Sahir & Shairi, Films of Sahir Ludhianvi Options

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Dhund (1973)

Here are the songs from this beautiful album...

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Joshila (1973)

I am uploading songs from this album in two back-to-back post. Here are the songs in the first post...

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Concluding Songs from "Joshila (1973)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this album including an instrumental of "Kiska Rasta" on harmonica, taken from You Tube...

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Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka (1975)

Here are the songs from this fine album where some songs are due to the courtesy of the Forum members...

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Zameer (1975)

Here are the songs from this album...

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Kabhi Kabhie (1976)

The story of this film is credited to Pamela Chopra, wife of Yash Chopra (producer and director of this film), but its inspiration was a poem penned by Sahir Saab, who wrote beautiful lyrics for this movie. Yash collaborated with Sahir in many movies. These include “Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969)”, “Daag (1973)”, “Deewar (1975)”, “Dharmaputra (1971)”, “Dhool Ka Phool (1959)”, “Joshila (1973)”, “Kaala Patthar (1979)”, “Kabhi Kabhie (1976)”, “Noorie (1979)”, “Trishul (1978)”, and “Waqt (1965)”. Most of these were huge hits.

The film’s story got readied during 1973 when Yash was making “Daag (1972)” in which Rakhee was a costar. Chopra had a tentative agreement from Rakhee to appear in the planned production of “Kabhi Kabhie”. But in the three years from the time she agreed to appear in the movie until the movie was ready to go into production, Rakhee got married to the famous poet, producer, and director Gulzarji. It was Gulzarji’s wish to have Rakhee retire from the films altogether and therefore he wanted her not to appear in “Kabhi Kabhie”. It took all the persuasion form Yash to convince Gulzar Saab to let Rakhee be allowed to appear in the film. Yash is a very powerful and influential Mumbai film personality, and that left Gulzarji no choice but eventually to relent.

This film was one of the last films to be shot in beautiful Kashmir. The scenic splendor of the natural beauty of the valley adds another dimension to the movie.

But this film belonged to the music director Khayyamji and the lyricist Sahir Saab. If in “Phir Subah Hogi (1958)” they combined their talents to create songs of pathos, dejection, despair, delusion, and eventual hope, in this film it was all about love and laughter. The poet just lets the imagination fly composing very beautiful and youthful songs. Sahir and Khayyam worked in less than 10 movies (six I know of) and of them three were for Yash.

Most of the songs from “Kabhi Kabhie” became very popular with standouts being both versions of the title track. Also, both versions of the solos by Mukeshji are simply outstanding. Lata adds a couple of beautiful solos of her own to the list. Then there are songs by Kishoreda, a solo and two duets to complete the list.

“Kabhi Kabhie” was quite a departure for Amitabh who for the first time exhibited a romantic side as part of his histrionics. Most of Amitabh’s previous successes as a hero usually revolved around the image of an angry young man.

The film was nominated for nine Filmfare awards in various categories. It walked away with four; for the Best Music (Khayyam), the Best Lyrics (Sahir Ludhianvi), the Best Male Playback Singer (Mukesh), and the Best Screenplay (Sagar Sarhadi).

I am uploading all songs and some specials in three back-to-back posts. One of the specials in the first post is the song “Kabhi Kabhi” with a beautiful introduction by Yash Chopra. Yashji here regrets for not utilizing talents of Mukeshji more. This is taken from the album “Legends: Mukesh - The Soulful Voice (CD 5)”.

Here is a description of the songs in the first post and the songs themselves …

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Continuing Songs from "Kabhi Kabhie (1976)"...

Here are some more literary rich beautiful songs of this film...

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Concluding Songs from "Kabhi Kabhie (1976)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this hit musical...

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Laila Majnu (1976)

The ancient tale of doomed lovers has been told often times. But this time, the lead players Rishi Kapoor and Ranjeeta, who made her debut with this film, make it more believable. Incidentally, Rishi’s uncle, Shammi Kapoor, himself played early in his career as Majnu in 1953 in the movie of the same title.

Apart from Rishi’s performance, some of the best things going for this movie were its music, songs, and lyrics by Sahir Saab. This was to be a glorious chapter in the music director Madan Mohanji’s life. But alas, he passed away before completing his assignment. Jaidev took over for him and did a magnificent job. I am not sure the breakdown of the songs composer-wise. If anyone has this information, please kindly share.

I am uploading these songs in three back-to-back posts. The first two posts contain songs from an original soundtrack album. The third post contains extended versions of some songs.

Here is a description of the songs in the first post and the songs themselves…

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jul 18 2011, 01:21 PM

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Continuing Songs from "Laila Majnu (1976)"...

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

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jul 18 2011, 01:23 PM

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Concluding Songs from "Laila Majnu (1976)"...

Here are some of the extended version songs from this film...

[surhall]

sangeet ka safar

thanks u/l all songs

you have lyricist Sahir Saab. have songs in pakistani movie ??

dhall

[swarapriya]

sangeet ka safar

thanks u/l all songs

you have lyricist Sahir Saab. have songs in pakistani movie ??

dhall

Dhallji,

You're very welcome. Unfortunately, I don't have any music from Pakistani films that I can share. Sorry about that.

Cheers,
S

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Amaanat (1977)

I am uploading below songs from this film from an original soundtrack album...

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Trishul (1978)

Yash Chopra who made the sensational "Deewaar" in 1975 also made this hit movie. For me the only good thing about this popular film was its music by Khayyam Saab. Sahirji wrote beautiful lyrics to several catchy tunes composed by Khayyam Saab. One of our great singers, Yesudas, joins Kishoreda and others in performing several of these songs.

Here are the songs from this film from an original soundtrack album...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jul 31 2011, 11:47 PM