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Originally posted by: anonymouse1

Train songs.

Movie: Dilruba, (1950)

Singer: Geeta Dutt

Music: Gyan Dutt

Lyrics: D.N. Madhok

Wah... what a song, melody with lyrical lessons on life. 👏

First time I heard this song.

It seems, we are traveling by train now!!

Jaagriti was a movie made on the topic of nation building and national integration. Jagriti became a favourite of Doordarshan and Chitrahaar,and was shown on 26th Jan,15th Aug every year. This is a song that can rouse any Indian. It is a song full of patriotic fervor.

Kavi Pradeep was a lyricist cum singer who wrote with passion and sang with passion. And nowhere is this passion more evident than in this song from “Jaagriti” (1954).

Absolutely inspiring song, it lifts our patriotism. Jallianwala Bagh ye deko yahi chali this golia,ye mat puooch kisne kheli yaha khoon ki goliya. It was General Dyer who was responsible for it. He was later court marshalled in England, but it was a farce. I read the transcripts many years later. Gen Dyer wanted to take a tank in to the Bagh but the path leading to it was too narrow for a tank to pass. Hence, he took the soldiers. A specific question was to Dyer during the trial, would he have taken the tank in if it was possible. His answer was YES. Just imagine the level of casualties we would have sustained and the ruthlessness of the man. More amazing is that despite being sentenced, Dyer was a free man till Shaheeed Udham Singh shot him.

Song-Aao bachchon tumhein dilkaayen jhaanki Hindustaan ki

Film--(Jaagriti) (1954)

Singer-Pradeep,

Lyrics-Pradeep,

Music-Hemant Kumar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiiBsKU4z6c

Originally posted by: DelusionsOfNeha

I can see them

Yeah I gave other links...still one of them isn't visible

From one of Kishore Kumar’s most zany comedies where he puts the over in Over-the-top 😆, here’s another train song. Kishore plays Vijay the eccentric and rebellious younger son of his father, trying all sorts of shenanigans to get out of the various ‘matches’ his father tries to fix for him. His father, finally fed up asks him to leave and Vijay does precisely that, taking nothing but his shaving kit (very fortuitously as it turns out 😆), his maa ki nishaani (which is small box with a memento- incidentally his dead mom is also played by him 😆) and a little money which he finds is not enough to buy him a train ticket but just enough to buy a half ticket. So he decides to pose as a kid and meets Rajni (Madhubala) on the train. And also has a run-in with Pran, a thief who sneaks the stolen diamond into his maa ki nishani. Vijay spends most of the movie evading Pran’s efforts to nab him and eventually he finds his way into Rajni’s home and her heart. When she finds out he’s been play-acting, she’s understandably upset and orders him out of her house when he declares, affronted: Ab tak main half ticket, half pant aur half mad tha. Ab agar miloon toh full samajhiyega! 🤪🤣

Film: Half ticket (1962)

Music: Salil Chowdhary

Lyrics: Shailendra

Singer: Kishore Kumar

https://youtu.be/JiIP90TAJdA

Arre wah wah wah. Arre wah wah wah

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

From one of Kishore Kumar’s most zany comedies where he puts the over in Over-the-top 😆, here’s another train song. Kishore plays Vijay the eccentric and rebellious younger son of his father, trying all sorts of shenanigans to get out of the various ‘matches’ his father tries to fix for him. His father, finally fed up asks him to leave and Vijay does precisely that, taking nothing but his shaving kit (very fortuitously as it turns out 😆), his maa ki nishaani (which is small box with a memento- incidentally his dead mom is also played by him 😆) and a little money which he finds is not enough to buy him a train ticket but just enough to buy a half ticket. So he decides to pose as a kid and meets Rajni (Madhubala) on the train. And also has a run-in with Pran, a thief who sneaks the stolen diamond into his maa ki nishani. Vijay spends most of the movie evading Pran’s efforts to nab him and eventually he finds his way into Rajni’s home and her heart. When she finds out he’s been play-acting, she’s understandably upset and orders him out of her house when he declares, affronted: Ab tak main half ticket, half pant aur half mad tha. Ab agar miloon toh full samajhiyega! 🤪🤣

Film: Half ticket (1962)

Music: Salil Chowdhary

Lyrics: Shailendra

Singer: Kishore Kumar

https://youtu.be/JiIP90TAJdA

My most fav song from this album is 'Aake Seedhi Lagi' which Kishore Da has attempted in both male and female voices. The song was actually to be sung by Lata and him, but Lata actually was busy and late for the recording (or she was unable to give dates that's unclear) and Kishore Da asked Salil Da - 'Ki dada...Main try karun kya?'

Salil Da laughed it off and said - 'Aree duet hai...dono aawaz kaise gayega...'

Kishore Da persisted and hence the song was attempted.

Originally posted by: EuphoricDamsel

My most fav song from this album is 'Aake Seedhi Lagi' which Kishore Da has attempted in both male and female voices. The song was actually to be sung by Lata and him, but Lata actually was busy and late for the recording (or she was unable to give dates that's unclear) and Kishore Da asked Salil Da - 'Ki dada...Main try karun kya?'

Salil Da laughed it off and said - 'Aree duet hai...dono aawaz kaise gayega...'

Kishore Da persisted and hence the song was attempted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJwOzpW3k7g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVj3jI89DkY

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Here is that song ---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJwOzpW3k7g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVj3jI89DkY

Thanks for posting Madhu! 🤗

Forgot to write down the link address somehow 😆

Another train song I adore, this one has Talat and Suraiyya on screen singing for themselves. From the film Waris (1954), Anil Biswas' music - especially the prelude beautifully simulates the distinctive hum of a train's motion - so much so that you can readily believe this song is on a train without ever having to watch it.

Suraiyya sings only the mukhda once (in this version) but it's oh so sweet! , and I think Talat's voice is perfectly suited to this song - its so gentle and at the same time so steeped in romance- almost reverential in the way it wraps around the beauty of the music and lyrics like a careful giftwrap around a rare & precious gift. You can feel the worship in the way his voice caresses over the lyrics and flows over the music. AHHHH!

The lyrics by Qamar Jalalabadi are perfectly constructed for the mood of the song - conflating the beauty of nature and two romantic hearts falling in love.

Kali kali choomke pavan kahe khil ja (the way he sings that last 'jaaaa".. my heart! )

Khili kali bhanwre se kahe aake mil ja, aa piya mil jaa

Dil ne suni kahin dil ki pukaar

Raahi matwale .....

tu chhed ek baar mann ka sitar

Jaane kab chori chori aayi hai bahar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51hQa_msPBA

I love traveling and often travel by train within India, if there is no Airport. There is something romantic about trains and journeys. You get to see a lot of new places in that fast pace, you get to see countryside you often wouldn't see if you were driving the highway or flying thousands of miles in the air. Train travel is also more social.

I have often met interesting people on such journeys and had amazing conversations with them.

This song is not from black and white era, but the story is a musical romance film adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1914 Bengali Novella Parineeta. To re-create the 60s era, lot of efforts were made by the producers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deTVgOf2cWs