#Lata Mangeshkar sang this song so beautifully

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Hey Desi girls! ATTENTION PLEASE!

I have said this many times and I will say this that we're taught to love others, be sensible, be witty, be responsible, be respectful..... but many of us aren't taught about self-love.

Self-love and self-esteem are two important words. I'm not supporting narcissists. But just look at yourselves in mirror, without any makeup, without any eyeliner and lipstick.... and say : I love you to yourselves. That's self-love, self-acceptance....

You're beautiful as you're. If you don't suit modern or traditional beauty standards, don't feel sorry, just dress up as you want and bear a smile.

Here you go with this beautiful retro song:

Here Lata di(I miss her a lot😭😭) will tell you how to fall in love with yourself.

Apni Ada Par Main Hoon Fida

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10 Songs which brought us back to the Golden Era Of Bollywood

When the Bollywood was back in the Golden Era the songs were just soulful & melodious when people were actually sad or depressed of something they listened to those songs & felt actually good & refreshed as the legendary singers Kishore Kumar, Mohd Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar sang these beautiful songs. As in recent times, Bollywood industry has been facing a lot of criticism for destroying the beautiful old songs by creating the remixes with EDM type of remix, fans are not loving as they have heard the original music & many of the stars in the music industry can’t able to produce music of their own thinking instead of copying it as audience have witnessed that they are not keeping any faith in the power of melodious music. And there are many songs which bring back us to the old times of Bollywood are:

1. Dilbaro (Raazi): A brilliant movie directed by Meghna Gulzar starring Alia Bhatt & Vicky Kaushal who portrayed their role magically as there was one song in the movie which made every daughter & their parents emotional as the lyrics were so emotional that it actually made fans in tears at the theatre fall written by the legendary singer Gulzaar Sahab. Hence they proved the beauty of old music is still alive.

2. Tera Yaar Hoon Mai (Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety): Last year all the new upcoming stars acted in this movie & won our hearts as the movie was about love & friendship, one song that made everyone emotional was Tera Yaar Hoon Main as the song was explained the meaning of true friendship.

3. Roke Na Ruke Naina (Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya): In today’s time the most favorite on-screen couple Varun Dhawan & Alia Bhatt showed their sizzling chemistry in the movie as it was a romantic-drama movie. There was one song Roke Na Ruke Naina which explains the emotional moment between the couple.

4. Maana Ke Hum Yaar Nahi (Meri Pyaari Bindu): This song is beautifully sung by the renowned actress Parineeti Chopra as we all are aware that she is a multi-talented actress as her voice was soulful & the song was about the love but not able to confess it.

5. IKK Kuddi (Udta Punjab): Diljit Dosanjh our very own Punjabi Multi-talented actor who is loved by all as he knows how to entertain the audience in the best possible way. This song is about the girl whom he loved as it was Kareena Kapor who was his co-star at the movie as to how the girl is the best for him describing her in some beautiful words.

6. Saathi Rey (Kapoor & Sons): This beautiful movie about family- drama movie as it was a multi-starrer movie and the song Saathi Rey comes when Rajat Kapoor died in an accident in the movie then the whole family misses him badly.

7. Agar Tum Saath Ho (Tamasha): The magical duo of our Bollywood industry Ranbir Kapoor & Deepika Padukone stole the heart of every people who have watched this movie as the song starts when both of them loved each other but were separating as Deepika didn’t want to leave him as she wants to take care of him & the scene was beautifully choreographed as it suited the song perfectly.

8. Nazm Nazm (Bareilly Ki Barfi): This movie was the most talked film of 2017 as the upcoming talented stars Ayushmann Khurana, Kriti Sanon & Raj Kumar Rao were in the movie as Ayushmann & Kriti were confessing their love through written letters. It was a beautiful song.

9. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil- Ae Dil Hai Mushkil: It was a masterpiece film by Karan Johar starring Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma & Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. It was a one-sided love film as Ranbir was madly in love with Anushka & sang the song for her. This song means he can’t even breath without her.

10. Meere Karwaan (Lucknow Central): It was an underrated film starring Farhan Akhtar, the lyrics were actually magical it was beautifully explained & the actor didn’t fail to make a highlight with his acting.

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Musical review of film Yahudi

REVIEWER :hitesh.mehta@gmail.com

Director: Bimal Roy; Producer: Savak B Vacha Artistes: Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Sohrab Modi, Nigar Sultana, Nazir Hussain, Kamala Laxman, Helen, Cuckoo, Tiwari, Baby Naaz, Anwar Hussain, Minoo Mumtaz, Murad, Indira Bansal, Munshi, Bikram Kapoor, Romi, Adil

This is only film Shankar Jaikishan did for Producer Savak B Vacha, who died even before this film could complete. Also its SJ’s only film for Director Bimal Roy- a legend director, who happened to be producer also for many films- notable were Do Bigha Jamin, Parakh, Devdas, Madhumati etc. He normally worked with Bengali MDs like SDB and Salil Chaudhury, but I think, for Yahudi, Savak Vacha chose SJ.

This is based on historic theme of Romans and Jews (Yahudis) rivalary in Rome thousand of years ago. SJ, master of varieties as they are, blended their music perefectly with situation and time frame of story- lot of arabian touch in music. This movie is a masterpiece, not only for its music but also direction,  acting,screenplay, sets, dialogues, acting and lyrics. Bimal Roy, as we know, was a master director. Film’s dialogues were very popular, eg. “Tumhara khun khun, hamara khun pani hai”. Two great actors of Hindi movies, Sohrab Modi and Dileep Kumar were at their best. The sets were very good and able to create scene of Rome hundreds of year ago. As usual SJ’s music was adding to magic- not only songs but background music too. On top of that simple but soulful lyrics by Shailendra- this film has 7 songs, in which 6 were written by Shailendra and he won first filmfare award for “Ye mera diwanapan hai”.

In the film title, Only Dattaram’s name appeared as Asst. Music Director, so I believe Sebastian was not assisting SJ in this particular movie. Movie start with instrumental music of song “ye duniya , ye duniya” alongwith titles. For a change, this movie doesn’t have any title song. Also there are only 7 songs and its pity, IMO it should have atleast 3 more songs because its romantic story in backdrop of roman-yahudi rivalry and there is only one song picturised on hero Dilip Kumar. Definitely hero deserved couple of more songs- IMO. Out of 7, only 4 songs are picturised on main stars, 3 went to supporting cast. But Bimal Roy used songs’ beautifully to support flow of story and nowhere they looked unnecessary or coming in the way of story.

Here are the songs and commentary on them:

1) ye duniyaa, ye duniyaa, haa_e hamaarii ye duniyaa. Singers: Muhammad Rafi, Chorus; Lyricist: Shailendra

Picturised on supporting actor, only Md. Rafi song of film- lyrics and music give voice to pain of yahudis due to excesses by Romans. Md. Rafi did justice in expressing deep sorrow and pain.

2) bechain dil kho_ii sii nazar, tanhaaiyo.n me.n. Singers: Lata Mangeshkar, Geeta Dutt; Lyricist: Shailendra

Dance song by Lata and Geeta Dutt- picturised on Helen and Cukoo (?). Its treat to see this for dance lovers. Energy of orchestra and of dancers competing to each other. Traditional orchastrisation of SJ and fast rhythem but still very melodious song. You may not impress with song in first go but after hearing few times, you will fall in love with this song.  I feel SJ should have used Geeta Dutt for more songs in their films.

3) merii jaa.n merii jaa.n pyaar kisii se ho hii gayaa hai. Singers: Lata Mangeshkar, Chorus; Lyricist: Shailendra

SJ were not getting best only out of singers but from chorus too and this is one of example. This is picturised on main heroine Meena Kumari who looks very young and beautiful and supporting actresses. Its a sheer melody and more you hear this song, more you will like it. And what a simple way to express feelings by Shailendra- “jinki nigahon ne ghayal kiya, unhi se lenge dil ki dawa, na ham muskurate na wo pas aate, uski mili hai saja kya kare….”

4) aate jaate pahluu mein aayaa ko_ii, mere dil batlaa na chhupaa. Singers: Lata Mangeshkar, Chorus; Lyricist: Shailendra

Meena Kumari sings and dances while Dilip Kumar looks at hiding. Shankar Jaikishan actually known for variety and no other MD gave so many different kind of songs so you can not associate a single style with SJ but nevertheless by hearing some songs itself, especially their orchestra, you can identify them as SJ song and this is one of them. Use of violins, mendolin, congo, bongo and dattu ka thheka (dattaram’s rhythem)- a distinctive SJ song. The tune of mukhada is not so ‘catchy’ but antaras’ tunes are more attractive, especially when Lata take alaap aa, aa, aa…..and goes back to Mukhada. The continuously  playing rhythem instruments are the main attraction of this song.

5) dil se tujhko bedilii hai…ye meraa diiwaanaapan hai. Singer: Mukesh; Lyricist: Shailendra

Most hit song of the film, Mukesh beautifully expresses romantic as well as sad feelings at same time! Only song picturised on Dilip Kumar, which is quite unusual given the stardom Dilip kumar was enjoying and looking into his fondness for songs. Mukesh used to be voice of Dilip Kumar in late 40s and early 50s when Rafi was not established- In Naushad’s 1949’s superhit Andaz, Mukesh sang 6 evergreen song for Dilip Kumar while Rafi gave playback to Raj Kapoor!!But then Rafi and Talat Mehmood became voice of him, and Mukesh started getting identified more as Raj Kapoor’s voice. In early 1950s, Mukesh volunteerly left playback to pursue Acting career but miserably failed commercially and was struggling literally to get back his foothold in playback singing. It is said that this song and same year’s “Suhana safar aur ye mausam hasin” again picturised on Dilip Kumar gave him fresh lease of life and after that he never looked back till his death. Ironically he never sang for Dilip Kumar again. It is well known fact that Dilip Kumar wanted Talat to sing this song but Shankar was putting his full weight behind Mukesh. It is said that few people associated with movie wanted Rafi for this song. Shankarji has confirmed on record that Mukesh’s name was finalised by toss but even then Dilip Kumar wanted his approval before song finally goes to film and when he heard recording in voice of Mukesh, he embraced Shankarji for his judgement- for Shankarji made this song keeping Mukesh’s vocal in mind. The moment mukesh starts with lines “dil se tujko bediili hai..” one get immersed in melody of song. Interludes of song are very good and no need to write about orchestra which is outstanding by default as per SJ standard. Two lines of song repeats at the end also.

6) aa.nsuu kii aag leke terii yaad aa_ii, jalte hu_e raag leke. Singer: Lata Mangeshkar; Lyricist: Hasrat Jaipuri

Only Hasrat song of film, a very beautiful sad song, sang perfectly by Lata Mangeshkar. There is arabian touch to orchestrisation and instruments supporting singer like ‘chorus’. This is also one of the great feature of SJ songs, where musical instruments play such prominent role in some of songs, to such extent that without them song loose its sheen. Absolute melody- classic- what to say more?

7)dil me.n pyaar kaa tuufaan na samjhe ko_ii naadaan. Singer: Lata Mangeshkar; Lyricist: Shailendra

Picturised on supporting actress, I could not recognise- may be Kamla Laxman. This is very good dance number with long prelude. SJ used big orchestra for this but still its nowhere become loud. Needless to say Lata’s rendition was very good.

In summary, this is a classic SJ album, definitely in best 15 of them. Everything in music department was great here- lyrics, orchastrisation, rhythem, background music, preludes and interludes of songs, rendition by singers and picturisation- absolutely fantastic!!! !!!!!

I have pasted lyrics of songs in devnagri lipi below. Also given the links, where by clicking you will get lyrics in english fonts too. My sincere thanks to RajPrakashji Ratnam for providing me DVD of Yahudi twice, without which this review was not possible. Due to my limited knowledge of musical instuments and raags, I have not touched that part and that is lacking in review, but hopefully our learned members will add that in their comments to make review more meaningful.

Regards Hitesh

बेचैन दिल खोई सी नज़र – bechain dil kho_ii sii nazar ( Yahudi – 1958)

बेचैन दिल खोई सी नज़र तन्हाइयों में शाम\-ओ\-सहर तुम याद आते हो दिल नहीं पहलू में रह गईं दो आँखें जाने क्या\-क्या हमसे कह गईं दो आँखें सुनसान रातों में अक्सर जब चाँद पे जाती है नज़र तुम याद आते हो दिल तो दीवाना था हम भी क्या कर बैठे मर्ज़ जाने क्या था क्या दवा कर बैठे इक आह ठंडी सी भर कर उनसे कोई कह दे जा कर तुम याद आते हो हम तो ये समझे थे ख़त्म है अफ़साना उठ चुकी है महफ़िल रह गया वीराना हमको न थी लेकिन ये ख़बर ख़ुद हम कहेंगे रह\-रह कर तुम याद आते हो बेचैन दिल खोई सी ...

आँसू की आग ले के तेरी याद आई – aa.Nsuu kii aag le ke terii yaad aa_ii (Yahudi – 1958)

आँसू की आग लेके तेरी याद आई जलते हुए राग लेके तेरी याद आई शिक़वे हज़ार ले के तेरी याद आई हाय रे कैसी जुदाई रोता है गुँचा\-गुँचा आँगन उदास है अब दिल की आरज़ू को जलवों की प्यास है आँसू की आग लेके ... दोनों जहान तेरी चाहत में छोड़ दूँ प्यार का नाज़ुक रिश्ता कैसे मैं तोड़ दूँ आँसू की आग लेके ..

आते जाते पहलू में आया कोई – aate jaate pahaluu me.n aayaa koii (Yahudi – 1958)

आते जाते पहलू में आया कोई मेरे दिल बतला न छुपा आज से मैं तुझे दिल कहूँ या दिलरुबा तेरी सुनूँ और सुनती रहूँ मैं अपनी तड़प छुपा लूँ फिर भी कहाँ तक सब्र करूँ मैं खुद को कितना संभालूँ आते जाते   ... मस्त नज़र तूने ये क्या किया लिया ये क��न सा बदला है ये शराब\-ए\-नज़र का असर कि मुझे दिल भी न संभला आते जाते   ... तेरा तसव्वुर तेरा ही ग़म लबों पे अब तेरा तराना नींद से भी अब कहती हूँ मैं तू उनको ख़्वाब में लाना आते जाते   ...

दिल में प्यार का तूफ़ान ना समझे कोई नादान – dil me.n pyaar kaa tuufaan naa samajhe ko_ii naadaan ( Yahudi – 1958)

दिल में प्यार का तूफ़ान ना समझे कोई नादान ज़ालिम घूर\-घूर के देखे दूर\-दूर से दिल में प्यार का ... जिसके लिए मैं सारी रात जागी उसने ही देखो मेरी ख़बर न ली छेड़े मीठे राग मेरे दिल में जागे आग दिल में प्यार का ... ये बेरुख़ी न दुआ न सलाम मुझको वफ़ा का मिला ये ईनाम वादा करना था आसान जा देखा तेरा ईमान दिल में प्यार का ..

दिल से तुझको बेदिली है … ये मेरा दीवानापन है – dil se tujhako bedilii hai … ye meraa diivaanaapan hai ( Yahudi – 1958)

दिल से तुझको बेदिली है, मुझको है दिल का गुरूर तू ये माने के न माने, लोग मानेंगे ज़ुरूर ये मेरा दीवानापन है, या मुहब्बत का सुरूर तू न पहचाने तो है ये, तेरी नज़रों का क़ुसूर ये मेरा दीवानापन है ... दिल को तेरी ही तमन्ना, दिल को है तुझसे ही प्यार चाहे तू आए न आए, हम करेंगे इंतज़ार ये मेरा दीवानापन है ... ऐसे वीराने में इक दिन, घुट के मर जाएंगे हम जितना जी चाहे पुकारो, फिर नहीं आएंगे हम ये मेरा दीवानापन है ...

मेरी जाँ मेरी जाँ प्यार किसी से हो ही गया है – merii jaa.N merii jaa.N pyaar kisii se ho hii gayaa hai ( Yahudi – 1958)

मेरी जाँ मेरी जाँ प्यार किसीसे हो ही गया है, हम क्या करें \-२ हम क्या करें, और कोई क्या करे, दिल जो दिया है कोई क्या करे (भोली थी मैं, हाय क्या थी खबर लूटेगी यूँ मुझे उनकी नज़र) \-२ न होते मुक़ाबिल न दिल हारते हम ये अपनी ख़ता है, ग़िला क्या करें मेरी जाँ मेरी जाँ... (जिनकी निगाहों ने घायल किया लेंगे उन्हीं से दिल की दवा) \-२ न हम मुस्कुराते न वो पास आते उसकी मिली है हमको सज़ा, क्या करें मेरी जाँ मेरी जाँ ...