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Hindi movie music and cricket are two of the biggest pastime of Indians. Statistics play a big role in both.
The statistics of cricket are maintained extremely well. Scorecards of first class matches played more than hundred years ago are still available. That is because cricket evolved in England and the English were good record-keepers and they preserved their history.
Hindi movie music on the other hand was an entirely indigenous enterprise. Unlike Englishmen, Indians could not be bothered to preserve and maintain their history. So, like in most fields, HFM too has suffered from lack of proper preservation and record keeping. The people who have tried to preserve this valuable legacy have been lone warriors. Unlike cricketing statistics, the available statistics of HFM do not fully cover all the movies. There are several movies whose songs (as well as other details about them) are lost for ever due to our indifferent attitude towards them.
Harmandir Singh “Hamraz” with his untiring lifelong zeal has done a job that should have been done by the HFM industry. But even today, almost entire research and preservation work of HFM is being done by private individuals on their own. The first four volumes of HFGK have been compiled by Mr Harmandir Singh “Hamraaz”, with the fifth volume compiled by Mr Biswanath Chatterji of Nagpur. Other geet kosh like Mukesh Geet Kosh, Lata geet kosh etc have also come up/ coming up and they are entirely the labours of love by private individluals. For instance, Mukesh Geetkosh was compiled by Mr Harish Raghuwanshi, who was also actively involved in HFGK and other compilations.
Thanks to all these compilations, we now have some sort of statistics available which are considerable improvements upon the past where verbal claims constitutes statistics. Now we know for sure that the number of songs sungs by major singers run in thousands and not in tens of thousands as was incorrectly believed in the past.
HFGK gives us the name of (almost) all the movies and that gives us an indication of how many movies there are in all that received censor certificates from 1931 to 1980. Knowing the names of the movies and the mukhda of the songs in these movies are the basic data for HFM statistics.
In this blog, we make use of HFGK to check how many songs various movies are. We use the list of moviewise songs to search for all these songs and discuss them. Covering all the songs of a movie is a cause for celebration in this blog and that is quite justified because it means that we no longer need to search for more songs from the movie and that we can can strike the names of these movies from our list.
Movies with all their songs covered in the blog have a name of their own in this blog. We call such movies as YIPPEED movies. :) This is a word that has been coined in this blog and is as present understood only here. But who knows, one day this word may gain wider currency. :)
The originator of this term, Pradeep Raghunathan recently wondered about the number of movies that we have covered in the blog. It was a good suggestion that we should have a count for YIPPEED movie as well as a count for all the movies covered in the blog. So that suggestion has now been implemented in the blog.
The present count shows 689 YIPPEED movies and 3241 movies in the blog.
To put things in perspective, a total of 5664 movies were released between 1931 to 1980 as per HFGK (give or take a few). A few of songs discussed in the blog are from the decades of 1980s, 90, and later decades as well, but their numbers are considerably lower. So we can say that we in this blog are interested mainly in the songs as mentioned in the five volumes of HFGK. One can say that we are interested in songs of 5664 movies plus songs of unreleased movies, NFS and also some songs from later decades after the golden era of HFM. So we can say that we are looking at discussing songs from around 6000 movies in all.
So, one can say that we are about halfway through our target. We have covered 3241 movies in the blog out of about 6000.
Just like we have YIPPEED movies, we need to discuss songs from movies that have so far not been represented in the blog. There are such movies not only in the earlier decades of 1930s and 1940s, but even in the “recent” decades.
Here is a song from a movie of 1970s that was so far unrepresented in the blog. This movie is “Daraar”(1972). This obscure movie was directed by Ved Rahi for Geeta movies (Private) limited, Bombay. The movie had Baldev Khosa, Rohini, Birbal, Lata Arora, Milan Mehta, Ashavalli, Sushma Sharma, Manju Sharma, Kiran Sharma, Satya Rani, Radha Rani, KUmari Inderjeet, Kumari Devender, Kumari Trilochan, Usha Bakshi, Kumari Rekha, Radheshyam, Kamlakar Date, Baby Amita, Vinayak, Pramod, Ratan Dogra, Ratn Sharma, Rakesh, Gopal etc in it.i
Here is the first song from “Daraar”(1972) to appear in the blog. This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle and Rafi. Kulwant Jani is the lyricist. Music is composed by Sudhir Phadke.
Only the audio of this song is available. One can guess that the song is a “bidaai” song. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the movie as well as on the picturisation of this song.
Lyrics of this song were sent to me by Prakashchandra.
Song-Sapnon ke gaaon mein palkon ki chhaaon mein (Daraar)(1972) Singers-Asha Bhonsle, Rafi, Lyrics-Kulwant Jaani, MD-Sudhir Phadke
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
bhej hi denaa thhaa toh baabul
pyaar diyaa kyun itnaa aa aa
kahin nahin mamtaa kaa saagar
maa ke aanchal jitnaa
chhoot gayeen sakhiyaan
bhar aayeen ankhiyaan
chhoot gayeen sakhiyaan
bhar aayeen ankhiyaan
binti hai meri kahaar
ik pal ruk jaanaa aaa aaa aaa
ik pal ruk jaanaa
jitne aansoon
aaj bahaaye
toone baabul ke aangan mein
main utne hi
phool bharoongaa
sajni tere ae daaman mein
sapnon ke gaaon mein
palkon ki chhaaon mein
chal gori chal us paar
kaahe ab ruk jaanaa aaa aaa
kaahe ab ruk jaanaa
heere moti nahin meri chaahat
pyaar teraa sanam maangti hoon
door karnaa naa kadmon se mujhko
sirf itni kasam maangti hoon
chhoot gayeen sakhiyaan
bhar aayeen ankhiyaan
binti hai meri kahaar
ik pal ruk jaanaa aaa aaa aaa
ik pal ruk jaanaa
jab tak hai jeevan ki dhaaraa
rahegaa apnaa ek kinaaraa
ye bandhan naa toot sakegaa
saath kabhi naa aa chhoot sakegaa
sapnon ke gaaon mein
palkon ki chhaaon mein
chal gori chal us paar
kaahe ab ruk jaanaa
