Sachin Dev Anand

Sachin Dev Burman & Dev Anand

Sachin Dev Burman and Dev Anand. A combination that produced some of the memorable music of Hindi cinema for ages to remember. Burmanda provided music for nearly 90 Hindi movies of which he composed 28 Dev Anand starrers. Almost one-third of Da's musical output went for Dev. The following table gives the filmography of S.D. and Dev. It started with a movie named Vidya in 1948 and ended with Dev's own Chhupa Rustam in 1973.

I have most (24 to be exact) of the CDs of these 28 movies. I have songs of others that I do not have CDs. The only two films for which I do not have any songs are Afsar (1950) and Armaan (1953).

In the next few weeks I will upload these 24 CDs here. Some of these have been uploaded recently but I chose to do so for completeness sake. I will upload these in chronological order based on the above table.

Vidya (1948)

My first album starts with "Vidya," made in 1948. In later years, in 1962, Burman Da Composed for another movie starring Vyjayanti Mala and Manoj Kumar entitled "Dr. Vidya."

Acoustics of songs of "Vidya" are uneven. Nevertheless the songs come out clear. This movie starred Dev with Suraiya, one among several he starred with her in the beginning of his career. He was romantically involved with her for several years during this time. At the brink of their marriage, they were turned down by Suraiya's relations and the marriiage never materialized. Suraiya never married in her life.

Now for the details of the songs from "Vidya" ...

Now for the songs ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Apr 23 2008, 06:17 AM

Baazi (1951)

My second album is "Baazi." This movie was made under Dev's own banner, Nav Ketan. He gave his good friend Guru Dutt his first break as a director of this movie. Guru Dutt also wrote the story of the movie. Famous character actor Balraj Sahni wrote the screenplay. Geeta Dutt, who was made famous by Burmanda when he made her sing "Mera Sundar Sapna Beet Gaya" had her sing in this movie in a break away mold. Her rendering of the song "Suno Gajar Kya Gaaye" still echoes deeply in the depths of heart crevices. On the side, future wife of Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik also starred in this movie.

Here are the details of the movie:



Now for the songs themselves:

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Apr 23 2008, 05:59 AM

Sazaa (1951)

My thid album in this series is "Sazaa." The details of the movie and songs follow. The song "Tum Na Jaane Kis Jahan Mein Kho Gaye" by Lata is exquisite.

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Apr 23 2008, 06:01 AM

Jaal (1952)



The next album is "Jaal." This was another movie directed by Guru Dutt in which Dev plays a negative role. Raj Khosla, the future director-to-be, appeared in a small role in the movie. The song that still reverberates with romatic touch is the one sung by Hemant Kumar (solo as well as duet) "Ye Raat Ye Chandni Phir Kahan."
The extended version of this song is courtesy of the Forum members. Now for the details and songs:

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Apr 23 2008, 06:07 AM

Now here are the rest of the songs from the album "Jaal":

Excellent job.
Highly appriciated.
But a request please go slow as many of us have to maintain the ratio.
Will request you to upload three movies/albums per week.
Also if possible try to rip the songs at 128Kbps.
Hope you will not mind these suggestions.


Rgds
Aniket

This post has been edited by Aniket Mehta: Apr 15 2008, 09:08 AM

Wonderful..really appreciate it..

thanks

AFAIK, 'tum naa jaane' by Lata was penned by Sahir Ludhianvi (his first for a film).

Could you please cross check and confirm.

Regards
Sukesh

This post has been edited by Sukesh Hoogan: Apr 17 2008, 01:49 AM

Wow Wow Wow, Keep Rocking

Aniketji,

Thanks for the nice complements.

Unfortunately, I will be able to cater for only one of your two requests. I can upload these albums, say every other day. However to go back and prepare all these at 128 Kbps is going to take quite a bit of my time. I have aready prepared all albums for upload and ready to go. The only reason I stopped from doing so is at your suggestion. Please forgive me if I don't want to spend all that time all over again to rip these songs at a lower bit rate. I hope you do understand.

Thanks,
Swarapriya

Taxi Driver (1954)





My next album is "Taxi Driver." This movie was made by Dev's own Nav Ketan banner. It also starred Kalpana Kartik. This was the second movie Dev's older brother Chetan Anand directed for Dev. The first movie was "Afsar." Both "Afsar" and "Taxi Driver" were huge hits when they were released. The screenplay for "Taxi Driver" was written by Chetan Anand and younger briother Vijay Anand. Vijay was only 20 when he wrote the screenplay. The story was credited to Uma Anand. Any relation to Dev, anyone knows?

This movie was almost a family affair. During the filming of this movie, when they were taking lunch break betwen takes, Kalpana and Dev got married right on the sets. Finally the romance between Kalpana and Dev culminated into marriage.

The music of "Taxi Driver" was a great success. Talat's rendering of "Jaaye to jaaye kahan" is still a heartwarming song after these many years.

When he was going through a very lean period in his career, Dev reamde this movie in 1976 with Hema Malini as his heroine. The movie was Jaaneman. It was once again directed by Chetan Anand. This time the music was provided by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. The movie enjoyed only a moderate success.

Now for the details of the movie followed by all the songs. The extended version of the song "Aye Meri Zindagi" is by the courtesy of the Forum members.

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Apr 23 2008, 06:05 AM

Accepted.
Move forward.
and thanks a lot for all these albums.




Rgds
Aniket

Swarapriya,

Thanks a lot for the Vidya album.

Exon

Thank you very much Swarapriya for Vidya Album

Lakshmi

House No. 44 (1955)

This was the first movie Dev was acting with Kalpana after they got married during the shooting of "Taxi Driver." This album has some excellent songs. The combination of SD-Sahir-Dev Anand continue to churn out beautiful hit after hit. Both solos by Hemant Kumar are heart rendering. Especially the song "Teri Duniya Mein" was sung with so much feeling by Hemantji. The lyrics penned by Sahir go back to his roots as a restless writer with a message to give to this world. The combination of Sahir and SD in few years were yet to achieve pinnacle with Guru Dutt's landmark movie "Pyaasa" and you can see the seeds sowed all over in "Teri Duniya Mein" song.

Another beautiful composition from this movie is the song so beautifully done by Lataji "Phaili Hui Hai Sapnon Ki Baahen." There is so much sweetness in this song that you feel like traveling to a far away land with eyes closed, both of your hands extended enjoying every bit of the richness of the loveliness surrounding you and the experience of it.

The extended version of the "Teri Duniya" is by the courtesy of the Forum membership.

Now for the details and the songs ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Apr 23 2008, 06:19 AM