Anarkali - The Magic of C.Ramchandra - Page 2

Tum kya jaano tumhaari yaad mein hum kitna roye is an absolutely wonderful song which touches you to the core of the heart. Does anyone have an MP3 of this? You have to hear it to experience the purity of Lata's voice and emotions!

Originally posted by: punjini

Tum kya jaano tumhaari yaad mein hum kitna roye is an absolutely wonderful song which touches you to the core of the heart. Does anyone have an MP3 of this? You have to hear it to experience the purity of Lata's voice and emotions!

I cant agree more sahana. Let me check i may hav the number. here's an article that also mentions the same song and bit of its history too.

Red carpet welcome V. Gangadhar A FORTNIGHT ago I faced a dilemma. Should I deliver the same speech as chief guest at the same function but held on different venues on different days before different audiences? Even American Presidential candidates repeated the same speech at ten or 15 venues during their whistle-stop poll campaign tours. I opted for totally different speeches. It is not very often I go chief guesting! But on March 23 and 28, I was roped in for the job by "Keep alive," an organisation which holds four or five programmes a year to honour music directors and playback singers of the 1940s and 1950s. The five-year-old group has grown phenomenally in popularity. As a member of the group, I was a regular at all their shows. The March programmes honoured Chitalkar Ramchandra, one of the greatest and the most versatile among Hindi film music composers of that golden era. Ramchandra was my favourite music director. Manohar Iyer, the founder of "Keep Alive", knew this and roped me in. The prospects of being a chief guest can induce delusions of grandeur. You think of a motorcade, traditional red carpet welcome, a 17 or 21 gun salute, thick garlands and speeches that were warmly applauded. The last-named did happen, but not the other four. Chief guest or not, habit dies hard, and on both occasions, I reached the respective halls nearly 20 minutes ahead of time, breaking the time-honoured tradition of late arrival of the Chief Guest due to innumerable other major engagements, real or imaginary! During most of my 35-year-long journalistic career, I had sat in front of the dais, among the audience, listening to speakers (most of them boring), covering seminars, felicitation ceremonies and so on. Here, for a change, I was on the dais and the experience was quite welcome. Speechmaking was easy because I had more than adequate knowledge of C. Ramchandra's compositions. At both the functions, I was offered bouquets and mementos, and presented with a shawl. Barring the bouquet, the others were kept aside on the first day so that they were given again on the second. Quite sensible, I agreed. Somehow, I could not understand the logic of a shawl being presented to the chief guest, particularly in a permanently warm city like Mumbai. Why not present the guest with a designer pyjama-kurta set, I asked myself. The idea to make this part of my speech was firmly vetoed by my wife. "You have to accept what is given as a memento," she pointed out. "And not make demands, give me this... give me that... .!" The 30-minute felicitation interlude was quite pleasant. I was blinded a bit by the flashbulbs of people taking photographs, I managed to crack different jokes at the different venues and had the pleasure of sharing the dais at one of the venues with actor Farooq Shaikh, who seldom misses the "Keep Alive" concerts. Helpful volunteers went on inquiring if I wanted tea, coffee, sandwiches or soft drinks. Being the chief guest at a boring function can be an ordeal. But not here. For over four hours, we were treated to nearly 50 sizzling numbers of C. Ramchandra. And what a selection! Fast-paced, foot-tapping numbers from "Albela", "Shehnai", "Patanga" and "Azaad". The earliest rock n' roll numbers of Hindi films, "Eena Meena Deeka" ("Aasha"), "Mister John Baba Khan" ("Baarish"). Unforgettable melodies sung by Lata who was Ramchandra's favourite playback singer and lilting Lata-Talat Mehmood duets. I was drenched in an abundance of melody and taken back to my boyhood when I sat glued to the radio for the eagerly-awaited "Binaca Geetmala" and other Hindi film programmes broadcast on Radio Ceylon. The songs were interspersed with spicy comments and anecdotes narrated by Manohar Iyer on C. Ramchandra and his associates. One of his favourite song writers, P. L. Santoshi who directed the film, "Shin Shinakkhi Boobla Boo" was so infatuated with Rehana, the film's heroine, that one cold night he spent the entire night outside her door. Rehana did not reciprocate his feelings. The disheartened and dishevelled Santoshi went home and penned one of his most memorable songs based on this experience, "Tum kya jaano, tumhari yaad mein hum kitna roye, hum kitna roye." (Do you know how many tears I shed remembering you... ) Manohar Iyer narrated how Ramchandra composed an astonishing nine hit songs in just 21 days for the Dilip Kumar-Meena Kumari starrer "Azaad" produced by S.M.S. Naidu of Coimbatore. Song writer Rajinder Krishan wrote the famous "Appalam Chappalam" song for the film after learning the differences between "appalam" and "pappadam" in a Madras restaurant. "Azaad" fetched C. Ramchandra Rs.one lakh and put him in the same bracket as Naushad saab as the highest-paid music director.

Of course, I will be attending future concerts by Keep Alive as a simple music lover. Will I feel like a Chief Minister who had to quit and function like an ordinary MLA? I doubt it. For me, it is the music which is important and not where I sit.

Originally posted by: punjini

Lata's voice is really sweet as honey in Anarkali. My favourite is "muhabaat aisi dhadkan hai". During this period in Lata's career, MDs must have flocked around Lata like parwanas!

Did u know Lata Mangeshkar was turned away as a singer in 1947 I think by Subodh Mukherjee , stating that she has a very shrill voice and would not suit for play back singing. It was Ghulam Haider who told him that in the later years Lata Mangeshkar would rule the industry and I think she got her first bi hit in 1948 in Ghulam Haider's film..

Originally posted by: adi_0112

Did u know Lata Mangeshkar was turned away as a singer in 1947 I think by Subodh Mukherjee , stating that she has a very shrill voice and would not suit for play back singing. It was Ghulam Haider who told him that in the later years Lata Mangeshkar would rule the industry and I think she got her first bi hit in 1948 in Ghulam Haider's film..

Yes true Adi and in those days she used to sing in nasal voice as that was the trend then.😊

Red carpet welcome thanks Didi great article. Tells a lot about Chitalkar.

Originally posted by: punjini

Tum kya jaano tumhaari yaad mein hum kitna roye is an absolutely wonderful song which touches you to the core of the heart. Does anyone have an MP3 of this? You have to hear it to experience the purity of Lata's voice and emotions!

I agree this song is just wonderful...and touches ones heart...at least it touched mine too...😳.I wish the mp3 of this one could be located or posted here...

Originally posted by: Barnali

Yeh zIndagi Usiki Hai

Lata pours everything in this song. She goes to the tip of her frequency and at the end she just goes high and high…

alwidaa, alwidaa, alwidaa .... alwidaa .... alwidaa ...

The violins and Lata do a terrific "jugalbandi", and who wins? Well, i guess C.Ramchandra !

12. And the movie ends again with Hemantda singing the same as in the
begining.


Anarkali is not the only movie where C.Ramchandra shines. Albela and
Azad are also immortal. But his main assets, as I have repeated ad infinitum in this article, "Sweet and simple", come out best in this movie. That's what I really want from Music. That's what I got plenty in Anarkali.

C.Ramchandra's Music is very easily recognizable and can be put in the "Old" category. But as they say, "Old is Gold"!

So rightly said!

Lovely, lovely...Barnali di 👏. Sach mein dil khush ho gaya padh kar.

Originally posted by: punjini

Lata's voice is really sweet as honey in Anarkali. My favourite is "muhabaat aisi dhadkan hai". During this period in Lata's career, MDs must have flocked around Lata like parwanas!

absolutely.. Lata is the best...😊 C Ramchandra was one of the few who werent veri successful like say SJ or Naushad... but was definitely a class of his own... I always wonder who would be considered better if they compare anarkali and Mughaleazam.... CR or Naushad... i find it tough both were terrific.. i think...if they could be considered to be at war then the weapon was Lata....😊

Originally posted by: Barnali

Anarkali - The Magic of C.Ramchandra

Anarkali has a song 'aa jaan-e-wafa aa' that was sung by Geeta Roy and composed by Basant Prakash. Its been ages since I saw this movie so dont remember if this was included in the movie or only released with the soundtrack...