javaani jaan-e-man haseen dilrubaa

on a typically hot summer year 1982 afternoon in ranchi, [then] bihar, two class xii students were standing by the roadside wanting to get home. they had given up trying to get into one of the overcrowded city buses - buses where people not only are crammed like sardines inside but they also envelope the bus (side, back and top - sparing the windshield, thankfully) like bees envelope a hive.

now, having waited for some time for an empty auto or relatively empty bus, the boys were resigned to a long (to them) walk home in the heat and dust, about 3 km, give or take a km.

just for fun, they tried to thumb for a ride home. This being 1980s india, not many people owned scooters, let alone cars, so they were few and far between. there was the odd office vehicle/van/minibus that passed by but that day they did not stop either (on other occasions, the boys had managed to get a ride in such a van or minibus).

after a short time (before the boys decided to resume walking), a white car with tinted windows rolled to a stop just in front of them and the gentleman driving the car asked them to hop in. though the geeta/sanjay chopra incident had recently taken place in the country's capital, the boys had no hesitation in hopping in. then they heard a voice: "i want to kill you ... i will kill you". fortunately, it was just part of the soundtrack, and the song was this one.

to this day, i remember the cool air cnditionaed car and that music-filled ride home that rahul (not his real name) and i got that hot sultry afternoon.

enjoy the song!


\film{Namak Halaal}%
\year{1982}%
\starring{Amitabh, Smita Patil, Shashi Kapoor, Parveen Babi, Waheeda Rahman, Om Prakash, Suresh Oberoi}%
\singer{Asha, Shashi Kapoor}%
\music{Bappi Lahiri}%

##Hello I want to kill you. I will kill you. ##
javaanii jaan\-e\-man hasiin dilarubaa mile to dil javaa.N nisaar ho gayaa \-2
shikaarii Kud yahaa.N shikaar ho gayaa
ye kyaa sitam hu_aa ye kyaa julam hu_aa
ye kyaa Gazab hu_aa ye kaise kab hu_aa
na jaanuu.N mai.n na jaane vo o ho
javaanii jaan\-e\-man \threedots

aa_ii duur se dekho dilarubaa kaisii tiruu\-tiruu\-tiruu
khaa_ii bezubaa.N dil me.n choT ye kaisii
are vo aa haa milii nazar
are ye aah\-aah hu_aa asar
nazar\-nazar se ye samaa.N badal gayaa chalaayaa tiir jo mujhii pe chal gayaa
Gazab hu_aa ye kyaa hu_aa ye kab hu_aa
na jaanuu.N mai.n \threedots

dil ye pyaar me.n kaise khotaa hai dekho aa haa o ho aa haa
qaatil jaan\-e\-man kaise hotaa hai dekho
are vo haa haa milaa sanam are ye haa haa hu_aa sitam
vo dushman\-e\-jaanaa.N diladaar ho gayaa
sayyaad kaa bulabul se pyaar ho gayaa
Gazab hu_aa ye kyaa \threedots

mere nainaa saavan bhaado, phir bhii meraa man pyaasaa

eons ago, as a student in primary school in berhampur, orissa, my family were close friends with another family from our native state. there was a girl my age in that family. this girl, let's call her veena (not her real name), was my best friend at that time.

our families used to travel for picnics together. i vividly remember a trip to a place called mahurikaluwa (if i remember the name right), when it had rained cats and dogs on our picnic. other trips we went to together included trips to tapta pani, taratarini, gopalpur on sea, simhachalam etc... but i digress.

the incident i want to refer to occurred when we went on a picnic trip to lake chilka (now referred to as lake chilika). i suspect the lake's real name is 'chhilka', i.e., a peel, referring to it as a slice of the bay of bengal. sorry, but i am digressing yet again.

we had gone on a boating trip on the lake and had a fun time near balugaon, rumbha and humma (don't remember the place names very well, but it was one or more of these). anyway, after the trip, when we were returning to berhampur, we played cards for some time as a pastime, because the passenger train was due to reach Berhampur only later at night.

when we both got bored of cards, veena said, 'let me tell you a movie story' and told me the entire story of the movie "mehbooba." while i was not into movies then (or - for that matter - now), i did remember that movie as having one of my favourite songs of the time (mere nainaa saavan bhaado). veena did an excellent job of narration, especially the part where rajesh khanna is reborn and sees a shadowy form (of hema malini) moving about the palace singing this song.

i finally got to watch mehbooba a few years ago, and - obviously - took me back all these years to that trip on the south eastern railway, between khurda road and berhampur, when i first heard the story of this movie. and everytime i remember this song, i remember veena and that trip! old memories are rekindled, and i then wonder where veena is now, but you see, that is a different blog of mine, one that i am yet to start writing. for now, please enjoy the song.

Song Title: mere nainaa saavan bhaado, phir bhii meraa man pyaasaa
Movie Name: Mehabooba
Actor(s)/Actress(es): Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini
Singer(s): Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
Music Director(s): Rahul Dev Burman
Lyricist(s): Anand Bakhshi
Category(ies): Sad Songs, Rain Songs, Songs about Eyes



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% Contributor:
% Transliterator: Venkatasubramanian K G (gopala@cs.wisc.edu)
% Credits: Venkatasubramanian K G (gopala@cs.wisc.edu)
% Jasjit Singh (jasjit@cc.gatech.edu)
% C. S. Sudarshana Bhat (cesaa129@utacnvx.uta.edu)
% Ranu Singh (singh@cc.gatech.edu)
% Ashish S Bokil (abokil@hubcap.clemson.edu)
% Rajan Parrikar (parrikar@mimicad.colorado.edu)
% Editor: Anurag Shankar (anurag@astro.indiana.edu)
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##Kishore version:##
mere nainaa saavan bhaado
phir bhii meraa man pyaasaa - (2)

ai dil diivaane, khel hai kyaa jaane
dard bharaa ye, giit kahaa.N se
in ho.nTho.n pe aae, duur kahii.n le jaae
bhuul gayaa kyaa, bhuul ke bhii hai
mujhako yaad zaraa saa, phir bhii ...

baat puraanii hai, ek kahaanii hai
ab sochuu.N tumhe.n, yaad nahii.n hai
ab sochuu.N nahii.n bhuule, vo saavan ke jhuule
R^itu aaye R^itu jaaye deke
jhuuThaa ek dilaasaa, phir bhii...

baraso.n biit gae, hamako mile bichha.De
bijurii banakar, gagan pe chamake
biite samay kii rekhaa, mai.nne tumako dekhaa
man sa.ng aa.Nkhamichaulii khele
aashaa aur niraashaa, phir bhii...
##Lata version:##
mere nainaa saavan bhaa.Ndo
phir bhii meraa man pyaasaa - (2)

baat puraanii hai...

ghu.ngharuu kii chhamachham, ban ga_ii dil kaa Gam
Duub gayaa dil, yaado.n me.n
ubharii bera.ng lakiire.n, dekho ye tasviire.n
suune mahal me.n naach rahii hai
ab tak ek rakkaasaa saa, phir bhii...
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saa re gaa ma paa ...

this was one of my first few favourite songs and i still like it, more than three decades later. i might or might not have heard this song before this incident. it is not that this incident made me like the song more, but my mind rockets back to it each time i hear it (the song).

kv asc bangalore had a picnic at shivasamudra near bangalore (how far don't ask me as i have never been there since). though too small to be in school, i got to go along with the picnic party (again, don't ask me how). on the way there, on the bus, a schoolgirl sang this song, and i loved it. she sang it really well too. at shivasamudra, she fainted - probably because of giddiness at the falls, or maybe because of some other reason, i don't know. anyway, as i said, whenever i hear this song, i remember that picnic and the girl who fainted (no face, just the incident). that was my first experience of someone fainting.

film: abhinetri
director: subodh mukherjee
singers: kishore kumar and lata mangeshkar
actors: shashi kapoor and hema malini
music laxmikant & pyarelal
lyrics: majrooh sultanpuri

she: hm hm hm hm hm
he: ha ha ha ha
she: hNaso mat, bolo

she: saa
he: saa

she: re
he: re

she: gaa
he: ga

she: maa
he: maa

she: paa
he: paa

lata: saa re ga ma pa pa pa pa pa pa dha maa re
gaa re mere saNg mere saajnaa x 2

dhaa maa dhaa, too meraa
maa re maa, main teree
chal gaa re mere saNg, mere saajnaa
saa re ga ma pa ...

lata: main hoon bahaar, chhoDo naa baiyaaN
aaj geeton se, rang dooNgee saiyyaaN
dhaa maa dhaa, too kaalaa
maa re maa, maiN goree
are le le meraa raNg, mere saajnaa
saa re ga ma pa ...

lata: saajan mazaa, tab hai jeene meN
saans ho meree, tere seene meN x 2
kishore: dhaa maa dhaa, marte haiN
maa re maa, jeete haiN
are chhoo ke teraa aNg, tere saajnaa
lata and kishore: saa re gaa ma paa ...

kishore: apnaa bhee haal, tere jaisaa hai
kyaa kareN ham bhee, mausam aisaa hai
dhaa maa dhaa, paagal se
maa re maa, firte haiN
are le ke teraa DhaNg, tere saajnaa
lata and kishore: saa re gaa ma paa ...

kahii.n ek maasuum naazuk sii la.Dakii ...

it was a census year, a year that comes along once every decade when india counts her teeming population. as in most other central government schools, the teachers in my school were recruited for 'census duty.' as a result, we did not have regular teachers in school that day and, guess what? we had substitute teachers who, under normal circumstances, would be in college pursuing their own studies.

given the situation, our substitute teacher was not in a mood to pontificate for the entire duration of the class, nor were we students in a mood to listen to him for that long. so we kids asked him if he would sing us his favourite song. he agreed, and sang this beautiful song:

kahii.n ek maasuum naazuk sii la.Dakii ...

here, then, is the song from the itrans library, in english (ascii) notation, and its devanagari (hindi) equivalent.

% ITRANS Song #145
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\startsong
\stitle{kahii.n ek maasuum naazuk sii la.Dakii}%
\film{Shankar Hussain}%
\starring{Madhuchanda, Kanwaljeet, Suhail, Madhumalini}%
\singer{Rafi}%
\music{Khayyam}%
\lyrics{Kamal Amrohi}%
%
% Contributor:
% Transliterator: Avinash Chopde (avinash@acm.org)
% Credits: C. S. Sudarshana Bhat (cesaa129@utacnvx.uta.edu)
% Venkatasubramanian K Gopalakrishnan (gopala@cs.wisc.edu)
% Preetham Gopalaswamy (preetham@src.umd.edu)
% Editor: Anurag Shankar (anurag@astro.indiana.edu)
%
\printtitle
#indian
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kahii.n ek maasuum naazuk sii la.Dakii
bahut khuubasuurat magar saa.nvalii sii

mujhe apane Kvaabo.n kii baaho.n me.n paakar
kabhii nii.nd me.n muskuraatii to hogii
usii nii.nd me.n kasamasaa\-kasamasaakar
sarahane se takiye giraatii to hogii

vahii Kvaab din ke mu.nDero.n pe aake
use man hii man me.n lubhaate to ho.nge
ka_ii saaz siine kii khaamoshiyo.n me.n
merii yaad me.n jhanajhanaate to ho.nge
vo besaakhtaa dhiime\-dhiime suro.n me.n
merii dhun me.n kuchh gunagunaatii to hogii

chalo khat likhe.n jii me.n aataa to hogaa
magar u.ngaliyaa.n ka.Np\-ka.Npaatii to ho.ngii
kalam haath se chhuuT jaataa to hogaa
uma.nge.n kalam phir uThaatii to ho.ngii
meraa naam apanii kitaabo.n pe likhakar
vo daa.nto.n me.n u.Ngalii dabaatii to hogii

zubaa.N se agar uf nikalatii to hogii
badan dhiime dhiime sulagataa to hogaa
kahii.n ke kahii.n paa.nv pa.Date to ho.nge
dupaTTaa zamii.n par laTakataa to hogaa
kabhii subah ko shaam kahatii to hogii
kabhii raat ko din bataatii to hogii
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#endindian
\endsong
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% Send corrections to Anurag Shankar (anurag@chandra.astro.indiana.edu)


similar to the first song of this series (suhaanii chaa.ndnii raate.n), i had never heard this song before either. after i listened to the rafi (original) version, i would not say that our sub teacher bested rafi's original rendition. however, he did do justice enough to the song; in fact, so well did he sing that whenever i listen to this song, or think about it, my mind rocks back to that census day, more than two decades ago, when i first listened to it.

suhaanii chaandnii raate.n ...

i am sure all of you have at least one favourite song, if not more. and if you are like me, probably many of your likes (and dislikes) were influenced by someone - a relative, a friend, a rival, an enemy (gosh!) ... sometimes you like the song for the music, sometimes for the thought it expresses, or because you heard your best buddy sing it, or because you heard it blaring out of the neighbour's loudspeaker at his son's wedding, or you watched a movie and loved the picturization, or ...

whatever the reason may be, listening to the song invokes memories of someone, something, some place, some incident. the purpose of this blog is to discuss my favourite songs (and there are many of them) and how i started liking them! so, here goes my opener to the crease ->

it was vishvakarma (or as ranchi-ites say it - vishkarma) day, the day of the celestial architect of the hindu religion. typically, the heavy engineering corporation (h.e.c.) ranchi permitted employees to bring their families to look around the giant corporation during this day. as a result, attendance in centrally administered schools (local ones being closed on this day for obvious reasons) dwindles on this day.

anyway, as our class was half empty, the teacher was in no mood to teach. so he asked for volunteers to come up and sing any song they wanted. well, knowing that he was a good singer, the rest of the class volunteered rakesh v., a reticent wiry bespectacled classmate, to sing first. and rakesh sang this song by mukesh ...

suhaanii chaan.dnii raate.n hame.n sone nahii.n detii
tumhaare pyaar kii baate.n hame.n sone nahii.n detii

below, i have cut and pasted (and made a slight change to) the song as stored in rec.music.indian.misc's itrans songbook.

%
\startsong
\stitle{suhaanii chaa.Ndanii raate.n, hame.n sone nahii.n detii.n}%
\film{Mukti}%
\year{1977}%
\starring{Shashii, Sanjiv, Vidya Sinha, Bindiya Goswami}%
\singer{Mukesh}%
\music{R D Burman}%
\lyrics{Anand Bakshi}%
%
% Contributor: Ravi Kant Rai
% Transliterator:
% Credits:
% Editor: Anurag Shankar (anurag@astro.indiana.edu)
%
\printtitle
#indian
%
suhaanii chaa.Ndanii raate.n, hame.n sone nahii.n detii.n
tumhaare pyaar kii baate.n, hame.n sone nahii.n detii.n
suhaanii chaa.Ndanii raate.n, hame.n sone nahii.n detii.n

tumhaare reshamii julfo.n me.n dil ke phuul khilate the
kahii.n phuulo.n ke mausam me.n kabhii ham tum bhii milate the
puraanii vo mulaakaate.n, hame.n sone nahii detii.n
tumhaare pyaar kii baate.n, hame.n sone nahii.n detii.n
suhaanii chaa.Ndanii raate.n \threedots

kahii.n aisaa na ho laga jaaye dil me.n aag paanii se
badal le raastaa apanaa ghaTaae.n meharabaanii se
ki yaado.n kii ye barasaate.n, hame.n sone nahii.n detii.n
tumhaare pyaar kii baate.n, hame.n sone nahii.n detii.n
suhaanii chaa.Ndanii raate.n \threedots
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#endindian
\endsong
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i had never heard this song before; however, rakesh (in spite of his lisping 'sa' sound) sung it so well that it instantly became one of my favourite songs. to this day, my mind wanders back to that vishvakarma day when i listen to this song, and i wonder where rakesh is today ...