#409

          Song:   sapnaa ban saajan aaye
                  hum dekh dekh muskaaye
                  yeh nainaa bhar aaye sharmaaye
                  sapnaa ban saajan aaye

          Film:   Shokhiyaan (1951)
          Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
          Music:  Jamal Sen
          Lyrics: Kidar Sharma
          *ing:   Premnath, Suraiyya

  I waxed eloquent enough about Jamal Sen's peerless music when I
  posted the 'Daaera' song a while ago, so I won't replay the
  eulogy here. Suffice to say this is another one of his splendid
  contributions - the entire 'Shokhiyaan' soundtrack in general
  (which, as expected, is dominated by Suraiyya) , this song in
  particular. An overpowering, classically inclined melody, and
  omigod, that voice again !
  A short prelude starts the song off :
    soyii kaliyaa.n hans paDii, jhukey laaj se nain
    biina kii jhankaar mei.n tarpan laage bain <-- what does this mean ?

  This song is available on the audiotape version of HMV's Lata
  Mangeshkar Rare Gems compilation (the CD version cruelly cuts
  out all pre-1953 songs from the tape set - gems like this one,
  "abhi to main jawaan huun" from Afsaana, etc.)

  What raaga this song is in ? Its similar to the 'chandan sa badan'
  one (if indeed that be a raaga).
 

  ..Hrishi