Shair Aur Sargam, Songs From Movies of 7 Great Lyricists Options

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(Anand Bakshi) Geet (1970)

Most of the characters in the movie were introduced in the first 15 minutes into the movie. One can immediately tell what the story is going to be. The whole movie feels like annoyingly contrived, very pale, and is simply predictable. Yet the movie was surprisingly a huge hit. The only reason I can think of is its outstanding music.

Kalyanji & Anandji provide one of the best music of their career. They employ three lyricists for the songs. All of them come through in flying colors. All songs are very rich in lyrics helping the mood of the film and its beautiful music.

Several songs are repeated throughout the film. For example, the duet version of “Mere Mitwa” appears three times in the movie. The second and third time the song contains only the mukhda that is not different from the first one. But there is different music setting these other two versions take place in. I am uploading all three versions in spite of the repetition.

I am uploading all songs and a few instrumentals in three back-to-back posts. Here is the first set of songs…

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Continuing Songs from "Geet (1970)"...

Here are more songs from this musical...

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Concluding Songs from "Geet (1970)"...

Here are few instrumentals and others related to the songs from this film...

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(Hasrat Jaipuri) Asli-Naqli (1962)

This simple story of discovering ones own true personal identity was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The movie has the regular drama but the show stealer was its music. Shankar & Jaikishan composed songs for this film that were all huge hits. S&J were assisted by Dattaram and Sebastian. The appeal of Sadhana's innocent looking charm with Dev's usual savvy also helped the movie to become a modest success.

I am uploading songs from this film in four back-to-back posts. The first post contains all songs from the film. The second post contains some of the musical clips from the film and a few version songs. The third post contains several instrumentals of the popular song “Tera Mera Pyaar Amar”. Finally, the fourth and the last post contains instrumentals of another popular song, “Tujhe Jeevan Ki Dor Se”.

Here are the songs in the first post...

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Songs from "Asli-Naqli (1962)" Continued...

Here are a few music clips from the film and some version songs...

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"Asli-Naqli (1962)" Instrumentals

Here are a few instrumentals of the song "Tera Mera Pyaar" from this film...

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Concluding Instrumentals of "Asli-Naqli (1962)"...

Here are a few instrumentals of the song "Tujhe Jeevan Ki" from "Asli-Naqli"...

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(Majrooh) Ishaara (1964)

Laxmikant & Pyarelal were assistant music directors for this film that had music composed by Kalyanji & Anandji. L&P already made their name as independent music directors after their stunning debut with the 1963 film “Parasmani”. In 1964, the same year this movie “Ishaara” was released, they composed music for the award winning “Dosti”. Even though a couple of songs from this film were okay, none of them leave an impression so that you can remember them for a while. The movie had a very familiar plot and also is easily forgotten.

Here are the songs from this film…

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(Rajinder Krishan) Maa Baap (1960)

This is yet another familiar familial drama that does not make any sense. The story revolves around hapless parents and their one dimensional children; either they are really good or they are obscenely bad. There is no novelty in the story and the score by Chitraguptji is also so so.

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(Shailendra) Roop ki Rani Choron ka Raja (1961)

Songs from this film were uploaded recently in this very thread. They are available starting at the following location...

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...658&st=1526

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(Anand Bakshi) Himmat (1970)

This movie came from the people who gave the 1967 surprising hit “Farz”. However, there is not much to write about this film. It deals with hackneyed subject where all the principle actors go along without showing much interest in the proceedings. Even LP’s songs do not offer anything new. Ditto Bakshi Saab’s lyrics.

Here are the songs from this film…

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(Hasrat Jaipuri) Dil Tera Deewana (1962)

This film was a remake of the 1958 Tamil comedy hit “Sabash Meena”. The Hindi film, like its Tamil predecessor, was dominated by the second hero of the film, in this case Mahmood. He won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor that year.

The movie half way through is lots of fun but in the second half it runs out of steam and gets even boring. The music with S&J at the helm, ably assisted by Dattaram & Sebastian, had many hits. The duet by Asha and Rafi Saab could have been a great one but for the too many intermittent interruptions of donkey braying. Thanks to the music and first half of fun and lovely Mala Sinha the movie became a hit.

This film was shot in black and white. A couple of years ago the Ultra DVD Company released a colorized version of this film. I am not certain whether this version was ever showed in theaters, like the colorized version of “Mughal-E-Azam”. I have both versions of the DVDs of the movie and they both are by Ultra. Also, they are identical in every respect. Sometimes the colorized versions of original B &W movies do not appear that good, but in this case the colors do not look that bad.

I am uploading all songs from the film, a few version songs, and some instrumentals in three back-to-back posts. Here are the songs in the first post…

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Concluding Songs from "Dil Tera Deewana (1962)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this film...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Aug 26 2016, 10:11 PM

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A Few Instrumentals of the Songs from "Dil Tera Deewana (1962)"...

Here are a few instrumentals of some of the popular songs from the film...

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(Majrooh) Samson (1964)

This Mumtaz-Dara Singh starrer also had Ameeta and Feroze Khan in important roles. As in any typical Dara’s movies, he shows his might in doing the right things. There are only five songs in the movie but three of them are pretty to listen to. All but one song was picturized on Ameeta. The other song, “Poochho Na”, a fine one, was a qawwali starring then Qawwali Queen, Shakeela Bano Bhopali. Lata’s solo “Khuda Kare” is another good song. But the standout song of the album is Asha’s stirring rendition of “Teri Deed Se”. An absolute beauty.

Here are these and other songs from this film…