Bali Umar Ko Salaam Mp3 Song Download - Mr Jatt
Charise Zelnick
Now coming to the reason behind my posting this song. I had decided on some other Sufi song as my first song of the second day because the theme of the Fest was declared in January but during the February Fest I shifted to this song. In the first week of this month (February) I read a shocking news in Hindustan Times which badly disturbed me. How can it happen in a city like Chandigarh and otherwise too how can people be so cruel to kill their own new born daughters? The News was:
(We gather and recite your Noble Name in the company of loved ones. You are the creator and destroyer. Everything is under Your charge. You are the True Father and every living being in the world is your offspring. Nanak Sahib is the prime beginning, beyond the time and Nanak Sahib is present throughout all the Yuggas. )
Thank you, Surekha Saini, for the above post. It is rare for me to have a Guest Post. However, considering the present state of Punjab (the state of my birth) and how we conveniently forgot the message of Guru Nanak even when we recently celebrated his 550th Birth Anniversary, it is a very apt post.
The trend of movies during those days was that movies with excellent songs had stories that dragged especially in the second half. DD Kashyap movie Maya starring Dev Anand and mala Sinha had two excellent songs by Salil Chowdhury: Tasveer teri dil se and Jaa re jaa reudh jaa re panchhi. Despite these, most of the movie I saw in fast-forward. It was released in the same year as the movie of this song.
This song occurs somewhere near the end of the movie and yet it had at least kept my interest alive. Hats off first of all to Kishore Sahu. There is no point having an excellent song but whilst seeing the movie in the cinema you take a popcorn break or seeing it on your com you fast forward it.
It was a done thing during those days to slow down the beat of sad songs to have soulful effect. Madan Mohan was a master at it, eg, Main ye soch kar us ke dar se utha tha and Mujhe le chalo phir aaj us gali mein.
Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan mastered the exact opposite with superb effect. Their Anari song is a representative example: Tera jaana, dil ke armaano ka lut jaana. Incidentally, once gain a song that carries forward the plot and expresses the feelings of Nutan very well both in lyrics and notes.
Bach ke sahil pe rehna hai mushkil: there are many S-J songs with a boat but none has used the boat so beautifully as in this song. It is as if the lyrics have come alive. When the song ends the coda is so superb that it looks like it is gently rocking the boat and not the sea or the breeze!
Now, it is my attempt to get Evani Leela back on her feet. With personal experience I can say that the void and the sadness never go away. However, I would want you to consider that life is a gift and we must get back to honouring that gift of God.
It is never my intention to take away the initiative from those who would follow me in putting up HJSOWs by merely putting up the most popular songs. It is, however, my intention to put up songs with extraordinary lyrics.
It is from the 1955 V Shantaram film Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje. Hasrat ji wrote the lyrics of all songs in the movie and this was composed by Vasant Desai. It was sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Hemant Kumar.
She however, falls in love with not only his dancing but him too. So she is chucked out by the guru. She also keeps distance from him so as to help him concentrate on winning the competition. It is another thing that he too falls in love with her and wants her back.
Hasrat ji, as was the trend during those times, was an Urdu poet and lyricist (Urdu is an indigenous language of India as you already know). Language influences your culture and other way round. Hence, in most of his songs, you would get the flair of this culture. In Sangam, for example, Raj Kapoor (a Punjabi) is portraying Flight Lieutenant Sunder Khanna (another Punjabi) but look at his mastery of Urdu when he sings to Vyjayanthimala as Radha:
This is one song that cannot be composed in isolation. The composition must fall in line with the synchronised dance that Gopi and Sandhya would do. In particular, it has to be discussed with Gopi as the choreographer! If you look at the dance, you would know that Vasant Desai excelled.
The dance is the essential part of story-line; they have to dance in concert as a teacher and disciple. And, most importantly, also be an instrument of their love for each other. I have my hair standing on ends to see the level of perfection.
However, from amongst these four, the people closest to my heart are the Lyricists, the guys who carry forward the story of the movie, give voice to the emotions of the protagonists and comment upon the situation as per the story-line. All others build up on the foundation of the structure laid by the Lyricists.
Starting from the beginning of this year, I started with a series Hasrat Jaipuri Song of the Week. I soon added Shailendra Song of the Week. And now, Rajinder Krishan is the third and the last one this year. I already have a number of posts on him:
They were together in a number of movies. Their most popular movie was Nagin starring Vyjayanthimala and Pradeep Kumar. Then they were together in Miss Mary. I can remember the unforgettable songs: O raat ke mussafir Chanda zara bata de and Brindavan ka Krishan Kanhaiya. Their Champakali song: Chhup gaya koi re door se pukaar ke is a favourite of mine in Raag Jhinjhoti.
Man Singh, loyal to Akbar, signs a pact with Pathans and Jagat Singh is set free. He marries Tilottama with the help of Ayesha; a surprising Hindu-Hindu marriage unlike the recurring theme in Hindi movies of Hindu-Muslim marriages.
On my Facebook group Yaad Kiya Dil Ne, from the First of January 2020, I started with a weekly dedication to Hasrat Jaipuri, the lyricist to whom we owe the title of the group. Interestingly, the first group that I formed was also named after a song and the title of the group was from the mukhada of a song penned by Shailendra: Dil Ki Nazar Se.
Likewise, I have these friends of SJMF. What they and my sister Kishwar Jaipuri do not know about music in general and Shankar Jaikishan songs in particular, can be written on the back of what used to be the lowest denomination of postage stamps in India: the five paisa stamps!
Shailendra died on 14 Dec 1966, five years before Jaikishan died on 12 Sep 1971. What led to his demise was primarily the setback he received from the box-office failure of his only production: Teesri Kasam.
What about the first song of this series? He uses the expression Raat Ke Hamsafar to portray the negative feelings that are as dark as the night and hence are co-passengers with night!
What negative feelings is he referring to? Hatred, belittling, ignoring, trifling with that Sharmila Tagore indulged in with Shammi Kapoor! And now what is happening in the movie? Suddenly, the Subah Pyar Ki is showing its glimpses! This is the first time the sprout of love has broken out between the two contenders. If you have got this right, you can follow the rest of the lyrics easily:
Superb lines. The new sprout of Love between them demands this! By this Shailendra means that Love was dormant all this while and now time has come to awaken it! Raat ki chaahton are negative feelings; these have to be put to sleep! Tell me many other lyricists who have gone this deep!
Seen in this light, one of the best lines of the song with amazing imagination used by Shailendra is: Loriyan gaa rahi hai subah pyar ki! Incredible indeed. Love is always kind and always gentle. It is singing lullabies for the negative feelings to go to sleep!
Please notice that in this song when she expresses her realisation of Love for him, she also displays a somewhat shy sensuousness (as opposed to the bold sensuousness in her bikini song Aasman se aaya farishta penned by HJ; the first ever bikini song in Hindi movies with an Indian actress). Lata ji is good in many genres of singing but Asha was very well suited to accentuate this sensuousness!
Raja Mehdi Ali Khan was chosen by me as Lyricist #9 (not in any particular order or ranking) in Remembering Great Lyricists series. He has been a favourite and I already have a comprehensive post on him: The Magic Of The Lyrics Of Raja Mehdi Ali Khan.
Having been born in 1928 in Jehlum in undivided India, when the partition of India took place, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and wife Tahira refused to go to Pakistan despite communal riots. His patriotism came to fore in 1948 itself when he wrote the famous number: Watan ki raah mein watan ke naujwaan shahid hon for the movie Shaheed starring Dilip Kumar.
When Shakeel gave his first film song in 1947 Dard: Afsana likh rahi hoon, Shakeel was 31 years old. Raja Mehdi Ali Khan was just 18 when he gave his, in his first movie Do Bhai. And what a song it was, sung by Geeta Dutt.
1. Aap ki nazaron ne samajha pyaar ke kaabil mujhe.
2. Agar mujhase mohabbat hai mujhe sab apne gham de do.
3. Sapano mein agar mere tum aao to so jaayun.
4. Naaina barse rimjhim rimjhim.
5. Lag jaao gale ke phir ye hasin raat ho na ho.
6. Naino mein badra chhaye.
He was back with Basant Prakash (one song penned by Aziz Kashmiri was composed by Vinod). Out of the eight songs, Raja penned three; the others were by Aziz Kashmiri, Hasrat Jaipuri, and Arjun Dev Ishq.
My vote goes to the last one after listening to all three (it was difficult finding them). Why? Because the song shows the development of Lata Mangeshkar into a singer par excellence.
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