Yeh Gul(zar)istan Hamara, Films of Gulzar Options

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Satya (1998) - A Telugu Film

This Telugu film was released at the same time as its original Hindi version. It was dubbed from Hindi. Here are the songs in it...

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Swami Vivekananda (1995/1998)

This movie was completed in 1995 but for various reasons it was not released until 1998. It was considered for the National awards for 1995 and Mithun Chakraborty, who plays Rama Krishna Parama Hamsa, walked away as the Best Supporting Actor for that year.

Originally Naseeruddin Shah was cast for the role Mithun eventually played. But under the pressure brought by the Hindu extremists, producers have to drop the idea of a Muslim playing a Brahmin's role in this movie. When Mithun, a Bengali Brahmin, was cast in the role replacing Shah, the folks who originally protested vehemently threatened to stop any progress of the movie, quieted down.

Several film personalities from Bombay appeared in the movie. They had only brief roles. I haven't seen the movie myself but was told that in the title role Sarvadaman Banerjee was brilliant.

Producers took well over five years to complete the movie. But when the finished version was shown to the monks of Rama Krishna Mission, they objected to several scenes. One song was deleted and some of the scenes were reshot before it got their final stamp of approval.

Salilda, who was always brilliant with his music compositions, does it again here. He composed all the songs for the movie but passed away before scoring its background music. B.V. Karant (also known as Vijay Bhaskar Rao) scored the background music.

Finally, all these songs are by the courtesy of our fellow Forum member and a friend, late Erum Hashmi. Thank you very very much Erum for such lovely songs. You will be ever remembered for such nice contributions. May your soul rest in peace.

I am uploading these songs in back-to-back posts. Here is the first set...

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Concluding Songs from "Swami Vivekananda (1995/1998)"...

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

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Wajood (1998)

Even though he didn't write any lyrics for this film, Gulzarji made a guest appearance. He was the guest of honor making a presentation to the winner of a dance competition. Here are the songs from this album...

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Chhoo Lenge Akash (1999)

I don't have a single song from this album. Please kindly share if you can. Thanks.

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Hu Tu Tu (1999)

Apart from directing, Gulazr wrote the story and lyrics for this film. He also co-wrote its screenplay with his daughter Meghna. Tabu received Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance. Suhasini Mulay received the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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

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Concluding Songs from "Hu Tu Tu (1999)"...

Here are the rest of the songs from this film...

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Jahan Tum Le Chalo (1999)

There are are several beautiful songs in this album. Listen to the one by Rekha Bhardwaj, the song, "Yeh Kaise Chaap". Such a beautiful and heart warming song. I wonder why she didn't sing more songs in films. The few songs she sang in the films, it appears like she only sang for her husband and music director Vishal Bhardwaj. She did release several private albums but her voice and the way she sings, she should have been singing more mainstream songs. May be it is by her own choice...

Here are the songs from this album...

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Khoobsurat (1999)

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

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Oct 31 2011, 12:29 AM

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Concluding Songs from "Khoobsurat (1999)"...

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

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Rockford (1999)

This will be the last film of Gulzarji in this thread. Gulzarji continues to be very active in this 21st century. He won many accolades both national and international. His song “Jai Ho” for “Slumdog Millionaire” in 2008 fetched A.R. Rahman one of the two Oscars he won for that film. Gulzarji doesn’t seem to slow down and even today keeps on churning out song after good song for many of the new films.

We started this thread in March 2010and these 20 months we covered nearly 100 of his albums. It gave me a lot of pleasure to go through these songs penned by such a great writer.

This film, “Rockford”, was mostly in English. There are only two Hindi songs in the film. One, “Aasmaan Ke Paar” was penned by Gulzarji. I am not sure who the author of the song “Yaaron Dosti” is. If anyone of you has the information, please kindly share. Thanks.

This movie was directed by Nagesh Kukunoor (see the attached picture below), who is a writer, actor, producer, and director. He made several good movies starting with “Hyderabad Blues” in 1998. “Rockford” was his second film. But it was “3 Deewarein” in 2003 he first got rave notices. It was a great movie with a compelling story. He followed this with another powerful drama, “Iqbal” in 2005. His last good film was “Dor” released in 2006. His subsequent movies released after “Dor”, “Bombay to Bangkok (2008)”, “8x10 Tasveer (2009)”, “Aashayein (2010)”, and “Mod (2011)” did not have the same touch or feel and lack the promise he showed in his earlier films. Let us hope that he can get back to his original form with his next venture.

Here are the songs from this film…

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Nov 12 2011, 03:42 AM

[Sangeet]

[swarapriya]

Thanks for the corrections and filling in the missing details. Much appreciated. Cheers. -S