Foot Tapping & Heart Stopping Op, The King of Rhythm Options

[swarapriya]

Foot Tapping & Heart Stopping O.P.

The King of Rhythm

After a great night’s rest, you wake up one fine morning and start sipping a cup of fresh brewed coffee admiring the eastern skies reddened with beautiful sunrise. Then all of a sudden you hear a distant radio playing a familiar tune permeating the tranquility of the quiet morning. Did your heart flutter? Did you miss a beat or two? Then perhaps you were listening to a song carried through the gentle morning breeze composed by the King of Rhythm, O.P. Nayyar Saab. That music, like the beautiful morning you are enjoying, lifts your spirits even further up. For that moment you forget all of the life miseries and transcend in the joy the song provides shelter for. Now, that is the power of moving music!

There is some definite magic in the O.P. style of music. It is as stylish as the man himself. It is as interesting as the genius behind the music. It is as intoxicating as the distinctly sweet voice of Geetaji or beautifully seductive voice of Ashaji or the unique vocals of Shamshadji. The clip-clop sounds with the fusion of folk music and the modern instruments make his music a standout.

OP Saab provided countless number of some of the most memorable and hummable tunes ever. In a span of 42 plus years, he composed music for 54 movies. Except for one or two in the beginning of his career and one or two at the tail end of his career, he delivered one hit after another hit. This was one continuous hit parade ever put on display. Based on the premise to make melodious music, he created new sounds. He experimented by juxtaposing sounds of various instruments in coming up with some of the most melodious and memorable tunes ever composed in Hindi film industry.

OP by his own admission was an illiterate in music. He couldn’t read the music notations or the alphabets of music. Yet this “handicap� must have given him a new perspective of how an everlasting melody should be created. Sometimes literacy can impede in growth by discouraging to try experiments that create strange new sounds. Well aware of his own limitations, OP Saab still created many beautiful new sounds through the tunes.

I have been fond of OP’s music ever since I started losing myself in good music and the rich lyrics the poets seems to generally endow them with. Enthusiastically I have been collecting his albums over the years. Currently I have in my possession 32 CDs. That represents 60% of his films. I also have most of other songs from his other movies obtained from various sources including some from different CDs. In the coming weeks I would like to share with you the music of OP Saab from the CDs I own. The filmography of these CDs is shown in the following table.

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Aug 5 2008, 07:00 PM

[soumik]

Thanks Swarapriyabhai for this wonderful album....

Just a request - can u combine the songs “Chana Jor Garram”, “Chooko Thandiya” and “Sainyyaan Raaja” into a single song and upload it ????

Regards

Soumik

Concluding Songs from "Naya Andaz (1956)"...

Here are the rest of the fine songs from this film...

[nandi]

Jaali Note (1960)

Shakti Samanta directed this film that follows the pattern of his earlier 1958 hit movie “Howrah Bridge”. The only difference here is that the hero is Dev Anand instead of Ashok Kumar. However his “Bridge” had another dimension to it. It was the city of Calcutta. That atmosphere is solely missing from this movie. The songs of “Jaali Note” became more popular than the movie. Even today these OP’s songs are hummable and thoroughly enjoyable.

If you are a fan of Asha and Rafi Saab duets, then you are in for a real treat. Seven of the duets out of nine songs were done by Asha and Rafiji. One solo was by Rafi Saab. The other song, a duet by Asha and Shamshadji, I am missing. It was not on CD or DVD. I am requesting members to share this song if they can. Thanks.

The songs “Chaand” and “Raat” are two different songs. The compositions are the same, the singing style is identical, and some of the words are also ditto. But the beginnings and antaras are different. Both are lovely songs.

I am uploading these songs and others from this hit album below…

Thanks for this upload. I recently watched it again and what a cute movie with some very good looking stars and O P Nayyar's fantastic music and R M A Khan's lyrics.

[swarapriya]

Jaali Note (1960)

Thanks for this upload. I recently watched it again and what a cute movie with some very good looking stars and O P Nayyar's fantastic music and R M A Khan's lyrics.

You are very welcome Nandi. Cheers. -S

[swarapriya]

Thanks for this wonderful album....

Just a request - can u combine the songs “Chana Jor Garram”, “Chooko Thandiya” and “Sainyyaan Raaja” into a single song and upload it ????

Regards

Soumik

Here is the combined version of the three songs...

[soumik]

Thanks a lot Swarapriyabhai....

Soumik

Thanks for this wonderful album....

Just a request - can u combine the songs “Chana Jor Garram”, “Chooko Thandiya” and “Sainyyaan Raaja” into a single song and upload it ????

Regards

Soumik

Here is the combined version of the three songs...

[Abdur Rehman]

Thanks SP for the two albums

[swarapriya]

Thanks SP for the two albums

You are very welcome Seshadri. Cheers.

[swarapriya]

Nishchaiy (1992)

This was OP’s second to last Hindi film. With Asha gone from his life OP utilized the singing talents of Kavita Krishnamurthy who herself is an accomplished singer. After 30 years, OP reunites with his old friend for this movie, the lyricist Qamar Jalalabadi. This will be their last film together. Their previous one was “Hong Kong (1962)”. Their collaboration started with the 1957 film “Mai Baap”. Altogether they worked on 14 films.

Here are the songs from this film…

[swarapriya]

Qaidi (1957)

Here are the songs from this film...

[Abdur Rehman]

Thanks SP for the songs... Cheers...

[surhall]

Qaidi (1957)

Here are the songs from this film...

sangeet ka safar
very thanks Qaidi (1957) - songs
dhall

[surhall]

Love and Murder (1966)

This movie really does not have much to do with love. It is just murder and more murders. In the process it also successfully murders viewer as well. The story was inspired by several English films, the most notable being the classic hit “Charade” made in 1963 with some of the Bond stuff thrown into the mixture. OP borrows for some scenes background music from the 1962 “Dr. No”. His score for songs does not help much with the proceedings even though couple of songs are decent, the most notable being Rafi Saab’s “Tere Gesuon”. Here is this and other songs from this film…

sangeet ka safar
thanks Love and Murder (1966) -songs post here
dhall

[taiyab53]

Jaali Note (1960)

Shakti Samanta directed this film that follows the pattern of his earlier 1958 hit movie “Howrah Bridge”. The only difference here is that the hero is Dev Anand instead of Ashok Kumar. However his “Bridge” had another dimension to it. It was the city of Calcutta. That atmosphere is solely missing from this movie. The songs of “Jaali Note” became more popular than the movie. Even today these OP’s songs are hummable and thoroughly enjoyable.

If you are a fan of Asha and Rafi Saab duets, then you are in for a real treat. Seven of the duets out of nine songs were done by Asha and Rafiji. One solo was by Rafi Saab. The other song, a duet by Asha and Shamshadji, I am missing. It was not on CD or DVD. I am requesting members to share this song if they can. Thanks.

The songs “Chaand” and “Raat” are two different songs. The compositions are the same, the singing style is identical, and some of the words are also ditto. But the beginnings and antaras are different. Both are lovely songs.

I am uploading these songs and others from this hit album below…

the missing song from jali note
1960-jaali note-op nayyar-anjaan-asha & shamshad begum-idahr dekh mera dil tera-3.18 min-192 br
enjoy
taiyab

[swarapriya]

Qaidi (1957)
Love and Murder (1966)

sangeet ka safar
very thanks Qaidi (1957) - songs
thanks Love and Murder (1966) -songs post here
dhall

Dhall ji, thank you kindly.

Cheers,
S

[swarapriya]

Jaali Note (1960)

the missing song from jali note
1960-jaali note-op nayyar-anjaan-asha & shamshad begum-idahr dekh mera dil tera-3.18 min-192 br
enjoy
taiyab

Thank you very very much for sharing this song.

Cheers,
S