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We in this blog often come across milestones. The most common milestone is century of songs which occurs after every one hundred songs and so far we have had 101 such centuries.
Then we have centuries by artists and also centuries by contributors. 70 artists have reached their centuries (with many of them notching up multiple centuries). Contributors to this blog have also notched centuries and there have been twelve such centurions in the blog.
Then we have milestones that are rather more complex or farfetched, if one may say so. For instance, we have had centuries of duet songs sung by combinations like Rafi-Asha Bhonsle(381), Rafi-Lata (319), Kishore Kumar (154), Kishore Kumar-Asha Bhonsle (149), Mukesh-Lata (127) etc. We even had centuries of songs picturised on one artist, but such combinations tend to go unnoticed. For instance, there have been more than one hundred songs picturised on Helen-officially 186, but the figure could well be over 200, if we review all the songs in the blog.
This song marks yet another farfetched / derived kind of century for the blog. With this song, as many as FIVE HUNDRED movies now have all their songs covered in the blog. It is a fantastic achievement indeed. These FIVE HUNDRED movies cover 3687 songs.
To put things in perspective, this blog has songs from nearly 3000 Hindi movies. There have been just over 6000 movies in all from 1931 till 1980 (the period of interest for this blog). So one can say that almost 50% of all Hindi movies released till 1980 are represented in this blog and that nearly 8 % of all Hindi movies between 1931 to 1950 have all their songs available in the blog. It is a small but very significant figure. Attempts to list all the songs of HFM have been made (in the form of HFGK), but going to a more microscopic level and exploring the songs as listed in HFGK in a systematic manner is an attempt that has been made only in this blog to the best of my knowledge. In the process we have discovered songs that we found were incorrectly reported in the song list, and we also discovered songs that were presumed extinct. We sometimes discovered gems that had not been revisited by music lovers from the time they were released and were duly forgotten.
With passage of time, the activities of this blog have become rather more complex than the simple days of the past. These days we try to achieve several targets at the same time and with time we actually achieve them.
The idea of covering all songs of movies came up in 2012 when Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia undertook the onerous task of going through the entire list of songs (moviewise) in this blog and comparing the list with the HFGK list to find out which songs of the concerned movies were left out. This list turned out to be extremely useful and we began to cover all the songs of movies in a more planned and conscious way. Such movies that had all their songs covered in the blog were then colored orange to distinguish them from the other movies that still had some songs left to be covered.
In just under two years, we now have 500 movies with all their songs covered. And this figure will keep on getting surpassed with every coming day.
And what is the song that I have chosen to mark the occasion ?
I found it a fascinating song from the very first time that I heard (and watched) it. And I watched this song for the first time only recently, 43 years after this song was created ! I had never heard (or watched) this song before. In fact I was not even aware of the existence of this song. Not that this song is from an unknown movie. This song is from “Parwaana” (1971) and this movie has some well known songs in it viz.
Jis din se maine tumko dekha hai, Piyaa ki gali laage bhali, Simti si sharmaayi si and Yoon na sharmaa phailaade apni gori gori baanhen.
This song from “Parwaana”(1971) is sung by Asha Bhonsle and Rafi. Kaifi Azmi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Madan Mohan.
The song is sung superbly by Asha Bhonsle and Rafi, but it is the picturisation of this song that takes one’s breath away. The song is picturised as a get together song where a hijaab clad Yogita Bali and Amitabh Bachchan lip sync this song in afamily gathering (I guess). The picturisation of this song, coupled with the playback singing is simply out of this world. It surprised me no end that a song of such class should end up as a totally forgotten song.
Every time we cover all the songs of a movie in the blog, we expect to see a remark coming from down south that goes “YIPPEE” and another remark from the west that congratulates me and the lyrics sender on the occasion. Prakashchandra it is who sent me the lyrics of this fantastic song.
Pradeep Raghunathan, the originator of the “YIPPEE” celebration had taken up the task of tagging the songs of movies where all songs have been covered. The last time I was informed (a couple of days back), as many as 440 such movies were covered and Pradeep Raghunathan was threatening to catch up with all the YIPPEED movies before we touched this landmark of 500 ! I am happy that I managed to just keep ahead of the stiff competition, :)
With this sixth and final song from “Parwaana” (1971), we now have 500 movies that have all their songs covered in the blog. It is quite a wonderful milestone for the blog and I am sure that this calls for a major YIPPEE from our followers.
Song-O jameela chhamak chhalo (Parwaana)(1971) Singers-Asha Bhonsle, Rafi, Lyrics-Kaifi Azmi, MD-Madan Mohan
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
o basheera
o jameelaaa
ho jameela chhamakchhalo
jameela
rukh se parda hata de
ho jameela
meri bulbul
jameela
zara jalwa dikha de
o basheera
mere baanke basheera
lagi dil ki bujha de
haay haay basheera
mere pyaare basheera
meri duniya basa de
haaye basheera
hallu hallu se pallu kholna
kyun basheera
hallu hallu se pallu kholna
na basheera
gore gaalon ki kasam
kaale baalon ki kasam
mehke aanchal ki kasam
udte baadal ki kasam
hoy dil kee dhadkan ki kasam
mehke daaman ki kasam
jaage jaadu ki kasam
surkh pallu ki kasam
pallu jo kholoongee
deewaane lut jaayenge
lut jaane do
aaha ha ha ha
pallu jo kholoonge
parwaane lut jaane do
arre lut jaane do
aaj husn o ada ka khazaana luta de
bana de jahaan ko deewana bana de
haaye jameela
jameela
jameela
hoye jameela chhamakchallo
jameela
rukh se parda hata de
haaye haaye basheera
mere baanke basheera
lagi dil ki bujha de
haaye basheera
mujhse jo chheenega tujhko zamaana
to kya karoge
haan
aaya jo banke koi tera deewaana
to kya karoge
tere liye jaan ki baazi laga doonga
uyi tauba
ho tere liye ye jawaani ganwa doonga
uyi tauba
mera dildaar hai tu
sun mera pyaar hai tu
chakku ki dhaar hai tu
tez talwaar hai tu
le le dil tujhko diya
tujhpe qurbaan kiya
tu hi sanam mera
tu hi to mera piya
mera husn bhi tera
ye jawaani bhi teri
jaga de
mere soye huye armaan jaga de
oy baheera
basheera
basheera
oy basheera
mere baanke basheera
lagi dil ki bujha de
haaye jameela
chhammakchhalo
jameela
rukh se parda hata de
hoy jameela
meri bulbul
jameela
zara jalwa dikha de
hoy basheera
hata diya
achcha kiya
