Vaarshik Geetmala, Binaca Geet Mala Options

[deja]

This period of 1945 through 1953 offered some of the best and most memorable compositions of Hindi film music history from such music maestros as C Ramchandra, Naushad, Husnlal-Bhagatram, Madan Mohan, Roshan, Shankar-Jaikishan, S D Burman, Nashad, Sardar Malik, Anil Biswas, O P Nayyar, and Salil Chowdhury. These music directors worked passionately with poets like Indeevar, Prem Dhawan, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Shakeel Badayuni, Qamar Jalalabadi, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Rajinder Krishan, Shailendra, Nakshab, Sahir Ludhiyanvi, Balwant Tandon, and Hasrat Jaipuri, and singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohammad Rafi, Mukesh, TalatMehmood, Kishore Kumar, Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum, Suraiya, Hemant Kumar, and Manna Dey to create those countless musical gems. As Ameen Sayani recalls, this was the time of newly gained independence and of sheer creativity, imagination, and indulgence put forth by those legendary artistes in their work. According to Ameen Sayani, those immortal artistes laid the foundation of the melodic magic and the hit parade around 1950. These artistes - 12 music directors, 12 lyricists, and 11 singers - ensured a long life for Hindi film music through their brilliant foundation work. These 12 songs (not in any popularity order), representatives of that early era of melody and magic, were popular in the period from 1949 to 1953, when the system of countdown and popularity chart was not introduced in Binaca Geetmala yet:

• ba.De aramaano.n se rakhaa hai balam terii qasam (Malhaar, 1951) Roshan Indeevar Mukesh, Lata
• dekho jaaduu bhare more nain (Aasmaan, 1952) O P Nayyar Prem Dhawan Geeta Dutt
• merii yaad me.n tum naa aa.Nsuu bahaanaa (Madhosh, 1951) Madan Mohan Raja Mehdi Ali Khan TalatMehmood
• kaahe jaaduu kiyaa mujhako itanaa bataa (Naghma, 1953) Nashad Nakshab Shamshad Begum
• tuu ga.ngaa kii mauj mai.n jamunaa kaa dhaaraa (BaijuBawra, 1953) Naushad Shakeel Badayuni Rafi
• wo paas rahe.n yaa duur rahe.n (BadiBehan, 1949) Husnlal-Bhagatram Qamar Jalalabadi Suraiya
• ye raat ye chaa.Ndanii phir kahaa.N (Jaal, 1952) S D Burman Sahir Ludhianvi Hemant Kumar
• ai Gam-e-dil kyaa karuu.N (Thokar, 1953) Sardar Malik Balwant Tandon Asha
• aa mohabbat kii bastii basaaye.nge ham (Fareb, 1953) Anil Biswas Majrooh Sultanpuri Kishore, Lata
• dharatii kahe pukaar ke (DoBeeghaZameen, 1953) Salil Chowdhary Shailendra Manna Dey
• ham tujhase mohabbat karake sanam (Awaara, 1951) Shankar-Jaikishan Hasrat Jaipuri Mukesh
• ye zi.ndagii usii kii hai (Anaarkali, 1953) C Ramchandra Rajinder Krishan Lata