Posted by Nusrat on 04/17/06 02:24

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:59:58 GMT, hi@anony (habshi) wrote:

Dear Habshi: I regret to say our taste in Music is not the same but I
am nevertheless thankful for the link you provided which I have now
placed on top of my favorite list much to my wife's chagrin.
This is but a small token of things that makes me feel I have left a
richer culture behind.


>Everyone has their favourite Bollywood movie , and this one is
>mine. Made around 1970 with Priya Rajvansh and Raj Kumar it has all
>the ingredients that make it stick in the mind for a long time.
>It is one movie that everyone must see . The English subtitling is
>pretty accurate.
> The dialogue in rhyme by Kaifi Azmi , the only Bollywood
>movie is so fantastic that I have known people who have made tapes of
>it .
> The songs are immortal Meri Duniya meh tum ayi must be the
>most romantic song ever written . Milo na tum to hum gabrayen - When I
>dont see you I get worried , when I meet you I am afraid to meet your
>eyes , sings the girl , as happens in real life
> Yeh duniya meri kaam ki nahin - this world is of no use to me
>, he sings when he loses her.
> 'Even god does not have a jewel in his treasure box as
>beautiful as you ' will melt any girl's heart.
> Do dil toote , do dil hare - two hearts have broken , two
>hearts have been defeated - at the separation and many more.
> Pran is absolutely brilliant in his role as the bitter lame
>man who is determined to destroy the girl's happiness.
> The colors are deep and rich . The backround music is
>fantastic eg when the girls are playing hide and seek in the forest.
>Two outstanding scenes are when the girl is asking the father to grant
>her wish (to marry the man of her choice) and when she is arguing with
>the priest who wont accept the fact that she doesnt want to marry the
>man her parents want her to- everyone I have ever known has cried at
>that scene.
>Heer Ranjha - "Yeh Duniya Yeh Mehphil, Merey Kaam Ki Nahin", "Milo Na
>Tumto Hum Ghabrai
>excerpt
>http://www.themusicmagazine.com/newsmay02.html
>
>Azmi wrote songs like Yeh duniya yeh mehfil for Heer Ranjha, an
>experimental film done entirely in verse. (Vikram Seth attempted
>something similar in the novel form, writing an entire book in
>sonnets).
>
>Vijay Anand's under-production Jaana Na Dil Se Door has songs by Azmi.
>Some Kaifi Azmi gems:
>
>Waqt ne kiya kya hasin sitam (Kaagaz ke Phool)
>Chalte chalte yun hi koi mil gaya tha (Pakeezah)
>Kar chale hum fida jaan-o-tan saathiyo (Haqeeqat)
>Ye duniya ye mehfil (Heer Ranjha)
>Tum itna jo muskura rahi ho (Arth)
>Dhire dhire machal aye dile beqarar (Anupama)
>
>http://www.punjabilok.com/poetry/heer_warris_shah.htm;
>and listen to the songs
>
>http://ww.smashits.com/music/hindi-film/songs/733/heer-ranjha.html

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