Rainy days are here again; to love and to be loved! To all and by
all.   For children it's time to go out and enjoy the showers and
a bath in a lake or a pond near the village. It's time to prepare
a  boat  from  paper  and see it cruising down the stream after a
heavy down pour. For those who have seen many such monsoons, it's
time  to  remember the glory of the past and go nostalgic.  For a
laymen in the fields in the vast  country  sides,  it's  time  to
start  ploughing with a pair of bullocks and to hear the sound of
small bells that hang around the animal's  neck!  But  for  young
ones  it's  time  to see their mate.  To see all the colours of a
rainbow descending down all the way in their  life  and  to  feel
that days are more cheerful and memorable.

Hindi cinema has been traditionally musical and was more close to
society  in  the era; that brings you, RMIMer, this series and so
numerous nerver-to-forget songs; immortalised by their lyricists,
composers,  singers,  players  of  various instruments and on the
screen by acting men and women!

I take this opportunity to bring to you some of the  finest  rain
songs our film industry has produced (till 1960).

#36
        Song: Rimzim RimZim Badarava Barase, Naina More Tarase
                Aja Aja Re Balam Jiya More Tarase


        Film:   Tangawali (1955)
        Music:  Salil Chowdhury
        Lyrics: Prem Dhawan
        Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
        *ing:   Nirupa Roy, Balraj Sahani, Shammi Kapoor

Bengal and water are inseparable; and so  are  people  from  that
land  from  water.   One  more treat from Salil-da after Do Bigha
Zamin, on rain songs. Here Lata sings this  rain  song  as  usual
with  good  dedication. Particularly the way she sings "Zim" (the
second one) is too good. I don't know whether to call this number
a song sung while in 'hijra'. Song carries happy mood!

Of course, the best known song from the film  is  by  ever  loved
combination of Lata Mangeshkar and Hemantkumar:
        'Halake Halake Chalo Sanware, Pyar Ki Mast Hawaon Me
                Dil Ko Yeh Dar Hai Pehala Safar  Hai,  In  Albeli
Rahon Me'

But my favourite happens to be:
        'Dil Ke Sahare, Jaan Se Pyaare Koi Pukare, Aja Ri Aja'

Lata sounds so good, as if ringing of bells in a temple!

And.....film has a traditional Panjabi heer by Lata;

        Main Lunt Gai Duniyawalon
        Hae Lunt Gaya Mera Pyar

It really comes as a pleasant surprise to  a  person  unaware  of
music  director;  to find a Panjabi tune from a Bengali director!
But it has happened not only once. Anil Biswas  came  with  tunes
from Panjab; in Heer (1956) and before that in 1952 for Jaliawala
Baug Ki Jyoti.


 
Author: Snehal B. Oza