Umr Jalwon mein basar ho,ye zaroori to nahin,
Har shab-e-gham ki sahar ho,ye zaroori to nahin

Chashm-e-saqi se piyo,ya lab-e-sagar se piyo,
Be khudi aathon pahar ho,ye zaroori to nahin

Neend to dard ke bistar pe bhi aa sakti hai,
unki aagosh mein sar ho,ye zaroori to nahin

Sheikh karta to hai masjid mein khuda ko sajde,
uske sajdon mein asar ho,ye zaroori to nahin

Sab ki nazron mein ho saqi,ye zaroori hai magar,
Sab pe saqi ki nazar ho,ye zaroori to nahin.

Umr Jalwon mein.....

did anyone else notice how Jagjit ji's voice "breaks" at some points in the ghazal, and he gets really annoyed with the musicians right afterwards ("zor se bajao"). I think Chitraji is right when she says that Jagjit was always a superlative composer, but it is only recently that his singing matches his composing excellence.

-manoneet

ps: thanks for sharing the ghazal, mehra sahab. Bade dinon ke baad phir is ghazal ka zikr hua.

Manoneet,
IMHO, it is the otherway around. I have always found his compositions to be a bit monotonous (except the album "Visions") but the soz in his voice always mesmerized me !


p.s. After listening to this ghazal, I'll make an exception just this once: his composition was better than his singing in this ghazal with one exception- the use of azaan in singing Sheikh karta to hai masjid mein.. was brilliant.

This one is from a concert Jagjit/ Chitra live @ Wembley. Abt voice breaking, well it happens to almost everyone in live performances. Certainly one of his best live renditions...

Jagdish bhai....."this one"...Which one???? Are you referring to the upload of "Umr Jalwon Mein" by VMehra???

Hi all,

I havent D-loaded this song. So cant comment on "voice break". But I have this ghazal in an Audio casset which is perfectly al right as far as voice of JS is concerned. The aajan type alap in "Sheikh karta to hain maszid me, khauda ko sajde" is simply mindblowing as well as the taan-alaap during "Chashm-e-shaqi".

I very much agree with Bibhas that JS's compositions are too monotonous. Though I have mostly all the albums of him, I hardly listen to them. I like to listen to him Live only. It's gr8 to him ( & his extraordinary musicians) on stage.

Rgds,
Debu.

does anyone have HUM DOSTI EHSAAN-O-WAFA BHOOL GAYE HAI,ZINDA HAI MAGAR JEENE KE AADA BHOOL GAYE HAI

by JS


i had this gazal but i lost it coz of HDD format

Remind me , if you dont see it here by tomorrow

There was this movie called "Kalka" made (IIRC) by Shatrughan Sinha which had music by Jagjit Singh. He sang "Kaise kaise rang dikhaaye kaari ratiyan" in this movie - an absolutely beautiful bandish that I have been trying to get a hold of for decades.... Would anybody have this one?
Shaibaal.

As requsted.Enjoy

Wow, sounds really fascinating. Never heard of this movie/soundtrack/bandish before. I hope someone has it and will be able to ul!!

wah, wah...ab jab baat nikli hai to fir door talak jayege

Wow , what a nice ghazal by Bashir Badr sahab..... All the ghazals in this CD "SAHER" is gr8..... you know why , because for this CD Jaggu bhai has chosen ghazals from various ports rather than sticking to one whole album written by Javed Akhtar or Gulzar , etc. You can listen all of them from Raaga website :- http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/movie/...agjit-singh.htm
Did you notice all the songs have 5 star rating there ....

Ofcourse, I have this one ....

Here it is , enjoy

Its SAHER

The reason I say so is :-

SAHER when pronounced as 'SA'-HER means morning....
SEHAR often pronounced as 'SI'-HAR means magician....

Wow BJ bhai, that was indeed a lovely ghazal by Jaggu. Don't listen much to him (you know who I like), so heard this one for the first time. Can we have more of "Saher"?

Yep you are correct, what I actually meant was 'Sehar / Sihar / Sehr" would be magic and Saahir would be magician

That one is from one of my most fav poet... Sudarshan Fakir .....

Patthar ke khuda, patthar ke sanam, patthar ke hee insaan paaye hain....
Tum shaher-e-mohabbat kehte ho, hum jaan bacha kar aaye hain....

Another nice ghazal by him :-
Saamnay hai jo usay log bura kehtay hain,
Jisko dekha hi nahin usko khuda kehtay hain !

I love that Ghazal, superb lyrics.

Another favorite by Bashir Badr is
Sar Jhukaoge to Paththar devta ho jayega
itna mat chaaho usey, woh bewafa ho jayega

Thanks bhibhas to my rescue (BTW admins ne CD cover dekh liya tau pitaayi ho jayegi so remove it soon )

Jagjit Singh's album means Morning i.e. S with A H E R
Magic is pronounced as SIHAR or SEHAR or SIHR
Magician is SAAHIR

Uffo warna yeh mere ko sure confused karke choregi

Is baat pe one more good one from SAHER....
written by Nawaz Devbandi and this beautiful ghazal goes like this....

Tere aane ki jaab khabar mehke......
Teri Khusboo se sara ghar mehke....

You're welcome BJ. BTW, tum bhi to Admin ho na ???

Koshish tau yeh hain ke Aadmi bana rahu warna log shayad bandaar bana dete ha ha JK ....

Here is Saamne hain jo usey.....

OK OK ... aab yeh SEHER or SAHER ki behass chorro aur gaane suno ...

Duniya Jise Kehte hai, jaado ka khilona hai
milgaaye to mitti hai, khojaaye to sona hai

You lucky hear him live for this ghazal.... here is the upload

"Aadmi" nahin BJ, maine "Admin" kahaa tha. Post to theek se padh liya karo yaar.

Believe me, when I read that I got confused too, than I thought maybe you meant to say AADMI and not ADMIN, tau wohi context mein reply likh diya tha ... Abb kahan kuch theek se karle hum , jab sabke saab hamein pareshaan karne pe tulley ho JK

This is a very early recording of one of Jagjit's gazals - from a time when contemporary gazal of 7-10 mts was reduced to 3-4 mts, sung like a film song to revive the interest in gazals. There are some more from Album - RARE GEMS

Hope you will enjoy it...

Mehraji,
Thanks for the interesting upload. Hope to hear a few more from this album. Meanwhile, here is an early mehfil recording of Jagjit Singh too. Traditional ghazal in the traditional gayaki (something he moved away from later).
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Actually, "Sehar" means "enchantment" not a "magician", is either jadugar, or Saahir.

Yeh leejiye.

Could someone please re-upload "Seher" for me?

I am looking forward for it.

Thanks