Learn and Sing 1 Bollywood Classic Hindi Song per day for 300 days, that is what I did. 300 PLUS songs recorded.
Thanks to COVID to be able to do this from home in Nashville TN.
Born & raised in India, I mostly listened to western rock, blues, punk, reggae & jazz.
I challenged myself to learn & sing old Hindi songs which, as a child, I used to hear at home on classic radio or TV.
Recorded live, one take, no edits, with backing track, or with an acoustic guitar.
It is day 406 of 300, and today's song is Ae Dil Mujhe Aisi Jagah Le Chalsung by Talat Mahmood from the 1950movieArzoo directed by Shaheed Latif and produced by Hiten Chowdhary. Music composed by Anil Biswas, and lyrics written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.
Here is my rendition of the song with backing tracks and lyrical video (posted on Apr 26, 2024):
It is day 48, and today's song is Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain (दो दिल मिल रहे हैं) sung by Kumar Sanu from the 1997 Bollywood movie Pardes. Music composed by Nadeem-Shravan, and lyrics written by Anand Bakshi.
This is my first post of a Kumar Sanu song. I really know only very few Kumar Sanu songs. But thanks to smule.com, I get to hear songs I do not know. This is one such song which I heard for the first time in about a year ago on smule.com. I liked the song so I learned it.
Here is a rendition of the song with lyrical video (posted on April 14, 2024):
Here is an older rendition of the song (posted on March 16, 2021):
Day#3, this is my third song of the series, 1 song per day for 300 days, and I am thinking, what was I thinking and what did I get myself into. Why am I singing and posting these classic Bollywood songs when the original recording as sung by the original singer, and as recorded by the original music director and his musicians are still available for anybody to listen to on popular streaming sites like spotify, youtube, pandora, etc. 🤷
I guess I have found a liking to singing these old Hindi songs. Songs that radio played and I would listen to as a boy growing up in India.
Yeh Nayan Dare Dare, meaning frightened eyes, is the title of this smooth song sung by Hemant Kumar. The song is from the movie Kohra. A thriller mystery movie from 1964 directed by Biren Nag. Hemant Kumar is the music director, and lyrics written by Kaifi Azmi. Jhoom Jhoom Dhalti Raat by Lata Mangeskar is another hit song from this movie Kohra.
I must say, I do not remember listening to this song on the radio much. It perhaps was on the greatest hits tape of Hemant Kumar which we had at home. One from my father's song tape collections. In the last few months I have heard a few people sing this song on karaoke apps like Smule.com and Starmaker.com. I learned a lot from them. Quite fun apps too. But it has been a good avenue and experience for me to recollect and learn and sing these classic Bollywood songs. Many of these songs I have never sung before in my life. But thanks to Corona, I am having this opportunity to recollect and learn and sing these songs.
I must say, the pitch or key of the song is half a tone lower than what I would have preferred. Some apps like starmaker do give the option to lower or raise the pitch, but I feel the music quality is compromised. The app I used to record this song does not give me the option to change the pitch. So I went with what was there. So here it, my rendition of Yeh Nayan Dare Dare.
Here is a version with lyrics (posted on April 07 2024):
Here is a solo with acoustic guitar version (posted on April 11, 2023):
Here is a version with backing tracks (posted on Jan 30, 2021):
Day 3, and 297 more to go...Let's see how many songs I can do. Fingers crossed.
It's 11:11pm here, and I think I am going to go now and watch this movie Kohra. Kohra was made in 1964, a Bollywood masala adaption version of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, which in turn was an adaptation from Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca, only with a different end.
Hope I like it. Hope you like it too. Good night!
Tomorrow is another day, another song....1 song per day for 300 days....
Ye Nayan Dare Dare Ye Jaam Bhare Bhare Zara Pine Do Kal Ki Kisako Khabar Ik Raat Hoke Nidar Mujhe Jine Do Ye Nayan Dare Dare Raat Hasi Ye Cahand Hasi To Sabase Hasi Mere Dilabar Raat Hasi Ye Chaand Hasi To Sabase Hasi Mere Dilabar Aur Tujhase Hasi Aur Tujhase Hasi
Tera Pyaar Tu Jaane Na
Ye Nayan Dare Dare Ye Jaam Bhare Bhare Zara Pine Do Ye Nayan Dare Dare
Pyaar Me Hai Jivan Ki Khushi Deti Hai Khushi Kai Gam Bhi Pyaar Me Hai Jivan Ki Khushi Deti Hai Khushi Kai Gam Bhi Mai Maan Bhi Lun Mai Maan Bhi Lun Kabhi Haar Tu Maane Na
Ye Nayan Dare Dare Ye Jaam Bhare Bhare Zara Pine Do Kal Ki Kisako Khabar Ik Raat Hoke Nidar Mujhe Jine Do Ye Nayan Dare Dare
