Raag and hindi Film Music

Lets close down the yaman story with some wonderful remaining yamans.... First is the second best Yaman Duets along with "Wo jab yaad aaye". Song tags: Rafi-Asha, Question answer, romance, chhed-chhad, Dev anand- Sadhana and finally JaiDev..... "Abhi na jaao chhodkar ke dil abhi bhara nahi" RD burman has given 2 of the best and unique Yamans in a single movie. Movie Masoom. singing, lyrics, tune and picturization, all just perfect... First Bhupendra and Suresh Wadkar. A Rare Male duet "Huzur is kadar bhi na itara ke chaliye" Second the wonderfull "Do naina ek kahani" Khayyam sahab always relied on the Beauty of raag "pahadi" in most of his songs. Following is one of his very few Yaman-ish compositions however here are elements of Pahadi in it. One may call this song is on the lines of "Shuddhha kalyan" I guess out of the sheer lyrics he picked his wife Jagjeet kaur for this song. Watch out this song f...

Bhavgeet: There is a certain MD called Shrinivas Khale, who is famous for his complex but melodius tunes, Lets start with couple of his compositions on Yaman Bhavgeets. The all college function, all small scale mehfil song of "Arun Date" and "Sudha Malhotra". Anuradha paudhval too has sung with Arun bhaiya for another version. The song of course is great, but has become vanilla due to over-usage. The second antara leaves Yaman and joins back at the end. Another interesting thing to note is Sudha malhotra's correct pronunciation of the unique marathi letter "la" which we have discussed sometime back. Arun Bhaiyya Date would remind you of Talat. I couldn't find any of the two original songs. "Shukrataara mandwara" This is again a master piece from Khale sahab. There are many versions of this song on youtube. right from shankar mahadevan, Rahul Deshpande and even Rahul Saxena of indian Idol fame have sung it. But the original ver...

Marathi Bhavgeets and bhaktigeets are enriched by this Raaga. HridayNath Mangeshkar and Sudheer Phadke were the main contributors. Starting with Bhajans. Aasha Tai has plenty in this genre. The best of her which matches the beauty of "nighahen milane ko" in my ratings for likability. Hridaynath Mangeshkar is the MD. The beutiful abhang lyrics which describe the nirgun nirakaar brahma takes you deep in trance. "Kannda ho Vitthalu, Karnataku" The lyrics contain Mangesh(shiva) and the song is out an out Mangeshkar song, well Asha is originally a mangeshkar so as HRidayNath "Maage ubha Mangesh" Sudhir Phadke-asha Bhosle is one of the most liked and respected combo. Here is dutt bhajan of this combo.... "Bramha Vishnu aani Maheshwar" Lata Bai Conveys the philosophy of "chapal man" under the direction of her brother . Watch out for the excellent flute play, yours truely has ruined one mehfil while accompanying the song o...

Lets begin this mind-blowing Lata number from Bhabhi ki chudiya. MD is sudhir phadke. Like any song of Sudhir Phadke, the tune is woven under very strict limits with lots of scope for singer and raaga. Please note that the lyrics are again chaste hindi Geet Gaati lau lagati.... http://www.desivideonetwork.com/view/7l 2c10fsx/lau-lagati-geet-gaati-bhabhi-ki- chudiyan-lata-sudhir-phadke/ Rajshri Production had a long association with Ravindra Jain for the simple down to earth movies. Chitchor was the best musical amongst all. Again all songs are raaga based which suited the demand of the movies as well. J Yeshudas is teaching Hemalatha the a lesson on Raag Yaman Kalyan. In the antara it shows that she has picked it up well. "Jab deep jale aana" The next 2 are ghazals, on which I needn't and shouldn't say more. Unfortunately I still havent found the links of these ghazal will update it later. First the famous mehfil ghazal of mehdi hasan sahab. ...

A short post.. One of the strange thing observed is most of the yaman based songs have chaste hindi lyrics. At some level it can be attributed to Roshan who is known to be master of movies with historic themes. But there are modern songs too. Out the song discussed in this blog till now.. "Sansar se bhagte phirte ho" "Man re too kahe na dheer Dhare" "aapke anurodh pe" "jeevan Dor tumhi sang bandhi" "tum gagan ke chandrama ho" "tum bin jeevan kaise beeta" are on chaste hindi lyrics.

There are very few batsmen who have scored century on Debut. This duo had scored a triple in Parasmani. In my opinion one of the 2 best Yaman duets ever (The other one will come in the discussion later). From The maturity of this song it is hard to believe that MDs were making their debut and remember they are directing the stalwarts of the likes of Lata and Rafi. Right from the initial Alap of Lata the song goes on to be a winner. A perfect example of Viyog kalyan, with "magar rote rote hasin aa hayee hain" creating goosebumps... "wo jab yaad aaye" Slightly off the topic The encyclopedia of Viyog Kalyan. Babuji (Sudhir phadke) singing geet Ramayan. The lyrics are the words of Lord Rama to Bharat when the later asks him to come back to Ayodhya instead of going to vanvas. I am sure out of the various tunes and notes in this song atleast 10 new songs can be created... LP's Yaman Cotd... Ustad Kishore Kumar Khandvi was a born genius. Whatever field He h...

Yaman Contd.... We can go on with Lata and Yaman, but lets change the classification and take it MD wise. Lata will anyway feature in everywhere. Roshan's Yamans: If khamaj is for SD and RD, Piloo for OPN, Bhairavi for Shankar Jaikishan and Shivranjini for Laxmikant Pyarelaal, then Yaman is for Roshan or should I say Roshans. - - Roshan teams up with Rafi and gives this winning Score. The rare specialty of Roshan was the use of Bells and check how beautifully the ringing of the bells envelops the the last line of the mukhada. "dil jo na kah saka" Roshan Sahab and Ashatai celebrate this Quawwali, which incidentally heard to be on the favorite Asha song of Lataji. The song has everything, different tunes, instruments play, taans, bol taans, aalaps. "Nigahen milane ko" The best example of Viyog kalyan, Rafi does the rest... "Man re too kahe na dheer dhare" Junior Roshan seems to have taken the tip from the Pa Re Sa from here and gave ...

Meta Tags - Yaman Kalyan and indian Film music, old songs If you ask me which is the universal Raaga of Hindi Film Music then the honor would go to raag Yaman. Many people may argue that it is Pahadi, but Pahadi doesn't have any strong characteristics like Yaman, and Pahadi is often considered as Ragini than raag. Yaman's USP is it can convey any emotion. Mostly the Teevra Madhyam which is one of the distinctive factor of Yaman acts as a catalyst; whatever emotions being conveyed. If I take an intersection of Yaman and HFM, then there are 3 individual I can see even from a distance. Getting closer we will find other smaller but important contributors. First is Lata, second is Roshan and third is Mukesh. Lata for her effortless prudent singing, Roshan for his love for this raaga, which the son Rajesh also seems to have inherited and Mukesh for the honesty in the voice.... Yaman is also called Kalyan. The carnatic classical equivalent of Yaman is called Kalyani. Yama...