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Yaman Kalyan- the favorite Raaga of Roshans

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.
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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 this. No no there is absolutely no copying here. The mood, tune and everything else is very different and the descending pattern "Pa Re Sa " belongs to Yaman.

"Ghar re nikalte hi "



Same movie Rajesh Roshan uses Yaman again. Goes more on western chooses Sanu instead of Udit. Whatever people say about Udit and Sanu but In my opinion these 2 songs are their own..
"Pyar main hota hai kya jaado".




Coming back to senior Roshan
Lata tells the philosophy of sahir saheb on Yog and Bhog in Yaman notes. The lyrics sit right at the epicenter of Suyog Vs Viyog debate and it had to be yaman kalyan.

"sansar se bhage phirte ho"



"Barsat ki raat" was a wonderful work of Roshan so as this Yaman. Not sure but I guess this was one of the very first of the song which is shown in the movie as sung on Radio.

zindagi bhar nahi bhoolegi"


"Dil hi to hai" was a rare association of Raj Kapoor and Roshan. Most of the songs of this movie were Raaga based. "laga chunari main daag" (Bhairavi) and "Nigahen milane ko jee chahata hai" (Yaman) had very strong classical inclinations.
Then there are these 2 famous Mukesh Solos which are Yaman based. Mukesh has always sung yaman with beauty. The honesty in the voice and note by note clarity is all evident here.

"Dil jo bhi kahega"



"Tum Agar mujhko na chaaho"


Tum Agar mujhko seems to be rolling over Rajesh Roshan's mental sub-conscious CD when he composed this oasis song of 1990.

Again can not be called a copy by a single iota, because the moods and notes of the two songs are entirely different. But check the rising and falling patterns of the two songs, although the notes are different but there is a very subtle similarity. The song has strong effect of Yaman, very nice catalyzing flute pieces running around Teevra Madhyam. Also After a long time (after "mere mehboob tujhe" ?) in HFM we have seen such a nice "Nazm" oration.

Talat Aziz in Daddy

"Aaeena Mujhse meri pahali see surat mange"


Rajesh Roshan had a habit of creating such goose-bumpy beauties amongst the huge market demand of 'other' type of songs. His love for Yaman shows up again and again in various songs.
There was a Anil-Madhuri Movie called "Khel" in 1993. The movie was more famous for Asha's number "Idli doo idli doo". My favorite was Prem Chopra's takiya Qulaam "Aap to mera nature jaante hain".
but there was this very likable Yaman number too.

"Khat likhana hai par sochati hoon"

The discussion on Yaman and Roshan can not be complete without mention of this song. Hemant Kumar Mukherjee was a par-excellence singer and music director. Songs he was associated in anyways can be called as a different genre. Here is this duet with Lata from Mamta

"Chhupa lo yun dil mein pyar mera"



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