Khayyam, the MD
S.Jagadish
that any indication ? :-) ... Can anyone list his films as MD ... I thought he
was really good in Kabhi Kabhi ... He also scored the music for some serial,
isnt it ? Was it "Akbar the great" by Akbar Khan ?
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Nilesh Savargaonkar
>that any indication ? :-) ... Can anyone list his films as MD ... I thought he
>was really good in Kabhi Kabhi ... He also scored the music for some serial,
>isnt it ? Was it "Akbar the great" by Akbar Khan ?
As far as I know Khayyam gave music for 'Bazaar', 'Umrao Jaan' and 'Razia
Sultaan'. He has done quite good job in all three.
- Nilesh
Faez Nasrudin Kaiser
In article <1995Nov3...@omega.ntu.ac.sg>, sf91...@omega.ntu.ac.sg (S.Jagadish) writes:
|> How popular was Khayyam as a MD. I havent heard much abt him on RMIM ... is
|> that any indication ? :-) ... Can anyone list his films as MD ... I thought he
|> was really good in Kabhi Kabhi ... He also scored the music for some serial,
|> isnt it ? Was it "Akbar the great" by Akbar Khan ?
|>
|>
|> S.Jagadish : SF91...@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG
|>
Khayyam gave the music for the "Great Maratha", directed by Sanjay Khan.
The music is nothing special, just the usual fare. As for his film music,
Khayyam was never prolific and had an intense interest in composing ghazals
as well as film music. HMV has a Golden Collection of his non-filmi ghazals.
Subsequently, he only composed for about 20-30 films in all.
His debut film was Footpath and has the immortal song Sham e Gham ki Qasam,
sung by Talat (Lyrics by Majrooh and Sardar Jafri, picturised on Dilip).
Other good films of his are Trishul and the exceptional Umrao Jaan. He also
gave the music for Bazaar, Shola Aur Shabnam (Jeet hi lenge baazi is a nice
Lata - Rafi duet) and Razia Sultan. Razia Sultan has a couple of
good songs of which Aye Dil e Nadaan is truly superb. There is a two
cassette pack under the title All Time Greats Khaiyyaam which has a selction
of 30 or so of his songs.
To answer your question, Khayyam was not that popular because he produced
music sporadically and went through many years without any output.
Nevertheless, some of the music he did produce is excellent and well worth
listening to. There is an article on Khayyam in the Auto Mailer which will
give you a lot more information.
Regards,
Faez
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Faez Kaiser nasr...@glue.umd.edu
Electrical Engineering http://www.glue.umd.edu/~nasrudin
University of Maryland at College Park
Jairaj, Vinod
From what I've heard, Khaiyyam was quite popular. He used to
compose one movie per year, starting with Footpath, 1951. Some of the
movies he has composed are:
1. Footpath, * DK
2. Shagoon, (1957), *??
3. Mohabbat isko kehti hain, (1964), *Shashi Kapoor, Nanda
4. Phir Subah Hogi, (1958), *Raj Kapoor, Mala Sinha, Rahman
5. Khabi Khabi, (1975), *AB, Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee, ......
6. Bazaar, *Supriya Pathak, Farooque Shaikh
7. Umrao Jaan, *Rekha
8. Razia Sultan, * Dharmendra, Hemamalini
9. Khaandaan, *Jeetendra, Sulakshana Pandit,
10. Thodi si bewafaai, * Rajesh Khanna, ???
More later,
Vinod
Amin Meghani
: TRISHUL
: KABHI KABHI
: UMRAO JAAN
: MEHNDI
: BAZAAR
Ahista Ahista
Noorie
Khandaan (recent)
Razia Sultaan
Shankar Hussain
Nakhuda
Thodisi Bewafaii
Footpath ('Sham-e-gham ki kasam')
Shagun (Tum apna ranz-o-gham apni pareshani mujhe dedo)
AAKHRI KHAT
DIL-E-NADAAN (recent)
EK NAYA RISHTA
DARD
ANJUMAN
LALA RUKH (old)
BAROOD (old)
PHIR SUBAH HOGI
SHOLA AUR SHABNAM (old)
MOHABBAT ISKO KEHTE HAIN
SANKALP
CHAMBAL KI KASAM
PYASE DIL
LORIE
PARBAT KE US PAAR
--Amin
Sanjay
: How popular was Khayyam as a MD. I havent heard much abt him on RMIM ... is
: that any indication ? :-) ... Can anyone list his films as MD ... I thought he
Khayyam has been discussed once in while on RMIM. Though he was very good
on quality, he is a bit low on quantity. I dont know if that was
intentional. I think he got typed as composer for ghazals (films like
Umraao Jaan, Razia Sultaan, Bazaar and lots of non film ghazals for
Begum Akhtar etc). I feel his non ghazal compositions are also very good.
One film that comes to my mind is 'Phir subah hogi' having the song
'woh subah kabhi to aayegi' . I think he was/is (i dont know if he is still
active , musically) one of the great MD.
Sanjay
Kalyan Kolachala
>How popular was Khayyam as a MD. I havent heard much abt him on RMIM ... is
>that any indication ? :-) ... Can anyone list his films as MD ... I thought he
Checkout out the posting by Vish Krishnan in Sami's home page.
Kalyan
Amin Meghani
|> that any indication ? :-) ... Can anyone list his films as MD ... I thought he
|> isnt it ? Was it "Akbar the great" by Akbar Khan ?
|>
|>
|> ---
|> S.Jagadish : SF91...@NTUVAX.NTU.AC.SG
|>
Here's an anonymous article that drew rave reviews from RMIMers when
it was first posted almost two years ago.
--Amin
Khaiyyaam (real name Mohammed Zahoor Hashmi) came to Bombay in 1946, after
a few years in the trenches of SE Asia. He was a private in World War II -
a somewhat reluctant member of the British Army. After some painful
tutelage from Hazrat Chishti (his mentor in Bombay Cinema), he was ready to
quit when one fine day he was offered the MD-ship for a movie called
FOOTPATH (Dilip Kumar, Mina Kumari). The famous Talat song "Shaame Gham Ki
Qasam." is the
only one I know from that movie.
There was a brief lull following FOOTPATH. In this period, he probably
spent most of his time composing the score for private Ghazals - you should
not have any trouble finding a few C.H.Atma ghazals scored to music by our
maestro.
Then followed a little known movie called LALA RUKH. Wonderful songs. It
is a pity I only know and have 3 of them. There is a Asha-Talat duet
"Pyaas Kuch ur Bhi Bhadka Di Jhalak Dikhlaa Ke..". There is also an Asha-
only version of this song. Then there is a Rafi song in the movie ("Hai
Kali Kali Ke LabPar, Mere Ishq Kaa Fasana..")
Then came BAROOD (from the late 50s). It has 2 great songs by Lata. One
in particular is a Punjabi Giddha. It goes "Rang Rangila Saanwara Mohe Mil
Gaya Jamna Paar". The percussion in this song is unparallelled. It also
brought out for the first time his fascination with honest Punjabi folk
music(the only other MDs I know to have done that are Roshan, OP Nayyar,
Sardul Qwatra,to some extent Madan Mohan, and on a couple of occasions, Sir
Salil Chowdhury). At any rate,the other song from BAROOD that I know of is
also by Lata. It goes "Teri Duniya
Mein Nahi Koi Hamara Apna, Besahaaron Ko Zara De De Sahara Apna". It is
also a very hard song to find.
Then came the Raj Kapoor connection with PHIR SUBAH HOGI. Seven songs, all
brilliant, and dominated by Asha and Mukesh. This was a left wing movie
from the camp of RK Karanjia (BLITZ), Khwaja Ahmed Abbas and Raj Kapoor,
and it starred RK of course and Mala Sinha. This was the first Sahir-
Khayaam pairing. Somehow, Sahir's left-wing sarcasm and Khaiyyaam's pathos
in songs like "Chino Arab Hamara" and "Wo Subah Kabhi to aayegi" seemed to
goextremely well together. There is an exquisite Asha song that goes
"Kisko Mujrim Samjhe Koi, Kisko Dosh Lagaaye... Do Boonde Sawan Ki". This
movie will remain
among Khaiyyaam's classics even from among the other great ones he has done.
Just for the record, the other songs in the movie were "Phir Na Kije Meri
Gustaakh-Nighahi ka Gila" (Asha-Mukesh), Aasmaan Pe Hai Khuda Aur Zameen Pe
Hum" (Mukesh) and Jo Bore Kare Yaar ko, Us Yaar Se Tauba" (Rafi-Mukesh).
On second thoughts, I am not sure if this was the first Sahir-Khaiyyaam
movie.It might have started with LALA RUKH.
This movie was followed by another (1962) movie called SHOLA AUR SHABNAM.
One of my most favourite songs of all times ("Jeet Hi Lenge Baazi Hum Tum")
is from this Dharmendra- ? movie. The serenity evoked by the (possibly) A-
minor progression was to be repeated by Khaiyyaam later with "Aur Kuch Der
Thahar" (Aakhiri Khat) and "Pichli Yaad Bhula Do" (Mehndi). Also, this
movie featured his wife Jagjit Kaur singing for the first time for her
husband. She has two songs in this movie. One of them is a Hindi version
of the Punjabi original (also by Jagjit Kaur) "Adi We Adi.... Dudh Pi Le
Balma, Main Kaddon Di Khadi".
The Hindi version goes "ladi re ladi". One might argue that this music is
not a Khaiyyaam original,but then again, we have seen ther non-Hindi
standard songs translated for Hindi movies with the original traditional
melody intact. The main examples that come to mind here are O.P. Nayyar
(for some Surinder Kaur songs), S.D. Burman (for one Nazrul Geet in
"Pyaasa"), Hemant Kumar and Anil Biswas (for a couple of Rabindra Sangeet
songs).
At any rate, the fabulous Rafi song "Jaane Kya Dhoondti Rehti hain ye
Aankhen Mujhme" is from this movie. Then there were some unremarkable
ones. There was a real high-pitch Asha song "Mummy Aur Daddy Mein Ladai Ho
Gai" and a Manna Dey-Geeta Dutt Song "Mathura Shyam Chale". Let us not
forget yet another Punjabi folk song "Phir Nahi Aane Wali Pyare Aisi Milan
Ki Raat". I was also a bit
intrigued by this Rafi-Jagjit Kaur duet "Pehle to Aankh Milana" only
because it has a couple of glimpses of OP Nayyar. This is probably
aggravated by the fact that Jagjit Kaur's voice (only in this song) bears
an unintended similarity to Geeta Dutt!!.
Another fact to note is that Jagjit Kaur has sung Hindi movie songs for
only 1 other music director. If I remember this right, that was a Ghulam
Mohammed movie called DIL-E-NADAAN. Oddly enough, more than 30 years later,
Khaiyyaam himself did the music for another movie by the same name (no
connection)!!
After another brief lull, 1964-66 had Khaiyyaam do 3 movies - SHAGUN,
MOHABBAT ISKO KEHTE HAIN, and AAKHIRI KHAT. The movie SHAGUN was when
Waheeda Rehman starred for the first and last time with her future husband
Kamaljeet. Again, Shagun saw Sahir and Khaiyyaam work together. Jagjit
Kaur had 2 songs in it a Punjabi wedding song "Gori Sasuraal Chali" and the
immortal piano work
"Tum Apna Ranj-o-Gham..". Otherwise, the songs were by Rafi and/or Suman
Kalyanpur. Also, Khaiyyaam's passion for Pahadi songs (I mean based on the
Raga Pahadi) became visible(audible) for the first time in Hindi movies.
The song"Parbaton Ke Pedon par Shaam Ka Basera Hai" is from here. I
particularly like the two Rafi songs - "Tum Chali Jaaogi, Parchaaian Reh
Jaayengi" and "Ye Raat Bahut Rangeen Sahi". The latter betrays Sahir's
left-wing thinking - so what was
new? Although the two Suman songs "Zindagi Zulm Sahi, Jabr Sahi, Gham hi
Sahi"and "Bujhaa Diye Hain Khud Apne Haathon" were good, they were
overshadowed by the other songs in this movie.
So much for SHAGUN. As for MOHABBAT ISKO..., Khaiyyam almost betrayed his
secret recipe for the quintessential romantic duet in a Rafi-Suman song
"Thahariye Hosh Mein Aa Loon To Chale Jaiyega". There are very, very few
songs that use this chord progression - C major -> E major -> A minor. It
is haunting. I could listen to this one over and over again. The movie
has other songs. A Mukesh-Asha duet "Humse Hoti Mohabbat Jo Tumko, Tum ye
Diwanapan Chhod Dete"
takes us back to the MD's Punjabi roots. There is a nice Mukesh song "Itna
Husn Pe Guroor Na Huzoor Kijiye". There are other songs, but nowhere near
as memorable. From all of Khaiyyaam's songs, "Thahariye Hosh Mein.. "
remains my biggest favourite.
Then came Rajesh Khanna's 3rd movie - AAKHIRI KHAT. In addition to the two
outstanding Lata songs ("Bahaaron Mera Jeevan Bhi Sanvaaro", "Mere Chanda,
Mere Nanhe"), there was a great Rafi Song "Aur Kuch Der Thahar", and
perhaps one of Bhupendra's first Hindi movie songs "Rut Jawan Jawan Jawan,
raat meherbaan".This movie also featured Khaiyyaam's first (and I think
last) attempt at a hotel cabaret song "O my Darling" - hideous! His fans
will overlook that one only because he outdid even his own performance with
Lata's Pahadi song in this movie. What was interesting with this movie was
that the producer-director Chetan Anand decided not to go with his long-
term friend Madan Mohan. Perhaps he was taken up by the need for the Pahadi
sound( the movie was shot in the Kulu valley),and especially after what he
(must have) heard out of SHAGUN, he must have decided on Khaiyyaam.
Further, Bhupendra's first Hindi movie song was from the Chetan Anand movie
"Haqeeqat". And this was Bhupendra's second. Wonder if there is a
connection there somewhere.
Around 1968,Khaiyyaam made his last movie of the 60's. Very few people
will remember SANKALP, but you will probably recall the Sulakshana Pandit
song"Tu Hi Saagar Hai Tu Hi Kinara".
Oddly enough, Khaiyyaam went into seclusion at this point. There were no
Hindi movies for him for almost the next 7 years. There could have been a
couple of reasons for this. Firstly (and I am not sure about this - the
research is still going on), he directed his attention to Punjabi movies.
But more importantly, he decided to work on yet another passion of his -
music for private Ghazals.
He worked closely with Begum Akhtar in her last years. There is a small
but exquisite collection of Ghazals written by Sudarshan "Faakir", sung by
Begum Akhtar, and scored to music by Khaiyyaam. The one I can remember is
"Ishq Mein Ghairat-E-Jazbaat Ne Rone Na Diya" - super.
Then, as Meena Kumari could almost see her own life withering away,she went
open with her true love - poetry. In her only song album "I write, I
recite", she sang her own lyrics,and needless to say,she requested
Khaiyyaam to do the music. He obliged. The album is a testimony to Meena
Kumari's inconsistent brilliance, but Khaiyyaam's musical integrity and
honesty can be seen throughout.
I do believe that Asha and Rafi have both sung private songs/Ghazals with
the maestro. I cannot remember any at this point.
It was now 1975.
This was also the time when Yash Chopra fell foul of his long term business
colleague B.R.Chopra. I am only guessing now, but it would seem that he
now needed to look elsewhere for the Punjabi and Pahadi sounds that had
becomethe hallmark of BR Films like GUMRAAH, WAQT and HAMRAAZ. It would
have been hard to approach Ravi (or even the less likely choice N.Dutta).
Those two were at least by history, closely aligned with the BR Chopra camp.
Yash Chopra could not have made a better choice than Khaiyyaam.
The movie KABHIE KABHIE was their first, and was followed by TRISHUL,
NOORIE and NAKHUDA. In the interim, Khaiyyaam also did CHAMBAL KI KASAM
and SHANKAR HUSSAIN. The latter has 2 exquisite Lata songs ("Aap Yoon
Faaslon Se Guzarte Rahe", and "Apne Aap Raaton Mein"). It also had a Rafi
song "Kahin EkMasoom Naazuk Si Ladki...". And of couse, Khaiyyaam's
favourite Punjabi folk music
was heard again in KABHIE KABHIE in a wedding song (I don't recall the
words but it forms the background and interlude to a Lata song "Surkh Jode
Ki..").
At this point, Khaiyyaam left the world of handicrafted music and joined
the distinguished elite of batch-processors, and probably became the better
off for it. If you care, the list probably goes something like this:
Pyaase Dil, Thodisi Bewafai, Bazaar, Ahista Ahista, Umrao Jaan (an
exception to the Khaiyyaam of the 80's), Mehndi, Dil-E-Nadaan, Dard, Lorie,
Anjuman, and Parbat Ke Us Paar. I might have missed some, but frankly, I
did not keep track of the maestro after the mid 70's. There were some
more Jagjit Kaur songs (I can remember the one in Bazaar "Dekh Lo Aaj Hum
Ko Ji Bhar Ke"). He also brought in another less known singer of Punjabi
songs. I think it was Pamela Chopra. And I vaguely remember a Dilraj Kaur
song as well. Then in the early 90's, he was honoured by the Indian
Government with all kinds of titles.
Janaab Haashmi is one of the very few living grand masters of the Hindi
movie musical soul. If I have gotten carried away in describing his work,
I have a reason. You would probably agree.
cheers
Jairaj, Vinod
Great stuff- very informative. The song from MOHABBAT ISKO KEHTI
HAIN, Theheriye....., as U said, is immortal. My personal favorite of
Khaiyyam is AASMAAN PE HAIN KHUDA, from Phir Subah hogi. The songs of
Shola aur shabanam, too are good, especially the one by Rafi- Pyaar ka
bandhan, janam ka bandhan....
Vinod
Jairaj, Vinod
One of the best compositions of Khayyam, a real rare one as far
as raags are concerned is THEHERIYE HOSH MEIN AA LOON, from Mohabbat Isko
Kehti Hain. I don't think there is any other song in Hindi film set to
the same raag.
Later,
Vinod