Some Hindi/urdu songs are sheer poetry. Not the new ones though, gah.
Gulzar and Javed Akhtar have come up with some of the best lines through the ages, and so have the guys in the period before the horror that was the nineties. The magic of good old hindi songs – the music, the singers. Sigh.
Some songs I love (my main source of old Hindi songs is Ma, and my knowledge is nowhere as vast as hers):
1. Abhi na jao chod kar (Hum Dono) – My favourite. Always makes me smile. Love the playfulness of the lyrics, and the wistful longing behind them. Mohammed Rafi (aka God, always sounds like he is smiling as he sings) and Geeta Dutt, what a pair.
2. Dil dhoondta hai (Mausam) - pure nostalgia
3. Is mod se jaate hai; Tere bina zindagi se koi (Aandhi)
4. Mera kuch saaman (Ijaazat) – not big on this one’s musical arrangement, but the lyrics – what imagery.
5. Tere mere Milan ki yeh (Abhimaan)
6. Huzoor is Kadhar, Do naina aur ek Kahani (Masoom)
7. Tum itna jo (Arth)
8. Ehsaan tera hoga (Junglee)
9. Katra Katra (Ijaazat)
10. O sajna Barkha Bahar aayi (Parakh)
11. Kahin Door jab Din dhal jaye (Anand)
“Mere khayalon ke aangan mein koi sapno ke deep jalaye”
I could go on. These are some of my favourites though.
Among the newer songs, some really good ones:
1. Chod aaye hum woh galiyan (Maachis)
2. All songs from 1942 A Love Story, Khamoshi
3. Piya tora abhimaan, Mathura Nagarpati (Raincoat)
4. Bawra mann (Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi)
5. Gali mein aaj chand nikla (Zakhm)
6. Tose naina laage, Maula mere maula (Anwar)
7. Mehfuz (Euphoria)
8. In dino (Life..in a Metro)
9. Mori Araj Suno (Tina Sani, Coke Studio)
10. Chal Diye (Zeb and Haniya, Coke Studio)
11. Bhaage re Mann (Chameli)
What say?
3 comments:
Lovely songs, aren't they? Nostalgia for sure but the lyrics of some of these you have mentioned - some talent that!
A good-feel post :)
Feel good!i hummed all the songs as i read through your post:)
chod aaye hum is one of the few songs i can listen to on loop, and that too just for the lyrics:)
totally! :)
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