My ten favourite kaun aayaa songs
I’m sure it must have happened to you as well. Sometimes you meet a person and the mere presence of this man/woman makes you feel good. You need not talk about overtly intelligent topics. You might not laugh heartily, but just being in the presence of that particular person makes you feel wonderful. It makes you feel as if you have experienced inner growth. Few days back, I again had such an experience, where I was left wondering: What was that? I was so elated, that I posted the song yeh aaj meri zindagi me kaun aa gaya on a forum I frequent, which gave me the idea for this post.
Unlike my last experience, the encounters making the characters of Hindi film exclaim “yeh kaun aayaa” are mostly of romantic nature. Some feel that spring has come, while others feel the moon has risen. Everybody has his or her own of exclaiming and rejoicing in this emotion. I personally think that a good song can convey more than the words themselves. So, enjoy my ten favourite kaun aayaa songs and tell me about yours.
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Tags: Anand Bakshi, Anoop Kumar, Asha Bhosle, Asha Parekh, Baazi [1951], Deepti Naval, Dekh Kabira Roya [1957], dekho yeh kaun aayaa, Dil Deke Dekho [1959], Farooque Sheikh, Geeta Dutt, imi Garewal, Imtihaan [1974], Indu Jain, Jawani Diwani [1972], Jaya Bhaduri, Kalpana Karthik, Katha [1983], kaun aayaa kaun aayaa, kaun aayaa ki nigahon me chamak jaag uthi, kaun aayaa mere man ke dwaare, kaun yeh aayaa mehfil me, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Look who’s here!, Madan Mohan, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Manna Dey, Mohd. Rafi & Usha Khanna, Munshi Aarzoo, my ten favourite kaun aayaa songs, Nartaki [1939], Naseeruddin Shah, Naushad, Pankaj Mullick, Poonam Dhillon, R. D. Burman, Raaj Kumar, Raj Kamal, Rajendra Krishan, Rajendra Kumar, Randhir Kapoor, Ravi, rosha maati, roz shaam aati magar aisi na thi, S. D. Burman, saamne ye kaun aayaa dil me huyi hulchal, Saathi [1968], Sadhana, Sahir Ludhianvi, Savere Wali Gaadi [1986], Shakeel Badayuni, Shammi Kapoor, Sunny Deol, Suresh Wadkar & Asha Bhosle, tambadi maati, Tanuja, Usha Khanna, Vinod Khanna, Waqt [1965], yeh kaun aaj aayaa sawere sawere, yeh kaun aayaa, yeh kaun aayaa ke mere dil ki duniya me bahaar aayi, yeh kaun aayaa roshan ho gayi mehfil kisake naam se
My ten favourite songs from Gulzar-Pancham collaboration
Though the pair R.D. Burman – Gulzar is very popular and famous. They might have done at the most a one and half dozen films together as composer-lyricist team. Nevertheless their partnership was very fruitful. Pancham admitted that working with Gulzar brought the best in him though at times the work together was very complicated.
Preparing this list was a pleasant though a very weary process for me. I have lost count how many times I included and rejected the songs. None of the songs here were in the original list except for dhanno ki aankhon me.
So to make matters at least a little bit easy for me, I set up the following rules:
1. The song must be from a film.
2. The film must have had a proper release in the cinema halls.
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Tags: Aandhi [1975], aap ki aankhon me kuch mahake hue se raaz hai, Anoop Ghosal, Anuradha Patel, Asha Bhosle, beeti na bitaayi rainaa, Bhupinder, dhanno ki aankhon me haan raat ka surma, din jaa rahe hain raaton ke saaye, Doosri Sita [1974], ek hi khwab kai baar dekha hai maine, Ghar [1978], Gulzar, Hema Malini, Ijaazat [1987], is mod se jaate hain, Jaya Bhaduri, Jeetendra, Jugal Hansraj, Khushboo [1975], Kinara [1977], Kishore Kumar, Kitaab [1977], Lalita Pawar, Lata Mangeshkar, Masoom [1983], Master Raju, mera kuch saaman tumhare paas padaa hai, Mithun Chakraborty, Nasseruddin Shah, o maajhi re apna kinara, Pancham, Parichay [1972], R. D. Burman, Raja Murad, Rekha, Sanjeev Kumar, Shaban Azmi, Sitara [1980], Suchitra Sen, tujhse naaraaz nahin zindagi, Vinod Mehra, ye saaye hain, Zarina Wahab
Hidden umbrella passions in ten Hindi film songs
Umbrellophily, a phenomenon not spoken sung about in the Hindi film industry. The author of these lines like many other fans of Hindi film songs was not aware of this shocking fact either. During his search for a list of his 10 favourite umbrella songs (since rain-song lists have been beaten to death), he stumbled over this taboo topic in the Hindi cinema. While he was searching, he could unearth only three songs, which mention an umbrella and two-thirds of them were not even melodious. Why this step-motherly treatment towards this ‘protector against rain’?
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Tags: aakhir tuut jaatha hai, Aap ke nazaron ne samjha, Aasha, Aayega, aayega aanewaalaa, Ab mera kaun sahara, Amitabh Bachchan, Anand Bakshi, Anpadh, Asha Bhosle, Asha Parekh, Ashok Kumar, bari, Barsaat, Bhichde sabhi bari, Dharmendra, Dhoop Chhaon, Do lafzon ki hai dil ki kahani, gondola, gondoliere, Gulzar, guru dutt, hai lagaa, Hasrat Jaipuri, Hema Malini, Hindi film songs, hum par jurm kare, Jaya Bhaduri, Joshila, K. C. Dey, K. L. Saigal, Kaagaz ke Phool, Kaantaa lagaa, Kaifi Azmi, Madhubala, Mahal, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Mala Sinha, My Sister. Do naina matware tihare, Nargis, Parichay, Pt. Sudarshan, pyaar ke kabil mujhe, Pyaasa, R. C. Boral, R. D. Burman, Rain songs, Raj Kapoor, Rameshwari, Reena Roy, Rehman, Samadhi, Shakti Samanta, Shankar-Jaikishan, Sheesha ho ya dil ho, Sonaa mile to log aaj kal dil ko kabhi na le, Teri ghathri me laaga chor musaafir jaag zara, The Great Gambler, umbrella, Umbrella passions, Umbrellophily, Vishal Bharadwaj, Zeenat Aman
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