favorite songs by naushad, in honour of his passing Options

[arnab]

let's do our own tribute to naushad.

[dieresis]

Edited to remove mistake.

The song that initially came to mind wasn't his. I encourage the moderator to remove this now meaningless post.

This post has been edited by dieresis: May 6 2006, 02:06 PM

[shyama]

Edited to remove mistake.

I encourage the moderator to remove this now meaningless post.

I'm afraid you're yet to pick some finer points from the Master of Meaningless Posts, Mr. **** on AS:-).

One of my favourites- Hum aaj kahi dil kho baithe from Andaz.

This post has been edited by shyama: May 6 2006, 02:35 PM

[hibiscus]

Mere mehboob tujhe meri mohabbat ki kasam, phir mujhe nargisi aankhon ka sahaara de de, mera khoya hua rangeen nazaara de de...

Koi saagar dil ko behlaata nahin, bekhudi mein bhi qaraar aata nahin...

Do sitaaron ka zameen par hai milan aaj ki raat...

Songs from Mughal-e-Azam and Baiju Bawra.

Madhuban mein Radhika naache re...

Many more! Take your pick.

[frangipani]

Okay, my first favourites-of-Naushad playlist, from the top of my head (Later will sit down and make other ones):

1. Mohe panghat pe nandlal chhed gayo re (Lata, Mughaleazam)
2. Tere husn ki kya tareef karoon (Lata-Rafi, Leader)
3. Too kahe agar jeevan bhar main geet sunata jaaon (Mukesh, Andaz)
4. Hamare dil se na jana, dhoka na khana (Lata, Uran Khatola)
5. Tere pyaar mein dildar jo hai mera haalezaar (Lata, Mere Mehboob)
6. Nain lad jaihen to manwama kasak hoi bekari (Rafi, Gunga-Jumna)
7. Jhoole men pawan ke aayi bahar (Lata-Rafi, Baiju Bawra)
8. Afsana likh Rahi hoon, dil-e-beqaraar ka (Uma Devi, dont know film)
9. Gaadi wale gaadi dhire haak re (Rafi-Shamshad, Mother India)
10. Awaaz de kahaan hai (Shyam-Suraiya, don't know film)

[mallige]

One of my favorites:
Aaj mere man main sakhi baansuri bajaye koi
Pyaar bhare geet sakhi baar baar gaye koi
baansuri bajaye sakhi gaye sakhi ri
koi chhailava ho, koi albelava ho

[frangipani]

Wah, what a lovely song. Mallige, what film? I want to listen to it right now. How she sings "koi chhailava ho", no?

[mallige]

Wah, what a lovely song. Mallige, what film? I want to listen to it right now. How she sings "koi chhailava ho", no?

It is from Aan fran.

I am listening to Rattan songs right now- milke bichadgayi akhinyaan hai raama...

[frangipani]

Am listening to it now! Thanks.

Rattan: "ankhiyan milake" by Zohrabai is wonderful, no?

[mallige]

Oh isnt her voice lovely?
Am listening to Rum jhum barase badarwa masta hawaye aayi piya ghar aaja... sigh!

Ankhiyaan milake is the 3rd song after this song.

Yesterday we went to Devon- our monthly indian shopping. We went to a music shop and my husband said to the guy at the counter- "Aaj Naushad saab ke kaafi CDs bike honge" and the guy said "kyon"? So we told him and he was so stricken and he called out to the other young guy (the one with Amir's DilChahtaHai hair cut and FUBU clothes) who said "Haan janta hoon, woh to boodha tha" aaargh!

[Pratibha]

Here are some more favorites


mujhe duniyaan waalon sharaabi na samajho
zaraa man ki kivaDiyaan khol, sainyaa tore dwaare khaDe
na main bhagavaan huun na main shaitaan huun
koi saagar dil ko behalaataa nahin
na miltaa ghum to barbaadi ke afsaane kahan jaate

[frangipani]

Somehow I associate Naushad and Dilip Kumar in my mind, and as I thought about it, so many songs. Dilip Kumar is one of the few actors who actually seems to be singing the songs, no? He has very good musical sense.

Aaj ki Raat mere dil ki salaami lele (Ram aur Shyam): the way this song begins, in the opening lines he furrows his brow and moves his head just right, as if he were trying to reach the upper notes.

Koi sagar dil ko behelata nahi (Dil Diya Dard Liya?)

Nain lad jaihen (Gunga Jumna)

Madhuban mein radhika nache re (Kohinoor)

Tere husn ki kya tareef (Leader)

Gaaye ja geet milan ke tu apni lagan ke (Mela)

Tu kahe agar (Andaz)

Mughal-e-Azam (although Dilip Kumar himself doesn't have any great songs on him in this film)

Mohabbat ki rahon mein chalna sambhalke, and O door ke musafir (Uran Khatola)

[arnab]

i just popped in tape 2 of the rpg golden collection (has this been released on cd? i didn't see it in delhi this trip).

rafi is wailing on "o duniya ke rakhwale". the vocal is a little too dramatic for my taste but the music is so beautiful and the instruments so perfectly balanced.

[arnab]

8. Afsana likh Rahi hoon, dil-e-beqaraar ka (Uma Devi, dont know film)

10. Awaaz de kahaan hai (Shyam-Suraiya, don't know film)

"dard"

"anmol ghadi"

no, i don't know this stuff off the top of my head--looking at the sleeve on tape 1 of the golden collection.

edit: "chandan ka palna" just finished--another lovely song (how many hemant-lata duets are there?). lata just got started on "na milta gham to". lata's voice was so beautiful when she was young--but naushad really got the best out of her, no?

This post has been edited by arnab: May 6 2006, 10:54 PM

[frangipani]

I'm so glad he chose Hemanta for that duet. All the other songs from that film are by Rafi. One of them "mehelon mein rehenewale hamein tere dar se kya" is beautiful.

I have never warmed to "duniya ke rakhwale" or "man tarpat hari darshan ko aaj". very forced, both the songs.

[Pratibha]

I have never warmed to "duniya ke rakhwale" or "man tarpat hari darshan ko aaj". very forced, both the songs.

metoo, although i can not figure out why.

another favorite.
aaj ki raat mere dil ki salaami le le

Didn't rafifan singit for AS? link?

This post has been edited by Pratibha: May 6 2006, 11:29 PM

[arnab]

does anyone know where naushad "borrowed" the rhythmic chanting thing at the start of "roop ki dushman" from. captain beefheart of all people has the same thing in "abba zaba" on his album "safe as milk" (which came out in the late 60s). the only references i could find to "abba zaba" suggest that elements of it are taken from west african music, so i am assuming both borrowed it independently from some west african source--unless captain beefheart was listening to naushad! unfortunately, the "inspired film songs" site linked to in the pinned links thread in this forum seems to be defunct.

[arnab]

I have never warmed to "duniya ke rakhwale" or "man tarpat hari darshan ko aaj". very forced, both the songs.

I have never warmed to "duniya ke rakhwale" or "man tarpat hari darshan ko aaj". very forced, both the songs.

metoo, although i can not figure out why.

try and ignore rafi and listen to the background music.

[frangipani]

No no, I like the composition, the tunes and the background music (I love Naushad's interludes and the little "link" tunes from one line to the other that he does, sometimes through a chorus), but I was referring to the singing here.

[Pratibha]

hey thanks arnab and frang, will try it.

[arnab]

shamshad begum and rafi singing "kaise baje dil ka sitar". wonderful, and underlines that as celebrated naushad is for marrying indian classical structures to film music, he is underrated for his interpolation of western style orchestration/arrangements. on my next trip home i'm going to have to buy many of the full soundtracks of these late 40s, early 50s movies that he directed the music of.

also, after about 1948 it seems like there are very few songs composed by him that had lyrics by anyone other than shakeel badayuni.

[moazzam]

it is heartbreaking to see none seem to remember that noor jehan sang awaaz de kahaaN hai. south asians should know this in their sleep even. has the world changed so much over there?

- moazzam

[frangipani]

Moazzam, it was my mistake above: I had typed "tu mera chand" by Shyam-Suraiya and Awaaz de kahan hai by Noor Jehan-Surendra, but in deleting the earlier song from my playlist I mixed up the singers. Awaz de is on every Naushad "Best of" collection I am aware of.

I don't know what has changed where, but I probably need better glasses!

[frangipani]

shamshad begum and rafi singing "kaise baje dil ka sitar". wonderful, and underlines that as celebrated naushad is for marrying indian classical structures to film music, he is underrated for his interpolation of western style orchestration/arrangements.

Yes. Esp. the serious use of the piano (rather than just in the beginning of the song, where the hero dramatically crashes his fingers on the keys) and of choruses (like in "o door ke musafir"). His use of the chorus is very different from Salil C's, and also very versatile, from something like "o door ke musafir" in Uran Khatola to "matwala jiya dole piya" in Mother India to "allah bachaye naujwanon se" in Mere Mehboob.

[lekha]

ooooh the uran khatola songs: hamare dil se na jaana dhokha na khaana duniya bade beimaaan

and mera salaam leja.

and i love this one from dastaan - rafi suraiya - waltz rhythm - ta ra rum pum -

yeh sawan rut hum aur tum...

the verse is very pretty :

aankhon mein tum leke pyaar aa gaye
gulshan mein banke bahar aa gaye
dekho woh kaliyon ko ho gayi hasi
baadal ki chaaye mein naache khushi
tu hai to phir kya hai gum, tara rum pum

ta ra reeee ta ra reeee.

reading this comment - whether naushad limited himself to just a few singers...

and a tribute

anmol ghadi has some great suraiya songs, though of course it is noorjehan's movie all the way

jawan hai mohabbat

mere bachpan ke saathi mujhe bhool na jaana

i love the duet in dillagi with shyam "tu mera chand mai teri chandni" - recently found a suraiya karaoke cd with this song in it - now my sisters and i freak out "saath hi jeena saath hi marna ulfat ki hai reeth haaaaaa ulfat ki hai reet, pyaar ki murli har dam gaye teri lagan ke geet ---- ooooo oooooo ooooo"

naushad was also a technical innovator

But all his musical hits notwithstanding, Naushad was also a man of great technical knowledge and capable of much innovation. He was the first to introduce sound mixing and the separate recording of voice and music tracks in playback singing which he did with Shahjehan getting Saigal to record separately on a different track and having the music on another track.

Naushad was also the first to combine the flute and the clarinet, the sitar and mandolin. He also introduced the accordion to Hindi film music and was among the first to concentrate on background music to extend characters' moods and dialogues through music. But perhaps Naushad's greatest contribution was to bring Indian classical music into the film medium and what's more make them extremely accessible to the layman in films like Baiju Bawra(1952) and Mughal-e-Azam (1960).

some years ago, when noorjehan visited india, she sang "awaaz de kahaan hai" - it was wonderful - watched it on tv.

here's my naushad songs:

door koyi gaye dhun ye sunaye tere bin chaliya re
gaye jaa geet milan ki tu apne lagan ke sajan ghar jaana hai
hum aaj kahin dil kho baithe
madhuban mein radhika
milte hi aankhen dil hua diwana kisika
na milta gham to barbadi ke afsane kahan jaayen
phir teri kahani yaad ayi phir tera fasana yaad aya
yeh pyaar ki baaten yeh safar bhool na jaana
teri mehfil mein kismat aazmakar ham bhi dekhenge

[moazzam]

sorry fran,
for jumping to lousy conclusions

- moazzam

[frangipani]

Arrey, no problem.

The "chandan ka palna" song has been in my head since yesterday.

I love "tere mehfil mein qismat aazmaakar hum bhi dekhenge"

Lekha, isn't "hamare dil se na jaana" beautiful? The way she says "dhoka na khana, duniya badi beimaan".

Also "more saiyan ji" and "mohabbat ki rahon mein chalna sambhalke"

Mere Mehboob: each one is a masterpiece:

Rafi's "aye husn zara jaag tujhe ishq jagaaye", "mere mehboob mein kya nahin"

Also "do hanson ka joda" and "o chhalia re chhalia re man me hamaar najar tori bas gayi" and of course "dhoondo dhoondo re sajana" from Gunga Jumna: do you like "dhoondo" better or "na manu dagabaj tori"?

[frangipani]

I've been listening to Allah bachaye naujawanon se from Mere Mehboob. I love the way he contrasts the main tune sung by Lata to that of the chorus. I think the song is based on Bhairavi, am I right?

The final stanza "soz-e-mohabbat kya hai itna na jaane koi" is so beautiful, esp. the short alaaps at the end.

Accha, is it my imagination or was there one really woman in hindi song choruses of this time with a very powerful voice? I feel I recognize it in so many songs (including this one). Who knows who that was.

[RafiFan]

One of my Naushad fav is 'Mere Mehboob'. As Fran says "each one is a masterpiece". I like the film too. Esp the urduish dialogues.

Recently I saw 'Andaz'. Was surprised by fol. observations
1. Only one Rafi song, many Mukesh songs
2. Rafi sings for Raj Kapoor and Mukesh sings for Dilip Kumar
3. Dilip is a singer in the film, and RK is not
4. All this despite Rafi being Naushad's fav.

Ok, it was 1949 (and missed out 'Best of xx' series) and may be that time Mukesh was a better known singer than Rafi!

[arnab]

after eating at surati farsan mart last week i bought a couple of naushad cd's from the music store next door. one with "anmol ghadi" and "anokhi ada" and the other with "shabab" and "baiju bawra". have been listening to the first one--just wonderful stuff and inspired some questions/thoughts that i will start new threads about.