This folk album came with moving lyrics from Hasrat Jaipuri, about this conversation with god. 1966 Sajan re jhooth mat bolo (Teesri Kasam) This “freedom song” symbolised a moment of rediscovery, where Rosie reclaims her life again.Ģ8. 1965 Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai (Guide) Squawking bats, gliding Sadhna in an ethereal white sari and a crematorium.Ģ7. Madan Mohan creates this atmosphere that is both haunting and melodious. The song became synonymous with revolution.Ģ6. This song in Rafi’s voice was the backdrop of a difficult year with the Kashmir crisis and the death of Nehru, India’s first prime minister. Sahir Ludhianvi took this line from mystic-poet-saint Kabir’s nirgun bhajan that highlighted the soul’s struggle with materialistic desires. 1963 Laaga chunari mein daag (Dil Hi To Hai) Jab hum baithe the gharo mein, wo jhel rahe the goli… It hit home.Ģ3. The song, composed by C Ramachandra, eventually went on to become a tableau of nationalism. In the aftermath of the 1962 Sino-Indian War, a disturbed Kavi Pradeep song, immortalised the words, Jo shaheed huye hain unki, zara yaad karo qurbani. Gulzar makes his debut using Awadhi in the lyrics to describe a woman’s desire to meet the man she loves without getting noticed, due to her fair complexion. This evocative bhajan by Jaidev gave India the message of unity. 1961 Allah tero naam, ishwar tero naam (Hum Dono) Memorable for its rabab riffs, and Manna Dey’s soulful voice about home.Ģ0. It became the song of defiant love for India.ġ9.
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The coming together of potent lyrics, Naushad’s composition, Lata Mangeshkar’s voice and Madhubala as Anarkali immortalising the song with her cracker of a performance. 1960 Jab pyar kiya toh darna kya (Mughal-e-Azam)
Guru Dutt’s melancholic masterpiece was an amalgam of light and shadow, Kaifi Azmi’s words and Geeta Dutt’s voice.īimal Roy’s scathing comment on caste has lovelorn Brahmin boy Sunil Dutt singing for Sujata, a “lower”-caste girl.ġ8. When Ludhianvi’s sharp lines cut through the disparity between haves and have-nots. Salil Chowdhury worked with the simplicity of Shailendra’s lyrics, bringing swelling strings and chirping birds into the tune, along with a unique pause-and-play effect. One of Mukesh’s finest, the song became a refuge for every heartbroken lover. OP Nayyar turned to Punjabi folk in this composition and presented it with his trademark ghudtaal (the clip-clop of horse’s hooves) in the rhythm.ġ3. This song complemented the memorable Ude jab jab zulfein teri. This protest song by Sahir Ludhianvi established him as a peerless poet of the time.ġ2. 1957 Jinhe naaz hai Hind par woh kahan hain (Pyaasa) Who can forget Mohammed Rafi’s heart- rending crescendo Jala do isse, phoonk daalo ye duniya that tore into our heads and hearts.ġ1. Sahir’s poignant verse highlighted the eternal struggle between the crassness of materialism and peace of the spiritual. 1957 Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye toh (Pyaasa) This iconic duet by Lata Mangeshkar and Manna Dey will always be remembered for the iconic imagery of Raj Kapoor and Nargis under the umbrella.ġ0. This Hemant Kumar composition is almost always sung every October 2. One of Kavi Pradeep’s early patriotic lyrics was dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, his ideas of freedom and non-violence. In Manna Dey’s haunting voice, the song was a commentary on the rising inequality in the country. Composer SD Burman had Geeta Bali sing the ghazal as a club number in this Bombay noir.ħ. In this rather buoyant melody, poet Sahir Ludhianvi says, overcome your ruined fate with faith. 1951 Tadbeer se bigdi hui taqdeer (Baazi) Lata Mangeshkar had arrived.Ī favourite with Rafi, the piece catapulted him to fame.Ħ. The song broke all records at Radio Ceylon as people flooded their office with letters to ask for the singer’s name (The gramophone company only carried the character’s name – Kamini). This is the watershed year when Lata Mangeshkar, who sang this haunting Khemchad Prakash composition and took the nation’s breath away, sealing her supremacy in the Indian film industry for decades to come, with no rival in sight. This Ghulam Haider composition carried the zest of the youth wanting to lay down their lives for the nation.Ī trunk call from Rangoon (now Yangon, Myanmar) to Dehradun that spoke of love and longing was an inherently fabulous, funny and catchy number, with Shamsad Begum’s nasal inflection imprinting it in collective memory. Afsaana (story) became the song of the year. Weeks after August 15, an independent India cocked its ears to this gentle ditty put together by Urdu poet-lyricist Shakeel Badayuni and Naushad with Uma Devi crooning it in her earnest voice.