! Sahir has penned it so well that I am often dumb-stuck listening to it. It is from the 1966 movie Barsaat Ki Raat starring her opposite Bharat Bhushan.
Music has been composed by Roshan who really knew how to compose ghazals. No one could have sung it better than Mohammad Rafi.
Please enjoy: Mayuus to hoon wade se tere, kuchh aas nahin kuchh aas bhi hai….
maayuus to huu.N vaade se tere
kuchh aas nahii.n kuchh aas bhii hai
mai.n apane Kyaalo.n ke sadake
tuu paas nahii.n aur paas bhii hai
maayuus to huu.N …
hamane to Kushii maa.Ngii thii magar
jo tuune diyaa achchhaa hii diyaa
jis Gam kaa ta_aalluuq ho tujhase
vo raas nahii.n aur raas bhii hai
mai.n apane Kyaalo.n ke …
palako.n se larajate ashqo.n se
tasviir jhalakatii hai terii -2
diidaar kii pyaasii aa.Nkho.n ko
ab pyaas nahii.n aur pyaas bhii hai
mai.n apane Kyaalo.n ke …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdqPhqhFATs
Ghazal #50
Roshan
In my quest to give you hundred best ghazals in Hindi movies, I have reached the halfway mark.
Lets continue with Roshan. Roshanlal Nagrath was born on 14th July 1917 and has left behind him his sons Rakesh and Rajesh Roshan and grandson Hrithik Roshan to serve the Hindi film industry. He was from Gujranwala in Punjab (now in Pakistan). He moved to Bombay in 1948 and for the next 19 years, until his death on 16th Nov 1967, he created some of the finest music in Hindi films, especially ghazals.
Barsaat Ki Raat itself had three of his gahzals: Mayuus to hoon wade se tere, Zindagi bhar nahin bhoolegi, and Maine shayad tumhen pehle bhi kahin dekha hai.
Another of his ghazal films was Bahu Begum with Hum intezzaar karenge tera qayamat taq (I have already given you that), Log kehate hain tumase kinaara kar lein and this one that I am giving you now.
Picturised on Meena Kumari, it brings the flavour of old time ghazals to you so well. It has been sung by Lata Mangeshkar.
Please enjoy: Duniya kare sawaal to ham kyaa jawaab dein….
duniyaa kare savaal to ham kyaa javaab de.n
tumako na ho Kayaal to ham kyaa javaab de.n
duniyaa kare savaal …
puuchhe koii ki dil ko kahaa.N chho.D aaye hai.n
kis kis se apanaa rishtaa-e-jaa.N to.D aaye hai.n
mushakil ho arz-e-haal to ham kyaa javaab de.n
tumako na ho Kayaal to …
puuchhe koii ki dard-e-vafaa kaun de gayaa
raato.n ko jaagane kii sazaa kaun de gayaa
kahane se ho malaal to ham kyaa javaab de.n
tumako na ho Kayaal to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHqdKJMoEoE
Ghazal #50
Roshan
Please note that for a long time, keeping total control on my own emotions, I haven’t given you a Shakeel Badayuni ghazal! Some control this!
Anyway, Roshan worked with Shakeel Badayuni in two movies: 1967 movie Noorjehan starring Pradeep Kumar and Meena Kumari and 1965 movie Bedaag starring Manoj Kumar and Nanda.
The happier one of these is the Noorjehan one. It has been sung as a duet between Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhosle.
Please enjoy: Aap jab se kareeb aaye hain, Pyaar ke rang dil pe chhaye 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
Ghazal #52
Roshan
I have given you several of Roshan’s ghazals tonight and earlier too. I end with what I regard as his best.
Once again, he bonded well with Sahir Lushianvi (like Shakeel did with Naushad and Ravi) and some of his finest ghazals have been penned by Sahir.
This is from the 1963 movie Taj Mahal starring Pradeep Kumar as Shahjehan and Beena Roy as Mumtaz.
Please enjoy: Jurm-e-ulfat pe hamen log saza dete hain, Kaise nadaan hain sholon ko hawa dete hain…
jurm-e-ulfat pe hame.n log sazaa dete hai.n – 2
kaise naadaan hai.n, sholo.n ko havaa dete hai.n
kaise naadaan hai.n
hamase dIvaane kahii.n tar ke vafaa karate hai.n – 2
jaan jaaye ki rahe baat nibhaa dete hai.n
jaan jaaye…
aap daulat ke taraazuu mai.n dilo.n ko taule.n – 2
ham mohabbat se mohabbat kA silaa dete hai.n
ham mohabbat se…
taKt kyA chiiz hai aur laal-o-javaahar kyA hai – 2
ishq vAle to khudaa_ii bhI luTa dete hai.n
ishq vaale …
hamane dil de bhI diyaa ehad-e-vafaa le bhI liyaa – 2
aap ab shokh se dede.n jo sazaa dete hai.n
jurm-e-ulfat pe hame.n log sazaa dete hai.n
That brings us to the end of Part III of A Hundred Ghazals in Hindi Movies. We have had a total of 52 ghazals so far.
Please let me know in the comments below if some ghazal of yours should appear in the Top 100. I shall try to accommodate. Only, please remember two things: One, there are still three more parts to go of roughly 16 ghazals per part. And, secondly, these are not the best ghazals in all fora; these are only considered the best that appeared in Hindi movies.
As I brought out in the introduction of ‘A Hundred Ghazals In Hindi Movies – Part I’, the ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in ancient Arabic poem in Arabia long before the birth of Islam. The term Ghazal is of North African and Middle Eastern origin. Its root term in Arabic is “gh-zl” and is derived from the Arabian panegyric qasida.
The ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century due to the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new Islamic Sultanate. Although the ghazal is most prominently a form of Dari poetry and Urdu poetry, today it is found in the poetry of many languages of the Indian sub-continent.
I gave you 18 Ghazals so far in Part I starting with Shakeel Badayuni‘s Na milata gham to barbaadi ke afsaane kahan jaate, to Rajinder Krishan‘s Jahan Ara ghazal sung by Talat Mahmood: Phir wohi shaam wohi gham wohi tanhaayi hai. In between I packed ghazals by Kaifi Azmi, Sahir Ludhianvi, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Muztar Khairabadi, Hasrat Mohani, Hasrat Jaipuri, Jaan Nisar Akhtar, Majrooh Sultanpuri, and Farooq Qaiser.
Lets proceed further in our Ghazal journey.
Ghazal #19
Mohammad Rafi on Sahir Ludhianvi
This is one of the several favourites that I have of Mohammad Rafi. Lyricist is Sahir Ludhianvi and music is Roshan‘s.
Mohammad Rafi with Roshan and his family (Pic courtesy: www.mohdrafi.com)
It is from the 1960 movie Babur. Babur or Babar, the founder of the Mughal empire in India writes an epistle to his beloved. He was an excellent writer and could have written similar words; except that in this case Sahir Ludhianvi wrote for him.
Babur – The first mughal emperor in India, the subject of 1960 movie Babur
I am in love with the lyrics as well its gentle slow music by Roshan.
Please enjoy: Tum ek baar mohabbat kaa imtihaan to lo….
tum ek baar muhabbat kaa imtahaan to lo
mere junuu.N merii vahashat kaa imtahaan to lo
tum ek baar …
salaam-e-shauq pe ra.njish bharaa payaam na do
mere Koluus ko firaas-o-havas kaa naam na do
merii vafaa kii haqiikat kaa imtahaan to lo
tum ek baar …
na taKt-o-taaj na laal-o-guhar kii hasarat hai
tumhaare pyaar tumhaarii nazar kii hasarat hai
tum apane husn kii azamat kaa imtihaan to lo
tum ek baar …
mai.n apanii jaan bhii de duu.N to aitabaar nahii.n
ke tum se ba.Dhake mujhe zi.ndagii se pyaar nahii.n
yuu.N hii sahii merii chaahat kaa imtihaan to lo
tum ek baar …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r18Q8T5BlhQ
Ghazal #20
Jaan Nisar Akhtar
Elsewhere today I wrote about the role of Lyricist in a song, geet, gaana or ghazal. He or she is the starting point of a song. He or she places himself/herself in the shoes of the protagonist and feels for him or her. These feelings are then given words to stand on. The music composer and singer come in later to add to these feelings or emotions through their own brilliance.
I have given you ghazals of a number of poets and lyricists and one by him too. Today I bring to you another one of Jaan Nisar Akhtar.
Jaan Nisar Akhar with Sahir Ludhianvi
Jaan Nisar Akhtar was born on 18th Feb 1914 in Gwalior Madhya Pradesh. He had the occasion to work with leading music directors such as Madan Mohan, C Ramchandra, Khayyam and N Dutta.
He wrote very few songs/ghazals; 151 in all but each one is a gem.
I am giving you his best gem, from the 1966 movie Sushila. Music composer was C Arjun and Mubarak Begum was the singer.
Mubarak Begum (born in Sujangarh, Churu, Rajasthan) is an Indian Ghazal, Naat and a popular playback singer in Hindi films in the 1950s and 1960s. A major hit in her career was the song “Kabhi Tanhaiyon Mein Yun” for composer Snehal Bhatkar in Kidar Sharma’s film Hamari Yaad Aayegi which is, till this day, regarded as a classic rendition.
dard-e-dil dard-e-vafaa dard-e-tamannaa kyaa hai
aap kyaa jaane.n mohabbat kaa takaazaa kyaa hai
bemuravvat bevafaa begaanaa-e-dil aap hai.n -2
aap maane yaa na maane mere qaatil aap hai.n
bemuravvat bevafaa
aap se shikavaa hai mujh ko Gair se shikavaa nahii.n -2
jaanatii huu.N dil me.n rakh lene ke qaabil aap hai.n
bemuravvat bevafaa
saa.Ns letii huu.N to yuu.N mahasuus hotaa hai mujhe -2
jaise mere dil kii har dha.Dakan me.n shaamil aap hai.n
bemuravvat bevafaa
Gam nahii.n jo laakh tuufaano.n se Takaraanaa pa.De -2
mai.n vo kashtii huu.N ki jis kashtii kaa saahil aap hai.n
bemuravvat bevafaa begaanaa-e-dil aap hai.n
aap maane yaa na maane mere qaatil aap hai.n
bemuravvat bevafaa
Ghazal #21
Mirza Ghalib – The Movie
The 1954 movie Mirza Ghalib was produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. It starred Bharat Bhushan as the 19th century (27th Dec 1797 to 15 Feb 1869) noble and wealthy poet Mirza Ghalib who fell in love with a courtesan Chaudhvin played by Suraiyya. This very sensitive poet then went through pangs of ill-fated relationship and ultimate descent into pecuniary. The movie also brought out the conflict between his loyalty and love and he ultimately failed to make a good impression in the mushaira of emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar but managed to win the heart of the courtesan Chaudhvin.
Mirza Ghalib is regarded as the best Urdu poet the world has ever seen. The movie had his ghazals composed by Ghulam Mohammad who also composed music for Pakeezah as you already know.
Lets start with his ghazal that I like the best since it greatly describes his later life and it has the kind of despondency that is the hallmark of good Urdu ghazals. It has been sung by Suraiyya.
Please enjoy: Ye naa thi hamaari kismet ke visaal-e-yaar hota Agar aur jeete rehate younhi intezzaar hota….
ye naa thii hamaarii qismat ke visaal-e-yaar hotaa
agar aur jiite rahate, yahii i.ntazaar hotaa
tere vaade par jiye ham, to ye jaan jhuuTh jaanaa
ke khushii se mar na jaate, agar aitabaar hotaa
terii naazukii se jaanaa ke ba.ndhaa thaa ahad buudaa
kabhii tuu na to.D sakataa, agar usatavaar hotaa
koii mere dil se puuchhe, tere tiir-e-niim kash ko
ye khalish kahaa.N se hotii, jo jigar ke paar hotaa
ye kahaa.N kii dostii hai ke bane hai.n dost naaseH
koii chaaraa saaz hotaa, koii gam gusaar hotaa
rag-e-sa.ng se Tapakataa, vo lahuu ke phir na thamataa
jise Gam samajh rahe ho, ye agar sharaar hotaa
Gam agar-che jaa.N gusal hai, par kahaa.N bachai.n ke dil hai
Gam-e-ishq gar na hotaa, gam-e-rozagaar hotaa
kahuu.N kis se mai.n ke kiyaa hai, shab-e-gam burii balaa hai
mujhe kiyaa buraa thaa maraN agar aik baar hotaa
hue mar ke ham jo rusavaa, hue kyuu.N na gharq-e-darayaa
na kabhii janaazaa uThataa, na kahii.n mazaar hotaa
use kaun dekh sakataa ke, yagaanaa he vo yakataa
jo duii kii buu bhii hotii, to kahii.n do chaar hotaa
ye masaa-el-e-tasavvuf, ye teraa bean, Gaalib
tujhe ham vaalii samajhate, jo na baadah khaar hotaa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hw6tKjEk_8
Ghazal #22
Mirza Ghalib – The Movie
I have just introduced you to the 1954 movie Mirza Ghalib starring Bharat Bhushan and Suraiyya, on the life and travails of the 19th century poet Mirza Ghalib regarded as the best Urdu poet ever.
This ghazal has been sung by Talat Mahmood and Suraiyya and also has Ghulam Mohammad‘s music.
Talat Mahmood, Suraiyya and Nadira (Pic courtesy guyana.hoop.la)
Please enjoy: Dil-e-nadaan tujhe hua kyaa hai? Aakhir is marz ki dawa kyaa hai?
dil-e-naadaa.n tujhe huaa kyaa hai
aakhir is dard kii davaa kyaa hai
ham hai.n mushtaaq aur vo bezaar
yaa ilaahii, ye maajaraa kyaa hai
jaan tum par nisaar karataa huu.N
mai.n nahii.n jaanataa duaa kyaa hai
maine maanaa ki kuchh nahii.n Gaalib
muft haath aaye, to buraa kyaa hai
Glossary:
dil-e-naadaan: naive heart
mushtaaq: enthusiastic
bezaar: unsatisfied, angry
maajra: issue
hangaama: noise created by a lot of activity/talk
pari-chehra: beautiful (face of a fairy)
gamz-o-aish-o-adaa: vanity(?)
shikne-zulfe-ambari: locks of hair like the sky(?)
nigaahe-chashme-surma: the look of surma filled eyes
sabz-o-gul: greenery and flowers
abr: cloud
darvesh: beggar
ghamza = amorous glance
ushwa = coquetry, work done surreptitiously
ghamza-o-‘ushwa-o-adaa: grace of the coquettish glances or
grace of the concealed glances
Ghazal #23
Mirza Ghalib – The Movie
The 1954 movie on the life of Mirza Ghalib the poet won the National Award For The Best Feature Film. Its script was written by Rajinder Singh Bedi and Saadat Hasan Manto.
Rajinder Singh Bedi and Saadat Manto
Surprisingly, the politics in Hindi movies kept Ghulam Mohammed from getting the Best Music Director award just as it did for his Pakeezah; because of the latter Pran declined to receive his Best Supporting Actor award that year!
Lets listen to the third of the ghazals of the King of Poets Mirza Ghalib. This too has been sung by Suraiyya on the music of Ghulam Mohammad.
Please enjoy: Nuktacheen hai gham-e-dil usako sunaaye naa bane…
nuktaachii.n hai, Gam-e-dil usako sunaaye na bane
usako sunaaye na bane
kyaa bane baat jahaa.N baat banaaye na bane
nuktaachii.n hai, Gam-e-dil
Gair phirataa hai liye yuu.N tere Kat ko ke agar
ko_ii puuchhe ke ye kyaa hai to chhupaaye na bane
nuktaachii.n hai, Gam-e-dil
mai.n bulaataa to huu.N usako magar ai jazbaa-e-dil
us pe ban jaaye kuchh aisii ki bin aaye na bane -2
nuktaachii.n hai, Gam-e-dil
ishq par zor nahii.n hai ye vo aatish Gaalib -2
ki lagaaye na lage aur bujhaaye na bane
nuktaachii.n hai, Gam-e-dil usako sunaaye na bane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36ex-PLvbGA
Ghazal #24
Mirza Ghalib – The TV Serial
In 1988, Gulzar took it upon himself to make TV Series on Mirza Ghalib. He had Naseeruddin Shah in the role of the great poet. He had the ghazals of Mirza Ghalib composed by Jagjit and Chitra Singh and these are regarded as the best compositions ever by the duo.
Jagjit and Chitra Singh (Pic courtesy: archive.indianexpress.com)
Lets listen to Jagjit Singh sing a very popular ghazal of Mirza Ghalib: Aah ko chahiye ik umr hone taq Kaun jeeta hai teri zulf ke sar hone taq?
aah ko chaahie ek umr asar hone tak
kaun jiitaa hai tere zulf ke sar hone tak
aashiqii sabr talab aur tamannaa betaab
dil kaa kyaa ra.Ng karuu.N khuun-e-jigar hone tak
ham ne maanaa ke taGakul na karoge lekin
khaak ho jaae.nge ham tum ko khabar hone tak
Gam-e-hastii kaa ‘asad’ kisase ho kuz-marg-e-ilaaj
shamaa har ra.Ng me.n jalatii hai sahar hone tak
Ghazal #25
Mirza Ghalib – The Movie
Lets get back to the 1954 movie produced and directed by the great Sohrab Modi for this last ghazal of the evening, which is amongst my all time favourites.
This too has been sung by Suraiyya on Ghulam Mohammad‘s music.
Please enjoy: Rahiye ab aisi jagah chal kar jahan koi naa ho Hamsukan koi na ho aur hamzubaan koi na ho…
rahiye ab aisii jagah chal kar jahaa.N ko_ii na ho
hamasuKan ko_ii na ho aur hamazabaa.N ko_ii na ho
rahiye ab aisii jagah
be-dar-o-diiwaar kaa ik ghar banaayaa chaahiye -2
ko_ii hamasaayaa na ho aur paasabaa.N ko_ii na ho
rahiye ab aisii jagah
pa.Diye gar biimaar to ko_ii na ho tiimaaradaar -2
aur agar mar jaa_iye to nauhaKwaa.N ko_ii na ho
rahiye ab aisii jagah
Ghazal #26
Raja Mehdi Ali Khan
I have done a full blog on him. Here is from my blog:
Having been born in 1928 in Jehlum in undivided India, when the partition of India took place, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and wife Tahira refused to go to Pakistan despite communal riots. His patriotism came to fore in 1948 itself when he wrote the famous number: Watan ki raah mein watan ke naujwaan shahid hon for the movie Shaheed starring Dilip Kumar.
Raja Mehdi Ali Khan paired with the Music Director Madan Mohan to produce some of Lata Mangeshkar’s best numbers. She has acknowledged so.
Lets turn to the 1962 movie Anpadh. Here are five songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar with lyrics penned by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and music composed by Madan Mohan. Four out of these are amongst the best songs of Lata:
1. Aapakii nazaro.n ne samajhaa.
2. Hai isii me.n pyaar kii aabaru.
3. Jiyaa le gayo jii moraa saa.nvariyaa.
4. Ra.ng\-bira.ngii raakhii leke aa_ii bahana.
5. Vo dekho jalaa ghar kisii kaa.
Lets turn to the ghazal Hai isi mein pyaar ki aabru:
hai isii me.n pyaar kii aabaruu
vo zafaa kare.n mai.n vafaa karuu.N
jo vafaa bhii kaam na aa sake
to vohii kahe.n ke mai.n kyaa karuu.N
hai isii …
(mujhe Gam bhii unakaa aziiz hai
ke unhii.n kii dii huii chiiz hai ) – (2)
ke unhii.n kii dii huii chiiz hai
yahii Gam hai ab merii zi.ndagii
ise kaise dil se judaa karuu.N
hai isii …
(jo na ban sake mai.n vo baat huu.N
jo na khatm ho mai.n vo raat huu.N ) – (2)
jo na khatm ho mai.n vo raat huu.N
ye likhaa hai mere nasiib me.n
yuu.Nhii shammaa banake jalaa karuu.N
hai isii …
(na kisii ke dil kii huu.N aarazuu
na kisii kii nazar kii huu.N justajuu ) – (2)
na kisii kii nazar kii huu.N justajuu
mai.n vo phuul huu.N jo udaas ho
na bahaar aae to kyaa karuu.N
hai isii …
Ghazal #28
Raja Mehdi Ali Khan
Hats off to Laxmikant Pyarelal for having composed it so well and hats off to Raj Khosla for the direction of this scene starring his favourite actress of many movies: Sadhana in the 1967 movie Anita, one of the three movies that Raj Khosla made on mystery women.
Lata Mangeshkar with Laxmikant Pyarelal (Pic courtesy: www.hindilyrics.net)
Of course, Lata Mangeshkar has sung this so well.
You will love the picturisation of this ghazal. It is unlike any other ghazal.
Please enjoy: Qariib aa ye nazar phir mile naa mile….
qariib aa ye nazar phir mile mile naa mile
ye aarazuu kaa chaman phir khile khile na khile
qariib aa ye nazar …
bhaTak rahii huu.N sadiyo.n se terii raaho.n me.n
panaah de kisii ghaayal ko apanii baa.Nho.n me.n
ye dil kaa zaKm kabhii phir phir khile khile naa khile
qariib aa ye nazar …
taras rahaa hai ye dil terii ik nazar ke li_e
bas ek nazar terii kaafii hai umr bhar ke li_e
nazar se pyaar jataa lab hile hile naa hile
qariib aa ye nazar …
nazar uThaa ke tere saamane bahaar kha.Dii
ko_ii hasiinaa nigaaho.n me.n le ke pyaar kha.Dii
phir is adaa kii kalii khile khile naa khile
qariib aa ye nazar …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDNU3EMbyR4
Ghazal #27
Raja Mehdi Ali Khan
The movie Aankhen was released in 1950. So, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan was only 21 when he wrote the following ghazal. Once agin the composer is Madan Mohan. However, this time the singer is Shamshad Begum.
Having been born on 14th April 1919, we lost Shamshad Begum, the legend, on 23rd April 2013. She was one of the first playback singers in Indian films and sang over 6000 songs. Some of her famous songs are: Milate hi aankhen dil hua, Kabhi aar kabhi paar laaga teer-e-nazar, Kajra mohabbat wala, Teri mehfil mein kismat aajma kar, and Ek do teen aaja mausam hai rangeen.
Shamshad Begum (Pic courtesy: guyana.hoop.la)
Please enjoy: Mohabbat karne waalon ka yahi anjaam hota hai….
kisii kii yaad me.n ro-ro ke apane
din guzarate hai.n
ye kaisii zindagii hai
ham na jiite hai.n na marate hai.n
mohabbat karane waalo.n kaa -2
yahii a.njaam hotaa hai
ta.Dapanaa unakii qisamat me.n -2
to subah-o-shaam hotaa hai
mohabbat karane waalo.n kaa
yahii a.njaam hotaa hai
( hameshaa ke liye duniyaa me.n
do dil mil nahii.n sakate ) -2
do dil mil nahii.n sakate
nazar milanaa judaa_ii kaa -2
hii ik paiGaam hotaa hai
mohabbat karane waalo.n kaa
yahii a.njaam hotaa hai
( na dil me.n chain hai hamako
na raato.n ko qaraar aaye ) -2
na raato.n ko qaraar aaye
bataa de ko_ii duniyaa me.n -2
kahaa.N aaraam hotaa hai
mohabbat karane waalo.n kaa
yahii a.njaam hotaa hai
( merii barabaadiyaa.N bhii dekh lii.n
tumane jahaa.N waalo.n ) -2
tumane jahaa.N waalo.n
jo karataa hai mohabbat wo -2
yuu.N hii naakaam hotaa hai
mohabbat karane waalo.n kaa
yahii a.njaam hotaa hai
He lived for a little more than 51 years only (25th June 1924 to 14th July 1975) and yet he left an indelible mark on the Hindi films industry as a composer and music director.
He was the master of ghazals and some of his most popular ghazals have been sung by Mohammad Rafi, Talat Mahmood and Mohammad Rafi. I have already given you quite a few. But, now, it is time to pay him tribute as the best composer of ghazals in Hindi films.
They are all so good that I find it very difficult to select just a few.
Anyway, here is an attempt to find one each of the three singers that I love.
The first one is of Mohammad Rafi from the 1958 movie Aakhri Dao starring Nutan and Shekhar. Majrooh Sultanpuri was the lyricist.
Majrooh Sultanpuri was born on 01 October 1919 in Sultanpur, UP. He was one of the dominating musical forces in Indian Cinema in the 1950s and early 1960s and was an important figure in the Progressive Writers’ Movement and is consideredone of the finest avant-garde Urdu poets of 20th century literature. He won the Filmfare Best Lyricist Award in 1965 for “Chahunga Main Tujhe” in film Dosti, and the highest award in Indian cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for lifetime achievement in 1993.
tujhe kyaa sunaaU.N mai.n dilarubaa
tere saamane meraa haal hai
terii ik nigaah kii baat hai
merii zi.ndagii kaa savaal hai
merii har Kushii tere dam se hai
merii zi.ndagii tere Gam se hai
tere dard se rahe beKabar
mere dil kii kab ye mazaal hai
tere husn par hai merii nazar
mujhe subah shaam kii kyaa Kabar
merii shaam hai terii justajuu
merii subaha teraa Kayaal hai
mere dil jigar me.n samaa bhii jaa
rahe kyo.n nazar kaa bhii faasalaa
ke tere baGair o jaan-e-jaa.n
mujhe zi.ndagii bhii muhaal hai
Ghazal #31
Madan Mohan
Undoubtedly the best composer of ghazals in Hindi movies ever was Madan Mohan and the best singer Talat Mahmood.
The 1957 movie Dekh Kabira Roya was supposed to be a comedy but look at the songs and this ghazal. Rajinder Krishan was the lyricist and Talat the singer.
Lagan Tose Lagi Balma
Lata Mangeshkar
Rajendra Krishan
Madan Mohan
Meri Veena Tum Bin Roye
Lata Mangeshkar
Rajendra Krishan
Madan Mohan
Hum Panchhi Mastaane
Lata Mangeshkar Geeta Dutt & Seeta
Rajendra Krishan
Madan Mohan
Humse Aaya Na Gaya
Talat Mahmood
Rajendra Krishan
Madan Mohan
Tum Meri Raakho Laaj Hari
Sudha Malhotra
Rajendra Krishan
Madan Mohan
Tu Pyar Kare Ya Thukraye
Lata Mangeshkar
Rajendra Krishan
Madan Mohan
Ashqon Se Teri Humne
Asha Bhosle
Rajendra Krishan
Madan Mohan
Hum Bulate Hi Rahe
Asha Bhosle & Mohammad Rafi
Rajendra Krishan
Madan Mohan
Bairan Ho Gayi Rain
Manna Dey
Rajendra Krishan
Madan Mohan
Kaun Aaya, Mere Man Ke Dwaare
Manna Dey
Rajendra Krishan
Madan Mohan
Please enjoy: Hamase aaya naa gaya tumase bulaaya na gaya….
ham se aayaa na gayaa tum se bulaayaa naa gayaa
faasalaa pyaar me.n dono.n se miTaayaa naa gayaa
vo gha.Dii yaad hai jab tum se mulaaqaat huI
ek ishaaraa huaa do haath ba.Dhe baat huI
dekhate dekhate din Dhal gayaa aur raat huI
vo samaa.n aaj talak dil se bhulaayaa naa gayaa
ham se AyA na gayA
kyaa Kabar thii ke mile hai.n to bichha.Dane ke liye
qismate.n apanii banaaI.n hai.n biga.Dane ke liye
pyaar kaa baag basaayaa thaa uja.Dane ke liye
is tarah uja.Daa ke phir ham se basaayaa naa gayaa
ham se AyA na gayA
yAd rag jAtI hai aur vaqt guzar jAtA hai
phUl khilatA hai magar khil ke bikhar jAtA hai
sab chale jAte hai.n phir darde jigar jAtA hai
dAG jo tUne diyA dil ne miTAyA nA gayA
ham se AyA na gayA …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPzSp_jlNs
Ghazal #32
Madan Mohan
What happens when you combine the best ghazal composer in Madan Mohan with the best ghazal writer: Gulzar? Well, the result, as expected is magic. It happened in 1975 movie Mausam starring Sanjeev Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore.
Gulzar
Lata is the singer.
Please enjoy one of her best ghazals: Ruke ruke se kadam ruk ke baar baar chale….
ruke ruke se kadam ruk ke baar baar chale (2)
qarAr leke tere dar se beqarAr chale
ruke ruke se kadam ruk ke baar baar chale
ruke ruke se kadam
subah nA AyI kaI baar nI.nd se jaage (2)
ki ek raat kI ye zi.ndagI guzaar chale (2)
ruke ruke se kadam
uThAye phir de ke ehasAn dil kA sIne par (2)
le tere kadamo.n pe ye kaz.r bhI utaar chale (2)
qarAr leke tere dar se beqarAr chale
ruke ruke se kadam ruk ke baar baar chale
ruke ruke se kadam
Ghazal #33
Madan Mohan
I was about to call it a late night when I remembered that I haven’t given you a fourth singer for whom Madan Mohan composed ghazals. Yes, I am talking about Asha Bhosle.
Asha Bhosle (Pic courtesy: indianexpress.com)
The 1966 movie Neend Hamari Khwaab Tumhaare had one of her best ghazals on the lyrics of Rajinder Krishan. It is picturised on Nanda singing for Shashi Kapoor.
Please enjoy: Koi shiqwa bhi nahin, koi shiqayat bhi nahin Aur tumahen hamase who pehli si mohabbat bhi nahin….
pyaar ke vaade vafaa hone ke din aa_e hai.n -2
ye na samajho Kafaa hone ke din aa_e hai.n
ruuTh jaa_oge to kuchh duur qayaamat bhii nahii.n
aur tumhe.n hamase …
ham vahii apanii vafaa apanii mohabbat bhii vahii -2
tum jahaa.N baiTh ga_e apanii jo jannat hai vahii
aur duniyaa me.n kisii chiiz kii chaahat bhii nahii.n
aur tumhe.n hamase …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEJttVItcVI
Ghazal #34
Khaiyyam
Last night I gave you adequate glimpses of Madan Mohan’s mastery over composing music for ghazals in the Hindi movies. Another composer who loved composing ghazals is Mohammed Zahur Khaiyyam or simply Khaiyyam.
Khaiyyam with wife Jagjit Kaur (pic courtesy: www.hindilyrics.com)
He was born very close to where I was born: the village of Rahon near Nawanshahr on 18th Feb 1927. His music is on the gentler side and he refused to make music for frivolous lyricists.
To the best of my knowledge, Bashar Nawaz has penned just one ghazal in Hindi movies. It is in the 1982 movie Bazaar starring Naseeruddin Shah and the one who was destined to be the modern day Meena Kumari until fate played its last card for her and we lost her prematurely: Smita Patil.
Bashar Nawaz (Pic courtesy: www.newsroompost.com)
The ghazal has been sung by Bhupinder whose one ghazal I have given you earlier, for the movie Aitbaar: Kisi nazar ko tera intezzar aaj bhi hai.
Please enjoy: Karoge yaad to har baat yaad aayegi…..
karoge yaad to, har baat yaad aayegii – 2
guzarate vaqt kii, har mauj Thahar jaayegii – 2
karoge yaad to …
barasataa-bhiigataa mausam dhuaa.N-dhuaa.N hogaa – 2
pighalatii shamo.n pe dil kaa mere Gumaa.n hogaa
hatheliyo.n kii hinaa, yaad kuchh dilaayegii – 2
karoge yaad to …
galii ke mo.D pe, suunaa saa koI daravaazaa – 2
tarasatii aa.Nkho.n se rastaa kisii kaa dekhegaa
nigaah duur talak jaa ke lauT aaegii – 2
karoge yaad to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X0Z6Qp6Re4
Ghazal #35
Khaiyyam
Talking about Khaiyyam, another beautiful ghazal of the 1982 movie Bazaar has been sung by his wife Jagjit Kaur. This is picturised on Supriya Pathak and the gentlest of all heroes: Farooq Sheikh.
And, it is a Mir Taqi Mir ghazal!
Please enjoy: Dikhayi diye youn ki bekhud kiya….
dikhaa_ii di_e yuu.N ki bekhud kiyaa -2
hame.n aap se bhii judaa kar chale
dikhaa_ii di_e yuu.N
jabii.n sajadaa karate hii karate ga_ii -2
haq-e-ba.ndagii yuu.N adaa kar chale
dikhaa_ii di_e yuu.N
parastish kii yaa.N tak ki ai but tujhe -2
nazar me.n sabho.n kii Kudaa kar chale
dikhaa_ii di_e yuu.N
bahut aarzuu tii galii kii terii -2
so yaas-e-lahuu me.n nahaa kar chale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1cwY3IEWJI
Ghazal #36
Khaiyyam
And, ladies and gentlemen, talking about Khaiyyam, one can never forget the ghazal of Jaan Nisar Akhtar composed by him and sung so beautifully by Lata Mangeshkar.
I have already given you two excellent ghazals by Jaan Nisar Akhtar: Beqasi had se jab guzr jaaye; and Bemurravat bewafa begaana-e-dil aap hain.
This is from the 1977 movie Shankar Hussain and is counted amongst the finest ghazals in Hindi movies.
Please enjoy: Aap youn faaslon se guzarate rahe Dil se kadamon ki avaaz aati rahi…..
aap yuu.N faasalo.n se guzarate rahe
dil se kadamo.n kii aavaaz aatii rahii
aahaTo.n se a.ndhere chamakate rahe
raat aatii rahii raat jaatii rahii
ho, gunagunaatii rahii.n merii tanahaa_iyaa.N
duur bajatii rahii.n kitanii shahanaa_iyaa.N
zi.ndagii zi.ndagii ko bulaatii rahii
aap yuu.N faasalo.n se guzarate rahe
dil se kadamo.n kii aavaaz aatii rahii
aap yuu.N…
kataraa kataraa pighalataa rahaa aasmaa.N -2
ruuh kii vaadiyo.n me.n na jaane kahaa.N
ik nadii… ik nadii dilarubaa giit gaatii rahii
aap yuu.N faasalo.n se guzarate rahe
dil se kadamo.n kii aavaaz aatii rahii
aap yuu.N…
aap kii garm baaho.n me.n kho jaae.nge
aap kii narm zaano.n pe so jaae.nge, so jaae.nge
muddato.n raat nii.nde.n churaatii rahii
aap yuu.N faasalo.n se guzarate rahe
dil se kadamo.n kii aavaaz aatii rahii
aap yuu.N…
That brings us to the end of Part II of A Hundred Ghazals in Hindi Movies. We have had a total of 36 ghazals so far.
Please let me know in the comments below if some ghazal of yours should appear in the Top 100. I shall try to accommodate. Only, please remember two things: One, there are still four more parts to go of roughly 16 ghazals per part. And, secondly, these are not the best ghazals in all fora; these are only considered the best that appeared in Hindi movies.
The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in ancient Arabic poem in Arabia long before the birth of Islam. The term Ghazal is of North African and Middle Eastern origin. Its root term in Arabic is “gh-zl” and is derived from the Arabian panegyric qasida.
The ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century due to the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new Islamic Sultanate. Although the ghazal is most prominently a form of Dari poetry and Urdu poetry, today it is found in the poetry of many languages of the Indian sub-continent.
The best ghazal in the Hindi movies is by my favourite poet and lyricist Shakeel Badayuni. It was the title ghazal for the 1963 movie Mere Mehboob. Only, I am not able to post this ghazal since it is so dear to me. You will have to do with lesser ghazals of Shakeel and others.
Mere Mehboob Tujhe, the title song of Mere Mehboob is the best ghazal in Hindi movies, composed in Raag Jhinjhoti
Ghazal #1
Let me begin by giving you his ghazal for the 1954 movie Amar. As is to be expected, it has Naushad Ali’s music and it has been sung by Lata Mangeshkar for Nimmi, one of the two heroines of the movie (the other being Madhubala) opposite Dilip Kumar.
Shakeel Badayuni and Naushad not just made the best songs in Hindi movies, but, best ghazals too
Please enjoy: Na milata gham to barbaadi ke afsaane kahan jaate….
ho, tamannaa luT ga_ii phir bhii tere dam se mohabbat hai
mubaarak Gair ko Kushiyaa.N mujhe, Gam se mohabbat hai
na milataa Gam to barabaadii ke afasaane kahaa.N jaate
agar duniyaa chaman hotii, to viiraane kahaa.N jaate
chalo achchhaa huaa apano.n me.n koii Gair to nikalaa
jii, koii Gair to nikalaa
agar hote sabhii apane, to begaane kahaa.N jaate
du_aae.n do mohabbat hamane miTakar tumako sikhalaadii
mohabbat tumako sikhalaadii
na jalate shamaa me.n to parvaane kahaa.N jaate
tumhii.n ne Gam kii daulat dii ba.Daa ahasaan farmaayaa,
ba.Daa ahasaan farmaayaa
zamaane bhar ke aage haath phailaane kahaa.N jaate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BKLe-L6Dtg
Ghazal #2
Left to myself, for the next fortnight (these ghazals, you may know, are being reproduced from my Facebook Page Lyrical where I ran this feature for more than a month, giving three every evening/night) I can give you ghazals of Shakeel Badayuni in Hindi movies! That’s how much I adore him.
However, I am going to be less selfish and give you those of many other lyricists and poets.
Lets start with Kaifi Azmi.
Kaifi mastered the art of describing things very powerfully through simple words.
Here is one of my favourite Kaifi Azmi ghazals in Hindi movies. This is from the 1982 movie Arth (Meaning) starring Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil (who was then being talked about the Meena Kumari of modern era) and Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Raj Kiran. Kuldeep Singh composed the music for it. And no marks for guessing the ghazal singer: the ghazal king of our era: Jagjit Singh.
Please enjoy: Jhuki jhuki si nazar beqraar hai ki nahin…
jhukii jhukii sii nazar beqaraar hai ki nahii.n
dabaa dabaa saa sahii dil me.n pyaar hai ki nahii.n …
tuu apane dil kii javaa.N dha.Dakano.n ko gin ke bataa …
merii tarah teraa dil beqaraar hai ki nahii.n …
dabaa dabaa saa sahii dil me.n pyaar hai ki nahii.n
jhukii jhukii sI nazar
vo pal ke jis me.n mohabbat javaan hotii hai
us ek pal kaa tujhe i.ntazaar hai ki nahii.n …
dabaa dabaa saa sahii dil me.n pyaar hai ki nahii.n
jhukii jhukii sI nazar
terii ummiid pe Thukaraa rahaa huu.N duniyaa ko …
tujhe bhii apane pe ye aitabaar hai ki nahii.n …
dabaa dabaa saa sahii dil me.n pyaar hai ki nahii.n
jhukii jhukii sii nazar
Ghazal #3
How about a ghazal from the movie Ghazal? Well, now we are talking about Sahir Ludhianvi. This ghazal achieved iconic proportions and is still being talked about as the ghazal in Hindi movies. Naturally, no one could sing such ghazals better than Mohammad Rafi, especially when it ends in high pitched singing.
The great Madan Mohan who composed music for the best ghazals in Hindi movies did full justice to it.
Sahir Ludhianvi, Madan Mohan and Mohammad Rafi, the team that made one of the best ghazals in Hindi movies.
Sunil Dutt sang it for Meena Kumari (herself a ghazal writer in real life!). She was his beloved in the movie and was being married to his rival Rehman out of a compulsion that she had lost her voice (after they fell in love with he listening to her singing the origin of this ghazal in a private gathering with her female friends): Naghma o sher ki baraat kise pesh karun. Having lost her voice she didn’t want Sunil Dutt to suffer marriage with her! Rehman asked Sunil Dutt to sing the sehra (felicitation song for wedding) and that’s how Sunil Dutt sang it.
Please enjoy: Rang aur noor ki baraat kise pesh Karun…
ye mere sher mere aakhirii nazaraane hai.n (2)
mai.n un apano.n mai.n huu.N jo aaj se begaane hai.n
beta-aa-luK sii mulaakaat kise pesh karuu.N
ye muraado.n kii ha.nsii.n raat kise pesh karuu.N, kise pesh karuu.N
surkh jo.De kii tabotaab mubaarak ho tujhe (2)
terii aa.Nkho.n kaa nayaa Kvaab mubaarak ho tujhe
ye merii Kvaahish ye Kayaalaat kise pesh karuu.N
ye muraado.n kii ha.nsii.n raat kise pesh karuu.N, kise pesh karuu.N
kaun kahataa hai chaahat pe sabhii kaa haq hai (2)
tuu jise chaahe teraa pyaar usii kaa haq hai
mujhase kah de …
mujhase kah de mai.n teraa haath kise pesh karuu.N
ye muraado.n kii ha.nsii.n raat kise pesh karuu.N, kise pesh karuu.N
ra.ng aur nuur kii …
Ghazal #4
Tonight I give you two beautiful ghazals by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal Emperor of India; it is actually one penned by him and the other penned for the movie on his life, the 1960 movie Laal Qila (Red Fort), by Muztar Khairabadi. He is the subject of William Dalrymple’s famous book ‘The Last Mughal’. His reign lasted twenty years, from 28th Sep 1837 to 14th Sep 1857.
On 20th Sep 1857, heading the Mutiny against the British, Zafar was defeated by the British. Many members of his family were killed by the British. He himself, together with his wife Zeenat were exiled to Rangoon, Burma. Five years later, in 1862, he died in Yangon. He was buried near the Shwe Degon Pagoda at 6 Ziwaka Road, near the intersection with Shwe Degon Pagoda Rd, Yangon. The shrine of Bahadur Shah Zafar Dargah was built there after recovery of its tomb on 16 February 1991.
He was an accomplished Urdu poet and calligrapher. While he was denied paper and pen in captivity, he was known to have written on the walls of his room with a burnt stick.
He wrote the following Ghazal as his own epitaph.
This ghazal was sung very beautifully by Mohammad Rafi on SN Tripathi’s music in the 1960 movie Laal Qila.
Please enjoy: Lagata nahin hai dil meraa ujade dyaar mein….
būlbūl ko pāsbāń se na saiyyād se gilā
qismet méń qaid likhī tthī fasl-e-bahār méń
kaeh do in hassretoń se kahīń aur jā bas’éń
itnī jageh kahāń hé dil-e-dāGhdār méń
ik shāKh-e-gūl pe baiTh ke būlbūl hé shādmāń
kānTe bichā diye héń dil-e-lālāzār méń
umr-e-darāz māńg ke lāye tthe chār din
do ārzū méń kaT gayé do intezār méń
din zindagī ke Khatm hué shām ho gayī
p’hailā ke pāoń soyeń-ge kūńj-e-mazaar méń
kitnā hé bad-naseeb zafar dafn ke liye
do gaz zamīn bhī na milī kū-e-yār méń
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4EQcmeBl0
Ghazal #5
I have given the brief history of the Last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar in the previous post wherein he wrote his own epitaph in a prison in Rangoon, Burma, where he was exiled in 1857.
This is the second famous ghazal was not written by him but by Muztar Khairabadi for the 1960 movie Laal Qila on the life of Zafar.
This is the second best ghazal (the first, I have already told you is Mere Mehboob) ever sung by Mohammad Rafi. It features in the 1960 movie Laal Qila and like the last one (Lagata nahin hai dil meraa) it has SN Tripathi’s music.
Please enjoy: Naa kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon…..
na kisii kii aa.Nkh kaa nuur huu.N
na kisii ke dil kaa qaraar huu.N
jo kisii ke kaam na aa sakaa
mai.n vo ek musht-e-gubaar huu.N
na to mai.n kisii kaa habiib huu.N
na to mai.n kisii kaa raqiib huu.N
jo biga.D gayaa vo nasiib huu.N
jo uja.D gayaa vo dayaar huu.N, jo kisii ke …
meraa ra.ng-ruup biga.D gayaa
meraa yaar mujhase bichha.D gayaa
jo chaman fizaa.n me.n uja.D gayaa
mai.n usii kii fasl-e-bahaar huu.N, jo kisii ke …
Ghazal #6
Ghulam Ali was born on 5th Dec 1940, in a village near Sialkot in British India (now part of Pakistan). He is the most famous of the ghazal singers of this era. Being from the Patiala gharana of ghazal singing, he combined Hindustani classical music and ghazal singing into a unique blend.
His most famous ghazal in Hindi movies is in the 1982 BR Chopra movie Nikaah starring the singer-actor Salma Agha, Deepak Prashar and Raj Babbar.
In Nikaah,B.R Chopra makes a social comment on the Sharia laws of divorce (Talaq) and its misuse among Indian Muslim society. According to Chopra, it is a story of all women.
It is in this background that Ghulam Ali’s ghazal is to be listened to. It has Hasrat Mohani’s lyrics. Ghulam Ali, as always, has sung it on his own music.
Please enjoy: Chupake chupake raat din aansu bahaana yaad hai….
chupake chupake raat din aa.Nsuu bahaanaa yaad hai
ham ko ab tak aashiqii kaa vo zamaanaa yaad hai
khii.nch lenaa vo meraa pad.re kaa konaa baf-a-tan
aur dupaTTe me.n vo teraa mu.Nh chhupaanaa yaad hai
berukhii ke saath sunanaa dad.r-e-dil kii daasataa.N
vo kalaa_ii me.n teraa ka.ngan ghumaanaa yaad hai
vaqt-e-rukhsat alavidaa kaa lafz kahane ke liye
vo tere suukhe labo.n kaa thar-tharaanaa yaad hai
chorii chorii ham se tum aakar mile the jis jagah
muddate.n guzarii.n par ab tak vo Thikaanaa yaad hai
dopahar kii dhuup me.n mere bulaane ke liye
vo chhajje par teraa na.nge paa.Nv aanaa yaad hai
tujhase milate hii vo bebaaq ho jaanaa meraa
aur teraa daa.Nto.n me.n vo u.ngalii dabaanaa yaad hai
tujh ko jab ta.nhaa kabhii paanaa to az_raahe-lihaaz
haal-e-dil baato.n hii baato.n me.n jataanaa yaad hai
aa gayaa agar vasl kii shab bhii kahin ziqr-e-firaq
vo teraa ro ro ke bhii mujhako rulaanaa yaad hai
Ghazal #7
Lata Mangeshkar
Born on 29th Sep 1929, Lata Mangeshkar is India’s best known playback singer who has sung sung more songs than any other singer.
Born in Indore, she started singing at the age of 13. Her father, Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar was a classical singer and theater actor. Lata not only took her music lessons from him but also acted in his plays.
Her singing career started when her father died, when she was only 13. Mangeshkar sang the song “Naachu Yaa Gade”, Khelu Saari Mani Haus Bhaari” which was composed by Sadashivrao Nevrekar for Vasant Joglekar’s Marathi movie Kiti Hasaal (1942).
She has lost count of the number of awards that were conferred on her, the highest being India’s highest award Bharat Ratna in 2001. In 1974 Guiness listed her as the most recorded artist in the history of the world. The estimate of the songs that she has recorded ranges between 25000 to 50000! In 1969 she requested that she not be considered for Filmfare Best Playback Singer (Female) award as she had already won it four times and she wanted to promote fresh talent.
Her ghazal singing in Hindi movies, especially in her young days, would leave you breathless with its stunning beauty.
Her “bhai sahaib” Madan Mohan, as acknowledged by her personally, brought out the best in her. Her ghazals of 1958 Nargis starrer Adalat are beautiful in many ways: Rajinder Krishan’s lyrics are superb and meaningful, Madan Mohan’s music has the soulful quality about it and her singing brings out the ‘dard’ as if it is not playback but she can feel the protagonist’s pain.
Please enjoy one of her most famous ghazals: Youn hasraton ke daag mohabbat mein dho liye…..
yU.N hasarato.n ke dAG, muhabbat me.n dho liye
khud dil se dil kI bAt kahI, aur ro liye
yU.N…
ghar se chale the ham to, khushI kI talAsh me.n -2
khushI kI talAsh me.n
Gam rAh me.n kha.De the vahI, sAth ho liye
khud dil se dil kI bAt kahI, aur ro liye
yU.N…
murajhaa chukaa hai phir bhii ye dil phuul hii to hai
haa.N phuul hii to hai
ab aap kii Khushii ise kaa.NTo.n me.n toliye
khud dil se dil kii baat kahii, aur ro liye
yuu.N …
ho.nTho.n ko sI chuke to, zamAne ne ye kahA – 2
zamAne ne ye kahA
ye chup sI kyo.n lagI hai ajI, kuchh to boliye
khud dil se dil kI bAt kahI, aur ro liye
yU.N…
Ghazal #8
Lata Mangeshkar
The 1958 movie Adalat had another remarkably beautiful ghazal by her, once again with Rajinder Krishan’s lyrics and Madan Mohan’s music.
Please enjoy: Unako ye shikayat hai ki 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 …
Ghazal #9
Lata Mangeshkar
I have given you two of her most famous ghazals from the 1958 movie Adalat starring one of the greatest actresses of her times: Nargis. Now, lets see Lata ji singing for the most intense actress of the times: Meena Kumari.
This is from the same 1964 movie Ghazal from which I took one of the best ghazals of Mohammad Rafi: Rang aur noor ki baraat kise pesh Karun.
Predictably, this too has Madan Mohan’s music. However, the lyrics are those of Sahir Ludhianvi.
The excellence of her singing this ghazal is matched by Meena Kumari’s supreme elegance.
Please enjoy: Nagma o sher ki saugat kise pesh karun….
koi hamaraaz to paauu.N koI hamadam to mile
dil kii dha.Dakan ke ishaarat kise pesh karuu.N
Ghazal #10
Salma Agha
The other day I gave you a ghazal sung by Ghulam Ali for the 1982 BR Chopra movie Nikaah that brought out that the Sharia law of Talaaq was being misused in India. The woman who was, in the movie, on the receiving end of the law was Salma Agha. She is a British singer and actress of Pakistani origin. In her first movie itself, ie, in Nikaah, she won the Filmfare Best Female Playback singer award.
And this was that ghazal.
Please enjoy: Dil ke armaan aansuyon mein beh gaye….
dil ke aramaan aansuon men bah gaye
ham vafaa kar ke bhi tanaha rah gaye
dil ke aramaan aansuon men bah gaye
zindagi ek pyaas ban kar rah gai \-2
pyaar ke qisse adhoore rah gaye
ham vafaa kar ke bhi tanaha rah gaye
dil ke aramaan aansuon men bah gaye
shaayad un ka aakhiri ho yeh sitam \-2
har sitam, yeh soch kar ham sah gaye
ham vafaa kar ke bhi tanaha rah gaye
dil ke aramaan aansuon men bah gaye
khud ko bhi hamane mita daala magar
faasle jo daramiyaan the rah gaye
ham vafaa kar ke bhi tanaha rah gaye
dil ke aramaan aansuon men bah gaye
Ghazal #11
Mohammad Rafi
The best of ghazals in Hindi movies owe their existence to the quartet of Shakeel Badayuni, Naushad Ali, Dilip Kumar and Mohammad Rafi.
Dilip Kumar with his singing voice Mohammad Rafi
Here is one from the 1966 movie Dil Diya Dard Liya wherein four of them worked together to create some of the finest ghazals.
Even after all these years they are as popular as they were when they were fresh.
Please enjoy: Guzaren hain aaj ishq mein ham us maqqam se, Nafrat si ho gayi hai mohabbat ke naam 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
Ghazal #12
Mohammad Rafi
Talking about Mohammad Rafi and Guzar theme helps you to get to the 1968 movie Mere Huzoor starring Raaj Kumar, Mala Sinha and Jeetendra.
What a beautiful story it was:
Akhtar Hussain (Jeetendra) saves the life of Nawab Salim (Raaj Kumar), and earns his gratitude. Salim invites Akhtar to come to his palatial home, and Akhtar does so. On the way, he meets beautiful Saltanat (Mala Sinha), and falls in love with her. On arrival at Salim’s house, Akhtar is treated with utmost respect, provided employment, and a place to live. Akhtar meets with Saltanat and both plan to get married. Unknown to them, Salim also loves Saltanat, but Saltanat rejects his advances, and proposal, leaving him heartbroken. On the day, when the news of the impending marriage of Akhtar and Saltanat is given to Salim, he sings this ghazal.
This ghazal has been put together by Hasrat Jaipuri, Shankar Jaikishen and Mohammad Rafi.
Please enjoy: Woh khushi mili hai mujhako use kaise main bataayun……
jo guzar rahii hai mujh par use kaise mai.n bataa_uu.N -2
vo Kushii milii hai mujhako mai.n Kushii se mar na jaa_uu.N -2
mere dil kii dha.Dakano.n kaa ye salaam tumako pahu.Nche
mai.n tumhaaraa hamanashii.n huu.N ye payaam tumako pahu.Nche
use bandagii mai.n samajhuu.N jo tumhaare kaam aa_uu.N
vo Kushii milii hai …
mere dil kii mahafilo.n me.n vo muqaam hai tumhaaraa
ke Kudaa ke baad lab par bas naam hai tumhaaraa
merii aarazuu yahii hai mai.n tumhaare giit gaa_uu.N
vo Kushii milii hai …
merii zindagii me.n hamadam kabhii Gam na tuu uThaanaa
kabhii aa_e.N jo a.Ndhere mujhe pyaar se bulaanaa
mai.n chiraaG huu.N vafaa kaa mai.n a.Ndhere jagamagaa_uu.N
vo Kushii milii hai …
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HiOKDngPkRM
Ghazal #13
Asha Bhosle
She was born on the 8th of Sep 1933 in Sangli. Lata Mangeshkar, her elder sister is four years older to her. Hence, she was only 9 years old when their father Deenanath Mangeshkar died. Both the sisters took to singing in order to support the family.
Whereas Lata emerged as the most versatile singer, Asha emerged as the young-at-heart sexy voice, as seen by Music Director OP Nayyar who refused to make songs for Lata.
Many of Asha’s songs are the lilting, romantic, numbers with a dash of daring in them.
However, she also sang bhajans and ghazals with equal ease.
Take this ghazal from the 1960 movie Kalpana for example. It has pathos, deep emotions and pain.
To understand this ghazal, have a look at the story-line:
Widower Amar (Ashok Kumar) leads a middle-class lifestyle in Bombay along with his widowed mom, and a daughter, Munni (Baby Farida), whose mom passed away just 3 days after giving birth and makes a living working as the Principal of Bharti Kala Kendra. When he goes for a vacation to Kashmir with his Butler, D’Souza (Sunder), he meets with and falls in love with a woman named Kalpana (Padmini) and includes her in his painting. They meet several times and are drawn to each other. One day when Amar goes to propose, he finds out they have left for an unknown destination. When he returns home by train he meets with another young woman, Asha (Ragini), who he subsequently hires as the Kendra’s Dance Instructress. He takes her home to meet his mom, and Munni, and both approve of her hoping that she will marry Amar. Then Amar watches Kalpana performing a dance item in the theater, meets with her and both rekindle their romance. Asha notices this and steps away, albeit heartbroken. Amar asks Kalpana to go and meet his mother and Munni, which she does. It is during this meeting that they will get an unexpected visitor, none other than Johar (Iftekar), who is Kalpana’s brother, and this is when the truth about Kalpana, her mom, and their background will surface – changing everyone’s lives forever.
The ghazal shows the reality of Kalpana (Padmini) and how she was forced to become a courtesan.
Such a powerful ghazal was penned by Jaan Nisar Akhtar. It has OP Nayyar‘s music.
Please enjoy: Baqasi had se jab guzr jaaye Koi ai dil jiye ke mar jaaye….
beqasii had se jab guzar jaa_e
ko_ii ai dil ji_e ki mar jaa_e
zindagii se kaho dulahan ban ke -2
aaj to do gha.Dii sa.Nvar jaa_e
ko_ii ai dil …
unako jii bhar ke dekh lene de -2
dil kii dha.Dakan zaraa Thahar jaa_e
ko_ii ai dil …
ham hai.n apanii jaan ke dushman -2
kyo.n ye iljaam unake sar jaa_e
ko_ii ai dil …
mere naGamo.n se unakaa dil na dukhe -2
Gam nahii.n mujhape jo guzar jaa_e
ko_ii ai dil …
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QKL_GPfsABE
Ghazal #14
Asha Bhosle
Now that I have given you a very famous ghazal by Asha Bhosle sung for Padmini in the 1960 movie Kalpana, how about a ghazal of hers picturised on Meena Kumari?
You can’t believe it, can you?
Well, it happened in the 1967 movie Bahu Begum. Lyrics are by Majrooh Sultanpuri and it is Roshan‘s composition.
Please enjoy: Hum intezzar karenge teraa qyaamat taq Khuda kare ki qyaamat ho aur tu aaye….
ham i.ntazaar kare.nge (2) qayaamat tak
khudaa kare ki qayaamat ho, aur tuu aae (2)
ham i.ntazaar kare.nge …
## Duet Version ##
(aashaa:)
ham i.ntazaar kare.nge
ham i.ntazaar kare.nge teraa qayaamat tak
Kudaa kare ki qayaamat ho, aur tuu aae -2
ham i.ntazaar kare.nge…
ye i.ntazaar bhii ek imtihaa.n hotaa hai
isiise ishq kaa sholaa javaa.n hotaa hai
ye i.ntazaar salaamat ho
ye i.ntazaar salaamat ho aur tuu aae
Kudaa kare ki qayaamat ho, aur tuu aae
ham i.ntazaar kare.nge…
bichhaae shauq se, Kud bevafaa kii raaho.n me.n
kha.De hai.n diip kii hasarat li_e nigaaho.n me.n
qabuul-e-dil kii ibaadat ho
qabuul-e-dil kii ibaadat ho aur tuu aae
Kudaa kare ki qayaamat ho, aur tuu aae
ham i.ntazaar kare.nge…
(rafii:)
vo Kushanasiib hai jisako tuu i.ntaKaab kare
Kudaa hamaarii mohabbat ko qaamayaab kare
javaa.n sitaaraa-e-qismat ho
javaa.n sitaaraa-e-qismat ho aur tuu aae
(aashaa:)
Kudaa kare ki qayaamat ho, aur tuu aae
ham i.ntazaar kare.nge…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iPx5cZOjIvE
Ghazal #15
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle has sung many of her songs for Asha Parekh. This ghazal is a gem though in the end Mohammad Rafi gets to make an appropriate response to her through Joy Mukherjee.
It is from a combination of Lyricist and Music Director that stayed with Asha Bhosle in large number of her songs: Majrooh Sulatnpuri with OP Nayyar.
This was one of the best movies of OP Nayyar with record number of super-hit songs; the 1963 movie Phir Wohi Dil Laaya Hoon.
Please enjoy: Zulf ki chhaon mein chehre ka ujaala de kar….
aa: zulf kii chhaa_o.N me.n chehare kaa ujaalaa lekar
terii wiiraan sii raato.n ko sajaayaa hamane
ra: merii raato.n me.n jalaaye tere jalawo.n ne charaaG
terii raato.n ke liye dil ko jalaayaa hamane
ye tere garm se lab ye tere jalate ruKasaar -2
dekh hamako ke banaayaa hai inhe.n dil kaa karaar
kaise a.ngaaro.n ko siine se lagaayaa hamane
terii raato.n ke liye dil ko jalaayaa hamane
aa: hamane har dil ko sikhaayaa hai dha.Dakane kaa chalan -2
de ke ulfat kii ta.Dap de ke mohabbat kii jalan
tujh se diiwaane ko i.nsaan banaayaa hamane
terii wiiraan sii raato.n ko sajaayaa hamane
ra: siikh le rasm-e-wafaa husn bhii diiwaano.n se -2
daastaa.N apanii bharii hai inhii.n afasaano.n se
rakh diyaa sar ko jahaa.N phir na uThaayaa hamane
terii raato.n ke liye dil ko jalaayaa hamane
I was about to call it a night with my usual quota of three ghazals a night, but, I am reminded of this ghazal duet between Bhupinder and Asha Bhosle and it is so beautiful that I have to give it to you.
It is a Farooq Qaiser ghazal with music composed by Bappi Lahiri. It is picturised on Suresh Oberoi being the ghazal singer in a hotel where he gets to meet his old flame Dimple Kapadia now married to Raj Babbar.
Once again, Asha through Dimple was eminently able to bring out the pain of her existence and the momentary happiness at seeing the love of her life.
Please enjoy: Kisi nazar ko teraa intezzaar aaj bhi hai….
Bhupinder:
kisii nazar ko teraa i.ntazaar aaj bhii hai
kahaa.N ho tum ki ye dil beqaraar aaj bhi hai
Bhupinder:
vo vaadiyaa.N vo fazaaye.n ki ham mile the jahaa.N
merii vafaa kaa vahii.n par mazaar aaj bhii hai
Bhupinder:
na jaane dekh ke kyo.n un ko ye huaa ehasaas
ki mere dil pe u.nhe.n iKhtiyaar aaj bhii hai
Asha:
vo pyaar jis ke liye hamane chho.D dii duniyaa
vafaa kii raah pe ghaayal vo pyaar aaj bhii hai
Bhupinder:
yakii.n nahii.n hai magar aaj bhii ye lagataa hai
merii talaash me.n shaayad bahaar aaj bhii hai
Asha:
na puuchh kitane mohabbat ke zaKhm khaaye hai.n
ki jin ko soch ke dil soGavaar aaj bhii hai
Ghazal #17
Mohammad Rafi for Shashi Kapoor
Imagine Sahshi Kapoor singing a ghazal in a movie, complete with band-gala achkan! It happened in the 1968 movie Kanyadan wherein Shashi Kapoor acted opposite Asha Parekh.
Story-line:
The film starts with a hockey match between the girls’ team Bulbuls, and the boys’ team Heroes. The girls win by 2 goals to one. Amar (Dileep Raj) from the boys’ team and Lata (Sayeeda Khan) from the Bulbul team are attracted to each other and get married. Kumar (Shashi Kapoor) a poet, and Amar are good friends. Kumar decides to go to a village and his car has a break-down where he meets Rekha (Asha Parekh), a village girl. They both fall in love and decide to get married. But when Rekha’s mother (Achala Sachdev) is approached with the proposal she refuses the marriage stating that Rekha was already married in childhood to a boy called Amar. When Kumar returns to the city he realises that Amar, who is now married to Lata, is the childhood groom involved in Rekha’s life. Rekha comes to the city and finds out about Amar when she unwittingly falls in front of his car. But seeing he’s married, she keeps silent about their childhood marriage, and starts working in their house as a maid. Kumar tries to convince Rekha that a marriage taking place when they were children does not legally constitute as one. Rekha disagrees, but over time and several tense scenes later, things are sorted out when Rekha’s mother declares that a marriage performed in childhood is illegal and not binding. Rekha and Kumar get married.
So, now that I have introduced “tense scenes” in the movie, this is one of them in the song.
Lyrics are by Hasrat Jaipuri and music by Shankar Jaikishen.
Please enjoy: Meri zindagi mein aate to kuchh aaur baat hoti….
unakii zulfe.n unake chehare se haTaa sakataa nahii.n
dil kii betaabii kisii suurat chhupaa sakataa nahii.n
kitanii dilakash hai.n muhabbat kii javaa.N majabuuriyaa.N
saamane ma.nzil hai aur paa.Nv ba.Dhaa sakataa nahii.n
merii zindagii me.n aate ( to kuchh aur baat hotii ) -2
ye nasiib jagamagaate ( to kuchh aur baat hotii ) -2
ka_ii baar mil chukii hai.n ye hasii.n-hasii.n nigaahe.n -2
vo hii beqaraariyaa.N hai.n na milii Kushii kii raahe.n
mere dil se dil milaate ( to kuchh aur baat hotii ) -2
merii zindagii me.n …
mujhe kyaa Garaz kisii se ha.Nse phuul yaa sitaare -2
hai.n merii nazar me.n phiike ye javaa.N-javaa.N nazaare
agar aap muskaraate ( to kuchh aur baat hotii ) -2
merii zindagii me.n …
ye Kushii rahe salaamat yuu.N hii jashn ho suhaanaa -2
jise sun rahii hai duniyaa mere dil kaa hai taraanaa
mere saath tum bhii gaate ( to kuchh aur baat hotii ) -2
merii zindagii me.n …
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gUT4Zeiu7mk
Ghazal #18
Jahan Ara Movie
Jahan Ara was a 1964 movie starring Mala Sinha in the title role with Bharat Bhushan playing Mirza Yusuf Changezi. have been good friends since childhood. Things are not quite the same as they grow up, as Jahan Ara’s father is none other than Emperor Shah Jahan, and men are not permitted to meet with the princess under any circumstances. However, Jahan and Mirza do meet secretly and promise to marry each other. Misfortune visits the emperor, when his wife, Mumtaz Mahal (Achala Sachdev), passes away. The emperor gets deeply devastated, and, still mourning his wife’s death, he pledges to build a memorial in her name (which would subsequently be called Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders on Earth). At her deathbed, Mumtaz makes Jahan promise that she will take care of her father, which she promises to do. This responsibility makes her sacrifice her love for Mirza, who is heartbroken and continues to believe that Jahan will sooner or later reunite with him.
This unsuccessful love affair gave rise to a number of ghazals in the movie such as shown below; making Jahan Ara as the movie with the largest number of ghazals in a Hindi movie:
1. “Baad Muddat Ke Yeh Ghadi Ayee” Mohammed Rafi, Suman Kalyanpur
2. “Main Teri Nazar Ka Suroor Hoon” Talat Mahmood
3. “Woh Chup Rahen To Mere” Lata Mangeshkar
4. “Phir Wohi Sham Wohi Gham” Talat Mahmood
5. “Aye Sanam Aaj Aye Qasam Khayen” Talat Mahmood, Lata Mangeshkar
6. “Teri Aankh Ke Ansoo” Talat Mahmood
7. “Kisi Ki Yaad Mein Duniya Ko” Mohammed Rafi
8. “Haal-E-Dil Yoon Unhe Sunaayaa Gayaa” Lata Mangeshkar
9. “Jab Jab Tumhe Bhulaya, Tum Aur Yaad Aaye” Lata Mangeshkar, Asha
It is well-nigh impossible to select just one! But, I think, in quality of singing and popularity, the ghazal Phir wohi shaam wohi gham wohi tanhaayi hai…scores over the others.
All these ghazals were put together by Rajinder Krishan and Madan Mohan as a team of Lyricist and Music Composer. This one has been sung by Talat Mahmood.
Rajinder Krishan, Madan Mohan and Talat Mahmood
Please enjoy: Phir wohi shaam wohi gham wohi tanhaayi hai Dil ko behlaane teri yaad chali aayi hai….
phir vohii shaam vahii Gam vahii tanahaaI hai
dil ko samajhaane terii yaad chalii aaI hai
phir tasavvur tere pahaluu me.n biThaa jaaegaa
phir gayaa vaqt gha.Dii bhar ko palaT aaegaa
dil bahal jaaegaa aakhir ye to saudaaI hai
phir vohii shaam …
jaane ab tujh se mulaaqaat kabhii ho ke na ho
jo adhuurii rahe vo baat kabhii ho ke na ho
merii ma.nzil terii ma.nzil se bichha.D aaI hai
phir vohii shaam …
phir tere zulf ke rukhasaar kii baate.n ho.ngii
hijr kii raat magar pyaar kii baate.n ho.ngii
phir muhabbat me.n ta.Dapane kii qasam khaaI hai
phir vohii shaam …
phir tere zulf ke rukhasaar kii baate.n ho.ngii
hijr kii raat magar pyaar kii baate.n ho.ngii
phir muhabbat me.n ta.Dapane kii qasam khaaI hai
phir vohii shaam …
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JAWdqHPYwDQ
That brings us to the end of Part I of A Hundred Ghazals in Hindi movies. As you can quickly calculate, we have another five parts to go. I hope so far you have enjoyed my selection.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, this is the last one before I sign off on the eve of the OROP Rally, Azad Maidan, Mumbai, Saturday, 31 Oct 15, from 11 AM to 1 PM. This one brings out how we cannot take their promises at the face value.
The original, from where I have made the parody, is from the 1971 movie Dushman (What a name? The faujis are quite used to facing him across the border and within the country!) The beautiful lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi and the music was composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The voice was that of Kishore Kumar.
Please enjoy the parody: Waada tera waada….
सचाई छुप नहीं सकती, बनावट के असूलों से
की खुश्बू आ नहीं सकती कभी कागज़ के फूलों से
मैं इंतेज़्ज़ार करूँ, ये दिल निसार करूँ
तेरी OROP स्वीकार करूँ, मगर कैसे ऐतबार करूँ
झूठा है तेरा वाद
वादा तेरा वादा, वादा तेरा वादा
वादे पे तेरे मारा गया
फौजी मैं सीधा साधा
वादा तेरा वादा, वादा तेरा वादा
1973 में तुम ने, OROP छीन ली थी
अपनी खुद की life, मगर रंगीन की थी
युद्ध हमने लड़े थे, तुम्हें कुछ याद नहीं
तुम्हारे सामने थे, तुम्हारे बाद नहीं
OROP की कित्ताबों में तो फौजी का नाम नहीं
Service में मरता रहा वह, बाद में आराम नहीं – (2)
बढे खडूस हो तुम, फौजियों के लिए मनहूस हो तुम – (2)
मगर नेताओं के लिए, yes yes चापलूस हो तुम
Pension घटा के सोचा कोई नुक्सान नहीं
फौजी के पास चाहे रोटी, कपड़ा मकान नहीं
दामन में तेरे फूल हैं काम, और कांटे हैं ज़्यादा
वादा तेरा वादा, वादा तेरा वादा – (2)
वादे पे तेरे मारा गया, फौजी में सीधा साधा
वादा तेरा वादा, वादा तेरा वादा – (2)
जब कभी भी तुमको, मिलता रहा है मौका,
बेचारे फौजी को तुम, देते रहे हो धोका,
अच्छी खासी है तुमने, उसकी हालत बनायी,
बेचारा सड़क पे आके, देने लगा है दुहाई
तुम में अब भी ना जाने, भरी है चतुराई
सरकार के तुम जो ठहरे, बढे चेहते जमाई – (2)
बढे चालाक हो तुम, महज़ नापाक हो तुम – (2)
फौजियों के लिए तो, कड़वी खुराक हो तुम
देश की सुरक्षा का, तुम्हें कुछ ख़याल नहीं
OROP अभी हम लेंगे, अगले साल नहीं
और नहीं हम देंगे, इसमें से हिस्सा आधा
वादा तेरा वादा, वादा तेरा वादा – (2)
वादे पे तेरे मारा गया, फौजी में सीधा साधा
वादा तेरा वादा, वादा तेरा वादा – (2)
Sachaai chhup nahin sakati, banaavat ke asuulon se
Ki khushbuu aa nahin sakati kabhi kaagaz ke phuulon se
Main intezzaar karun, ye dil nisaar karun
Teri OROP sweekaar karun, magar kaise aitbaar karun
Jhoota hai tera waada
Waada tera waada, waada tera waada
Waade pe tere maara gaya
Fauji main seedha saadha
Waada tera waada, waada tera waada
1973 mein tum ne, OROP chheen li thi
Apani khud ki life, magar rangeen ki thi
Yudh hamane ladhe the, tumhen kuchh yaad nahin
Tumhaare saamne tha, tumhaare baad nahin
OROP ki kittabon mein to fauji ka naam nahin
Service mein marta raha woh, baad mein aaraam nahin – (2)
Badhe khadoos ho tum, faujiyon ke liye manhoos ho tum – (2)
Magar netaayon ke liye, yes yes chaaploos ho tum
Pension ghata ke socha koi nuksaan nahin
Fauji ke paas chaahe roti, kapada makaan nahin.
Daaman mein tere phool hain kam, aur kaante hain zyaada
Waada tera waada, waada tera waada – (2)
Waade pe tere maara gaya, Fauji mein seedha saadha
Waada tera waada, waada tera waada – (2)
Jab kabhi bhi tumako, milta raha hai mauka,
Bechaare fauji ko tum, dete rahe ho dhoka,
Achhi khaasi hai tumane, usaki haalat banaayi,
Bechaara sadak pe aake, dene laga hai duhaayi
Tum mein ab bhi na jaane, bhari hai chaturayi
Sarkaar ke tum jo thehare, badhe chehte jamaayi – (2)
Badhe chaalaak ho tum, mehaz naapak ho tum – (2)
Faujiyon ke liye to, kadawi khuraaq ho tum
Desh ki suraksha ka, tumhen kuchh khayaal nahin
OROP abhi hum lenge, agle saal nahin
Aur nahin hum denge, ismein se hissa aadha
Waada tera waada, waada tera waada – (2)
Waade pet ere maara gaya, Fauji mein seedha saadha
Waada tera waada, waada tera waada – (2)
