is se pehle ki yaad tu aaye

meri aankhon me phir lahoo aaye,
tujhse rishtaa main tod jaaunga
main tera sheher chhod jaaunga

I like this song because
1) Kishore Kumar has done such an amazing job of singing it, when he goes tujhse rishtaa ... i love that
2) It is all sorts of crazy, and i like all sorts of crazy. I can see myself doing something like that. ...इससे पहले कि तू मुझको ठुकराए, मेरा दिल तोड़े, अपना दिल खुद मैं तोड़ जाऊँगा.... वाह वाह वाह, क्या ज्ञानी हो जी आप तो। अरे, कोई हमारा दिल तोड़े, वो एक बात, और हम जो खुद ही अपने से दुश्मनी निकालें, पक्की वाली, तो फिर तो ... बल्ले बल्ले हो गयी है... अब् कोई रोक सकता है क्या ऐसे किसी पागल को।

agar tum na hote

na jaane kyon dil se ye awaaz aayi
milan se hai bardh ke tumhari judaaii

I love these lines, I love them because they are hopelessly romantic, they are asinine, asinine is my new favourite word, you figured eh! yeah! i like using that. back to the song, well... its a nice song, apart from the absurdity mentioned above, but then that is what love is, it confuses the hell out of you, and like i said elsewhere, the more logical analytical you get on its ass, the more the solution eludes you. and that is when you come up with this kind of nonsense. milan se hai bardh kar tumhari judaaii, what does that even mean, how could that be possible, only in upside down universes like ours do fools like me fall for this kind of trickery, because in all those other sensible universes, milan just has to be better than judaii, par shayad angoor khatten hain.

pyar hua hai jab se

mujko nahi chain aata
I love that line chup ke nazar se bhi tu dil se nahi jaata

it is one of those classic example of songs that sound so young and fresh when you listen to them and then you see the video and it just spoils everything for you. Or maybe that is just me.

aaj mere yaar ki shaadi hai

I never liked this song earlier, I kinda thought it was one of those cheapo wedding songs you hear blaring at full volume, off key, वो जब गली में नीचे बारात निकलती थी types. Somehow this song got on my ipod and I think in the last few months I actually listened to the song, the lyrics, and Mohd. Rafi's flawless voice in it for the first time and I surprizingly like it . It's happy and cheerful and he maintains the mood inspite of some... well, not so inpiring lyrics. No, no, i am not saying the lyrics are bad, in fact parts of it are pretty good too... ख़ुशी के सपनो से सोलह सिंगार कि शादी है or even better एक चमन से देखो आज बहार कि शादी है... see that one I find sort of hmm... dreamy types... I think I just love mohd Rafi singing, he makes simple words sound philosophic ... अमीर से होतीं हैं, ग़रीब से होतीं हैं, दूर से होतीं हैं, करीब से होतीं है, मगर जहाँ भी होतीं हैं, ऐ मेरे दोस्त, शादियाँ तो नसीब से होतीं हैं.... आज मेरे यार कि...

I don't know its probably just the nostalgia of missing those barats in the gali. यहाँ तो गली में से किसी बारात नही निकलती न, हमारे मोह्हल्ले में किसी कि शादी नही हों रही और अगर होगी भी तो हमें इत्तला नही दी जाएगी... वो ज़माने गए.

aaj di pe koi zor chalta nahin

I love this part:

kashtiyon ke liye ye bhanwar bhee to hai,
kyaa jaruree hai sab ko kinaaraa mile,
bas yahee soch ke, hum bade chain se
doob jaane lage the, magar ro pade

I guess it is the image of bade chain se doob jaane lage the that gets to me. I can imagine someone going 'okay theek hai ab kahani khatam and then, when the push comes to shove - bachao koi mujhe bhi bachao' :)

tumhe dillagi bhool jaani padegi

mohabbat ki raahon me aa kar to dekho
tadapne pe mere na phir tum hasoge
kabhi dil kisi se laga kar to dekho

This is from a time long long ago when I was young and stupid. I am no longer young. Stupid, is debatable.

The year was 95 or 96, and this very good friend of mine was upset about.... well the stuff young people are supposed to be upset about, only, I personally - on account of the above mentioned stupidity - did not much sympathize with his situation and he must have been in a very foul mood because he said with not so much anger as certainty- one of these days you are going to fall in love and that is when you will not find this so funny.

Umm.. back then, I must confess, I actually laughed at him, which in hindsight was a very bad thing to do. You should not laugh at your friends whether you understand them or not. It was just plain wrong. But he was a gem of a person, a real heart of gold to shayad isliye uske shraap ne zindagi me mera zyada nuksaan kiya nahi. But every time I listen to this song I remember that episode and I wish I was more sympathetic, I wish I had not found his predicament that funny, and the trouble is that even if I do meet him in person, which I haven't since we graduated and I have no idea where he is, but even if I did, it is the kind of thing that you cannot really apologize for after this long a time. It is one of those really awkward moments to bring up and might actually be a worse offense than the first one all those years back, so this here, a pubic apology out into the universe is the best that I can do now.

The year is 2009 and it took me twelve years but I do think that I understand what it is to feel that strongly about someone. I think I have a whole new appreciation for love and it is not a teenager's idea of love either, but I have come to understand that even that teenage puppy love must be treated with due respect. What you feel is what you feel and if you deny or belittle your own feelings, then you deny and belittle your own self, in order to deal with something you must first acknowledge its existence, so if i could go back in time, I would actually sit down and listen to his side of the story. Not that it is a big regret in life or something, I understand that I did not understand it back then, and I was acting from a place of ignorance, but in my own paradigm I was being honest and that perhaps is the only redemption.

And that is the other aspect of the song that I admire, that you only understand something when you do. It is like, let's say you have no idea what a square root is, and you see a set of statements like this

2x^2 = 8
x^2 = 4
x = +/- 2

So you say the first step is fine you divided by 2 but what about the next. Remember you don't know the concept of a squareroot. It will bother you, you might even be sure that this is a mistake, and the thing is, it should, because you don't know, if you pretend to be smarter than you are and say ok something happens here, well you are not being completely honest are you?

I suppose that is how it is meant to be. You hold strong opinions, and insist you know what is right and wrong, you go through life judging others and holding yourself in high esteem and then life shows you the other aspect, their side of the story, and you realize how much in error you have been, how wrong your in judgments and worse, how foolish, hasty, and naive in your criticisms. That perhaps is the growing process. Learning, is painful and humbling.

radha na bole na bole na bole re

I love this song, if I could dance, as in the future when I learn to dance I would love to dance to this song. Waiting :D

shyam teri bansi

pukaare radha naam
log karen meera ko yu hi badnaam

I love this song, I love hearing it not so much watching it, it is a sad sad sad song, the saddest part being when he says radha ka bhi shyam vo to meera ka bhi shaym...

really? aisa ho sakta hai kya?

aur usse bhi zyada dukh mujhe rukmini devi ke baare me soch kar hota hai. kya kismet hai na, kisi ko mil kar bhi na mile aur kisi ko na mil kar bhi mil jaye.

taaron ki zuban par hai mohabbat ki kahani

I love this song, well that is sounding redundant now. after all why would i bother to put it on my blog if I did not like it. right!

anyways

तारों कि ज़बान पर है मोहब्बत कि कहानी
ऐ चाँद मुबारक हो तुझे रात सुहानी

कहते हैं जिसे चांदनी है नूर-ऐ-मोहब्बत
तारों से सुनहरी है हमेशा तेरी किस्मत
जा जा के पलट आती है फिर तेरी जवानी --> This here is my favourite line,because it is a beautiful idea, this concept of your youth coming back to you. Besides, इस बरस मुझ पर भी पलट कर आई है - जवानी. Yes, you are right, this just might be the euphoria that precedes a terrible mid life crisis, but if it is okay with you I would like to go ahead and enjoy it while it lasts. तो फिर मेरी तरफ़ से भी ऐ चाँद मुबारक हो तुझे रात सुहानी

I wrote this post a month back and here is the trouble, already ja chuki hai, I feel old again, must have been some euphoria when I wrote that part up there, it lasted a while too, for the past sometime i have been very happy and hopeful. Right now, not so much. नही नही ठीक है ठीक है, मुझे positive thinking वाला ज्ञान मत दो अभी, मुझे उसका इल्म है, पर, hard to think positive when you are churning your guts out all the time, and no, I am not complaining stating a fact here is all.



Movie: Nausherwan-E-Adil (1957)
Singers: Lata mangeshkar ,Mohammad Rafi
Music: C. Ramchandra
Lyrics:Parvez shamsi

Deewana banana hai to

It is a very beautiful ghazal by Behzad Lakhnawi, I am trying to write the lyrics because a) they are eloquent and b) I can't see them on the web, at least not found on a rudimentary search. :) There, my contribution to the world, today's good act. ha ha, okay sorry am not doing it for altruistic motives this is purely for my own enjoyment.

Deewana banana hai to deewana bana de
Varna kahin taqdeer tamasha na bana de

Ai dekhne waalon mujhe has has ke na dekho
Tumko bhi kahin mohabbat mujh sa na bana de (Oh! that is ..... well, it has happened to me and i am sure to a lot of other ppl, when you make fun of someone, life shows you their side eventually doesn't it? ;) )

Main dhoond raha hoon jisko meri vo shamma kahan hai
Jo bajzm ki har cheez ko parwaana bana de ( Ahem ! hmm... biased opinion but, whatever)

Akhir koi soorat to ho khana-e-dil ki
Kaba nahi banta to butkhana bana de (Waah waah! my feelings exactly)

Behzad har ek gaam pe ek sajda-e-masti
Har zarre ko sang-e-dar-e-jana na bana de ( :D um hmm, sure, why not? )

Here a link to Begum Akhtar's rendition

Bade armaano se rakha hai balam

pyar ki duniya me ye pehla kadam

I capital L love this song, unfortunately the video is not too good, but I could not find a better one, besides I just listen to it. :) I think I posted another song from this movie long back, kahan ho tum zara aawaz do hum yaad katen hain. Like this one way better



Movie: Malhaar (1951)
Singers: Lata Mangeshkar and Mukesh

jab se tumhe dekha hai

aakhon me tumhi tum ho

:) Infectious happy song. I cannot stop smiling when I listen to it, or not sing along. they both look so young and full of life and of course this famous Brindavan Garden brings back a lot of memories. saari hindi filmon me mysore jaa kar ke ek gaana to yaahan shoot hota hi hoga nahi? I remember walking through this park as a little girl, and pretending to be a hindi film heroine, hopping along, and my dad yelling in the background you will fall in to the water, come back. ugh!

shoot did I just admit that? whatever...

dil ke naye naghmon ki taano mein tumhi tum ho. hum bhi yehi kehten hain saanson me tumhi tum ho.



Movie: Gharana (1961)
Singers: Mohd. Rafi Asha Bhosle

mere tumhare beech mein

ab to na parbat na saagar
nis din rahe khayalon mein tum
ab ho jaayo ujagar
ab aan milo sajna

Jhuk gaya aasman has to be my most favourite movie. Ever. I have seen it I do not know how many times and I can still watch it over and over again. I never get bored of it.

This particular song I think I like the audio better than the video, no reason, just generally, Lata Mangeshkar's voice is so beautiful, I would rather close my eyes and listen to it.



and then ofcourse, kaun hai jo sapno mein aaya.... is beautiful. My favourite part of that song is
jism ko maut aati hai, lekin rooh ko maut aati nahi hai. Ishq roshan hai roshan rahega, roshni iski jaati nahi hai.

and that one about bekhudi ka ye aalam na poocho, manzilon se bradha ja raha hoon. :) hmm... kaafi bevakoofi ki baat hai, but I can so relate to it.

yaad na jaaye beete dino ki

It is one of those songs you cannot listen to and not feel bad. *(too many negatives in that sentence ? argh!)

Mohd. Rafi's voice is unsurpassed. My favorite part is the way he sings:
तस्वीर उनकी छुपाके, रख दूँ जहां जी चाहे
मन में बसी ये मूरत
लेकिन मिटी न मिटाए
कहने को है वो पराए




Movie: Dil Ek mandir (1963)
Music: Shankar jai kishan
Singer: Mohd. Rafi
Lyrics: Shailendra

piya aiso jiya mein samayi gayo re

ki main tan man ki sudh budh gavan baithi

It is one of those rare songs that the video is as amazing as the audio. I cannot pick which I like better, Geeta Dutt's haunting voice or Meena Kumari's ethereal beauty. The cinematography is way over the top too. :) Love it.



Movie: Sahib Bibi aur Gulam (1962)
Singer: Geeta Dutt
Music: Hemant Kumar
Lyricist : Shakeel Badayuni

mohd rafi for kishore kumar

I like this video link, Mohd. Rafi singing for Kishore Kumar. Some people might hate it, purists who like either one of them too much that is. No, I am not one of them. I think it is possible to admire both. oh and there is still room for Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan :P

na jee bhar ke dekha

na kuch baat kii
badi aarzoo thi mulaqat kii

This from experience, always happens, the stuff you anticipate, disappoints you like no body's business. Moral of the story - do not get your hopes up, no matter what.

:)

Here are two versions, I like the words in the first one better

khuda ke liye kuch to irshad ho
duhaai ho shikwa ho fariyaad ho
koi tarjumani ho jazbaat ki
badi aarzoo thi mulaqat ki

tumne mujhe dekha ho kar meherbaan

ruk gayi ye zameen, tham gaya aasmaan.

It's a beautiful song, I love his voice, I am not too crazy about the presentation in the movie, but I guess the movie is for storytelling. To me personally, this is a very happy song, vibrant, apart from the fact that I worry ki zameen kitni baar rukegi yaar, aur kis kis ke liye rukegi, aur baaz ek logon ke liye to baar baar rukti hogi na ;) some people just have all the luck in life.Don't you hate those people. :D

Here are both the videos, you decide for yourself which one you like better.





Movie: Teesri Manzil (1966)
Singer: Mohd. Rafi

jeet hi lenge baazi hum tum

On the whole I think this is a very hopeful song. These are my most favourite lines
१) प्यार का बंधन जनम का बंधन, जनम का बंधन टूटे न
२) मिलने कि खुशी न मिलने का गम ,ख़त्म ये झगडे हो जाये
एंड
३) मैं भी न छोडूँ पलभर दामन, तू भी पलभर रूठे न....

okay wait, I think I like all of it :)




Movie: Shola aur Shabnam (1961)
Singers: Mohd. Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar
Music Director : Khaiyyaam

ek tera saath humko do jahan se pyara hai

I love this song, its just... beautiful, a bit too idealistic, but, yeah, that is not a flaw in my book so...

I love that part
हम अकेले हैं, शहनाईयां चुप हैं, तो कंगना बोलता है
तू जो चलती है, छोटे से आँगन में, चमन सा डोलता हैं
आज घर हम ने, मिलन के रंग से संवारा है

here a you tube link, I could not find the video if you have one send me the link.