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[Harishankar]

''O Yaad Aane Lagi''

Movie - Daman

Music - K.Dutta

Does anybody have the following songs of Daman? If so, please, please upload ...

(1) Tirulilla tirulilla tirulilla la - Lata
(2) Chakori ka chanda se pyar - Lata
(3) Yeh ruki ruki hawaayen - Asha & Lata
(4) Ashkon se likhi taqdeer meri - Lata

Hari

[Pradeep]

Sorry Hari. I don't have any of those you've listed other than one that Sajdah uploaded.

Listening to this song after a long time.. from Khoj.. Chanda Ka Dil

Chanda Ka Dil
Film: Khoj
Year: 1953
Music: Nisar Bazmi
Lyrics: Raja Mehndi
Format: mp3
Duration: 3.02 mins
Bitrate: 128kbit 44100Hz Joint Stereo.

[SAJDAH]

Sajdah Ji,

Thanks for Dil Me Ek Jaan-e-Tamanna.
Though it is 16 Kb per second, it is much clearer than many 128/256 and even 350 Kb s I keep experiencing on HF! Besides, I could d/l it in less than a minute. I just do not understand this fuss/concept that higher the Kb per second, the clearer is the song. At least, not on HF.

Venkat

Venkat ji, i am beholden to you for being brave enough to acknowledge this.

Like you i prefer songs which are of low bitrate's for my personal listening - you are absolutely right, they are not just "clearer" as you said - they do sound closer to what they sound on vinyl.

This particular song from Benazir, i know i have one with a higher bitrate. But searching for it, would have taken up a lot of time which i was then short of and since i loved the sound of this one i chose to upload it.
And i am very glad that i did so.
For if i hadn't i would never have known how you felt about this 'issue'.

I've come across a lot of ugly comments regarding 16kbps songs on HF ( not on our Rafi sahab forum, and thank goodness for that ! ) in recent times - some even referred to such songs as "trash" !

Well, it's not my place to correct them - i personally would never use such language even for the 'revivals' !

I am not at all ashamed to confess that i absolutely love the sound of some of the 16kbps songs. They actually make you want to listen to them again and again.

That to me is the test of a good recording - no matter how many higher bitrates' the songs are if they fail to compel you to play it all over again, then nothing has been accomplished.

I am in such a fix - It's become really difficult to manage two of most songs, one the 16kbps for myself and the 128 and higher for uploading only ( I only rarely listen to them ! ).

What i won't do is get rid of the "trash" - i would gladly trade all my 128 / 256kbps and higher songs for the other sort any time without any regrets whatsoever.

If i say more it's sure to snowball into yet another 'controversy' so i'll hold my peace for now.

Regards

SAJDAH

Try this for size...

Thank you ever so much.

[SAJDAH]

Aadil sahab - Sajdah behn is what i am !

That's what I tried to call Sajdah earlier..."behn".....apparently "someone" () (i.e the owner of this great thread) told me they don't look like a behn or are far from it

lol I guess it was a mix-up

Prince Ali - what an honour to hear from you. Did i keep you waiting too long ? I sincerely hope not.

You sound really desperate to make me your 'behn' - why ? If you recall, i've declined that honour once before and i told you the reasons.
Let me see - shall i go through them yet again ?
The first - what's the sister of a 'prince' called ? A Princess - right ?

Princess Sajdah - now that doesn't seem right at all to me. Something's very wrong with that.
For though it is true, without doubt that i would most certainly look the part - playing the part is a totally different matter.
The reason being i am too much of a free spirit.

That's my first reason.

Now for the second and the real one.

I would much rather you treat me like your behn rather than call me one - if that's acceptable to you.
Wouldn't that be best ?

Oh, and just for the record - 'behn' and 'behnji' are sometimes not the same - at least in the Northern parts of India.
The first has an innocuous enough meaning - the second doesn't.

I'll tell you what, the day i belong to the second category - you can be the first to call me by that term and i promise not to take offence either.

That will be a looooooooooooooooong wait for you - unfortunately.
( Fortunately ? )

SAJDAH

[SAJDAH]

"Sab Jawan Sab Haseen"

Movie - Main Suhagan Hoon

Music - Lacchiram

[SAJDAH]

"Chahe Kismat Humko"

Movie - Neelampari

Music - Khurshid Anwar

[SAJDAH]

"Dil Leke Dil Diya Hai"

Movie - Stage

Music - Husnlal Bhagatram

[SAJDAH]

"Aayi Baharon Ki Shaam"

Movie - Wapas

Music - Laxmikant Pyarelal

Especially this one !

[SAJDAH]

Listening to this song after a long time.. from Khoj.. Chanda Ka Dil

Chanda Ka Dil
Film: Khoj
Year: 1953
Music: Nisar Bazmi

"Chanda Ka Dil" is a very beautiful composition indeed, but then all of Nisar Bazmi's melodies are great. At least i think so.

Take this one - I am sure that even someone with two left feet would be compelled to shake a leg, so persuasive is the beat ! Who knows maybe the lucky bloke might even be rewarded with an encore

"Teri Kasam O Dilruba"

Movie - Shola Joh Badhke

Penned by - Saba Afghani ( He of the famous ghazal "Yun Bekhudi Se Kaam Liya" )

Music - Nisar Bazmi

This composer who migrated to Pakistan i believe in 1962, finally got the due he rightfully deserved there. The unforgettable score for Ahmed Faraz's ''Ranjish Hi Sahi" is just one instance of the sheer genius of this composer.

And whenever the two - Nisar Bazmi and Saba Afghani got together, they produced soulful music - Halla Gulla is an example.

And now for this wild dance number from Shola Joh Badhke, another of comedian Bhagwan Dada's freaky B grade flop comedies'.

Oh, i forgot to mention that i love Rafi sahab's voice in this song - it is simply sizzzzzzzzzzzling. And that's just an understatement.

The song -

[SAJDAH]

"Ankhon Pe Bharosa Mat Kar"

Movie - Detective

Music - Mukul Roy (One of the two noted composer brothers' of Geeta ji - the other being Kanu Roy )

[princeali]

Prince Ali - what an honour to hear from you. Did i keep you waiting too long ? I sincerely hope not.

You sound really desperate to make me your 'behn' - why ? If you recall, i've declined that honour once before and i told you the reasons.
Let me see - shall i go through them yet again ?
The first - what's the sister of a 'prince' called ? A Princess - right ?

Princess Sajdah - now that doesn't seem right at all to me. Something's very wrong with that.
For though it is true, without doubt that i would most certainly look the part - playing the part is a totally different matter.
The reason being i am too much of a free spirit.

That's my first reason.

Now for the second and the real one.

I would much rather you treat me like your behn rather than call me one - if that's acceptable to you.
Wouldn't that be best ?

Oh, and just for the record - 'behn' and 'behnji' are sometimes not the same - at least in the Northern parts of India.
The first has an innocuous enough meaning - the second doesn't.

I'll tell you what, the day i belong to the second category - you can be the first to call me by that term and i promise not to take offence either.

That will be a looooooooooooooooong wait for you - unfortunately.
( Fortunately ? )

SAJDAH

It's nothing to do with being desperate to call you or anyone anything (in this case 'behn'), in my last post I was just pointing out (in a kidding way) that what I had addressed you earlier was similar to what you had told someone else to address you, but in my case I beleive you may have taken it a different way (from what I meant), and it was a mixup (i.e behen-ji), I should have worded it differently. .

On this forum I address other members as 'bhai', which is why I mentioned 'behn' for you, as simple as that, no confusion or mix up was intended and ofcourse its fine by me that you would prefer me not addresing you this way, and I did not mean for you to take any offence on anything either.

Hope this clears everything up.

[venkat]

Sajdah Ji,

Thanks for the nice, bhoole-bisre, "Teri Kasam O Dilruba' song. Your 'Detective' and 'Main Suhagan Hoon' songs are also very nice, but I have them with me.

I am not so pretentious as to think that I know the quality of all the songs in your thread. I just do not seem to know quite a few of them. If I take the pains to d/l all of them, I may find some in the category of known nice songs which I could not recognise before d/l, some new songs for me, but very nice on hearing and some new songs for me, but not so nice for my ear.

Probably, you can help by giving your own comments on each of your uploads. This will help us decide. Like the recommendation you gave on this Shola Jo Bhadke song.

Regards,

Venkat

[SAJDAH]

"Tere Hum O Sanam"

Movie - Bachpan

Music - Sardar Malik

Distinctly Old World-ish ( In the best possible way ! ) - both the feelings and the melody - that's why i love it. Sends you into a reverie every time you hear it.

[SAJDAH]

Sajdah Ji,

Thanks for the nice, bhoole-bisre, "Teri Kasam O Dilruba' song. Your 'Detective' and 'Main Suhagan Hoon' songs are also very nice, but I have them with me.

I am not so pretentious as to think that I know the quality of all the songs in your thread. I just do not seem to know quite a few of them. If I take the pains to d/l all of them, I may find some in the category of known nice songs which I could not recognise before d/l, some new songs for me, but very nice on hearing and some new songs for me, but not so nice for my ear.

Probably, you can help by giving your own comments on each of your uploads. This will help us decide. Like the recommendation you gave on this Shola Jo Bhadke song.

Regards,

Venkat

I promise to do that Venkat ji. And I am honoured that you feel I could be of any help that way.

Thank you.

Regards

SAJDAH

[SAJDAH]

"Tere Hum O Sanam"

Movie - Bachpan

Music - Sardar Malik

Distinctly Old World-ish ( In the best possible way ! ) - both the feelings and the melody - that's why i love it. Sends you into a reverie every time you hear it.

I forgot to add that the lines of this song oddly enough reminds me of a lovely sad duet in the voice of Kishore da and Lata Mangeshkar from the movie Fareb composed by Anil Biswas and which is a great favourite of mine.

The song - “Aa Muhobbat Ki Basti Basayenge Hum / Dekh Dharti Se Aakash Hai Kitni Door”.

Wonder why bridging this Dharti / Akash, Sooraj / Zarra thing was so much of an obsession with the poets of yore. It certainly wouldn’t work in today’s times, not with the way we define our values / principles – that is if we have any to be proud of.

A guilty confession to make – I love nearly all of Anil da’s compositions.
The ones he composed for his wife Meena Kapoor ( particularly the ghazals ) as well as the ones sung by Talat sahab and Lata are some of my staple favourites – I can’t imagine not listening to them even once a day. That should say how much this composer’s music appeals to me.

Which makes me all the more sadder to think that he wasn’t overly fond of Rafi sahab’s style of singing or his voice.

But then the loss if any, was his and his alone.

SAJDAH