10 Top EID Songs of Bollywood

EId Mubaarak, to all dear friends and visitors of my Popular Blog".bolywoodfiles.blogspot.com"Ramzan come to an end and it is the day to celebrate with happiness. A day of joy, to celebrate with family, and friends.  On this occasion, I am presenting couple of Eid songs from Hindi movies.
I start with a rare song about Eid from the film  “Rashida Dulhan” which was made sometime in late 1940s or early 1950s I guess but was never released. This song recorded in 1948 ,sung by Shamshad Beghum managed to survive though.Umar Ansari was the lyricist. Music was composed by Ghulam Mohammad.

The most popular song of Eid was Qurbaani qurbaani qurbaani from the film Qurbaani released in 1982,the Singers were  Kishore Kumar, Anwar and Aziz Naazan Lyrics-Farooq Kaiser, MD-Kalyanji Anandji

For today's generation I am presenting this SALMAN KHAN'S Song from the film Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge released in 2002

Song from Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge 2002

 Here is a wonderful and simple song of Id celebrations from the film ‘Rehnumaa’ from 1948. The music is composed by Dhoomi Khan. The lyrics for the 11 songs of this film are penned by Habib Sarhadi and Dhoomi Khan. However, the specifics of which song by which poet are not known,it is a chorus song,the name of the main singer is also not known,however Listen and be blessed, with the spirit of celebration. Id Mubaarak.

Song from Rehnuma 1948

The next song in my list is one of my favorite song  a  slow and melodious song from ‘Saawariya’,

  Song from ‘Sawaariya’, 

This is a Rafi – Lata duet  from the movie Sohni Mahiwal (1958), starring Bharat Bhooshan and Nimmi in the title roles. The music is by Naushad and lyricist is Shakeel Badayuni. This is a sad song,

Song from Sohni Mahiwal 1958

Another famous Eid song for the present genaration is From the movie ‘Tees Maar Khan’, Wallah Re Wallah (composed by Vishal Shekhar) Salman Khan did a special appearance for this song in this with Akshay Kumar 

Song from Tees Maar Khan 2010

This song is a Qawwali sung by Rafi, Asha Bhonsle and chorus. The song is picturised on Rishi Kapoor, Reena Roy from the film “Deedaar e Yaar” (1982).Sahir Ludhianvi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal.

Song from Deedaar e Yaar” (1982)

Chaand Nazar Aa Gaya from Hero Hindustani is a wonderful Eid Song,Arshad Warsi & Namrata acted in this song while Iqbal,Sonu Nigam and Alka Yagnik are singing under the Music Direction of Anu Malik.

Song from Hero Hindustani 1998

This is a song from film ” Teesri Aankh “-1982, Laxmikant-Pyarelal were the music directors who were experts in churning out songs for any occasion.  Dharmendra and Shatrughna Sinha acted in this song.

Song from Teesri Aankh “-1982 

Remembering Madan Mohan on his 93rd Birth Anniversary

The man, who was acknowledged as a genius by people who understood and appreciated music, was never at the top rung in the hit parades or with the big banners or the big stars.He had very few Hit Films but His Music was always Hit. His first silver jubilee hit came 8 years later with "Woh Kaun Thi" in 1964.
Many tunes composed by him remained unused... many songs remained unreleased... some recorded but unreleased songs have now been released on the album TERE BAGAIR... while others have just been lost! Some unused tunes were used in Veer-Zaara, while various others remain well preserved with his family.
Madan Mohan composed music for 95 released Hindi films and 12 shelved films. These 100 plus films featured almost 700 songs, many of which are remembered to this day while some have been lost over the years. He was extremely versatile, but he is best remembered for his ghazals, pathos-laden songs and classical based songs 
 Madan Mohan was born on 25th June 1924.He spent the early years of his life in the Middle East. After 1932, his family returned to their home town of Chakwal, then in Jhelum district of Punjab, British India. In 1946, he joined the All India Radio, Lucknow as Programme Assistant, where he came in contact with various artists such as Ustad Faiyaz Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Begum Akhtar, and Talat Mahmood. During these days he would also compose music for programmes to be broadcast on All India Radio. In 1947, he was transferred to All India Radio, Delhi where he worked for a short period. 
He started his film career as a singer, In 1948, he got his first opportunity to sing a film duet Pinjare Mein Bulbul Bole and Mera Chhotasa Dil Dole with Lata Mangeshkar under composer Ghulam Haider (composer) for the film Shaheed (1948 film), though these songs were never released or used in the film. Between 1948 and 1949, he assisted music composers S.D. Burman for Do Bhai, and Shyam Sundar in Actress and Nirdosh.
He got  his first big break as composer with the film Aankhen  in 1950.His association with Lata ji though started as a singer before he became composer but the  long lasting collaboration with Lata Mangeshkar started with his 2nd film Adaa in 1951.Lata ji gave some of her best solo songs under his direction.In this Blog I have selected some the great songs of this duo.

Song from Adalat 1958

Song from Jailor 1958

Song from Sanjog 1960

Song from Manmauji 1962

Song from Woh Kaun Thi 1964

Song from Haqeekat 1964

Song from Jahan Ara 1964

Song from Aap Ki parchhaiyan 1964

Song from Mera Saaya 1966

Song from Dastak 1970

Dev Anand's Song without his Trademark Playback Singers

Dev Anand represents a particular era of history of Hindi cinema of which he was an integral part for almost 65 years. He had a huge influence on Hindi cinema and beyond it.He hypnotised generations of audience.Music in his films laid a benchmark for the other Hindi films. His association with playback singers like Rafi and Kishore Kumar is well known. These 2 singers gave Dev Anand maximum playback, followed by Hemant Kumar.In this Blog I am posting few such songs which were sung by other playback singers,these songs may be surprise for many Dev Anand's fans.
The first song on my list is the song from the film Jeet (1949)
 Chahe kitni kathin dagar ho  Picturised on Suraiya and Dev Anand, music by pitamah of Hindi film music Anil Biswas, lyrics by Prem Dhawan and sung by Shankar Das Gupta for Dev Anand, Suraiya for herself

Song from Jeet 1949

Bahe Na Kabhi Nain Se Neer-this song is from the film Vidya (1948) ,it is the first time Mukesh gave playback to Dev Anand

Song from Vidya 1948

Laayi Khushi Ki Duniya this is a duet from Vidya sung by Mukesh and Suraiya

Song from Vidya 1948

Humne Khayi Hai Mohabbat  this song is from the film Dilruba (1950),For this duet Dev Anand has been given playback by none other than G.M.Durrani, which is very unusual.

Song from Dilruba 1950

Dekho Mane Nahi Ruthi Hasina-This song is from Taxi Driver 1954,this ia a duet by Asha Bhosle and Jagmohan Bakshi, this Jagmohan Bakshi is the same Jagmohan of Music director Sapan Jagmohan.

Song from Taxi Driver 1954

Phir Wohi Chand-this song is from Baarish (1957),Sharing a delightful chemistry on screen, Dev Anand and Nutan sing to the tunes of C. Ramchandra where the MD himself gives playback for the evergreen star.

Song from Barish 1957

O Kahan Jaate Hain Woh-this song is from the film Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1961),I think this is the only film where Mahendra Kapoor sang for Dev Anand

Song from Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1961)

Tak Dhoom Tak Dhoom Baaje ,this song from 1960 film Bambai Ka Babu,Manna De is singing for Dev anand

Song from Bambai Ka Babu 1960

Aye Dil Kaha Teri Manzil This song also happens to be one the best of Dwijen Mukherjee in Hindi cinema. Under the music direction of Salil Chowdhury,from the film Maya 1961

Song from Maya 1961

Disco Gripped bollywood in 80s

 Bollywood music is ever-evolving and cannot be restricted to one or two genres. 
Directors are constantly experimenting in incorporating popular genres in their films, as songs are perhaps the most important selling point of Bollywood movies.
Disco’s prominence in the 1970s in west started gaining ground in Bollywood in 80s.It was Indian music director Biddu Appaiah, known mononymously as Biddu, saw success in the West composing and producing Carl Douglas’ mega hit "Kung Fu Fighting".Biddu found a muse in Pakistani songstress Nazia Hassan, for whom he wrote and produced. Perhaps their most standout hit was the rather light and bouncy "Disco Deewane".Actor,Director Feroz Khan was so impressed with Biddu and asked him one song for his forthcoming film Qurbani ,the song was  "Aap Jaisa Koi"picturised on Zeenat Aman opened the way for Desi Disco.
With trend changing from Melody to Beats emerged Bhappi Lahri who became Desi Disco King who remained on Top for 3-4 years giving Hit after hit disco songs.As Lahiri’s reign of the disco period crept in, we saw Burmans and Laxmikant Pyarelal  acclimatize to this phenomenon. Burman tried to find a middle ground between Indianized psychedelia and disco, Laxmikant Pyarelal  played with traditional Hindu and Sufi religious motifs for the film Karz and infused them with disco in an effort to keep up. 
This period of Bollywood music saw an interesting variation in styles as many music directors tried to process and incorporate disco without losing what made them famous in the first place. Disco became important genre for contemporary, current and future Bollywood. Being a hardcore Bollywood movies and music fan. I take this rare opportunity to list down the Top 20 Bollywood Songs of the 80s and 90s

Disco diwane

Boom Boom by Nazia Hassan from Star

Song from Qurbani

Song from Suraksha (1979)

Song from Suraksha (1979)

Song from Pyaara Dushman (1980)

Song from Karz 1980

Song from Shaan 1980

Song from Aap Ke Deewane 1980

Song from Armaan (1981)

Song from Haathkadi (1982)

Song from Disco Dancer 1983

Song from Namak Halaal (1982)

Song from Khuddar 1982

Song from Vidhata 1982

Song from Disco Dancer 1982

Song from Justice Chaudhary(1983)

Song from Locket 1986

Song from Love Love Love 1989

Song from Thanedar 1990

Celebrating Father;s Day with these Beautiful songs

Fathers are our first superheroes, our biggest motivator without whose guidance there would be no meaning to life.Bollywood which draws inspiration from real life emotions have given us songs that emote the unsaid feelings seamlessly. Let us Celebrate this day with these songs.
Babul Mora Naihar Chhuto Hi Jaye 

 Song from Street Singer 1938

BABUL KI DUAEIN LETI JA 

Song from Neel Kamal 1968

Muskura Ladle Muskara...

                                                Song from Purnima 1965
Tu ho ke badaa ban jaana apni maata ka rakhwaala

Song from Khaandaan (1965)

Pappa Jaldi aa jana

Song from Taqdeer 1967

TUJHE SURAJ KAHOON YA CHANDA

Song from Ek Phool do maali 1969

Chanda O Chanda

Song from Lakhon Mei Ek 1971

Aye Mere Bete Sun Mera Kehna 

Song from Aa Gale Lag Jaa”(1973)

Aa Re Aa Nindiya

Song from Kunwara Baap 1974

Tujh Se Naraz Nahi

Song from MASOOM 1983

papa kehte hain bada naam krega 

Song from QUAMAT SE QYAMAT TAK 1988

I Love You Daddy

Song from Akele Hum Akele Tum 1995

Hemant Kumar-a fabulous singer and irrepressible composer.

 Every distinguished creative artiste is born with one gift, but, Hemantda was born with several gifts. As a singer he reigned supreme in Calcutta and Bombay.From Naagin and Jaal to Bees Saal Baad and Kohraa the 50's and 60's were decades that 'belonged' prominently to the unique talents of Hemant Kumar. Remembering him on his 97 th Birth Anniversary,I present some of his Immortal songs.
Hemant Kumar Mukherjee was born on 16 June 1920 in Varanasi. Music seemed to be an inherent part of his life from the outsetAfter passing the intermediate examinations (12th grade), Hemanta joined Bengal Technical Institute at Jadavpur to pursue Engineering. However, he quit academics to pursue a career in music. At the age of 15 Hemanta recorded his first song for All India Radio in 1935.In his early life Hemanta Da used to follow the famous Bengali singer Pankaj Mullick ,he even was called as Chhota Pankaj during those days.In 1937, Hemanta cut his first gramophone disc under the Columbia label. The songs (non-film) on this disc were "Janite Jadi Go Tumi" and "Balo Go Balo More" whose lyrics were by Naresh Bhattacharya and music was composed by Sailesh Duttagupta.
Hemanta's first film song was in the Bengali film Nimai Sanyas released in 1941.His first Hindi film songs were in Irada  in 1944 under Pt. Amarnath's music direction.His first movie as a music director was the Bengali film Abhiyatri in 1947.
 Hemanta Kumar migrated to Mumbai in 1951 and joined Filmistan Studios,Hemen Gupta. the Director from Bengal with whom he gave music earlier in Bengali films approached  Hemanta  Kumar to compose music for his first directorial venture in Hindi titled Anandmath under the Filmistan banner.
The music of Anand Math (1952) was a moderate success. Perhaps, the most notable songs from this movie is 'Vande mataram' sung by Lata Mangeshkar,After that Hemanta Kumar scored music for a few Filmistan movies like Shart in subsequent years, the songs of which received moderate popularity. Simultaneously, Hemanta gained popularity in Mumbai as a playback singer.
His songs playbacked for actor Dev Anand under music director Sachin Dev Burman in movies like Jaal (" Yeh raat, yeh chandni phir kahan ... "), House No. 44 (" Chup hai dharti, chup hai chand sitare... "), Solva Saal (" Hai apna dil to awara ..... "), Funtoosh (" Teri duniya mein jeene se ... "), and Baat ek raat ki (" Na tum hame jaano ..... "), became very popular and continues to be so.
By the mid-1950s, Hemanta had consolidated his position as a prominent singer and composer.He composed music for a Hindi film called Nagin (1954) which became a major success owing largely to its music. Songs of Nagin remained chart-toppers continuously for two years and culminated in Hemant receiving the prestigious Filmfare Best Music Director Award in 1955. 
In the late 1950s, Hemanta ventured into movie production under his own banner: Hemanta-Bela productions. The first movie under this banner was a Bengali film directed by Mrinal Sen, titled Neel Akasher Neechey (1959).Latter he made films in hindi,his production company was renamed Geetanjali productions and it produced several Hindi movies such as Bees Saal Baad, Kohraa, Biwi Aur Makaan, Faraar, Rahgir and Khamoshi — all of which had music by Hemanta. Only Bees Saal Baad and Khamoshi were major commercial successes.
The 1962 was special year for him,The music of Bees Saal Baad and Saheb Biwi aur Ghulam became very popular.Hemantda pulled out all stops for a score that ranks as one of the ten best ever composed for the Hindi cinema. Between them Geeta Dutt and Asha Bhosle created a universe of pain and romance in Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam. From Geeta Dutt's 'Na Jao Saiyyan..' to Asha'a 'Bhanwara Bada Naadan Hai..', each song stuns each note cuts deeply in Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam.
Hemant Kumar  sang finest Hindi songs for Sachin Dev and probably his Sazaa and Jaal songs were his first real popular numbers He once became voice of Dev Anand in the mid 50s,he sang 11 songs for him surprisingly all were great hits.
Hemant Kumar was also remained connected with Bangla Films through out his career,in fact he was very busy there in the late 60s and 70s. He remained the foremost exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, film and non-film songs. His output continued to be popular for most of the decade. Some of them are Jodi jante chao tumi... (1972), Ek gochha rajanigandha , Aamay prasno kore nil dhrubatara..., Sedin tomay dekhechilam... (1974), Khirki theke singho duar... (Stree, 1971), Ke jane ko ghonta... ( Sonar Khancha, 1974), Jeona daraon bandhu... ( Phuleswari, 1975 ) and popularised Rabindra sangeet using them beautifully in films as per situations. A very popular and classic example is the song Chorono dhorite diyogo amare.. in Dadar Kirti(1980). 
In 1980, Hemanta had a heart attack that severely affected his vocal capabilities, especially his breath control. After that he composed music for a handful of Bengali movies and one Bengali and one Hindi tele-series.In 1987, he was nominated for Padmabhushan which he refused politely.

In September 1989 he travelled to Dhaka, Bangladesh to receive the Michael Madhusudan Award, as well as to perform a concert. Immediately after returning from this trip he suffered another heart attack on 26 September and died at 11:15 pm in a nursing home in South Calcuuta

Song from Sazaa (1951)

Song from Jaal 1952

Song from Patita (1953)

Song from Anarkali (1953)

Song from Shart (1954)

Song from Nagin (1954)

Song from Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje (1955)

Song from House No. 44 (1955)

Song from Anupama 1966

Song from Pyaasa (1957)

Song from Solva Saal (1958)

Song from Post Box No. 999 (1958)

Song from Detective (1958)

Song from Satta Bazaar (1959)

Song from Kabuliwala (1961)

Song from Baat Ek Raat Ki 1962

Song from Bees Saal Baad 1963

Song from Bahu Rani (1963)

Song from Bin Badal Barsaat(1963)

Song from Kohraa (1964)

Song from Khamoshi 1969