okay let's start with
Akhiyan Sang Akhiyaan Laagi

i just love yeh parbaton ke daire, great music, sort of similar way jaag dil e deewana goes, that music after stanza before it's repeated
i love it

bhabhi song - chhupa kar meri aankhon ko
cute song

there are a lot of chitragupta-rafi bhajans that i am trying to find



so right now i can only think of rafi songs with chitragupta

anyone else with inputs

I am also waiting for some one to u/l following -


- Akhiyan Sang Akhiyaan Laagi Aaj- too good (earlier d/l was corrupted)

-All song from film - Zabak (teri duniya se door..)

-Film Aakash-Deep - Mujhe Dard-E-Dil Ka Pataa Na Thaa, Mujhe Aap Kis Liye Mil Gaye

-Film-Bhabi - Chal Ud Ja Re Panchi

Mujhe Dard E Dil Ka Pata Na Tha
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Teri Duniya Se Door
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oye
when did this become an all download station

If Chitragupt would have composed just one song, Chal Ud Ja Re Panchhi, in his life, he would have still attained immortality. That song is an institution. Brilliant Lyrics of Rajinder Krishan, Wonderful tune and open throated Rafi at his best (mesmerising alaap at the end) plus the manner in which the song carries the story of the movie forward. Such a pity that there was no filmfare award for playback singing in 1957. This song would have walked away with all the three nominations, not to mention the award itself. In fact the music of Bhabhi was every inch as good, if not better than, Naya Daur, theultimate winner of the award for music.

Chitragupt was anotherof those under-rated MDs in the mould of Roshan, Vinod, Ghulam Mohammed, Bulo C. Rani, Hansraj Behl, Sajjad, etc. who never got their due recognition. The bhajans created by Chitragupt - Rafi combination in 1950s would always remain a testimony to this fact.

Pardeep ji,
You r perfectly right that CHITRAGUPT was a under-rated music director. He started his career in 1949 with SHAUKEEN and melodious tunes for a number of films till 1979, last film was DO SHIKARI. Wr are mesmerised by the music for Toote Khilone; Aladdin Aur Jadui Chirag; Bhabhi; Naya Sansar; Kali Topi Lal Rumaal; Guest House; Barkha; Chand Mere AAja; Opera House; ZABAK; Tel Malish Boot Polish; Main Shadi Karne Chala; Main Chup Rahoongi; Ganga Ki Lehren; OONCHE LOG; Akashdeep; Vaasana and Aulaad.
His tradition has been kept alive by his talented son SHARVAN of NADEEM-SHARVAN.


brgarg

To the best of my knowledge, it is not Shravan who is Chitragupt's son; actually it is the music director duo of Anand-Milind who are his sons.
50Some1

I stand corrected. Thx.

FWIW.

I don't know why people re-encode songs taken
from indianscreen.com. Just because you re-encode
it to 128 kbps, it doesn't magically get back all the
information lost.

i'm trying to find chitragupta-rafi bhajans
there seem to be a lot of them

Just saw your list of 1884 Rafi songs. Phew, quite a collection. Good luck to you for Rafi - Chitragupt bhajans and hopefully, 2000 Rafi songs soon.

Sharad bhai:
Well technically I was around at that time, but at the time of the Aladdin movie (mid-1950's sometime I think) I would probably have been just 1 or 2 so wouldn't have 1st hand exposure to popularity!

However I remember these songs used to play a lot in my mother's parental home (nanihaal) in Allahabad, and hearing them from HF brought back the sweet memories of childhood. I def. remember the Ho Sake song playing and being sung - has shades of Chitalkar's group songs in Albela (Bholi Soorat etc.), and also have fleeting recall of Aey sabah (yes, a little gem).

I also recall Chitragupt songs in particular being played often in my Nanihal well into the 60's; at that time I used to think it was b'coz he composed lots of bhajan type songs, but only recently hit upon another reason: he was the only MD belonging to our community (he was from Patna though and was not a relative). Incidentally Chitragupt is the name of the Kayastha community's original forefather - he was Yama's accountant in Hindu mythology.

Cheers,
50Some1

"Chal ud ja re" song was initially recorded on Talat Mehmood but then he was replaced by Rafi.

Chander

I don't think this is a version recording. This was originally recorded in Talat's
voice for the film, and then later re-recorded later in Rafi's voice. I don't think
this is in the genre of the version records.


Chitragupta's sons are Anand and Milind.

Does anyone have a good quality track of Chal ud jaa re panchi in Talat Mahmood's voice ?
I would be very interested !!

Sri

Hi r&d,

It seems to work after re-encoding. My experience is that after downloading songs from IndianScreen (which are 16 or 32 kbps encoded) and copying on a CD, I cannot play some of these MP3s on my DVD player. Then I re-encoded the same files to 128 kbps and now my DVD player plays these re-encoded MP3s.

Actually I agree with you that logically no information is added to it and hence, it should not matter. But experience states otherwise

Sri, I think it was u/l in a thread in ethier Talat forum or Sanget ke Setare.

Ramesh

Thanks for the tip Ramesh - it was in the Talat forum under Binod's thread - uploaded by Shahrukh3000 and Azghar Khan

many thanks to the uploaders !!

Sri

Rare Chitragupt melody here

Qasim Habibi

Another Vaasna song - aaj is darja pila do - that's an awesome tune
itni naazuk na bano - great stuff, i was totally into it after first hearing on my cassette back in 2002

I came across the film Kangan few years back - and there was this song, a rafi solo aandhiyaan gham ki - i liked it a lot, background song on nirupa roy

chitragupta's songs have some whacked film names
rocket girl, joker to name a few
but a lot of mythological types too like sn tripathi

i hope the webmallindia.com has a lot of those rare films

Sharad