Foot Tapping & Heart Stopping Op, The King of Rhythm Options

[swarapriya]

Foot Tapping & Heart Stopping O.P.

The King of Rhythm

After a great night’s rest, you wake up one fine morning and start sipping a cup of fresh brewed coffee admiring the eastern skies reddened with beautiful sunrise. Then all of a sudden you hear a distant radio playing a familiar tune permeating the tranquility of the quiet morning. Did your heart flutter? Did you miss a beat or two? Then perhaps you were listening to a song carried through the gentle morning breeze composed by the King of Rhythm, O.P. Nayyar Saab. That music, like the beautiful morning you are enjoying, lifts your spirits even further up. For that moment you forget all of the life miseries and transcend in the joy the song provides shelter for. Now, that is the power of moving music!

There is some definite magic in the O.P. style of music. It is as stylish as the man himself. It is as interesting as the genius behind the music. It is as intoxicating as the distinctly sweet voice of Geetaji or beautifully seductive voice of Ashaji or the unique vocals of Shamshadji. The clip-clop sounds with the fusion of folk music and the modern instruments make his music a standout.

OP Saab provided countless number of some of the most memorable and hummable tunes ever. In a span of 42 plus years, he composed music for 54 movies. Except for one or two in the beginning of his career and one or two at the tail end of his career, he delivered one hit after another hit. This was one continuous hit parade ever put on display. Based on the premise to make melodious music, he created new sounds. He experimented by juxtaposing sounds of various instruments in coming up with some of the most melodious and memorable tunes ever composed in Hindi film industry.

OP by his own admission was an illiterate in music. He couldn’t read the music notations or the alphabets of music. Yet this “handicap� must have given him a new perspective of how an everlasting melody should be created. Sometimes literacy can impede in growth by discouraging to try experiments that create strange new sounds. Well aware of his own limitations, OP Saab still created many beautiful new sounds through the tunes.

I have been fond of OP’s music ever since I started losing myself in good music and the rich lyrics the poets seems to generally endow them with. Enthusiastically I have been collecting his albums over the years. Currently I have in my possession 32 CDs. That represents 60% of his films. I also have most of other songs from his other movies obtained from various sources including some from different CDs. In the coming weeks I would like to share with you the music of OP Saab from the CDs I own. The filmography of these CDs is shown in the following table.

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Aug 5 2008, 07:00 PM

[swarapriya]

Thanks SP for the songs ...

You are welcome Seshadri. Cheers.

[swarapriya]

Thanks!! You are amazing!! I also never heard of this film..Thanks again!!

You are welcome. And thanks for the kind words. Cheers Rakesh.

[swarapriya]

(Kishore) Chham Chhama Chham (1952)

I am re-uploading these songs on request...

This was O.P. Nayyar’s second film as a fulltime music director. Earlier he had composed a couple of instrumentals for “Kaneez” in 1949. But its music directors were Hansraj Behl and Ghulam Haider. His first movie as a fulltime music director was “Aasman”. It was also released in 1952 but before this film.

Unfortunately the quality of these songs is really bad. Therefore I am uploading them at a lower bit rate. A note on the song, “Mila Naina Mila”. This is actually a duet where Kishore’s portion is all dialogues. These dialogues in the song are very noisy and unintelligible. If you remove them, only Asha’s song remains that is really nice by itself. I am uploading this song with and without dialogues.

It appears like that I may be missing a couple more songs. These are shown in red italics in the table below. If anyone of you have these, please share with rest of us. Thanks.

Here are the songs I have from this film…

[swarapriya]

Raagini (1958)

Rakhan directed this film from his own story and screenplay for the co-producer and actor Ashok Kumar. Rakhan directed only another movie, “Kalpana” in 1960, once again for Ashok Kumar.

Dadamoni stayed mostly in the background and offered his brother Kishoreda and Padmini take the center stage of the film. Padmini’s dances and Kishoreda’s and other songs of the film form the nucleus of the film.

Vinod Mehra made his debut as a child actor in this film playing young Kishore Kumar.

O.P. Nayyar was in exceptionally top form here. This is one of his superior efforts. Almost all songs from the film became super hits. OP even had a few songs composed in classical style. On the top of it, Rafi Saab had a great song in “Mann Mora” lip synching for Kishoreda, another one composed in classical vein.

I am uploading all the songs from the film in two back-to-back posts. Here are the songs in the first post…

[swarapriya]

Concluding Songs from "Raagini (1958)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this beautiful album...

[swarapriya]

Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon (1963)

All songs from this hit musical, some specials, and a few instrumentals are uploaded in four back-to-back posts in the "Shair aur Sargam" thread in the "Sangeet ke Sitarey" directory. These are available starting at the following location...

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...mp;#entry750738

[swarapriya]

Shrimanji (1968)

The very same year, 1968, OP gave such unforgettable music for the film "Humsaya", also gave music to this dud. One of the noteworthy contributions of OP was to have at least one or two catchy songs even otherwise a bad "B" grade movie. But this may be the first and probably the only time he simply could not deliver it. Overall a very disappointing effort from OP.

I am uploading songs from this film on request...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Feb 27 2018, 12:26 AM

[Salil]

Shrimanji (1968)

The very same year, 1968, OP gave such unforgettable music for the film "Humsaya", also gave music to this dud. One of the noteworthy contributions of OP was to have at least one or two catchy songs even otherwise a bad "B" grade movie. But this may be the first and probably the only time he simply could not deliver it. Overall a very disappointing effort from OP.

I am uploading songs from this film on request...

THANKS FOR UPLOADING SUCH RARE SONGS ..