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

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(Shailendra) Janwar (1965)

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

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?show...mp;#entry752668

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(Anand Bakshi) Ek Bechara (1972)

There is not much to write about this movie. This was one of the early pictures of both Rekha and Vinod Khanna. Rekha looked plump and was playing a routine role as the leading lady. Khanna in a supporting role was villain. The movie’s music, lyrics, and songs were all a total disappointment. The only thing worth remembering is Pran’s fine performance. He once again proved why he was such a great actor and why he endured the fame and filmdom for so long.

The songs, all except for one, were taken from a VCD. Their quality is adequate but I have decided to upload all of them at a lower bit rate. Please note that the song “Ho Naina” has a skip at 6:57. Here are the songs…

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(Hasrat Jaipuri) An Evening in Paris (1967)

Shakti Samanta, who produced and directed this film, brought back the team of Sharmila & Shammi of his earlier hit “Kashmir Ki Kali (1961)” for this film. Sharmila was introduced to Hindi audience in “Kali”. In this movie she played twins. Sharmila looked stunningly lovely. She looked gorgeous in anything she wore, like sarees, skirts, and bikinis. Shammi looked a bit older and beginning to show signs of weight problem. Nevertheless he was his usual engaging self.

The movie treads the familiar path and offers nothing new. But it is a feast to watch all the exotic locations outside of India. Another great fun about the movie was its music and songs. There are plenty of them. Shankar & Jaikishan were at the helm of music department. One can see they were having a ball doing it. Even the background music is very rich and pleasing to ears.

If you love Rafi Saab, you are in for a treat here. He sang six solos and a beautiful duet with Asha. All songs were chartbusters when the movie was released. My favorite is that mellifluous magic rendered by Asha and Rafi Saab in the song “Raat Ke Humsafar”. Even with repeated listening one can never get enough of it.

Dattaram was the assistant music director.

I am uploading all songs from the film plus several music clips in the first two posts. The third post contains Sonu Nigam’s version songs of some of Rafi Saab’s solos from the film. With so many beautiful songs, the music of the film provided plenty of impetus for amateur musicians to play the tunes on their favorite instruments. The last three posts contain some of these instrumentals.

Here are the songs in the first post from this beautiful album...

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Concluding Songs from "An Evening in Paris (1967)"...

Here are the rest of the songs and a few music clips from this popular musical...

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Few Version Songs of "An Evening in Paris (1967)"...

Here are a few version songs of Rafi Saab's songs from the film by Sonu Nigam...

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Few Instrumentals of Songs from "An Evening in Paris (1967)"...

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

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Few More Instrumentals of Songs from "An Evening in Paris (1967)"...

Here are a few more instrumentals of the songs from the film...

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Additional Instrumentals of Songs from "An Evening in Paris (1967)"...

Here are some more instrumentals of the songs from the film...

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(Majrooh) Buddha Mil Gaya (1971)

This movie, a comedy cum murder mystery, was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. With him at the helm I expected a lot. Unfortunately I was disappointed. The problem with the movie was that it was not sure if it wants to be a comedy or a mystery. It ended up as neither. Especially nearly last 30 minutes of the movie was simply mayhem which was unexpected with Hrishida handling it.

My disappointment was some what overcome by one of the most beautiful musical movie compositions by RD. It is simply amazing to appreciate his understanding of the range of versatility and the depth of the music he possessed. There are only five songs in the film. But four of them are simply superb. Lataji’s song “Jiya Naa Mora” is simply a classic. Talking about classic, Manna’s great rendition of “Aayo Kahaan Se” is a class in itself. He was joined by the actress Archana for a few seconds near the end of the song. Then the duet by Asha and Kishoreda is like top of the pop. But the song which stole the show, one of my all-time favorites of Kishoreda, is “Raat Kali”. Majrooh Saab once again delivered powerful lyrics for these songs.

The song “Raat Kali” appeared twice in the film. The first time only “Mukhda”. The second time the complete song appeared. I am uploading only the second one. A note about the song “Aayo Kahaan Se”. This song appeared piecemeal three times in the film, each different from others. I am uploading all three here. But in the DVD I saw the film, these three did not cover the entire song. However, many CD versions carry the full version. I am uploading the full version also here.

With so many popular songs, it gave a field day for amateur musicians practice them on their favorite instruments. I am uploading several of them here.

All in all there are five posts. First two posts contain all songs from the film. The second post also contains a few specials. The next three posts contain various instrumentals. Please note that instrumentals in Post 4 are all from various CD collections but others are from videos.

Here are these beautiful songs in the first post…

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Concluding Songs from "Buddha Mil Gaya (1971)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this film and a few specials about these songs...

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Few Instrumentals from "Buddha Mil Gaya (1971)"...

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

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Few More Instrumentals from "Buddha Mil Gaya (1971)"...

Here are a few more instrumentals of the songs from the film, all from various CDs...

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Concluding Instrumentals from "Buddha Mil Gaya (1971)"...

Here is the final set of instrumentals of the song "Raat Kali" from the film...

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(Rajinder Krishan) Gauri (1968)

This movie was a remake of the 1965 Tamil hit “Shanti”. This family drama was so bad that it should have been never remade in Hindi. The story revolves around Nutan, who played the title character, portraying a noble and faithful “Bharat Naari” in spite of all the hardships she faces. It also starred Mumtaz opposite Sunil Dutt which turned out to be a mismatch with Dutt looking too old for spritely Mumtaz. But again Mumtaz had hardly any role.

In otherwise these drab proceedings couple of songs stand out. Lataji’s “Mor Bole” which goes occasionally “besur” when the sound is at higher pitch and Asha’s lovely “Baaj Ri”. It seems like with Rajinder Krishan writing lyrics, Ravi composing songs, every southern movie they collaborated has a song similar to “Log Toh”. Incidentally, I have in my songs library an abbreviated version of this song that apparently was sung by Ravi himself. I am not uploading it here for two reasons. First, the audio is very bad. Second, even though the singer is labelled as Ravi, it does not sound like him. Ravi has sang in few films, may be around 10. Some of these include “Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka (1975)”, “Lagan (1955)”, “Khamosh Nigahen (1986)” and others. The voice of these songs and that in “Gauri”, in my opinion, do not match.

Here are the songs from the film…

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(Shailendra) Poonam ki Raat (1965)

Kishore Sahu made a few good movies like “Mayur Pankh (1954)”, “Hamlet (1954)”, “Dil Apna aur Preet Parai (1960)”, “Grahasti (1963)” etc. He also made many bad ones. Take for example this movie. Instead of great music by Salilda, the movie had not much going for it. For this film Sahuji might have taken too many responsibilities. He wrote its story, screenplay, dialogues, produced and directed. He also played a key role in the film. He is famous for introducing new talent. One of his finds was late actress Bina Rai in the 1951 film “Kali Ghata”. In this film he introduced several new faces. The two leading ladies of the film, Nandini and Kumud Chhugani were couple of these. He also introduced two or three other actors in supporting roles. Apart from Chhugani who appeared in few movies none of them survived in the film field.

This movie is remembered for its beautiful songs. Almost all songs became popular. Of course Lataji’s haunting melody “Saathi Re” takes the cake. Absolutely riveting. Interestingly Salilda also composed the song “Aa Jaa Re Pardesi”, another haunting melody by Lataji, for late Bimal Roy’s 1958 hit “Madhumati”.

I am uploading all songs and a couple of instrumentals in two back-to-back posts. Here are the songs in the first post…