#329

        Song:   Hai bas ke har unke
                Ishaare mein nishaan aur
                Karte hain mohabbat
                To guzartaa hai ghumaan aur

        Film:   Mirza Ghalib (1954)
        Singer: Mohammed Rafi
        Music:  Ghulam Mohammed
        Lyrics: Mirza Ghalib
        *ing:   Bharat Bhushan, Suraiya


A number of composers have set Ghalib to music in the past-  I've
heard  about  3/4  of  them, and my personal favorites are Ghulam
Mohammed and Khaiyyaam.  The moods and  styles  of  the  two  are
quite  different - the Ghulam Mohammed tunes have  a rather brisk
pace and a fair amount of vocal convolutions to them,  like  this
beautiful  Rafi  melody.  Khaiyyaam,  on the other hand, goes for
more slow-moving, soulful, deeply classical  strains  (there  are
some  magnificent  non-filmi Ghalib  ghazals composed by Khaiyyam
and rendered beautifully by Rafi).

One of the interesting things in this ghazal (something I gleaned
from  Nita  Awatramani's  translation/interpretation of Ghalib...
thanks, Nita!) is the audacious way Ghalib signs off :

        'Hai aur bhi duniya mein sukhanvar bahut achhe
         Kehte hain ke Ghalib ka hai andaaz-e-bayaan aur'

Gee... no one could accuse *him* of being too modest !

Anyway,  this  is  one   of   those   must-buy   soundtracks-   a
Suraiya/Rafi/Talat treasure.








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