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...