‘क्या भूलूँ क्या याद करूँ’

Bhooli hui yaadonWe had thought we would try to forget 2020 as a bad dream. The pandemic last year for most of us was a piece of statistics, a news item. It would not affect us, we all thought. Suddenly in a span of the last few weeks its second wave has struck us as a mighty river in full fury after breaching a dam. Now it has reached our doorstep. Everyone knows of some close acquaintance whose dear one has gone through unimaginable medical crisis. Now clichés, such as ‘we would get over this’ sound like insensitive platitudes for those who have gone through personal tragedies.

I must mention some positives on the blog front. Dr Shetty has been sending me weekly best wishes without fail for the last few months. I value that. Then we were worried for Shalan Lal whose last appearance on the SOY was more than a year ago. She had kept me posted about her serious medical issues, and her last mail was sent on her behalf by her friend. Thereafter, complete silence. I had no means of accessing her. In this background, her appearance all of a sudden after a year is a matter of great happiness. Her comeback comment on 27 April was also through a friend’s mail id.

We don’t know when we would be able to breathe a little easy. But 2021 is the year that would be difficult to forget however we may try. The chaotic times have also affected the normal frequency of my posts. Some readers started noticing it, and enquired if everything was all right. Everything is indeed all right, if I see the horror all around me. The show must go on, and I am back with a theme which had been with me from the normal times.

What to forget and what to remember is the dilemma of the privileged. A common man struggles with something that is just on the tip of the tongue, but refuses to come out when most needed. And much later, it would come like a flash when it is of no use. Or, even more embarrassingly, you meet a familiar person but just cannot recall his name or place him. You fib to show that you have not forgotten him. Even though he realises, he plays along as a social courtesy. But some are not so kind; they rub it in and have fun at your expense – No you have forgotten me, tell me who I am 🙂 . However, if it is any comfort, a shair says:

याददाश्त का कमज़ोर होना, बुरी बात नहीं है जनाब,
बड़े बेचैन रहते हैं वो लोग, जिन्हे हर बात याद रहती है.

(Failing memory is not such a bad thing.
Restless are those who remember everything.)

‘क्या भूलूँ क्या याद करूँ’ is the title of the first part of Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s 4-part autobiography. It is a gripping work of lyrical prose. A wit says the purpose of any autobiography, even the brutally honest ones, is to tell the story as the subject would like the world to believe. If that be so, every autobiography is a journey into what one wants to forget and what to remember.

Mukesh sang a song with almost identical meaning, Kise yaad rakhun, kise bhool jaaun. That was the dilemma between two beloveds, one to which he had surrendered his heart and the other to which he owed duty:

उधर दिल मोहब्बत में उनको दिया है
इधर फ़र्ज़ का बोझ सर पे लिया है
अरी ज़िंदगी तूने ये क्या किया है
किसे याद रखूँ किसे भूल जाऊँ

This sounds like ‘selective memory’ – a sinister term these days, used as a political weapon. Depending on what you remember and what you forget, you are either a ‘Modi Bhakt’ or a ‘Left Liberal Sickular’. Someone said, in India there is no middle ground today. Fortunately, we on SOY are not into politics, and we have all been maintaining a middle ground. But on what to forget and what to remember, SOY is a memory trip into the past and the readers cherish all the memories that flood them when we discuss old songs. We have deep nostalgia for the Radio Era, and then Doordarshan Era. Nostalgia is something that adds value to our life, and binds the SOY family together.

Wordsworth described poetry as “spontaneous overflow of feelings, emotions recollected in tranquility”. Our keen reader KS Bhatia’s wanderings into his past in his comments are pure poetry in the mould of “memories recollected in tranquility”

What is at the heart of the cult film Casablanca (1942)? Intertwined with the backdrop of the World War II, Vichy France, Germans, Exit Visas and poignant love story of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, is the eternal theme of getting away from the past painful memories, which really never go away. Can Rick (Bogart) ever push away ‘Paris’ though he has forbidden Sam never to play ‘As time goes by’ again at his café in Casablanca? But of all the gin joints, in all the towns in all the world, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) had to walk into Rick’s. Old embers start searing his heart. But in the end Rick forces Ilsa to escape to America with Vaszlo on the two exit visas he has got. When a surprised Ilsa asks him, “And what about us?”, with moist eyes he replies, “We will always have Paris.”

Let us go on the nostalgia trip with some beautiful songs.

1. Kise yaad rakhun kise bhhol jaun by Mukesh from Anuraag (1956), lyrics Kaif Irfani. music Mukesh

Let us start with the Mukesh song I mentioned in the write up. This film produced by Mukesh, in which he was also the lead actor, bombed at the box office, but as music director and singer he gave this immortal song. One of his very best.

2. Bhoolnewale yaad na aa, bhoolnewale yaad na aa by Mukesh from Anokhi Ada (1948), lyrics Shakeel Badayuni, music Naushad

Mukesh’s voice was meant for nostalgia trip. Here is one which has both amnesia and remembrance. Naushad takes the best out of Mukesh. It is surprising he jettisoned him so cleanly after only one more year.

3. Teri yaad dil se bhulaane chala hun by Mukesh from Hariyali Aur Rasta (1962), lyrics Shailendra, music Shankar-Jaikishan

Here the hero endeavours to erase all memories of his beloved even though it would destroy him.

4. Jinhein hum bhoolna chaahein wo aksar yaad aate hain by Mukesh from Aabroo (1968), lyrics Prem Dhavan, music Sonik-Omi

But is forgetting really in one’s control? Mukesh now gives expression to this helplessness.

5. Bhooli hui yaadon mujhe itna na sataao, ab chain se rahne do mere pass na aao by Mukesh from Sanjog (1961), lyrics Rajendra Krishna, music Madan Mohan

Finally, the hero is left pleading with the long-forgotten memories to leave him alone, and not torment him by coming back again. Mukesh again to give various shades of memories and forgetting.

6. Bhulaane mein jinko zamaane lage hain, wohi ab mujhe yaad aane lage hain by Shujaat Hussain Khan and Minu Bakshi

Same theme of trying to forget, but now the memories coming back do not torment, they give ‘लुत्फ़’. Shujaat Hussain Khan is essentially a sitarist, but besides classical instrumental music he has also ventured into singing light classical songs, ghazals, while playing the sitar. The outcome is invariably superb. His father Ustad Vilayat Khan, would often break into singing the बंदिश on the stage while playing the sitar in his famed gayaki-ang. The Junior Khan Saheb takes the vocalising to independent concert level.

7. Dil se bhula do tum humein hum na tumhein bhulayenge by Lata Mangeshkar from Patanga (1949), lyrics Rajendra Krishna, music C Ramchandra

Finding that the hero Shyam’s love interest is someone else, Purnima here sings a sad song of resigned acceptance, but with declaration of her selfless love, “Even if you forget me from your heart, I would never forget you.” Such one-sided declarations by ladies happened often, such as ‘Tu pyar kare ya thukra de, hum to hain tere deewanon mein’.

8. More balapan ke sathi chhaila bhool jaiyo na by KL Saigal and Khursheed from Tansen (1943), lyrics Pt Indra, music Khemchand Prakash

Let us go back into the Vintage Era, and you have this immortal song of poignant parting. Saigal, Khursheed and Khemchand Prakash, all at their best.

9. Hamaari gali aana humse ankhiyan milana humein bhool na jana tumhein yaad rahe by Khursheed from Maharana Pratap (1946), lyrics Swami Ramanand, music Ram Ganguly

But not all the pleadings by the lady to her man not to forget her were poignant. Khursheed’s tonal quality had a natural naughtiness.

10. Humein bhool mat jaiyo Rajaji by Munshi Aziz and Zohrabai Ambalewali from Shahenshah Babar (1944), lyrics Pt. Indra, music Khemchand Prakash

And another colour of pleading not to forget me. Here the man tries to allay the lady’s apprehensions; he has to go for duty, Darling, do take care, keep sending me messages and so on. We have already met this song in the post on Raja-Rani Songs at the top. And I am sure you will find this song discussed prominently in the review of the songs of 1944. I find I am not the only one fascinated by this song. For me, discovering and highlighting such songs of the Vintage Era is one of the satisfactions of writing this blog.

Acknowledgement and Disclaimer:
The song videos have been embedded from the YouTube only for the listening pleasure of the music lovers. This blog does not claim any copyright over these songs which vests in the respective owners, such as Saregama India Limited and others.

1273 comments…read them below or add one

  1. AKji,
    An apt and relevant post for the most difficult and challenging times of our lives today !!
    We are all in the midst of an extremely severe and scary wave of the covid19 pandemic.
    As you rightly said, last year was bad but the virus was not at everybody’s door step. This time, many of us have faced unimaginable loss, with some of our friends and relatives no longer with us.
    Wishing safety and good health to every one of the SOY family and their beloved ones!!

    Here’s song which I hope, 2020-2021 will be saying in future:

    Mujhe bhool jana agar ho sake…
    Taqdeer 1967
    LP- AB – Rafi

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMW1DkYkpcY

  2. Dr Deshpande,
    Now if someone asks how one should prepare oneself in case, something happens, the only advice I can give is, don’t fall ill.

    Difficult times for everyone. Let us wish the best for everyone.

  4. Dr Deshpande,
    The two songs are too good. Thanks for adding these. My post was dominated by Mukesh, a conscious choice.

  5. AK ji,
    Kya baat hai !
    भुलना और याद आना are two sides of a record. I believe nothing less than about 40 to 50 percent songs in Hindi films are built around these words. So getting plenty of songs is not difficult.
    Some of Lata’s best songs are on these words, especially in the early part of her career.
    Here is one of my favourites from film Safar-46, sung by Chitalkar and Binapani Mukherjee, who was his almost a lead singer before Lata.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khyW__ewg3E

    कभी याद करके, गली पार करके ….
    -AD

  6. AKji

    What a way to present an abstract topic so that people will find it very interesting from your repertoire. This is nothing short of genius. This post from you is – a la bonne heure.
    Here is a song from Dilip Kumar Devdas, music S D Burman. I do not know how appropriate it is.

    Jis tu kubool karle – https://youtu.be/b5J4zk9YqGE?t=201

  8. Arunji @5,
    Thanks a lot for your generous appreciation. I selected a limited range of Yaad aana-Bhoolna songs. You have made a very interesting observation that about 40 to 50% of songs would be of this theme. This seems to be an overstatement. But even at 20%, it would be huge number. Let us see how many the readers are add. Kabhi yaad karke gali paar karke is also my great favourite.

  9. Mr Rangan @6,
    I can only say simple thanks, because I don’t have repertoire of French, Latin phrases. But I am extremely grateful for your kind words. Jise tu qubool kar le has ‘bhula de’ in the second line. It should belong to the theme, because Chnadramukhi’s pleading is for some remedy which relieves Devdas of painful memories.

    @7,
    Yaad rakhna chaand taaro is suhani raat ko is one of the greatest songs of Lata Mangeshkar.

  10. “kya bhooloon kya yaad karoon main”, or perhaps “kya bhooloon kya yaad rakhoon main” is also a very beautiful old song, sung by Jagmohan or NL Puri (could also be someone else, I am not certain). Know anything about that?

  11. We can trust you to come out with lively topics even in these troubled times . A great writeup. Most of the wonderful songs I have heard and bring back memories. Forgetfulness is common in our lives both knowingly as well as unknowingly . Trouble is when you cannot forget something even if you want to.

    The return of one of the learned contributors at SOY after remaining away from the scene for over year has made everyone in the group very happy.

    ‘Mai teri nazar ….’ /JAHAN ARA / 1964 / Rajinder Kishan / Madan Mohan / Lata, Talat

    https://youtu.be/g434-TMiEkA

  12. You could not have chosen a more apt and topical theme, AK! It suits this period that we are all going through and it suits SoY for the reasons that you have stated in your post. There is something about Mukesh’s voice that suits songs about nostalgia, bitter-sweet memories and the like, so it’s no wonder that Mukesh solos dominate your song-selection! Another Mukesh song that suits the topic is ‘Maine tere liye hi saat rang ke sapne chune ‘ from ‘Anand’ – and even more so given that it’s been 50 years since the film was released – thanks to these immortal lines:

    “Chhoti chhoti baaton ki hain yaadein badi
    Bhoole nahin beeti hui ek chhoti ghadi”

    ‘Maine tere liye hi saat rang ke sapne chune’ by Mukesh, from ‘Anand’ (1971), MD – Salil Chowdhury, Lyricist – Gulzar

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH_Q8YCS7CI

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  15. There are a gazillion songs in Hindi movies on the yaadein of bachpan, bachpan ke saathi, etc. Here are two from Naushad’s oeuvre:

    1. ‘Mere bachpan ke saathi mujhe bhool na jaana’ by Noor Jehan from ‘Anmol Ghadi’ (1946). MD – Naushad, Lyricist – Tanveer Naqvi

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKuMFKJqFyE

    2. ‘Bachpan ke din bhula na dena’ by Lata Mangeshkar & Shamshad Begum, from ‘Deedaar’ (1951), Lyricist – Shakeel Badayuni

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTNzuUGMmUY

  21. The ‘kharaab zamaana’ has forgotten Nashad, thanks to the similarity of his name with that of Naushad, as can be seen from the erroneous credit in the YouTube link to this evergreen song from ‘Baradari’ (1955):

    ‘Bhula nahin dena, bhula nahin dena’ by Lata Mangeshkar & Mohd.Rafi. MD – Nashad, Lyricist – Khumar Barabankvi

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3JKsOmIttM

  22. Akji:

    A great title for a post accompanied by an excellent choice of melodies. I was expecting more reminiscences. But the bouquet of songs was good compensation. If Arun ji’s observations are correct, this is going to be another blockbuster post!

    Around 1971, I believe, AIR celebrated the silver jubilee of Dr Rajendra Prasad’s ‘Aatmakatha’ (1946), one of the first major political autobiographies in Hindi. It had invited Dr Bachhan to deliver a talk on the landmark publication. Bachhan, of course, kept his audience spellbound. But I had not liked the way he dismissed the book as an example of ‘prosaic prose’. ‘What did an English professor and a Hindi poet know about Hindi prose?’ I had thought.

    Although Bachhan’s ‘Kya Bhooloon Kya Yaad Karoon’ was first published in 1969, I could lay my hands on it only a few years later in college. And it was an eye opener. You have rightly called it lyrical. It was a milestone in Hindi autobiography. This volume covered Bachhan’s adolescent years, first marriage, and the death of Shyama ji, his first wife. And my friends and I could fully relate to it. More importantly, it allowed me to understand what he had meant by ‘prosaic prose’.

    I now think that part of the impact of ‘Kya Bhooloon Kya Yaad Karoon’ on students like me was due to its racy prose and some titillating descriptions, making it unputdownable, that you were guaranteed to finish overnight. Couple of decades later, after I was back in India from my doctoral studies and teaching assignments abroad, I got to read the rest of Bachhan’s autobiography, and could relate much better to the third volume, ‘Basere se door’, that described his trials and tribulations while doing Ph.D. at Cambridge.

    Here is ‘Yaad aa gayi wo nashili nigaahen’ (Hemant Kumar in ‘Manzil’; MD: SD):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWSMuvS__OU

  23. Two Naushad/Shakeel/Lata classics , both based on Raag Maand:

    1. ‘Bachpan ki mohabbat ko, dil se na juda karna’ by Lata Mangeshkar, from ‘Baiju Bawra’ (1952). MD – Naushad, Lyricist – Shakeel Badayuni

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pBvSbAf1qg

    2. ‘Jo main jaanti bisarat hain sainyya’ by Lata Mangeshkar, from Shabab (1954). MD – Naushad, Lyricist – Shakeel Badayuni (Lyrics adapted from the original text attributed to Amir Khusrau)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e37lAtOruGY

    Here’s a rendition by Ustad Farid Ayaz and Ustad Abu Mohd. Qawwal and party

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anHvAeEYBQw

  24. AKji,
    We are living through extraordinary times. The early months of 2020 brought a new invisible enemy, while the last few weeks have made visible an old enemy we’ve tried to pretend no longer exists. The need to have faith and remain connected is now needed more than ever before. Thanks for coming out with this theme at this exceptional juncture. SoY provides the right platform to remain connected with one another and with our cherished past too.
    Nice to see Ashwinji on a song. Expecting Hansji, Mumbaikarji, Rahulji and others to join the party soon. Are we in for a second wave like last year?

  25. Ak ji
    Very poignant writ up expressing the feelings of everybody. The Part about Shalanji is very touching. All of us have gone through this experience in one way or other.
    The choice of the songs is impeccable. When it comes to yaad & bhoolna I think Mukesh holds the forte . In your list first 5 gems are rendered by Mukesh.
    Here are my picks
    1 Meri yaad me tum na aanso bahana – Madhosh- Raja Mehdi Ali khan – Madan Mohan
    https://youtu.be/wwLfElwuK68

    2 Hum hi me thi na koi baat-Hafeez Jalandhari – Mehedi Hassan
    https://youtu.be/uWNANNpUbIc

  28. A Marathi song, in which a loving wife asked her husband not to forget her and that they have been man and wife across many lives.

    ‘Visaru nako shrirama mala’ by Lata Mangeshkar, from ‘Janaki’ (1979). MD – Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Lyricist – Sudhir Moghe

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLb4NYdRdY

  30. One lovely non Mukesh song in this catogory which I immediately recollect is Bhool jaa sapane suhane by Lata and Talat from Rajadhani (1956) which I feel is a fit entry here. Nice and engaging post!

  31. AK ji,

    Needless to say, I am pleasantly surprised to see Mukesh dominating.
    But then, first a word on the pandemic which this year has come down like a ton of bricks and we were caught napping.

    Thanks for bringing us all on this platform virtually. Trust me, it means a lot to all of us.

    Wishing one and all at SOY, a very safe, healthy and peaceful life ahead.

    I am sure we can add another dozen or so Mukesh songs. Here is one of them again scored by Naushad, but on the other extreme of his career.

    https://youtu.be/R25C0nz7bVA

  33. I wonder if AK has got insight in my head.

    Presently I am suffering from the memory loss obviously affected by what Indians call Mahamari. It is the worst kind of pandemics ever human beings have to suffer in the beginning of the 21 century.

    Very nicely written article.

    I wanted to contribute but as Mr Bhandarkar has mentioned King Dushyant I shall not repeat the famous English films on the memory loss. There are a few Indian versions of those films.

    Shalan Lal

  34. In the khayal genre of Hindustani Music, सुध बुध बिसराई and its variants are very common in bandish texts. Usually the one who has बिसराईd her सुध बुध is a gopi who is entranced by the sounds emanating from Krishna’s flute or by the enchanting visage of the Lord. Another scenario is when a प्रोषितभर्तृका नायिका or a विरहोत्कंठिता नायिका is lamenting the fact that her lover has not once enquired about her सुध (सुधहुँ न लीनी). Am sure that at best, these cases are because the nayak does not have means of communication (bee, bird, cloud, human envoy, kalam/ink/bark/leaf/paper, landline, smartphone, laptop, etc.) handy, or at worst, because he deliberately does not want to contact her; either way, there is no memory loss involved.

    An example of a khayal bandish with the first kind of motif (except that only the सुध is बिसराoed and not the बुध) is ‘Baraniee na jaaye’, the vilambit khayal in Raag Bhatiyar, In this rendition by Venkatesh Kumar, it occurs at 16:05

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fveOYRT4DDw

    An example of the 2nd one is the chhota khayal ‘Kaun karat tori binati piyarwa’ in Raag Bageshri. The nayika says

    Kaun karat tori binati piyarwa
    Maano na maano hamaree baat

    Jabse gayi mori sudhahun na leeni
    Chaahe sautan ke ghar jaat

    I did not come across a rendition of this bandish by a renowned musician. The best that I could find was this group rendition by students:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8y8hkalWoc

  36. Shalan Lal @ 33,

    Wonderful to have you back and here’s wishing you the very best of health and everything else. Please don’t let my mention of Dushyant and Shakuntala restrain you from sharing your views and perspectives – SoY and all its members will be much the poorer if you keep the gems from your treasure trove of information and learning all to yourself.

  41. AKji,
    Nice selection of songs. You have restricted your choice to ten. The first five Mukesh songs were top class. Mukesh was ideal for such songs. The Ghazal by Shujat was new to me and made good listening. Loved the vintage package too. Thumps up for including ‘Humein bhool mat jaiyo Rajaji’. ‘Jinhein hum bhoolna chaahein wo aksar yaad aate hain’ (#4) reminds of another contra song by Mukesh.

    Jise hum yaad karte hain haemin usne bhulaya hai, Mukesh, film Preet ka Geet (1950), Hare Krishna Premi, Shyam Babu Pathak
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BVnJCTJkYg

  42. Second stanza of Kanan Bala’s “Kuchh Yaad Rahe To Sun Kar Ja”: भूल सके तो भूल ही जाना, क्या भूली हूँ, भूल बताना in Jawaab (1942). The video clip is at https://youtu.be/Y6VR3OyMWd0.

  44. AKji,
    Excellent post!
    Enjoyed reading the post and the comments.
    So many songs posted already.
    Let me start with a mukesh duet,

    Ab yaad na kar bhool ja

    https://youtu.be/wWma-i7ghio

    Another Mukesh song from Saathi
    Bhool ja bhool ja

    https://youtu.be/WG6TRahCahw

    Humen chhod piya kis desh gaye piya laut ke aana ‘भुल’ gaye

    https://youtu.be/GroZRkImwAE

    Main to bhool chali Babul ka desh

    https://youtu.be/s12QqQ_jA5c

    Bhool ja ae dil Mohabbat ka fasana

    https://youtu.be/vvrOn7Fa2HE

    Yaad aanewale phir yaad aa rahe hai

    https://youtu.be/RWuaiajlGbk

  46. AKji,
    I understand that ‘Hume Bhool na Jana”or similar phrases implies ‘Hume yaad rakhna’
    Then this duet from the 1948 film ‘O Janewale’ should fit the bill.
    O Janewale Humko Bhool Na Jana, Shamshad Begum & Mukesh, film O Janewale (1948), lyrics ?, music Ali Hussain Muradabadi
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKuNGDWNnC8

  47. dk @10,
    I am not able to locate that song. Kya bhoolun kya yaad karun main is a poem of Harivansh Rai ‘Bachchan’ from which he has taken the title of the part of his autobiography. The YT search gives several links of this poem. We would be very happy if you could try to find a link.

  49. A few more,

    Bhool ja sapne suhane by Lata Mangeshkar and Talat Mahmood. Excellent melody by Hansraj Behl.

    https://youtu.be/SZ4583Js2EE

    Bhool jana chahti hoon by Parul Ghosh. I want to forget it all, but just can’t.

    https://youtu.be/X0vehBwSE34

    Bhool jate hai by Rajkumari. If he forgets, let him. If he wants to test me, let me

    https://youtu.be/vVNplyLBLTs

    Man bhooli kathayen yaad na kar by Shamshad Begum

    https://youtu.be/xxPaopXdrlE

    Tum bhi bhoola do by Noorjahan. Let’s forget it all, both of us.

    https://youtu.be/Y_7AvF8eD2A

    And,
    Though not strictly fitting the theme.

    Ek dil ka lagana baqi tha. One of the verses goes,

    इक बार भूलाना चाहा था, सौ बार वो हमको याद आया
    इक भूलने वाले हमने तुझे सौ बार भूला के देख लिया

    https://youtu.be/1CL85bX49l4

  54. Mr S Joseph @11,
    Thanks a lot for your appreciation. Forgetfulness, or short term memory loss is embarrassing – it is another matter that it may degenerate into a medical condition. But yes, not able to forget something even if you want to can be painful. Mein teri nazar ka suroor hun is a beautiful song. The video link with Lata Mangehkar’s voice in the beginning and the description is a discovery.

    @13,
    Tum mujhe bhool bhi jaao to ye haq hai tumko belongs to the category of eternal songs. Thanks.

    @19,
    Jawan hai mohabbat haseen hai zamana is an excellent song of happy memories, though I don’t find the keywords in the song.

    @27,
    Unhein tu bhoolja ae dil: Making efforts to forget her, nice song.

    @29,
    Tum mujhe yun bhula na paaoge: Not my great favourite – this was in SJ’s decline phase.

    @32,
    Phir tumhari yaad ayi ae sanam – This one is a great Sajjad Hussain composition.

    @35,
    Dekh humein awaz dena: is a nice song, but keywords not prominent.

    @37,
    Main to bhool chali: Nice song with Garba dance.

    @40,
    Waah. Sajna sajna, kaahe bhool gaye re pukar ke is one of my great favourites of Lata Mangeshkar-Chitragupt combination.

    @48,
    Mohe bhool gaye saanwariya is an excellent song of virah.

    @52,
    Kaali kaali ratiyan yaad sataaye – this was the peak phase of CR-Lata Mangeshkar combination. A masterpiece in this mould is Tum kaya jaano tumhari yaad mein hum kitna roye from Shin Shinaki Bubla Boo. I don’t know if the title film means anything, but who can forget the song.

  62. Ashwin @12,
    Thanks a lot for your appreciation. The theme presented itself with so much going around us. Anything else would have been बेवक़्त की शहनाई. Maine tere liye hi saat rang ke sapne chune is a nice song from that sad film.

    @15,
    Now I realise there are million songs on the theme (I am making a more modest estimate). Both the songs from Naushad are too good. A reader has added another song from Anmol Ghadi – Jawan hai mohbbat haseen hai zamana. Shows Naushad’s range or popularity of the theme.

    @16,
    Yes. And also perhaps Tum bhi na bhoolo baalam hum bhi na bhoolein from the same combination from the film Baazi (1951).

    @18,
    Yaad na jaaye beete dinon ki – is a befitting song. Helplessness at not being able to forget?

    @20.
    Bhool jaayein saare gham: Now it seems we can have music director-wise compilation of songs on this theme.

    @21,
    Bhhoola nahin dena ji bhula nahin dena – You can be sure I and and many on the SOY can never forget the song and Nashad.

    @23,
    From where did you discover the qawwali form of Jo main jaanti bisarat hain sainya? This does not reduce the gravity of Maand one bit. Beautiful.

    @34,
    Your explanation of the two sides of Sudh budh bisraai is wonderful. The Bageshri by the students is also very good because the bandish is very clear.

  63. Mr Rangan @14,
    Tumhaare bulaane ko ji chaahta hai is an all-time great song of Lata Mangeshkar by Anil Biswas.

    @17,
    Sapne mein sajan se do baatein: Excellent. Some she forgets, some are retained in the memory.

  64. Arunji @ 5,
    Kabhi Yaad Karke, Kabhi Paar karke is a great vintage number.
    @56,
    True, how can one miss this song?
    Mere piya gaye rangun, kiya hai vahan se telephone
    Tumharee yad satatee hai, jiya me aag lagatee hai

    Akji, Arunji,
    Posting a vintage Kishore Kumar song,
    O bhoolnewaale muhobbat ka zamaana yaad kar, Kishore Kumar, NFS (1946), lyrics Kewal Sharma, music Ramesh Gupta
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCmHOGAxJUc&t=161s

  66. Hi AK,

    I, too, have been wondering where you were, and how you were, until you emailed me the other day. I haven’t been very regular on any blog, except perhaps Madhu’s, for various reasons. In fact, my blog had suffered from my withdrawal as well (until my son stepped in to help).

    This is a very intriguing post and as is usual here, I see a lot of songs that I’m not familiar with. Thank you (and to your readers) for introducing me to them.

    @Shalan Lal – sorry to hear about your ill-health. Wishing you a speedy and complete recovery.

  67. The gloom and gravitas of Raag Marwa is harnessed very well by Ravindra Jain for the mukhda of this tough-to-sing composition, the lyrics of which he wrote himself, and the twists and turns of which Asha negotiates so effortlessly.

    ‘Saathi re, bhool na jaana mera pyaar’ from ‘Kotwal Saab'(1977).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m3nU_PlA5o

  68. Venkataramanji @58

    Good to see active. Your comments and inputs are always interesting!

    We both posted the same song but one second made the difference.
    At least, I could add the Lata version.

    Here’s one more from 1971 – LP- AB.
    Bit interesting as it has 3 different moods in the same song.

    Lagan – Lata, Mahendra Kapoor

    Yaad ye rakhna bhool na jana

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n16Y9QEDD5o

  71. Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, remembers her days of glory in ‘Memory’, possibly the most well-known song in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s ‘Cats’. Here it is rendered by Elaine Page, the first actress to play the role. According to Wikipedia, it is the most successful song ever from a musical, with over 600 performers having recorded it as of 2006.

    ‘Memory’ by Elaine Page from ‘Cats’ (Lyrics by T.S.Eliot, Music by Andrew Lloyd Weber)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gd_ohoPzYc

  72. Canasya @22,
    Thanks a lot for your appreciation.

    Bachchan’s dismissive remark about Rajendra Prasad’s ‘Atmakatha’ was discourteous. He was not required to praise it, but he could have found words to be inoffensive. Surprising for someone who had worked in the Foreign Affairs Ministry – I think he was Hindi Officer there courtesy Nehru.

    ‘Kya Bhoolun Kya Yaad Karun’ was unforgettable. One was not reading someone’s life story, one was reading a literary creation. You have not mentioned the fourth part of the series. If it is studied silence I understand, because ‘Dashdwar’ Se ‘Sopan’ Tak is a sharp degeneration. He was no longer a renowned writer proud of his son’s fame in cinema, but an old man in awe of his megastar-son who looked after him in his mansion. But the most disconcerting was their prayer that Ajitabh’s third child be a son, but they were greatly disappointed when the third child, too, was born a daughter! Some regressive values! Therefore, I avoided saying any further on the work beyond the first part, not even in the footnote.

  76. Venkataramanji @24,
    Thanks a lot for your appreciation. With this ubiquitous theme, we can expect a second wave here. We have to only pray that the second wave of the pandemic abates. This wave has taught a cruel lesson: start accepting the science and not the mumbo-jumbo of religion, rituals, irrational beliefs. If there is a conflict accept the primacy of science. Start behaving responsibly.

    @41,
    Thanks. From a vast minefield, it is impossible to choose ten ‘representative’ songs. Therefore, everyone would choose his own gems. I didn’t make much effort in selection. Mukesh occurred one after another in the natural course. Then vintage songs were discovery in the blog era. After ten, where does one stop 20, 30 or 40..” I left it at that for the readers to add. But thanks a lot for appreciating the songs. Jise hum yaad karte hain was new for me. A very befitting song.

    @46,
    We can accept that. O jaanewale humko bhool na jana is a nice song, it was new for me.

    @59,
    Bhholi hui yaad ayi kahani – What a song! Pure vintage, the video is so clear. Parsi Theatre style. There is another famous song ending with Haye mohabbat haye jawani – it is on the tip of my tongue, but not coming out 🙂 .

    @64,
    In that case O bhoolnewale muhabbat ka zamana yaad kar must be the earliest recorded song of Kishore Kumar.

    @69,
    Between the two I like the duet Bhool gaye kyon de ke sahara.

    @74,
    But no comparison to Yaad rakhna chaand taaro.

  77. Mr Muli @25,
    Thanks a lot for your appreciation. Meri yaad mein tum na aansoo bahana is an immortal song. Heard Mehdi Hassan’s ghazal for the first time. Thanks for adding it.

  78. KB @30,
    Bhool ja sapne suhaane bhool ja is a very nice composition by Hansraj Bahal. A great composer, but overshadowed by so many greats around the time.

  79. Mahesh @31,
    Thanks a lot for your appreciation. This is one public health crisis which is affecting every one of us, if not directly, someone dear whose pain we can feel equally strongly. We are thankful that everyone on SOY is safe. By 1968 not only Naushad was on decline, Mukesh too was past his peak. His resurrection could obviously not create the same magic.

  80. Shalan @33,
    Get well soon. We can trust there would be no memory loss for SOY and I wish this helps in your fast recovery. Thanks a lot for your appreciation.

  81. Shekhar @42,
    The prelude dialogue too is on bhoolana-yaad karna. Kuchh yaad rahe to sun kar ja is agreat song.

    @43,
    Tum bhulaye na gaye haye bhulaye na gaye – This NFS is up there in the list of immortal songs.

  82. Anup @44,
    Thanks a lot for your appreciation. Among the songs you have added, no one has mentioned Yaad aanewale phir yaad aa rahe hain, and it is another immortal song. Among the best Talat-Lata Mangeshkar duets. And from Vinod, a forgotten composer. And I like that you have not forgotten ‘भुल’.

    @45,
    Ja mujhe ab yaad na aa: Had Rajesh Khanna forgotten acting?

    @49,
    You have added some of my great favourites which I was trying to recall for my post. One is Bhool jaate hain by Rajkumari from Neelkamal (1947). A great song. Ek dil ka lagana baaki tha is another great song. Thanks for the additions which refreshed my memory of several of my favourites.

  83. Dr Deshpande @50,
    Bhulaanaa na yaad karo na karo has become a worm in my ear. Buzzing xonstantly. Lovely song. Thanks for adding it. Now I am discovering so many gems of Khemchand Prakash.

    @51,
    Husnlal-Bhagatram’s music you can notice from miles. How many great songs for Suraiya they could create on that platform?

    @53,
    Bhoole se kabhi kar is a nice song.

    @57,
    Humko bhula diya to kya, meri yaad bhulaao to jaane: interesting imagery. Forgetting me is easy, but try to forget my memories.

    @60,
    Yaar jinhein tum bhool gaye ho wo din yaad karo: What a lovely song from 1970. LP had retained their sweetness of their early years. One is not surprised that they became Lata Mangeshkar’s favourite boys.

    @73,
    Tumhari yaad ko dil se bhula ke ayi hun: Excellent Amirbai Karnataki song.

    @75,
    ‘Unki yaad bhula dun kaise
    Apna aap mita dun kaise
    Soona kar dun jeevan apna
    Prem ki Jot bujha dun kaise
    Unki yaad bhula dun kaise’:
    – Beautiful lyrics. Thanks.

  84. Arunji @56,
    Yes, how can we forget Tumhari yaad satati hai, jiya mein aag lagati hai.

    @61,
    And of course, Yaad karoge yaad karoge ek din humko yaad karoge. Very emphatic assertion.

  85. Anita @38.
    ‘Ek baar bhulaati hun to yaad aate ho sau baar’: Nice turn of phrase – I forget you once, and you come back in my memories hundred times.
    ‘Ho ke majboor mujhe usne bhulaya hoga’: – That is another nice imagery by Kaifi Azmi – if she has forgotten me, she must have some compelling reasons.

    @39,
    Thanks for remembering me. Just so many things happening at the same time, that something had to give way. But I did comment on your ‘Trivia’ posts. Writing anything worthwhile for my own blog required a block of time when I had nothing else on mind. Let us hope these crazy times pass. If I compare myself with many others, I should consider myself lucky and thank God for everything. Kuchh booli hui yaadein is a nice song.

    @65,
    Read your post. You always do a sincere job in your posts. It must have involved a good deal of research for selecting songs with associated flashback in the films. And you have to have a recall. My songs are mostly decoupled from the films.

  88. AK,
    You have a topic ready for every occasion. Good times bad times you are always ready with a creative blog and fitting songs.
    We went through some nerve-racking time last couple of weeks. We pulled it off but I do not like to say “we got lucky” thinking about thousands who could not.

    (Failing memory is not such a bad thing.
    Restless are those who remember everything.)

    What about those who remember all that is well forgotten vice-versa.

    I will add a song but sorry Venkataramanji cannot get into the mood of joining the party yet.
    क्या कहिये हमें काया याद आया Kala pani
    https://youtu.be/SpDEiZmO_oI

  89. Mumbaikar8,
    First, congratulations that you got over the difficult times. You are right many are not so lucky here. In these times one has to thank God that one does not fall sick.

    Remembering things that are best forgotten is another prominent theme in our songs. Hope you are in a mood to join the party soon.

  90. Ak ji
    The worst affected countries in the first wave have moved on and back to almost normal and we are here with ferocious second wave which almost erases memories of first wave. It has unfolded several tales everyday, some distressing and few inspiring ( and I am not referring to newsmedia)
    Here are few more songs for the theme
    1 Yet another Mehedi gem
    Bhooli bisari Chand ummede
    Rajesh Roshan was ” inspired ” by the tune and composed
    Aap kahe aur ham na aaye (Des Pardes)
    https://youtu.be/o0CLO7_0qa8

    2 And a Rajesh Roshan original
    Bhool Gaya sub kuchh- Julie
    https://youtu.be/D-Ol0pRhdnI

  91. Ashwinji, Anupji
    You have posted nice Marathi songs .
    Here are 2 songs rendered by Sudhir Phadke
    त्या तरुतळी “विसरले” गीत
    Tya tarutali visarale geet
    https://youtu.be/swGCA2zG9wEर आले दूरूनी,
    जुळल्या सगळ्या त्या आठवणी
    Swar ale duruni julaya sagalya tya aathavani
    https://youtu.be/swGCA2zG9wE

  94. Mr Muli @90,
    1.Nice pair. Rajesh Roshan was very humble in taking inspiration from different sources. 🙂

    2. Julie title song gave him fame. It might still be inspired from some song.

  95. chali ho to gori
    suno bhool jaao
    na phir yaad karnaa na phir yaad aanaa

    oops, one more from Milan (1967)

    https://youtu.be/91TR22ONMlI

    I am not sure if Lata’s “Mohe bhool gaye saawariya” from Baiju Bawara has been mentioned by anyone above.

  96. Mr Rangan @92,
    Beete din yaad dilaate hain – Great song from N Datta-Sahir-Asha Bhosle combination.

  98. Mahesh @93, 95,
    Kya baat hai.Two Mukesh gems from LP.
    Mukbarak ho sabko sama ye suhana
    Ram kare aisa ho jaaye, meri nindiya tone mil jaaye    .

    Thanks for discovering bhoolna, yaad karna tucked inside.

    Mohe bhool gaye saanwariya has been mentioned.

  104. Realized that the Rustom Sohrab song was already posted by Josephji @32.

    This one, I am sure, is not posted yet…

    Hum Kisise Kam Naheen 1977
    RDB – Majrooh – Rafi, Sushma Shrestha

    Kya hua tera vaada wo kasam wo irada
    bhulega dil jis din tumhe

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MubIw4MGLy0

  110. Mr S Joseph @99, 100, 101, 105, 106, 108,
    i. Tumhein dil se chaha tumhein dil diya hai, ye wada karo ki bhula to na doge: One of the best Rafi-Suman Kalyanpur duets. My great favourite.
    ii. Tumhein yaad hoga: Hemant is another nostalgia voice. Beautiful song.
    iii. Dhadke mera dil haye jawani Ram kasam na bhaaye, bachpan yaad aye: A perennial favourite.
    iv. Teri duniya se door: Perfect for social distancing.
    v. Yaad mein teri jaag kaag ke hum raat bhar karwatein badalte hain: Excellent duet of separation.
    vi. Jhoome re neela ambar jhoome: Nice song.

  111. Dr Deshpande @102, @104,
    Phir tumhari yaad ayi ae sanam: One of the best of Sajjad Hussain. Already posted as you noticed. <Kya hua tera wada has not been posted.

    @103,
    Phir yaane laga yad wahi pyar ka alam: Iqbal Qureshi composed some memorable songs for Rafi.

    @107,
    Aapne yaad dilaya to mujhe yaad aya: Roshan was always superb with Rafi. One of his best duets for Rafi-Lata Mangeshkar.

  113. Venkataramanji,
    Thanks a lot for your appreciation. The readers have very fertile mind and superb recall.

    O bhoolanewale main tujhe kaise bhula dun is a very nice song.

  116. Mumbaikarji @ 88,
    Glad to note that you are out of trouble after a harrowing time.
    Now out of the woods, pray you will strike the right mood soon.
    With Best wishes

    Akji, Mumbaikarji,
    A link where two beautiful songs from Jahan Ara were blended was posted by Josephji.

    Jahan Ara (1964) had a lovely solo by Md.Rafi;
    Kisi ki yaad me duniya ko hai bhulaye huye
    Jamana gujra hai apna khayaal aaye huye

    The link provides a back to back song, Md.Rafi’s song followed by Lata Mangeshkar’s solo.

    Hale dil yu unhe sunaya gaya
    Aankh hi ko juba banaya gaya
    Zindagi ki udas raton ko
    Aapki yaad se sajaya gaya
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz0Q-N5zLz8

  122. Canasya @114,
    Of the three stalwarts, Hans has different commitments, but Dr Shetty and KS Bhatiaji are generally frontbenchers. Aapki yaad aati rahi raat bhar is an excellent song.

  123. Dr Deshpande @115,
    Nice song. Obviously, heard for the first time, and heard the singer’s name too for the first time. Impressive, you cover from the a vintage to modern era songs.

  124. Venkataramanji @116,
    Rafi was a master of singing ghazals in slow recital style. I didn’t know the two songs were back to back in the film. Now these sound more beautiful. Thanks a lot. You and Mr Joseph and others have covered all songs of Jahan Ara and all happen to be on this theme. Arunji’s estimate of 40-50% songs being on bhoolna-yaad ana might be true.

    @117,
    Phir mujhe deeda-e-tar yaad aya is an excellent ghazal of reminiscing in a relaxed mood.

  125. Mr S Joseph @118, 119,
    Nice juxtaposing of two songs with Dil ne phir yaad kiya from two very different films.

    @120,
    Phir wohi shaam: Even when Talat was past his peak, Madan Mohan extracted such exquisite songs from him in Jahan Ara.

    @121,
    Jab jab tum bhulaya tum aur yaad aye: And what a contrasting composition, now in Asha Bhosle’s voice. Sad that the film had to tank so badly.

    You deserve congratulations for covering all the songs of the film.

  129. Canasya @127,
    Poor Surendra. He is exactly the Surendra we know, but we only heard Talat Mahmood’s version. Talat was his natural self, at the peak of his popularity; Surendra firstly had to try to be different from Talat, and secondly hope that 1940s came back. That was not to be, then he was Surendra who?

  132. AKji @123
    I like to listen to and be familiar with songs of all eras and decades. I have been keeping track of all new releases each year, though my interest in songs of last 5-6 years is gradually decreasing.
    I had the habit of making songs lists on various words and topics and Yaad was one of them.
    The challenge is to locate the YT links, especially of the old songs.

    One more from Vintage era:

    Char Ankhen 1944
    Anil Biswas – Narendra Sharma – Leela Chitnis

    Humein yaad aa rahi unki
    bah rahi hawa phagun ki

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyS4BSuK_xE

  137. Ak ji
    Different shades of yaade ( without bhoolna)
    1 Aaye tum yaad mujhe – Mili – Kishor – Yogesh – SDB
    Melodious & full of fragrance
    https://youtu.be/Arhggsnm8Q

    2 Kabhi Tanhaiyo me you – Hamari Yaad Aayegi – Mubarak Begum Kidar Sharma – Snehal Bhatkar
    Vicious & lethal
    https://youtu.be/rpYFab53aqM

    3 Zindagi Jab Bhi Teri Bajm me -Umrao Jaan – Talat Azeez – Sharayar – Khayyam
    Yaad Teri Kabhi Dastak Kabhi Sargoshi se
    Delicate
    https://youtu.be/0Zhd9Y69aDo

    4 Din Dhal Jaye -Guide- Rafi – Shailendra – SDB
    Ironical in the sense that she is physically not far off yet
    Tu to na aaye Teri yaad sataye.
    https://youtu.be/HrbzfLFj6Es

  138. Mr Muli @130,
    Main na bhoolunga: Yes, needed these times. But you call anyone to check up his welfare, you hear some unexpected horror story.

    @137,
    Of all the songs, I like your observation about Kabhi tanhaiyon mein. The song was so melodious, ‘vicious and lethal’ would have never occurred to me. Thanks for the new insight.

  140. Dr Deshpande @132,
    I am impressed. I started doing that in 1994 when I had some free time, then I bought HFFGK. That was many years before I had heard of the Internet, what to speak of blogging. Humein yaad ati rahi unki, bah rahi hai hawa phagun ki is a very nice Barahmasa song.

    @133,
    Does the second song ring a bell? One year later, C Ramchandra-PL Santoshi created a song with identical meaning in the voice of Lata Mangeshkar – Jo mujhe bhula ke chale gaye mujhe unki yaad sataye kyun from Sangeeta (1950)

    @134,
    O jaanewale dil mein teri yaad rah gayi: Nice song with a very apt prelude recital.

    @135,
    Both the songs were unknown to me. Yaad rakhna mujhe yaad rkhna preet ki duniya meri aabad rakhna: She had many landmark songs in Do Bhai (1947), but this was not heard.

    @136,
    Ae dil na mujhe yaad dilana baatein purani: Nice song.

  142. Canasyaji @ 127,
    The twin treat of Talat Mahmood and Surendra, ‘Teri yaad ka dipak jalta hai’ were a real delight. Thanks. I liked the Surendra version too.

    Let me present a vintage Surendra. Deccan Queen (1936) produced by Sagar Movietone and directed by Mehboob Khan was Surendra’s debut film. I believe, Anil Biswas was assistant to Pransukh Nayak in this film.

    Yaad na kar dil-e-hazeen bhooli hui kahaaniyaan, Surendra, Deccan Queen (1936), lyrics Zia Sarhadi, music Pransukh Nayak
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuBy6CTx0Vw

    You may remember another song sung by Surendra “Birha Ki Aag Lagi”, from this film which was a supposed to be a rehash of K. L. Saigal’s song from “Baalam Aaye Baso mere man mein”.

  143. Mr S Joseph @141,
    Mushkil hai bahut has not been covered. You have covered another song, Dil ne phir yaad kiya bewafa laut bhi aa.

  144. AKji @124,
    Saigal’s rendition of the Ghazal ‘Phir mujhe deeda-e-tar yaad aya’ is out of this world.
    This Ghalib’gazal had 10 couplets and Saigal’s chose the first two and the last two couplets for his rendition.
    Fir mujhe deeda-e-tar yaad aaya
    Dil jigar tashna-e-fariyaad aaya

    Dam liya tha na qayaamat ne hanoz
    Fir tera waqt-e-safar yaad aaya

    Koee weeraanee-see-weeraanee hai
    Dasht ko dekh ke ghar yaad aaya

    Maine majnoon pe ladakpan mein ‘Asad’
    Sang uthaaya tha ki sar yaad aaya

    Talat Mahmood and Lata Mangeshkar also left an indelible mark in their renditions of this song.

    Talat Mahmood chose the first two couplets and the 5th and the 8th, for the film Mirza Ghalib (1954); music Ghulam Mohammad
    Zindgee yon bhee guzar hi jaatee
    Kyon tera raahguzar yaad aaya

    Fir tere kooche ko jaata hai khayaal
    Dil-e-gumgashta magar yaad aaya
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ1K1f6H83I

    Hridayanath Mangeshkar selected the first two, the fifth and the last two couplets for the Lata Mangeshkar’s version

    Phir Mujhe Deeda-E-Tar Yaad Aaya, Lata mangeshkar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41OorAKmKRw

  146. Venkataramanji @144,
    This is wonderful information. Among the three, I find Lata Mangeshkar the weakest.

    @145,
    Nice ghazal. Does it remind you of Hairat-e-nazara aakhir ban gayin raanaiyan (Saigal, Kaarwaan-e=Hayayt, 1935)?

  147. AK,

    A nice write up on a very important aspect of life, because ‘bhoolna’ is as important as ‘yaad rakhna’ as rightly agreed by friends here. You have rightly put Mukesh in the forefront for these songs, because he was the master of sad songs and songs with yaad karna and bhool jana mostly touch soulful sentiments. Before giving my other views I would first post some Mukesh songs which have escaped the notice of other friends.

    Aaya hai mujhe phir yaad wo zalim – Devar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiCkqhmxtbQ

    Wafa jinse kee bewafa ho gaye – Pyar Ka Sagar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP6sUC2U6MI

    Jab game ishq satata hai to hans leta hoon – Kinare Kinare
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvZ22P1In4Y

    Jhoomti chali hawa yaad aa gaya koi – Sangeet Samrat Tansen
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXX-84r5Eg4

    Saaranga teri yaad men nain hue bechain – Saaranga
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umss8tARjxY

  148. Hans ji @ 147:

    Welcome to the party. What an entry! Every song is a classic. A huge thumbs up.

    Venkataraman ji @ 140:

    It is vintage Surendra alright. The Gawaiya song from 1956 has maturity but seems to lacks power. In the Deccan Queen (1936) song, which I believe was Surendra’s debut song, the vocals are comfortably powerful and the highs deliciously melodious with lots in reserve. Does it remind you of DV Paluskar (Gadgil) in parts? If so, then what a coincidence that the MD of Deccan Queen was Pransukh Nayak Gadgil? Of course, DV Paluskar would have been only 15 then.

    Here is ‘Yaad jab aaye teri’, a vintage Talat-MM combo from Mohar:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il9jUCZp560

  149. Hans @147,
    Thanks a lot for your appreciation. I knew that Mukesh’s romance with ‘yaad ana-bhoolna’ is as prominent as his Romance with ‘Dil’. Thanks for adding all those gems from him. Looking forward to your detailed comment.

  151. Mr Muli
    On ‘yaad’, CR creates two songs of different moods – one fun, the second extremely sad. Talented composer.

  152. Canasyaji @ 148,
    Thanks for your observations.
    Songs of Surendra of the 30s and 40s were good. Though initially foisted as a counter to Saigal, he gradually came into his own. Posting a song from the 40s,

    Teri Yaad Mein
    Woh Maza Pa Raha Hoon
    Teri Yaad Mein
    Ke Har Cheez Koi
    Bhoolta Ja Raha Hoon
    Teri Yaad Mein
    Surendra, Garib (1942), Safdar ‘Áah’ Sitapuri, Anil Biswas
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEWnhURmWX4&t=215s

    Thanks for posting the nice Talat –MM song ‘Yaad jab aaye teri’.

  153. AKji @ 146,
    Yes it does.
    I think Timir Baran was the music director.
    The link mentions M K Bhattacharya as the music director, I suppose Mihir Kiran Bhattacharya, brother of Timir Baran.

    While on Surendra, let present another vintage song
    Bhool Ja Bhool Ja
    Bhool Ja Jo Dekhta Hai Jo Hai Dekha Bhool Jaye
    Yaad Rakh Kar Kya Karega Ye Tamasha Bhool Ja
    Surendra, Vishwas (1943), Safdar Aah, Firoze Nizami
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ajiJ39BG3o

  155. Hansji @ 147,
    I will just echo Canasyaji’s thought. Ek se badhkar ek naghme! Thanks

    Rahulji @137 while posting some songs qualified them as ‘Different shades of yaade ( without bhoolna)’ and truly divine. And one of them was Kabhi Tanhaiyo me youn the masterpiece of Mubarak Begum.

    Adding one more Mukesh’s melacholic melody from the same film,

    Ankhon me teri yaad liye ja raha hu main
    Dil se tumhe duaye diye ja raha hu main
    Aankhon me teri yaad liye ja raha hu main
    Hamari Yaad Aayengi (1962), Kedar Sharma, Snehal Bhatkar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsXrztaIexs

  160. Here are two classics from the world of Tamil movies, both featuring Sivaji Ganesan and for both of which M.S.Viswanathan gave the music (in the 2nd one, as one half of the Viswanathan-Ramamoorthy pair)

    1. In the first song, the hero and his friend reminisce about their carefree and uncomplicated childhood and youth.

    ‘Anda naaL nyaabagam’ by T.M.Soundararajan, from ‘Uyarnda Manidan’ (1968). MD – M.S.Viswanathn, Lyricist – Vaali

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtrnHY21zZw

    2. In the 2nd song, the performer asks, “Don’t you remember seeing me? Or is it because the drama (of our association) was of such short duration that you have forgotten?”

    ‘Paartha nyaabagam illaiyo?’ by P.Suseela, from ‘Pudhiya Paravai’ (1964) MD – Viswanathan – Ramamurthy, Lyricist – Kannadasan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNNL9llymdg

  161. This lass, who is pining for her lover, lights and extinguishes ‘diya’s for days, weeks and months together, but her ‘baalam’s heart is made of steel and does not melt at her plight.

    ‘Chanda re ja re ja re’ by Lata Mangeshkar, from ‘Ziddi’ (1948). MD – Khemchand Prakash, Lyricist – Prem Dhawan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-7NJ1lWZAE

  162. Akji, Arunji, Josephji & Venkataramanji
    Arunji has posted a duet from Nagin. It also has a Lata solo
    Teri yaad me jalkar –
    Rajinder Krishan – Hemant Kumar
    https://youtu.be/YYGFKODRYvA
    Josephji has posted yaad Kiya Dil ne , this is another Hemant Lata duet
    Tumhe yaad hoga – Satta Bazar – Gulshan Bawara- – KA
    https://youtu.be/uLNVAACUDjg
    And Venkataraman ji has posted a mMukesh gem from Hamari Yaad Aayegi , I hope that the following Mukesh beauties have not been posted
    Aansu bhari hai – Parvarish – Hasarat- Dattaram
    https://youtu.be/uLNVAACUDjg
    O jaanewale ho sake to – Bandini- Shailendra -SDB
    SDB did not use Mukesh very often but when they came together the result was outstanding.
    https://youtu.be/8_ivLj7dH-Y
    Hum chhod chale hai – Jee Chahata hai – Indeevar – KA
    https://youtu.be/8_ivLj7dH-Y

  165. Namaste A.K. ji, First and foremost must compliment you on a fabulous topic and sharing classing Mukesh ji songs. Kisi yaad rakhhon has always been a big favourite.

    Just learnt that you had been missing for a bit. hope all is well. Glad to see Shalan Lal ji in the comments section too.

    Just thought of a few more songs, though I am not sure whether they have been posted by any of the other friends.

    Woh bhooli dastaan lo phir yaad aa gayi
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwVqOiR193o

    Phir woh bhooli si yaad aayi hai
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlvpcbIrVcU

    Meri yaad mein tum na ansu bahana
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLfElwuK68

    Kabhi tanhaiyon mein yun hamari yaad aayegi
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpYFab53aqM

  167. Venkataramanji @153,
    Karwan-e-Hayat is an interesting goldmine of trivia. HFGK mentions only Mihir Kiran Bhattacharya as the music director, and I only knew his name. I remember only his name was announced by the radio. Later sources, including kundanlalsaigal.org mentions ‘MK Bhattacharya and Timir Baran’ as Music Directors of the film, however songs are individually credited as ‘Music Director’ of the song. Some songs happen to be uncredited, such as Dil se teri nigah jigar tak utar gayi. And finally an interesting trivia, this film was produced by New Theatres Lahore Branch.

    Surendra’s song Bhool ja jo dekhta hai is an excellent song, but those days the kids enjoyed such songs!

  168. Arunji @154,
    Yaad rakhna, pyar ki nishani gori yaad rakhna has not been posted earlier. Excellent song. Thanks for posting it.

  169. Ak ji
    Two songs absolutely melancholic but vividly painting present situation with deep black.
    Sahir & Rafi being common factors in both.
    1 Kabhi khud pe – Hum Dino – Jaidev
    Hum to samajhe the ke
    Hum bhul Gaye hai unko
    And in the last antara
    Kaun rota hai kisi aur ke
    Khatir ye dost
    Sabko apni hi kisi baat pe Rona aaya
    https://youtu.be/KcZ3GSHpJ3s

    2 Man re tu kahe na – Chitralekha – Roshan
    Janam maran ka mel hai sapna
    Ye sapna ” Bisra de”
    Koi na sang mare.
    https://youtu.be/ES5yOtqQGks

  170. Mr S Joseph @156,
    Tumhein hum yaad karte hain is a very nice song. Heard for the first time.

    @157,
    Yaad kiya dil ne kahan ho tum: Beautiful song.

    @158,
    Babul ki duayein leti ja: Quite popular in its days as a bidaai song. But I am not sure I like it.

    @159,
    Zindagi bhar nahin bhoolegi wo barsaat ki raat is a perennial song.

    @163,
    Humse aya na gaya unse bulaya na gaya: Wah! An eternal song.

    @164,
    Lo aa gayi unki yaad wo nahin aye: Nice song of remebrance, but the lady wants the real ‘wo’ to come.

    @166,
    Rang dil ki dhadkan bhi laati to hogi: What a great Lata Mangeshkar song, composed by Chitragupta.

  171. Aswin @160,
    In the first song, one can’t help thinking of Kishore Kumar.

    Ashwin @161,
    Chanda re ja re ja re: Nice explanation. Lighting innumerable diyas have been developed by Bahnsali in Aishwarya Rai’s Paro. Not there Sarat Chandra’s ‘Devdas’.

  173. Rahul ji @ 137; Venkataraman ji @ 155:

    Mubarak Begum’s haunting rendering made ‘Kabhi tanhaaiyon mein’ an unforgettable song. Despite singing some iconic numbers, she seems to have been used mostly as a dubbing artist. One of her songs that was released was ‘Sanwariya teri yaad mein’ (Mubarak Begum in ‘Ramu to diwana hai’ – 1980; MD: Chandru)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciaMWvwIEAg

  177. Josephji @ 164 posted a song from Do Badan 1966

    Here’s one more.
    Ravi – Shakeel – Asha

    Jab chali thandi hawa jab uthi kali ghata
    mujhko ae janewafa tum yaad aaye

    Both the movie and its music were successful, but I am not fond of either. Personally, I find the movie unnecessarily morbid and the songs too melancholic.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Tc3FHgB9Q

  178. AK ji, Ashwin ji
    Ashwin ji has posted chhoti chhoti baato ki hai yaaden badi from Anandl. Around the same time in Parichay , Gulzar writes
    Chhoti Chhoti yaado je pal nahi Jaye.
    https://youtu.be/Jk7hqqtd9bY
    Bhule huye naamo se koi to bulaye
    I have a personal connection with this line. There were only two persons who called me Nandu. One was my father & the other my maternal uncle. They never called me Rahul & nobody else called me Nandu. My father passed away in 1997 & then in 2003 uncle breathed his last. So whenever I listen this song which is one of the best by Pancham, I remember them.

  179. Rajeshji
    Your observations on Do Badan are perfect. I think the film is a overworked tear jerker from reel 1. And the same thing can be said about the songs. The darkness of the movie and it’s other songs is so overpowering that what could have been a peppy number in the form of mat jaiyo naukariya sounds almost like a sad song.
    Here is another bhilana song from the movie
    Nasseb me jiske Jo likha that – Rafi- Shakeel – Ravi
    Tujhe bhulane ki koshishe bhi tamaam nakaam ho chuki hai
    https://youtu.be/eUXb91N-8Jg
    Incidentally Ravi had said in TOI interview that Raha gardisho me hardum was originally recorded for Ghunghat in Mukesh’s voice but was not used.

  182. @179,

    Has anyone heard or in possession of the unused Mukesh number from Ghunghat (1960) which was later reused by Ravi in Do Badan with Rafi saab’s voice ?

    Mahesh

  187. Ashwinji @160,

    Thanks for posting two iconic Tamil Film songs of the sixties, fitting the theme.
    Just sharing a few trivia.
    Both the films, Uyarndha Manithan & Puthiya Paravai were remakes of Bengali films Uttar Purush (1966) and Sesh Ankha (1963) respectively. The former was produced by AVM. Puthiya Paravai was the maiden Tamil production of Shivaji Ganeshan. Bothe films and its songs became popular.

    While on Tamil films, I would like to add a folk based composition by Ilayaraja for the1992 film Pandithurai. A song with a lovely lilting stride.

    The opening lines roughly translated: “Though you forgot me, I did not forget you………
    Enna Marantha Pozhuthum
    Naan Unna Marakkavillaye…………..
    Chitra and Mano
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gtDYylCIMU

  188. Ashwinji,
    Incidentally, the last song @187 was picturized on Kushboo, who lost the election contesting on a BJP ticket in the just concluded TN assembly elections, whereas Udayanidhi Stalin mad a successful poll debut. Here is song picturized on Udayanidhi.

    I always think of you………
    Epodhum Unmel Nyabagam, Vijay Prakash, Nimir (2018)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-asBpbZfQw

    This is one is a nice song picturised on Karthik. Involved actively in TN politics for some time, Karthik did not contest this year, but campaigned for AIADMK.
    Etho oru paatu en kaadhil ketkum
    Ketkum pothellam un niyabagam thaalaatum
    Rough translation;
    rings in my ear
    Everytime I hear
    Singer: Hariharan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjb_vW_B4Os

  191. Rahulji @ 162,
    Thanks for three more wonderful songs of Mukesh.
    Tamil & Marathi songs have been posted.

    Akji, Rahulji,
    How about a Bengali song in the voice of Mukesh and the link provides a translation too.

    Ogo Abar Natun Kare Bhule Jaoa Nam Dhare Deko Na, Mukesh, NFS (1966), lyric Pulak Banerjee, muisc Ratu Mukhopadhyay
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z9eB6ejxZs

  192. Mr S Joseph @174,
    Wo jab yaad aye bahut yaad aye: Wonderful song.

    @175,
    Another song on bhaut yaad aye, but LP was marvellous.

    @176,
    Ye wada karo chaand ke saamne bhula to no doge mere pyar ko: Beautiful song.

    @190,
    ..Tere jaane ke baad teri yaad ayi: What variety we are getting!

  193. Ak ji,
    Canasya ji, Ashwinji have posted number of SDB songs. Here is a boundary of SDB songs ( As IPL stands suspended boundaries can be hit here)
    1 Waha kaun hai tera- Guide – Shailendra – SDB
    https://youtu.be/haO0ucjvxeo
    Bhul Gaye wo
    Tu bhi bhula de
    Pyar ki wo mulakate
    2 O re majhi – Bandini- Majrooh – SDB
    Gun to na tha koi bhi
    Avgun mere bhula Dena
    https://youtu.be/XurZtjUhhAs

    3 Rangeela re – Prempujari- Neeraj – Lata
    Kaise tu bhula wo
    Phooloki si raate
    https://youtu.be/tD_UK0Noszg

    4 Piya Bina – Abhiman – Majrooh – Lata
    Ke chup hai papeeha
    Mayur bol bhoole
    Ban me sawariya
    https://youtu.be/59EJJrOzTWw

    I doubt whether the last one fits here or not

  194. Rahulji @179

    Yes, mat jaiyo naukariya chhodke could have been a light enjoyable song but it too appears serious. There is not even a single duet. If not on the lead pair, a duet on a comedy pair would have been more than welcome. I guess, Raj Khosla wanted to maintain the same sad mood throughout the film.

    Here’s a song from one of Raj Khosla’s biggest hits:
    Woh Kaun Thi 1964
    MM – RMAK- Lata

    Naina barse rimjhim rimjhim….
    ….wo din meri nigahon mein wo yaadein meri aahon mein
    ….adhura hoon main afsana jo yaad aaoon chale aana

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d8iFAUibFE

  197. Mr Muli @178,
    Your personal memory is so touching. Now we can enjoy the song in a new light. I remember a very moving line from Surdas. After Krisha had left for Mathura never to return to Brij, Yashoda sends a message there, “Does Krshna ever remember his nursemaid now that he has gone to his ‘mother’?” Krishna replies, Can mother ever be a nursemaid, ‘जा दिन हम तुम से बिछड़े,काहू न कह्यो कन्हैया.’ (From the day I had to leave you, no has called me ‘Kanhaiya’.)

  198. Ashwin @180, 183, 184,
    It is impressive that you remember remembrances/forgetting tucked deep inside these songs. All the songs are my top favourites.

  199. Arunji @185,
    Thanks for refreshing my memory of Bhool na jana aaj ki baatein. I had included this song in my post on Asit Baran, over 8 years ago. Then I had speculated the lady voice could be Binota Roy. But you must have your sources.

    @186,
    Bhool sakungi kaise saajan: I am hearing for the first time.

  200. Canasya @189,
    Did she cry the whole night because she remembered हर बात? Was she pleased or pained by that? Or was it the pleasure of pain? I now relate this metaphor to ‘Phoolsunghi’.

  201. Venaktaramanji @191,
    After Tamil songs, Bengali was overdue, especially after your, Oops I mean, Didi’s impressive victory. Thanks for staring with Mukesh. Is Keno choker jole about nostalgia?

  202. Mr Muli @193,
    I initially didn’t realise you meant चौका. The first two songs are sixers. #4 can be included.

  205. AK @ 197,

    Thanks for the compliment. Most of the time, it is extremely difficult untangling the spaghetti of my memories of the lyrics of such songs but when I stop agonizing over the process and divert my attention, I find that the words come back to me. Anyway, here’s another song with ‘yaad’ tucked deep inside the song (‘yaad maayike ki dil se bhulaye chali’) :

    ‘Chhod babul ka ghar’ by Shamshad Begum, from Babul (1950), MD – Naushad, Lyricist – Shakeel Badayuni

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sOjtQhOICw

  206. Venkataramanji @187,

    Thanks for the info on both films. I suppose Suseela singing ‘Paartha nyaabagam illaiyo?’ was the equivalent of Lata singing ‘Aa jaanejaan’. Would you agree?

    Nice song by Illaiyaraja for ‘Pandithurai’. I like the Bilawal-thaaT based sthaayi.

    @ 188,

    Thanks for both the Tamil songs. Both of them are eminently hummable.

  207. Ashwin,
    Now I understand the process. It happens to me, and it must be happening to others. We all remember several songs, but if I just pose a part from inside, it may be difficult for others to recognise the song.

  208. Canasyaji @ 181,

    Ah! How could I have forgotten the ‘Daman’ gem that you have posted? BTW, the tune has always sounded to me like it was composed by Sajjad.

    Rahulji @ 178,

    What a poignant yet sweet song! Yes, am sure that like you, everyone has songs that bring back memories that are very personal to them.

  209. AK @ 62,

    Thanks for the compliments. I discovered the qawwali version of ‘Jo main jaanti bisrat’ while searching for the Lata version a few years ago.

    Here is the qawwali version of the Bahar bandish ‘Kaliyan sang karta’, sung by the same pair (Ustad Farid Ayaz & Ustad Abu Muhammad):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N18UOzwV7Ic

    and here is the khayal version by Pt.D.V.Paluskar from the Bengali film ‘Shapmochan’ (1954):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcPekkQADWs

    There are several videos of the pair from Pakistan available on YouTube.

  211. Ashwin @208, Canasya,
    Just to give a trivia: K Datta and Sajjan Hussain had one thing in common – their absolute adoration for Noorjehan. After her departure, they reconciled for Lata Mangeshkar.

    @209,
    I can’t thak you enough for introducing me to Ustad Farid Ayaz & Ustad Abu Muhammad. They prove that music is also beyond forms. I have started preferring Khayals sung in Qawwali style. Pakistan state’s cultural project is to sever or deny any link to Indian legacy of classical music and dance. They are doing a great service.

  212. Akji Venkataraman ji
    Thanks for generous appreciation.
    I wonder how these 2 absolute pearls escaped attention ( pardon me if they have been already posted)
    1 Jane kaha Gaye wo din – Mera naamJoker – Mukesh – Hasarat – SJ
    Mukesh may have been past his prime but he still delivered an ace for SJ
    https://youtu.be/Q9ULWBTokzw
    2 Mere Naina sawan bhado- Mehbooba – Kishor /Lata – Anand Bakshi – RDB
    Said to be Maverick’s favorite. It has yaade & bhulna umpteen number of times in Antaras.
    https://youtu.be/tcynlz4tEwA

  213. Canasya @210,
    Thanks for posting this signature ghazal of Ghulam Ali. Beautiful picturisation with the non-actor Deepak Parashar.

  215. AKji @ 201,
    “Is Keno choker jole about nostalgia?”
    Well, it may be considered so!
    Here is a rough translation;

    Why did I not moisten the dry dust/ sand of the desert with my tears?
    Who knew you will come my dear like one uninvited.
    You have traveled across a desert where there are no trees to provide shadow.
    I am so unlucky, you suffered the pain of traveling,
    While I was idly spending time in the shade of my house
    I was unaware how much pain you went through by walking.
    It left a scar deep in my heart.
    Why did I not moisten the dry dust of the desert with my tears?

  216. AKji,
    The following Rabindra Sangeet will suit the theme.
    Purano sei diner katha bhulbi kire hai
    O sei chokher dekha, praner katha
    Se ki bhola jay.

    Will you forget that yore,
    Our sighting then and heart’s talks that still lure
    O mate, come once more,
    To my heart’s core
    Let’s talk our weal and woe
    To quench our soul parched so.
    At dawn we plucked flower,
    Cradled in our bower,
    Played flute under the Bakul tree
    And sang in musical spree.
    In between was our departure
    One from the other flung far
    If we’ve met again,
    Be within my heart lain.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMtEsSrfGQ

    It is well known that 24 year old Rabindranath composed this Bengali version,inspired by the Scottish ‘Auld Lang Syne’
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPnhaGWBnys

  217. AK ji,

    Here are some exclusive old songs…
    1. Sab kuch bhoolen, jhoola jhulen     
    Devika Rani     
    Film- Karma-1933     
    MDs- Ernst Broadhurst and Roy Douglas     
    This is 88 year old song
    .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Af7IXmZ2GE&t=113s

    2.    Yaad mein teri jahan ko bhoolta jata hoon…       
    Mukhtar Begum       
    Film- Jawani ki Nasha-1935       
    MD- Ramzan khanhttps://
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ks0Ukuwv_o

    3.      Kuchh yaad rahe to sunkar jaa         
    Kanan Devi         
    Film- Jawab-1942         
    MD-Kamal Dasgupta
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6VR3OyMWd0

    -AD

  225. Venkataramanji @215, 216.
    Thanks for giving the meaning of ‘Kenor chokher jole’. And also thanks for ‘Purano sei diner katha bhulbi kire hai’ and its meaning. The beauty of Rabindrasangeet is that in its English translation, too, it is so beautiful. No wonder he took West by storm.

  226. Arunji @217,
    Sab kuchh boolein, jhoola jhoolein is really ancient.

    2. Yaad mein teri jahan ko bool jata hun: This has been mentioned earlier by Venkataramanji @145, on which we have had some discussions with regard to its similarity to Hairat-e-nazara aakhir ban gayi raanaiyaan. Nice ghazal. Thanks for refreshing the discussion.

  227. Dr Deshpande @218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224,
    The real picks are the vintage songs.
    @220: Both the songs of Jhoola are delightful.

    @221: Wo bhoole humko lekin hum kaise bhool jayein: A comment on YT link says Bharti Devi’s character name in the film was Shanti Devi, and Bharti Devi might have herself this song.

  228. Aswinji @ 206,
    Yes, one cannot recollect P Susheela rendering many such songs.
    Like Lata Mangeshkar, whenever one hears the name P.Susheela, the immediate thoughts that crop up in our mind are her wonderful classics, devotionals and melodies she has rendered in her clear and sweet voice.

    Ashwinji @ 34,
    Your discussion on Sudh Budh Bisarayi scenario reminded me of a classical number from a Marathi film, ‘Katyar Kaliat Ghusali‘ (2015). I am sure, you must be aware of this film and the play upon which it was based upon. I understand, the play by the same name, written by Purushottam Davrvhekar, was first staged in 1967 and it had Pandit Vasantrao Deshpande playing the role of Ustad Aftab Hussain Khan Sahib. Since 1997, his disciple Pandit Chandrakant Limaye performed the role. In 2010, the play was relaunched with protagonists essayed by Rahul Deshpande, grandson of Vasantrao Deshpande. Most of the songs from the play, penned by Purushottam Darvhekar and set to music by Pandit Jitendra Abhiseki, were retained in the 2015 film version.

    Presenting the song ‘Surat Piya Ka Ni Chhin Bisraayi immortalized by Pandit Vasantrao Deshpande
    Surat Piya Ki N Chin Bisraayi
    Har Hardam Unki Yaad Aaye
    Nainan Aur N Kohu Samaye
    Tadpat Hu Bilkhat Rain Nibhaye
    Akhiya Nir Asuvan Jhar Laye
    Sajan Bin Mohe Kuch Na Suhave
    Bigdi Ko Mere Koun Aa Banave
    Hasanrang Aa So Ji Bahlave
    Pandit Vasantrao Deshpande’s rendition is simply awesome.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPjtk5_LlQw

    The second version rendered by Pandit Chandrakant Limaye too is breath-taking.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf7Sx_6evGQ

    And the third one from 2015 is a duel between Khansaheb Aftab Hussain Bareliwale and Sadashiv Gurav, rendered by Rahul Deshpande and Mahesh Kale, disciple of Pandit Jitendra Abhiseki.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-hjEAXOMoY

    I could clearly identify four Raag, Sohni (Hamsanandi), Malkauns and Bahar. I think I could also hear Jaunpuri/ Asavari, Mian ki Malhar and Kedar. This is your forte. Pardon me if I have erred. If I find myself correct it will gladden me, if wrong I am happy to stand corrected. Over to you for your inputs and further elaboration.

  229. I just want to mention two though there are many.

    1. Itna tho yaad mujhe … Mehboob ki Mehandi
    Lata and Rafi – based on Raag Thilang

    2 woh jab yaad aye bahut yaad aayee
    from Parasmani – Lata & Rafi
    based on Raag Kalyani

    LP composed music for both the songs.

  232. Venkataramanji @228,
    Permit me to clap from the sidelines for introducing the three versions of Surat piya kin chin bisrayi, and your wonderful explanation. The film shows there will be always room for ‘music’ in our films. But for that we have to look to regional cinema.

  234. Mr S Joseph @230,
    Ramaiyya vastavaiya is an iconic song.

    @231,
    Equally iconic is this part from the nazm of Sahir Ludhiyanavi, Chalo ek baar phir se ajnabi ban jaayein hum dono.

  239. Canasya @235,
    O pardesi yaad mein teri: is a beautiful song. I only knew Ek teer chalane waale neb from this film. Heard for the first time. Thanks.

  241. Mr Rangan @237,
    Ab Raja bhaye more baalam wo din yaad karo: This is a very significant song from a very significant film.I have taken another song from Tansen in my post – More balapan ke sathi chhaila bhool jaiyo na.

  245. AKji,
    The post is fast approaching the 250 mark. Great going.
    In the absence of Bhatiaji, Pradeepji, Hansji and Mumbaikarji,
    Josephji has taken the mantle in his hands, a la Ajinkya Rahane who registered the highest successful run chase recently. Bulk of the songs are posted by Josephji and Rajeshji. Both of them are on the verge of scoring their 50s. Rahulji and Ashwinji together have accomplished the feat. With Arunji and Canasyaji getting active, the post has become lively.

    Let me keep the ball rolling, another vintage number,
    Mann Bhooli Khataayen Yaad Na Kar, Shamshad Begum, Doosri Shaadi(1947), lyrics I C Kapoor, music Pt Gobindram
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovWTJivsL4A

  247. Canasyaji, Rahulji,
    Kabhi tanhaaiyon mein is one of her most memorable song. Thanks for posting her song from Ramu to Diwana hai.
    Canasyaji, Rahulji, Aki,
    If I remember right I wrote in detail about this film and Chandru while posting ‘Dream Songs’ in the post ‘Fanciful ideas about breaching embankments (6)’ by Ashwinji, one of the two block busters in SoY.
    Reverting back to Mubarak Begum, presenting a song by her.

    Yaad tucked deep down in the second antara.

    Ya khabar thi yu tamanna khak me mil jayegi………
    …………………..
    Raat rone me kategi din katega yaad me
    Ye judai bewafai umar bhar tadpayegi
    Mubarak Begum, Rishta (1954), Pt.Phani, Datta Korgaonkar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCzz1P-7oEM

  251. Arunji @243,
    These songs by Asha Bhosle and Geeta Dutt are new for me. I find Geeta Dutt sang a large number of songs in the early 50s, but we remember only a select few.

  252. Mr S Joseph @244,
    Very nice song. For some years Talat Mahmood was identified as Dilip Kumar’s vice.

  253. Any repeats here are unintentional after there are over 25 comments. I only pray that I do not repeat my own songs .

    Do not know how many S D Burman songs have been posted so far .

    ‘Kisi ki mohabbat…’/ 1964 / KAISE KAHOON / Shakeel Badayuni/SDB / Rafi , Asha

    https://youtu.be/-WIITtaA8Zk

  254. Mr Joseph @246,
    Guzra hua zamana ata nahi dobara is a wonderful song.

    @253,
    Kisi ki mohabbat mein sab kuchh luta kar: Good songs, but seems to be a depressing film.

  255. Dr Deshpande @250,
    These songs are not posted yet. O door janewale wada na bhool jana isof course an iconic song.

  258. AK ji,

    By comment No.253
    the number of songs presented by readers is 235
    add 10 by you
    Total so far 245 songs.
    What a feast !
    -AD

  259. Venkataraman ji @ 247:

    I had read those details about Chandru in ‘Fanciful ideas about breaching embankments (6)’ but revisited the post. Your neutral writing gives no inkling whether you are a sympathizer or a detractor. Just as Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream, I believe everybody has a right to dream. The problem comes when one forgets to sleep:

    ‘Ghoom bhulechi’-SDB singing Gouriprasanna Mazumdar’s lyrics:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL4_xJzDMqQ

  263. I was hesitant to post this song for the last 2 days as I could not believe that Madan Mohan had a film song to his credit. I am hearing him sing for the first time.

    Hamse na dil ko …’/ 1950 / AANKHEN / Raja Mehdi Ali Khan / MM / Lata, Madan Mohan

    https://youtu.be/3bRhKZZ4WWw

  265. Joseph ji @ 263:

    Listening to it for the first time. Wonderful. Aankhen also had another Shamshad Begum song with the refrain ‘Mohabbat karne waalon ka yehi anjaam hota hai’ which begins with:

    ‘Kisi ki yaad mein ro ro ke’ (Shamshad Begum in Aankhen; MD: MM):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCsHbf4Lo9U

  266. सर्वस्य चाहं हृदि सन्निविष्टो
    मत्त: स्मृतिर्ज्ञानमपोहनं च |
    वेदैश्च सर्वैरहमेव वेद्यो
    वेदान्तकृद्वेदविदेव चाहम् || 15||

    sarvasya chāhaṁ hṛidi sanniviṣhṭo
    mattaḥ smṛitir jñānam apohanaṁ cha
    vedaiśh cha sarvair aham eva vedyo
    vedānta-kṛid veda-vid eva chāham

    sarvasya—of all living beings; cha—and; aham—I; hṛidi—in the hearts; sanniviṣhṭaḥ—seated; mattaḥ—from Me; smṛitiḥ—memory; jñānam—knowledge; apohanam—forgetfulness; cha—as well as; vedaiḥ—by the Vedas; cha—and; sarvaiḥ—all; aham—I; eva—alone; vedyaḥ—to be known; vedānta-kṛit—the author of the Vedānt; veda-vit—the knower of the meaning of the Vedas; eva—alone; cha—and; aham—I
    sarvasya chaham hridi sannivishto
    mattah smritir jnanam apohanam cha
    vedaish cha sarvair aham eva vedyo
    vedanta-krid veda-vid eva chaham

    Translation
    BG 15.15: I am seated in the hearts of all living beings, and from Me come memory, knowledge, as well as forgetfulness. I alone am to be known by all the Vedas, am the author of the Vedānt, and the knower of the meaning of the Vedas.
    BHAGWAT GEETA ADHYAY 15, SHLOK 15

  267. Dr Deshpande @256,
    Ab aur bhi kuchh bhi na yaad raha: Nice song, but I am probably hearing it for the first time.

    @257,
    Jab chhaye kabhi saawan ki ghata: This is one of the best compositions of Babul – not a famous composer – who also gave music as a duo with Bipin, Bipin-Babul. But he did better alone.

    @260,
    The orchestration is very typical of HB. Nice songs.

    @261,
    Among the vintage singers, I have most difficulty in remembering Zeenat Begum songs. A nice song though.

    @262,
    Subah na ayi shaam na ayi: is, of course, an evergreen song.

  268. Arunji @258,
    SOY readers are wonderful. There are many good songs still to be posted. I have one Suman Kalyanpur favourite not yet posted. I will wait for some more time.

  269. Manoj @266,
    With this verse from Gita and your wonderful explanation, now we understand the fundamental nature of remembrance and forgetting. Thanks a lot.

  270. Mr Joseph @263,
    Madan Mohan had some training in classical music, and was a competent singer. He had recorded many of his famous compositions, such as Naina barse rimjhim rimjhim, in his own voice. These are now available on YT. Aankhein was his debut film. It has some interesting trivia: It has no song by Lata Mangeshkar with whom MM’s pairing became a legend. Raj Khosla also sang a song in the film. He later directed those spooky suspense films, in which MM’s music became a landmark.

  276. One more song from me on the topic.
    Sajjad Hussain composed one from the film Rustom Shorab.

    “phir tumhhaari yaad ayee aye sanam
    a qauwali sung by Rafi, Mannade and Sadat Khan.

    Sajjad Hussain was a unique composer and it is a pity he left Hindi film industry too soon. He knew 10 musical instruments to play, Sitar, Mandolin, violin, bangos, Spanish Guitar, clarinet, flute, and a few more.

  277. Cansyaji@ 259,
    Thank you for revisiting the post.
    I just placed the facts. Yes everybody has the right to dream.
    But the question is, ‘to what end one would go to achieve it?’ and ‘at what price?’

    Ghoom Bhulechi neejhoom ei nishite – 1957 ( I forgot to sleep in the silent night, remained awake)
    is indeed out of this world in S D Burman’s voice.
    Thanks.

    It gives me an opportunity to post another S D Burman’s Bengali song (1968).
    The key word ‘Mone Rakho Ni’ (didn’t remember me) appears in the second stanza.
    lyrics Rabi Guha, music S D Burman

    Tumi Eshe Chile Porshu, Kal keno asho ni
    Tumi ki amay bandhu Kal Bhalobasho ni

    You came day before yesterday, why didn’t you come yesterday?
    Is it so my friend; you didn’t love me yesterday?

    Nodi jodi hoy re bhorat, Kanay kanay
    Hoye gele shunno hotath, Take ki manay
    Tumi ki amay bandhu, Kal mone rakho ni
    Kal keno asho ni, Kal Bhalobasho ni

    The river flows to its brim, overwhelmingly,
    It doesn’t look good, if it dries up suddenly.
    Is it so my friend; you didn’t remember me yesterday?
    Why didn’t you come yesterday, didn’t you love me yesterday?

    Akshe chilo na bole hay, Chander palki
    Tumi hete hete sondhay, Ashoni kaalki
    Tumi ki amay bandhu, Kal abhilasho ni
    Kal keno asho ni, Kal Bhalobasho ni

    (Since) Absent was the Palanquin (Chander Palki – moon is used as a metaphor here) in the sky
    At sundown yesterday on foot, did you try?
    Is it so my friend; you didn’t desire me yesterday?
    Why didn’t you come yesterday, didn’t you love me yesterday?

    Bone bone pakhi deke jay, Abol Tabol
    Theke theke hawa deke jay, Diye jay dol
    Tumi ki amay bandhu, Ekbar dako ni
    Kal keno asho.. ni
    Kal Bhalobasho ni

    Birds crooned in the woods haphazardly
    Mid breeze beckoned me to its sway
    Is it so my friend; you didn’t even once call me yesterday?
    Why didn’t you come yesterday, didn’t you love me yesterday?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ctRkkG0DhA

  278. Bhuli, bisari and yaade all together
    Har Dil Jo Pyar karega- Sangam -Mukesh, Mahendra Kapoor & Lata-
    Shailendra – SJ

  279. Akji, Canasyaji,
    We all know Manna Dey’s classical based songs are well known and he sang other types too.
    While on Bengali songs I would like to post a song which is ‘rock and roll’. Manna Dey excels.

    The song is
    Jibone ki pabo naa
    Bhulechi se bhabona!
    Samne ja dekhi, jani na seki,
    Ashol ki nakol shona!
    Loosely translated-
    I’ve forgotten the thoughts of what I’m going get in life, whatever I see forward,
    I don’t know whether it’s real or artificial gold.

    This song was a big leveler over generation. It’s hugely popular even today.

    Teen Bhuboner Paare (1969), lyrics and music Sudhin Dasgupta
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1n86Ge1qU

  280. AKji @ 232,
    Thank you for your generous appreciation.
    Marathi films, I believe, are in the forefront in this respect. Even Serials and films on OTT platforms can be a good outlet for such themes.
    BTW, what is you take on the recent film ‘Disciple’ (released in Netflix).

    Presenting a song from the web series ‘Bandish Bandits’ (2020)
    Labb Par Aaye Geet Suhaane
    Maane Na Jiyara Lakh Bahane
    Yaad Tihaari Aaye Satane
    Mann Laage Re Pachatane Ho
    ……………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………..
    Kanahi Naa Chhod Re Kalaai
    Doohaayi Bhool Na Ja Darwez
    Javed Ali, lyrics Sameer Samant, music Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kR6tqaq_zY

  282. Rahulji @ 212,
    True, how could these two songs go out of our radar?
    Thanks for posting them.
    Incidentally both the songs are based on Raga Shivaranjani.
    A song from early seventies.
    Itna to Yaad hai Mujhe, Md.Rafi & Lata Mangeshkar, Mehboob Ki Mehandi (1971), Anand bakshi, LP
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivsCBrsu3Sc

    @278,
    Har Dil Jo Pyar karega, a good recall.
    Yaad karna aur Bhoolna are sides of the same coin.
    He remembered the song. Forgot to post the link.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RovyGxgml5Q

  285. Canasyaji @ 235,
    Thanks for posting the song O Pardesi Yaad Mein Teri from Pugree.
    Another Ghulam Mohmmad composition in the voice of Suraiya. The third one in this post.
    I think, Rajeshji has posted 4 songs rendered by Suraiyaand; Ashwinji and Josephji one each.

    Hame tum bhul baithe ho, hame tum bhul baithe ho
    Tumhe hum yad karte hai, tumhe hum yad karte hai
    Judai me tumhari rat din fariyad karte hai
    Shair (1949), Shakeel Badayuni
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWhcBK7r6hU

  286. Oops. Josephji has posted two more songs of Suraiya from Husnlal-Bhagatram’s repository.
    Thanks Josephji.

  287. Canasya @148, Venkataramanji @ 155

    Thank you very much for the encouraging words. Actually, all the credit should go to AK for keeping all those Mukesh gems in front. Impact of Mukesh on songs of this type is always special and I wholly agree with what AK said @ 149.

    Scenario is moving so fast. I had kept back the songs from Bandini and Parvarish, because posts with more links go automatically into moderation, so I try posting upto 5 links. Ji Chahta Hai song is also my favourite, but I thought it has been posted. I also wanted to post the Kanhaiya song for a diffenerent type of YAAD, but nothing can escape the eyes of Dr Deshpande. I would agree with Venkataramanji that Josephji is our silent warrior. I dont know how he finds only those gems which are my favourites too.

  288. Thanks Venkataramanji for posting the link of har Dil Jo.
    Ashwin ji
    Here is one more Marathi song for the theme
    Bhay ithle sampat nahi
    Maj tujhi aathavan yete
    -Grace- Hridaynath Mangeshkar – Lata
    https://youtu.be/x88r7JI4ljU
    It’s written by one of the most discussed poets in Marathi ( & who is supposed to be very difficult to understand)

  289. Muliji @ 178,

    Your reminiscences about ‘bhoole hue namon se koi to bulaye’ have brought to memory similar occurrences in my life. My father used to call me ‘sanhoo’. In fact he had loving names for all of us siblings. But he used to call me by this name right till the end, when he had stopped calling other siblings by those names. I had gone to my hometown a few days before he died in sleep and I remember the talk we had in the verandah of our house before I left for Delhi.

    During my service days I had a unique experience. I joined govt service in 1977 and when I introduced myself as Hans Raj, they would ask my surname which was Jakhar and would immediately reject that and only remembered Hans Raj. Later in 1980, Balram Jakhar became the speaker. My new acquaintances after 1980 only called me by my surname. This continued throughout my service. Pre 1980 friends called me Hans Raj and post 1980 called me Jakhar.

    On the movie Do Badan, I agree with you and Dr Deshpande that the movie is too melancholic with quite artificial incidents, but, the music has never looked to me in that category. I dont know how ‘mat jaiyo nukariya chhod ke’ is a sad songs. Jab chali thandi hawa has the perfect tinge of sadness one feels when one remembers the lover in fine surroundings. I think till the third song the film was not melancholic. None of Rafi songs can be said to be too melancholic. Lo aa gayi unki yaad had to be malancholy when the heroine is on death bed. In fact she lip-syncs only some part of the song and the rest of the song comes in background.

    You mentioned the TOI interview. I have my reservations about the newspaper interviews. Many reporters concoct stories especially in relation to film personalities. I dont think Ghunghat had a situation for ‘raha gardishon men har dam’. Nobody has heard of this story or the song earlier. Mahesh’s query proves that, because he is a Mukesh expert.

  295. Venkataraman ji @277:

    Wonderful. One can never have enough of Sachin Korta.

    I will not pretend to match the depth of your knowledge, the breadth of your interests, and the sharpness of your memory. My postings are intended to act like catalysts prodding your ‘yaaden’!

    Here is Pankaj Mullick singing Faiyaz Hashmi’s ‘Ye raaten ye mausam ye hasna hasana ye raate, mujhe bhool jana inhe na bhulana … .’ His version is followed by Lata’s version from her ‘Shraddhanjali’ album.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TDH5VKr0mo

  298. Canasya ji, Venkataramanji
    One more gem from Karta which I believe has not been posted so far .
    Phoolo ke Rang se – Prempujari- Kishor – Neeraj
    A query for Ventaramanji
    Whether the Bengali version Borne gandhe has the theme words?
    https://youtu.be/4CwFFWleNNA

  303. Hans ji @ 287 AKji @ 149:

    Like all great singers, Mukesh sang a variety of songs masterfully. His faster paced title songs from Awara, Anadi, and Sangam were as popular as his songs in a more pensive mood as the one in Yahudi. Of course, his dominance in the ‘yaad karna-bhoolna’ theme is evident in this post.

    In ‘Dil hi to hai’, under the baton of Roshan, he sang couple of faster paced songs (solos and duets) as well as couple of slower ones, all classics. Here is ‘Bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urU29yM2e1k

  304. Mr Muli @271,
    From wedding procession of ‘memories’ to the torment of memories is quite a range.

    @272,
    Yunhi dil ne chaha tha: What imagery by Sahir, and what superb composition and equally outstanding song – your ‘memory’ was just an excuse, I wanted to cry anyways.

    @278,
    Har dil jo pyar karega: Some times return of ‘Bhooli bisri yaadein lekar’ causes complications. A settled situation becomes unsettled.

  305. Mr S Joseph @273,
    Mujhko is raat ki tanhaayi mein is quintessential Mukesh.

    @274,
    Nigaahein ha phero: Beautiful song. Now Suman gems are tumbling out of the jewel box.

    @281,
    Chaahat ka bhulana: Suraiya is always melodious. Heard for the first time. Thanks.

    @283, 284,
    Yaad aa raha hai tumko: Even if you do not announce Husnlal-Bhagatram can’t be missed. If the singer is Suraiya, you have more of the same. Yet an excellent song.
    Beete huye din: This songs gives a different flavour.

    @290,
    Jab jab bahaar ayi: A great classic. One remembers Rafi version strongly, and Lata version an also ran. But the one by multiple singer was not so well known. I think it was only in the film, and its commercial record was not cut. I am hearing Mahendra Kapoor in it for the first time.

  306. Arunji @275,
    You can be sure no one can post your songs. Bhoole zamaane yaad na kar by Pushpa Hans is very good.

  308. Venkataramanji @279,
    Heard Manna Dey’s ‘Modern’ Bengali song (I think that is how they describe it there). But I am still for the classic.

    @280,
    I have not subscribed to Netflix. Difficult to find time to pursue everything. But ‘Bandish Bandits’ is my great favourite, and it further proves my point that classical music is forever. My favourite is the last competition, one sung by Shankar Mahadevan and the other version sung by Pt. Ajoy Chakravarty for Naseeruddin Shah. And thanks to you now I see Shankar Mahadevan in ‘Katyar Kalijat Ghusli’ film holding fort as an actor-singer. His physical appearance appears a bit comic, I don’t know whether they intended to show him like that or is it just his girth and physical expression. Multi-faceted talent though.

    Talking of Marathi talent, I happened to listen to Mohan Agashe’s talk on Satyajit Ray on Zoom yesterday. It was curated by the Director of Victoria Memorial Museum and there were lots of Bengali Bhadralok (I was looking for you too 🙂 ). For most of us he is a minor actor on the fringes of mainstream, but I was highly impressed by him. The man is highly eloquent, an easy sense of humour, and knows cinema. Regional is very rich in culture.

  310. Dr Deshpande @292,
    Dono ne kiya tha pyar magar, mujhe yaad raha tu bhool gayi: Interesting. Lamenting in reverse, usually the lady is the complainant.

    @294,
    Aaj is darja pila de ke na kuchh yaad rahe: Taking the help of liquor to forget!

    @296,
    Likhe jo khat tujhe wo teri yaad mein: Highly popular song at the time.

    @297,
    Raat yun dil mein teri khoyi huyi yaad ayi: Thanks for refreshing the memory of this nazm of Faiz. We tend to forget that this was also there in the film.

    @299, 300,
    Naam gum jaayega chehra ye badal jayega
    Aap ki inaayatein aapke karam
    Thanks for posting two excellent songs from the new era.

    @301,
    Tu auron ki kyon ho gayi: Very blunt way of questioning.

    @302,
    Aadmi musafir hai, aat hai jata hai: Thanks for holding fort on post-70s songs. I know the songs you have posted, but they usually do not occur in my posts.

  311. mr Rangan @293,
    Chaandni raaton mein jis din, yaad aa jate ho tum: Beautiful songs. Heard for the first time. Thanks a lot.

  312. Canasya @303,
    Long back I wrote on Mukesh’s romance with ‘Dil’. I could have done thing with this post limiting it to Mukesh’s romance with memories and forgetting. But how could we leave other gems? Therefore, I did the hybrid thing, letting readers take over.

  313. AKji@307
    After reading the comment I just glanced through post on Sajjad Hussain. 5 songs had been deleted by You tube. Was able to get fresh link for 4 of them. Please see whether you can substitute these links.

    Jaate ho to Jao – Khel (1950) – https://youtu.be/pYbcm7o918g?t=57

    Aaj mere naseebse – Hulchul 1951 – https://youtu.be/cw16X-x34bA?t=37

    Wo tho chale gaye – Sangdil (1951) – https://youtu.be/Z0IFaLCbSBU?t=2
    Rooplekha (1949) – Ku ar Barabankvi – Teer per teer = https://youtu.be/6RQdukJd5_Q?t=127

  317. AKji @ 308,
    Yes ‘Adhunik ís the word used here. Here they love all the genres by Manna Dey.
    Let me make amends. In line with your preference, I am posting a duet by Manna Dey & Md.Rafi.
    Sudh bisar gayi aaj apane gunan ki, Sangeet Samrat Tansen (1962), Shailendra, S N Tripathi
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3NwQlXcMH0&t=25s

    I liked Bandish Bandits. Looking forward to Season 2.

  318. Rahulji @ 298,
    Barne, Gandhe, Chhande, Geetite was recorded in 1969, one year prior to the release of Prem Pujari.
    No the Bengali version doesn’t have the keyword. It is a romantic song eulogising his paramour. Thanks for the Hindi version.

    @288,
    Grace, that is an unusual name for a Marathi poet. Is it a pseudonym?
    I guess it is an ode in remembrance of one’s mother.

  319. AKji, Rahulji,
    Rahulji posted two songs with all the three keywords Bhooli, Bisari and Yaad.
    The first a Ghazal by Mehedi Hassan, ‘Bhooli bisri chand umeedein, chand fasaane yaad aaye’ (@90) and the other one from Sangam (@278). Both nice postings.
    I will follow it with a couple.

    Bhooli Bisri Yaadon Ki Kirno Ko Sajakar Roye Hain – Pankaj Udhas
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL3kkrrongo

    Bhuli bisri yado me ab bhi kahi pyar chupa hai, Ajit Parab, Viruddh (2005)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkqvcnBpzn0

  320. Another one where the keyword ‘Bisar gayi’ is placed in the first antara;
    Saanjh khe tohe chundari magaybe chundari magaybe
    Chundari magaybe tohe chundari magaybe
    Bhor bhaye to bisar gayi batiyaan gai batiyaan

    Na maanun na maanun na maanun re
    Dagabaaj tori batiyaan na maanun re
    Lata Mangeshkar, Ganga Jamuna (1961), Shakeel Badayuni, Naushad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjNMRT2bfN4

  322. Mr Rangan @313,
    I have carried out the corrections. Please check. The remaining song #7 Sajna din bahure hamaare might also be available somewhere. I am checking up Geeta Dutt’s official site too.

    @314,
    Wo to chale gaye ae dil: You just added it above. 🙂

  323. Canasyaji @ 316,
    A triple entury without Bhatiaji and Pradeepji.
    Mainly due to the efforts of Josephji and Rajeshji.
    Thanks for the twin versions of ‘Gar tum bhula na doge’
    If your hunch is correct then we are moving toward the 400 mark.

    @295,
    I accept your profuse praise with humility. Thank you.
    Yes your postings (and other too) definitely spur my memories. And this is the appropriate post to remember the songs tucked away deep in our memory. Like in this case, your posting of Pankaj Mullick’s song ‘Ye raaten ye mausam ye hasna hasana ye raate, mujhe bhool jana inhe na bhulana’ leads me to another song by Pankaj mullick.

    I posted this song long time back in my article on ‘Rabindra Sangeet and Pankaj Mullick’ in 2012.
    Tomorrow is Rabindranath Thakur’s birthday as per the Bengali Calendar and 10th May is Pankaj Mullick’s birthday. The song ‘Yaad aaye ki na aaye tumhari’ is the Hindi version of the Rabindra Sangeet ‘Mone robe kina robe amare’

    Here is the link to the song ‘Mone robe kina robe amare’ and its Hindi translation ‘Yaad aaye ki na aaye’ rendered by Pankaj Mullick. Pankaj Mullick is at his best in this rendition.
    Mone robe kina robe amare and Yaad aaye ki na aaye tumhari by Pankaj Mullick
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=H1VY5Fimo6g&feature=emb_title

    There is another version of this song with orchestration by Francisco Casanovas
    Yaad aye ki na aye tumhari by Pankaj Mullick (1940-41), lyrics Pandit Bhushan, Orchestration
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGk_S3rlkK4

    It is said that the song ‘Bachpan ke din bhula na dena’ was based on the tune Mone robe kina robe amare. If one listens carefully, one may find similarities especially in the orchestration. Ashwinji @15 posted ‘Bachpan ke din bhula na dena’.

  324. Mr Muli @315,
    Nice songs. The second song from Libaas I heard for the first time. Its most famous song Silli hawa chhoo gayi is my great favourite.

  325. Canasya @316,
    Gar tum bhula is of course of the decline phase of SJ.Had SOY been full stregth, they would have reeled off songs. You think of Rasik balma, its antara is Jab yaad aye tihari, surat wo pyari pyari. There are many more.

  327. Venkataramanji @317,
    Sudhi bisar gayi aaj is a beautiful songs. Two great singers in great form. Manna Dey made comic too classical, and that became his undisputed forte.

    Bandish Bandits: Season 1 was a complete story. If they bring Season 2, it will not be to complete an unfinished work, but to tell a new story.

  329. Mr Rangan @326,
    Toote huye armaanon ki ek duniya: Nice song. It seems it is sung by Lata Mangeshkar.

    @328,
    This song is a perfect fit. One of the best of Lata Mangeshkar by Chitragupta.

  332. Venkataraman ji @ 323:

    You are right. The similarities with ‘Bachpan ke din bhula na dena’ (1951) are unmistakable. Casanova’s orchestration reminds one of ‘Pran chahe nain na chahe’. Here is another song from that era, this time by Hemant Kumar:

    ‘Kitna dukh bhulaya tumne pyare’ (Faiaz Hashmi’s lyrics; MD: Kamal Dasgupta)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFNwSgg_3gs

  341. Venkataraman ji @ 279 & 323:

    ‘Jibone ki pabo na’ was a cult song whose popularity, as you have rightly pointed out, bridged the generation gap.

    Here is ‘Tumhen yaad rahe naa rahe yeh to main sochun hi nahin’, a Hindi Rabindra Sangeet by Manna Dey–You will notice the similarity with Pankaj Mullick’s ‘Yaad aaye ki na aaye tumhari’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1oAhAy8Kpo

  342. The songs with words ‘ Yaad / Bhool ‘ invariably evoke feelings of sadness/ depression / gloom / misery…. Very rarely such words have been used with songs of happy feelings. The learned participants may agree .

    A I / digitisation of available records would make study of HFM easier . I do not know if even HFGK has been digitised. Experts in IT could throw light on how much digitisation of available records could help .

    ‘ Aansu bhari hai …’/ 1958 / PARVARISH / Hasrat Jaipuri / Dattaram Wadkar / Mukesh

    https://youtu.be/9UE-LcQ5NNg

  343. Venkataraman ji
    You are right , Grace is pseudonym of the poet. His real name is Manoj Godghate. You may be right about the theme of the poem. However Grace , by many critics is called as durbodh because of the immense difficulties in interpreting the imagery used by him. At the same time he is considered to be pioneer of modern Marathi poetry.
    Pt Hridaynath Mangeshkar has composed tunes for some of his poems. One of them rendered by Pandit ji himself is
    Te geli tevha rimzim –
    https://youtu.be/LDerg3loBP4
    Though the poem does not include the theme words , it’s about memory

  344. Venkataraman ji
    Autocorrect is actually is a nusiance . Manoj should be replaced by Manik.

  347. Zohrabai Ambalewali from Ratan (1944), D N Madhok/Naushad
    Well known song – Pardesi Balma Badal Aaya
    Part of the lyrics
    nain bhar aayenge more jiya dole na ho dole na
    bhul hai kisi se kabhi metha bol bolna bol bolna

    https://youtu.be/kQl5Vb5YvwA

  349. Dr Deshpande @330,
    Now you are accepting SJ challenge. dil ka na karna aitbaar koi/ Bhoole se bhi na karna pyar koi: SJ gave their best music in that phase.

    @331,
    Bhool ja sapne suhaane bhool ja: It is a very nice song. Hansraj Behl was a multifaceted genius, crowded out in the face of so many stalwarts.

    @333,
    Bhool na ja humko gori apna bana ke: Nice horse-cart beat song. Seems inspired by OP Nayyar, though everyone composed ghadagadi songs.

    @334,
    Kyun ankhiyan bhar ayin phir koi yaad aya: Very nice lyrics by BHarat Vyas.

    @335,
    Na jaane kyun hota hai: Excellent song.

    @336,
    You are also fond of post-70s songs. That breaks monotony.

    @337,
    Kali ghata chhayi prem rut aayi: Nice LP composition.

    @340,
    Yaad aa rahi hai, teri yaad aa rahi hai: I loved Love Story. Kumar Gaurav had a great launch, but failed to carry on.

  350. Ratan (1944) – D N Madhok / Naushad

    Rum Zum barse badarwa by Zohrabai Ambalewali

    These few lines from song –
    mujh birahan ke hal pe badal rote hai, rote hai
    balam hamre ankh mund kar sote hai, sote hai
    hamako nind na aaye re, yad sataye tori
    https://youtu.be/Fzc7BO4j8Bs?t=133

  351. Mr S Joseph @338, 339,
    Thanks for posting two gems from Yahudi – SJ.

    @342,
    You are right, but I would say ‘generally’ and not ‘invariably’. Bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha naadan tha bechara dil hi to hai has been posted here – a joyous song. Let the readers take it as a challenge.

    I have some idea about digitisation of HFGK. It was started but got stalled because differences between different stakeholders. It would not be proper for me to say anything more, but I am disheartened. They should have completed it.

    @345,
    Jeevan ke safar mein raahi milte hain bichhad jaane ko is a very nice song.

  352. Mr Muli @343,
    I see you have quite an insight into Marathi literature. I am impressed.

    @346,
    Wo kagaz ki kashti
    Chitthi aayi hai
    Both nazms became extremely popular in their times. Thanks for posting them.

  353. Mr Rangan @347,
    Pardesi baalma baadal aya: is a beautiful song. It is impressive that you remembered the antara.

    @348,
    This was one of the songs I was waiting for. Sudha Malhotra composed only this song in the film, other five songs were composed by N Datta. I don’t think she gave music for any other film. It is rare for someone to compose just pone song that becomes immortal.

  357. Joseph ji @ 342; AKji @ 351:

    According to Venkatraman ji @ 282, ‘Yaad karna aur Bhoolna are sides of the same coin.’ One interpretation would be that they are antonyms. In that case, both remembering and forgetting cannot be ‘evoking feelings of sadness/ depression/ gloom/ misery.’ ‘Yaad karna (rakhna)’, to me is closer to being optimistic. Here is Rajendra Kumar losing himself in the happy memories of his first encounter with the lovely Sadhana (‘… Yaad hai mujhko mere umra ki pehli wo ghadi …’: (Rafi in ‘Mere Mehboob’; MD: Naushad):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJNRyWh30jE

    In the same song, the line ‘… Bhool sakti nahi aankhen wo suhana manjar …’ uses the ‘inability to forget’ to denote a happy memory. The Julie song ‘Bhool gaya sab kuchh, yaad nahin ab kuchh’ posted by Rahul ji @ 90 above also reinforces this mutually opposite nature of memory and amnesia.

    But then how does one interpret songs such as ‘Bhuli hui yaadon’ (song # 5 in this post) and ‘Bhulana na yaad karo’ (Dr Deshpande @ 50)? Is our hero crooning ‘… Dil ko bhooli hui yaadon ka sahara de de …’ latching onto an oxymoron?

    Of course not. Psychologists are never satisfied with a simple dichotomous construct. To them, the coin does not have only two sides, it also has an edge. There is an intermediate stage between recall and loss of memory–when you remember that you have forgotten something!

    The proverbial forgetful professor (Vijay Anand in ‘Kora Kaagaz’?) is usually in this stage. GK Chesterton often had to stop at a news stall and buy a copy of his own weekly magazine ‘G.K.’s’, to find out where his office was. He once telegraphed his wife ‘Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?’ While standing in a queue for paying taxes, Edison forgot his name and asked the man in front, ‘Do you know who I am?’

    It is this stage that makes it possible for Asha Bhosle to sing ‘Karoon na yaad magar kis tarah bhulaoon use’ (From the album ‘Meraz-e-ghazal’, lyrics by Ahmad Faraz; MD: Ghulam Ali):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B–beSJ8MQ

    Of course, certain things, as AKji said at the beginning of this post, are best forgotten.

  363. AKji @327,
    Towards the end of the last episode of Bandish Bandits there is an indication that there will be a Season 2.
    And now, a few days back they have announced that the Season 2 will start in November this year.

    Posting a song from Naushad Saheb’s debut film Prem Nagar (1940), lyrics D N Madhok
    Tum bin chain na aaye sajni
    Tum bin chain na aaye
    Bhoolne waale bhoolne waale
    Yaad tihaari
    Bisrat na bisraaye
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdpNtEDLi6k

  365. Canasya @ 332,
    In a way, Pran Chaahe Nain Na Chahe also fits the theme of the post. Probably you failed to notice the keyword ‘Yaad’in the last stanza.
    Kis ki phoolon ki maalaa
    Teri sej saji kaanton se
    Kahin door khadaa tera premi
    Teri yaad mein aansoon bahaaye
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvqP_-br1lk

    ‘Kitna dukh bhulaya tumne pyare’ is a fabulous addition. Thanks.
    That again reminds me of a NFS by Hemant Kumar

    Ab Yaad Hamen Kyon Aate Ho, Faiyyaz Hashmi, Fransisco Casanovas
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHrjoQx3aCw

  366. AKji, Canasyaji,
    Whether Bhojpuri or Marathi films, classical songs or film songs, vintage era or the present era Bisaraye or Bisar gaye find a place in the lyrics.
    Here are two more one from the 40s and the other from a recent Marathi film.

    Vishay Sab Bisar Gaye, V G Bhatkar, Sant Tukaram (1948), lyrics Narendra Sharma, music V G Bhatkar
    https://gaana.com/song/bisay-sab-bisar-gaye

    Sudh Bisaraye Mero Kajarare Nain, Sanjiv Chimalgi, Aei Shappat (2006) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QUPU0vN4tI

  367. Mr Muli @354,
    Excellent songs of SJ. Someone had posed an SJ challenge here.

    @361,
    I am sure a film song, too, starts with Roodad-e-mohabbat kya kahiye. Mirza Ghalib has a real mushaira.

  368. Mr S Joseph @355,
    Kabhi aansoo bahaate ho: Nice song. Heard it for the first time.

    @356,
    Ansoo samajh ke kyun mujhe: Now Talat Mahmood is in his element.

    @364,
    Ankhiyan bhool gayin sona: Nice song befitting the theme.

  369. Rahulji @ 343,
    Thank you for the information on Manik Godghate.
    Thanks for posting ‘Te geli tevha rimzim’
    You wrote that it is difficult to interpret the imagery used by him.
    My search to find an interpretation of the song only proved your point.
    In short a gentleman wrote that it was about a child who is in sorrow over his mother’s death.
    It was followed by another comment which says the meaning is absolutely different. And goes on to say that the child’s mother goes to her lover by leaving her kids and so on…… and provides a link where Grace himself had explained the whole meaning of this poem. But the link did not work and even if it had clicked the explanation would have been in Marathi.

    @ 346,
    Thanks for posting the Ghazals by Jagjit Singh and Pankaj Udhas, both are songs of reminiscence and having the keywords.

  371. Canasya @357,
    I think I once used the term ‘गागर में सागर’ for your comment. Your half-page this comment is an intellectual masterpiece on the subject. Our songs have explored the entire spectrum of exhilaration to poignant joy – I remember a nice expression उत्सव के बीच अवसाद – to unmitigated misery. So purely dichotomy is impossible. I can use a cliche here – nothing is black or white, the world is largely gray.

    Forgetfulness of mathematicians or scholars is a favourite goldmine of anecdotes. Einstein used to ask passers by, could they tell him where he lived. Since everyone knew him in Princeton, they would guide him to his house. Most remained in the range of amusing personality trait. Rare cases became serious medical condition, such as John Nash.

    Certain things are best forgotten was never truer than these terrible times. One can now safely generalise because the pandemic has reached endemic stage, and a doctor whose talk on Zoom I was following, said clinically, 1% of the cases are going to die whatever we do. Now 1% of a humongous number is a very big number, and multiply that with the number of family members who have to go through purgatory.

  372. Mr Rangan @358,
    Chaandni raat mein teri yaad ayi: Zohrabai’s song was unknown in the face of the immortal song by Shamshad Begum, Man bhooli kathayein yaad na kar. Thanks for posting it.

    @360,
    The other singer seems to be GM Durrani.

  374. Arunji @359,
    1. Bhulaanewale humein bhi na yaad aya karo: Nice song demanding reciprocity. Zaroor Raja sounds so much like Surendra.
    2. Ek yaad kisi ki yaad rahi: The female singer is Shamshad Begum.

    @362,
    Kahan ho tum zara aawaz do: An everlasting song. I think it is a Mukesh-Lata Mangeshkar duet.

  375. Venkataramanji @363,
    If they do Season 2, it must be interesting. My only point was that Season 1 did not look as if the story was half finished. Most series, it is quite obvious, such as ‘Taandav’, or ‘Ashram’ (MX Player). In the latter, even after Season 2 (i.e. 18 episodes) the story remains unfinished.

    The song from Prem Nagar (1940) is quite good.

    @366,
    Classical will remain eternal. In Marathi films it must be natural to show the actors listening to a concert of classical music with rapt attention.

  376. AKji @ 371:

    You are right. In my comment @ 357 above, I had equated ‘yaad karna/rakhna’ with optimism, and the implication was that ‘bhoolana’ represented pessimism. But forgetting is about as essential for our social, psychological, and economic wellbeing as remembering is. Where will the bookmakers be if punters could remember all previous losses? The stock market is setting new records every day in India and abroad because investors are betting on the fact that people will forget. Politicians keep promising the heaven because they can count on our collective amnesia.

    There are times when memory is not a blessing. But then, as you quoted Bogart above, ‘We will always have Paris.’ And that probably is the right thing to do, just to keep our sanity intact.

    Here is ‘Karoge yaad to har baat yaad aayegi’ (Bhupinder in Bazaar; MD: Khayyam)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUJ9s5WH4io

  377. AKji @353
    You mentioned here that the Didi song was one of the songs you were waiting for.
    Actually, it had been posted very early by Josephji @13
    I remembered it because he had mentioned the MD as N Datta and I was expecting you or Venkataramanji to point out Sudha Malhotra as the composer.
    Of course, with comments approaching 400, some repeats are inevitable. I too have ended up repeating 2-3 songs.

    Here’s one song which I hope is not a repeat.

    Dll Diya Dard Liya 1966
    Naushad – Shakeel – Lata

    Phir teri kahani yaad aayi
    phir tera fasana yaad aaya

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSyiA-4ShUQ

  379. Dr Deshpande @377,
    I am surprised that I missed Tum mujhe bhool bhi jaao then, especially with the error in MD. Phir teri kahani yaad ayi is a great song though the film was was a dud.

    @378,
    Chal ud ja re panchhi is a landmark song. Nice that you discovered ‘bhool’ in it.

  384. Mr Muli @380,
    Bahut shukriya badi meherbani is my great favourite. The other two are also highly regarded by OPN-fans.

  385. Mr S Joseph @381, 382,
    Vrindavan ka Krishna Kanhaiya: is a supremely beautiful composition.
    Ye mard bade bedard: was also very popular.

  386. Mr Rangan @383,
    Nainwa ke teer koi is a very nice song. Thanks for posting it. The word ‘bhhol’ you are referring to has been used here in the sense of ‘mistake’: – It was my mistake that I fell in love with you. Yes, that too is an angle, but very different from the treatment in the post.

  388. Canasyaji @ 341,
    I am hearing the Manna Dey’s Hindi version of the song ‘Mone Robe Kina Robe Aamare’ for the first time. Pankaj Mullick’s ‘Jise meri yaad na aaye’ is another nice posting.

    Canasyaji @ 357 & 376 & AKji @ 371
    Enjoyed reading your erudite discussion from the side-line.
    Kudos. Need not say more.

    An NFS by Manna Dey to the orchestration of Goody Seervai. Goody was an accordion player and initially was with Naushad. Later he played for Shankar-Jaikishan.

    O yaad phir aayi Dard sang laaye, Manna Dey, NFS (1953), lyrics Chandrasekhar Pande, music Goody Seervai and his Orchestra
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkAOVqAtP7g

  389. Did anybody post ‘Dil jalataa hai to jalane de’by Mukesh.
    The keyword is deep down in the second Antara
    Ham aas lagaaye baithe hai
    Tum vadaa karake bhul gaye
    Ya surat aake dikhaa jaao
    Ya kaha do hamako yaad na kar
    Pahli Nazar (1945), Safdar ‘Aah’ Sitapuri, Anil Biswas
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs_QkGBXGc4

  390. AKji,
    There are four songs in the film Mela (1948) with the keywords.

    Mera dil todne wale mere dil ki dua lena
    Mita kar meri duniya ko nayi duniya basa lena
    Mohabbat ki kasam tumko lagi dil ki bujha lena
    Hamari yaad jab aaye to do aansu baha lena
    Mukesh & Shamshad Begum, Mela (1948), Shakeel Badayuni, Naushad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmBu1UfYgBM&t=9s

    Aayi aayi sawan ritu aayi sajan mora dole hai man
    ……………………………………………………
    Aise me o preetam pyare aaye yaad tihari, ho aaye yaad tihari
    Aise me o preetam pyare aaye yaad tihari, ho aaye yaad tihari
    Mukesh & Shamshad Begum, Mela (1948), Shakeel Badayuni, Naushad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBdX94crecI&t=118s

    Mai bhanwra tu hai phul ye din mat bhul
    Jawani laut ke aaye na….
    ……………………………………..
    Last antara
    Bedard hai ye sansar chale us paar
    Jaha dukh bhul ke jaye na
    Mukesh & Shamshad Begum, Mela (1948), Shakeel Badayuni, Naushad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz-3U9z0aBY&t=223s

    Taqdeer bani ban ker bigadi, duniya ne hame barbad kiya
    Dukh dard ke hatho lutkar bhi is dil ne tujhi ko yaad kiya
    Shamshad Begum, Mela (1948), Shakeel Badayuni, Naushad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBq4Ugi2xOo&t=79s

  404. Mr Rangan @387,
    Tum aao ya na aao is an excellent song. Anil Biswas-Lata Mangeshkar combination was one of the sweetest in that era.

  406. Venkataramanji @389,
    Di jalnta hai to jalne de: I don’t think anyone has posted this song. Surprising because the song lyrics are so well known.

    @390,
    Surprising thing is not that four songs in Mela have the keywords, but that someone could instatly find it. Congratulations.

    @391,
    Pyar jata ke apna bana ke
    Wo gaye wo gaye wo gaye
    It is a beautiful song. It seems we missed it in the review of the best songs of 1947. By that time Mukesh had started developing his own style, but at times KL Saigal influence is very distinct.

  408. Dr Deshpande @393,
    Rimjhim ke taraane le ke ayi barsaat
    Yaad aayi kisi ki wo pehli mulaqaat    :
    Nice connection of barsaat evoking the memory of that first meeting.

    Later it became Zindagi bhar nahin bhulegi wo barsaat ki raat.

    @394,
    Chala bhi aa ja rasiya, jaanewale aaja teri yaas sataye: Excellent song. LP orchestration you can’t miss.

    @395,
    Yun hi dil ne chaha tha rona rulana
    Teri yaad to bas ban gayi ek bahana    :
    What an imagery. Excellent.

    @396,
    Ae ma meri yaadon ko dil hi mein basa lena: It is a very poignant song. Heard for the first time.

    @397,
    Ye duniya ye mehfil mere kisi kaam ki nahin: Nice song.

    @398,
    Yaad suhani teri bani zindagani meri: What a melodious song. Heard for the first time, thanks for posting it. A unique feature of this song is that chorus effect has been added though it is a poignant song.

    @400,
    Jaagi raat bhar teri yaad mein balam: Very nice song. Does it remind you of Jaaore jogi tum jaao re?

    @401,
    O chhail chhabili teri yaad ayi: Nice song.

    @402,
    “..but from the 70s”: You said it.

    @405,
    Beete huye din bhi kucch aise hi hain: This was the song I was waiting for. My great favourite. Thanks a lot.

    @407,
    Pareshaniyon ko to bhula dijiyega: Only if it were that simple.

  409. Arunji @399,
    You were the first to predict the deluge. By the time of your next update the number of songs would cross 400. Thanks for the counter.

  410. Canasya @403,
    Yaad karoge humein yum yaad karoge: I hear ‘karoge’. Heard for the first time. Very nice song. You have already posted the more famous, Ab yaad humein kyon aate ho.

  413. AK ji,

    Thank you for mentioning me. Today, I counted. I send wishes to 69 persons every Monday morning… from childhood friends to classmates, relatives and colleagues…of course, goes without saying, ones whom I consider important in my life for various reasons. Surprisingly, 6 among them are exclusively on SOY. 3, common to SOY and ASAD, and 4, exclusively on ASAD…13/ 69! Music brings people together, Yes.

    On the personal front, I am in good health. Work load is much more now. Clinic, half days, 6 days a week. We ,in Karnataka, have lock down. As the local IMA President, 5th year in a row, I have to attend policy meetings with the DC, peoples ‘ representatives on regular basis, sometimes at a short notice. Then, I have taken up online consultations to cater, mainly to the places worse hit by the monster virus. So, time is in short supply! Still, I was curious why new post wasn’t coming up and I asked you the same about 10 days ago. Read this article a few days after it was published. Many of you called and messaged. I remember me and Joseph ji asking you repeatedly about Shalan Lal ji’s wellbeing last year. NV ji and Bhatia Pa ji have recently recovered from the clutches of Covid.

    My son Dr ShreeRam is a Frontline Warrior, working in NMPT Hospital, Mangalore, as a Medical Officer.

    No one is essential for the life to move on.

    Kal khel mein hum ho na ho
    Gardish mein taare…
    Bhoologe tum, Bhoolenge woh
    Par hum tumhare rahenge sadaa..

    Kal koi mujhko yaad karen
    Kyon koi mujhko yaad kare
    …
    Kyon waqt apna barbaad karen?

    Mukesh on two very different artists.

    But, It feels good to be remembered. Thank you, all my friends.

    Tum in sab ko bhool ke kal subah chali jaoge
    Mere saath inhe bhi tum yaad bahut aaoge..

  415. A 6 songs bouquet from a movie having Kishore, Rafi and Mukesh ( probably the only time for OPN ) with Asha Bhosle.

    The title song has the word Yaad 8 times and the less heard, but equally beautiful duet version of , probably the most popular song of the movie, has additional 2 lines that look like having been written for this theme!

    EK BAAR MUSKURA DO, 1972.

    Indivar, SHB, Shian Rizvi.

    1. Ek baar muskura do
    Ek baar muskura do
    Aaahaa haa Aaahaa haa
    ( always reminds me of Aaahaah ..Shokh nazar ki bijliya, WKT. )
    …
    Yahin jaan denge kasam Yaad rakhna

    KK, AB.

    2. Zamane ke aankhon se dekha hai yaaron
    …
    ..

    Unhi ke bane Yaadgaren

    Rafi.

    3. Savere ke Sooraj tumhare liye hai
    Ye bujte diye ko tum na Yaad karna

    Mukesh.

    4. Chehre se jara aanchal
    …..lo, Chand nazar aaya
    …
    …
    Waise toh hame tumse..
    Kaise main Bhula doon woh
    Jo aankh ne dekha hai ?

    Mukesh, AB.

    5. Kitne atal the tere irade
    ….
    Tu auron ki kyon ho gayi?
    ..

    Sukh ke saadan Mere Yaad ko kya Bhula sakenge

    KK.

    6. Hame suna kar Bhool gaye kyon?
    Yaad karo woh kahani..
    ..
    Kitne atal the tere irade.

    AB, KK.

    OPN, Mukherjees and Deb Mukherjee again, 1969, SAMBANDH.

    There are 2 songs fitting this theme.

  417. Dr Shetty @ 415:

    Khush Aamdiid. What an entry! An effortless six while we lesser mortals have been huffing and puffing running singles.

    Here is ‘Main sitaaron ka tarana’ (Asha & Kishore in ‘Chalti ka naam gaadi’; MD: SDB):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmOuv8156sg

    1st antra: ‘Maal-zar, bhool kar, dil jigar, hamse nishani mango na, …’
    2nd antra: ‘Gham bhula, saaj utha, raag mere roop ke tu gaaye ja, …’

  418. Dr Deshpande @411,
    The last Mukesh song for Raj Kapoor is surprisingly good. RK showcases in his performance part of part of Sangam, part of Mera Naam Joker and part of Prem Nath in Bobby.

  420. Dr Shetty @413,
    Welcome on your emotion-filled return to SOY. Songs you have added are best for the occasion.

    @415,
    This OPN bouquet is very good.

  421. Mr Muli @416,
    Thanks a lot for Main shayad tumhare liye ajanabi hun and Yahi wo jagah hai. Two nice songs from OPN.

  423. AKji; Rangan ji @ 422:

    The song from ‘Bahu’ reminds me of ‘Biraj Bahu’. Although the YouTube song title has ‘Bhola Bhola’, I think it should be ‘bhula bhula’.

    ‘Mere man bhula bhula kahe dole’ (Hemant Kumar in ‘Biraj Bahu’; MD: Salil Chawdhury):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgTsQSHsRfk

  424. Dr. Shetty
    Ran through your biography and salute you and the tribe of doctors for saving countless lives without bothering for self and braving the risk of themselves falling into covid net. As my contribution for your efforts I give you tube link of songs in the same order as at /415 to the extent available.

    01 – https://youtu.be/rH-Q4lJ8444
    02 – https://youtu.be/KWkEZss4B4E?t=1
    03 – https://youtu.be/725wCaX-bNk?t=1
    04 – https://youtu.be/FdAiSWU8nzk?t=2
    05 – N A
    06 – N A
    Not able to match titles at 5 and 6 with songs in site

  428. Chandni Raat (1949) – Shakeel Badauni / Naushad
    Mohammad Rafi & Shamshad Begum
    Kabar Kya thee ke gham khana padega
    bhula de haan bhula de yaad unki
    bhula de haan bhula de yaad unki
    yehi ab dil ko samajhaana padega
    khabar kya thi ki gam khaana padega
    muhabbat karke pachhataana padega
    https://youtu.be/ewalGx89Lok?t=91
    Chen ke dil kyo phir li aankhen
    ham hai tumhaare chaahne waale hamko na tum barbaad karo
    dil ne kiya tha dil se jo vaada yaad karo haan yaad karo
    haay zara si baat ka bolo aaj bura kyun maan gaye
    https://youtu.be/SdakL8-2wd0?t=88

  431. AKji, Canasyaji,
    14 songs of Hemant Kumar have been posted till now and 4 were NFSs.
    Canasyaji posted three, ‘Kitna dukh bhulaya tumne pyare’ (@ 332), Yaad karogi hamen tum (@403) ‘Dil le ke bhula dena’ (412)
    And the fourth one was ‘Ab Yaad Hamen Kyon Aate Ho’ was posted by me.
    Adding another Hemanta NFS,
    Ja tujhe bhool gaye yaad rahe gam tere
    Is taraha dil se huye dil se huye hum tere •
    NFS (1955), Hemanta Mukherjee, lyrics Madhukar Rajasthani, music Hemant kumar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yAL6q5lxsI

  432. Pradeepji @413,
    True, music is the binding force. Over the years we have developed good bonding among ourselves. Thanks to our common interest; music and SoY. In spite of your busy schedule, you managed to squeeze some time for SoY and made a late night entry. Nice to know that you are keeping well.

    @415,
    And what grand entry!
    Few days back I posted four songs fitting this theme from Mela (1948).
    And now a sixer from you. That’s great.

    Thanks to Ranganji for providing the links to the first four songs.
    Here is the link to the 5th song By Kishore Kumar
    Kitane atal the tere irade, yaad to kar tu wafa ke wade
    ……………….
    kya ye tere sukh ke sadhan meri yad ko bhula sakenge
    meri yad jab nind uda degi kya ye tuzko sula sakenge
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwgq6y_lA5Q&t=103s
    And the 6th, KK –AB duet
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saIRnjVkPAM

  433. Farmaish (1953) – Qamar Jalalabadi / Husnlal Bhagatram
    Lata Mangeshkar – Dil me hamara aag lagakar –
    kab aaye kab gaye
    hume bas itna yaad hai, itna yaad hai (Ist antara)
    https://youtu.be/m0wskLZWsxE?t=91
    Maang (1950) – Raja Mehdi Ali Khan / Ghulam Mohammad
    Lata Mangeshkar
    mere dil ki duniya pe chhane lage
    o ho mujhko bahut yaad aane lage
    mere dil ki duniya pe chhane lage
    o ho mujhko bahut yaad aane lage
    https://youtu.be/UaII8E55W88?t=30

  434. Rahul ji, Canasya ji, Rangan ji, NV ji and AK ji,

    Thank you all.

    I NEVER EVER forget any person I have met and interacted with in my life. Am in touch with my childhood buddies 50 years after leaving the town. So, you can never catch me saying

    Kitne logo se milkar main Bhool jaata hoon
    Meri aadat hai aksar main Bhool jaata hoon
    Dekho phir se Bhool gaya
    Mujhko Yaad dilana..

    Pehle pehle pyar ki mulakate Yaad hai
    ..

    THE GREAT GAMBLER.

    But, the beauty from the movie is

    Do lafzon ki hai dil ki kahani
    …

    Woh kashtiwala kya gaa raha hai
    Koi use bhi Yaad aa raha hai..

    What singing Asha ji,! And, nice picturisation.

  435. AKji, Ranganji,
    Was this song posted?
    One has to dive deep into the last antara to find to find the key word Yaad.
    …………..
    Aise me kahi kya koi nahi
    Bhule se jo humko yaad kare

    Yeh Raat Bhigi Bhigi, Yeh Mast Fizaaye, Manna Dey, Lata Mangeshkar, Chori Chori (1956), Shailendra, Shankar-Jaikishan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEgxfz0yYGE

  436. Ranganji,
    Nice to see active. Out of the last 13 comments, eight were yours. And you have added 10 songs. 400+ songs have been posted. With your new found energy and Pradeepji entering the scene
    It will be a steady stride towards the 5th century.

  438. Mr Rangan @422,
    Nice songs. The third one Man bhooli kathayein yaad na kar is, of course, an eternal song, mentioned earlier too.

    @424,
    Nice helping hand to a Covid19 warrior. And Venkataramanji completes it at @432.

    @425,
    Chhod babul ka ghar is another landmark song.

    @427,
    From Parbat (1954) my great favourite is Haye mera dil le gaya koi aake khayalon mein. This too has this line: “Dil lagi bujhti nahin unko bhulana khel nahin”.
    https://youtu.be/gNNgs1UNej0

    @428,
    Two great compositions from Naushad in Chaandni Raat.

    @429, 430, 433,
    Nice songs. Thanks.

  439. Canasya @423,
    It is surely, भुला भुला. Grammatically it should have been भूला भूला, but I am willing to ignore it.

  444. Pradeepji @ 434,
    Do Lafzon Ki Hai Dil Ki Kahani,
    IT was one of the songs of our youth.
    Thanks for rekindling lost thoughts.
    Good reacall.
    Posting the link
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waeAGdCvJd8

    the link to other song
    Thus too was quite popular then,
    Kitne logo se milkar main Bhool jaata hoon
    Meri aadat hai aksar main Bhool jaata hoon
    Dekho phir se Bhool gaya
    Mujhko Yaad dilana..
    Pehle pehle pyar ki mulakate Yaad hai
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzU4tOGmV14

    @ 413, 415
    We talked about your sixer.
    I like your teasers too.
    You topped your nice write-up with excerpts from Jeena yahan marna yahan and Mein Pal Do Pal Ka Shayar hoon.
    I could not identify the third one.

    Tum in sab ko bhool ke kal subah chali jaoge
    Mere saath inhe bhi tum yaad bahut aaoge….
    From which song were these lines?

    Got the two songs from Sambandh too.
    Both had hemant Kumar

  449. Venkataramanji @431,
    Ja tujhe bhool gaye yaad rahe gham tere is a nice NFS of Hemant Kumar.

    @435,
    Ye raat bhingi bhingi: I don’t think it has been posted yet.congratulations for discovering the keyword so much inside.

  450. Arunji @437,
    Chanda des piya ke ja: I don’t think it has been posted yet. One of the best of Amirbai Karnataki. We have discussed it in other posts several times. Thanks for mentioning it here.

  452. Canasyaji,

    The KK- Rafi version of Yaadon Ki Baraat had been posted by Rahulji @271.
    Good you added the female version !!

  453. Dr Deshpande @440,
    Baalma saajna, duniya bhula di tere pyar ne: Very nice song. I am hearing it for the first time. Thanks a lot.

    @441,
    By this time Rafi was on decline, and Mahendra Kapoor had entered the favour of OPN.

    @442,
    Humin karein koi surat: A very reluctant mujra singer. Poor Jaya Bhaduri, she had to go through this.

    @443,
    Tumse milkar na jaane: Nice song.

    @445,
    Nice that you are posting later songs, too.

    @447,
    I like the imagery. You forget the ‘baatein’, but you remember the ‘yaadein’.

  456. NV ji ,

    Thank for the links.

    Some repetitions are bound to happen in the following.

    Aate jaate khoobsoorat awara sakoon pe
    .
    ..
    Unmein se kuchh log Bhool jaate hain
    Kuchh Yaad reh jaate hain…

    ANURODH

    Yaadon mein woh, Sapnon mein hai…

    SWAMI

    Na jaane kyon hota hai ye Zindagi ke saath
    ..
    Kare phir uski Yaad

    CHOTI SI BAAT

    Ajeeb dastan hai ye
    Kahan shuroo kahan khatm
    …
    .

    Ye sham jab bhi aayega
    Tum humko Yaad aaoge…

    DAAPP

    Karoge Yaad toh har baat Yaad aayega

    BAZAAR

    Aap ki Yaad aati rahi, raat bhar

    GAMAN

    Yaad na aaye koi
    Lahoo na rulaye koi

    MACHIS

    Tera mujhse hai pehle ka naata koi
    …

    ( Aage kya hai, Daddy?
    Main toh Bhool hi gaya )

    AA GALE LAG JAA

  457. Canasya @454, 455,
    So near yet so far. We all knew thes songs, and discussed them intensively. Thanks for mentioning them.

  458. Dr Shetty @456,
    You have great recall without the help of links. Let me give the links of two of my great favourites.
    Ajeeb daastan hai ye by Lata Mangeshkar from Dil Apna Aur Preet Parayi (1960), lyrics Shailendra, music Shankar-Jaikishan
    https://youtu.be/yZ_UkMJHEAk

    Aapki yaad aati rahi raat bhar by Chhaya Ganguli from Gaman (1981), lyrics Makhdoom Mohiuddin, music Jaidev
    https://youtu.be/GtCLx-W51xM

  459. Pankh hoti to us aati re – Sehra – Lata – Hasarat – Ramlal
    https://youtu.be/s3Kt97M0ANQ
    Such a huge hit that it is popular with the contestants of music shows even today.
    Trivia section of Myswar informs that when Ramlal composed music of a Kannada film Daaha (1979) Ramlal sehra was his name appearing in the credits.

  460. Mr Muli,
    Pankh hoti to ud aati re: Such a beautiful song. Yaadon mein khoyi panhuchi Gagan mein, nice line.

  463. Phoolon ka taron ka sab ka kehna hai
    …
    ..
    Dekho hum tum dono hain ek daali ke phool
    Main na Bhoola, Tu kaise mujhe gayi Bhool?

    Kishore, AB,RDB, HRHK.

    Yaad aa rahee hai.
    2 versions.

    LOVE STORY

    Yaad teri aayegi

    BETAAB.

    Kya yahi pyar hai?
    Haan, yahi pyar hai.
    …
    Kaise Bhooloongi
    Tu Yaad hamesha aayega..

    ROCKY

    So, you all see the link.
    3 Star Sons ‘ debut; RDB.

    I can recall some more debuts fitting here.

  464. AK ji , canasya ji
    Thanks a lot .
    Sehra also had a songlet
    By Hemant Kumar
    Na Ghar Tera na Ghar Mera -Hasarat
    Aisa kaam tu Kar ja bande
    Duniya Tujhko yaad Kare

  470. Rajeshji @446,
    Thank You for the information.
    I would not have got it on my own.
    I think RD lent his voice for one line ‘o maajhi re ja_iyo piyaa ke des’.
    A nice song of the 70s.

    I recall another song by the same combo RD-AB- AK. But it was duet with Lata.
    dil ke aasman pe gam ki ghata chhayi, aayi aayi, aayi teri yaad aayi
    teri yaad me sari duniya bhulayi, aayi aayi, aayi teri yaad aayi
    Not a great song. Fits the theme to a ‘T’. The keywords Yaad occurs 15 times and Bhulayi 4 times.

    I would post another song form the 80s.
    Rah pe rahte hai yado pe basar karte hai
    khush raho ahale vatan ho ham to safar karte hai
    Kishore Kumar, Gulzar, R D Burman, Namekken (1982)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZTjSDVPW0U

  472. Rahul ji,

    RDB for RK because of RK ( Randhir Kapoor ).
    A lesser heard Kishore Kumar version of

    Ek din bik jaayega mati ke mol.

    Har dil ko tere Yaad aaye tere baad
    Itna tu karta jaa, phir duniya se dol..

    DHARAM KARAM

    Rishi, Adult debut

    Hum tum ek kamre mein band ho

    Hum tum kahin ko jaa rahe ho
    Aur rastha Bhool jaaye

    BOBBY

    ( Can’t resist mentioning
    Tere nainon ke Bhool Bhulaiya mein Bobby ..)

    Rajiv Kapoor ‘s debut.

    Yaad teri aayegi
    Mujhko bada satayegi

    EK JAAN HAIN HUM

  474. Pradeepji @ 456,
    Yes, some repetitions are bound to be happen, when you make your appearance after 400+ comments. Even if you ignore them, your output is phenomenal. You have posted some fabulous songs of the 70s. Except for the songs from Gaman and Bazar, all the other songs are straight from the garden.
    Akji and Ranganji have provided the links to some of your songs.
    I was thinking of posting the songs ‘Aate jaate khoobsoorat awara sadkoon pe’ and ‘Ek din bik jaayega mati ke mol’, both songs of the 70s that I liked. You were ahead. Atleast I will have the pleasure of providing the links.

    Aate jaate khoobsoorat awara sadkoon pe
    …………………………..
    Unmein se kuchh log Bhool jaate hain
    Kuchh Yaad reh jaate hain…
    ANURODH (1977), KK, AB, LP
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0QOP_kRX6Q

    Yaadon mein woh, Sapnon mein hai…
    SWAMI (1977), KK, Amit Khanna, Rajesh Roshan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pWZt83shY

    Na jaane kyon hota hai ye Zindagi ke saath
    …………….
    Kare phir uski Yaad
    CHOTI SI BAAT (1976), Lata, Yogesh, Salil
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC1yM-9Jwrk

    Tera mujhse hai pehle ka naata koi
    ………………….
    ( Aage kya hai, Daddy?
    Main toh Bhool hi gaya )
    AA GALE LAG JAA (1973), Sushma Shresht, KK, Sahir, RDB
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89lgb7dmXps

    Yaad na aaye koi
    Lahoo na rulaye koi
    MACHIS (1996), Lata, Gulzar, Vishal Bhardwaj
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahm_62tEPBQ

  475. Prdeepji @463,
    Phoolon ka taron ka sab ka kehna hai
    ………………………
    Dekho hum tum dono hain ek daali ke phool
    Main na Bhoola, Tu kaise mujhe gayi Bhool?
    Kishore, AB,RDB, HRHK. (1971)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h1bacPNTkA

    Yaad aa rahee hai.
    2 versions.
    LOVE STORY (1981),AB, RDB
    AK,Lata,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfsmj5zpZ9w
    AK
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXMO9U8ZRcM

    Yaad teri aayegi
    BETAAB. (1983), Lata,Shabir, AB,RDB
    I think was the song you meant;
    Jab hum jawan honge jane kaha honge
    Lekin jaha honge waha fariyad karenge, tujhe yad karenge
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iihDX0bN0qY

    Kya yahi pyar hai?
    Haan, yahi pyar hai.
    …
    Kaise Bhooloongi
    Tu Yaad hamesha aayega..
    ROCKY (1981), Lata,KK, AB, RDB
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh3_5tKHNaU

  476. Pradeepji @ 472,
    RDB for RK

    Ek din bik jaayega mati ke mol.
    Har dil ko tere Yaad aaye tere baad
    Itna tu karta jaa, phir duniya se dol..
    DHARAM KARAM (1975), KK, Majrooh, RDB
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12c4VqnD9I

    Hum tum ek kamre mein band ho
    Hum tum kahin ko jaa rahe ho
    Aur rastha Bhool jaaye
    BOBBY (1973) , Lata, Shailendra, AB, LP
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJj-3sgcd0

    Yaad teri aayegi
    Mujhko bada satayegi
    EK JAAN HAIN HUM (1983), Shabbir Kumar, Shahryar,Anu Malik
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSXV7c2x9M

  477. Canasyaji @448,
    That was the 6th NFS of Hemant Kumar fitting the theme.
    Thanks.
    I think if we dig deep we may find a few more gems.
    Another from the same combo-
    Raat Ko Din Bana Diya ….. Yaad ko Bhi sharama diya, Hemant Kumar, NFS, Kanwar Kumar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD3MwqTUwDs
    I think most of these NFSs are from the early fortys.

  478. Dr. Shetty, Venkataramanji,

    Glad to see 70s and 80s songs being posted.

    I had been sitting on some songs of 80s and beyond, as generally there is a limited interest for that period. But with Dr Shetty as the motivating factor, I will be posting now…

    Beginning with the female version of Yaad teri aayegi from Ek Jaan Hai Hum (1983), sung by Asha. This was not used in the film.

    Yaad meri aayegi tujhko bada satayegi

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxVsddAbQgI

  481. Canasya @461,
    Sumiran kar le: Pt. Jasraj is always extremely melodious. L Subramaniam’s violin is superb. Thanks for posting it.

    @466,
    Tujhko bhulana mere bas mein nahin hai is a nice song. Hearing it for the first time.

    @469,
    Ami path bhula ek pathik eshe chhi: Perfectly fits here. But the adapted tune is very different.

  482. Canasyaji @ 473,
    Rabindra Sangeet will be an unfathomable ocean to explore.
    That too in the voice of Hemanta will be listner’s delight.
    Thank you for posting ‘Ei kothati mone rekho’

    Akji, Canasyaji
    Again I recall another song ‘Tobu Mone rekho’
    Let me present the song in the voice of Vikram Singh Khangura, a very talented son of Mohan Singh Khangura. He died at a very tender age of 36 (1973-2009).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6c5sN_gf0c

  484. Arunji @465,
    Guzara hua zamana ata nahin dobara is a beautiful song.

    @479,
    Thanks for maintaining the counter. Your initial remark is proving true.

  485. Mr Rangan @467,
    Kis tarah bhoolega dil has been posted by Canasya @454.

    @468,
    Mohabbat hui hai sitam ka nishana is a beautiful song. Thanks.

  486. Dr Deshpande @480,
    Humein tumse pyar kitna, ye hum nahin jaante: This might be the only film song sung by Parveen Sultana. This song has a timeless appeal.

  487. Pradeepji, Rajeshji, Rahulji, AKji
    While on R D Burman, let me post a Bengali song rendered by him. I am sure you must be familiar with the tune and may be also the Bengali song. Supposed to be the first NFS rendered by R D Burman, the song was released in 1969 Durga Puja. Since 1950s till the 70s, even in the eighties, Non film songs were recorded in the voice of well-known as well as promising singers.

    In the late 1960s, famed scriptwriter Sachin Bhowmik promised to write the lyrics of a Bengali song for R.D. Burman. But Sachin Bhowmick was busy with a stream of assignments for screenplays, like that of Brahmachari and Aradhana. Finally, in 1969, Bhowmik penned down a song dedicated to his college-day flame. To protect her identity, he changed her name in the song to Ruby Roy — ‘Mone pore Ruby Roy?’(Do you remember Ruby Roy? the song goes. R.D. composed the tune and sang it as well, and it went on to become the hit of Puja 1969.

    The lyrics with a rough translation;

    Mone pore ruby roy kobitay tomake
    Ekdin koto kore dekechi
    Aaj hay rubi roy deke bolo amake
    Tomake kothay jeno dekhechi

    O remember ! Ruby Roy!
    How with my poetry,
    One day, call’d you so desperately.
    Ah hear! Ruby Roy,
    Do call and tell me
    You look so familiar to me.

    Rod jola dupure sur tule nupure
    Bus theke tumi jobe nabte
    Ekti kishor chele eka keno dariye
    Se kotha ki konodin bhabte

    Sunburnt midday, sweetly the anklets play,
    When off the bus you stepped,
    One teen lad, why he stood so lonely,
    Did that ever cross your mind?

    Deep jwola sondhay hridoyer janalay
    Kannar khacha sudhu rekhechi
    O pakhi se toh ashe ni tumi bhalobesho ni
    Swapner jaal britha bunechi

    (In the)Lamp-lit twilight, heart’s skylight,
    Cage of cries lay so empty.
    Bird of love didn’t come, you too didn’t love me
    Dream-web I weaved hopelessly.
    By R D Burman, lyrics Sachin Bhowmick, music R D Burman
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNVCJt4FkhU

  488. AK ji

    Parveen Sultana has sung nearly a dozen songs for Hindi movies.

    Peetal ki mori gaagree from DO BOOND PAANI, on the Rajasthani village belle ( ! ) Simi Grewal, by Jaidev , probably based on a folk tune is fairly well known. A solo ,sad version and a happy duet with Minoo Purushotham.

    I recall reading somewhere that she had sung for PAKEEZA. Whether used in the film or not, I am not sure.

  489. Venkataramnji @487,
    Thanks for posting the inspiration of Meri bhigi bhigi si palkon mein rah gaye. RDB has sung it very well.

  491. AKji,

    I could recollect 2 duets of Parveen Sultana.

    One is more well-known, with Asha Bhosle for PArwana 1971, composed by MM – Piya ki gali laage bhali.

    The other is with Suman Kalyanpur for Khoj 1971 , composed by Usha Khanna – Ram kare more saiyan ho aise

  504. AKji:

    Arun ji’s prediction seems to have been very correct. With 500+ comments, this post is well on its way to creating history. Venkataraman ji will be able to tell the exact records. With so many songs fitting the theme, this is going to be one of those never ending posts.

    Here is a lilting Lata-Roshan melody from Raag Rang: ‘Yehi bahaar hai duniya ko bhool jaane ki’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA-i9s3YJNA

  507. AK ji,

    The counter….
    Till 506 comments songs are 492 + 10 by you

    Secondly, Parveen Sultana has sung 18 songs in 15 Hindi films till 2008.

    -AD

  509. Dr Deshpande @491,
    Thanks for the info. One of these duets has been picturised as a racy dance.

    Ram kare more sainya ho aise by Parveen Sultana and Suman Kalyanpur from Khoj (1971), music Usha Khanna
    https://youtu.be/DUV9WMRAsWQ

    @492,
    Alag Alag has good songs, and seems to have a nice story.

    @493,
    Tere jaisa yaar kahan, kahan aisa yarana is a superhit song of the time.

    @494, 495, 496, 497,
    Thanks for taking us on 1980s trip.

    @498, 499,
    New songs for me.

    @500, 501, 502,
    Again superhit songs of the time.

  511. @503,
    Ana bhi chaahun aa na sakun: Did you notice that it was also a perfect song for the Lockdown?

    @504,
    I have to carry on with a new post soon. That would be natural guillotine. Frankly, I didn’t realise that this theme is so ubiquitous.
    Yahi bahar hai is a very nice song.

    @505,
    Truly an iconic song of nostalgia.

    @506,
    Ae mere watan ke logo: Once-in-a-lifetime song.

    @508,
    One can now play a little game. Throw a dart on a list of your favourite songs randomly. Look at its lyrics, that might prove Arunji’s hypothesis.

  512. Arunji @507,
    Thanks for keeping the counter. Hope there are no double countings. But it is indeed a huge number.,

  514. AK ji
    Yes. It has both bhulana & yaad
    Main kaise bhul jaau
    Main hoo hindusthani
    & Mujhe yaad as Raha hai
    So chotasa shikara.

  515. Relaxed for a few hours and missed the 500th bookmark. Let me wait for 600th.
    Bhooli Bisri ek kahani by Anuradha Padwal from Nagina (1986)
    Anand Bakshi/Laxmikant Pyarelal
    https://youtu.be/2G_28zrzWrY?t=172
    Lo Sahib Phir Bhul Gayi Mein by Lata Mangeshkar from Maati Mange Khoon (1984), Anand Bakshi, R D Burman
    https://youtu.be/6qQxANT3_MQ?t=48
    A Rajinder Krishan / Madan Mohan immortal from Sanjog (1961) sung by Lata Mangeshkar
    Oh bhoole dastan phir aa gaye
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eck2SLGe2sc

  518. Tele film Pehla Kadam (1980)
    Kidar Sharma / Jamal Sen – Lata Mangeshkar
    beeta hua ek sawan, ek yaad tumhari
    beeta hua ek sawan, ek yaad tumhari
    https://youtu.be/-U_p5uSJdZM?t=10

    Kidar Sharma was the director of the film Shokiyan (1951) in which this song was included but subsequently deleted and not used at all. Kidar Sharma as producer of Pehla Kadam added this song in the movie after nearly 30 years and Jamal Sen was MD in both.

  519. Nau Bahar (1952) –
    Roshan gave outstanding songs for an ordinary movie and all will remember the iconic song by Lata Mangeshkar – Yeri metho prem dewani in Bheempalasi.
    Kahan hai too kahan hai by Lata Mangeshkar – Shailendra / Roshan
    tumhari yaad ka ye dil sahara leke baitha hai
    mohabbat chhutne wali, na armaa tutne wale (last antara)
    https://youtu.be/bnU932Hyjoc?t=183

  520. Extremely pleased to present a song from the divine movie MEERA (1945) in the dulcet voice of M S Subbalakshmi written by sage Meerabai herself and set to music by S V Venkataraman and Naresh Bhattacharya
    – MSS sings in divine fervour on landing on the shores of Yamuna in Brindavan
    Yaad aave yaad aave vrindavan ke mangal leela
    https://youtu.be/s-vfeQWLm0A?t=45

    Equally entrancing from original tamil movie Meera by M S Subbalakshmi
    https://youtu.be/ExYAOPhsB_8?t=48

  521. Do not know whether this song has been posted earlier.

    Black Cat – Jan Nisar Akhtar / N Datta
    Mein tum hee se poochthi hum
    Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar
    tumhi samne ho mere, main jidhar najar uthau
    tumhe bhulana bhi chahu, to kabhi na bhul paau
    to kabhi na bhul paau (last antara)
    https://youtu.be/OeboYkJRPNY?t=216

  522. Akji, Canasyaji,
    The going is great. Congrats all for crossing the 500 mark.
    Yesterday after posting comment # 487 I retired for the day.
    Nice to find Rajeshji (12), Canasyaji (6) and Ranganji, all three are going great guns.
    Josephji is on silent mode since 11th May, the day when Pradeepji arrived. His last posting was @382.

    Arunji is keeping us posted with figures, in his new role as book-keeper.
    Rangnji regrets having missed the 500 mark and wants to post the 600th comment.
    Gotta admire the enthusiasm of Arunji and Ranganji.
    I will try to come out with detail figures once we reach 600.

    Let me post a prayer for the well-being of all our friends.
    Mere Hriday Sudh Budh Bisar Gai, Gurbani Kirtan

    My heart has forgotten its common sense and wisdom
    My mind has forgotten its hopes and cares.
    Finding divine Guru, I have conquered my vacillating mind
    through the Bani, the world of my beloved lord.
    Deep within myself, I feel the pains of divine love
    Beholding the Guru, my mind is comforted and consoled.
    Awaken my good destiny, O God- please come before me
    Each and every instant servant Nanak is a sacrifice to you.
    (Not translated by me)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoB4hWtKIag

  523. AKji,
    Canasyaji’s posting ‘Sumiran kar le mera manaa’ and Ranganji’s posting ‘Yaad aave yaad aave vrindavan ke mangal leela’ has propelled me into divine spin.
    Posting a Bhajan by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
    Naam Japan Kyon Chhod diya……….
    …………………………………
    Jin Sumiran se ati such paave
    Tin Sumiran kyon Chod diya.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d1D85EQp-I

  524. Mr Rangan @515,
    You would not be surprised, I know only Wo bhooli daastan phir yaad gayi.

    @517,
    Ho pardesiya, pyar ki bahar le ke is a beautiful song. A very nice ‘Pardesi’ song, too.

    @518,
    Beeta hua ek saawan: The song indeed has early 50s feel. Thanks for adding it.

    @519,
    Kahan hai tu kahan hai meri duniya lootnewale: Nice song. Naubahar had some iconic compositions by Roshan.

    @520,
    Yaad aave yaad aave: Truly divine song by MSS. The Tamil original, too, is equally good.

    @521,
    Main tumhin se poochhati hun: A very melodious song.

  525. Canasya @516,
    Kaahe ko bisara Satnaam evokes devotional feelings. It has sent Venkataramani in that mood. Thanks a lot.

  526. Venkataramanji @522,
    Thanks a lot for your prayer for everyone. Mere hirday sudh budh bisar gayi.

    @523,
    Thanks for Naam japan ko kyon chhod diya

  532. Dr Deshpande @527,
    Main duniya bhula doonga teri chaahat mein: I like this one. No lament about falling one. The lover is clear, he will forget the world for her.

    @528,
    Tere dard se dil aabad raha hai: This also is a positive feeling about love. Though it gives pain, it also fulfills.

    @529,
    Mera kuchh saamaan tumhaare paas pada hai: Beautiful song, a rare one without meter, but kudos to the singer and the music director. This had to have the universal feeling of remembrances and forgetting.

  533. Manoj @530,
    Bhulana na, yaad karo na karo: This could not have been posted earlier. ‘Even if you don’t remember me, please don’t forget me’. Nice turn of phrase.

    @531,
    Kab tak yaad karun main, kab tak ashq bahaaun
    Yaaro rab se dua karo, main usko bhool jaaun

    This is a unique display of helplessness. The lover is not able to shake off her memory, nor is in a position to pray to God himself. So he outsources it to his friends. Then he goes on to cursing himself for committing the mistake of falling in love, and he rightly got punished. Quite cynical I say. 🙂

  534. Akji
    Adim Hashmi’s gazal fits the current situation perfectly .
    Faasle aise bhi honge
    Ye Kabhi Socha na tha
    – Ghulam Ali
    https://youtu.be/9YeBWPfg23kaqta goes like this
    Yaad karake aur bhi taklif hoti this Adim
    Bhool Jane ke siwa koi bhi chaata na tha

  536. Mr Muli @534,
    Faasle kabhi aise bhi honge
    Ye kabhi socha na tha
    The YT link indicates it was recorded in 2001. Twenty years later, it is coming true in such a universal form!

  537. Arunji @535,
    Thanks for your running counter. Hopefully, if I am able to squeeze time, I plan to prepare a summary of broad themes, imageries, metaphors in these songs.

  539. Canasyaji @538,
    A nice vintage posting.
    Another song nearer to that period
    Bhulne waale, bhulne waale
    Bhulane ke din yaad aate hai
    Dard ban ke meri
    Nas nas me chubhe jaate hai
    ……………………………………………
    phir aankh bhar aayi hai, fir yaad teri aayi
    Phir aankh bhar aayi hai, fir yaad teri aayi
    Khursheed, Shaadi (1941),Khemchand Prakash, D N Madhok
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuw6lnKLTvo

  540. Canasya @538,
    Ankhiyan jhapi mori bisar gayi sudh: Nice vintage song. I think the lady in the video is Chandraprabha Devi, and if I remember correctly she was the sister of Saraswati Devi.

  541. Venkataramanji @539,
    Khursheed is always delightful. We have heard other songs from this film such as Bhigoyi mori saari re, dekho bheege na choli, a duet with Ishwarlal.

  542. AKji:

    ‘Meri tasveer lekar kya karoge’ (Rafi, Asha in ‘Kala Samundar’; MD: N Datta)

    3rd antra: ‘… Ke tum aaya karoge yaad aksar …’

    4th antra: ‘… Meri yaadon ko samjho yaadgaarein …’

  545. Canasyaji @542,
    Nice qawwali from 1963 film, seems to be two parts.
    You forgot to post the link.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNYwneo08xQ

    @543,
    Thanks for posting Iqbal Bano’s live performance. I loved her rendition of the song ‘Paayal mein geet hain’. It was worth the wait to locate the keyword in the fourth antara.
    BTW Gumnaam seems to be Pakistani film released in 1954.
    The film version of the song is on a faster laya and has one stanza less.
    And young Iqbal Bano’s voice is charming and worth listening.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o5e1NKPMQs

  546. Akji, Canasyaji,
    Posting another song from across the border, penned by Faiz Ahmed Faiz and sung by Nayyara Noor

    Chalo phir se muskuraen
    Chalo phir se dil jalaen
    Jo guzar gaiin hain raten
    Unhen phir jaga ke laaen
    Jo bisar gaiin hain baten
    Unhen yaad mein bulaen
    Chalo phir se dil lagaen
    Chalo phir se muskuraen
    Kisi shah-nashin pe jhalki
    Vo dhanak kisi qaba ki
    Kisi rag mein kasmasai
    Wo kasak kisi ada ki K
    Koi harf-e-be-muravvat
    Kisi kunj-e-lab se phootha
    Vo chhanak ke shisha-e-dil
    Tah-e-bam phir se thuutha
    Ye milan ki na milan ki
    Ye lagan ki aur jalan ki
    Jo sahi hain vardaten
    Jo guzar gaiin hain raten
    Jo bisar gai hain baten
    Koi un ki dhun banaen
    Koi un ka giit gaaen
    Chalo phir se muskuraen
    Chalo phir se dil jalaen
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GZsnM7OGmc

  547. AKji & Canasyaji,
    A wonderful Sufi Kalam by Sabri Bros.
    Tihari preet ki, Bipatane hai, Shaam Hari
    Lagayo rog ke, Sudh Budh hi, Kho diyo hamri
    Jo aah ki bhi to, Birahe agan se jaan jali
    Mori Sudh Budh Bisri, Sakhiyo……

    A lengthy one, but worth listening to.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sCCrokB_rY

  548. Canasya @542,
    Nice recall. Venkataramanji @545 has posted its link.

    @543,
    Paya mein geet hain is a beautiful song. Nice recall again. Venkataramanji has posted the link of its film versioon.

  551. Venkataramanji @546,
    Thanks for the great effort in posting the entire nazm of Faiz, and its link.

    @547,
    The Great Sabri brothers were divine. Beautiful Sufi kalam. Thanks.

  552. AKji @533

    Interestingly, bhulana na yaad karo na karo was also the opening line of the vintage song from Pyaas 1941, which I had posted @50

    Didn’t know that there was also a bhajan with the same line.

  556. Venkataraman ji @545-547:

    Thanks for the links to Kala Samundar’s qawaali and to Iqbal Bano’s original song in the movie. Thanks also for the fabulous nazm by Faiz and for the beautiful Sufi kalam by Sabari brothers.

    Long back we used to listen to Iqbal Bano’s songs from Radio Ceylon and they invariably used to be the film versions. Later, I bought her CD, which had live recordings in the slower laya, and over time, that version grew over me. Much later, I discovered her live performances on YouTube. In these performances she seemed to prefer the slower laya, perhaps for lack of full orchestral support, but also perhaps for reasons of age, which would account for her somewhat lower pitch voice in these recordings. But I also believe that Qateel Shifai’s lyrics come into their own when you listen to the song in the slower laya. And, unlike rock concerts with audience numbers in thousands, I find the slower laya more suited for the somewhat intimate nature of these performances.

    Here is ‘Aaj ki kaali ghataa’ (Geeta Dutt in ‘Uski Kahani’: MD: Kanu Roy)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57vZvCfpMUg

    4th antra:

    ‘… Zindagi pehle naa thi itni hasin,
    Aur agar thi to mujhe yaad nahin …’

  557. I think only Yaad na jaaye…DIL EK MANDIR, is mentioned.

    The title song starts with

    Jaanewale kabhi na aate
    Jaanewalon ki Yaad aati hai.

    Dil ek mandir hai….

    Hum tere pyar mein saara aalam
    …
    Tum kehte ho ke aise pyar ko Bhool jaao.

    SANGAM.

    Har Dil jo pyar karega
    ..
    ..
    Bhoole bisre Yaaden meri
    Hanste gaate bachpan ki..

    These 2 are the earliest movies I remember seeing as a 3 year old during my visit to Mumbai. One of them at Maratha Mandir. Was it the largest theater in 1964 ?

  559. Dr Deshpande @553,
    If everything is so joyous, why do they want to drown themselves in a river?

    @554, 555,
    Great evergreen songs.

  561. From the trendsetting Teesri Manzil, the song I like the most
    O mere sona re- Majrooh – Rafi & Asha – RDB
    https://youtu.be/YU9c5PHThTw
    Ye sazaa tum bhool na Jana
    Pyar ko thokar mat lagana
    And the father around the same time composed this
    Shokhiyo me ghola Jaye – Neeraj- Lata & Kishor- SDB
    Yaad agar wo aaye
    Kaise Kate tanhai
    https://youtu.be/lZ4hoCYKKM4

  565. Dr. Shetty @557, AKji @560

    Both the Dil Ek Mandir songs as well as the Sangam song have been posted earlier.

    So, the links are already there.

    Adding two songs from another Rajendra – Meena Kumari starrer
    Pyar Ka Sagar 1961

    Ravi – Prem Dhawan

    1. Mujhe pyar ki zindagi denewale….
    …..mohabbat ke vaade bhula to na doge….. – Rafi, Asha

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH7FSP0VEHQ

    2. Ho gaye do roz mein aabad bhi barad bhi
    ab tamanna hai yehi aye na unki yaad bhi
    wafa jinse ki bewafa ho gaye – Mukesh

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP6sUC2U6MI

  566. Ranganji @564

    Yes, the Lagan song was posted by me @68.

    You and me have posted 3 more same songs – from Nagina, Sanjog and Singaar.

    Posting one more song from Nagina 1986
    LP – AB – Mohd. Aziz

    Aaj kal yaad kuchh aur rehta nahin
    ek bas aapki yaad aane ke baad
    yaad aane se pehle chale aaiye

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmSFhGmMgk

  570. Mr Muli @561,
    Nice father-son comparison. It is interesting the set of singers in the duets are different.

    @568,
    The first two are superhit songs of RD Burman. The third song was unknown to me.

  571. AKji @ 325; Vankataraman ji @ 435:

    You have mentioned two ‘Chori Chori’ (MD: SJ) songs ‘Rakik balamaa’, and ‘Yeh raat bhigi bhigi’. Here is a third one by lata and Asha:

    ‘Mann bhavan ke ghar jaaye gori,
    Bani rahe ye pyaar ki jodi,
    Hamein naa bhulaanaa, … ‘

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaLwf0ooqdM

  572. Canasyajji @556,
    I do agree with you. I have said I loved her rendition posted by you.
    Renditions in slower laya can be enjoyed all the more and there is clarity and emphasis on the lyrics.
    Even in Sastriya Sangeet the Aalap and vilambit portions provide a wider scope.
    Sorry if my comment signalled otherwise.

    Aaj ki Kaali ghataa, Mann Bhavan Ke…Humein Na Bhoolana-
    Nice postings.
    The post is approaching the 600th mark and I am sure your contribution would be around half a century.

    AKji, Canasyaji
    Posting a song of reminiscence; it also has the key word in the second antara
    yaad bhi hai wo khel ki baat
    jab ham nikaalte thhe baaraat
    Bhala Tha Kitna apna Bachpan Hemant kumar NFS, Faiyyaz Hashmi Kamal Dasgupta 1943
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DsvEX2bn1w

  577. Mr Rangan @562,
    Two great songs from the debut movie of Husnlal-Bhagatram.

    @563,
    Yaad rakhna sajna: I like the intimidating tone of the lady: ‘Remember, either you love me, else I will thrust this knife in you belly.’

    @564,
    With so many songs, it is difficult to keep track. But it is a befitting song.

  578. Dr Deshpande @565,
    Two great songs for Mukesh by Ravi, though he was not among his favourite singers.

    @567,
    This is interesting. You come before your memory comes to me.

  579. Canasya @569,
    Muqaddar aajmana chaahta hun: It is such a beautiful song.

    @571,
    We are coming to a conclusion that a large percentage of the most famous songs would be on this theme.

    @575,
    Wo dil kahan se laaun teri yaad jo bhula de: Great song. Helplessness, not able to forget his remembrances. This is one of the favourite themes in bhulana-yaad karna.

  580. Venkataramanji @572,
    Bhala tha ktna apna bachpan: This is such a song of nostalgia, that this theme had to bethere. Thanks for refreshing our memory.

    @573,
    Kal tri tasveer ke sajde kiye hai raat bhar
    Humne teri yaad ke aansu piye hain raat bhar    : Nice one. The story of the film Mera Saya?

    @574,
    Shaam hote hi tere dast-e-karam yaad aaye: Nice one.

  584. Itni Shakthi hame dena Daataa
    ..
    ..
    Bhool kar bhi koi bhool ho na…

    I like these 2 different forms of Bhools.

    ANKUSH

  586. AMAR PREM, 1948.

    O aao chale manwa more door kahin re
    ..
    Bhanwar kare gunjan
    ..Naache mor sudh budh Bhool

    Rajkumari, Rafi; Mohan Mishra, Datta Thakre.

    The lyrics remind you Bharat Vyas.

    AMAR PREM, 1972.

    Raina beeti jaaye…
    …

    Shyam ko Bhoola, Shyam ka waada..

  587. Few from Lata
    1 Meri jaa Meri Jaan – Yahudi – SJ – Shailendra
    https://youtu.be/shjyd6yhBjQ
    Bhuli thi main Jaye Kya thi khabar
    2 Tera Jana Dil ke Armano ka – Anari – SJ – Shailendra
    https://youtu.be/URfoTtyxOdU
    Jab jab Chanda aayega
    Teri yaad dilayega
    3 Chand phir nikala – Paying Guest
    SDB – Majrooh
    https://youtu.be/ii8D7gNn318
    Khadi Hoon main tanha
    Nigahe bichaye ke tum yaad aaye
    4 Rasik Balma – Chori Chori – SJ – Hasarat
    https://youtu.be/H60p98mmbSo
    Jab yaad aaye tihari

  588. AK ji,

    Counter

    At comment No.587 No. of songs posted 556

    I have tried to carefully avoid duplication.
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  589. Jaane chale jaate hain kahan
    Duniya se jaanewale..
    ..
    Aaye jab jab unki Yaaden
    Aaye honton pe fariyaden..

    PUSHPANJALI

  592. Pradeepji @ 584,
    Itni Shakthi hame dena Daataa
    ..
    ..
    Bhool kar bhi koi bhool ho na…
    I like these 2 different forms of Bhools.
    ANKUSH
    Nice thinking, thanks for the post.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMNh5NyDFE

    @586,
    A good duet from the 40s
    AMAR PREM, 1948.
    O aao chale manwa more door kahin re
    ..
    Bhanwar kare gunjan
    ..Naache mor sudh budh Bhool
    Rajkumari, Rafi; Mohan Mishra, Datta Thakre
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtybc7PtFTY

    Raina beeti jaaye…from the 1972 Amar Prem was posted by Rahulji @ 315

    @589,
    One more nice song of Mukesh
    Jaane chale jaate hain kahan
    Duniya se jaanewale..
    ..
    Aaye jab jab unki Yaaden
    Aaye honton pe fariyaden..
    PUSHPANJALI – 1970, LP, AP
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_WOJ4a3AU

  593. Canasyaji @ 585,
    You have excavated another antique.
    Let me go to other end of the spectrum.
    Posting song from a 2003 film.
    Mein yahan tu wahan, zindagi hai kahan
    Tu hi tu hai sanam dekhta hu jahan
    Neend aati nahi yaad jati nahi
    Neend aati nahi yaad jati nahi
    Bin tere abb jiya jaye naa
    ……………………….
    Last antara
    Beeti baten yaad aati hain, jab akela hota hu mai
    Bolti hai khaamoshiya, sabse chhupke rota hu mai
    Amitabh Bachchan & Alka Yagnik, Baghban (2003), Sameer,Aadesh Srivastav
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFwqgnL1DWk

  594. AKji, Rahulji (591),Canasyaji (585), Pradeepji (586),
    Good to see songs from the 30s and 40s posted.
    Here is one more. One of the earliest song by Lata Mangeshkar

    Piya aayega piya aayega
    Gori sudh na bisar piya aayega
    Subhadra (1946), Pt.Sudarshan, Vasant Desai
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRAari3mZFg

  608. Mr Rangan @583,
    Teri yaad na dil se ja saki: is a very nice song. Helplessness about not being able to ward off memories.

    @595,
    Tera kisi se pyar tha tu wo zamana bhool ja: One of the most beautiful Mukesh duets with vintage female singers. I had forgotten its co-ordinates. Thanks a lot for posting it.

    @596,
    Heard for the first time. Shamshad Begum is always pleasant.

    @597, 598,
    Aa ja tujhe afsana tujhe zindagi ka sunaayein: is a great classic.
    Rut rangili ayi chaandni chhayi is a less heard song, but it is very pleasant. Thanks for posting it.

    @599, 600,
    Wo din kidhar gaye kaho: What a beautiful song. Thanks for refreshing our memory.
    Ayi ayi ho ayi, suhaag ki raat: Heard for the first time. But Shamshad Begum is so delightful that even new songs appear familiar.

    @602,
    Daaman pakad kar chhod gaye: Heard for the first time. Lata Mangeshkar was at her best those days. Nice melancholic song.

    @Yaad ayi hai bekasi: Not posted earlier. Again a soft melody.

  609. Canasya @585,
    ‘My heart cannot forget him morning, evening’. Nice thought. Beautiful vintage song.

    @604, 607,
    Both the NFS of Talat Mahmood are out of this world. What thoughts.

    @606,
    Haariye na himmat bisaariye na Hari naam: A popular saying. Beautiful song, didn’t know Ramchandra Pal also sang. Thanks.

  610. Mr Muli @587,
    Nice compilation of everlasting songs where the theme is hidden inside.

    @591,
    This song is less heard. Naushad shows his mastery over chorus interludes.

    @601,
    Preetam aan milo: Thanks for reminding that it has ‘yaad’ so prominently.

    @605,
    Nice contrast in the two songs. You have a way of presenting.

  611. AK JI,

    Counter….

    At comment 609…..Number of songs posted is 578 + 10

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  613. Venkataramanji @590,
    Ae shaam ki hawaain unse payam kahna: Beautiful NFS of Hemant Kumar.

    @594,
    Piya ayega gori sudh na bisaar piya aayega: Interesting to hear Lata Mangeshkar in her initial years. I don’t think then anyone would have thought that in 3-4 years she would sweep everyone aside.

  615. AKji@ 208
    In my efforts to catch 600th position, I had to post songs in such long sequence. Thanks for listening to all and your encouraging words. I have a few more vintage songs for posting at a leisurely pace. Here is one.
    Banoo (1949)
    Kamal Rashid, music Pt. Ram Prasad Sharma
    Samjhe thhe ke guzarenge din – Mohammed Rafi
    samjhe the ki gujarenge din chain aur khushi main
    ye kya khaber thi dhukh bhi samil hai zindagi main
    wo yad kro bate biti hui rate
    wo yad kro bate biti hui rate
    https://youtu.be/Z0kx1CP8fLs?t=35

  616. AKji
    Another song on the theme from Ustad Pedro (1951), Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, M D – C Ramchandra
    Keechad me ek pari se – Chitalkar and Lata Mangeshkar
    gori tumre naina lad gaye babu gentalmen se
    yaad rakho ji ab raato ko so na sakogi chain se (2nd antara)
    https://youtu.be/HWW1Kmz_Ufk?t=66

    Posting another song not relevant for the current theme from the movie but fits extant pandemic situation perfectly. Chitalkar almost monopolises the male part of duet in his compositions. He knows where Mohammad Rafi is more suited. Listen to the song. Chitalkar seems to be clairvoyant enough to bring out a song almost seventy years before on current pandemic Kovid 19 engulfing our planet:
    Mohammad Rafi & Lata Mangeshkar
    duniya walo hosh sambhalo apni jaan bacha lo
    shehar me faila marz ishq ka injection lagwa lo
    logo injection lagwa lo
    https://youtu.be/1P_Zbe8_gaE?t=4

  619. Congatulations everybody for crossing the 600 mark.
    Congratulation Ranganji. You accomplished your wish with aplomb, with a six.
    Rajeshji, Ranganji and Canasyaji have taken over after Josephji went off the scene.
    Compliments to them.
    Keeping tag of the number of songs posted is a tedious task, and with such a large number of postings and duplications there is bound to be some difference.
    But that doesn’t take anything away from Arunji’s spirited tracking. Kudos.
    Lastly, thumps up to AKji, for presenting this block-buster.

  622. Mr Rangan @615,
    You have indeed the credit for hitting the 600 mark. Congratulations
    Samjhe the ki guzrenge din chain aur khushi mein is such a nice song of Rafi from 1949. Heard it for the first time. I believe the MD Pt. Ram Prsad Sharma was the father of Pyarelal of LP duo.

    @616,
    Nice observation that C Ramchandra dominated in his duets. His confidence was borne of his success in churning out hits.
    Duniyawalo hosh sambhalo is an interesting song. You must have noticed, they are advocating injection for the disease of ‘ishq’.

  623. Canasya @617,
    Bachpan ka zamana yaad hai is a nice song. Is this Pt Maniram the elder brother of Pt. Jasraj?

    @618,
    If you permit a comment from sideways, I like the imagery. ‘If possible try not to remember me, if I come in your memories do forget me’.

    @620,
    Nice song.

    @621,
    Dil-e-veeran hai, teri yaad hai, tanhai hai: Very poignant expression of desolate loneliness.

  624. Venkataramanji @619,
    Thanks a lot for your compliments. We sometimes do not realise in the beginning that some theme is so universal life. Finally exploring all the nuances was the readers’ efforts.

  627. AKji, Rahulji, Canasyaji,
    It seems there are more NFSs on the theme than I expected and there is a steady flow.

    Posting a wonderful NFS by Md.Rafi
    Is dil se teri yaad bhulaayi nahin jaati, Md.Rafi, NFS (1950), lyrics Rajinder Krishan, music Hansraj Bahl
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QayZgANiwKg

    Rahulji ‘Pritam Aan Milo’(@ 601) was a nice addition.
    Canasyaji @ 604, 607 loved both the Talat NF songs.
    @606,
    Ramchandr Pal, an unexpected voice
    Thanks for the vintage number.

  631. Canasya @628,
    Chalte chalte mere ye geet yaad rakhna became extremely popular.

    @629,
    Agree with you. It is an exquisite song.

  632. AK,
    Congratulation to you all SOY members in general ( I want to get some credit too) and active participants in particular for the spectacular achievement.
    Galloping at an average of thirty five comments per day.

    It is not possible to go through each one them regularly, but my critical mindset has attracted me to some of them. My question to :
    Dr. Shetty@ 584 NV @ 592
    Itni Shakthi hame dena Daataa
    Bhool kar bhi koi bhool ho na…
    I like these 2 different forms of Bhools.
    ANKUSH

    Bhool kar bhi koi bhool ho na…
    I like these 2 different forms of Bhools.
    ANKUSH

    I do not think 2 different forms of bhool are used here.
    Two bhools
    1st ” Bhool kar” means “mistakenly” the another example of that is this song from Dil Hi To Hai
    BHOOLE SE MOHABBAT KAR BAITHA Mukesh DIL HI TO HAI 1963
    https://youtu.be/SHRreWI_IfM

    2 nd bhool means “mistake”
    None of them is “bhool” of “क्या भूलूँ क्या याद करूँ’”

    Now going backwards to comment @ 561 by Mr. Muli
    Ye sazaa tum bhool na Jana
    Pyar ko thokar mat lagana
    I think it is
    Ye “sada” and not yeh “sazaa”

    My observation on this song
    I think father’s song from Kala Pani could be inspiration of Teesri Manzil song, director of both the movies is Vijay Anand and it has “yaad” in it too.
    Achha Ji Main Haari Chalo |
    https://youtu.be/cwBdFom1X30?t=206

    One more question for Mr Muli at@ 315
    Raina Beeti Jaye – Amar Prem – Lata -AB – RDB
    https://youtu.be/RRk9pG5Upe4
    “Shyam ko bhula sham ka vaada”

    Is it Shyam ko bhula sham ka vaada or “ sham ko bhula sham ka vaada”?

  636. AKji @ 613, Venkataraman ji @ 590:

    There is an excellent NFS by Hemant Kumar which I have not been able to locate on YouTube or other sites. You or the more resourceful among the SoY family could perhaps provide a link. The mukhda starts with:

    ‘Ahad kiya tha tujhe dil se main bhula doonga,
    Jaban pe tera kabhi naam tak na laaunga,
    Magar,
    Shaam hote hi teri yaad jo sataati hai,
    Is mein bhi kuchh raaj hai pyaare.’

    The last line above is the refrain. The title of the song, I think, is ‘Shaam hote hi teri yaad.’

  638. Mumbaikar8 @632,
    You get special credit for analysing the lyrics. Not many of us are inclined to do it.

    I had also mentioned once that ‘bhool’ in the sense of ‘mistake’ does not fit here. Dr Shetty’s song has two bhools, one of which is means forgetting. This is acceptable. A good example of यमक.

    I was also confused between ‘Shaam’ and ‘Shyam’ in Raina beeti jaaye, and checked the lyrics. It goes like this:
    शाम को भूला श्याम का वादा
    संग दीए के जागी राधा

    किस सौतन ने रोकी डगरिया
    किस बैरन से लागी नगरिया

    Now this does not leave a doubt. “Radha is awake with the lamp, but Shyam has forgotten his promise to come in the evening. Which mean woman has stopped him in his path, which damsel he has fallen for.”

  639. Mr Rangan @633,
    Teri yaad sataye is a familiar song.
    Jo karke gaye barbaad humein sounds familiar because of the typical lyrics of those days, and HB’s instrumentation.

  640. Canasya @
    @635,
    ‘I would rather you had forgotten my memories too’. Very apt and the singing and composition too are excellent.

  642. AKji, Venkataraman ji:

    The Hemant Kumar song from ‘Shaahi Bazaar’ above @ 637 has both the words, ‘yaad’ and ‘bhool’, buried deep inside. Here are the relevant lines:

    1st antara: ‘… Yaad phir naa bewafaa ki …’

    2nd antra: ‘Bhool jaa guzri wo raatein…

    … Dil se us but ko bhula de …’

  643. Mumbaikarji @ 632
    Bhool Se Agar Koi Bhool HuiTo Bhool Samajh Kar Bhool Jana (maff karna) Bhoolna Sirf Bhool Ko Bhool Kar Bhi Hamein Na Bhool Jana
    Good, you remembered SoY. We require strict teachers to fact-check on our unforced errors. That means two invalid songs to be deducted from the total number. Thanks.

  646. Canasyaji @ 625, 628,629, 634, 635, 636, 637 , 638, 642……….
    You are traversing across different genres with ease;
    films, non films, Bengali, Hindi, Ghazals, Qawwalis, geets….
    Ghulam Ali’Ghazal and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s Qawwali made nice listening.Both the Talat numbers were good. Thanks for the variety.
    Shaam Hote hi teri Yaad jo sataai – There are good number of NFSs recorded, for lesser known MDs and lyricists, by Hemant Kumar in the sixties which are not available for listening. This is one of them. Probably the song was penned and composed by Binod Chatterjee (AIR Lucknow).

    Akji, Canasyaji
    Posting a beautiful Ghazal by Ghulam Ali
    Jo bhi dukh yaad na tha yaad aaya
    Aaj kya jaaniye kya yaad aaya
    Jo bhi dukh yaad na tha yaad aaya
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1u1uZxrw9o

  647. Ranganji @ 633, AKji @639

    Both the songs from Bansuriya had been posted by me @133.

    Sorry, I keep pointing out as I keep a track of the songs that I have posted. I ensure that I don’t repeat my own posted songs.

    Similarly, I am ok if my repeats are pointed out.

  649. Dr. Deshpande
    Thanks for pointing out the duplicate posting done by me. It is a great service you are doing. Difficult to keep track when the data has become very voluminous. I appreciate it very much as it will help Arunkumar to carry out an accurate calibration. He is himself a perfectionist and no doubt would have spotted this faux pas of mine.

  652. Mumbaikar ji @ 632, AKji @ 638, Venkataraman ji @ 643:

    Mumbaikar ji has made some very important points here. The ability to dissect lyrics is a rare gift which I do not claim to possess. It takes the eyes of somebody like AKji to spot ‘Yamak’ in these songs.

    The presence of homonyms and homophones is a perennial source of amusing anecdotes, situations, and confusions that is staple for stand-up comedians/comedy shows. Our own celebrated (Pun)-e-kar can come up with several examples. But even literary stalwarts like Dharmavir Bharati could not let a good thing pass when they saw one. I recall one of his essays in ‘Thele Par Himalay’ in which he talks about his inability to comprehend a Bengali movie that he went to watch with friends. All he could understand was that there was this girl who wanted to do BA with the neighbour’s son. And her parents would not let her do that. But was all the fuss about? Isn’t ours a free country, and don’t we have coeducation? Girls are free to do BA, MA, and if they want, Ph.D. even, with anybody!

    But I was digressing. Let us come back to the songs. I believe, in the song ‘Bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha’, the term ‘bhoole’ has been used in the sense of ‘gaflat’ or ‘forgetfuleness’, which is closer to being the opposite of ‘yaad’, rather than ‘error’. In my opinion, there is a difference between ‘Sorry, I forgot. (I should not have done that.)’ And plain vanilla ‘Sorry. (It was a genuine mistake).’

  656. Canasyaji, Mumbaikarji, Akji
    When I read Mumbaikarji’s observation, it appeared to me that she had a valid point.
    Now your counter point too makes sense.
    Though I may pretend to know the language, it exposes my limitation.
    It is a good learning experience, when experts discuss.

    Posting a NFS by Kamal Barot (1960s)
    Hum tumhen to kabhi na bhoolenge
    Tum to apna banaa ke bhool gaye
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJFWXT54dtU

  657. Venkataraman ji @ 646:

    It has been so satisfying to discover and, in some cases, re-discover (new) old voices from within and across the country. Here is Naseem Begum in the 1960 Pakistani musical hit, Saheli (MD: A. Hamid) singing ‘Hum bhool gaye har baat’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKVrwEbl9AM

  659. Akji, Rajeshji,

    Two songs with similar antara and tune
    Both are highly listenable.
    The first one from Pakistani film of 1960

    Hum Bhool Gaye Har baat,
    Magar Tera Pyaar Nahi Bhoole
    Kya Kya Hua Dil Ke Saath
    Magar Tera Pyaar Nahi Bhoole
    Naseem Banu, Saheli (1960), Fayyaz Hashmi, A Hameed
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBrzwUsZugY

    The second one after 30 years

    Hum Bhool Gaye Har baat,
    Magar Tera Pyaar Nahi Bhoole
    Kya Kya Hua Dil Ke Saath
    Magar Tera Pyaar Nahi Bhoole
    Lata Mangeshkar, Souten Ki Beti (1990), Sawan Kumar, Vedpal
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BScnZbhS70k

  660. Canasyaji @653

    I agree with Mumbaikarji.

    In the song, Bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha, bhoole se is not forgetfulness.
    It actually means, I fell in love by mistake (or unawares or by chance etc..) but definitely not by being forgetful.

    Here, bhoolna is not opposite to yaad aana.

  662. AKji,
    In the late seventies Madhushala was a craze among us. Initially it was Manna Dey’s Madhushala for layman like me and I was aware of only the 20 or so quatrains sung by him. Shortly we came to know that it was Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s Madhushala. It took some more time to understand that it is about life and its elusive eternal happiness. A Hindi teacher, then residing in our area, introduced some of us to few more stanzas. And I quote one stanza which was not part of Manna Dey’s recorded version.

    Jnyat Hua Yam Aane Ko Hai Le Apni Kaali Haala,
    Pandit Apni Pothi Bhula, Sadhu Bhul Gaya Mala,
    Aur Pujari Bhula Puja, Jnan Sabhi Jnani Bhula,
    Kintu Na Bhula Markar Ke Bhi Peenewaala Madhushala.

    Posting two stanzas from Manna Dey’s rendition which I suppose will be appropriate to this post.
    Laal Sura Ki Dhaar Lapat Si Kah Na Ise Dena Jwala,
    Fenil Madira Hai, Mat Isko Kah Dena Ur Kaa Chala,
    Dard Nasha Hai Is Madira ka Vigat Smritiyaan Saaki Hai,
    Peeda Mein Anand Jise ho, Aae Meri Madhushala.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWF6r4fhUo

    Mere Adharon Par Ho Antim Vastu Na Tulsidal Pyaala,
    Meri Jivha Par Ho Antim Vastu Na Gangajal Haala,
    Mere Shav Ke Peeche Chalne Walon Yaad Ise Rakhna,
    Ram Naam Hai Satya Na Kahna, Kahna Sachhi Madhushal.
    https://gaana.com/song/mere-adharon-par-ho

  663. Mumbaikar ji
    I am still under the impression that it is
    ye sada tum bhool na Jana
    But site after sites in their lyrics write saza ( both in English & Hindi) . I listened to the song very carefully but that has not helped. The issue is further complicated by the fact that saza does not seem to be misfit under the given context.
    As regards shyam & Sham , it is certain that one of them is for bansiwale and felt that he cannot be termed as sham.

  664. Venkataraman ji @ 662:

    You single handedly elevate the standards of SoY with your erudite scholarship. Hope you will like Narendra Sharma’s lyrics rendered lovingly by Lata under the baton of Sudhir Fadke for ‘Malti Madhav’:

    ‘Baandh priti phool dor, man leke chitchor …’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9dawzidOBM

    1st antra:

    ‘… Man ki kivaad khol, mita mere anmol
    Bhul jaanaa naa, bhul jaanaa naa … .’

  666. Venkataramanji @646,
    Beautiful thought, Jo bhi dukh yaad na tha yaad aya/ Aaj kya jaane kya yaad aya. “All the sorrows I had forgotten came to my memory. I don’t know what all flooded my memories.”

    @658,
    Hum bool gaye raahein in chaandni raaton mein is such a beautiful song. Thanks.

    @659,
    Superb discovery. But I am intrigued how two lyricists in two countries could write exactly the same lines!

    @662,
    Nice recall of Madhushala. It was a craze in Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s voice. I remember Manna Dey’s LP starts with one verse sung by Bachchan himself.

  667. Mumbaikar 8, Dr Deshpande, Canasya, Venkataramanji,
    भूले से मोहब्बत कर बैठा is causing some difference of views. One interpretation is “I fell in love by mistake”; another is “I fell in love involuntarily, or in a state of forgetfulness”. If I may submit, theoretically both the meanings are possible. That should not come as a surprise. Because it is a recognised अलंकार in Hindi/Sanskrit – श्लेष. The difference between Yamak and Shlesh is that in the former the same word is used multiple times in an expression, each carrying different meaning. Rahim’s some dohas are famous examples of Yamak, but the classic example is Bhushan’s ‘Shiva Bavni‘ (52 verses in the praise of Chhatrapati Shivaji) which is famous for Yamaks all over. Shlesh is when the same word lends itself to multiple meanings.

    However, in the context of the song Bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha, its tempo, its picturisation, I am more inclined to take it as forgetfulness, without conscious thought, something which just just happened. May be mathematically both the meanings converge. Over to Canasya, you are a mathematician.

  668. An interesting topic. Some more songs:
    Jo mujhe bhulake chale gaye (Lata, C Ramchandra- Sangeeta)
    Tum apni yaad bhi dil se bhula jaate (Talat,Lata,C Rachandra-Yasmin)
    Apni kaho kuch meri suno kya dil ka lagana bhul gaye (Talat,Lata,C Ramchadra-Parchhain)
    Tera khayal dil se bhulaya nahin (Talat,Anil Biswas- Doraha)
    Dil men basake …bhool na jana (Talat, Anil Biswas- Doraha)
    Unhe dilse jab hum bhulane lage (Lata, Anil Biswas -Arzoo)
    Yeh chaar din bahar ke….Bhula do zindagi ke gham (Kishore,Asha,Sajjad -Rukhsana)
    Bachpan ki yaad garo (Noor Jahan, Ghulam Haider- Gulanar)
    Sudh bisar gayi aaj bite dinan ki (Manna De, SN Tripathi,Sangeet Samrat- Tansen

  669. AK @ 638
    Thanks for giving me special credit for analysing the lyrics and then debunking it.
    I think I had itmade very clear, I think in Dr Shetty’s song of the two bhools none is opposite of yaad. I have given the example of Dil Hi To Hai song, which Casnaya and Dr. Deshpande are referring to.

    Raina beeti jaaye I feel it is sham ko bhula sham ka vaada.
    My understanding is “sham ko bhula sham ka vaada” is like “raat gayi baat gayi” for Shyam
    “Sang diya ke jaagi Radha” but for Radha it was otherwise.

    NV @643
    Bhool kar bhi mai agar aap sab ko bhoolin to wah meri kabhi mauf na karne wali bhool hogi.
    Mia aisi bhool bhool bhoolen se bhi nahin kar sakti hoon.
    Which song other than Ankush have you invalidated?

    Casnasya @ 652
    “The ability to dissect lyrics is a rare gift which I do not claim to possess.”
    Totally agree with you, I do not claim to possess it either, but I have this instinct of dissecting lyrics according to my logic and am not at all afraid of being proved wrong so it is win win situation for me
    Appreciate your view. As mentioned in response to AK’s comment I m not convinced yet.

    Dr. Deshpande,
    Thanks for coming forward with your view. You have explained it better than me.
    I would have taken Sahir Ludhyanvi’s help to explain.
    Sahir has said it in his second line.
    1 “Bhoole se” mohabbat kar baitha Nadan tha Bechara dil hi to hai.
    2 Har di se “Khata” ho ja ti hai bigdo na khudara dil hi to hai
    Khata is paryayvachi for bhool.

    Mr. Muli @ 663
    Stick to your impression, listen to just the audio, preferably with earplugs. Rafi is loud and clear.

  673. Mr Muli @671,
    Tum meri zindagi mein is tarah se aaye
    Bhoola sa khwab jaise sach hoke muskuraye
    is a lovely song. I am surprised it was not included in the film.

  674. Two run of the mill compositions of LP, both for Dev Anand & Hema Malini starrers

    Baith ja baith gayi – Amir Garib – AB – Lata & Kishor
    Recently read an interview of Rakessh Bakshi where he talked about how his father was criticized for
    ” Tukbandi ”
    This song is good (?)example of that sample this
    Mera jadu chal Gaya , chal Gaya
    Kal aaya tha Kal Gaya Kal gaya.
    https://youtu.be/V69V9Ieb_Gw

    2 Aayegi Aayegi Aayegi kisiko hamari yaad Aayegi – Jaaaneman – AB
    https://youtu.be/JyEqdtijZ68

  677. AKji @ 666, Venkataraman ji @ 659:

    AKji, you have elevated satire to a new level with your statement: ‘I am intrigued how two lyricists in two countries could write exactly the same lines!’

    The give and take (mostly take) culture of HFM is well known. The phenomenon is not limited to music. Its roots lie in natural and artificial restrictions on flow of goods, services, and information across boundaries (physical, linguistic etc.). More than 4 decades ago, in my final year of engineering, I was doing a project on solar energy. I looked at past issues of relevant journals available in our library, and we had them from around the world including English prints of Soviet (now Russia) journals. I noticed that the moment an important paper appeared in an American/Soviet journal, a version of it soon appeared in its counterpart Soviet/American journal with different authors! It was not one-way copying, and the score was fairly even. The game had had been going on for decades, perhaps because there were no electronic databases, nor free movement of scientists across those countries. (Also, engineering is not an area where noble prizes are at stake, and commercially important findings were classified or patented anyway.) This may not be happening today in scientific journals in most of the world, although some claim the practice goes on in China unabated.

    Such borrowing (with impunity) is often justified as being essential for an underdeveloped society to catch up with the developed ones. If true, I shudder to think what is implied by the similarity between the two lyrics!

    To soothe our nerves, what better than a serving of a Bengali NFS by the incomparable Talat Mahmood: ‘Tomare parini je bhulite’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pge87haSPKs

  678. Venkataraman ji @ 662, Dr Deshpande @ 493:

    Venkataraman ji, the lines you quote from Madhushala have the term ‘(vigat) smritiyaan’—not something that you are likely to find in many Hindi film songs.

    Here is the Sanskrit version of ‘Tere jaisa yaar kahan, tere jaisa yaraana’ from Yaraana posted by Dr Deshpande earlier. This translation by Dr Harekrishna Meher won the Sanskrit Lyric Translation Competition conducted by Sanskrit Vaartaavali, DD News Channel, 2019. The singer of this version is Kuldeep Joshi. The mukhda is:

    मित्रं क्व वा त्वत्सदृशम्, क्व एतादृशं मैत्रम् । सुस्मरिष्यते जगत्या, तव मम गाथेयम् ॥

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfeVweI1sSI

  680. @679 – lyrics Verma Malik, music Sardul Kwatra
    Mirza Sahiban (1947), Aziz Kashmiri, Pandit Amarnath
    Aaj Miyanji Ko Chad Aaye Bukhar To Bada Maza Aaye
    jo bhule koi ek bar to jute char lagau (Ist antara)
    Shamshad Begum and chorus
    https://youtu.be/lIciN1-UWwE?t=57

  684. Now 2 Rafi songs having Marathi connection
    1 Jaata hu main mujhe phir na bulana – Daadi Maa – Majrooh – Roshan
    Touching lyrics & equally touching rendition by Rafi under the baton of Roshan.
    https://youtu.be/4er7zbsKHVM
    The song is filmed on Dr Kashinath Ghanekar who was THE superstar of Marathi drama in sixties. It was said that his name alone was sufficient for any drama to be a super hit

    2 Aapke pahalu me aakar to diye – Mera Saya – Raja Mehedi Ali khan- Madan Mohan
    In the second antara
    Deep yaado ke jalakar chal diye
    The film was remake of Marathi film Paathlaag( पाठलाग). And Dr Ghanekar played the lead role in that film.
    https://youtu.be/EoBBOSCCRcI

  687. C Singhji@668
    I have listened to all these songs very many times. Did not bother to follow lyrics in those days. I will post you tube link for the songs.
    01 – Sangeetha, Pyrelal Santoshi – https://youtu.be/4FLzDauGmxc?t=140
    02 – Yasmin – Jan Nisar Aktar – https://youtu.be/BJfGNe47kSI?t=56
    03 – Parchaiyan – Noor Lucnavi – https://youtu.be/SpH4RyfObSw?t=3
    04 – Do Raha – Prem Dhawan – https://youtu.be/rFCCbPYF9qk?t=41
    05 – Rukshana – Shakeel Badauni – https://youtu.be/oHG2oZ3ClY4?t=43
    06 – Sangeeth Samrat Tansen – Shailendra – https://youtu.be/N3NwQlXcMH0?t=9
    07 – Do Raha – Josh Malihabadi – https://youtu.be/Qda98kAzk9Y?t=48
    Link for song Gulnar is under search

  688. Canasya @677,
    Your satire ‘give and take (mostly take) culture in HFM’ is deadly. In music I find adapted tunes are really excellent. In movies, remakes of foreign films fall grossly short.

    Inspiration from other’s research papers you are mentioning pertains to the Cold War era. Now the opprobrium is very severe and any clever lifting does not go unnoticed for long. Mashelkar Committee authored some report which was found to have taken three paragraphs from a research paper. That was enough to bring down his reputation in mud. He withdrew the report saying he would resubmit to meet the requirements of highest standards. No respected scientist would take such risk in his research work. What does happen is playing on the borderline of personal ethics, such as the senior putting his name as the first author even though his contribution is minimal. But many scientists/professors of honour do not mind being credited as the second or third author.

    @682,
    Wo din bisarah naa more raja, jab ban aaye dulah more angana, jab pakdi thi meri baanh more raja: This is a beautiful song indeed. Since it is listed as a song in HFGK, it must have been a full song. That would indeed be a great discovery.

    @685,
    Bachpan ki yaad dheere dheere pyar ban gayi is a great favourite for those who like vintage songs.

  689. Presume this popular duet from Raag Rang (1952) has not been posted already.
    Dile bequarar so ja by Talat Mahmood and Lata Mangeshkar
    taare chamak ke apni manjil ko ja rahe hai
    manjil ko ja rahe hai
    manjil ki yaad me ham aanshu baha rahe hai (Ist antara)
    https://youtu.be/uc10u8FI0fg?t=16

  690. Mr Rangan @679, 680. 681,
    Heard of a film Mirza Sahiban of 1957 and its song for the first time. The songs of the 1947 film I greatly like.

    @683,
    tum bhulaye na gaye by Firoza Begum is an immortal song. Thanks for posting it.

  703. Canasyaji @ 664, AKji,

    How could I forget this song? It is an excellent song in all respects, lyrics, composition and rendition. In fact I remember, this song was in your choice of top five Lata Mangeshkar’s solo for the year 1951. And you were the ONLY person. And today in retrospective I highly respect and appreciate your choice. And it was also not in my list of best Lata’s solos for that year. Nor the song found a place in the final list of SoY. Yes, there were so many wonderful songs and the singer was Lata, yet I would not hesitate to admit that it was a bad miss on my part. Thank you for bringing this song to the fore again. It was a pleasure.

    But that is not the end of the story. It was one of those rare occasions the lyrics of another song from the same film came for extensive discussion in the post ‘Best Songs Of 1951: And The Winners Are?’. A duet by Sudhir Phadke and Lata (you may remember). And the film was once again Malati Madhav and the lyricist was once again Narendra Sharma. One of the points that was discussed was the meaning of the word ‘Sudhi”. After an extensive and erudite discussion (AKji, Hansji, Mumbaikarji & Arvinderji) it was agreed that the word ‘Sudhi’ represented memory in this song. Here is the translation of the first line by AKji.

    Your memory in my heart is sweet, my love!
    But my tears are bitter

    Only Narendra Sharma could come up with such exquisite lyrics

    Sudhi teri madhur madhur pyaare
    Par aansu mere khaare hai
    Naino se bahe jal ki dhara
    Man me mere angaare hai

    Asha ke pallav sukh gaaye
    Kumhalaayi sapno ki kaliyaan
    kal milan muralika bagi jahaan
    Suni man madhuban ki galiyaan
    Sune naino ke gagan bich
    Ye aansu bhor ke taare hai
    Man me mere angaare hai

    Jab chaah na puri honi thi
    Di chaah milan ki kyo man ko
    Yun jinaa hai to jine kaa
    Adhikaar diyaa kyo jivan ko
    Kab ghadi milan ki aayegi
    Ye vikal praan path haare hai
    Man me mere angaare hai
    https://gaana.com/song/man-mein-angarey-hai

  704. Canasyaji @678,
    Vigat Smritiyaan- Your observations are correct. I think even in Bengali film lyrics, the word is rarely found. I can recollect a couple Rabindra Sangeet- ‘Tomaro Geeti Jagalo Smriti’, ‘Bharaa Thaak Smriti sudhay’. But it is pronounced as ‘Sriti’.
    सुस्मरिष्यते जगत्या- sounds grand! Good recall and adds to the variety.

    Thanks for the two nice additions
    ‘Bachpan ki yaad dheere dheere pyaar ban gayee’ @ 685
    Tomare parini je bhulite @ 677

  705. Rajeshji,
    Congratulations. What a way bring up the 700th comment.
    It seems you were in a hurry to pip the man waiting in the wings.
    Posting one short of a dozen, you had only one mishit.
    The song from Ghazal (1945) was posted by Arunji @ 359.
    Thanks for the other vintage number from Yaad (1942). Nice find.
    So was the duet from Fashion (1956).

    Ranganji @683,
    Thanks for the NFS by Feroza Begum

  706. Rahulji @ 671,
    Tum Meri Zindagi me kuchh is tarah se aaye
    Bhulasa khwab jaise such hoke muskuraye
    A nice posting.
    The tune of the song was originally composed by a 19 years old Pancham for his first film Raaz (1957-58). I believe, the song was based on the theme music of Charlie Chaplin’s film Limelight (1952). Raaz was shelved midway; however the duet rendered by Hemant Kumar and Geeta Dutt(lyrics Shailendra) was recorded. I could not locate the song. So it was for the second time, another duet on the same tune was dropped from Bombay to Goa (1972). I understand that the tune was remodeled and used in the 1977 film Mukti. I am not sure about song. You may be able to identify it.

    It appears to me the humming part in the begging by Lata in the song ‘Tum Meri Zindagi me kuchh is tarah se aaye’ had similarities with Kiska Rastaa dekhe.

  708. Rajeshi,
    Continuing from my last comment
    The tune was used in Bengali film Devta / Debota (1991)
    And the song fits our theme.
    Amit Kumar, lyrics Swapn Chakraborty,, RDB
    Ki Kore Jaanle Tumi,
    Bhule Jaabo Tomai,
    Aamari Praan Je Tumi
    Take Ki Go Bhula Jai…
    How did you come to know that I will forget you?
    You are my Praan (sweetheat), how can forget her?

    https://gaana.com/song/ki-kore-janle-tumi-2

  710. Mr Rangan @689,
    Mat chhed zindagi ke khamosh taar so ja, dil-e-beqaraar so ja: Absolutely melodious song. I don’t think it has been posted earlier.

  712. Dr Deshpande @892,
    Bhlaanewle humein bi na yaad aya karo: A nice vintage song. Heard of Zahoor Raja’s name for the first time.

    @693,
    Yaad jab bechain karti hai: Nice song.

    @694,
    Tum aur hum bhool ke gham, Gaayein pyar bhari sargam: Hemant Kumar is always melodious whether slow-paced or fast-ppaced. In this fast-paced duet, both Hemnat Kumar and Geeta Dutt are superb.

    @695, Not only the song, but the film name was new to me. Must be one of ‘came and vanished’.

    @696,
    This Lata mangeshkar song from the film was not heard much.

    @697,
    Yaad aanewaale kyun bool jaate hain
    Bhool jaanewale kyun yaad aate hain    : Interesting dilemma.

    @698,
    The song is quite pleasant, though I do not recall having heard of the movie.

    @699,
    The senior actors’ dance is indeed enjoyable.

    @700,
    Tujhe yaad na aayi kaise ab kya kahna: is a great song.

    @701,
    Ghulam Ali tries his hand at a usual film song. But it seems the situation demanded a softer melody.

    @702,
    Heard for the first time.

    Dr Deshpande,
    Congratuations for touching the tape at 700 mark first.

  713. Venkataramanji @705

    Thanks for pointing out the repeat. Sorry about it!!
    Of the two vintage numbers, I was thinking that the Yaad song could be a repeat, but turned out to be the one from Ghazal.

    Taking one more shot with another vintage number…

    Dukhiyari 1948
    Gyan Dutt – FM Kaiser – Surendra

    Ab humko bhula do kehte hain kehte hain
    kehte the kabhi jo bhulana na bhulana na

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bwyvc1ujs8

  714. Ak ji
    Before I thank Venkataramanji
    Let me post another song from mukti
    Pyar hai ek nishan kadamo ka-
    Anand Bakshi – RDB – Rafi
    Bhul jate hai log sub kuchh lekin
    Kuchh na kuchh phir bhi yaad rahata hai
    https://youtu.be/HblMcCiCjf8
    It was unusual of RDB to have used Kishor,Rafi & Mukesh in the same film.
    Venkataramanji
    Thanks for the information on tum meri Zindagi me
    It is also said that Ghar aaja ghir aaye was composed by RDB for Raaz.
    The song you have referred from mukti should be
    Main Jo Chala peekar – Kishor & Asha
    It is not related to the theme
    So I will not post the link here

  715. Venkataramanji @703,
    Thanks for taking us back on 1951 trip. That was the peak year of Lata Mangeshkar, and only ten had to be included. But Baandhi preeti phool dore is indeed absolutely melodious, and I am not surprised it was Canasya’s choice among best songs. It is capable of pushing out many superhit songs.

    Sudhi teri madhur madhur pyare: Now there is no doubt that ‘sudhi’ in this song meant the singer’s memory of his beloved, and that brought tears in the eyes. In some context it may mean ‘sense’, ‘hosh-o-hawas’ – ‘Sudhi bisraai’ may have that meaning.

    @706,
    19 your old Pancham’s first film Raaz (1957-58)? The film was not completed? Do we have any songs of the film?

    @709, 711,
    both are very nice songs and both are top singers today.

  718. Dr Deshpande,
    This song is a very valuable addition. The lyrics and music are very good, but Saroj Welingkar seems to be a casual singer. Never heard her name. Some sites show 10 songs sung by her in five films: Jadui Ratan, Shanti (1947); Duniyadari, Ye Hai Duniya( 1948); Bhed (1950). It would be interesting to explore her other songs.

  720. Neeruahaf,
    Ae mere dil kabhi unse fariyaad na kar: is a beautiful song. I am sure it has not been posted earlier. I am a bit surprised by the discordant instrumentation which does not go with the lyric and CH Atma’s style of singing. My impression is that the music has been superimposed. Even HMV once brought out an LP of KL Saigal songs with ‘stereophonic effect’. The instrumental music was redone which marred the songs.

  721. AK ji @ 720

    Glad you find it beautiful too. Yes, the instrumentation left me bewildered also. In fact, the music in the beginning reminded me of another song which I cannot quite recall. Cn anybody help in that?

    Saigal saab, Atma saab and others of their ilk should be left alone. They do not need such musical experimentation.

  722. AK ji

    Since Mukesh saab is predominantly present in your post (and hurrah for that) here are three more of his songs:

    Jise hum yaad karte hain
    [Preet ka Geet/ Hari Krishna Premi/ Shyam Babu]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVRqQwbpyOY

    *

    Wasta hi na jab raha tumse
    [Chori-Chori/ Gulshan Bawra/ SJ]

    “Chand roti hui yaadon ke siva, dekh lo kuchh nahin liya tumse…”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8g0WVcjQd8

    *
    Na apna tha jo kal guzra…
    [Jeevan Rekha/ Dev Kohli/ J Jagdish]

    “Apni nazron se boht dur chhupa dun khudko
    Ji mein aata hai kahin rakh kar bhula dun khudko”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJrUEiEO4go

  724. Okay. Got it. That beautiful song from Ghunghat has been penned by Shakeel.

    And I see that the first Mukesh song has already been posted, perhaps others too. One of the drawbacks of coming late to the party:)

  725. And another Talat gem from Doraha:

    Tera Khyal dil se mitaya nahi abhi
    Bedard maine tujh ko bhulaya nahi abhi…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qda98kAzk9Y

    Josh Malihabadi pens one of the most unusual lines ever:

    “Gardan ko aaj tak teri bahon ki yaad hai…”

    Gardan! Has anybody ever heard this being used in a song. Plz share, if so.

  726. Neeruahaf @723, @724,
    You are not missing anything for coming late to the party.
    Jise hum yaad karte hain is an absolutely melodious song. And the unheard song from ‘Chori Chori‘ with commentary by Ameen Sayani is too good. Mukesh was natural for this theme.

  728. S. Joseph ji @727

    Thanks for sharing that. First time hearing the song.

    Surahi daar gardan is considered such a thing of beauty in Indian culture, isn’t it? But I wonder if the kids of nowadays even know what a surahi is.

  729. @728, Though not in the sense as in the song @ 727 , notice the use of this word in this song , ( listen from 2′ 53″ into the song )

    ‘ Tujhe dekha tujhe…/ 1967 / Chhoti si mulaqat /Hasrat Jaipuri/ SJ /Rafi , Suman Kalyanpur

    https://youtu.be/ITZkamf3edM

  730. @728
    I now fully realize how I am unfit to fully enjoy a song for lack of deciphering the lyrics in full except the tune part. I do not know what “surahi” means in the first place leave alone fully appreciating what you had stated. Nowadays I am trying to rectify my shortcomings by trying to follow the lyrics at least. Without an on line ready Hindi-English dictionary, well nigh impossible to garner the meaning of many words figuring in the lyrics.
    I am adding a few songs on the theme.
    Marine Drive (1955) Sahir Ludyanvi / N Dutta
    Ab Wo Karam Karein Ke Sitam,Mein Nashe Men Hoon by
    Mohammad Rafi
    fursat nahi hain rone rulane ke vaaste
    aaye na unki yaad satane ke vaaste
    satane ke vaaste (last antara)
    https://youtu.be/9n91Ah5KPQM?t=17

    Bahu (1955) – S H Bihari / Hemant Kumar
    O Jane wale hum yad kiyun na by Lata Mangeshkar
    https://youtu.be/0fyS_IqxfEc?list=TLGGbxdG6b9mRukyMTA1MjAyMQ&t=4

  731. Laila Majnu (1945)
    Tanvir Naqui / Govind Ram, Rafiq Gaznavi
    Kya Sitam Hai Zulm Hai
    Singer : Not identifiable
    ab fakat hum hai tumhari yad hai
    un sisakati hasrato ke yadgaar
    un sisakati hasrato ke yadgaar
    lab pe ek tuti hui fariyad hai (last antara)
    https://youtu.be/S9B-RlUrU9I?t=209

  732. D.P. Rangan ji @ 731

    The singers are Amir Bai Karnatki and Rafiq Ghaznavi. It’s a lovely song, isn’t it? It was my choice for the top-most duet of 1945.

  733. D.P. Rangan ji @ 731

    And I love these lines too:

    Ab kafas hai, main hoon, aur saiyad hai…

  734. Two gazals completely opposite in style
    Soft & serene
    Dil me ek lahar si uthi hai abhi- Nasir Kazmi – Ghulam Ali
    https://youtu.be/VoAlBP16mG8
    Yaad ke benisha jajeerose
    Teri awaz as Rahi hai abhi-

    Catchy, perhaps too catchy for a gazal
    Mere jaise ban jaoge
    Jab ishq tumhe ho jayega
    Saeed Rahi – Jagjeet & Chitra
    https://youtu.be/TMRbRJQHn0A
    Tanhai ke jhule jhuloge
    Har baat purani bhuloge

  735. @729

    Wow! S. Joseph ji, that is a beautiful song though Suman Kalyanpur screeches at 1:36 when she joins Rafi. Wonder why?

    As in the previous song mentioned by you, the lyricist is again Hasrat and he also uses the more common synonym of gardan: gala – “ab gale mil jao aakar…”

    Incidentally, who is the handsome hero? Uttam Kumar?

  739. Neeruahaf @732 and 733
    Accidentally discovered the song and went through the lyrics and then posted it as relevant. Thanks for appreciation.

    Laila Majnu (1953)
    Shakeel Badauni / Ghulam Mohammad
    Baharo Ki Duniya Pukare Tu Aaja
    Talat Mahmood & Asha Bhonsle
    teri yad sham-o-sehar jagti hai
    sehar jagti hai (last antara)
    https://youtu.be/v4_2UhyC86w?t=6
    Aasmawale teri duniyan se
    Lata Mangshkar & Talat Mahmood
    jal gaya dil soz-e-gam se, jab koi yad aa gaya
    aasman vaale teri duniya se ji ghabra gaya
    (Talat Mahmood)
    https://youtu.be/Bb51L-ZXxqA?t=4

  740. Joseph ji @ 737-738, Rangan ji @ 731, 739:

    Wonderful songs. Good to see that you are keeping the scoreboard ticking. ‘Yaad aane waale’, I believe, was earlier posted by Anup ji @ 44.

    Here is ‘Mohabbat ki kahaniyan’, a rare Talat-Lata duet, under the baton of LP, from ‘Woh din yaad karo’, 1971:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW10EI6w5as

    1st antra:

    ‘…Ye kisse nigah-e-yaar ke, ye dhadkan dil-e-bekaraar ke,
    Ye subahen tumhari yaad ki, ye shaamen suhaani bahaar ki, …’

  741. Neeruahaf @725, 728, 735,
    Mr Joseph @727, 729,
    गर्दन (gardan): The word rarely sounds poetic. A famous couplet is:
    दिल के आईने में है तस्वीर-ए-यार
    जब ज़रा गर्दन झुकाई देख ली
    https://shaiyer.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/जब-ज़रा-गर्दन-झुकाई-देख-ली/

    Hasrat Jaipuri has cleverly used these lines with some change of words in Tujhe dekha tujhe chaha tujhe pooja maine.

    Yes, that handsome guy is Uttam Kumar, the superstar of Bengali cinema. His foray into Bollywood was a flop. Imagine Biswajit and Joy Mukherjee being stars here. Bollywood and Tollywood are different worlds.

    @736,
    Meri aankhen bani diwani is one of the most beautiful songs of Jagmohan.

  742. Mr Rangan @730,
    ‘Surahi’ is a long-necked earthen water jug (shape of a vase). In olden days we used too carry it in train journeys, kept the water cool in summers. At homes we generally kept big sized surahis or a round pitcher, घड़ा or ‘ghatam’.

    You are doing very well with the language. Online dictionary may not be very useful. If you are familiar with the language, a good dictionary would help you only clearing your doubts about a particular word. Language comfort can only come by reading in that language, watching films, conversing with people.

    @731,
    Very nice song. Neeruahaf has already given her thumbs up. The audio quality is however poor.

  743. Mr Muli @734,
    Your explanation makes the ghazals more enjoyable. Dil mein ek lahar si uthi hai abhi I have heard several times.

    I am hearing Mere jaisa ban jaaoge, jab ishq tumhein ho jaayega for the first time. Quite enjoyable. Jagjit-Chitra had become superstars then. They sang Punjabi tapas too. Sometimes they must have found it difficult to switch from one to the other.

  744. Mr Joseph @737, 738,
    Both the Talat Mahmood-Lata Mangeshkar duets are out of this world. And from the same film, composed by Vinod, a forgotten composer!

  746. Mumbaikar ji @ 632, 669, Venkataraman ji @ 656, Dr Deshpande @ 660, AKji @ 667:

    I thought I had safely ducked under Mumbaikar ji’s bouncer. But then came Dr Deshpande’s vicious googly. Fortunately, AKji has called for the third umpire giving us opportunity to look at things from different angles at our own pace.

    We live in a sea of stimuli from our surroundings. These, coupled with our actions, and the rewards condition our responses. Most decisions are based on the cues from the environment and our past conditioning. Every person has a different range of appropriate responses for a given set of cues. Usually, a response by A would be within the accepted range of B. If not, B would consider A in error. If the majority considers A in error, then it is the case of ‘bhool’.

    The absence of cues makes decision making difficult. Mazes, such as the Hampton Maze, or Lucknow’s ‘Bhool-bhulaiya’, or the Chakravyuh (Mahabharat) eliminate cues by making every corner identical and induce us into taking the wrong turn.

    Couple of decades ago, I had attended a conference at the Hilton in Brisbane, Australia. I was staying in room 801 (say). After the day’s meetings, I went to my room, opened the door with the key card, and was taken aback—the room was empty, but an open suitcase was lying on the bed with some clothes in it that were not mine. I came out, closed the door, and saw it had 901 written on it. My card had opened another room! I went to 801 and it was exactly as I had left. Called the hotel staff. They were surprised, immediately reprogrammed my room’s lock, and gave me another card. The hotel engineer later told me that there was one chance in a million that two rooms could be opened with the same card!

    Suppose there was a party on in the room, I was asked what I was doing there, and like a true HFM fan, I broke into a song, ‘Hum aapki mehfil mein bhoole se chale aaye, ho maaf khata apni, …’ (Rafi in ‘Jab se tumhe dekha hai’; MD: Dattaram):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shxgYl_lsHo

    Which ‘bhoole’ would it have been? Though I would have apologized, no court would have found me guilty of trespassing. All floors and rooms in these hotels are designed to look alike. I was tired, was rushing back to my room after a whole day of meetings, pressed the wrong lift button, and failed to read the room #. I had a key that was supposed to open only one lock. By the way, the situation in this song is somewhat like the one in ‘Dil hi to hai’ song that we are talking about.

    The class ridden feudal societies of yore reminded us of our place in the sun every minute. Thus, for an Indian, Javed (Sashi Kapoor in Junoon), wanting to marry a British girl, Ruth (Nafisa Ali), was a ‘bhool’ even in the eyes of his closest friends.

    Now the ‘snickometer’ focusing on ‘Bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha’. Today, our society has eliminated all those cues that were available to Javed in Junoon. There is co-ed. Girls and boys from different strata go to the same schools and colleges, wear the same dress, go to the same parks, shops, and parties. In this milieu, who can blame two consenting adults (and there is enough consent during two-third of the movie prior to this song) who fall for each other?

    Suddenly, the girl’s father, born and brought up during the Raj, invokes a pre-nup made when the girl was 3! Family’s honour is at stake. Jameela (Nutan) relents. Chaand (RK) does not know where he went wrong. But a gentleman cannot blame the girl by singing ‘Wafa jinse kee … ’ (Mukesh in ‘Pyaar ka saagar’; MD: Ravi):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP6sUC2U6MI

    He apologizes for having forgotten his station in life by singing ‘Bhoole se’. But never for a moment did he think he was wrong, nor did Jameela (tears in eyes). After the song, he goes and tells Jameela of an escape plan. I rest my case.

    The Mukesh song from ‘Pyaar ka saagar’ above begins with the following lines:

    ‘Ho gaye do roz mein abaad bhi barbaad bhi,
    Ab tamanna hai yehi aaye na unki yaad bhi.’

  751. Neeruahafji, Josephji, Canasyaji, AKji
    Gardan, Surahidaar gardan, Jhuki hui garden…….
    Though it is an aside from our theme, let me too stick my neck out.
    Alight hearted song penned by Kavi Pradeep; Asha Bhose, CR, Talaaq (1958)

    Lagii jo takkar, arre khaa gaye chakkar
    Toote laddoo man ke
    Chale the chaube chhabe hone
    Rah gaye dube ban ke…….
    Jhuk gayi dekho gardan unki
    Chalte thhe jo tan ke
    Ho gaye chaupat sabhi iraade
    Aaj kisi ke man ke
    Hoy hoy hoy
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJePjWWbjeo&t=38s

  752. Venkataraman ji @ 751:

    A very ‘domestic’ or ‘homely’ song! By the way, the mukhda not only reflects a common saying in Hindi, but also contains the titles of the protagonists in the movie: Rajendra Kumar is Chaube, and Kamini Kadam, the lead actress, is Chhabbe till around the intermission, and Chaube afterwards.

    Here are two wistful voices–Shamshad Begum and Lalita Deulkar in Khidki, 1948 (MD: CR)–‘Hamen bhi koi yaad karta’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kue-AvexYWw

  753. Bhoola comes ever do fleetingly in this song that we almost forget that it is there.
    O mere bhole balam – Rajinder Krishan – RDB – Kishor
    https://youtu.be/Zr_enRRcyuw
    After Mukri
    corrects Kishor
    Arre guru , Anuradha nahi bindoo,
    Kishor says arre tere ki bhoola.

  757. Canasya @746,
    Like a true academic you stretch the limits of our intellectual capacity. We are no longer graduate students 🙂 .

    The problem arises when someone is so rigid in his views that he is not willing to accept even if everyone else has a different view. I don’t know if they have given any name for that, say ‘Howard Roark Complex’? A more innocent form would be ‘Rashomon Effect’? Then any statistical theory fails.

    On ‘Bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha’ I read you arguing opposite of what you held earlier. Was this ‘bhoole se’ or I have misread you ‘bhoole se’?

    On ‘Hum aapki mehfil mein bhoole se chale aaye’, I would have straightaway said it was ‘by mistake’. But since I am interacting with an academic, I am getting into a ‘bhool bhulaiya’. This person walks into the party involuntarily. He was in a state of lapse of concentration. Therefore, it could very well the other.

    One cannot rest one’s case like this. The judge would like to know my case clearly. I reiterate, ‘Bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha’ is ‘it just happened without my even knowing it’. Entering a wrong room is ‘mistake’. I rest my case.

  758. AKji, Canasyaji,
    While discussing Narendra Sharma, I remembered a NFS penned by him. Probably it was recorded after the 1962 war.

    Jo samar me ho gae amar, Main unki yaad me
    Gaa rahi hun aaj shradhdh-geet dhanyavaad mein
    Lata Mangeshkar, Jaidev
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ane6jAgxF9U

    Later it was recorded in the voice of Asha Bhosle

  759. Rahulji @734,
    Thanks for the two contrasting style of Ghazals.
    Like both, loved the one by Ghulam Ali more.

    @ 758,
    A nice recollection.

    Posting a lovely Ghazal by Mehadi Hazan
    Jab bhii aatii hai terii yaad kabhii shaam ke baad
    Aur bad jaatii hai afsurdaadilii shaam ke baad
    ………………………………………………..
    Yoon to har lamhaa terii yaad mein bojhal guzaraa
    dil ko eahasuus hui terii kamii shaam ke baad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3RuF9CLO8Q

  760. Another song, ta duet from Subhadra (1946)
    Main khili khili phulwari
    …………………….
    Third antara
    Prano se mere pritam ka pyara nam
    Kaho kaho le sun
    Par sunke bhool hi jana sakhi ri
    Sunke bhool hi jana sakhi ri
    Ye bhed kahi na sunana
    Shanta Apte & Lata Mangeshkar, Moti, Vasant Desai
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oKb6wJfK5s

    And one more from 1943
    Aaj pehlu mein dard sa kya hai
    Kuchh nahi hai to phir hua kya hai,
    2nd antara
    Yaad aate ho to yaad karti hun
    Ab bataao meri khata kya hai

    Parul Ghosh,Wali Sahab, Pannalal Ghosh, Sawaal (1943)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9xXXzvit2s

  761. Canasya @748,
    Sajanwa bhool humein na jana is a wonderful song. Just shows that even with very thorough yearwise reviews we are missing some very good songs.

    @749,
    O pardesiya bhool na jana is abeautiful song. Which Munawwar Sultana is this. Our Munawwar Sultana was not known to sing. Is she the same who crossed and sang in Pakistani films?

    @750,
    Parwano se preet seekh le shama se seekhen jal jana
    Is duniya ko yaad rahega tera mera afsana
    Wonderful song. Taking inspiration from both the lamp and the moth which burns itself.

  762. Mr Joseph @747,
    Bhaiya mere rakhi ke bandhan ko na bhulana: Very nice song. A non-cynical use of ‘bhulana’.

  763. Venkataramanji @751,
    I didn’t know our intrepid readers would get so many ‘gardan’ songs. Jhuk gayi dekho gardan unki breaks an entirely new ground. Thanks for posting it.

    @754,
    Bhoole se bhool na jana balam pardesi: That is perfect use of the two meanings of ‘Bhoole se’. That should settle the debate. The man replies: Bhoole se yaad na ana.

    @758,
    Jo samar mein ho gaye amar: Very poignant song.

    @759,
    I could not help entering your conversation with Mr Muli. Her memories coming in the evening is such a poignant thought. This song always comes to mind:
    Hui sham unka khayal aa gaya
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOdrJl3D2fw

    About this song I often observe LP have reached Roshanian heights. I am sure they must be very flattered.

    @760,
    Main khili khili pphulwari: I think we mentioned this duet in review of 1946. I mentioned Lata Mangeshkar was tentative before her senior Shanta Apte, and dutyfully following her.

    Aaj pahlu mein dard sa kya hai is a nice song.

  764. Mr Muli @753,
    This conversation has a very interesting and subtle reference to a classic film of the 1930s. When I posed this quiz some years ago, you may not be able to guess who cracked it. It was Mrs Venkataraman who helped Venkataramanji.

  766. Venkataraman ji
    Thanks.
    I have herad Mehedi Hassan’s version many years back. Thanks for refreshing those memories. But I have heard jJagJeet’s version more often. Maybe during those days he was quite a rage. Here is his version
    https://youtu.be/CevScas06ys

  768. D. P. Rangan ji @730

    The song from Marine Drive is very nice. Love the refrain, “Main Nashe Main Hoon”. Thanks for sharing. The song from Bahu reminds me of another song. Did you feel the same way too?

    I think the English equivalent of “Surahidaar Gardan” would be “Swan necked”.

  769. Canasya ji @745 & N. Venkatraman ji @751

    Those are some ‘gardan’ songs! A blond Biswajeet and a bald-chested Rajender Kumar!!

  776. The word ‘ yaad ‘ occurs only once in this song yet the line ‘ …mar jaate hain aashiq zinda rah jaati hai yaad…’ all would agree is poignant …

    ‘ Zindabad zindabad ae…’/ 1960 / Mughal e Azam / Shakeel Badayuni / Naushad / Rafi

    https://youtu.be/7mNkC91hpak

  778. AKji @ 757, Venkataraman ji @ 754, Mumbaikar ji @ 669, Dr Deshpande @ 660:

    ‘Mea Culpa.’ AKji has, with lawyer’s precision and administrator’s acumen, quickly cleared the fog and zeroed in on the issue. Venkataraman ji’s example does settle it. ‘Bhoole se bhool na jana’ or ‘Galati se bhool na jana’ is a common admonition dreaded not only by ‘Balams’ but by all husbands! I was carried away. But it was fun–a much needed ‘divertissement’ during lockdown.

    Here is Suraiya singing for SDB in Vidya—‘Kise maaloom thaa do din mein saavan beet jaayega’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV3w_7kJriQ

    1st antra:

    ‘Dil-e-betaab teri yaad mein aansoo bahaayega,
    Hamein rah rah ke ye zaalim zamana yaad aayega, …’

  783. Counter….

    AK ji,
    CONGRATULATIONS !

    @ comment 782…. number has touched 701 + 10

    -AD

  784. AK ji Venkataraman ji
    Ghulam Ali again & in sarcastic mood.
    Tumhare khat me naya ek Salam kiska tha- Daag Dehalvi
    https://youtu.be/mqzdrFYOmzs
    Wafa karenge nibhayenge
    Baat maanenge
    Tumhe bhi yaad hai kuchh
    Ye Kalam kiska tha.

    And Ghulam Ali in a role of composer
    Roodad-e-mohobat Kya kahiye – Asha -Sagar Sarhadi
    https://youtu.be/LXNFXdszYUs
    Yaad Rahi & bhul Gaye reverberates throughout the gazal.

  785. AK ji,

    With well over 700 songs posted by readers for this post as a response is a clear proof of 2 things.
    1. The readers of this Blog are enthusiastic in participation, indicating success of the Blog and the Blogger and
    2. Barring few songs, most songs are from older films and NFS, proving that there are people who are interested in older films.
    I also keep on noticing that in every post here, there are always few new entrants… the First timers. This also confirms the growing popularity of SOY.
    My congratulations to you.
    Thanks.
    -AD

  786. Rahul ji @ 784:

    You are diving deep and coming up trumps!

    Here is a Midnight (1972) duet in the lilting voices of Talat and Geeta Dutt, perhaps singing one last time together, composed by Subir Sen—‘Tumsa meet mila’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9dRYi3nsNg

    2nd antra:

    ‘Ghadi ghadi ab to yehi kahti hai dil ki sadaa,
    Yaad karoge kabhi hoge na mujhse judaa, …’

  787. Mr Muli @767,
    Baharon ko chaman yaad aa raha hai: Beautiful thoughts. Does it imply that when spring came there was no garden? Could be a song for environmental damage, or I am flying off tangent?

    @784,
    Tumhare khat mein ek naya salam kiska tha: ‘Namavar’ plays a very important role in Urdu shairi. Difficult to understand some ghazals otherwise.

  789. Mr Joseph @770,
    Mitwa re bhool gaye the raahein re mitwa: Beautiful haunting song.

    @771,
    Mat bhool ki tu ek ma hai: Heard the song for the first time. Why was the mother conflicted between right and wrong? Poverty?

    @772,
    The three KC Dey songs in Devdas (1935), though not heard much, were very important in the film.

    @773,
    Mat bhool kabhi naadan: Interesting song, alter ego of Bhanumati inspiring Bhanumati.

    @774,
    Insaan ki mohabbat bhool gaya/ Tu rasm-e-wafa ko bhool gaya: Hear for the first time. Nice song.

    @775,
    Mat bhool are insaan: Beautiful song.

    @776,
    Zindabad zindabad, ae mohabbat zindabad: The only Rafi song in Mughal-e-Azam, but not picturised on Dilip. But it comes at a critical moment in the film.

  791. Canasya @778,
    We have had interesting discussion, added by your playing the Devil’s Advocate. Kise maaloom that do din mein saawan beet jayega I heard for the first time. The lady does not forget the zamana who had brought this upon her.

    @779,
    Ye kiski yaad aa gayi: It indeed deserves all the adjectives you have used. Heard it for the first time. Thanks a lot. I was very familiar with Raste pe hum khade hain din-e-beqaraar lekar.

    @780,
    Ae dil kisi ki yaad mein hota hai beqaraar kyun
    Jisne bhula diya hai tujhe hota hai uska intezar kyun    :
    Beautiful song. Contrary to my theory I found Nassim Begum version better. There is remix also at Coke Studio sung by Ali Zafar and some other singers.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vPfLURfkBc&list=RD1vPfLURfkBc&start_radio=1

    @782,
    Tumhein yaad kiya mere dil ne kab aaoge saawan mere: This is a beautiful song. Heard for the first time.

  792. Arunji @783, 785,
    Thanks Arunji for your kind words. All this helps. The readers are the strength of SOY.

  793. Canasya @788,
    Teri yaad mein sajan o sajan: Nice song. Thanks to you we are hearing Talat Mahmood and Geeta Dutt songs of 1972!

  794. Tera Khyal Dil se Bhulaya Na Ja Saka…

    [Hatimtai -1947/ Arun Kumar/ ?/ Arun Kumar]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4CEWsQqsq8

    Who is this Arun Kumar who is both the singer and MD?
    *

    Chandni Raaton mein jis dam yaad aa jaate ho tum….

    [Nazneen – 1951/ Talat/ Shakeel/ Ghulam Mohammad]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l2ksNS1Si4

    *
    And one from across the border:

    Kabhi to tumko yaad aayenge…

    [Chakori/ Ahmad Rushdi/?/?]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6e3J068HVE

    It seems like a movie from East Pakistan. Does anyone have any idea?

  795. Neeruahaf,
    This Arun Kumar must be Arun Kumar Mukherjee who was the cousin of Ashok Kumar and sand many songs and also gave music for some films. One well-known film is Bimal Roy’s Parineeta (1953) of whose music director was Arun Kumar Mukherjee. He sang some very well-known songs for Ashok Kumar, such as Dheere dheere aa re baadal dheere aa from Kismat. All the songs you have added are excellent. The best is Chaandni raaton mein jis dum yaad aa jaate ho tum.

  796. Canasya @ 746 @ 778
    I totally agree with NV @ 754
    “You have a way with words. Masterly and brilliant”.
    And AK @757
    Like a true academic you stretch the limits of our intellectual capacity.

    “But it was fun–a much needed ‘divertissement’ during lockdown.”

    Agree with you too.

    Now let me begin with apologizing first

    I was not aware of your comment # 303, had no idea that you had posted bhulese mohabbat kar baitha.
    My reference to Dil Hi To Hai song in explaining Ankhush song was coincidental.
    I even asked NV which song other than ‘Bhoool kar bhi koi bhool ho na” was invalidated.

    Had I noticed it I would have mentioned your name along with Dr. Shetty’s, NV’s and Mr. Muli. I never shy away to address.

    What you called bouncer was totally unintentional. I wondered what made you respond.

    And lastly a question for you
    “I thought I had safely ducked under Mumbaikar ji’s bouncer.”

    If this response, you thought was “ducking the bouncer” I am curious to know you what would your hooking over the fence look like.

  798. Dilruba (1950)
    Neelkant Tewari, Music Gyan Dutt
    A sweet song flowing smoothly in the seductive voice of Geeta Dutt
    Tum Dil Me Chale Aate Ho by Geeta Dutt
    aati hai teri yaad mere dil me yu jadubhari
    jaise ki nadiya kinare gunjati ho bansuri (Ist antara)
    https://youtu.be/60qCxlkE6AA

  801. Back to HFM
    And I begin with a rare happening, Pancham using Mukesh & Lata for a duet
    Suraj se Jo Kiran ka naata- Hungama – Anjaan
    https://youtu.be/VJ-T0b1Ori0
    Pehli baar tujhe dekha to
    Hum aise sudh budh bhule
    Is this the only duet rendered by Mukesh & Lata under Pancham’s baton?

    Kishor for LP also was not a very common sight in sixties. Here is one from them
    Mere Mehboob quayamat hogi – Mr X in Bombay – AB
    https://youtu.be/yIzCBU0_LyY
    Ye tu bhool na Jana
    Ke na tujhpe bhi Inayat hogi

    Ankhiyo ke jharoko se – Hemlata – Ravindra Jain
    https://youtu.be/KqpIIaCJggY
    Ek Tere bharose pe
    Sab baithi Hoon bhhol ke

  802. Mr Rangan @797,
    Ek bewafa ko dil ka sahara samajh liya: is a beautiful song. You must have followed our multilateral discussion on different meanings of ‘bhoole se’. You may like to decide whether here it is out of ‘mistake’, or ‘forgetfulness’.

    @798,
    Tum dil mein chale aate ho, sapnon mein chale aate ho: is a nice song.

    @799,
    Fariyad ko lab pe rok liya, par dard ko dil mein chhupa na sake
    Hum apna aap to bhool gaye, par yaad kisi ki bhula na sake
    Dil tootna tha, dil toot gaya

    It is a nice song.

    @800,
    Pyar pal ke palchhin beete huye din
    Hum to na bhoole tum bhool gaye
    Dekhe the humne jo mil ke sapne
    Hum to na bhoole tum bhool gaye

    Talat is great. Normally it is the woman who laments that the man has forgotten, but in this case it is the other way round.

  803. Mr Muli @801,
    Of the three songs, I had not heard the first one. Mere mehboob qayamat hogi and Ankhiyon ke jharokhe se are obviously everlasting songs.

  804. Thanks for your good words Anu Warrier at 66, Sangeeta Gupta & Avinash Bhandarkar @36 thanks for your warm welcoming words for me.

    Shalan L

  805. Ashwin Bhandarkar at 16 & 36

    As for gems and treasure trove I do not know but I am tempted to give here some historical facts about the Kalidasa’s Shakuntalam which you and other readers may like to enjoy.

    There is an ancient Greek play Called Oedipus Rex which has some memory recovered in it.

    The Shakuntalam created sensation in Europe when it was first translated into English by Sir William Jones in 1789 in Calcutta and London as “Sakontala; or the Fatal Ring”.

    Read my further comment @ Manoj @ 266 and Ak @ 269

    Shalan

    P.S.

    In 1789 Sir William Jones opened his career as one of the greatest Indologists by translating Kalidasa’s Shakuntala; this translation, re-rendered into German in 1791, profoundly affected Herder and Goethe, and through the Schlegels- the entire Romantic movement.(The Story of Civilization, 391-2).
    It became one of the most circulated Indian masterpieces- it was reprinted five times in England between 1790 and 1807 and it was retranslated and published many times throughout Europe.(Oriental Renaissance, 51,53). The century after Jones translated it, Shakuntala appeared in forty-six translations in twelve different languages in Europe.(Translating the Orient, 12).

    The English translation of Shakuntala, together with his Hymns to Narayana, were studied with fond devotion by Percy Bysshe Shelly(1792-1822), Robert Southey(1774-1843), Thomas Moore(1779-1857), Alfred Tennyson(1850-1892) and other nineteenth-century English poets.(Marie E.D.Meester, Oriental Influence in the English Literature of the Early Nineteenth Century, 10). They read his works with admiration and quoted him. Thanks to the influence of Jones’ Shakuntala and Hymns to Narayana, Shelly was able to overcome his atheistic and materialistic tendencies (P.V. De Sola, Sir William Jones and English Literature, 694).
    The English Indologist Sir Charles Wilkins(1750-1836), whose translation of the Bhagavad Gita had the greatest impact in Europe, returned to England in 1786 after sixteen years in India. Wilkins fitted a printing press in Bath, England, with Devanagari characters and from this press, he printed his Story of Shakuntala from the Mahabharata in 1793. Around the nineteenth century, a new cultural and literary currency was being wrought in Europe, with India playing a significant role in England’s Romantic period. Jones’ work, particularly Shakuntala, pervaded England through her thinkers and poets.
    George Forster (1754-1794) published his very popular English translation of Shakuntala from Jones’ English version in 1791. He sent it to Herder on May 17th, 1791(Oriental Renaissance, 57-8). Herder wrote to Forster that Shakuntala was a masterpiece that appears once every two thousand years (Translating the Orient, 13). He also wrote the preface to Forster’s second edition. Herder was enchanted by Shakuntala and wanted others to experience his recognition of it as a new model in dramatic theory. He wrote a lengthy essay about Shakuntala, challenging the Aristotelian dramatic theory by which all dramatic works were evaluated upto that time. Herder also reevaluated his conceptions about Indian art in light of Shakuntala and concluded that the Greek model was not the absolute model in art.(Samtliche Werke, cited from Translating the Orient, 13-14). Significantly Herder joined the historic Enlightenment and Romantic Movements in Germany.

    E.B.Eastwick translated Goethe’s lines into English: Wouldst thou the young years blossoms and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Wouldst thou the earth and Heaven itself in one sole name combine? I name thee, O Sakuntala! And all at once is said. (cited from Glassy Essence, 3).
    He is a good poet(Jules Du Bois, the famed French writer), and is an advocate of Indian Vedantic ideas that have crept into the great French poets, such as Victor Hugo and Lamartine and others, and the great German poets such as Goethe, Schiller and the rest. The influence of Vedanta on European poetry and philosophy is very great.(Complete Works, VII, 375-76).
    Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829), German Indologist, was also greatly inspired by George Forster’s translation of Shakuntala. Schlegel’s work in 1808 established the contributions in antiquity of the language and wisdom of India (Uber die Sprache Und Weisheit der Indier: Ein Beitrag zur Begrundung der Altertumskunde). It was a primary publication of nineteenth-century European Indology influenced by the Romantic Movement its scholarly translations of extracts from the sacred Sanskrit texts forever inspired Germans who refer to the Wisdom of India.(Influence, 20).
    During the 1830s, the dissemination of the works of Kalidasa and Bhartrihari were greatly assisted through the translations of Peter von Bohlen(1796-1840) in Germany(Oriental Renaissance, 119).Shakuntala was translated more than ten times, Vikramorvasi five times and produced as an opera in Munich in 1886. Mricchhakatika(The Little Clay Cart)was translated four times and staged in Western theatres. Dasa Kumara Charitra was translated three times.(Art, Culture and Spirituality: A Prabuddha Bharata Centenary Perspective 1896-1996,Calcutta, 1996, 362). Shakuntala was adapted to the German theatre and the Parisian ballet and produced on the English stage in 1899, 1912, and 1913. The banal taste of the theatre-goers was elevated by the productions of Shakuntala- in Russia, Alexander Tairov deliberately staged the play at Moscow’s Kamerny Theatre in 1914 expressly for that reason. He adapted it to the aesthetics of the prevailing Symbolist School, which emphasized the visual, poetic and contemplative descriptions of nature. (Translating the Orient,186-7).
    Antoine-Leonard de Chezy (1774-1832), French Sanskrit scholar, had read Jones version of Shakuntala which made him exclaim, I shall never forget the impression it made on me (Oriental Renaissance, 299). Chezy was the first to fully and directly translateShakuntala from a Bengali version into French. He published it in 1830 with ample notes that included an explanation of the meaning of the term Vedas, that proved useful to many writers after him. (Oriental Renaissance, 93, 299). One of them was the novelist Theophile Gautier, who conveyed and diffused the oriental presence through his poetry which had influenced Mallarme and Victor Hugo. His numerous tales made ample use of Chezy’s notes. (Oriental Renaissance, 413). Chezy also included Goethe’s famous lines as an epigraph to the work, which prompted Goethe to write to Chezy that Shakuntala was a star that makes the night more agreeable than the day. (Oriental Renaissance, 61). Chezy’s love for Shakuntala also made him exclaim, Oh most happy Forster! How I envy him (Oriental Renaissance, 59). Chezy’s Shakuntala singularly nourished all France, which had a strong infatuation for Hindu literature in the early 19th century
    The Literary Miracle and Charm of Shakuntala: Kalidasa’s Abhijnana Shakuntala directly influenced the entire world literature of the nineteenth century. The renaissance of literature began with Rene Chateaubriand(1768-1848). The renaissance of literature began with Rene Chateaubriand(1768-1848). He provided firsthand evidence of the impact of translated Indian literature on London in his Essai sur les Revolutions, which was published in 1796.(Oriental Renaissance, 61). One of his chapter headings read, Kreeshna frangment du poeme Mahabharat, tire du Sanskritâ Sacontala.
    Compared Shakuntala to one of the oldest epic works, the work of Ossian (Oriental Renaissance, 55,61,227). Chateaubriand’s book produced a great impact on the mind of August Wilhelm Schlegel. August and his brother Friedrich learnt Sanskrit with that inspiration.
    The English translation of Shakuntala, together with his Hymns to Narayana, were studied with fond devotion by Percy Bysshe Shelly(1792-1822), Robert Southey(1774-1843), Thomas Moore(1779-1857), Alfred Tennyson(1850-1892) and other nineteenth-century English poets wrote by Marie E.D.Meester in her treatise.

    Shalan L

  806. Manoj @ 266 and Ak @ 269

    The BG quotation of Manoj is very timely and related to the subject matter of this hugely magnificent and very enthusiastically joined in by opening the flood gates of memorable memories of the songs with their reminiscences of the filmy and other songs related to the subject.

    The AK’s remark @ 269, AK although reassuringly emphatic but can it be factual in the modern understanding of the development of the mental science? It is difficult to argue with BG as it has been elevated to Krishna’s judgment and both Krishna and the BG are established as the divinities themselves.

    In such authoritative atmosphere I would like to make my point. The BG Quote wants us to believe that God is the final authority who could make memory or forgetfulness arbitrarily or capriciously. But the modern mental health doctors have many methods to stimulate and revive the loss of the memory. Perhaps when they were groping for the methods the play Abhidnyan Shakuntalam came handy to develop their science. The word “Abhidnyan” means revival of the memory (Knowledge) by the help of the lost finger ring.

    Here the novel “Random Harvest” which was filmed successfully and I think there are various versions of the films in Hindi and modern literatures of India and world.

    The Shakuntalam created sensation in Europe when it was first translated into English by Sir William Jones in 1789 in Calcutta and London as “Sakontala; or the Fatal Ring”.

    It created more impact in Germany and France. In Germany there was more research work was going on Mental Health. Germany fell in love of it very deeply.

    Jules Du Bois, the famed French writer, and is an advocate of Indian Vedantic ideas that have crept into the great French poets, such as Victor Hugo and Lamartine and others, and the great German poets such as Goethe, Schiller and the rest. The influence of Vedanta on European poetry and philosophy is very great. The majority do openly acknowledge.(Complete Works, VII, 375-76).
    Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829), German Indologist, was also greatly inspired by George Forster’s translation of Shakuntala. Sclegel’s work in 1808 established the contributions in antiquity of the language and wisdom of India (Uber die Sprache Und Weisheit der Indier: Ein Beitrag zur Begrundung der Altertumskunde). It was a primary publication of nineteenth-century European Indology influenced by the Romantic Movement its scholarly translations of extracts from the sacred Sanskrit texts forever inspired Germans who refer to the Wisdom of India.

    Notes: In 1785, the Bhagavad Gita was first translated into English by Charles Wilkins and published as \”Bhagvat-geeta or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon\” by the British East India Company with an introduction by Lord Warren Hastings, the first British Governor-General of India
    Sir Charles Wilkins(1750-1836), whose first English translation of the Bhagvad Gita with the long introduction by Warren Hastings the first Governor General of India had the greatest impact in Europe.He returned to England in 1786 after sixteen years in India. Wilkins fitted a printing press in Bath, England, with Devanagari characters and from this Press; he printed his Story of Shakuntala from the Mahabharata in 1793.

    Shalan L

  807. AK @ Main article

    Here is Hamlet (in Act 1 Scene 5) wants to wipe out his previous memory of all things and put there his new vows of revenge.

    Act 1 Scene 5
    Aye, thou poor Ghost, while memory holds a seat
    In this distracted globe, remember thee –

    Yea, from the table of my memory
    I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,
    All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past
    That youth and observation copied there,
    And thy commandment all alone shall live
    Within the book and volume of my brain
    Unmixt with baser matter. Yes, by heaven.
    O most pernicious woman!
    O villain, villain, smiling damnéd villain!

    My tables — meet it is I set it down
    That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
    At least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark.
    So Uncle, there you are. Now to my word,
    It is “Adieu, adieu, remember me.”
    I have sworn it.

    Shalan L

  808. AK@ the beginning of his oeuvre of the post ‘क्या भूलूँ क्या याद करूँ’ & Canasya @ 22.

    You both greatly eulogized the above mentioned titled work of Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Ages ago I had done some courses of the great Hindi Literature works and Harivansh Rai’s both his autobiography and Madhushala were on the study list.

    I wonder if Harivansh Rai was given Bharat Ratna award!

    A great work and great man and Amitabh Bachchan was really lucky to be born in such great family. He also rightfully received awards and fame for his acting in the films. I should say he had enriched Hindi films and acting of the film songs. I very much like his rendering of the title song of the film “Silsila”.

    During his time in London the famous Madame Tussauds honored him by putting his statue in wax. Perhaps he was the only one from the Hindi film culture to have his wax work.

    Some thirty years or so Amitabh Bachchan and his wife and children were used to frequent the Nehru Centre and people enjoyed his and his family’s mixing with the audience after the events and in the receptions as well. His wife Jaya Bachchan brought one of plays which sadly I did not see but it was very well received I heard.

    During this period an English professor working as the head of the department in the Hindi of SOAIS i.e. School of African and Indian Studies of the University of London, translated the prized autobiography “‘क्या भूलूँ क्या याद करूँ’”. He translated it into equal stature of the English language. He once appeared at the Nehru Centre and talked about his experiences of the translating the high literature work in Hindi.

    I only can remember presently his mention of the difficulties in translating the title “Ned Ka Nirman Fir….” He could not find the right English word for the Hindi word “Fir”.

    Later at the reception I mentioned to him the one small word “Fir” contains the meaning of the life in philosophical contention of existence. When this disputation comes in one’s life many people especially Indians leave the House and go and sit by the bank of the river Ganges …… a deep internal struggle happens and many could not resolve the dilemma.

    One will find such so many people from Hardwar to the mouth of the Ganges in Calcutta sitting on the bank in saffron garb and watching deeply the ripples on the holy water.

    Shalan Lalvani

  811. AKji,
    800+ comments.
    We are getting used to it.
    Congrats Ranganji for posting the 800th comment.
    Speaking of individual 100 comments or songs, Rajeshji has already accomplished both.
    And for that matter Canasyaji too is not far away, so is Rahulji.
    Ranganji has too many ‘short runs’, else he too would have been in the race.
    Josephji after a short hiatus has padded up again.
    It seems to be a marathon, and let us see how they come up in the following rounds.

    Let us celebrate the high point with a wonderful song by Vidushi Prabha Atre.
    Bairan Ratiya Neend Churaaye
    Aaye Piya Ki Yaad Rachaye
    Aap na Aaye likh nahi Bheje
    Woh waada Jo karten Hai nibhana bhool jate hai
    Seene mein aag lagakar Bhujaana bhool jati hai
    Aap na Aaye likh nahi Bheje
    Ab kaise man Dheer Dharen
    https://gaana.com/song/bairan-ratiya-dadra-2

  812. AK ji,
    In 24 days the blog has crossed 800 comments , frenetic pace almost T-20ish . Congratulations.
    Canasya ji
    Your reference to Iqbal takes me to that immortal Manna dey rendition
    Aye mere pyare watan – kabuliwala – Prem Dhawan – Salil Choudhary
    Aur Kabhi nanhi so beti
    banake yaad aata hai tu
    Jitna yaad aata hai mujhko
    Utana tadpaata hai tu

  813. AKji,
    Surprising. It seems the song Kyon Yaad aa rahen hai by Suendra from Anmol Ghadi is not yet posted. Am I making a mistake

  814. Shalan @805, 806. 807, 808,
    Welcome back again. It is great to see you in full flow. I will take time to absorb all that you have said.

    Very quickly, on ‘Indologists’ contribution, our Banaras-school traditional pundits have a very sceptical view that they did not look at our ancient texts with any respect. In the name of modern scholarship, their aim was to put it own. I, in fact, respect their contribution, because without their translations, not only the world would have been unaware, even Indians would have found the texts very inaccessible.

    On Bachchan’s autobiography, I would request you to see my observations at @72 in response to Canasya. To my mind, not all the four parts are consistently high literature. I found Part 4 a sharp decline.

    Thanks again for your very scholarly comments.

  815. AKji:

    You had used this beautiful song ‘Pardesi kyun yaad aata hai’ by Sitara Kanpuri in ‘Man ki jeet’, 1944 (MD: SK Pal) in your post on ‘Romancing the Pardesi’. Here is a slightly better sounding copy which brings Sitara Kanpuri’s voice to the fore:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRdNXuvcyCw

  819. Canasya @809,
    O bhoolnewale gham mein tere hum apna fasana bhool gaye: Nice imagery. ‘You heartless man, in your virah I have forgotten my pain.’

    @810,
    Nice addition. But the instrumentation seems to be very modern.

    @815,
    Pardesi kyun yaad ata hai: Thanks for adding an excellent link, Sitara Kanpuri’s voice is very crisp.

    @817,
    Bhool bhatka path hara: Nice song with a different connotation of ‘bhoola’.

  820. Venkataramanji @811,
    Thanks a lot. Your contribution is very valuable. Prabha Atre’s Dadra is really very good.

    @813,
    After so many comments one can’t be sure that a famous song has not been posted earlier. But if it has been missed it is really surprising.

  824. Canasyaji @746

    It was nice to read your interesting and well-written comment.
    Actually, I was a bit surprised that you further elucidated on bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha as I believed that the chapter had closed after AKji’s comment @667.
    Even though I wouldn’t equate forgetfulness with something that just happened or a by-chance or subconscious occurrence, I had accepted AKji’s point of view as he is the blog master.
    As per me, the bhule se word in the Ajeeb Ladki song posted by Ranganji @797 also doesn’t fit.

    You have also raised another point – the hero sings the song as he has forgotten his station and fallen in love. That’s interesting!!

    I like the way you have integrated the Pyar Ka Sagar song in your comment. (BTW I had posted the song @565)

  825. AK ji @ 795

    Thank you for the information on Arun Kumar. The Ganguly-Mukherjee family has made valuable contribution to Hindi cinema.

    Here are three duets:

    Tera kisi se pyar tha, tu wo zamana bhool ja….

    [Dada -1949/ Mukesh & Surinder/ Nashaad/ Shevan Rizvi]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS7AWhAKim4

    *
    Kaise bataon unse is dil ko pyar kyun hai…

    [Anjuman -1948/ Mukesh & Shamshad/ Bulo C Rani/ Majrooh]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chdbF2h2E48

    *
    Ratiyan Guzarun Kaise hai…

    [Ratnavali – 1945/ Surender & Zohra/ Pt. Gobind Ram/ Ram Moorti]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChlZdA989wo

  835. Song from Paying Guest Hai hai hai ye nigahen goes as main to bhool gayi rahen …This indicates that the bhool can feature in many places even when we do not know about it!

  836. Venkataraman ji @ 813:

    There must be many more if Arun ji’s hunch is correct. Here is a twin song, first by Lata, and then by Talat–‘Tum to dil ke taar chhed kar’ to the tune of SJ in ‘Roop ki rani, choron ka raja’, 1961. Probably the last time Talat sang for SJ!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf7_Z_BH26E

    1st antra:

    ‘Tumko neend aayegi,
    Tum to so hi jaoge,
    Kiska le liya hai dil,
    Ye bhi bhool jaoge, …’

    2nd antra:

    ‘Apni ek aur raat,
    Uljhanon mein jaayegi,
    Shokh shokh wo ada,
    Hamko yaad aayegi … ‘

  837. AK @ 814

    Thanks for your quick response to my long winding showing off knowledge about Sanskrit Literature. If it will create bad taste in the mouth just wash your mouth with rose water.

    Here is the mention of some films after the great film was made on the great novel Random Harvest.

    Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works,( including Lost Horizon that has a very deep connection with the Hindu spiritualism and philosophy and Goodbye, Mr. Chips,) the novel was immensely popular, placing second on Publishers Weekly list of best-selling novels for the year.

    Random Harvest is a 1942 film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same title, directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Claudine West, George Froeschel, and Arthur Wimperis adapted the novel for the screen, and received an Academy Award nomination. The novel keeps the true identity of Paula/Margaret a secret until the very end, something that would have been impossible in a film, where characters’ faces must be seen. This meant that the movie had to take a very different approach to the story. The film stars Ronald Colman as a shell-shocked, amnesiac World War I soldier, and Greer Garson as his love interest.
    The film was an instant commercial success and was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Colman,
    Several Indian films were influenced by this film: the Bengali film Harano Sur (1957), starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen; the Tamil film Amara Deepam (1956) and its Hindi remake Amar Deep (1958), starring Dev Anand

    Shalan Lal

  841. Canasya ji, Neeruafji,
    Both of you have made some good postings.
    But two of them stand out, apart from the other posts,
    and would draw a spontaneous
    Wah, Wah, right from the core of the heart.
    Such postings would make anybody’s day.

    Neeruahafji @ 828,
    Apno ke sitam humse bataye nahin jaate…
    Ik Umr ki Koshish Se Bhula Di hai teri Yaad,
    Lekin Abhi Tak Yaad Ke Saaye Nahi Jaate.

    Wah Wah.
    Begum Akhtar makes her first appearance in this post.
    Great rendition.
    Thanks for the post.

    And Canasyaji,
    Very many thanks for Munawar Rana’s Shayari.
    Ye Andhere Dekhle Muh Tera Kala Ho Gaya
    Maa Ne Aankh Khol Di Ghar me Ujjala Ho gaya

    Bulandhiyon Ka Bade Se Bada Nishan Chhua
    Uthaya Godh me Maa Ne tab Aasmaan Chhua

    Bulandhi Dher Tak Kis Saksh Ke Hisse Pe Rahti Hai
    Badi Unchi Imaarat Har Ghadi Khatre me Rahti Hai
    Bahut Ji Chahata Hai Ham Yehan Se Nikhal Jayen
    Tumhari Yaad Bhi Lekin Isi Malbe Mein rahti Hai.

    Gem after Gem rolling out in succession.

    Canasya ji,
    Thanks too for posting ‘Parindey ki faryaad’.
    As you have said, apt for the post and also fort the present situation.

  842. AKji, Canasyaji, Rajeshji,
    Yes Arunji cannot be wrong.
    The deeper you dig, the more you unearth.
    Let me post a song of the 70s.
    It was one of those rare occasions Bappi Lahiri (Bhule se?) produced a gem, rendered by Bansuri Lahiri ( Bappi Lahiri’s mother) and Bhupinder and penned by Shaily Shailendra (Shailendra’s son)
    Bhul gaye hum sab kuch lekin
    Bas itna hi yaad raha…
    Tere Pyar Mein (1979)
    Shaily Shailendra
    Full lyrics at Bharatlyrics.com: Bhul Gaye Hum Sab Kuch Lyrics – Bansari Lahiri, Bhupinder Singh
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efhaLYvsVmE

  843. AKji, Canasya ji @ 839,
    That was 1941intrepretation of a Thumri in Hindi film by Kalyani
    Here is a coke studio style Thumri of 2009. Listenable.
    Binati karat hoon paiya padat hoon
    Dil na jalaa na balamva
    Bhul na jaana balamva…..
    Last antara
    Tujh bin mujh ko kuch na suhage
    Yaad tehaari mora jiyaara jalave
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60sWeAwCVeg
    Amanta Ali Khan, Kohram (2009-Album)

  844. AKji,
    Back to the 30s
    A few songs composed by Vasant Desai were posted earlier.
    Now a vintage song in the voice of Vasant Desai.
    Muhaal- I have not come across this word.
    I believe the meaning of the word is difficult.

    Bhool ja bhool ja bhoolau kaise
    Bhoolna muhaal bhoolna muhaal muhaal bhoolna muhaal
    AmarJyoti (1936), Narottam Vyas, Master Krishna Rao
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxv1RUPXvCs&t=20s

  847. @ 846,
    The mukhda of the song is
    Yun dard bhare dil ki aawaj sunayenge…….
    the key word is in the 2nd antara
    Ae aarzoo aap aakar jo de gaye yaad apni
    Ab koi bulaye bhi to kahe ko ayenge

  848. Neeruahaf @825,
    Tera kisi se pyar tha tu wo zamana bhool ja: Such an eternal gem. Thanks for refreshing our memory.

    Kaise bataaun unse is dil ko pyar kyun hai: NIce song. Heard it for the first time. Is it ‘bhoole se’ or is it a clever change of a few words in Faiyyaz Hashmi/Jagmohan classic Dil ko tujhse pyar kyun, ye na bata sakunga main?

    Ratiyan guzaarun kaise: Beautiful song. We discussed it prominently while reviewing the songs of 1945.

    @828,
    Ek umr ki koshish se bhula di hai teri yaad
    Lekin abi tak yaad ke saaye nahin jaate
    I am sure, not posted earlier. I echo Venkataramnji’s Wah, Wah at @841. “After efforts of a lifetime, I have managed to forget you. But the faint recollections of your memories do not go away.” Am I anywhere close? Or, is “shadows of your memories” better?

  851. Canasya @832,
    Nice connection about ‘mother’.

    @833,
    I just commented to Neeruahaf, how we find clever recycling of words. In this case Guzra hua zamana aata nahin dobara became an all-time classic. We don’t know whether the two lyrics had any connection.

    @834,
    Hari ko bisaro na: Beautiful song. Lata Mangeshkar in 1949, what a jump in a span of a few years.

    @838,
    Haye kisi ki yaad sataye is a nice song.

    @839,
    Kisi ki yaad kisi ko aayi: Chitalkar is tentative. He came into his own as a singer 1947 onwards.

    @840,
    Dil hai tunhari yaad ki duniya liye hue:
    Or is it the stock ghazal-singing style following Deewana banana hai to deewana bana de? In the same year Khursheed sang Pahle jo mohabbat se inkar kiya hota (Pardesi, Khemchand Prakash)

  852. Shalan @837,
    Great to see you in full flow. Thanks for all the information on ‘Random House’ and its film adaptation.

  853. Venkataramanji @842,
    Bhool gaye hum sab kuchh: Bappi Lahiri? He must have done it ‘bhoole se’. Great song.

    @843,
    Genarally Coke Studio maintain the form, the embellishment does not mar the classic bandishes. This one does not impress me.

    @844,
    Nice song.

    @845,
    Ghar aaye sajan laut aye: Very nice song. Interesting to see Jaitaj as a hero.

    @846, 847,
    Yun dard bahre dil ki aawaz sunayenge: Great recall.

  854. N. Venkataraman ji @841; AK ji @848

    Thank you so much. Your appreciation quite made my day. Begum Akhtar is a class apart, isn’t she? And those lines of Fakir? What imagery! Spellbinding!! Ak ji, I’d go with ‘shadows of your memories’.

    Here is another one by Begum Akhtar though this time it is the immortal Momin who pens the lines:

    Wo Jo Hum Mein Tum Mein Qarar Tha
    Tumhe Yaad Ho Na Ke Na Yaad Ho

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzq1rpuFMig

  855. NV
    Large number of Mukesh as well NFS songs are posted.
    I was almost certain that this song was posted but to my surprise Ctrl-F showed that this popular Gujarati Mukesh NFS is not yet posted.
    I hope I have searched properly.

    Mane Tari Yaad SataveMukesh
    https://youtu.be/Pvu_8RXfWA4

    One “bhule” Mukesh Shamshad Begum duet
    Tumhare Liye Hue Bednam… (Shabnam)
    https://youtu.be/RVqiOGduiR8

    Two songs by favorite Rajkumari
    SAJNI (1947) – Zaalim tera khayaal sataaye to kya karoon – Rajkumari
    https://youtu.be/b3RHHglLxj8
    Tumhen Apna Banaya Tha Rajkumari Apni Izzat 1952
    https://youtu.be/PXWg_s9jFTQ

    Two by Lata
    MORE NAINA SAWAN BHADON VIDYAPATI 1964
    https://youtu.be/Ai0vUJ2GZ9s
    Anand Bhavan – 1953 – Yeh Dil Ki Dhadkano Se Khabar Paa Rahi Hun Mein.
    https://youtu.be/bP0a9wSFrUg

  857. Casnasya @ 810
    Iqbal’s poem entitled ‘Parindey ki faryaad’, a part of kid’s textbooks in Pakistan.

    In 60’s when the undergrad system was 11+ 4 and not 10 +2 + 3. We had this poetry in 11th grade Maharashtra Board Exam.
    It was not the same though. I remember it with more Hindi than pure Urdu.
    It was
    “‘Aata hai yaad mujhko guzra hua zamana,
    Woh bagh ki baharein woh sab ka cheh-chehana. …”

    I remember the first verse as
    Aatah hai yaad mujhko guzra hua zamana
    Woh daliyan chaman ki who mera aashiyana.

    Last verse was somewhat
    Wo saath sabka udna who sair aasman ki
    Who bagh ki baharen who sabka milke gana

    Kya badnaseeb hoon main
    ghar ko taras raha hoon
    Sab ud rahe gagan me
    Mai qaid me pada hoon.

    I remember rehearsing it in “Oh raat ke musfir chanda zara bata de” tune.

  858. Neeruahaf @854,
    Wo jo hum mein tum mein qarar tha, tumhein yaad ho ke na yaad ho: “A promise between us, I don’t know whether you remember or not”. Beautiful again.

  859. Mumbaikar8 ji @ 856 & 857

    Pleasure to link to those ghazals of Begum Akhtar. Thanks for your appreciation.

    Interesting info about the variations in Iqbal’s poem. It reminded me of how Sahir’s “Sana-e-khwaan-e-taqdees-e-mashriq kahan hain?” (Where are they who praise the purity of the East?)” was changed to the more hindostani “Jinhe naaz hai Hind par wo kahan hain? when used in Pyaasa.

  862. Mumbaikar ji @ 796;

    You are right. My comment @ 652 was a miscued attempt to play the bouncer rather than ducking under it.

    The purists advised ducking for two reasons. One, a hook is a percentage shot. A perfect hook over the boundary encourages the bowler to ball another one with greater vigour, because the odds are in his/her favour. And two, ducking while keeping the eyes on the ball, discourages the bowler who has wasted a lot of energy.

    I should have kept silent as advised by Dr Deshpande @ 824. Perhaps I have watched too many of those IPL games where the rules have been changed dramatically in favour of the bat.

    Here is Lata singing ‘Dil Kisi Ki Yaad Me Barbad Hai’ for Dada Burman. The film is Ek Nazar (1951) and lyrics are by Rajinder Krishan:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfb69QINGUw

  863. AKji:

    Another 1949, Lata-Shyam Sundar melody from Bazaar, ‘Ae dil unko yaad na karna,’ which begins with:

    ‘Bhoolne wale ye dunia teri aabad rahe,
    Humne bhi pyar kiya tha ye unhen yaad rahe, ..’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRNc1leYib0&t=64s

    The 1st antra also has:

    ‘Dil se ye aawaz aati hai,
    Yaad kisi ki tadpati hai,
    Dil kahta hai yaad kiye ja,
    Main kahti hun yaad na karna, … .‘

  865. AK ji,Canasya ji
    Canasya ji has posted SDB Lata number from Ek Nazar
    Here is SDB – Asha song from Society .
    Lehro me jhulu – Sahir
    Despite being an ardent SDB fan this was a late discovery for me. But the way in which it is rendered by Asha leaves one astounded.
    https://youtu.be/8wbkGpITj7g

    And here is Asha with RDB almost 20 years later
    Piya tu ab to aaja – Caravan – Majrooh
    https://youtu.be/dX-gSSLmxUU
    Bhoolanewale koi jiye to kaise jiye
    I hope that these songs have not been posted so far.

  866. Neeruahaf ji @ 860:

    I would second your proposal. But who would pick up the gauntlet?

    By the way, here is a Naqsh Lyallpuri song from ‘Aayi teri yaad’ (1980, rendered by Bhupinder to the tune of Jaidev, ‘Phir teri yaad naye deep jalaane aayi’. Notice the similarity of the mukhra to the one in ‘Phir Teri Yaad Naye Geet Sunane Aayi’ from Bekhabar (1965) posted @ 864 where the lyrics were by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQQhLLEb0ws

  867. Counter….

    @ comment 866…. number of songs posted is 760 + 10

    Thanks.

    -AD

  868. AK ji,
    Here is an old song, from film Deccan Queen-1936. I hope it is not yet posted here by anyone. Even if it is posted, here is more information about the song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUt3e_jGJ8

    DECCAN QUEEN -1936 was a landmark movie, for it was the FIRST stunt film from Sagar Movietone.
    It was the FIRST film of actor Surendra.
    It was also the FIRST film where Surendra sang his first song in a film.
    It was also the FIRST and the only stunt film of director Mehboob.
    Above all, it was the FIRST film having a DOUBLE ROLE. It was the FIRST  Film song of Zia Sarhadi-as a Lyricist
    The Music Director of the film was Prransukh M. Nayak,a well known composer of the 30s.
    -AD

  869. Rahul ji @ 865:

    From your deep dive you have brought out a lustrous pearl. The Asha-SDB number ‘Lehron mein jhhoolun’ from Society (1955) is wonderfully melodious. Heard it for the first time. The opening notes reminded me somewhat of the Lata-Anil Biswas song from Pardesi (1957), ‘Nadir dhim tana dere na’, and the taan at the end of ‘Sakhi ri sun bole papiha us paar’ from ‘Miss Mary’ (1957), a Lata-Asha duet composed by Hemant Kumar. May be it is because of the raagas involved (Gaur Sarang in the case of ‘Leheron mein jhhoolun’ and ‘Nadir dhim’ and Khammaj in case of ‘Sakhi ri’ according to Chandrakantha.com). But let us hear from the experts. Here is a link to ‘Sakhi ri sun bole papiha us paar’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS4b3WlymvE

    2nd antra:

    ‘Pi pi ki jab taan sunaae, birahan man ghabaraae,
    Bhooli batiyaan yaad dilaaye, paapi baarambaar, … .’

  870. AK ji,
    Here is an old song, from film Deccan Queen-1936
    I hope it is not yet posted here by anyone. Even if it is posted, here is more information about the song.
    Yaad na kar dil – e- hazin
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUt3e_jGJ8
    DECCAN QUEEN -1936 was a landmark movie, for it was the FIRST stunt film from Sagar Movietone.
    It was the FIRST film of actor Surendra.
    It was also the FIRST film where Surendra sang his first song in a film.
    It was also the FIRST and the only stunt film of director Mehboob.
    Above all,it was the FIRST film having a DOUBLE ROLE. It was the FIRST  Film song of Zia Sarhadi-as a Lyricist
    The Music Director of the film was Pransukh M. Nayak, a well known composer of the 30s.
    -AD

  872. Neeruahaf @860,
    You recall when you see one, but when you sit down to compile a list it becomes immensely difficult. One has to start preparing a log. But there different types of recycling. Some we have seen here. An interesting variety is inserting a famous verse in a song. We noticed Hasrat Jaipuri using ‘Jab zara gardan jhukai dekh li’. A favourite with lyricists is the Sufi verse (probably by Baba Farid): ‘Kaga sab tan khaiyo chun chun khaiyo maas/ Do naina mat khaiyo mohe piya Milan ki aas’. Many songs have used this verse. Same with Amir Khusro. There is a notion that using a very well known verse or saying without attribution is not plagiarism.

    But thanks for your suggestion.

  873. Canasya @863,
    Ae dil unko yaad na rakhna is a beautiful song.

    @864,
    Phir teri yaad naye geet sunane aayi: Nice thoughts. Suman Kalyanpur’s version is very good.

    @866,
    There are examples galore. But the problem I have mentioned at @872.

  875. Arunji @867,
    Thanks for the running counter. We should cross 800 anytime.

    @870,
    Thanks a lot for this information. Zia Sarhadi’s debut was new one for me. I would also from the first film Surendra went whole hog in copying KL Saigal – Birha ki aag lagi mere man mein, right up to ‘Koel kook at ban mein’.
    (The duplicate comment is because you wrote wrong email in @868. It happens with several readers from time to time.)

  877. Rahulji @831

    Naina barse from Wo Kaun Thi had been posted @194

    Here’s a song from the other Raj Khosla-Manoj-Sadhana suspense movie, which didn’t fare well.

    Anita 1967
    LP – RMAK – Mukesh

    Tum bin jeevan kaise beeta puchho mere dil se…
    ….saawan ke din aaye beeti yaadein laaye…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScpgGscC1Ec

  879. Dr Deshpande @877, 878,
    Both nice songs. “Saawan ke din aaye beeti yaadein aayin” seems to be a variation of “Saawan aya tum na aye”.

  880. Rahul ji @ 865:

    Here is another Rafi-Geeta Dutt duet from the same movie (Society, 1955) in which SDB-Sahir duo attempt what may be one of the first experiments with stammering in HFM, ‘Reham kabhi to farmao mao mao meri laila’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8n3Wm8qbfQ

    1st antra:

    ‘Phir se lagao yehi taan tum, phir se ye pyari dhun gao,
    Are saaf karo kaan tum, mat yuhi shor machao,
    Samne aao meri jaan tum, Chhup ke na teer chalao,
    Dil se bhulao mera dhyan tum, aur kisi ka sar khao, … .’

  886. Canasya @881,
    Permit me to clap ‘Wah, Wah’ from the hall. Ahad-e-rangeen ki yaadgaar hun main – Now I would look for this song more than Abhi to main jawan hun. It’s translation please.

    @882,
    How do you sell the remnants of memories? These are not physical antique objects which might have some value for art dealers.

    @883,
    Nice song.

    @884,
    Interesting. I was thinking of contrast this Kirtan-style composition with the serious Hari ko bisaro na by Lata Mangeshkar of 1949. HB versus Vasant Desai can be another axis for comparison.

    @885,
    One of the superb melodies of Suraiya.

  887. AK@852

    Thanks for your acknowledgement of my quotation of the film
    ” Randon Harvest” based on the same name of the novel.

    Apart from Dev Aanand’s Amardeep” with lovely music by C.Ramchandra there is another film made in sixties with young heroes as well. I forgot to trace it.

    Dilip Kumar acted with Kamini Kaushal in three great films and all the three films have some kind of loss of memory in the characters Kamini Kaushal played.

    I was looking for some Bhoole Bisare Songs and I found the following song :
    “Bachpan Ki Yadgaro, Mein Tumko Dhundhatee Huun – film Gulnar (1953 film)”

    Now this post is unusually like other posts is going to hit the number thousand for the comments I suggest that when that happens we take a break and sit back and look at all the comments and see if any analysis or an alphabetical index of the songs could be done by some enthusiastic member of the SoY.

    This is just for finding out quickly the song and subject and the melody and the composer etc.

    I think as a community we Indians like to enjoy our spare time in indulging “Bite Hue Din”

    Shalan Laa

  888. Neeruahaf@768
    Thanks for your comments. I agree with your view that song from Bahu reminds one of a similar song. I am unable to trace it. I presume it is an earlier one composed by Hemant Kumar himself. I have observed music directors to fall back on some earlier tunes, tweak it and produce a new song. I give you solid examples from the compositions of C. Ramchandra in support of my belief.
    Saqi (1952) C Ramchandra / Rajinder Krishan
    Aa gayi hai ishq ke bahar – Rafi and Lata
    https://youtu.be/XtlLdZfbelk?t=2

    Yasmin (1955)
    Dil unko doondtha hai by Lata
    https://youtu.be/jYgzQ3TEQS8?t=3

    Parchhain (1952)
    Doob jayee jo kismat ka tara
    https://youtu.be/CfkI2O8pgcM?t=3

  889. Neeruahaf@794

    Checked songs posted by you. The one Chandni Raaton mein from Nazneen by Talat Mahmood was already posted by me @293. This is merely an observation on my part. Nothing else is implied. I myself am guilty of this faux pas as pointed out Dr. Rajesh Deshpande. Where comments pour like a river in spate it is inevitable. I have now several songs to post but am not sure how many are first timers and it is too tiring to scan the back log. That is why I appreciate the dedicated work of Arunkumarji in displaying a count of the songs so far posted by over enthusiastic blog followers. Because of my innate lethargy, more than a dozen songs I had with me for a long time have already been posted and I deleted them. I view my failings in a philosophic mood.

  890. Fondly hope that the song from Azad (1955), Rajendra Krishan / C Ramchandra depicting a street dance performance by the Sayee Subbalakshmi sisters is yet to see the light of day.

    Aplam Chaplam
    Lata Mangeshkar & Usha Mangeshkar
    https://youtu.be/QqouGx8l3vc?t=149
    टेढ़ा-मेढ़ा खेल है ये प्यार जो मैं जानती
    भूल के भी बात कभी दिल की न मानती (2nd antara)

  891. I do not know how many of our noble participants have felt the need for some software to avoid posting a repeat song .

    I feel the need for this as the number of songs posted start increasing. Some software experts here could help.

    ‘ Kitna dukh bhulaya…’/ 1943 ? / NFS / Faiyyaz Hashmi / Kamal Dasgupta / Hemant

    https://youtu.be/0zXIjiaLRNQ

  892. Neeruahafji @ 854,
    Thanks for presenting another beautiful Ghazal by Begum Akhtar.

    Presenting another song by her.
    Hamari atariya pe aao saanwariya
    Dekha-dekhi balam hui jaae

    1st antara
    Tasawwur men chale aate ho
    Kuchh baaten bhi hoti hain
    Can we extend the meaning of Tasawwur to memory/ remembrance, in this context?

    Last antara
    Tumhaari yaad aansu ban ke aei
    Chashm-e-wiraan mein
    Zahe qismat ke wiraanon mein
    Barasaaten bhi hoti hain
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k_U6TYgvsQ

  893. Oops ! my previous post I learn now is a repeat of song @ 332

    All repeats are unintentional. Hope I avoid duplicates.

    ‘ Tere pyar ko…’/ 1959 / MAINE JEENA SEEKH LIYA / Rahil Gorakhpuri / Roshan / Mukesh

    https://youtu.be/HJPiQtgi9bg

  894. Canasyaji @ 861,
    I haven’t heard this Begum Akhtar’s song before.
    One can’t have enough of Begum Akhtar.

    Posting a Bengali song “Piya Bholo Abhiman” composed by the late Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh in Raga Piloo had touching lyrics rendered with great feeling by Begum Akhtar.
    Piya bholo abhiman, modhu raat boye jaayi
    Keno akhi chhalo chhalo
    O go katha kichchu bolo
    Dure thaka kigo saaje
    Maya bhora jochchonay
    ………………………………….

    A rough translation;
    My sweetheart, please forget your grudge/ hurt,
    The sweet night is passing by.
    Why your eyes are moist
    Does it augur well to remain aloof
    in this mystical moonlit night?
    ………………………………….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC6POsm3MvY

  895. Venkatarmanji @842, AKji @853

    Bhool gaye hum sab kuchh lekin from Tere Pyar Mein is an excellent number.
    I think, it was not there in the movie. Having seen this insipid version of Charlie’s Aunt, I don’t recollect seeing this song.

    I won’t say that he produced this song bhule se.
    Bappi da has given many nice songs in the 70s and early 80s.

    Aitbaar 1985 had two excellent duets by Asha and Bhupinder, penned by Hasan Kamaal

    Here’s one that fits here:

    Awaaz di hai aaj ik nazar ne ya hai ye dil ko guman
    dohara rahi hai jaise fazaye bhooli hui dastan
    …..ab yaad aya kitna adhura ab tak tha dil ka fasana

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8NbwkEAGs

  900. ONe of my favorite RDB duets of 70s..

    Heera Panna 1974
    RDB – AB – KK, Lata

    Panna ki tamanna hai ke heera mujhe…
    ….yaadon ki bas dhul ban chuka dil ka phool….

    ….yaadon ko chhod de waadon ko tod de,,,,

    ….bhula na mere dil ko kabhi jiska ka khayal….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Cgc5nVVkU

  901. Shalan Lal @887,
    You will be happy to know that Bachpan ki yaadgaro has already been posted. SOY readers are very knowledgeable.

    Alphabetical index is a labour intensive work. Some intrepid reader might be already doing it. My interest is in analysing the literary part of the lyrics. Many readers have opened new vista for understanding some imageries.

  904. Mr Joseph @891,
    I remember Kitna dukh bhulaya tumne pyari has been posted earlier. But you should not worry about repeats. You may try to see whether the search at the top right corner helps. You have mentioned about the need for a software. I want to keep my life simple. More than numbers, I am interested in patterns, things that are unusual, literary, off-beat etc.

  905. Dr Deshpande @895, 896,
    I am seeing some unusual songs from Bappi Lahiri, which he might have composed ‘bhoole se’.

  908. Mumbaikarji,
    @796,
    ‘I even asked NV which song other than ‘Bhoool kar bhi koi bhool ho na” was invalidated.’
    Sorry I didn’t notice your query. My regrets.
    @ 855,
    Marathi, Bengali, Tamil ……… now Gujarati
    Thanks for posting this Mukesh’s NFS.

    ‘One “bhule” Mukesh Shamshad Begum’s duet
    Tumhare Liye Hue Bednam… (Shabnam)’
    Nice song. Nice use of Dholak in the prelude.
    There was another nice Mukesh-Shamshad duet in this film which would fit the theme well.
    Here you see S D Burman using the Daphli in the prelude to good effect.
    Tu mahal me rahne wali, mai kutiya me rahne wala
    phir tera mera pyar kya……….
    ………………………………………
    Shamshad sings,
    Teri meethi meethi yaad, mere dil me haye re haye
    aati rahi aati rahi aati rahi…………
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAz8LLCIrvE&t=159s

    Both the songs by Rajkumari were good.
    Particularly, I loved the song,
    Tumhe apna banaya tha main ye bhi bhul jaungi
    Mujhe tumne mitaya tha main ye bhi bhul jaungi
    Magar bajti huyi shahnaiya kaise bhulaungi
    Nice composition by Hans Raj Behl.

    Needless to emphasise, both the songs by Lata are good postings
    Thanks Mumbaikarji

  909. Akji, Mumbaikarji,
    Posting a duet which has all three key words, Bisara, Yaad , Bhul.
    Bolo bolo sajan sajan bolo bolo
    Bolo sajan bisra to na doge
    ……………………………………….
    Yaad tumhari yaad tumhari
    Dekh jiye hai unki yaad
    Unki yaad bhula to na doge
    Rajkumari & Mukesh, Thes (1949), Kedar Sharma, Snehal Bhatkar

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0EjPrT43oo

  912. Rahulji @ 865,
    Very true. Lehro me jhulu- wonderful song and rendition.
    And the contrasting song Caravan.
    But both have their iconic place.
    Canasyaji @ 869,
    Sakhi ri sun bole papiha us paar- another wonderfuladdition.
    Arunji @ 870,
    Thanks for the additional information on Deccan Queen 1936.

  913. Rajeshji @ 895,
    Awaaz di hai aaj ik nazar ne ya hai ye dil ko guman is a good song, no doubt.
    Bhool gaye hum sab kuchh lekin was on a different plane.
    Unfortunate that it did not find its due place.
    May be he had to cater/ respond to the changing taste of the listener’s and the market.
    He had the talent and the feel and did succeed. No arguments about it.
    Posting a song composed by Bappi Lahiri, that fits the theme

    Saiya bina ghar suna, suna, saiya bina ghar suna
    Rahi bina jaise suni galiya, bin khushabu jaise suni kaliya
    ………………………………
    2nd antara
    Andhiyare badal chhaye, kuchh bhi na man ko bhaye
    Dekh akeli ghere mujhe, yadon ke saye saye
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uz0Ngl2Ecg

    Congratulations for posting the 900th comment.

  915. Akji,
    Posting a not-so-frequently heard song of Mukesh from an unreleased film.

    Shaam se aankh mein
    Nami nami si hai………………………….
    ……………..Ajnabi si hone lagi hain
    Aati jaati saanse
    Aansuon mein khadi huyi hain
    Roothi huyi si yaadein
    Mukesh, Salil, Yogesh, Mitti ke Dev (1968)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZPYJwZw2W8

  920. Canasya @907,
    Wo kahte hain ranjish ki baatein bhula dein. Beautiful ghazal again. I have heard it earlier.

    @910,
    Nice romantic poetry by Faiz. He has strong romantic side, besides his left revolutionary leanings.

  921. Venkataramanji @909,
    Nice discovery which has three relevant words, bisra, bhula, yaad.

    @915,
    Heard for the first time. The imagery is unique, “Aansuon mein khadi huyi hai, roothi huyi si yaadein’. Yogesh wrote some beautiful lines.

    @916,
    Pyar nibhana bhool,na jana sajan salone is a beautiful melody.Thanks for discovering it.

    @917,
    Ye haseen taare teri yaad dila dete hain is one of the famous NFS of Kamal Barot. But the tanginess in her voice sometimes is awkward.
    Prabhu Arora is a superb singer. Gifted with a Mukesh voice.

    @918,
    Mitwa re bhool gaye raahein mitwa is a haunting song. Befitting to end the day with.

  924. NV @ 908
    “Sorry I didn’t notice your query. My regrets.”
    It is perfectly fine. Actually, the query was @ 669 @796 it was used for reference.
    I would not have noticed daphli, thanks for highlighting it.
    Two songs from singers who seemingly had great potential but could not survive.
    Chhhoti duniya 1953 Sulchana kadam not one hser best though O Jane bhua dena and yaad in first antara
    https://youtu.be/rwPOBsP4F9M?t=64

    Magroor 1950 Badi bhool hui thujhe pyar kiya . Vishni Lal wonder why she disappeared altogether.
    https://youtu.be/xtBda64Kwp0

    Three Rafi songs all popular. Keyword in antara tough
    NF bhajan bhajore man Ram Govind Hari
    Sumiran here
    https://youtu.be/_CN0Y0nvH7I?t=162

    Shaheed Singh’s famous ay watan ay watan humko teri kasam.
    Par manao jab azad Bharat ka din us ghadi tum humen bhool jana nahin
    https://youtu.be/rk5urZN6cS4?t=123

    Lastly Aadmi song Aaj purani rahon se koi humen aawaz na de
    Beeten dino ki yaad thi jinme mai who tarane bhool chuka starts here
    https://youtu.be/s93w42jWe68?t=95

    One question is “khayal” in this song opposite of bhoolna,
    can “khayal’ in such situation be the keyword like “yaad” and “sumiran”
    Final approval has to come from the “single bench”

    Posting a sample song.
    Mere Humdum Mere Dost Hui sham unka khayal aa gaya.
    Was LP thinking about Guide’s Din dhal jaye hai raat na jaye composing this song?
    https://youtu.be/oOdrJl3D2fw

  925. Mumbaikar8,
    Perhaps you are referring to me as the ‘Single Bench’. ‘As the evening fell I thought about her’, or ‘as the evening fell her memories came to me’. You have the Veto Power.

  926. AK ji
    Two bhool Gaye / yaad nahi songs of contrasting nature
    Pathos ridden
    Ya Dil ki suno – Anupama – – Kaifi Azmi – Hemant Kumar
    Ek khwab Khushi ka dekha nabi
    Dekha Jo Kabhi to bhul Gaye
    https://youtu.be/poXBa76JNKk

    Effervescent
    O Meri O Meri O Meri Sharmilee – Sharmilee – Neeraj – SDB – Kishor.
    Tujhe dekha jabse dilruba
    Mujhe Mera Ghar Tak yaad nahi
    https://youtu.be/akOSLVdy-XM
    Again hoping that they have not been posted earlier.

  927. Mumbaikar 8 ji @ 924,

    About the disappearance of Vishnilal, the singer…..

    VISHNI LAL was born in Hyderabad( Sindh) in 1926. She came to Bombay in 1943 to sing in films. Ram Daryani recommended her to Khemchand Prakash and he gave a break to her in film Chiragh-43. She sang 14 songs in very few films like Qurbani-43,Anjuman-48 Mitti ke khilaune-48,Maghroor-50,Daamaad-51, and  Chhotisi Duniya-53 .

    Her family shifted to Bombay in 1947,after Partition. She was married to a businessman Mansukhani, in 1953. She then settled in Dubai, with her family.
    -AD

  929. Counter….

    @ comment number 928….songs posted are 808 + 10
    Congratulations for crossing 800 mark. Great !
    Thanks.
    -AD

  931. AKji:

    Lalita Deulkar recorded a song for an unreleased film, Parda, 1946 (MD: Shyam Babu Pathak). If released, we would have seen Madan Mohan’s debut as an actor. Another film with the name ‘Parda’ was released in 1949. That song was later used in ‘Taqdeerwaale, 1948—‘Mujhe waqt-e-namaaz yaad jo aayi teri’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ2gFYpuNko

  932. AKji, Rahulji,
    There was reference to Anuradha earlier.
    Here is a exotic vintage treat from Vidyapati (1937)

    Anuraadhaa o Anuraadhaa kyun ri pagali
    Ari is tarah rone se kyaa hogaa………….
    Gokul se gaye Giridhari………
    …………………………….
    Last anatara
    Magar sabase zyaadaa dukh jaanati ho kise huaa thaa
    Anuraadhaa jaisi ek Raadhaa thi
    Bichaari
    Bichaari ro-ro kar kahati thi
    Kaanh-kaanh har aan ratat man
    BHULAT naahi Bihaari
    Kahe Vidyaapati Madhusudan ne
    Raadhe
    Raadhe man se BISAARI
    Krishna Chandra Dey, Kedar Sharma, R C Boral
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Asvo3e1fSE

  936. AKji 925, Mumbaikarji @ 924,
    Since the single bench, represented by CJ has given the verdict, I presume it is no longer sub judice.
    That means in select situations ‘Khayal’ can be used for remembrance/ remembering. Then the word ‘Bekhayal’ too can represent forgetfulness. That opens a Pandora box.
    I have made a similar query @ 892.

    Tasawwur men chale aate ho
    Kuchh baaten bhi hoti hain
    Can we extend the meaning of Tasawwur to memory/ remembrance, in the context of song presented?

    Does this necessitate an appeal for rehearing, my lord, and before a division bench?
    Till then I would appeal for a stay on the use of the above mentioned words as variants to the key words already permitted.

    Mumbaikarji,
    ‘Was LP thinking about Guide’s Din dhal jaye hai raat na jaye composing this song?’
    An innocuous query? You were referring to the lyrics or the tune?

  937. @936,
    an amendment.
    Please read,
    ‘Till then I would appeal for a stay on the use of the above mentioned words appearing independently, without the permitted keywords in the lyrics.’
    I apprehend my appeal may be dismissed.

  938. Akji
    Posting three more vintage numbers
    Maran re, tu hi mero shyaam samaan…..
    Some comparison;
    Last antara
    Pritam ne bisaraayaa mujhako
    Mujhase ab apanaayaa tujhako
    Kantilal, Kangan (1939), Pt.Narottam Vyas, Ramchandra pal
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ziCYVzI2uI

    Kali kali kali ghata chhai hai
    Julfe saqi saqi mujhe yaad aai hai
    Han han mujhe yaad aai hai
    Waheedan Bai, Thokar 1939, Pyarelal Santoshi, Gyan Dutt
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stjk4CdSpUg

    Hum pinjre ki maina maina……
    1st antara
    …………….
    Jab prem jhakore jhulogi
    Tab Sudh budh sari bhulogi
    Meera, Vachan (1938),J S Kashyap, Saraswati Devi
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK4ifmFJZzg

  939. Akji,
    Kise yaad rakhun kise bhhol jaun, the theme song, was the first song of this post.
    Posting another song from the film Anuraag (1956)
    A nice song penned by Indeevar rendered by Mukesh
    Pal bhar hi ki pehchan me pardeshi sanam se
    Lagta hai ki ham jante ho janam janam se

    Tucked in the second stanza is the key word’Bhool’
    Kisi jiwan me sahi tumse meri prit rahi
    Jo prit bhul gaye aaj lagte hai naye
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyOTMWLPcKI

  940. Mr Muli @926,
    Nice contrast. Among the songs posted we have seen both types, a large number being pathos-filled.

  941. AK ji ,Venkataraman ji
    Venkataraman ji has gone ages back to bring Anuradha here.
    That also is the basis of Kishor & his erstwhile fiance in Padosan.
    To call it a day for today 2 more gazals
    Milkar juda huye to
    na soya karenge hum
    Ek dusare ki yaad me
    Roya karenge hum
    – Jagjeet & Chitra – Quateel shifai
    https://youtu.be/ZU0GJA9d7Wo
    Koi pass aaya savers savere- Jagjeet – Saeed Rahi
    In the last antara
    Kati raat saari
    Meri maiqade me
    Khuda yaad aaya
    Savere- savere
    https://youtu.be/iZxbEFsBw-U

  942. Canasya @928,
    How can one forget Surendra Kaur’s Ek nazar wo yaad hai unki. That one glance led to the two hearts quivering together. But now the pain of love. That is the theme of ‘Phoolsunghi’.

    @930,
    Aaj ka din tohe yaad rahe: Am I the only one feeling that Geeta Dutt did not open her mouth fully, and words came out of her compressed.

    @931, 933,
    Interesting information. Waqt-e-namaz: Not clear whether romantic song or devotional. I remember Zafar’s, there is ‘yaad’ here:
    ‘Zafar’ aadmī us ko na jāniyegā vo ho kaisā hī sāhab-e-fahm-o-zakā
    Jise aish meñ yād-e-ḳhudā na rahī jise taish meñ ḳhauf-e-ḳhudā na rahā

    @934,
    Baanke Bihari bhool na jana: Beautiful song.

    @935,
    O Pardesi, bhool na jana: Nice song.

  943. Arunji @929,
    You deserve everyone’s thanks for maintaining this counter, and alerting us first about the deluge.

  944. Venkataramanji @932,
    Thanks for posting the song from Vidyapati. KC Dey’s voice had a natural melancholy.

    @936, 937,
    I thought the lady you have addressed your comment to, has the veto power. But let us not go to who has the authority. I would submit for your consideration, Kahin bekhayal hokar yun hi chhoo liya kisi ne, and then assign a meaning to ‘bekhayal’. Forgetfulness may not be its exact meaning. You are a polyglot, please tell us its English translation.

    ‘Tasavvur’: In marketing they use a term ‘Brand extension’. I thought the word meant ‘imagination’, ‘dream’. Now if you wish to extend it to mean ‘memory’, no one you will charge with any crime. But Mumbaikar8 is a stickler. We have to defer to her verdict.

    @938,
    All the three songs are excellent. ‘Maran’ seems to be referring to a person. It cannot be ‘dying’.

    @939,
    I knew Pal bhar ki pehchan mein pardesi sanam se, but discovering ‘bhool’ in the second stanza requires genius.

  945. Arunji@ 927
    Thank you for the detailed information about Vishni Lal. It is amazing how you have all the information at your fingertips and best of it all is you are always ready to share it.
    Thanks once again. I don’t think I can thank enough.

  946. AK@ 925
    I do not like the idea of Veto power with me or someone else.
    I believe in reaching a consensus.
    I am ready to argue, till the cows come home, for that.
    “As the evening fell I thought about her’, or ‘as the evening fell her memories came to me’.”
    Hui sham unka kahyak aa gaya in exact translation would be “As the evening fell I thought about her’,
    But in lyrics writing to write on the tune taking care of the meter it is not always possible.
    The second line is
    Wohi zindagi ka sawal aagaya.
    To rhyme with “sawal aagaya” Yaad aagayi becomes “khayal aa gaya”
    Moving further to antara
    Abhi tak to hothon pe tha tabassum ka ek Silsila
    Bahut shadma the hum unko “bhulakar”
    Achanak ye kya ho gaya
    ke chehre pe range malal aa gaya
    Now the ball is in our coutt.
    BTW this song is valid as it had “Bhulakar”
    in antara.

  947. NV @ 936
    “That means in select situations ‘Khayal’ can be used for remembrance/ remembering. Then the word ‘Bekhayal’ too can represent forgetfulness. That opens a Pandora box.”
    Select situation yes.
    In “Hui sham unka khayal’ seems to be used in that context.
    Remember “Khaylon me hungama” in Mahmood song” hum kale hai to kya hua it was not even close to yaad.
    Bekhayal AK @ 944 has cited kahin bekhayal hoke, I would say that bekhayal here is like “bhule se “ in bhulese mohabbat kar baitha.

    I have made a similar query @ 892.
    Sorry I missed this comment.

    Mumbaikarji,
    ‘Was LP thinking about Guide’s Din dhal jaye hai raat na jaye composing this song?’
    An innocuous query? You were referring to the lyrics or the tune?

    Neither. I feel that they were in awe of Din dhal jaye and were looking for a situation to make something that have some emotion or feel or whatever you may call close to that song.

    Pesh hai Javed Akhtar’s couplet ”I remember all that never happened”.
    https://youtu.be/qVvx8AHpLWA

  948. Mumbaikar8,
    There never was any doubt about Hui shaam unka khayal aa gaya. You are right, in Kahin bekhayal hokar, ‘bekhayal’ is ‘bhoole se’. This is subtly different from ‘mistake’. Which song qualifies is not important, but discussion on nuances of meaning is. In this you are a Master. Therefore, you have earned your veto power 🙂 .

  953. AKji:

    Here is a peppy, very melodious Lata-Rafi number for Hulchul (1951—’Preet jatake meet banake bhool na jana’– composed by Mohammed Shafi:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtMM3B57MRk

    By the way, Mohammed Shafi will probably be a leading contender for SoY’s series on ‘Forgotten composers.’

  954. Canasya @949, 950, 951, 952, 953,
    Of the songs you have posted, the best by miles is Suman Kalyanpur’s Saanwariya re apni Meera ko bhool na jana.

  956. Presenting a song from Mahal (1949), Nakshab Jaravchi / Khemchand Prakash sung by Lata Mangeshkar in the fond assumption it has escaped notice so far,
    Mushkil Hai Bahut Mushkil Chahat Ka Bhula Dena
    https://youtu.be/TS7ldrdPeEQ?t=224
    ulajhan hai bahut phir bhi ham tum ko na bhulege
    tum ko naa bhulege (3rd antara)

  960. As usual stumbled on a song on the theme from the Gemini magnum opus Chandralekha (1948) released in three languages – Tamil, Telugu and Hindi with several firsts as milestone achievements in film making. S S Vasan proved his mettle as director and producer of the movie.
    Bharat Vyas on a brief exile to Chennai, wrote the song and music was given by S. Rajeswara Rao et al.
    Sanjh ki Bela by Uma Devi and Moti Bai
    https://youtu.be/zNPpiHlwFCQ?t=20

  967. Canasya @962,
    Ae jaan-e-wafa dil mein teri yaad rahegi: Bothe versions are very good, duet perhaps a shade better.

    @963,
    Very nice song.

    @964,
    “You, the forgetful lover, how can anyone erase your memory from this heart?” Vry nice song. The audio quality is superb, Zeenat Begum’s voice is very crisp.

    @965,
    Kaahe ko bisara Hari naam maati ke putle: Another very nice flavour of ‘Hari ko bisaro’. Does it have shades of “दुःख में सुमिरन सब करै, सुख में करे न कोय”?

  969. AK,

    As I said, you have beautifully brought out the nuances of bhoolna-yaad karna through the write up as well as songs. I would like to add something. If one looks at the general meaning of both these terms, one would think yaad karna is a positive term and bhoolna is negative.

    I had written the above para and then entangled in some work for two days and today I saw Canasya’s comment 357. How two minds work in the same direction. But after writing the above, I wanted to add something more which would further confirm what Canasya has said there.

    Sometimes ‘yaad rakhna’ becomes negative too like in the song ‘wo to chale gaye ae dil yaad se unki pyar kar, jeene men kya maja raha maut ka intazar kar’ (already posted by Josephji). Here she almost wants to stick to the yaad which in Hindi we would say ‘chipakana’, which sometimes become an obsession. Bedardi baalma tujhko mera man yaad karta hai, posted by Muliji is another facet of yaad rakhna. And in the Devar Mukesh classic ‘aya hai mujhe fir yaad wo zalim gujra zamana bachpan ka’, you see the yaad of the bachpan incident which has almost been forgotten has wrought havoc in his life. There are other situations with varying impacts in life.

    Now I take a look at ‘bhoolna’.

    After writing the above few lines I again got busy. Now I see a whole discussion has happened on Mumbaikar8’s query. Bhoolna unlike yaad karna has different usages like bhool, bhoola, bhoole, bhooli, bhulana, bhulawa or bhulekha, bhool-bhulaiyan etc. Their are further variants like bhulawa hona and bhulawa dena. I had selected three songs for different use of bhoole se, but two of them have already been posted. Bhoole se muhabbat kar baitha and ‘hum aapki mehfil men bhoole se chale aaye’ have already been posted. Mumbaikar8 has even posted the Vishni Lal’s Magroor song which slightly varied from them. The last song remaining which has not been posted is ‘ye bhool hui bhoole se kabhi hum teri tamanna kar baithe’ from Fifty Fifty.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3VOlfKf3Mo

    Now, as per me Canasya has perfectly described the situation in ‘bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha’ @ 746. ‘Hum aapki mehfil men’ is in the start almost like the earlier song, but is slightly different as he directly blames his beloved and it has the word ‘yaad’ in the antara. But, the third song is totally different, its tone is lighter and the words ‘bhool’ and ‘bhoole se’ are totally different in usage. This song also has undertones of there being a bhulawa or a bhulekha like in the song ‘kabhi bekhayal hokar yunhi chhoo liya kisi ne’.

    I could not remember a good song where bhulawa is used, but there a very beautiful Panjabi song from film Guddi sung by Rafi and Lata, ‘pyar de bhulekhe’.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI-_qDughm4

    Venkataramanji posted a song @ 59 ‘bhooli hui yaad aayi kahani, haye mubabbat haye jawani’ from Toofani Tarzan, tao which you said @ 76 that there is another famous song with the last words ‘haye muhabbat haye jawani’ which is not coming to your mind. I think the song is ‘ek dil aur sau afsane, haye muhabbat haye zamane’.

    You have made two comments about Harivansh Rai Bachchan on which I want to comment. First was about not being courteous when reviewing the autobiography of Rajendra Prasad. I think, Harivansh Rai was very frank even in his own autobiographies about himself (I have read the first two) and in my opinion was far from being a hypocrite. I dont think why he should not state what he frankly thought about Rajendra Prasad’s book. People read book reviews to know what is there in the book. If every book has to be praised then there is no point in writing reviews.

    The other thing you said was about him stating that they wished for a son when Ajitabh’s wife was expecting the third child is a regressive thought. I think most of the paople would think likewise and why there is harm in wishing for a son if you already have two daughters. I would call a person regressive, if he discriminates between a son and a daughter or does not love the daughter or hates her and treats her unkindly.

  970. Before entering into the debate about the words and wordplay, I would like to post a bouquet of Rafi gems still left to be posted.

    Ye hasrat thi ke is duniya men bas do kaam kar jate,
    tumhari yaad men jeete tumhare gham men mar jate.
    Rafi in Nausher wan e Adil.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxehPCpcrfY

    Hue hum jinke liye barbad, wo humko chahe karen na yaad – Deedar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD6bC-w5_FI

    Dil ke jharokhe men tujhko bithakar,
    yadon ko teri main dulhan banakar
    rakhoonga main apne paas, mat ho meri jan udaas.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9BfZf1x5ZU

    Mujhe jab jab baharon ka zamana yaad aayega,
    kahin apna bhi tha ik aashiyana yaad aayega,
    Kal chaman tha aaj ik sehra hua,
    dekhte hi dekhte ye kya hua. – Khandan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3CsXJp4rz4

    Kahin ek masoom nazuk si ladki from Shankar Husain
    Word ‘yaad’ in the second antara.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3VRgX1EWiQ

  971. Rangan ji @ 968, Sangeeta ji @ 165:

    First, Rangan ji. Nice recall. I have been to several of Anil Bajpai’s programmes, and in live performances, he is able to reproduce Rafi’s original songs better than Rafi himself! (Recordings of some of Rafi’s live performances are available on YouTube.)

    Here is another of Madan Mohan ji’s composition from Veer-Zaara—Udit Narayan singing ‘Main yahaan hoon’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Y8xEfyXTs&t=20s

    1st antra:

    ‘Tum chhupa na sakogi main wo raaz hoon,
    Tum bhula na sakogi wo andaaz hoon, …’

    Now, Sangeeta ji. According to mdanmohan.in, Madan Mohan ji had recorded a ghazal penned by Deewan Sharar entitled ‘Duniya Mujhe Kahti Hai Ke Main Tujhko Bhulaa Doon.’ I have not been able to trace it on the net. Perhaps you could suggest a source.

  973. Hans @969,
    Thanks a lot, and thanks for a very impressive analysis of different shades of ‘yaad karna’, ‘bhoolna’. To my mind Bhoole se mohbbar kar baitha should not create any confusion as to its meaning. Your example, ‘Ye bhool hui bhoole se kabhi hum teri tamanna kar baithe makes the two meaning very clear. The first ‘bhool’ is ‘mistake’/’error’. ‘Bhoole se’ has to be different, same as ‘Bhoole se mohabbat kar natha’.

    ‘Haye mohabbat haye jawani’: The song which buzzes in my head is a vintage male song of GM Durrani, Surendra type. This part comes in the end of the mukhada. Classic case of it being just on the tip of the tongue.

    On Harivansh Rai Bachchan probably we have to agree to disagree. If a dignitary is called for releasing a book, is a different situation from when he is writing its review in a literary magazine. In that case every diplomacy has to be termed as hypocrisy.

    On the last point too, let us agree to disagree.

    @970,
    Except the song from the film Brahmachari, other Rafi songs are everlasting gems.

  974. AK said and most of friends would agree that we need the power to forget some events. But what should be the way to forget.

    Here is one way suggested in the song
    aaj is darja pila do ke na kuchh yaad rahe
    bekhudi itni badha do ke na kuchh yaad rahe
    Rafi in Vaasna
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BlPar2qtas

    But, does this work. Let us see. In the next song ‘main kaun hoon main kahan hoon’ by Rafi in Main Chup Rahungi. He claims he has forgotten even himself, but as a side effect he is considering himself a dead body.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx6iNizyzZU

    But, look at this lady in Prem Patra who says
    ‘Ab aur na kuchh bhi yaad raha, na apni zafa na teri wafa,\
    dil pyar men aisa doob gaya’
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iExO0ajQdMA

    So which way is better.

    There are some songs which have a stamp of yaad on them, but they do not contain the word. I give here a couple of such songs.

    Jara si aahat hoti hai to dil sochta hai – Lata – Haqueekat.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8znmhy45nW4

    Har khushi ho wahan tu jahan bhi rahe – Lata – Upkar.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUJXocYrTr0&t=21s

    Such songs suggest that Arunji’s estimate of 40-50% yaad/bhool songs may be quite close.

  975. Hans ji @ 969-970:

    What masterly hits all the way to the boundary! The songs and the accompanying commentary have enlivened the proceedings.

    Here is ‘Beete dinon kee Yaad’ from the Album ‘The last journey of Rafi’ (1998). I believe, Naushad, who introduces the song, had composed the tune, probably in 1970, for an unreleased film ‘Beete dinon kee Yaad’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqlL8EUtqxY

  977. Hans @974,
    What sharp contrast in two extremes of forgetting the ‘yaad’. In the first two songs of Rafi, the man is trying to drown his (unhappy) memories in liquor. In the extreme stage, the man is like a dead body.

    And song from Prem Patra: The lady reaches the same stage of not remembering anything, but she is in bliss as she is drowned in love. The lyrics convey that there has been love as well as betrayal, still everything is gratifying.

  978. Two odes to two legends
    1 By a legend to his legendary composer friend. Their camaraderie and chemistry is part of the Bollywood folklore
    Yaad hai Pancham – Gulzar & Bhupinder
    https://youtu.be/unB2i6–Hcg

    2 And this one by a pretender to the throne to the departed king
    Mohammed Rafi tum Bahot yaad aaye – Mohammed Aziz – Kroadh – AB – LP
    https://youtu.be/RtNJk6JZX0U

  979. Canasyaji@971
    Thanks for your views on the competency of Anil Bajpai on his singing abilities. When I first heard him singing a difficult Rafi song, I was stunned. There may be slip for a very very brief note now and then, still he has managed to catch his spirit.
    AKji@972
    Here is another song from Begana, music by Sapan Jagmohan
    Phir wo bhooli si yaad ayi hai, original by Mohammad Rafi. This has already been posted I think.
    Anil Bajpai renders it effortlessly.
    https://youtu.be/8FLyArORNwE?t=7

  980. Shalan ji @ 805-806, 808:

    Read your long comments and enjoyed them. They are the surest signs things are creeping back to normalcy. Thanks.

    Although Ashwin ji @ 16 had mentioned Shakuntala, only you could have woven in Abhijnan Shakuntalam into discussion here the way you did. in the process, you have enriched the discourse. Otherwise, I shudder to think, this post on the interplay of memory and amnesia was in danger of winding up without mention of the greatest oeuvre in literature on the subject.

    You have underlined Shakuntalam’s preeminent stature in the world of arts as evidenced by the number of translations across languages, countries, and cultures, and the number of adaptations across genres. It has fascinated critics and commentators across ages, and the richness of its theme continues to inspire artists and performers even today who love experimenting and reinterpreting it.

    In Kerala, Kuttiyattam troupes stage the play over six days. Traditionally, all actors used to be men. I was lucky to witness a 2-hour long snippet in Bengaluru with Kapila Venu in the lead, one of the pioneering female performers in the genre. It started with a Bhramar or honeybee interpretation of Dushyant (and all male characters) as depicted by the king’s dress (and the dresses of other male characters) and ‘hast mudras’. (Some Kathakali performances of Shakuntalam prefer the ‘hunter’ interpretation of the king.) You will see this in this short promotional link:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4JcLGE5EKU

    If the number and quality of pastiches that a literary classic spawns off (for instance, Sherlock Holmes, and its offshoots) is an indication of popularity, then again, Shakuntalam is second to none. I still recall Sharad Joshi’s classic, hilarious take, ‘Mudrika Rahasya’ and would highly recommend if you have not already read it. Here is a reading of this masterpiece in three parts:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1X85P0CPAQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK7YDpw3_00

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwPPsdpg92o

    The hold Shakuntala’s tale has on us is eternal. And why not? It has every thing that a blockbuster could hope for–glamour, romance between royalty and the progeny of divine beauty, drama, and a rich, highly satisfying finale. Above all, it is about the coming together of the parents of the man after whom our country has been named!

    No wonder it has inspired so many Bollywood movies. Arun ji has said that ‘yaad aana’ and ‘bhoolna’ themes could be found in 40%-50% of Hindi songs. Similarly, I would venture to suggest that many Hindi films trace their origin to Shakuntalam in one way or other. And here I am not talking of direct adaptations such as Shantaram’s Stree (1962). Every Hindi film about an unwed mother bringing forth a child (which rules out Kunti) is about Shakuntala. The list includes films like Aawara, Ek Phool Do Maali, Aasra, …, you name it. And there is a Shakuntala in every heroine whom the hero and his family members refuse to recognize (Aaradhana, Raam Teri Ganga Maili, …).

    I would have loved to post Lata’s ‘Tu mere pyaar ka phool hai, ki meri bhool hai’, but the thought of the ensuing opprobrium from Mumbaikar ji was enough to dissuade me. So, here is Rafi singing ‘Wafaa ke naam pe, daaman mein aag lagaa baithe’ in ‘Dhool ka Phool’ under the baton of N Datta:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMkO5QnTnaw

    1st antra:

    ‘Chhoti si bhool jawani ki,
    Jo tumko yaad na aayegi, …’

  982. Mr Muli @978,
    Gulzar: The net is replete with his parodies. His verbiage in this video would be funsters’ delight.

    Mohmmad Rafi tu bahut yaad aya: A film to have this scene is terrific.

  983. Yes & I have read thrm. To each his own. That way the netizens have not Gandhi, Nehru and countless other icons, Gulzar Kya cheez hai?

  985. Hans @ 969 @970
    I am kicking myself for not remembering the songs you have posted. Particularly Yeh Hasrat thi, kahin ek masoom nazuk si ladki and kal chaman tha.

    “If one looks at the general meaning of both these terms, one would think yaad karna is a positive term and bhoolna is negative.”
    I did not quite understand this, forgive and forget is supposedly one of the most positive quote.

    Time for song you have posted some my favorites now I have a song for you. I am positive you love the humour of this one
    Upper wale ne jaldi mein likhi meri taqdeer

    https://youtu.be/62r5iasBjUI

  986. NV

    Hope you will enjoy this Lata song too.
    Najariya Lo ji hamento hichki aayi yaad unhe bhi

    https://youtu.be/pjKflIyaG3c

    Uma Devi in Jiyo Raja
    Ab rona rulana yaad huwa aur hansna hasana bhool gaye

    https://youtu.be/EcSNnu–IG4

    Duet Asha Talat Mahmood
    Apsara Hardam tumhi ko pyar kiye ja rahin

    https://youtu.be/K9BM9GojmYM

    Khan Mastana Ghazab dil ko nahin hai chain

    https://youtu.be/Hl5Mtyqkxfw

    Duet by Rafi Asha Hazaar Ratein Teri yaad aa rahi hai
    https://youtu.be/QVbc8pdQmq8

    Madna Mohan’s Laia Majnu
    Kahna ek diwana teri yaad me aahen bharta hai
    https://youtu.be/maTEpdQmuJw

  987. Canasya @980 AK, Bhandarkar and many other commentators

    You all are very engaging commentators and I hope the thousand number will reach soon.

    I thank you very much for highly intelligent comment of Canasya and I totally agree with him.

    Indians have romantic and intellectual personality through out the centuries from the ancient times to modern times.

    Here some more from the Bhagvad Gita:

    कच्चिदेतच्छ्रुतं पार्थ त्वयैकाग्रेण चेतसा |
    कच्चिदज्ञानसम्मोह: प्रनष्टस्ते धनञ्जय || 72||

    Lord God asks of Arjun “Have you listen to me with single minded concentration and has your confusion gone?”

    अर्जुन उवाच |
    नष्टो मोह: स्मृतिर्लब्धा त्वत्प्रसादान्मयाच्युत |
    स्थितोऽस्मि गतसन्देह: करिष्ये वचनं तव || 73||

    By your kindness I have regained my memory, my confusion has gone I am now firm and lost my delusion. I will act on your words.

    Here the fear of killing his own relatives and elders made Arjun rocked at the roots and he forgot his mission in his life. But Lord God Krishna went through seventeen chapters to clear Arjuna”s philosophical confusion.

    So the memories and mission in life could be lost and regained.

    Shalan La

  988. Rahulji @ 941,
    Visiting this post after 3 days.
    Thank you for the two beautiful Ghazal by Jagjit Singh.
    Koi pass aaya savers savere in the morning Raaag Laalit (I presume) made good listening.

    Mumbaikarji’s reference to Javed Akhtar’s couplet reminds me of another beautiful Ghazal rendered by Jagjit Singh. Link given below.

    AKji 944, Mumbaikarji @ 946 & 947
    After your comments, I do not think I should any further linger on this subject. Thanks.

    And thank you Mumbaikarji for sharing the Javed Akhtar’s couplet and also for the bouquet of songs @986. Did javed Akhtar pen these lines as part of the Ghazal, ‘Main Bhul Jaun Tumhe, Ab Yahi Munasib Hai’, rendered by Jagjit Singh?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jii27pcM374

  989. Akji, Mumbaikarji, Rahulji
    Posting a lively rendition by Bhupinder Singh, lyrics Qaisar-Ul-Jafri
    Arey chhodo, zamana ho gaya, sharmate sharmate
    Kisi din samne aa jana, sharmate sharmate
    ………………………
    Abhi tak yaad hain wo khubsurat hadsa Qaisar
    Pas-e-chilman kisi kaa jhakna, sharmate sharmate
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZQAko2enpg

  990. AKji @ 944,
    “‘Maran’ seems to be referring to a person. It cannot be ‘dying’.”

    I listened to the song again and tried trace the situation of the song. The song is from the 1939 film Kangan. Here is the synopsis of the film, gathered from Indiancine.ma site and watching available clippings of the film in the net.

    The film is a love story between the beautiful village belle Radha (Leela Chitnis) and Kamal (Ashok Kumar), the son of the village zamindar who wants to be a great poet. It appears that Radha was brought by a poor Vaishnavite in an Ashram. The zamindar sends his son to the city where Kamal becomes a noted novelist and playwright while Radha is persecuted by the zamindar and his henchmen Banwari. She feigns suicide. The song is picturised as á background song when Radha (supposedly) ends her life by drowning and Ashok Kumar carries her body back from the pond (river?).

    But that is not the end of my story. When I was listening to the song again without my earphone, my wife happened to be there and on hearing the song she told the lyrics were based on a song from ‘Bhanusingher Padabali’ written and composed by Rabindranath Thakur in the 1881, when he was only 20 years. I think it might have been the decision of Ramchandra Pal who was the co-MD of the film along with Saraswati Devi. The song is available in the voice of Suchitra Mitra, Kanika Banerjee and others.

    It is about Lord Krishna’s departure for Mathura & his final abandonment. Radhika mourn for her Krishna and eventually dies from immense anguish arising out of separation. The song, (later staged as dance-drama ‘Bhanusingher Padabali’) depicts the union of immortal souls; Radha’s Atma meets the Paramatma.

    Maran re, tuhu mama shyamsaman
    Meghabarana tujha meghajatajuta, raktakamalakara rakta-adharaputa,
    Taapavimochana karuna kar taba mrityu-amrita kare daan.
    Aakul raadha-rijha ati jarajara, jharayi nayana daau anukhana jharajhara –
    Tnnuhu mama maadhaba, tnuhu mama dosara, tnuhu mama taapa ghuchao.
    Maran, tu aao re aao.

    Bhujapaashe tava laha sambodhayi, aakhipat maju deho tu rodhayi,
    Kor-upar thuja rodayi rodayi, nid bharaba saba deha.
    Tnuhu nahi BISARABI, tnuhu nahi chhorabi, raadhahriday tu kabahun na torbi
    Hiya-hiya raakhabi anudina anukhana – atulan tnohar leha.
    …………………………………………

    The presence of the keyword ‘Bisarabi’ qualifies this song for posting here.
    I would prefer to present a fresh voice, Aditi Mohsin
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=begNHHs-lpc

    It is said that Rabindranath was influenced by Vidyapati in his early years.
    And it is seems there is a strange coincidence, Vidyapati and my wife !!!!

  991. Pancham with a soft tune & that too in 80s using Suresh Wadkar’ s voice .
    Wahi chal mere Dil – Shaukin – Yogesh
    https://youtu.be/F1Q6EhEyljQ
    In the first Antara
    Mausam ho koi bhi
    Eo jab yaad aaye
    & Pancham again this time from superflop Kaka film Raja Rani
    Main ek chor tu Meri Rani – AB – Kishor & Lata
    Chal padi main saath Tere
    Sari Duniya ko bhulake
    And in antara
    Ye baate ye Raate bhul Jaye hum
    To hame yaad dilana , bhul na jana
    https://youtu.be/27XpOeye0xA

  1001. Cannot determine whether this is posted so far or not. But even if it is posted it is worth listening again
    Dekh li Teri khudai – Kinare Kinare – Jaidev – Nyay Sharma – Talat
    In the last antara
    Apni kismat yaad aaye hi
    Mera Dil dart Gaya
    https://youtu.be/ctp6gbcmktm

  1003. AK ji,

    Congratulations. The comments have passed the 1000 mark.
    As on Comment no. 1001 the number of songs posted …883 +10
    -AD

  1004. Posting few songs from the film Ashiana (1952) starring Raj Kapoor and Nargis. An average film, i.e. that too a tragedy but with immortal songs by Madan Mohan and lyrics by Rajindeer Krishan
    Mere Piya Se Koyi Jake Keh De
    by Lata Mangeshkar – https://youtu.be/AUxF6HomkS0?t=93

    Tum Chand Ke Sath Chale Aao
    by Lata Mangeshkar
    biti huyi ghadiyo ki yade (last antara)
    https://youtu.be/zseTkRU4pxA?t=152

    Mukh Mod Na Lena Sajna
    by Lata Mangeshkar
    tere hi khyalo se aabad meri dunia
    bhule se na kar dena barbad meri dunia (Ist antara)
    https://youtu.be/4NyhU_YJxIU?t=23

    Sama Hai Bahar Ka, Lele Maja Pyar Ka
    by Lata Mangeshkar
    https://youtu.be/M1uD3BG72Hg?t=73

  1005. Muliji@ 1001
    Video has been removed. Here is the new link.
    https://youtu.be/_RXIOrxSmCs?t=129
    This song was presented by someone who knew about the music director’s financial condition. He stated that this song reflected his real state in life. It appears Jaidev had stated that he had never seen one lakh in his life. He got a cheque for the like amount but left the world before he could realise it. I remember to have forwarded this to AKji through whatsapp.
    Here is another song on the theme from the same film, a well known one rendered by Mukesh and it needs no guess work that it would be nothing but pathos.
    Jab Gham-E-Ishq Satata Hai by Mukesh
    https://youtu.be/VvZ22P1In4Y?t=53

  1008. Shalan Lal @987,
    Thanks a lot for your erudite comments. With your good wishes, the number of comments has already crossed 1000. It is interesting you have related it to Geeta’s verse XVIII.72-73. स्मृतिर्लब्धा literally means regaining memory, but in the context I would translate it is “I have regained my senses”. May be same, but subtly different. Arjun had not become amnesic, but he was overtaken by emotions, his body was trembling, etc:
    सीदंति मम गात्राणि मुखंं च परिशुष्यति

  1009. Venkataramanji @990,
    Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation, and thanks to the Tagore-Vidyapati expert Mrs Venkataraman. Now with the benefit of this explanation, ‘maran’ does refer to ‘death’. In extreme anguish of separation from the lover, the lady is now in the state when death is like Shyam. Am I close?

  1010. Mr Muli @991,
    Now I remember only the second song, though I have seen the film Shaukeen.

    @1001,
    Dekh li teri khudaai: Great. What a contrast from the earlier song!

  1011. Dr Deshpande @992,
    In the 90s, Lamhe was a standout film for its music.

    @993,
    Mujhe tumse hai kitne gile: This song also ahd its takers.

    @994,
    Bazigar O’ Bazigar: Nice title song.

    @995,
    Bhoole bisre kai afsaane sunaane aaya
    Baad ek umra ke phir chand sirhaane aaya    : Wah, Wah, the shair, and Khayyam.

    @996,
    Dil lubha ke mere saathi bhool jana na: Beautiful song. Nice discovery. Malay Chakravarty who gave music for this only film.

    @997, 1006.
    Wo dil mein humko yaad karein: Nice song.

    @998,
    Panchhi bhool gaya wo gana
    Bhool gaya aazad hawayein    :
    An entirely different context. Bird’s loss of memory of songs is because of its forced captivity.

    @999,
    Phir humein koi yaad aaye hain: What a song! Thanks for posting it.

    @1000,
    This seems to be a stock situation for female songs. ‘You have forgotten me, but how can I forget you?’

    @1002,
    Bhool ja ae dil wo baatein bool ja: Songs has a deeper meaning. The context could also be forget the past bitterness.

    @1007,
    Yaad kisi ki aayi, dil ko de di dard nishani, aankh mein aansoo layi: Nice lyrics. At low notes, Ishwarlal has some difficulty.

  1012. Arunji @1003,
    Thanks a lot for your updated counter. Now we are touching 900 songs. But you were the first one to predict it.

  1013. Mr Rangan,
    Of the four songs you have posted, Mukh mod na lena saajna is unheard of. Other three are all-time great songs.

  1014. AKji & others,
    Congratulations for crossing the four figure mark.
    The third post to to achieve it, and that too within a year.

    AKji,
    Taking fresh guard with this vintage song from the film Aage Kadam (1943)
    A song on lighter note
    Mere Chasme Wale Sarkar…….
    …………………………
    Last antara (02:10)
    Madhumakhi Mein Jhume Jhumkar
    Jaana Na Rastaa Bhool,
    Kahi Jaana Na Rastaa Bhool
    Ham Bhool Gaye Re, Ham Bhool Gaye Re
    Zara Rastaa Bata do…..
    Leela Pawar, & Master Amritlal,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHhlDgD_ccw

  1016. Rangan ji thanks for uploading the link. What you have written about Jaidev is absolutely touching. If a list of the most unfortunate MDs is made he must be there in top 10 and if that list further pruned to cover only those who worked for 30 years or more in the in the industry, he should come at the top.
    He got only 3 big banner movies ; HumDono, Mujhe Keene Do & Reshma Aur Shera . That is very distressing considering that his score in Hum Dino had 4 iconic songs of different shades.
    Here is an absolute gem from him
    From a film which was never released.
    Ye need kaha se barse – Prem Parvati – Padma Sachdev – Lata
    Panchi pagale kaha Ghar Tera re
    Bhul na jaiyo apana basera
    https://youtu.be/6CsxIsksYXE

  1017. AK @ 1008

    I think we all should celebrate that this post has reached a Himalayan Peak as so many enthusiastic readers find it difficult to stop their flow of the memories. It’s the river Ganga at Hardwar.

    As per your Comment:
    “I would translate it is “I have regained my senses”. May be same, but subtly different. Arjun had not become amnesic, but he was overtaken by emotions, his body was trembling, etc:
    सीदंति मम गात्राणि मुखंं च परिशुष्यति…….”

    I shall not split hair. My feeling is that for more than twelve years he was preparing for this war by getting numerous weapons and so on so he should not have come to the state of:-
    “सीदंति मम गात्राणि मुखंं च परिशुष्यति…….”

    But then when he was facing the actuality of the war with total annihilation of blood brothers and worshipful teachers so the deadly truth overwhelm him.

    Whatever it was a war like that affects human senses. The novel I mentioned in my earlier comment was “Random Harvest”. It is the story of an English soldier who totally lost his memory. This was a first story about the effects of war on warring and ordinary people.

    The writer of BG got the sense of it. Memory is important part of the well-being of humans and also animals. If a calamity is going to rock that balance then it is needed to look after.

    Later after the war Ashwathama- the son of the great teacher Dronacharya loses his mind and goes mad by killing the unborn babies in the wombs of the wives of the sons of Pandu.

    I say that is the horrific truth of the war and Arjun became aware of it.

    Shalan Lal

  1018. Muliji
    I did my duty to the blog to restore links as you tube does remove link at the mere whisper of a protest from all and sundry. To quote an instance. I was in Sydney for nearly a year in 2004, doing baby sitting for a two year old grandson and snapped a kokkoburrah on a branch in the backyard yelling for what it is worth. You must listen to its wails. I have uploaded a video based on it titled – Kookkaburrahs in Peckham. Somebody claimed it and I had to literally blow myself to you tube administrators they should have asked me for authenticity. Many of my posts on old songs were removed by you tube and once I was banished for 6 months as a punishment. The song you uploaded is truely great. Jaidev must have been punished for his previous janma karmas and not recognised for what he was worth.
    AKji another song :
    Pujarin (1969) Madan /MD Narayan Dutt
    Singer : Mukesh
    Mera Prem Himalay Se Ooncha
    https://youtu.be/QacmetlIW0I?t=42
    tab yaad mujhe teri aati kuchh hai tujhpe adhikar mera
    mera prem himalay se uncha sagar se gahra pyar mer
    (Ist antara)

  1019. Rahuji @ 1016,
    Ye neerd kaha se barse – Prem Parvat – good compostion, lyrics and rendition.
    Thanks for posting this nice song.

    Posting a song by Mitali Mukherjee, lyrics Ashq Ambalvi, Music Bhupinder Singh
    Ashqo ke moti humne piroye tamaam raat
    Ek bewafaa ki yaad me
    EK bewafaa ki yaad me roye tamaam raat
    ……………………………
    Aisi giri zahan pe yaado ki bijliyaa
    Yaado ki bijliyaa
    Baithe rahe khayalo me
    Baithe rahe khayalo me khoye tamaam raat
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzPdVMbHrbo

  1020. Ranganji @ 1018,
    I remember the post and it is still there, an audio in YT with a picture of a pair of Kookaburras.

    Thanks for posting the lovely Mukesh number. Both the lyricist and the MD are lesser known and so is the film. There is a female voice appearing in the interludes. ?

    Posting a Mukesh-Lata duet from Wafa (1950)
    Aramaan bharaa dil toot gayaa
    Taqadir ke aansu bahte hai
    Duniyaa ki sitam kaa afsana
    Hum apne dil se kahte hai

    In chaand sitaaro se puchho barbaad hui hai ninde bhi
    Ye phul bane hai angaare
    Hum yaad me jalae rahte hai
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsA-ietQqaM

  1021. Venkataramanji @1014,
    Thanks a lot. You have played an important part in this post reaching this milestone. Mere chashme waale sarkar is a nice song. Master Amritraj’s voice belongs to Mukesh-school.

  1023. Shalan Lal @1017,
    Thanks a lot for your appreciation. The context of Bhagwadgita is well-known. The subtlety arises in getting its message. I was aware that the difference is very small. So let us agree that both are correct.

  1025. AK ji
    Who can forget this immortal quawali?
    जब जब कृष्ण की बन्सी बाजे
    निकली राधा घरसे
    जान-अजान का ध्यान भुलाके,
    लोकलाज को तजके
    Ye ishq ishq hai – Barasat Ki Raat – Sahir- Roshan
    https://youtu.be/BQRHuMBtOYY

  1026. AK @ 1023

    Of course I agree about the sense and sensibility of your comment and I see not much difference between the two words you are refering.

    Just thinking over the title “क्या भूलूँ क्या याद करूँ”’which you got from the Bachhan’s book is all past memory and the writer wants to look back over his past life and experiences. It gives us the understanding of tow generation of the writer and his father’s time. A person like me like the difference between two generations of a conservative Kayasth family in Allahabad a century ago.

    Come to think that most of the autobiographies are past memories some are realistic and many are the way writers want to think how their memories should be seen by the readers and the writers themselves.

    The first filmy biography was done by Dadasahib Phalke long after when he was very old. But that gave some understanding about how a conservative Hindu Brahmin and his wife gave a rise to the dream factory he himself had never dreamt about.

    Then I read very good filmy autobiography of Kishore Shahu who excluded his sad story of not being able to make love to his wife Snehprabha Pradhan who took him to the court to get a divorce on the ground of his inability.

    This Dev Anand used very subtly in the film Guide giving him the role of artist dancer character played by Vahida Rehaman.

    The third filmy “Meri Filmy Atma-kahani” wrote by Balraj Sahani. It gave us not only his struggle in life but the way Indian film makers make films.

    Not all books are true to reality. But Sub Kuchh Chalata Hai.

    I may write about reference to other books as well which so often are taken from the lives of the writers.

    Shalan Lal

  1027. Venkataramanji, Mumbaikar8 and AK,

    There is this fresh discussion on ‘khayal’, ‘bekhayal’ and ‘tasavvur’. It has been agreed that khayal can be used in a given situation as alternative of yaad. I also agree to that and have seen this done in quite a number of songs of hfm. Regarding ‘bekhayal’ my view is that in the song ‘kahin bekhayal hokar’ of Teen Deviyan, this was used as a replacement of ‘bedhyan’. You may say he means that even if somebody touches him ‘anjane men’ or in ‘bedhyan’ he starts building dreams about it. I think ‘bekhayal’ is hardly used in normal life. ‘Bedhyan’ or ‘anjane men’ are more likely to be used. Or we may just say ‘maine to aise hi bol diya tha dhyan na dena (or khyal na karna). In English we may use the word ‘inadvertantly’, or we may say ‘I just said it in passing, dont mind’.

    Now is left the word ‘tasavvur’. Although AK has opined that it means ‘imagination’ to which I also agree, but tasavvur to my mind can be used in place of yaad in certain situations. The song mentioned by Venkataramanji uses ‘tasavvur’ as yaad in my view. The second line of the Begum Akhtar song uses the word ‘shabe furkat’. If there is a situation like ‘mehbooba teri tasveer’ where the person has not seen the other one, then it is a case of imagination or kalpana. Yaad is basically a thing which is in the mind or we may say near kalpana. Sometimes we do not make out a clear picture of the person we have seen several times.

  1028. AK, @ 973

    Harivansh Rai was not called for releasing the book. Canasya says he was asked to deliver a talk on the occasion of 25th year of publication of the book. Canasya has not mentioned whether AIR was celebrating it in some auditorium or the talk was broadcast on Radio like other talks.

    Regarding the Brahamchari song, it had special use of the word ‘yaad’. ‘Yadon ko teri main dulhan banakar’ is quite imaginative. For me it is a great song, but you are very rarely satisfied with Rafi songs. But, thanks for liking the other songs.

    @ 977
    Prem Patra is a very sweet film with great music by Salil. People talk about Sadhana as beauty sans acting, but Bimal Roy gave her two films at the start of her career and she performed well in both.

  1029. Canasya, @ 975

    Thanks for the nice words and the nice song of Rafi. I was absent for a long time but have gone through your erudite comments and agree with other friends that there is a special style in your writing and in this post you have posted a number of gems too. I would request AK to book you for a guest post. Kam se kam ek to banti hi hai. Both of you decide on the post between yourselves.

  1031. Mr Muli @ 1025,
    Sahir Ludhiyanavi had inserted Radha-Krishna lore in the qawwali Ye ihq ishq hai, ishq ishq very nicely.

  1033. Counter….
    As on comment number 1032,
    the number of songs posted is….899 +10
    -AD

  1035. AK@1032

    Thanks for the encouragement to me to give more reflections on the works of other famous people. I may start with Gandhiji and Nehruji and followed by many other good, bad and ugly people.

    But I cannot hurry now because in the UK the “closed down” is still operating though there is some skeleton of opening the schools etc are operating.

    But main libraries and the Universities are totally closed down. They are my temples to visit if not at least once in a week.

    Though books primarily spread knowledge at present they are culprits of spreading Covid-19 and especially the Indian Variant as the fingerprints marks on them are passed to others.

    People react at my presence when I go for shopping and give me front access in the Queue believing I may ba carrying Indian Variant.

    So I have to slow down.

    You have mentioned “Draupadi & Gavalan” directed by Baburao Patel so I shall start with him as I have got fingertip information about his bio-articles and anecdotes many times in his mag or rag to gratify himself with the made images. They are the most entertaining of all the writers in the world.
    Let me consolidate myself and then I shall come out with something entertaining for all.
    Thanks again
    Shalan Lal

  1038. Mumbaikar8, @ 985

    Your reaction is quite natural, especially when they are favourite songs. But, I guess every body has this habit of ‘bhool jana’ when one should have been doing ‘yaad rakhna’. I was busy and one day when I found time, I made a list which I daily saw depleted because of the bombardment by Josephji and Dr Deshpande. I think I was lucky that I could muster a bunch both for Mukesh and Rafi. Now take the case of your song ‘lo ji hamen to hichki aayi’ from Nazaria in comment 986. This song immediately brought to my mind the stunning Lata gem from Pinjra ‘kauno zulmi ne hamen yaad kiya jo aave hichki, zalim re zalim yaad buri uski’, which had not entered my mind till I saw the mukhda of the song posted by you. Since this song so beautifully uses yaad, I am posting it here.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmldZT6sAPs

    Your song ‘upar wale ne jaldi men likhi meri taqdeer’ is a great favourite of mine. I dont know if you know this is lip-synced by Suresh of ‘suhani raat dhal chuki’ and ‘tasveer banata hoon teri khoone jigar se’ fame. In his character actor avtaar in later years he did variety of roles with comic and even negative shades, unlike actors like Karan Dewan and Bharat Bhushan who continued as good guys even in character roles.

    Regarding your question about yaad rakhna and bhoolna being positive and negative terms, I would say that I have never thought this as an absolute truth and even in my following lines I have explained it further. But, if you look at the forgive and forget policy which you mention, this itself proves that bhoolna is negative and that is why you want the person to forget the negative done to him. If we look at film songs we would see most of such songs are related to love stories and nobody in his right mind would ask the other to forget, which means everyone likes to be remembered. If we look at the songs like ‘mujhe bhool jana agar ho sake’ or ‘meri yaad men tum na aansoo bahana’ the person professing ‘bhoolna’ is doing it because he is caught in an irretrievable position. We become philosophical only when we are facing adverse circumstances.

  1039. Dr Deshpande posted the song ‘aapne yaad dilaya to mujhe yaad aaya’ from Aarti which was written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.

    Now look at the words of another stalwart Sahir Ludhiyanvi who wrote a song on a similar situation the next year in Gumrah, ‘aap aaye to khayale dile nashad aaya’. This is sung by Mahendra Kapoor who is under represented on this post. Hope this would do some justice to him.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qud7fhDE-do

    Now I will give the relevant lines from both the songs to show how they are on the same thought on similar circumstances.
    First, mukhda of the first song
    आपने याद दिलाया तो मुझे याद आया
    के मेरे दिल पे पड़ा था कोई ग़म का साया
    and the 1st antara
    मैं भी क्या चीज हूँ खाया था कभी तीर कोई
    दर्द अब जा के उठा चोट लगे देर हुई

    Now look at the art of Sahir who combines these two separate couplets into the mukhda of the second song.
    आप आये तो ख़याले दिल नाशाद आया
    कितने भूले हुए जख्मों का पता याद आया

  1040. Venkataramanji,

    You have really enlivened this post and enlightened us with a number of vintage songs which are absolute gems. As I had not much time I have yet to listen all of your songs, but the song ‘maran re’ at 938 has simply floored me. I never heard this song before and lyrics, tune and singing are all marvellous. I would listen to other songs too in time.

  1041. Ranganji,

    You have been one of the front runners in posting songs in this post and those posted are mostly gems. I have never seen you post so many songs in a single post and after looking at the songs where you have seen through the relevant words deep in the antaras, I am of the opinion that you have very efficient knowledge of hindi lyrics. Keep on posting, as we need to post at least 1000 songs because such a veteran as Arunji is doing the counting.

  1042. Now I present a mixed bag with various singers, but songs are all out of this world.

    Husnwalon ko na dil do – Babul – Talat – Naushad – Shakeel
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5kJiT2R81w

    Ek nazar wo yaad hai – Nao – Surinder Kaur – Gyan Dutt – DN Madhok
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27NYCc6PeqI

    Kahe koyal shor machaye re – Aag – Shamshad – Ram Ganguly – Behzad Lucknowi
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3Q4ZzdFsU

    Bujha diye hain khud apne hathon – Shagoon – Suman Kalyanpur – Khayyam – Sahir
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Vn-c90Cq0

    Hum tumse muhabbat kar baithe – Nartaki – Mahendra Kapoor – Ravi – Shakeel
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xyMXqsfjMY

  1043. Hans@1038
    You have hit the nail on the head when you stated that generally males philosophise and suggest renunciation of love when it is irretrievably lost by them. Your dissections in general are of a high calibre and make one think a lot and find new vistas which they could not have found by themselves. I know in Central Secretariat service a good writer is an asset and you must been the envy of fellow bureaucrats.

    @1041
    Thanks for observing that I am a busy beaver in this post. I did research and collect many songs. I had nearly seventy in tow, but my laggardness whittled away many songs when others posted them. Now I post as I unearth them. Thousandth milestone has been passed. Bhatiaji is still in bed recovering from kovid and unable to actively participate. Arvinderji is a prodigious poster but did not see him here. Fortunately others stepped into the fray and ensured steady progress. Jignesh seems to have buried himself underground in Gujarat. I still have a few songs up my sleeve. I also wish the song count to touch 1000.

    Torpedo (1941)
    Kabil Amritsari / MD Shantikumar Desai
    Chal Saajan by Rajkumari Dubey
    https://youtu.be/74VBUnqS9YQ?t=3
    Bhoolgaye aisi saajan ho (last antara)

  1044. Raina beeti jaye shyam na aaye was posted and its lyrics ‘shyam ko bhoola sham ka wada’ discussed among friends. There was a sweet 1975 film Geet Gata Chal with three fresh faces Sachin, Sarika and Khyati with Ravindra Jain writing lyrics and composing songs. In that film there was a sweet song by Aarti Mukherjee on similar theme. The song was ‘kar gaya kanha milan ka wada’. One antara was
    श्यामा रे मेरी भूल भुला दे
    आजा फिर जो चाहे सजा दे
    मैं अब ना करुँगी ठिठोली तेरे साथ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLXqiBbTLQs

  1045. AK Ji;

    Your article is an Anmol one for me like Anmol Ghadi and Anmol Clock Tower. And thanks for mentioning me for my nostalgic traveloughe . I have still stock of failing memories stored in my head up there. slowlly i will open the lid as i am still in recovery mode after my recent illness.

    The article and contribution of comments and observations are of highest qualities . …..so far read about 25 percent and continue day after day. To open my account here are some songs hoping they are not repeat.

    Kyun Yaad Aa Rahe Hain (Video Song) – Anmol Ghadi

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pThukkbxwuU

    APNI KAHO KUCHH MERI SUNO – LATA -TALAT -NOOR LUCKHNAVI -C RAMCHANDRA -PARCHHAIN ( 1952)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33qih0ZRVs0&t=75s

    Dil Se Bhula Do Tum Humein – Superhit Cult Classic Romantic Hindi Song – Patanga

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFuidskMT00

    गरीब जान के हम को न तुम दग़ा देना Gareeb Janke Hamko – HD वीडियो सोंग Johnny Walker मोहम्मद रफ़ी

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma-bUTcDZaw

    tum na jane kis jahan me kho gaye..Sazaa 1951_Lata_Sahir Ludhianvi_S D Burman..a tribute

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSkgzTahEfg

    …..to be contd….

  1047. Hans ji;

    I am unable to locate one of old mukesh song composed by c ramchandra ….which goes like this…

    hum tujhse mohabbat kar ke sanam ..dil ka laggana bhul gaaye …ek jaam teri aankhon se piya aur …hosh mein aana bhul gaaye.

    I have tried on YT but unable to locate and not remembering the movie too.

  1048. Hans @1044,
    If you have followed the discussions closely, there was no final settlement on ‘Shaam/Shyam ka bhoola Shyam/shaam ka wada’. Since ‘Sang deeye ke jaagi Radha, I had no doubt that it referred to unfaithful Krishna.

  1049. Bhatiaji,

    I am very happy to see you back in such fine health. I am not saying it about your health as just a whim, but it is evident from your query. Your memory is just fine now, because you remember this song. C Ramchandra composed just two songs for Mukesh. The other one was ‘jap jap jap re’ in Sharada. To remember the song and almost the mukhda from such a short list is just incredible. I immediately knew the song because I had noticed the fact of just 2 songs for Mukesh when I prepared the CR summary of songs.

    This second song he composed 10 years later for film Wahan Ke Log – 1967. Here is the link.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYR7_5PNKE

  1050. AK,

    I agree with your observation that it is ‘shyam (Krishna) ko bhoola sham ka vaada’ and I think others should agree to this as there is logic behind it. There have been number of songs about Krishna’s vachan or wada, whether it was to Radha or to general public like ‘badi der bhayi nandlala’ or ‘kanhaiya kanhaiya tujhe aana padega’.

  1051. KS Bhatiaji @1045, 1046,
    First heartiest welcome back to SOY. We were missing you. Mr Rangan has just mentioned you @1043. All except one song are eternal songs. Hum yaad karenge from Roshni is a fabulous song. Thanks a lot for posting it.

    @1047,
    Hum tujhse mohabbat karke sanam is, of course, from Aawara (1951). But other lines do not match. Mukesh was a rare singer for C Ramchandra. I only remember a song from Sharda (1957). But this not that song. There must be some mix-up.

  1052. AK ji
    The late entries of Hansji & Bhatiya ji have reignited the post which was dominated by Rangan ji , canasya ji , Venkataraman ji & Rajesh ji . With this the post is sure to create an
    all time high. We all know that you are not interested in quantitative records, but it is still an important measure of widespread interest created by the post.
    Here are few more songs .
    Jag dil- e-diwana – Unche log – Majrooh – Chitragupt – Rafi
    There is only a fleeting reference to yaad and we surely will bhool it .
    https://youtu.be/9n6hoIp6Quc

    Hum Tere pyar me – Dil Ek Mandir -Hasarat – SJ – Lata
    I am not sure whether this has been posted or not.
    https://youtu.be/82PmVvIqHU0

    Zindagi ke Safar me – Aap ki Kasam – AB – RDB – Kishor Kumar
    Kal tadapna pade yaad me jinki
    Rok lo roothkar unko jaane na do
    https://youtu.be/TqdNqBA44Bg

  1053. Canasya ji @861 & 864

    Thank you for liking the Begum Akhtar ghazals and for posting another one of hers from Dana Pani.

    Here’s another one of hers: Duniya ke Sitam Yaad, Na Apni hi Wafe Yaad
    (Lyrics: Jigar)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYN2ucWmCkY

    *
    Those two Phir teri yaad songs are very similar. I hadn’t heard of the MD S.Mohinder ji before. Thanks for the intro.

  1058. Hans ji @1049 , AK ji @1051 ;

    Thanks for tracing the song which our friend used to sing during college days some time during 68 or so. There was no mix up as i was sure of this song no matter it started with mukhda of Awara famous song .

    To continue with more …here are a few golden era songs.

    Kyun Unhe Dil Diya (HD) – Anokhi Ada Songs – Surendra – Naseem Banoo – Shamshad Begum

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKWNkL4guR4

    ROSHNI – Hum yaad karenge – C.Ramachandra, Lalita Dheolkar

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrlBKpWzaEI

  1059. Counter….

    By comment no.1058, the number of songs posted is 926 + 10

    Will it or will it not……reach 1000 mark ?

    -AD

  1060. Arunji,

    This will surely reach the 1000 mark. Bhatiaji has woken up and others are also at it. I have around 40 in the list after which I will search for more.

  1061. Mr Muli @1052,
    It does look like unstoppable. Among the songs added there are several which have subtle turn of phrase, unique metaphors and imageries. That analysis would be very interesting.

  1062. Mr Rangan @1055,
    Nice song.

    @1056,
    Lata Mangeshkar was the sweetest in the early 1950s. With Husnlal-Bhagatram she had special tuning. Even rarely heard songs sound so sweet.

    @1057,
    O dil mein basaanewale:
    Nice song.

  1064. Bhatia ji @ 1045-1047, 1058:

    देर लगी आने में तुम को , शुक्र है फिर भी आए तो,
    आस ने दिल का साथ ना छोड़ा, वैसे हम घबराए तो.

    Jagjit Singh singing Andaleeb Shadani:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw6XJMzc2oo

    (Perhaps the song has been superimposed on to some other video. But it is not too bad.)

    This song is not related to the theme here and will not trouble Arun ji who is keeping score.

  1065. Yes, 1000 songs count is within easy reach…

    Arunji is doing an excellent job of maintaining the counter. I am sure, he is taking into account the repeats.
    There have been a good number of repeats recently.
    Even Rahulji ended up repeating the Aap Ki Kasam song that he had himself posted.

    Posting a song from Patthar Ke Sanam 1967
    LP – Majrooh – Lata

    Bata doon kya lana tum laut ke aa jana
    ye chhota sa nazrana piya yaad rakhoge ke bhool jaaoge

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_SSwAv7dlw

  1068. Neeruahaf ji @ 1053:

    Wonderful. How unfair that an exquisite Begum Akhtar ghazal like this too would count only as a single in Arun ji’s scorekeeping!

    Here is Iqbal Bano singing Faiz–‘Dasht-e-tanhaai men ai jaan-e-jahaan’ larazaan hai’:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaYXmhX7GmM

    2nd antra:

    ‘Is qadar pyaar se ae jaan-e-jahan rakha hai,
    Dil ke rukhsaar pe is waqt teri yaad ne haath, …‘

  1069. Dr Deshpande @1065, 1066, 1067,
    All the three songs by LP! Both the Lata Mangeshkar songs:
    Bata dun kya lana, ye chhota sa nazrana, piya yaad rakhoge ki bhool jaaoge
    and,
    Pardes ja ke pardesiya bhool na jana piya,
    have similar instrumentation, and similar theme of the man going on a sojourn. Interesting.

  1070. I had posted Surinder Kaur’s ‘ek nazar wo yaad hai unki’ @ 1042, but later noticed that Canasya has already posted it @ 928. So I have to replace it with some Surinder Kaur song. The song is ‘o bedardi yun humko satana, aaj tera kal mera zamana’. If you look at the video where Madhubala is directly addressing P. Jairaj, you would think where would the word yaad come. But look at the second antara, how beautifully word ‘bisar’ is used.
    हाथों में ले लेंगे रोते जिया को
    कहेंगे बिसर जा ऐसे पिया को
    आके जो ढूंढें जाने का बहाना
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqGuUdUEWZU

  1071. AK ji
    Borrowing from Mumbaikar ji’s repertoire here are my two cents
    1 karavate badalate rahe – Aap Ki Kasam – RDB- AB – Kishor & Lata
    Was RDB inspired by Kora kagaz that or is it just that both are based on the same rag?
    https://youtu.be/PdWMsNWpKv0

    2 Ek ajnabi Haseena se- Ajnabi – RDB- AB – Kishor
    In the last antara
    Kjhoobsurat saath ye
    Char pal ka saath ye
    Saari Umar mujhko rahega yaad
    https://youtu.be/LgKueB7fCzs

  1075. Mukesh is not leaving my mind and in my ‘yaad’. Here are some more from him.

    Kabhi dil dil se takrata to hoga,
    unhen mera khayal aata to hoga.
    Khayal here to me is equivalent of yaad and this song is perhaps not posted.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZyE1wCATSg

    Main dhoondhta hoon jinko raton ko khyalon men,
    wo mujhko mil sake na subha ke ujalon men. – Thokar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOTTbsHI2-Q

    Hum to jate apne gaon apni ram ram ram – Deewana(2nd antara)
    Hui ho bhool koi to use dil se bhula dena,
    koi deewana tha baton pe uski dhyan kya dena.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTIg0xzvxfM

    Preet laga ke maine ye phal paya,
    sudh-budh khoyi chain ganwaya. – Ankhen

    Here sudh-budh khoyi means he has forgotten himself. But the song is validated also in the 1st antara which says ‘apna banake pahle phir bisraya’.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk4Bys1tx5I

    There is another song which is listed as Mukesh-Surinder Kaur for the film Sunehre Din, in which Raj Kapoor is singing on radio and Rehana is singing along the radio. The song ‘lo ji sunlo tumse kahte hain’ is a great favourite for me. The second antara brings the word yaad in a beautiful manner.
    उस दर्द पे कुर्बान होता हूँ जो नाम तेरा लेकर उठे
    आंसू वो मजा दे जाता है जो याद में तेरी आ जाये
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgiHshLs8X4

  1076. If I post a Mukesh bouquet, never expect me to ignore Rafi.

    First of all the song in which Rafi was present as actor and the word ‘yaad’ comes quite early in the mukhda and luckily for me it has not been posted.
    Wo apni yaad dilane ko – Jugnu
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMeXIPd64U

    Maike se aaja bibi ri, teri yaad men ho gayi teebee – Devar Bhabhi
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtlO6IQyjVo

    Dil tadpe tadpaye – Poonam Ki Raat – Salil Chowdhary (2nd antara)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LirzIrRpy5M&t=190s

    Khush raho ahle chaman hum to chaman chhod chale – Main Chup Rahungi
    ‘bhool jana hamen, hum yaad ke qabil hi nahin’ – 1st antara
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8spp6berqpM

    Shab ki tanhai men jab bhi mujhko yaad aate ho tum – NFS – MD Shyam Sharma
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ1jTi8-AoQ

  1077. Hnas @1070, 1075,

    Nice songs. ‘Bisraya’ in the sense of forgetting sounds more melodious, because the consonant ‘ब’ is softer than ‘भ’. Therefore, in folk, light-classical ‘bisraya’ is more common.

  1078. Mr Muli @1071,
    Karvatein badalte rahe: You have discovered a nice connection with Kora kaagaz tha ye man mera. That was also a family heirloom.

  1079. Mr Rangan @1072, 1073, 1074,
    Thanks for Hai bahaar-e-bagh duniya chand roz and its Anil Bajpai version. He is a good singer.

  1080. Khayal as a form of ‘yaad’ was discussed. Here are some songs which have the word khayal and what I think of the use of this word. I call for other friends’ views.

    1.Kabhi kabhi mere dil men khyal aata hai – Kabhi Kabhi – Mukesh. – Here in my view khayal has totally different meaning and is equivalent of ‘vichar’. Not posting the link as the song is well known.

    2. Main to tere haseen khyalon men kho gaya – Sangram – Rafi – Here also it is not the case of yaad as the female is visible in the scene. Even if it is only audio, then also the second line of mukhda makes it clear that it is not the case of yaad.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCRVXVyGeBk

    3. Mayus to hoon wade se tere – Barsaat Ki Raat – Rafi
    Mayus to hoon wade se tere, kuchh aas nahin aur aas bhi hai,
    main apne khayalon ke sadke, tu paas nahin aur paas bhi hai.
    As per me this can be considered alternative of yaad.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDR3s62YF08

    4. Tere khyalon men tere hi khwabon men din jaye raina jaye – Meri Surat Teri Ankhen – Lata – This is also akin to yaad, though some can interpret it differently.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckNrd9kUjDE

    5. Muhabbat par bahaar aati – Shair – Lata – This song starts with a couplet
    ‘Tere khayal ko dil se lagaye baithe hain,
    hum intezar ki duniya basayee baithe hain.’
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZzLXG1Gqgg

  1081. A female singers’ bouquet.

    Nahin fariyad karte hum tujhe bas yaad karte hum – Shamshad – Sawan Aya Re
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJZi1o1HlX4

    Thandi thandi hawa jo aaye – Shamshad – Sunehre Din (1st antara)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEQgoSKxfD4

    O bhool jane wale – Geeta Dutt – Laxmi Narayan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGuqkcA9vIk

    Man leta hai angdayi – Suraiya – Anmol Ghadi (Ist antara)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMvUr9HbhnY

    Yaad tori aayi main to chham chaam royi re – Asha – Faulad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXlbj2z5XkY

  1083. Hans ji @1075

    Thanks for that beautiful song by Mukesh & Surinder Kaur from Sunhere Din. It grows on you.

  1084. Arunkumar Deshmukh ji @1059

    Thanks for keeping a count. If it is not too much trouble could you let us know which lyricists and singers are most and least represented?

    And since we are inching towards the magical 1000, here are two more. Sorry if they have already been posted.

    Hui Aankh Namm Aur Ye Dil Muskuraya
    To Saathi koi BHULA, YAAD Aaya:
    [Saathi-1991/ Anuradha Paudwal/ Nawab Aarzoo/ Nadeem Shravan]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZPf39ik9fY

    Yaad Aa Rahi Hai, Teri Yaad Aa Rahi Hai
    [Love Story – 1981/ Lata & Amit Kumar/ Anand Bakshi/ R.D. Burman]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uk8wuWE3sw

  1085. Hans @1080,
    When is ‘khayal’ ‘yaad’ and when it is not? You have posed an interesting question. I agree with you on all the five examples. Thus, ‘khayal’ in most cases is ‘yaad’, and when its is not, it makes the imagery very unique.

  1086. Ak ji ,Hansji
    Hansji had mentioned Tassavur in addition to khayal .
    Is Tassavur equivalent to khayal here?
    Meri aankho see koi neend loye jata hai – Pooja Ke Phool – Rajinder Krishan- MM – Lata
    The last antara
    Baat Jo unse Chalo
    Wo idhar sake ruki
    Naam jab unka liya
    Ek khusboo so udi
    Ek tassavur hai Jo
    Madhosh- kiye jata hai.

  1088. Counter….

    As on comment number 1087….
    the number of songs posted is 960 + 10

    -AD

  1092. neeruahaf, @ 1083

    Sunehre Din score is one of the best of Gyan Dutt. I have been a fan of music of this film ever since I discovered it some years back. You would like other songs too.

  1093. Mr Rangan @1089,
    O mast nazar, tu chaahe agar: Heard the name of Vinod Desai, and the song for the first time. Interesting that Jaidev should create this funky tune in a film which had serious songs.

    @1090,
    Nazneen, hai kidhar ka irada tera: It is a unique composition of OP Nayyar. It does not follow the conventional’mukhada’ and ‘antara’.

  1094. AK, @ 1077

    Yes I agree with you on ‘ba’ and ‘bha’.

    @ 1085
    Your approval means a lot to me, because you have a great knowledge of literature. It also means I was able to explain it correctly which is not always the case when I explain in such matters. Your observation about ‘khayal’ imagery is also correct. Look at lyrics of the song ‘ulajh gaya jiya mora nainon ke jaal men’ by Lata. This has both ‘bhulana’ and ‘khayal’ in separate styles in both the antaras.

    maine to lakh chaha dil na lagaun,
    nazron ki maar bhala kaise bhulaun,
    main pad gayi haye raam kaise janjaal men.

    baithi hoon piya tujhe man men basaye,
    dhadke hai dil mera nindiya na aaye,
    tu bas gaya dheere dheere mere khayal men.

    See how beautifully Shakeel has used both ‘bhulaun’ and ‘khayal’.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wd-ZyskR5Y

    ‘surkh jode ki tabo-taab mubarak ho tujhe,
    teri ankhon ka naya khwab mubarak ho tujhe,
    main ye khwahish ye khayalat kise pesh karun.’

    The above lines are the 3rd antara of song ‘rang aur noor ki baraat kise pesh karun’ from Gazal. The song itself is about the ‘yaaden’ of theri love and he is invoking them to Meena Kumari, but the word ‘khayalat’ here is in a totally different context so can not be interpreted as yaad. That is the beauty of the craft of great lyricists of the golden era who used the words in different contexts.

  1095. Hans @ 1080 AK @1085
    I agree with both of you with the use of “khayal” as “yaad” in the songs mentioned by Hans. Digging in we may find few more examples.

    Some female songs
    I find Suman Kalyanpur in this Darwaza very much like Lata.
    Chale hum to Mubarak ho humen dil se bhula dena.

    https://youtu.be/1K2gE_mfljk

    NV posted A song Shamshad Begum song from Doosri Shadi one more by Zohra bai Chandni Raaton Me Teri Yaad Sataye

    https://youtu.be/qMa8qKpU0zg

    The memorable Leela song by Amirbai Mai janti hoon tum aange kabhi piya vada kiya tumhine ne tumhine bhula diya

    https://youtu.be/u-d0j1DB-tk

    Finally a qawwali by Ustad Farid Ayaz and Abu Muhammed of latest blog fame.
    Kanhaiya, Yaad Hai Kuchh Bhi Hamaari’ by Farid Ayaz & Abu Muhammed

    https://youtu.be/GHAMyHerv90

  1096. Muli ji, @ 1086

    Your find is a good one and the same is with the question. AK has disposed of in one line, because he may not have enough time. I agree with him and would like to explain further. There is no doubt tasavvur is a word which has the potential of having yaad as an ingredient, but this is very rarely the case that it is used in such manner. It may just be because it rarely fits in the meter of the songs or because it may be less popular among lyricists. The other reason might be due to the fact that while khayal – whether it is yaad or otherwise – has settled in the mind of the person during the course of thinking process, tasavvur has always more doubts than reality. Now, in this song though she is thinking about the person which may be called yaad, but the use of the lines ‘madhosh kiye jata hai’ alongwith ‘tasavvur’ brings it closer to some imagination on her part which is affecting her.

    I dont know whether I have actually clarified or complicated matters here.

  1097. Ak ji , Hans ji
    Thanks for giving a swift ( by Ak ji) & elaborate ( Hans ji ) explanation on tassavur. And Hans ji , it has not complicated the issue for me.
    Anyway here are two more songs as we inch closet to 1100 / 1000 .
    1 Early Pancham
    Jago sonewalo – Bhoot Bangla – Hasarat- Kishor Kumar
    https://youtu.be/m3fxFNIl-3E

    2 yaado me wo sapno me hai – Swami – Rajesh Roshan – Amit Khanna – Kishor Kumar
    https://youtu.be/B3CnyetqykI

    One can recognize that this is RR composition from miles away .

  1098. Muli ji,

    I am happy I was able to explain it to your advantage. In fact these matters are always complicated.

    You are right 1000 is certainly coming. Our major contributors here have been Josephji and Dr Deshpande, a small push from them may even take it closer to 1100. Some of the songs from Taqdeer – 1967 has been posted. Yesterday I was looking at the titles to guess which songs may contain the words and this ‘o dilwalo matwalo humse shadi karwalo’ which is my absolute favourite came and I started listening. And it contains the word ‘bhula’ used in a unique manner in 1st antara. Enjoy.
    ‘maine banaya jinka joda,
    mar gaye peechha na chhoda,
    maine banaya jisko dulha,
    naam mera wo na bhoola’
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-72EvSfqdVw

  1099. Mumbaikar8,

    I am happy you liked my explanation. This confirms my thoughts. Regarding Suman’s song, I agree with you. As the audio quality in the video link you posted was not good, I listened to the audio link which is quite clear. Here are a couple of Mukesh-Suman duets which contain the relevant word.

    First this sweet song from Nagdevta, when still Mahipal was relevant in lead role for such films. This song was waiting in my list for want of some group.
    ‘taron ki thandi chhaiyan,
    hum tum mile o saiyyan,
    yaad rahe.’
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XefYjHB2Js8

    The other one is well known and everybody would remember the song when I give a hint that in the song IS Johar comes in the form of a rose flower. Yes, ‘ankhiyon ka noor hai tu’ has ‘yaadon ke daag le ke, dil ke chirag le ke’ in the last antara.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKJFOjJEdls

    You had @ 632 commented on the Ankush song and there was a lot of discussion. I was not free so when I saw it later I passed it off. But, some thought came to me which I would share here. But, first I would agree with your interpretation there about ‘bhool kar bhi koi bhool ho na’ that both bhools are similar and they are not part of ‘kya bhoolun kya yaad karun’. Since I am referring to that post, I may also mention here that the concerned word in the song ‘o mere sona re’ of Teesri Manzil is SAZAA and not SADAA.

    Now to the thought that came to my mind. ‘Yaad karna’ and ‘yaad rakhna’ are seved by the same noun ‘yaad’. In the same way both ‘bhool karna’ and ‘bhool jana’ which have totally different meanings should have the same noun ‘bhool’. It is strange that ‘bhool’ wherever used is only interpreted as the noun of ‘bhool karna’. I looked at various songs posted as well as the other songs which I had in mind and nowhere I could interpret it differently. What is your take on this.

    And this question goes to AK and everybody else. It would be nice if some song with the other meaning is found.

  1100. AKji,
    Coming back to the post with a vintage song
    Posting a song very similar to Bhala Tha Kitna apna Bachpan by Hemant Kumar
    Kahan Woh Bachpan Ka Pyaara Sapna | Adhikar 1938 | Pahadi Sanyal,Pankaj Mullick
    Last antara..
    Ab wo din hai naa prem ki rate
    Yaad magar hai pyar ki bate
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzhvDU6Vdn8

  1101. Rahulji @1097

    The Swami song is a nice RR number, though it had been posted earlier.
    Here’s another Rajesh Roshan composition that I have always enjoyed, albeit an inspired one..

    Baaton Baaton Mein 1979
    RR – Amit Khanna – Lata, Amit

    Uthe sabke kadam dekho ram pam pam…
    ….wo pyare din aur wo pyari raatein
    yaad humein hai wo mulaqatein…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJtdo-AWSdk

  1103. AK, Mumbaikar8,

    There are some songs with ‘khayal’ in them.

    Unke khayal aaye to aate chale gaye – Rafi – Lal Patthar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcvssR8B70M
    This song appears to me to be like Lata’s ‘tere khayalon men’ I posted earlier. I am in double mind. Though it is a clear case of ‘yaad’ going into it yet the word looks independent too.

    Tera khayal dil se bhulaya na jayega – Suraiyya – Dillagi. I think this has been posted so not giving the link. Though the is already validated by ‘bhulaya’, but khayal here seems to me to a form of yaad+love which has been used to rhyme with the second line, like what Mumbaikar8 said in the case of ‘hui sham unka’.

    Tera khayal dil se mitaya nahin abhi,
    bedard maine tujhko bhulaya nahin abhi. – Talat – Do Raha
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qda98kAzk9Y
    This again, though validated by bhulaya, looks to me like the Dillagi khayal yaad+love.

    Tera khayal dil ko sataye to kya karen – Talat – Naqaab.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io0XKWYdMYo
    The totality of lyrics here makes it clear that khayal here is like yaad.

    The famous Majaj gazal ‘ae ghame dil kya karun’ is everyone’s favourite. Have a look at its antara.
    ‘ye rupahali chhaon ye taron ka jaal,
    jaise sufi ka tasavvur, jaise ashiq ka khayal.
    Here the shayar has put these two on equal terms and both ‘sufi ka tasavvur’ and ‘ashiq ka khayal’ are gerneral terms and not individual, so no likelihood of they being equated with yaad. Though this song does not fit the theme, I am giving the link for listening purpose.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pX47mTReVk

  1106. Now some duets.

    Tadpa ke mujhe ab chhod diya – Lata, Rafi – Namoona.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3XzAxrR-sA

    Dil men teri yaad sanam lab pe tera naam – Asha, Rafi – Bin Badal Barsaat.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6x8Cpsmczo

    Meri pahli arzoo ka ye salaam yaad rakhna – Asha, Rafi – Pyar Ka Bandhan.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_RFatli3Q4

    Betaab hai dil dard e muhabbat ke asar se – Uma Devi, Suraiyya – Dard.
    (3rd antara)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzqvVpLG7Z4

    A song from Panjabi film Saat Saaliyan. Ravindra Kapoor a small time villain in Hindi films is in the lead and also lip-syncing the song with Nishi. A sweet Lata-Rafi roothna manana duet having the word ‘bhul ja’ in the 1st antara.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3l-tBj-LJI

  1113. Counter….

    As on comment number 1111,
    the number of songs posted is 993 + 10
    Very close to 1K mark.
    Creating a record for maximum comments and maximum songs posted.
    Well done all, especially AK ji – the Master Brain !
    -AD

  1117. Hans, Mr Muli, Mumbaikar8.
    There has been a spotlight on my swift disposal of the discussion on some words 🙂 . Hans has guessed right, it was partly time pressure. But the main reason was I had had my say from time to time, and I didn’t think I would be adding anything new to the discussion. However, it has become now incumbent to sum up my views.

    ‘Yaad karna’ ‘Yaad rakhna’: ‘Yaad’ is quite a plain word, not capable of too many nuanced meanings. It is just an etymological feature that ‘bhool’ has two distinct meanings. One is ‘error’, but in ‘bhool jana’ it is ‘forgetting’, i.e. the theme of this post in conjunction with its obverse word ‘yaad’. Thus, there is no doubt that ‘Bhool kar bhi koi bhool ho na’, both ‘bhool’s should mean ‘mistake’ – Even by mistake I should not commit any mistake. Dr Rajesh Deshpande’s addition at @1107 is a nice song – ‘Bhool se humne bhool ki hai jo zindagi bhar na bhool paayenge’. Here there are three ‘bhools’, the first two in the sense of ‘error/mistake’, the third one ‘forgetting’.

    The discussion becomes interesting if the ‘Bhool’ becomes ‘Bhoole se’ – ‘Bhoole se mohabbat kar baitha’. My interpretation of ‘Bhoole se’ was different from ‘Bhool se’. I took it to mean ‘Inadvertently’, ‘Unknowingly’, or to borrow Hans’s word ‘बेखयाली से’. We do have a song ‘Kahin bekhayal hokar yun hi choo liya kisi ne’. I understand Mumbaikar8 is not on the same page with me on ‘Bhoole se’. I have no quarrel with that. Some words have their own mystery. Who knows what is its correct meaning? Let us take our own truth.

    ‘Khayal’: Let me say it is a larger word than ‘yaad’. One meaning is ‘Vichaar’ as Hans has rightly said – ‘Mere khayal mein ye sahi hai’. But it is in the other meaning that it acquires many colours. ‘Khayaalon mein kisi ke is tarah aya nahin karte’; ‘Tera khayal dil se bulaya na jayega’; ‘Unke khayal aaye to aate chale gaye’. I think there are shades of difference in each of these.

    ‘Tsavvur’ becomes even more complex, not simply because it is an uncommon word. There is an element of imagination (kalpana), dream-like feeling. It is very far from ‘yaad’, but not that far from ‘khayal’ on the spectrum.

  1118. Venkataramanji @1100,
    Kahan gaya wo bachpan ka pyara sapna: Adhikar (1938) had some out of the world songs. Many songs from the film have been discussed prominently. Thanks for posting the duet – one ‘P’ matching the more celebrated ‘P’

  1119. Dr Deshpande @1101, 1102, 1104, 1105, 1107, 1108, 1115,
    I am not very clued on new songs, but it is good that you hold fort on both the ends. I have mentioned ‘Bhool se humne bhool ki hai jo zindagi bhar hum na bhool payenge’ in my detailed comment @1117 for its triple use of ‘bhool’, the first two with being very different from the third one.

  1120. Mr Rangan @1109, 1112, 1114,
    All Golden Era popular songs.

    @1116,
    Nice vintage song. Amirbai Karnataki was always melodious.

  1121. Arunji @1113,
    The counter has become like booking a slot for vaccination for 18-44 age group. It must have been overtaken by now.

  1122. Hans ji , Venkataraman ji
    Here is a famous Mehedi Hassan gazal from a movie across the border. It is composed by Nashad.
    Mehedi Saab has also rendered it in love performances. And it has both tassavur & khayal. One can easily discard tasavvur as not fitting in the theme but what about khayal ?
    Zindagi me to sabhi – Azmat
    In the second antara
    Main tasavvur bhi judai ka Bhala kaise Karu
    And in the third
    Teri har chap se jalate hai
    Khayalo me charag
    https://youtu.be/Ag8JpA02WjY
    And while on to khayal, back home we have
    Tere khayalo me hum –Geet Gaya Patthore ne – Hasarat- Ramlal – Asha
    https://youtu.be/BFJHWb9z4H0

  1123. Counter….

    Hurray !

    1000 songs posted @ comment no. 1122 – +10

    CONGRATULATIOINS !

    -AD

  1125. AK

    As Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh @1123 has announced the number of the songs has now passed the watermark of One K we certainly must celebrate this unique and historic position.

    I am finding it difficult to check my coming across the BhooleBisare Yadggaar filmy songs about Bhoole and Yaaden in the songs.

    I suggest some enthusiastic and authoritative person like Arunkumar Deshmukh and others to help him to join in making the list of all these songs in alphabetical order and available on the SoY handy for all.

    The list could be changed if the new songs appear, by AK himself.

    Shalan La

  1127. Mr Rangan @1124,
    Jaao jaao na bolungi main is a beautiful song. Such early Rafi songs need to be highlighted.

  1128. Shalan Lal @1125,
    How do we celebrate posting of 1K songs on this theme? A simple catalouging may not do justice to the efforts of the readers. Let me think about it.

  1130. AK ji
    Two more Pancham songs. They may not be as outstanding as Golden era songs still they are much better than what was dished out during those days generally..
    Sawan ke jhoole pade – Jurmana- AB – Lata
    Dil ne pukara tumhe
    Yaado ke Pardes se
    https://youtu.be/0VbyQ5tdavI
    Aur Kya shades wafa hotel hai – Sunny – AB – Asha
    Baat nikali thi is jamane ki
    Jisko aadat hai bhul Jane ki
    https://youtu.be/bK5AsWFcRoo

  1131. AK@1128

    Yes indeed it poses to construct a very special engineering of creating the Categorical understanding.

    After all we are creative human beings. We have found the antidote to Covid-19 !

    I think we use to start with the Title ” Kyaa Bhoolun Kyaa Yaad Karun” to bring all the songs so far and more in- coming in the future under one umbrella.

    Once we had the songs with their first line and the name of the film and the year etc. ………. We are on the way to build the Taj Mahal !

    Then those who are going into the whole songs they could decide what are the main shades of the songs.

    We have to have a general aspect of the song for the further categorizing them for example is it just tear-shedding or giving more information about the state of the lyric and etc.

    From the amount of the overflow of the songs for this post, it suggests that the readers of the blog are more inclined to the feeling of the songs in the state of loss rather than the found situation as there is hardly any song that celebrates “Found ” feeling. This means even the word “Yaad” does not create happiness but sadness” Very strange!

    Shalan La

  1134. Neeruahaf ji @ 1082:

    The site you have provided link to is a good one. Thanks.

    You will find a link to Iqbal Bano’s live performance of ‘Paayal mein geet hain chham chham ke’ @ 543. Venkataraman ji @ 545 had provided a link to the original version from the Pakistani film Gumnaam (1954).

    During the heydays of Radio Ceylon, they used to play two of Iqbal Bano’s songs frequently. One was, of course, the Gumnaam song, and the other was ‘Ulfat ki nai manzil ko chala’ from Qatil (1955); MD: Master Inayat Hussain. Although the song may not be relevant to this post, for me listening to it is like meeting an old friend. First, the original song from the movie:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N61vYGCxI4Q

    And, now one of her live performances:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzkZ3922bD8

  1135. Shalan Lal,
    ‘Found’ would be ‘paaya’. Since the post was ‘Kya Bhoolun Kya Yaad Karun’, there was no occasion for the readers to talk about ‘found’. But interesting thought.

  1136. Came across a few songs of film Hamara Kahani 1948 (unreleased) and a young Lata Mangeshkar so different from how she sang later. I am posting one song on the theme from the film

    Lyrics Ban Wasi /MD Hemant Kedar (could it be one off combination – Arunji alone can unravel this
    Dekho Duniya Walo Ujda Hai Sansar
    https://youtu.be/llEnjMHiF3w?t=87

  1137. Hans @ 1099
    I am so sorry. I have been very busy lately. After two days I am here to apologize and ask for a rain check for the detailed response.
    I have not fully understood your question on “bhool karna” and “ bhool jana”. (I have read it in a jiffy though)
    Can you please add the sample songs you are talking about.
    I promise to respond in “pahli fursat”

  1138. Mr Muli @1130,
    If someone asked me to list best Lata Mangeshkar’s songs post-70s, Saawan ke jhoole pade would be one. Aur kya ahad-e-wafa hote hain I have heard several times. Is there an old song also on this tune?

  1139. Mr Rangan @1132,
    Yaad tumhari kyun baalma: Quite a melodious song typical of Lata Mangeshkar of the early 50s.

    @1133,
    Tere khayalon mein tere hi khwabon mein: I will repeat what I said @1117. ‘Khayal’ is larger than ‘yaad’. ‘Subsumed by your thoughts, your memories, your dream’ (i.e. thinking about you, dreaming about you).

    @1136,
    Dekho duniyawalo ujada hai sansar: The surprising thing how fast her voice matured.

  1140. @1139
    Trying to understand your interpretation of ‘khayal’. Can I take it that a film not released is in ‘bhool’ category and am I the first one to introduce a song from an unreleased film

    Master Ghulam Haider’s introduction of Lata Mangeshkar in the film Majboor (1948) with a few hit songs launched her career. Here is a song on the theme from this film with lyrics by Nazim Panipatti.
    Ab Koyi Jee Ke Kya Kare ‘Jab Koyi Asra Nahin
    by Lata Maangeshkar
    https://youtu.be/V9AFAkhD9TQ?t=7

  1142. Mr Rangan @1140,
    Not at all. ‘Bhool’ is simply ‘mistake’/’error’. Unreleased film is not an error. Since there is no ban on posting its song, this cannot be a ‘bhool’. But you were intrigued by my interpretation of ‘khayal’? I have also given an illustration.

    @1141,
    Tum zindagi ko gham ka: Among Noorjehan’s best songs of her Pakistan years.

  1143. Rangan ji, @ 1033

    Asha Parekh made a ‘bhool’ of singing the song she meant for Pradeep Kumar, in the presence of Ashok Kumar, who ‘bhoole se’ thought she is singing the song for him. Such situations are common in our films. Once Mala Sinha made such a ‘bhool’ and had ultimately to sing ‘wo hans ke mile ham se ham pyar samajh baithe’.

  1144. Canasya ji @1064;

    Yes , I am back after illness . Slowly gaining strength and in between getting dotted visit to hospital for follow up .

    Jagjit singh song is very appropriate to bring out feelings. Here is one for you to resiprocate such feelings…..of course not relevant to the theme….

    Mohammad Rafi- Keh ke bhi na aaye…NFS

    Mohammad Rafi- Keh ke bhi na aaye….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISmNlL-XnpU

  1147. Bhatia ji @ 1144:

    Did you notice that we were probably listening to and posting the same Iqbal Bano song around the same time on two different posts: ‘Ulfat ki nai manzil ko chala’. You posted it on ‘SoY completes 11 years’ at 5:46 pm and I did it on this post @ 1134 at 5:54 pm! You beat me by full 8 minutes. And boy, never did I enjoy losing so much! Good to see you in form again.

  1150. Hans ji;

    Hans ji , I am unable to locate a beautiful Punjabi song posturized on Actress Nishi composed by Hans raj behl ….teri yaad aawe , hun das manu wey mein doodh chhowahan ke tanu yaad karan [ pind di kudi ? ]

    Meanwhile here is our favorite , mukhda of naseeb daar pe tere …from Deedar…..

    PYAAR BANA BACHPAN KA SAPNA,NASEEB DAR PE TERE AZMAANE – RAFI -SHAKEEL -NAUSHAD ( DEEDAR 1951)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8o1roLCtfo&t=81s

  1151. Canasya Ji @1147 ;

    Yes , eight minutes…probably we are all gearing up for final cricket test match between India and New Zealand . So up sleeves and tightening our socks and waiting for proper size boots for making runs.

    Moving on with songs here are few who might qualify as less heard….

    Bekhabar (1965) – phir teri yaad naye geet sunane aai – Suman Kalyanpur [poor audio ]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJVC1nuD2i4&t=57s

    Geeta Dutt: Jab se teri yaad ko: Raat ki Raani (1949)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUTfZ8JAps

    Geeta Dutt: Ek yaad teri hai : Film – Taara (1949)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-1wGLhu_R8

  1152. D P Rangan ji @1149; , Hans ji, Venkatraman ji ;

    Its really a treat to listen to vintage songs ….that made a good listening.

    A few more songs by Geeta Dutt ….

    Dil se tumhari yaad–Chand Sitare(1948)–Geeta Dutt

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sTTHemNgak

    Mujhe kuch yaad aata hai–Anjaana(1948)–Geeta Dutt

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KxFWzJ0CCQ&t=44s

    Film Stage(1951)O jaane wale dil mein teri yaad Singer geeta Dutt

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpESbl2Rz3A

    [ this song stands out among others ….]

  1153. AK ji ;

    When getting is going clock is always there to help ….

    encouraging to get going ….

    when the going gets tough …

    tough gets going !!

    Some songs hoping they were hidden…..

    Tumhen Yaad Karte Karte | Lata Mangeshkar | Amrapali

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIlCqg__Nvg

    Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee | Lata Mangeshkar

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSyiA-4ShUQ

    Aan1952_Tujhe kho diya..Lata_Shakeel_Naushad_

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMO_U8v2Bvg

    Beete Dino Ki Yaad Satati Hai Aaj Bhi Mohammad Rafi Naushad Ali. [ NFS ?]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqlL8EUtqxY&t=308s

  1158. Mr Muli @1155,
    All the three songs are everlasting. I would be surprised if any of this has not been posted earlier.

  1161. Yaad Piya Ki Aaye | Jugalbandi | Ustad Rashid Khan | Hariharan

    n an ensemble of Indian Classical music, GHARANA, organised by Creative9, Dubai – witnessed in ecstasy the musical genius of Hariharan-ji *& *Ustad Rashid Khan – together.
    https://youtu.be/DtMK9lTru74?t=520

  1162. Hansji
    Pardon my delay in responding to your comments.
    Coming back after a long gap.

    @ 1027, 1096
    Thank you for your instructive discussion on “Bekhayal” and “Tasavvur” and also endorsing my feeling/ notion of the usage of “Tasavvur” in the song mentioned by me.

    @1080,
    A nice presentation of your views on the use of the word ‘Khayal’ in the context of the songs posted therein.

    @1029,
    I second your proposal to book Canasyaji for future guest post (s).

    @ 1040,
    Glad that you liked the song ‘Maran Re’

    I also enjoyed and appreciate your erudite discussions and the songs posted
    @ 1038, 1039, 1042, 1044, 1050, 1075, 1076, 1081, 1094, 1099, 1103, 1106………

    Mumbaikar like a true teacher kindled our thought process by initiating the discussion on ‘Khayal’
    And I, on my part, like a naive student, posed a few questions on ‘Bekhyal’ and ‘Tasavvur’. And that resulted in a learning experience for me.

    Mumbailarji has endorsed your views on ‘Khayal’ and AKji has nicely summed the entire discussion.
    It is always great to find the stalwarts in right spirits.

    Thanks

  1165. Bhatiaji@1152, 1153
    Liked your postings, specially the Geeta Dutt song ‘O jaane wale dil mein teri yaad Rah Gayi’

    @ 1154,
    Beete Dinon Ki Yadon Ko by Noorjahan from the 1967 Pakistani film is indeed a beautiful song.
    Lyrics Masroor Anwar
    And the music was by Nisar Bazmi who had scored music for nearly50 films before migrating to Pakistan.
    Thanks

    Posting another vintage song – both the words Bhool and Bhoole occurs in the song.
    Ab yaad na aa yaad na aa bhoolnewaale
    ……………….
    Majboor hoon bhoole se to aao
    Bulo C Rani & Naseem Bano, Mulaaqaat (1947), Munshi ‘Dil’ Aziz, Khemchand Prakash
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIzzSVCBN_k

  1166. Rahulji @ 1052,
    As you have said this seems to be an eternal marathon and a relay marathon too.
    Hansji and Bhatia joined you and other in driving ahead the latest wave.
    I am back; now please let me chip in with by bit.

    Thank you for posting the song ‘Zindagi ke safar men guzar jaate hain jo makaam’, one of my favourite Kishore songs. It is indeed a song of remembrance/ recollection even if the key word was not there in the second antara. Another reason for liking the song is the visuals where the camera beautifully covers Rajesh Khanna’s journey through time and seasons, accompanied by the interlude music which goes with the changing time and seasons.

    It was also a song of remembrance for R D Burman. In an interview in the TOI in 1985, he said this song saved his relationship with Asha Bhosle in the 80s.

    “A terrible fight with Asha, on the verge of a break off on the same evening, (just then) the song came on the TV (Chaya Geet), brought them back to their earth, stared at the TV set in daze, stopped quarreling, hugged and made up immediately.”

    Presenting a Bengali song a soulful solo by Bhupinder Singh.
    Pancham creates a voyage of distressing loneliness.
    Kobe je kothay ki je holo bhul, film Troyee (1982), Bhupinder Singh, Rahul Deb Burman, Swapan Chakraborty
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55RSDmpm4nQ

    The tune was later used in for the following song.
    Ae Zindagi Hui Kaha Bhool, Naamumkin (1988), Kishore kumar, R D Burman, Anjaan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2IUmduVL6U

    I like the Bengali version more.

    There is also female version by Anuradha Paudwal
    and also a song by Lata Mangeshkar with the key word ‘Yaadon’.
    Will be back with more, please do not write me off.

  1167. Mr Rangan @59, 60, 61,
    Asha Bholse’s NFS was new to me. The other two songs are outstanding.

    @1164, 1165,
    Jaidev gave some very nice soft melodies in Joru Ka Bhai, though the film’s name sounds as if it was a comedy film.

  1168. Just came to the following thoughts when I was walking in the park and flowers shone like stars in the dazzling Sunday Morning. We had bad days for a long time and the park was full of gaiety.

    William Wordsworth (1770-1850) who was influenced by both the translation of Bhagvad Gita and Shakuntalam. The going back to the nature was the movement among the artists of European stimulated by both Sanskrit books.

    The Daffodils
    The end part is about the early experience of looking at the flowers and bringing back to that memory…

    .. I gazed – and gazed – but little thought
    What wealth the show to me had brought:

    For oft, when on my couch I lie
    In vacant or in pensive mood,
    They flash upon that inward eye
    Which is the bliss of solitude;
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils.

    Shalan La

  1169. AK @ 1167

    You are very right the film was an excellent comedy. The good songs were incidental.

    All should see the film with some good (Fursat) leisure.

    Shalan La

  1170. The memories of childhood have special significance in one’s life and are cherished by almost everyone. These memories leave an everlasting impression on one’s life. As we I grow older, we tend to look back with great nostalgia to our childhood days and cherish those memories.

    Ashwinji said at the beginning of this post that there are gazillion songs in Hindi movies on the yaadein of bachpan, bachpan ke saathi, etc., and posted two of the iconic ‘Bachpan songs from Naushad’s composition. Over a dozen songs have been posted till now, covering 4 decades (30s to 60s).
    There are some songs which are songs of childhood reminiscence, but without the keywords. Let me post a song, seeking the approval of the blog master and other stalwarts.
    Nutan & Sashikala fondly remembering their childhood….
    Bachpan ke din bhi kyaa din thi
    Udte phirte titli ban ke
    Geeta Dutt & Asha Bhosle, Sujata (1959), Majrooh Sultanpuri, S D Burman
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsOQUDbGLKM

  1171. Venkataraman ji
    Thanks for the generous words. Zindagi ke Safar me is also a favorite for me & I have read the Pancham interview but whether it was ( patch up) was for good or worse , one does not know
    Here is another Pancham song sung by the son
    Bade acche lagate hai – Balika Badhu -Amit Kumar – AB
    I think this should rank among the best songs rendered by Amit Kumar
    https://youtu.be/ags3vxqbk-s

  1172. N Venkataraman ji @1170;

    ….yourself…

    …”The memories of childhood have special significance in one’s life and are cherished by almost everyone. These memories leave an everlasting impression on one’s life. As we I grow older, we tend to look back with great nostalgia to our childhood days and cherish those memories….”

    Completely agree with this universal truth . Sometimes, you need to be alone but not lonely…….but to enjoy your free time being yourself. It was a great pleasure walking on dew topped green grass in our youth times getting our feet fully coated with good earth soil that mingled with the smell of grass forcing us to look for more. Mushroom protruding out from nowhere , plucking and eating raw made a great taste . Likewise Small red colored silk ants and bugs made a great collector items for storing them in small empty matchboxes . Lovely surprise to finally discover being alone can be a great feeling even now. Loneliness surely adds beauty to life .

    As I write I am remembering the green landscapes of sound of music with song ….Edelweiss Edelweiss you look happy to meet me , lots of snow may you gloom ad grow … . Being alone is happiness in thoughts .

  1173. N Venkataraman ji @1165 ;

    Majboor hoon bhoole se to aao
    Bulo C Rani & Naseem Bano, Mulaaqaat (1947), Munshi ‘Dil’ Aziz, Khemchand Prakash….made a good listening . As some one observed Bulo C Irani voice came very close to Surendra Nath. Yes Geeta Dutt songs were good as they are of rare qualities and so visited less.

    Here is a song which I hope is not a repeat . This movie was made by actor Chandra Shekhar who just left to heavenly abode two days back at the age of 98.

    सुबहा न आई शाम न आई, जिस दिन तेरी याद न आई..Cha Cha Cha,1964_Rafi_Neeraj_ Iqbal Qureshi.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWuCjeBUcz4

  1175. Counter….
    @ 1174 th Comment
    the number of songs posted in 1046 + 10
    Heading to another century ?
    -AD

  1176. Rahulji @ 1171,
    I think it was for good. It allows relationship to grow. Even it lasted for a short period of time, it would have provided some memorable moments too.
    Bade acche lagate hai is a nice song, but Rajeshji had posted it earlier @ 446.
    Since we are past 1000 songs such repetition are unavoidable.
    Now an earliest Pancham, a song from first film Chhote Nawab (1961).
    I believe it was the first song approved by Mehmood for the film.
    A nice song rendered by Md.Rafi, lyrics Shailendra
    Ilaahi Tu Sun Le Hamaari Duaa, Hume Sirf Ek Aasra Hai Tera
    One has to dredge deep into the last antara to find the key word.
    ……
    Siva tere malik mera kaun hai yahan, bevafa ye hai jahan
    Kahi tu bhi hamako na dena bhula
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTeRWTod9Hs&t=384s

    Posting another song composed by Pancham, where once again you will have to trawl deep down to find the word Yaad. It was an ideal song for Mukesh.
    Jis Gali Me Teraa Ghar Na Ho Baalamaa
    ……………………
    Last antara
    Aa ye rasame ye kasame sabhi tod ke
    Tu chali aa chunar pyaar ki odh ke
    Yaa chalaa jaaungaa mai ye jag chhod ke
    Jis jagah yaad teri sataane lage
    Us jagah ek pal bhi thaharanaa nahi
    Mkesh, Anand Bakshi, Kati Patang (1971)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSlgV-91Ho8

    According to Shakti Samanta, it was the last of the male solos to be recorded for the film.
    Kishore Kumar was the original choice. Since Kishore Kumar was abroad, Pancham wanted to use Talat Mahmood for this song, but Rajesh Khanna did not agree. Probably this was only song that Mukesh sang in a Shakti Samanta film.

  1177. Bhatiaji @ 1172,

    “Completely agree with this universal truth . Sometimes, you need to be alone but not lonely…….but to enjoy your free time being yourself. It was a great pleasure walking on dew topped green grass in our youth times getting our feet fully coated with good earth soil that mingled with the smell of grass forcing us to look for more. Mushroom protruding out from nowhere , plucking and eating raw made a great taste . Likewise Small red colored silk ants and bugs made a great collector items for storing them in small empty matchboxes. Lovely surprise to finally discover being alone can be a great feeling even now. Loneliness surely adds beauty to life.”

    Your poetic narration has set off a torrent, flooded with rivulets of pleasant thoughts, cascading from a waterfall of sweet memories. Thoughts jump from one step to another …
    “As I write I am remembering the green landscapes of sound of music with song ….Edelweiss Edelweiss you look happy to meet me , lots of snow may you gloom ad grow … . Being alone is happiness in thoughts .”

    Your memory serves you right, and you are right….absolutely……

    If I remember right the turning point was when Captain Georg von Trapp joins the children in singing ………………………………………………….
    I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
    I know I will hear what I’ve heard before
    My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
    And I’ll sing once more.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHmt-A2mEyk

    ….transformation from a strict captain to an emotional father, as he rediscovers himself……..

    “Edelweiss” was the continuation of the process…………………………….
    ……………………………………..

    And furthers……..
    For here you are, standing there, loving me
    Whether or not you should
    So somewhere in my youth or childhood
    I must have done something good
    Nothing comes from nothing
    Nothing ever could
    So somewhere in my youth or childhood
    I must have done something good
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UetJAFogqE4

    Also brought back memories of “Chim Chim Cheree” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” chiming into my ears.
    Thanks a lot Bhatiaji.

  1178. Arunji @ 1175,
    “Heading to another century ?”
    Why not? It all depends on the intent of the participants.
    Adding one more from the vintage stock,
    Dil kis liye rota hai
    Pyar ki duniya me aisa hi hota hai
    Teri yaad rulayegi teri yaad rulayegi
    Naseem Banu, Mulaaqaat (1947), Qamar Jalalabadi, Khemchand Prakash
    https://gaana.com/song/dil-kisliye-rota-hain

    Thank you for the meticulous tracking.

  1179. Mumbaikar8, @ 1137

    Dont worry if you are busy. We all are busy at one time or other. What I wanted to say was that the for both the forms of ‘bhool’ i.e. ‘bhool karna’ which is a ‘mistake’ and ‘bhool jana’ or bhula dena’ which is ‘to forget’ the noun used is ‘bhool’. When it is used in songs or even otherwise, it is interpreted as ‘mistake’. The songs posted here are enough to highlight this point. You can reply at leisure and even ‘bhool jana’ is allowed here. 😉

    Here is a song with eternal hope which even materialises in the story of the film.
    Beete hue lamhon ki kasak sath to hogi – M Kapoor – Nikah
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebhQ7X5MTmk

  1180. Bhatia ji, @ 1145

    You say ‘not much left for me’. I think this is a temporary phase after illness. If you have gone through comments, you might have seen the discussion between Canasya and Mumbaikar8 on how a bouncer is dealt. You and me being cricketers we know that there are various ways to deal with a bouncer. Whatever is the response, after the bouncer you have to compose yourself and take guard. This process is called centring in Tennis and Badminton. Your illness was a bouncer which you have dealt with successfully, but you have to compose yourself for the next part. For some time even songs may not come to mind, but soon they will come back and also your poetry. We are waiting for that. I think everybody here is happy for your successful dealing with the bouncer and may be I am happier than others.

  1181. Rangan ji, @ 1149

    I agree with AK that this is a great find. Your claim of not understanding lyrics is getting weaker with every such song, but we are happy for it. I would try to watch this film, it looks interesting.

  1182. Venkataraman ji, @ 1162

    Thanks for the encouraging words. Despite your modesty, nobody here would believe that you know very little. I know you have a very good knowledge of Hindi and also some Panjabi and the languages you are master of are out of my reach. You have time and again proved that there is nobody who can post great vintage numbers at will. This post has been littered with some real great songs with Dr Deshpande and Ranganji also adding some. I am slowly enjoying them. ‘Maran re’ was as great as any other song and earlier ‘haye mohabbat haye jawani’ which AK mentioned was also out of this world.

    Posting this classic Sehgal song ‘do naina matware’ hoping not yet posted.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_URwqxX5lE

  1183. Muli ji, @ 1122

    Sorry I forgot. In the Mehdi Hasan song (I would not call it a ghazal, because it has made too much compromise with the format and it does not come within range of do-tiniya), ‘tasavvur bhi judai ka bhala kaise karun’ points to it being a ‘kalpana’ and not ‘yaad’. Similarly in ‘teri har chaap (short for padchap or foot-step) se jalte hain khayalon men charag’ also is imagery and not ‘yaad’. The Geet Gaya Pattharon Ne song also appears to me to be imagination like ‘mehbooba teri tasveer kis tarah main banaun’. I have not seen the film. If Jitendra has earlier seen Rajshri then it can be out of ‘yaad’.

    Now look at this song ‘dil karta o yara dildara mera dil karta, aisa kuchh kar payen, yaadon men bas jayen’ from Aadmi Aur Insaan. Here the wish for ‘yaadon men bas jayen’ is to me equivalent to ‘khayalon’ or ‘kalpana’ men bas jayen. But since the word ‘yaadon’ has directly come, technically this will qualify for the post as a yaad song.

  1185. Before moving forward, I want to exhaust my initial list. So here is a mixed bag.

    First of all a Mukesh classic ‘aapne yun hi dillagi ki thi’ from Mehndi Lagi Mere Hath. The word yaad comes in the 1st antara too, but look at these lyrics of the second antara.
    ‘pyar apna to ik tamasha tha, aur hum khud hi the tamashai,
    aaj deewangi humen apni, yaad aayi to aankh bhar aayi,
    jal raha tha wo dil hamara hi, hum jise chandani samajh baithe’

    Ujad gaya panchhi ab tera basera – Rafi – Ghar Ki Laaj
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7pMIScMys

    Dil na jala gham ko bhool ja – Asha – Dulhan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2CW1xeOzk0

    Sanwariya re apni Meera ko bhool na jana – Suman – Aanchal
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fEBlQePhks

    Aa gayeen phir se baharen – Talat – NFS
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFRgcnvHjqs

  1186. AK ji
    This is amazing. The post is on the verge of becoming
    ‘Twelve’ dulkar. And like ‘Ten’dulkar it has smashed all the records.
    Posting few more songs of which I am virtually certain that they have not been posted & reasonably certain that the third has not been posted.
    1 It is a Marathi song composed & sung by Pt. Hridaynath Mangeshkar from the film Nivadung ( Cactus) .
    The album created waves in early 80’s .
    The song actually is a poem penned by Grace.
    Ghar thaklele –
    It is almost impossible for a person if my caliber to even think if translating Grace in English .
    But the keyword has to be. It comes in the mukhada
    Aai chya dolyatil
    Nakshtra mala aathavate
    ( I still remember starry eyes of mother )
    https://youtu.be/XPvYswSrGmY

    2 Again composed by Panditji but now in Hindi. It is really unfathomable why a in early 80’s Hindi film producer should engage Panditji when many other ” worthies” were available.
    Ye aankhe dekh kar hum saari Duniya bhool jaate hai – Sahir – Lata & Suresh Wadkar
    https://youtu.be/7TNRdd2wPO8

    3 This is my favorite
    Phaili Hui hai – House no 44 – Sahir – SDB – Lata
    https://youtu.be/Lxf-n4eMkHw

  1187. Hansji @ 1179- 1185
    I was reading your comments addressed to Mumbaikarji, Bhatiaji and Rahulji, with interest.

    Thanks for posting the songs by Mahendra Kapoor- ‘Beete hue lamhon ki kasak sath to hogi’ & ‘O’ yara dildara mera dil karta’.

    Many of the vintage songs are yet to be posted. ‘do naina matware’ another good posting.

    We have songs from 1933 to 1993 have been posted here. The earliest was ‘Sab kuch bhoolen, jhoola jhulen’ from the 1933 film Karma posted by Arunji. I presume as far as film songs are concerned only thus far we can go.

    There are several versions of Ghalib’s ‘Nukta cheen hai gham e dil’ available in YT. Jaddan Bai’s version seems to be oldest, recorded in 1930, I believe.
    2nd antara
    Khel samjhaa hai kahin
    chhod na de
    bhool na jaaye
    kaash youn bhi ho ke
    bin mere sataaye naa bane
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiGN2HACtKc

  1188. Hansji @ 1185,
    Thanks for the mixed bag.
    It seems I am hearing “Dil na jala gham ko bhool ja” for the first time . Even if I had heard it before, it got erased from my memory. Nice song. Ravi composition, has a O P Nayyar touch.

    Talat Mahmood’s NFS ‘Aa gayeen phir se baharen’ . As evergreen as ever.

    You forgot to post the link of Mukesh’s song ‘aapne yun hi dillagi ki thi’
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAYAiZhzfV8
    Nice song and wordings too.

    You wrote you have exhausted the initial list of yours. I am sure you have more in store.

    Posting an energetic composition and rendition.
    Ek muddat se deewaana dil khushiyon ka zamaana bhool gaya
    Md.Rafi & S D Batish,Tanvir Naqvi, S Mohinder, Naata (1955)

    Fursat ki kahaani yaad rahi ulfat ka fasaana bhool gaya
    ………………………….
    Un nazron mein kaisa jadu tha pucho to mujhe kuchh yaad nahi
    Ek baar to main behosh hua phir hosh mein aana bhool gaya
    ……………………………….
    Dil maut ki is khaamoshi mein jeene ka taraana bhool gaya
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQB0zyarA8U

  1189. Rahulji @ 1186,
    Last year, It must have seemed a fanciful idea that any post could breach both embankments and create a new record so soon.
    All credits to Arunji who had predicted an overrun on day one itself and meticulously keeping track of the number of songs.
    Credit for posting the 1132nd comment goes to Ranganji, beating the previous highest .

    Incidentally the earlier Marathi song (penned by Grace) posted by you was also on mother.
    The producer and director of the film Dhanwaan (1981) must be highly sensible people.
    Bothe the songs were highly listenable. Thanks. Wish I understood Marathi!

    I am sure ‘Phaili Hui Hai Sapnon Ki Baahen’ must be favourite of many more. Another deeply dredged song!

    Posting a nice melodious NFS by Bhupinder
    Charagar teri mohabat ka asar kaafi hai
    Hum marijo ke liye ek nazar kaafi hain
    ……………………….
    2nd antara
    Kisko fursat hain teri yaad me ab jeene ki
    ……………………….
    Lyrics Ibrahim Ashq
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyO7Lf-6rVs

  1192. AK ji
    Venkataraman ji & Rangan ji have posted some beautiful gazals. Here is one more
    Faasle aise bhi hoge ,- Ghulam Ali –
    Adim Hashmee
    https://youtu.be/zgjDWmnSPEo
    Faasle aise bhi hoge is an apt yet agnoizing tale of today’s world ravaged by pandemic & maqta of the gazal suggests a very simplistic solution to the situation
    Yaad karake aur bhi
    takleef hoti thi Adim
    Bhhol Jane ke siwa
    Koi bhi Chara na tha.

  1194. Ranganji @ 1190,
    A few repeats are bound to happen in this post.
    The song ‘Suno more raja nazariyaa mila ke’ by Suraiya was not posted earlier.
    Nice song
    Canasyaji posted the song ‘Dil Kisi Ki Yaad Me Barbad Hai’ from the 1951 film Ek Nazar.
    Here is another song from the same film
    Jane Wale Dekho Hamein Bhool Na Jana, Lata Mangeshkar, Rajinder Krishan, S D Burman
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy8x12mzAC4

  1195. Rahulji @ 1192,
    You have added one more beautiful Ghazal.
    Continuing the theme, another Ghazal
    Hariharan , Album Gulfam (1994),lyrics Khumar Barabankavi
    Mujhe Phir Wahi Yaad Aane Lage Hain
    Jinhe Bhulane Mein Zamane Lage Hain
    …………………….
    Suna Hai Hamein Wah Bhulane Lage Hain
    Toh Kya Hum Unhen Yaad Aane Lage Hain
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToIHUvF2HvM

  1196. AKji, Bhatiaji, Hansji, Rahulji,
    Getting back to Bachpan…..
    As adults looking back to childhood, we cannot typically recall anything before age of three.

    This song from the movie Aashirwaad (1968) is also of childhood remembrance, although with some sadness, recounting the memories of her father, expectation that she may meet him once again. A lovely song rendered by Lata Mangeshkar, wonderful lyrics by Gulzar’s depicting small childhood events, and the happy memories, now recalled with some sadness and beautifully composed by Vasant Desai. Once again without the key words

    Ik tha bachpan, ik tha bachpan
    Chhota sa nanha sa bachpan, ik tha bachpan
    Bachpan ke ik babuji the, achchhe sachche babuji the
    Dono ka sundar tha bandhan, ik tha bachpan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixbj5ezZ30s

  1197. Venkataraman ji, @ 1187, 1188

    ‘Nukta cheen hai gham-e-dil’ is one of Ghalib’s most famous ghazals that contains his most famous sher ‘ishq par jor nahin hai ye wo aatish ghalib’. The sher that validates Jaddanbai’s rendition is the 3rd out of 9. Of the various other versions I know, only Mohammad Rafi’s version contains this sher. Here it is as composed by Khaiyyam. To my mind Ghulam Mohd and Khayyam were the two who best composed Ghalib ghazals.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiiQVK7bM7c

    Asha’s song seems to be a club song so I posted it because it gives a different feel – philosophy in a club song. Talat was always good in NFS, but this one is among his best NFS.

    Thanks for posting the Naata male duet in qawwali style. When Rafi is there in a qawwali it has to be exceptional. S Mohinder had a number of great compositions. The lyrics are great too. There is one correction. It is ‘furkat ki kahani yaad rahi, ulfat ka fasana bhool gaya’ instead of ‘fursat ki kahani’. Furkat fits with ulfat, whereas fursat is a misfit.

    The thought of the line ‘ek baar to main behosh hua phir hosh men aana bhool gaya’ has been used beautifully in a couple of other songs. In ‘hum aapki ankhon men’ from Pyasa, Sahir wrote

    hum aapke kadmon par gir jayenge gash kha kar, – Rafi
    is par bhi na hum apne aanchal ki hawa den to – Geeta

    This was in 1957 after the Naata song came. In 1963 film Rustam Sohrab’s song ‘phir tumhari yaad aayi ae sanam’, the sentiment again comes in the 3rd antara.

    ‘bas itni kahani hai apni, jab ankh mili behosh huye,
    daaman se hawa tum kar na sake, hum hosh men aana bhool gaye’

    If you compare the lyrics by Tanvir Naqvi and Qamar Jalalabadi you would see the sentiment described beautifully except that in Rustom Sohrab he directly blames the lover for not giving ‘daaman se hawa’. Did he get the clue from Sahir’s words in Pyasa and made a combo.

    You are right I have more in store and can find more if there is time. But this post has been going for quite some time. Most of the gems were posted by Josephji, Dr Deshpande, Muliji, Ranganji, Canasya and you. I have a habit of looking for groups and also, like you, want to post songs with some special effect. So I continuously select and reject songs and in the process time may run out, because if others stop posting, it becomes hard to go on posting alone. So let us see how it goes.

  1202. Dear Readers,
    I have been following all the comments and the songs with great interest. It has taken me a few days to catch up with my response to each. But thanks everyone for making this post not only a blockbuster, but making very nuanced analysis of different shades of ‘yaad karna’ and ‘bhool jana/bhulana/bhool karna’.

    Shalan Lal @1168, 1169,
    It is interesting that after a long dark period, the gaiety in the park and the flowers should remind you of Wordsworth. He is so inextricably linked with memories. There is a reference to him in my post.

  1203. N Venkataramanji @1170, 1196,
    ‘Bachpan ke din bhi kya din the‘ and ‘Ek tha bachpan ek tha bachpan‘ are both excllent songs of childhood memories. Even though the keywords are missing, these songs fit the bill.

    @1187,
    Your response to Hans. Jaddanbai’s Nuqtacheen hai gham-e-dil was so similar to KL Saigal’s song from the film Yahudi Ki Ladki that it set me thinking how stock tunes of styles of ghazal singing have evolved over the years. One can describe the earliest style as KL Saigal’s style. Thereafter we had Begum Akhtar’s ‘Deewana banana hai to deewana bana de which became a stock tune for many female ghazals/ songs, for example, her own ‘Rahne laga hai dil mein andhera tere bagair‘ from the film Roti (1942), composed by Anil Biswas. Interestingly, one by Kalyani, ‘Dil hai tumhari yaad ki duniya liye huye‘ from the film ‘Ghar Ki Laaj‘ (1941), composed by Anna Saheb Mainkar has been posted by Mr Rangan @1193. And you would surely remember from the same year Khursheed’s ‘Pahle jo mohabbat se inkaar kiya hota‘ from the film Pardesi, composed by Khemchand Prakash. The ending ‘tere bagair’ would remind you of Amirbai Karnataki’s ‘Sooni padi hai pyar ki duniya tere bagair‘ from the film Caravan (1944), which figures in the best songs of the year. This could have easily slipped into Begum Akhtar’s stock tune, but booth Bulo C Rani and Amirbai’s rendering took care to make it different.

    We can describe the next phase as Talat Mahmood phase. Thereafter, everyone sang ghazals, but it became free-flowing, and there was no single stock tune.

  1204. Arunji @1175,
    Thanks for keeping the counter. You were the first one to predict a deluge. It looks set to reach another century.

  1205. Hans @1185,
    Surprisingly, I heard ‘Aapne yun hi dillgai ki thi‘ for the first time. Thanks a lot for posting it. It is so different from Klayanji-Anandji’s characteristic style of composing Mukesh songs. I was highly impressed by the lyrics, I had not expected Anand Bakshi as the lyricist. There is an interesting wordplay of ‘dillagi’ and ‘dil lagi’. You have very aptly quoted the first antara.

    @1197,
    I can’t help complimenting you on your very detailed response to Venkataramanji. On Jaddanbai’s Nuqtacheen hai gham-e-dil you may like to see my observations @1203. Her rendering her KL Saigal’s are both so old, that unless one has the records of both, it is difficult to guess which preceded and which followed. I was piqued by the similarity in tunes of the two songs, and the general evolution of ghazal singing style over ages.

  1206. Mr Muli @1186,
    ‘Twelve-dulkar’ – Nice one. But it soon starts becoming clumsy – ‘Thirteen-dulkar’? The readers are not only posting songs, but are also engaged in serious discussion on the lyric, words, songs, which enhances everyone’s knowledge.

    Hridaynath Mangeshkar gave superb music in the film Lekin in 1991. Though he was not the mainstream in Hindi films, he had some takers. Suresh Wadkar always lamented that Bollywood did not recognise his classical training in music. That must have been a factor, though Bollywood is no place for cry babies.

    @1192,
    Faasle aise bhi honge ye kabhi socha na tha is a beautiful ghazal.

  1207. Mr Rangan @1190,
    Suno more raja nazariya milay ke is a beautiful song by Suraiya. Heard for the first time. Thanks.

    @1191,
    You have posted a beautiful vintage ghazal by Mukhtar Begum.

    @1193,
    Dil hai tumhari yaad ki duniya liye huye is a beautiful find. You may see my comments @1203 in which I have made some general observations about the song.

    @1198,
    heard for the first time.

    @1199,
    Bhool ja ae dil mohabbat ka fasana is one of the famous compositions of Sajjad Hussain for Lata Mangeshkar.

    @1200,
    Bhool na jana aaj ki baatein is one my favourite songs by Asit Baran.

    @1201,
    Ye tamasha bhool ja is a very nice song. Heard for the first time. Thanks a lot.

  1208. Counter….
    @ comment no. 1207
    The number of songs posted are 1079 – + 10
    Great going !

  1212. AK ji , Hans ji , Venkataraman ji
    Would a song with the word qualify ?
    Mil ja jaane ja – Benazeer – Shakeel – SDB – Lata
    One of the less famous songs of SDB .
    In the last antara
    Wo pyar ki ghadi Jo
    Tere hujoor gujare
    Usko Kasam khuda ki
    Main Yaadgar Kar du
    https://youtu.be/zcHII9538J0
    And a song from Yaadgar
    Ek Tara Bole – Verma Malik – KA – Mahendra Kapoor
    https://youtu.be/MHlJ5DmPP-0
    Again we have to go up to the last antara .
    Log bhakti bhajan sab bhul Gaye
    Aur filmi gaane gaate hai
    Paradoxically MK is singing a filmy song for utterly filmy Bharat.
    This a curious query for Hansji
    In number of Manoj Kumar films we find that Mahendra Kapoor is used for patriotic / philosophical songs but Mukesh is used for romantic / heart break songs ( Shor , Upkaar, Roti Kapada aur Makan , Purab paschim etc) what could have been the reason?

  1213. Congratulations everybody for crossing another milestone and we are moving ”towards the “teens”.
    And song wise it seems 1100 mark is at sight.
    I hope Arunji is keeping track of the repeats, which are quite high. Even a rough count will show at least 125 repeats if not more. And the last 100 comments has roughly 25 repeats.

  1214. Hansji @ 1197,
    Thank you for indicating my mistake.
    Yes, I understand the use of the word ‘fursat’, like me, is a misfit here.
    Your thoughts on the songs of Pyaasa and Rustom and Sohrab were enriching.

    Yes, I too noticed that only the Jaddanbai and Md.Rafi version of the Ghalib Ghazal has the 3rd verse.
    My reference for Ghazals is Rekhta, where I get the lyrics as well as the meaning.
    Besides the two versions mentioned I have listened to another 6 versions by Suraiya, Saigal, Begum Akhtar, Noor Jehan, Naseem Begum and Abida Parveen. I found, generally the singers choose 4 shers for rendition and some five. Out of the eight, the rendition by Naseem Begum, whom I heard recently, is worth listening.

    Thank you Hansji for your detailed response.

    Posting a NFS (1933)by Krishna Chandra Dey,
    I was delighted to listen to his rendition.
    I could not find the name of the lyricist.

    Zauk e barbaadi hai mujhko
    Ghair kyun barbaad ho
    You have to trawl deep down till the end to find the key word
    Kar chuke baag e jahaan ki
    Khair ab hai aarzoo u u
    Tumse tanhaayi udaasi
    Aur khud ki yaad ho
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJfk1yEv980&t=206s

  1215. AKji @ 1203,
    Thank you for your reflection on the general evolution of ghazal singing style over years. My compliments to Hansji and you for the enlightening response.

    Glad to find the two songs ‘Bachpan ke din bhi kya din the‘ and ‘Ek tha bachpan ek tha bachpan‘ getting your stamp of approval.

    That encourages me to post another song without the keywords
    Shailendra’s beautiful lyrics and add a very young and pretty Tanuja to the mix, along with Salil Chowdhury’s sparkling music and Lata Mangeshkar’s evergreen voice. We are treated to a pretty song of remembrance, “Bachpan O Bachpan Pyare Bachpan”. Mem Didi (1961).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EBqKmiMi0o&t=7s

  1216. Rahulji @ 1212,
    ‘Would a song with the word (Yaadgar) qualify?’
    AKji and Hansji are the right persons to answer your question.

    Hansji wrote that Mahendra Kapoor is under represented in this post.

    Till now nine songs of MK has been posted.
    Posting one from Painter Babu (1983), a Manoj Kumar Production and penned by Manoj Kumar.
    Music Uttam-Jagadish
    Jab yaad ki badli chhati hai tab aankh meri bhar aati hai,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiuH-xE32w4

  1217. Hansji, Rahulji, AKji,
    Posting two duets of Mahendra Kapoor with Lata Mangeshkar from the 1983 film painter Babu

    Lyrics K L Pardesi, music Uttam-Jagadish
    Kab talak shama jali yaad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4BEydgkGcc

    And one more duet by MK-Lata, penned by Manoj Kumar,
    Oo sagar me kaisa hai shor
    Chhayi hai ghata ghanghor

    2nd antara
    Oo pani re
    Pani ek kahani re aankh se bahta pani re
    Tujhse teri yaad hi achhi hai
    Jo mujhse sharmati hi nahi
    Tu jake kabhi aata hi nahi
    Yaad aake kabhi jati hi nahi
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIhN8RvV9wo

  1218. Mr Rangan @1210,
    The second song has ‘Bhoole se kar iya pyar’. Is ‘bhoole se’ here ‘by mistake’ or ‘involuntarily’, in Hindi, अनायास – without any conscious effort? We had discussed this word a lot.

    @2011,
    Nice songs.

  1219. Mr Muli @1212,
    We have been allowing songs without the keywords, if the content prominently matches with the theme. Therefore, the fist song fits.

    Second song: Mahendra Kapoor for Manoj Kumar. In romantic songs one has to be a little melancholic, and the best expression is cupping your face in the palm. Bharat Kumar could not do that with songs of invocation like Mere desh ki dharti or Hai preet sada ki reet yahan. The singer MK was very good at songs of invocation with his high-pitched voice – remember him calling everybody to their TV sets with ‘Mahabharat…Mahabharat’.

  1220. Venkaramanji @1215,
    You are welcome.

    ‘Bachpan bachpan‘ is an excellent song.

    @1216,
    I have posted my response @1219.

    @1217,
    Nice songs.

  1221. Ranganji,

    Yours has been the biggest transformation of this post. With so many songs with the key word in the antaras and also with great imagery, you have gladdened our hearts and also told us you care for the lyrics more. Congrats for reaching the milestone of 1200.

  1222. AK, @ 1203, 1205

    Thanks for the nice words. I have always followed your description and history of ghazal, since I know you write such things after due scrutiny. Moreover, I can hardly go through tedious discussions of ghazal experts. I have mostly agreed with Talat’s say that a ghazal should be rendered plainly, though later he also sang ghazals with repetition of half or full line of a sher, when he realised it only enhanced the singing effect. I even take the ghazals with short do tiniyas. But if there are two long lines followed by the second sher, that does not give the ghazal effect. I also do not relish a 3 minute ghazal being sung in 10-15 minutes with numerous repetitions, because it kills the effect of the words.

    About ‘aapne yun hi dallagi ki thi’ I am greatly surprised by your admission, because that song is part of ‘Mukesh’s romance with dil’. I think you have made some general view about Kalyanji Anandji’s compositions. They produced a lot of variety for which they had not been duly given credit. They also used a variety of male as well as female singers. Of the male singers of the golden era they used all in good numbers and regularly (unlike SDB) except Hemant Kumar, who had limited Hindi films singing after they reached the stage of a reasonable recognition. I think you remember Bluff Master where they gave three separate hit solos to Shammi Kapoor in the voices of Rafi, Mukesh and Hemant Kumar, when he was not agreeable to anybody other than Rafi. In 1972 in Maalik, they used Mahendra Kapoor on all the songs which Rajesh Khanna was lip-syncing. So they had theories of their own. For Mukesh besides the soulful songs, they also composed ‘naina hain jadoo bhare’, ‘dum dum diga diga’, ‘thumak thumak mat chalo’, ‘chand aahen bharega’ and ‘dheere re chalo’.

    Anand Bakshi I rate much higher than many others. You know I had a discussion with Mumbaikar8 about Anand Bakshi and Gulzar. He gave great songs and particularly in late 60s and 70s most of the good and popular songs were written by him.

  1224. Visiting the blog and the post after a considerable gap!!

    Its great to see that this landmark post is creating new records both on the number of comments and songs.

    Of course, with more and more comments, there is a good number of repeats.
    I am now using Ctrl F and find to check if the song is repeat or not.
    Wondering if others can do that too.

    Shalan Lal @1131 had mentioned about songs with “Found” feeling.
    So, a suggestion from my side – maybe, in future, we can have a Lost and Found theme such as Kya Khoya Kya Paaya or Kya Dhoondha Kya Mila.

  1229. Hansji@1221

    Thanks for your appreciation of my industriousness in this post so far. I took it up as a challenge to hunt for songs on the theme and was able to post quite a few. I ignored period after 1970, otherwise I could have added 50 or so more. My intent was to go back as near to Al Amara (1931) as possible. Venkataramanji was the most successful in this. I will search more for such songs but in a leisurely manner.
    Sohini Mahiwal (1958)
    Shakeel Badauni / Naushad
    Tumari Sang mein be chalungi by Lata Mangeshkar
    A typical Naushad song easily recognisable as his.
    https://youtu.be/zfEPavc_neU?t=117
    ane na dungi tumhe saiya akele
    bhul bhulaiya piya dunia ke mele (2nd antara)

  1232. Ranganji,

    Your determination and enthusiasm to continue posting songs on this theme is indeed commendable. You have maintained your consistency throughout and still going strong.

    With no. of songs approaching 1100, repetition is inevitable.
    The songs @1230 and 1231 are repeats.

    In fact, the Devar song has been posted thrice.
    And two of the postings are yours – 1109, 1230

    Also, I don’t think that the song @1229 fits here.
    Bhul bhulaiya means a maze or complex network.
    And I believe, the sentence means that the world’s gatherings or fairs are a confusing network or entanglement and so the lady does not want her beloved to go alone.

    Hope you don’t mind my pointing this out.

  1233. Canasya ji @1134

    Thanks for providing links to the two versions of Iqbal Bano’s song. Hadn’t heard her before till you shared her song in a previous comment.

    Here’s another ghazal singer: Nayyara Noor

    Ae Ishq humein barbaad na kar

    Ae ishq na chhed aake humein
    Hum BHULE huyun ko YAAD na kar….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INFl7RPRCRw

    *
    And a song that is different but begins with the same line

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki6GTTf114Q

    [Naach- 1949/ Suraiya & Rafi/ Sarshaar Sailini/ Husnlal-Bhagatram]

    Khushiyon ka zamana beet gaya
    Khushiyon ka zamana YAAD na kar

  1235. Neeruahaf ji @ 1233:

    Nayyara Noor’s voice is very sweet. Thanks. Venkataraman ji @ 546 had posted another melodious Faiz-Nayyara Noor combo.

    The names of Faiz and Iqbal Bano today have become inseparably linked with ‘Hum dekhenge’ which became a rallying song for student activists in and around Delhi (including IITK) during the last couple of years:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYbSVlCS0-g

    The lyrics do not contain the magic words, however.

  1236. Counter….

    As on @ 1235
    The number of songs-excluding repeats- is 1096
    Almost there….
    -AD

  1237. Returning to the post after 3 days.
    Since I left, Rahulji rotated the strike with a single and Rajeshji responded with a boundary, ever energetic Ranganji ran three and not to be left behind Neeruahafji stole a single and finally Cansyaji cleaned bowled us, though off a no ball.
    “Hum sab Dekhenge Kahan jaakar rukenge ye silsila ? “
    And also applauds to “always alert Arunji”, our scorekeeper.

  1238. Rahulji @ 1123,
    Nice lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri. Thanks for the posting.

    AKji, Rahulji
    Here is another lovely song in the voice of Bhupinder
    Kya bataayen hame kya yaad hain
    Kya bhul gaye
    Baaki jo kuchh tha muhabbat-e-siva bhul gaye
    Kya bataye kya bataye
    Bhupinder Singh, Sharmaate Sharmaate (1985), Ashk Ambalvi, Bhupinder Singh
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7tvPeJ7Y0A

  1239. AKji, Rakeshji @ 1227,
    Earlier, I had posted a few “Bachpan” songs without the key words.

    Seven “bachpan” songs were in my store,
    You posted one and I am left with two and four.
    I am glad Rakeshji, you posted the song from Sangam (1954).

    Posting another “Bachpan” song.
    This one is on “Bachpan Ka Pyar” with the keywords.
    A nice composition from Usha Khanna and Asad Bhopali
    Lata Mangeshkar, Sardar (1967)

    Mera tumhara afsaana
    Hai kitna purana
    Zara yaad karo
    Bachpan ka zamaana
    Piya yaad karo
    1st antara
    Kyun ji tumko Yaad to hogi
    Pehali pehali pyaar ki baathen
    Choti si Ik bhool pe lakhon
    Hoti ti taqraar ki baatein
    2nd antara
    Mera o rooth ke jaana
    Tera manana zara Yaad karo
    Bachpan ka zamaana
    ………..
    Chod ke dil tadpana
    Mohabat nibhana
    Zara Yaad karo
    Bachpan ka zamaana
    Piya yaad karo
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1vBBIUS1aE

  1240. Neeruahafji @ 1233,
    Ae Ishq Hamein Barbad Na Kar is a fabulous Ghazal.
    Her singing is full of pathos, but there is pleasure in this pathos too.
    ‘In khwabon se yuon azad na kar!

    Its variant from Naach also made good listening.
    Thanks for the postings.

    AKji, Neeruahafji, Canasyaji

    There are two versions of the following song from the film Panna Dai (1945)
    A happy version by Zohrabai Ambalewaali
    Fasl e gul aayi hamen yaad teri phir aane lagi , lyrics D N Madhok, music Gyan Dutt
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK5Ic8pLjgo&t=96s

    And the sad the sad version by Begum Akhtar
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pYG3gk_R2Q&t=189s

  1241. Canasyaji @ 1235, AKJi, Neeruahafji,
    Thanks for the posting .
    If I remember right, this is the 5th song penned by Faiz to be posted here. Rajeshji posted the first one. Here one more song penned by Faiz Ahmed Faiz and rendered by Amjad Parvez.
    Amjad Parvez is an engineer by profession and he has passion for music and poetry.
    Yaad Ki Rah Guzar
    https://gaana.com/song/yaad-ki-rah-guzar?autoplay=true

  1242. Venkataramanji
    Nice cricketing analogy & that too after miserable loss at WTC.
    Taking singles & rotating strike comes from the fact that The Wall is the batsman I love most ( and share my name with) after GR Vishwanath.
    But He also occasionally hit the ball over the ropes.
    Here is a brace
    One rendered by
    Lata ( showing fatigue of singing for more than 50years )
    Chithhi na koi sandesh – Dushman – AB – Uttam singh
    AB yaado ke Kate
    Is Dil me chubhate hai
    https://youtu.be/Y3hcbUwXWtY

    And the second (to retain the strike )
    rendered by Bhupendra
    Karoge yaad to yaad bahut aaoge – Bazar -Bashar Nawaj Khayyam
    https://youtu.be/8jcSL1qgFho
    I take extra delight in posting this song as Bashar Saab was a native & resident of Aurangabad from where I hail.

  1243. Counter…..
    At @ 1242 coment….
    number is now 1103. – + AK ji’s 10
    YIPPY !
    Over and above 1100.
    My sincere appreciation for all contributors.
    -AD

  1244. Arunji @1244

    1100+ songs is a great achievement.
    Special thanks to you for keeping the counter patiently and continuously on the songs and also for your initial accurate prediction on the success of this blockbuster post.

    As per me, the no. of songs @1242 stand at 1102 + 10

    The Bazar song posted by Rahulji @1242 has been posted twice earlier -@356 and @476.

  1245. Sorry!

    Made a mistake in the earlier comment.

    The Bazar song @1242 has been posted twice earlier @376 and @456 and not @356 and 476.

  1246. Rajesh ji,
    If this song was posted twice earlier and once at 1242, it makes 3 postings. We can take only 1 posting, so 2 have to be removed from 1103, which makes the right figure of 1101.
    Thanks for pointing out.

    -AD

  1249. Rahulji @ 1242,
    You ran short the second run, thus failing to retain the strike.
    Our third umpire spotted you in the camera.

    But there is also a positive side to everything. I wanted to know a little more about Bashar Nawaz. And found that he wrote lyrics for three films. But he was poet of repute.
    One thing leads to another. My search yielded a clip containing a Ghazal penned by Bashar Nawaz , rendered by Bhimrao Panchale, without any instrument support. I liked his presentation. Seems, he too is from your place, Aurangabad. You may add more information on him. The occurrence of the keyword (@ 04:21) validates my posting it here.
    And what a thought ..
    Sau chehren the Yaadon ke
    Takte Takte Raat Gayi
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJnQ9EFq8Xg

  1250. Arunji @ 1243,
    I like that expression “YIPPY”
    Ya Ya, YippY YippY, Ya Ya Ya
    Thank you Arunji.

  1251. Rakeshji @ 1247, 1248,
    Thank you for posting the two “Bachpan”songs from the 80s and 90s,

    Childhood is that golden period of life which flies away without giving any notice and never comes back and it is shortest season in one’s life. If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
    Here another Bachpan song
    Two childhood friends making promises never to forget each other,picturised on on Baby Naaz and Master Romi.
    Bachpan ka mora tora pyaar suhaana
    Dekho ji yaad rakhnaa, nibhaana
    dekho ji yaad rakhnaa
    ……………………
    Baat ko nibhaana ji
    Bamen naa bhulaana ji
    Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Do Phool (1958), Hasrat Jaipuri, Vasant Desai
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KdofMKpyoI&t=40s

  1252. Canasyaji, AKji,
    Your mention of the song Hum Dekhenge, reminded me of a duet from the film Mughal-e-Azam. A lovely song picturized on Madhubala and Nigar Sultana.

    Teri Mehfil Mein Kismat Aazma Kar Hum Bhi Dekhenge
    The key word remains buried deep down in the last antara of the song.

    Mohabbat humne mana zindagi barbaad karti hai
    Yeh kya kam hai ke mar jaane pe duniya yaad karti hai
    Lata Mangeshkar, Shamshad Begum, Shakeel Badayuni, Naushad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFyLL3XDgE

  1253. Venkataramanji , Rajesh ji
    Rajeshji is as precise as venerable Dickey Bird!
    I have to make up for the short run and that too Involving Bhupinder ( Bhupendra)
    This is a song from a film never released. It had unusual combination of Vinod Mehta, Arun Govil , Zarina Wahab & Sulkshana Pandit & to top it all it’s MD was Hemant Bhosle. It’s name is Barrister . There was a very popular drama written by Jayawant Dalvi ( Chakra fame) and there was a very powerful starcast including Vijaya Mehta (who also directed the play) , Vikram Gokhale, Chandrakant Gokhale and Suhas Joshi . I was fortunate to see this drama in early eighties I do not know whether the movie was based on that drama. Arunji surely will have the information
    This duet by Asha & Bhupendra from the film is good. It is penned by Yogesh .
    Na tum bhule na hum bhule
    https://youtu.be/7UhZXQoJ0ls

  1254. Hans ji @ 1185

    Thank you for Mukesh saab’s song “Aapne yun hi dillagi ki thi”. Heard it for the first time. Beautiful song though the way it begins, it reminded me of a very well-known song, “Tumhe zindagi ke ujale mubarak”. Did you feel the same way too? I wonder if it is because besides Mukesh saab,even the MDs are the same: Kalyan ji Anand ji.

  1255. Canasya ji @ 1235

    Thanks for sharing that revolutionary poem by Faiz. Heard it for the first time. Love these lines:

    Jab zulm-o-sitam ke koh-e-garan
    Rooi ki tarah ur jaenge
    Hum mehkoomon ke paaon tale
    Ye dharti dhar dhar dharkegi
    Aur ahl-e-hakam ke sar oopar
    Jab bijli kar kar karkegi
    Jab arz-e-Khuda ke kaabe se
    Sab but uthwae jaenge
    Hum ahl-e-safa mardood-e-harm
    Masnad pe bethae jaenge
    Sab taaj uchale jaenge
    Sab takht girae jaenge

    That reference to taj and takhat in the last two lines quoted reminded me of Sahir’s equally revolutionary: Ye mahlon, ye takhto, ye taajon ki duniya….

    Faiz sees the oppressed people reigning later (when the revolution is successful) while Sahir is more pragmatic, knowing that today’s revolutionary leader will tomorrow become a dictator: Jala do, Jala do, phunk dalo ye duniya…..Tumhari hai tum hi sambhalo ye dunia

    For those who want to read Faiz saab’s poem, here it is:

    https://lyricshero.com/hum-dekhenge-lyrics-hindi-english-meaning-faiz-ahmad-faiz/

  1256. N. Venkataraman ji @1237, 1240

    Loved your cricket analogy and thanks for liking the two Ae Ishq Humain Barbaad Na Kar. The two versions of Panna Dai song are very nice though I liked the one in Begum Akhtar’s voice better. And I absolutely loved the photos accompanying the songs.

    And here’s another version of Akhter Shairani’s Ae Ishq Humein Barbaad Na Kar. This time by Malika Pukhraji ji and her daughter Tahira Syed:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3cpNLfTJJE

    This is very different from Noor ji’s version but I love it too.

  1257. Dr. Rajesh Deshpande ji @ 396, Canasya ji @ 1235, N. Venkataraman ji @ 1241

    Dr. Deshpande ji, thanks for that song from Shaheed Bhagat Singh where Shammi Kapoor plays the eponymous hero. Hadn’t heard any song from that movie before.

    Venkataraman ji thanks for sharing Yaad ki Reh Guzar – the singer was new to me.

    And since Faiz sahab’s genius is being applauded in recent comments, here’ s another one by him which he wrote to celebrate the bravery of Bhagat Singh:

    jis dhaj se koi maqtal mein gaya
    wo shaan salaamat rehti hai
    yeh jaan toh aani jaani hai
    is jaan ki toh koi baat nahin

    [The way someone goes to get matrydom.
    That glory remains…
    This life comes and goes.
    It is no loss if it is lost.]

    The ghazal begins:
    Kab YAAD Mein Tera Saath Nahin, Kab Haath Mein Tera Haath Nahin

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTKHHEwuWc
    [Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]

  1258. AK ji
    I had yesterday posted a comment.
    There was a message that the comment is under moderation.
    Venkataramanji , Rajeshji
    Let us move in to Jawani ( move back?)
    Aaj main jawan ho gayi Hoon –
    Main Sundar Hoon -AB – SJ – Lata
    AB &SJ was not a very successful combination. And they produced some of the immensely forgettable songs.
    https://youtu.be/0zHCsbkg2dY

  1259. Arunji @1236, 1243,
    Thanks for patiently maintaining the counter. Under your watch new centuries are being clocked.

  1260. Vankataramani @1238,
    Bhupinder’s Kya batayein humein kya yaad hai, kya bhool gaye/ Baaki jo kuchh tha mohabbat ke siva sab bhool gaye started with a promising ‘What to forget, what to remember’, but it was not one of conflicting emotions, rather it was a linear expression of forgetting everything except ‘love’. Arjun’s single-pointed concentration?

    @1239,
    Mera tumhara afsana is a very nice song. Heard for the first time. Thanks.

    @1240,
    I prefer the Begum Akhtar version of Fasl-e-gul ayi. Neeruahaf @1256, too, agrees with me.

    @1241,
    Yaad ki raah-guzar is a very nice song. That the readers could post 5 ghazals/nazms of ‘Faiz’ shows their high class.

    @1252,
    Teri mehfil mein kismet aazma kar bhi hum dekhenge: On the surface, this qawwali duet does have the words ‘Hum dekhenge’, but that is a challenge between the two competing lovers. In spirit, ‘Jab pyar kiya to darna kya‘ has more of Faiz’s ‘Hum dekhenge’ spunk.

  1262. Mr Muli @1258,
    It is up now, and you would have realised the problem. Often there is a typo in mail id, in the present case there was a typo in your name. We realise, the computer does a lot of good things, but it is still an idiot. I don’t know whether AI does give its intelligence to recognise a pattern, and immaterial typos.

    I liked your ‘immensely forgettable’ phrase.

  1263. Rahulji @1253, 1258,
    Both the singles were comfortably run. Asha & Bhupinder did not run you out.
    Thank you for the songs.
    Earlier you posted a song from Muzafar Ali’s 1981 film Umrao Jaan @ 138.
    Posting another song from Umrao Jaan.
    Justaju jisaki thi us ko to n paaya hamane
    Is bahaane se magar dekh li duniya hamane
    The third Sher
    Kab mili thi, kahaan bichhadi thi, hamen yaad nahin
    Jindagi tujhako to bas khwaab men dekha hamane
    Asha Bhosle, Shahryar, Khayyam
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkepsO8I4Y

  1264. Neeruahafji @ 1256 & 1257,
    Thanks for posting Ae Ishq Humein Barbaad Na Kar by Malika Pukhraji ji and her daughter Tahira Syed.

    The second one was a cheeky single. Well you managed to complete the run. Cansyaji had posted Khayyam and Jagjit Kaur’version of “Kab YAAD Mein Tera Saath Nahin, Kab Haath Mein Tera Haath Nahin”. Good running.

    Another song penned by Faiz Ahmed Faiz and a film by Muzaffar Ali once again. And the story centered around the region of Awadh.
    Junoon Ki Yaad Manao ke jashn ka din hai, Hariharan, Aagaman (1982), music Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcHB8x_mHCk

  1265. AKji@ 1260,
    “In spirit, ‘Jab pyar kiya to darna kya‘ has more of Faiz’s ‘Hum dekhenge’ spunk.”
    Well, that was a good observation. But the Qawwali duet had the keyword.

    Posting a ghazal from the 1962 movie Son OF India
    Loads of irony in Shakeel Badayuni’s lyrics.
    Zindagi aaj mere naam se sharmaati hai
    Apane haalaat pe mujhe khud hii hansi aati hai

    And the last Sher,
    Raah chalte hue kuchh soch ke ruk jaataa hun
    Har qadam par koi bhuli hui yaad aati hai
    zindagii aaj mere …
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhMhHVumpxk

  1267. Counter….
    @ 1266
    Number of songs posted are 1115 + 10 by AK ji.
    A fantastic show of Readers’ participation.
    Records made in number of comments and number of songs posted.
    1266 comments and 1115 songs, so far.
    As we must proceed further, the counter takes your leave now.
    Comments and songs may may still continue to trickle.
    Thanks.
    -AD

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