I wonder what kind of people created melodious nostalgia Hindi film songs on firing love an era before. Wheather their loves earned love?

Old songs sound still as fresh as those composed yesterday.Forgotten nostalgia melodies made us stop and hum.lyrics compel us to re-examine and re-define the nature of life itself.

 

“Kya Kisi dev ke bheje huye vardan ho tum

Kya mere pichhle janam ki koyi pahchan ho tum

Dhundhta tha jise dil kya wohi mehman ho tum

Apni muskan se pagal mujhe karne wale

Bolo tum kaun ho…

 

Sure ,lyric,music,B&W—Photography as icing on cake, and gracefull attitudes of two lovers (Hero and  heroine)will make friends to hum mm..,not only in INDIA,across border too. This is magic of melodious nostalgia music.

 

Two actors singing the song beneath the tree...they make a charming couple.

(Film Talaq—Rajendra Kumar &Kamini Kadam

Poet: Kavi Prdeep.

Music by C Ramchandra

Singer: Aasha and Manna Dey)

 

Did they were real lovers in real life? Their hearts were full of those emotions of Firing Love. Had they always remained on top of their success? Was their life always full of happiness and love? If they were in love with someone, how passionate in their affairs.

Kamini Kadam Kadam

Whatever may be: I think their hearts were tender away from guile; they had fire and magic in their hearts, to transfer on silver screen. They've lost that simplicity and beauty in them. The nostalgia is lost.

 

Whenever I hear old and ever green Hindi filmi songs, a big question haunts my mind: wonder how those people were? Who penned sweetest romantic songs, melodious music, and voice, honey to ears? Played on screen as real life lovers? Those songs were composed earlier than 5o’s.”Jaane wo kaisi log they”…. (Whose love earned love?), who created nostalgia an era before.

 

Now the technology that offered more and more possibilities for the composer, it drowned out the melody which in turn gradually became a musical noise.

 

Lastly, the language and contents of Bollywood has changed, old songs were mostly written by poets, who were master of their language. They rose from grass roots, familiar with hardness of real life.

A Scene from Film "Talaq" and Song---"Mere jivan mein Kiran banke Bikharne Wale"

Here is one of those songs, full of with fire of a passionate love, simplicity .The tune of which lingers deep in subconscious for ever especially for some of us of a certain generation of Indian sub-continent. Sure you will hum with song….

 

Film Talaq (1958), Poet: Kavi Prdeep

Music by C Ramchandra

Singer: Aasha and Manna Dey

Hero: Rajendra Kumar and Kamini Kadam

 

Mere jivan me kiran banke bikharne wale

bolo tum kaun ho, bolo tum kaun ho

Aankho ankho se man me utarne wale

bolo tum kaun ho, bolo tum kaun ho

 

Kya kisi dev ke bheje huye vardan ho tum

kya mere pichhle janam ki koyi pahchan ho tum

dhundhta tha jise dil kya wohi mehman ho tum

apni muskan se pagal mujhe karne wale

Bolo tum kaun ho…

 

Is tarah aaj kyon lalcha rahe ho tum mujhko

kidhar udake liye jaa rahe ho tum mujhko

baat woh kya hai Jo samajha rahe ho tum

chupke chupke mere dunya ko badlne wale

bolo tum kaun ho….

 

Wherever there is life, there is poetry and there are songs…

 

Current funda is to have lyrics matched to the beat and not vice versa. So, fitting in lyrics to the music will often result in high pitched non-melodious songs.

 

But few good songs do come up these days as well which are melodious and nice to hear. Just the number are a bit less.

Manna Dey

Probably because present music directors are compelled to make songs to match the movie content which is recently and primarily empty and nonsense. However good movies do come up with good melodious songs even today.

Asha Bhonsle

Because the present Indian music is being influenced by the western music. I hardly see any youngster listening to Indian classical music.

 

We are getting so much obsessed by the western culture and so is the music. Listen to rock and become a rock. Indian music is our soul. And a body without soul is nothing.

 

Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Here due to our necessity, Indian music directors and composers are composing the music which is no longer the same as it was.

C.Ramchandra--Music Director

They've lost that simplicity and beauty in them.They’re full of caprice!!

 

C.Ramachandra was one of the most talented music composer Bollywood has produced.

 

It is said that C Ramachandra was flirting type man. When fully drunk, he would spill all beans about his relationships with women, thus causing problems to the concerned women. In one such party he made such remarks on Lata.

Kamni Kadam

Lata and Asha both stopped singing for him and thus his career ended. It's sad that Lata/Asha never mention about him anywhere in any function or interview, though CR was mainly responsible for Lata's success in early part of her career.

 

Lata wanted C.R to marry her, for which he was not ready, since he was already married. (Though after few months, he did marry a girl named Shanta, by going to a state where Bigamy was not a crime).

 

The same question when asked to Lata, she gave the answer to Kanekar, “There was a recordist who used to talk rubbish about me everywhere.

Kavi Pardeep--Song Writer

I refused to record my songs with him and CR persisted, insisted for him, so we decided to separate “Believable? But that's what she had said.

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