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- S A M I ' S U R D U / H I N D I M U S I C P A G E -

Sami Mohammed,
(A Naushad fan & a RAFIan)
welcomes you to his Urdu/Hindi Film Music Page.

Aap aae to quayaal-e-dhun-e-Naushad aaya
Kitne bhoole hue naGHmon ka pata yaad aaya !!


About this web page


  • This page was originally put together many moons back during my aalam-e-jawaani. Those ``Khwaabon ke din aur kitaabon ke din, sawaalon ki raaten jawaabon ke din" were spent at the grad school of Lehigh University. The page contains articles posted by various knowledgeable people on the newsgroup, rec.music.indian.misc (RMIM), till about July '96. Since then, despite many attempts on my part, I have not able able to truly update the page as a result of time constraints. I have, therefore, decided to let the page be a reflection of what transpired on RMIM until mid-1996. For a more comprehensive collection, you are recommended to have a look at Satish Subramanian's awesome RMIM Page

    I will no longer promise to update this page at a later date and hence will not be able to add any new links either. If you have any music-related queries, kindly post them on RMIM instead of contacting me. There are many people on RMIM who are much more knowledgeable than I and your chances of getting an answer would be higher. If, however, you have questions or comments about the page itself, please feel free to email me at [email protected]

    And finally, thanks for browsing. I do hope you like the page and come back!
  • An Introduction to Indian Film Music (Renu Thamma)

  • The Golden Era of Indian Film Music (Vish Krishnan)

    • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Many thanks to Renu Thamma for designing the layout of this page

    I'm also indebted to Satish Mohapatra ([email protected]) for accomodating more than half the files of this page in his account while it was at Lehigh.

    Thanks to the Indian Students Association at Lehigh and Faez Kaiser for providing disk space for backing-up the files of the music page

    Thanks to Satish Subramanian for his valuable comments, and for providing a lot of articles and pictures included in this page.

    Finally, thanks to all the RMIMers whose articles appear here

    CURRENT QUIZZES ON RMIM

  • At any time, there will be atleast 2 quizzes on RMIM. One of them is the RJGK and the other Chitrahaar. Details of these quizzes previously conducted on RMIM can be found in the following sections. For the current quizzes, look up the newsgroup, rec.music.indian.misc (RMIM).

    • Here is a link to my home page from the Lehigh era



    Mohammed Rafi, my favourite singer
    I am a big fan of the famous music director, Shahenshah-e-Mausiqui, NAUSHAD ALI and the great playback singer MOHAMMED RAFI. My favourite female playback singer is LATA MANGESHKAR and I adore the lyrics of SAHIR LUDHIANWI.
    Here is what you will find on this music page:
  • Some of my posts on RMIM

  • THE NAUSHAD FAN'S PHOTO ALBUM (Plenty of pics here!!)

  • Tanweer's Mohammed Rafi Page (Rare pictures of Rafi Sahab here!!)
    • Regular series on RMIM:
  • CHHAYA GEET: A series by Sami Mohammed (More pics here!!)

  • MAGIC MOMENTS: A series by Ashish Bokil (More pics here!!)

  • THE RJGK QUIZ ZES (A series by Sami Mohammed) (More pics here!!)

  • TASVIR aur TASAVVUR (A quiz to test your imagination and creativity) (More pics here!!)

  • ASAD: A SHER A DAY (A series by Abhay Avachat)

  • THE CHITRAHAAR QUIZZES (series started by Abhay Avachat) (link to the Chitrahaar page maintained by Pavan Kumar Desikan)

  • A YEAR IN FILMS: A series by Surjit Singh
    • Some more stuff on this page:
  • Articles on various singers

  • Articles on various music directors

  • Articles on various lyricists

  • Reports on live concerts

  • Tutorials (informative articles on keyboards, ghazals, etc.)

  • Interesting threads on RMIM

  • On the lighter side (articles that'll tickle your funny bone)

  • Comparisons and Relations (articles comparing various aspects of film music)

  • The HMV Section (list of songs on selected HMV volumes; CD's and cassettes)

  • Various lists (songs of a particular singer, music director, etc.)

  • Miscellaneous articles from RMIM (articles which could not be categorized)

  • Notes and chords of film songs

  • The RMIM "Net-togethers"

  • Hot links to the music world

    • Some of my posts on RMIM
  • The Chhaya Geet series(More pics here!!)
  • The RJGK quizzes (More pics here!!)
  • Tasvir aur Tasavvur (More pics here!!)
  • Ek "Musical" Dastaan
  • Ek "Grad Student" ki Dastaan
  • A tribute to Mohammed Rafi
  • Naushad's Jaimala (In memory of Mohammed Rafi)
  • Naushad's Jaimala (In memory of Mukesh)
  • List of Naushad's Films
  • The other Anarkali: Naushad's magic in Moghul-e-Azam
  • Dev Anand: The hero with TWO golden voices
  • Films Songs: Music vs. Lyrics
  • Beautiful lines from film songs
  • Kalaam-e-Sahir: Beautiful lines from Sahir's songs
  • Roshan/Sahir Combos
  • Mukesh: A Tribute
  • A Talat/N.Dutta gem
  • Spring and the Sony ka dabba
  • Shakeel Badayuni: Melody.txt 1
  • Shakeel Badayuni: Melody.txt 2
  • FORTRAN '94 !!
  • Gulzar becomes Ludhianwi !! :-)
  • Aziz Ahmed Khan Warsi: An exceptional quawwal
  • The Mohabbat FAQ
  • The Bhupendra-Mitali concert
    • Articles on Singers

    Here are some excellent articles on the famous singers of the Indian film industry. The names of the authors are shown in the brackets. For the articles taken from magazines or newspapers, the name of the RMIMer who posted them on the net is preceded by the words "posted by" in the brackets.

  • K.L. Saigal: Down memory lane (posted by Rajan Parrikar)
  • K.L. Saigal (Surinder Singh)
  • Noorjehan and Lata 1 (Vish Krishnan)
  • Noorjehan and Lata 2 (Vish Krishnan)
  • Noorjehan and Lata 3 (Vish Krishnan)
  • Noorjehan and Lata 4 (Vish Krishnan)
  • Mohammed Rafi: The man and the singer (Hari Vattyam)
  • Padmashri Mohammed Rafi (Jagat Mavani)
  • Mohammed Rafi: The song goes on 1 (posted by Pavan Desikan)
  • Mohamm ed Rafi: The song goes on 2 (posted by Pavan Desikan)
  • RAFIana (posted by Satish Subramanian)
  • A tribute to Mohammed Rafi (Sami Mohammed)
  • Naushad's Jaimala (In memory of Mohammed Rafi) (translated by Sami Mohammed)
  • Rafi sings for different MD's (Sami Mohammed)
  • Rafi sings for different lyricists (Sami Mohammed)
  • Rafi's first solos (Surjit Singh)
  • Manna Dey: Down memory lane (posted by Ajay Nerurkar)
  • An interview with Lata Mangeshkar (posted by Ajay Nerurkar)
  • Kishore Kumar: Singer extraordinairre (posted by Rajan Parrikar)
  • Kishore Kumar: An Interview (posted by Rajan Parrikar)
  • Kishore Kumar: In his own words (posted by Rajan Parrikar)
  • Kishore Kumar: The eccentric genius (posted by Rajan Parrikar)
  • Asha Bhosale: The versatile genius (posted by Rajan Parrikar)
  • Kishore Kumar: The comic hero/singer (posted by Joydeep Mitra)
  • Asha Bhosale: A voice for all seasons (posted by Gopal Kondagunta)
  • Asha Bhosale: The early years (Snehal Oza)
  • An interview with Asha Bhosale: (posted by Ikram Ahmed Khan)
  • Talat Mehmood: The silken voice (Nuts)
  • Mukesh: The legend (Jagat Mavani)
  • MUKES H: O jaanewaale ho sake to lauTke aana (Sami Mohammed)
  • Naushad's Jaimala (In memory of Mukesh) (translated by Sami Mohammed)
  • MUKESH: Jag me reh jaaenge pyaare tere bol (Preeti Ranjan Panda)
  • MUKESH: The man who sang "Aansu bhari hai..." (posted by Ajay Nerurkar)
  • Mukesh sings for Anil Biswas (Snehal Oza)
  • A tribute to Geeta Dutt (posted by Hemant Parikh)
  • K.J. Yesudas: Singer with a soul-stirring voice (Ramesh Hariharan)
  • S.P. Balasubramaniam: At the pinnacle of success (Dev Mannemela)
  • S.P. Balasubramaniam wins the national award (posted by Dev Mannemela)
    • Articles on Music Directors

    Some excellent articles on different music directors which were posted on the net by various RMIMers. The words "posted by" before the name of an author in the brackets indicates that the article was taken from a magazine/newspaper.

  • Sajjad Hussain: The unsung genius (posted by Ajay Nerurkar)
  • Music Maestro Naushad Ali (posted by Rajan Parrikar)
  • Naushad: Composer steeped in classical idiom (posted by Gopal Kondagunta)
  • Naushad: Quest for better music continues (posted by Sami Mohammed)
  • C.Ramachandra (posted by Rajan Parrikar)
  • C.Ramachandra: A tribute (Anonymous)
  • Salil Chaudary: An obituary (Sambit Basu)
  • Salil Chaudary: A sketch (Source unknown)
  • Salil Chaudary: A personal tribute (Pradeep Dubey)
  • A tribute to Madan Mohan (posted by Hemant Parikh)
  • Khaiyyam, the musical genius (Vish Krishnan, posted by Amin Meghani)
  • An interview with Khaiyyam (posted by Ashok Dhareshwar)
  • R.D. Bur man: The sound of RD's music (posted by Rajan Parrikar)
  • R.D. Burman: And now there is silence 1 (posted by Amin Meghani)
  • R.D. Burman: And now there is silence 2 (posted by Amin Meghani)
  • R.D. Burman: An obituary (posted by Prince Kohli)
  • R.D. Burman: The Swan Song (posted by Vandana Venkatesan)
  • R.D. Burman: Forgotten favourites (Vish Krishnan)
  • O.P. Nayyar: Not just ghoda-gaadi (Preetham Gopalaswamy)
  • Ravi: The underrated music director (Vish Krishnan)
  • Illayaraja: The musical mission (posted by Dev Mannemela)
  • Raje sh Roshan: A music director of merit (Renu Thamma)
  • A.R. Rahman: A passion for quality music (posted by Satish Subramanian)
  • A.R. Rahman: The new wave (posted by Dev Mannemela)
  • An interview with maestro Amjad Ali Khan (posted by Ashok Dhareshwar)
    • Articles on Lyricists

    Here are some articles on lyricists posted on RMIM.

  • Sahir Ludhianwi: Facts and fiction (Guri, Naveed and Ali Minai)
  • Kalaam-e-Sahir: Beautiful lines from Sahir's songs (Sami Mohammed)
  • Majrooh Sultanpuri: He is no ordinary poet (posted by Satish Subramanian)
  • Shakeel Badayuni: Melody.txt 1 (Sami Mohammed)
  • Shakeel Badayuni: Melody.txt 2 (Sami Mohammed)
    • Reports on live concerts

    Some reports on live performances

  • Asha Bhosale in Berkeley (Preeti Ranjan Panda)
  • The Lata-SPB Concert in Washington D.C. (1995) (Chetan Vinchhi)
  • The SPB-Lata Concert in Washington D.C. (1995) (Vandana Venkatesan)
  • The Bhupendra-Mitali concert at Lehigh University (1996) (Sami Mohammed)
  • The Asha Bhosale Concert in California (1996) (Harish Suvarna)
  • Asha Bhosale in California (1996) (posted by Jai Maharaj)
  • Udit Narayan and Kavita Krishnamurthy in Canada (1996) (Neepun Sharma)
    • Tutorials

    Some informative articles

  • The ABC of Keyboards (Rajan Parrikar)
  • What is a Ghazal ? (Abhay Avachat)
  • Preserving old echoes - 78 RPM records (Gopal Kondagunta)
    • Interesting threads from RMIM

    Some interesting chains of discussions on RMIM

  • Anarkali: C. Ramachandra's magic (Abhay Avachat)
  • The other Anarkali: Naushad's magic in Moghul-e-Azam (Sami Mohammed)
  • Music and time of the day (Ramesh Hariharan)
  • Music and time of the day 2 (Nuts)
  • Lata's solos: Interesting Details 1 (Vish Krishnan, posted by Vandana Venkatesan)
  • Lata's solos: Interesting Details 2 (Rajan Parrikar)
  • Lata's solos: Interesting Details 3 (Sami Mohammed)
  • The RAFI/KK"War" (Various RMIMers, posted by Sami Mohammed)
    • On the lighter side...

    Articles with a dash of humour

  • Ek "Musical" Dastaan (Sami Mohammed)
  • Ek "Grad Student" ki Dastaan (Sami Mohammed)
  • Most of the Chhaya Geets (Sami Mohammed)
  • A Ghazal for RMIM (Sami Mohammed)
  • Gulzar becomes Ludhianwi !! :-) (Sami Mohammed)
  • FORTRAN '94 !! (Sami Mohammed)
  • Programming in C with Mukesh (Preeti Ranjan Panda)
  • RMIM's mock FAQ (Preeti Ranjan Panda)
  • RMIM's FAQ 2: The mockery continues (Preeti Ranjan Panda)
  • A letter from Mohammed Rafi (Preeti Ranjan Panda)
  • The RAFI/KK "War" (Various RMIMers, posted by Sami Mohammed)
  • Abhay's version of the RAFI/Kishore "War" (Abhay Avachat)
  • The rules of "war" (Nuts)
  • How to become a lyrics tycoon (Abhay Avachat)
  • The a mazing frustometer (Nuts)
  • The frustometer revisited (Vandana Venkatesan)
  • Pintu Diwana ko ghussa kyun aata hai ? (Satish Subramanian)
  • Sats speaks for (as) different RMIMers (Satish Subramanian)
  • RMIMers' excuses (Kalyan Kolachala)
  • Popat ki Ka hani (Jasjit Singh and Prince Kohli)
  • Prince's description of this music page (Prince Kohli)
  • Rosebud (Mahadevan Ramesh)
    • Comparisons and relations

    Articles comparing various aspects of film music

  • The Guiness controversy: Who has sung more songs - Lata or Asha ? (posted by Preetham Gopalaswamy)
  • Music Directors and their styles (Abhay Avachat)
  • Music and time of the day (Ramesh Hariharan)
  • Music and time of the day 2 (Nuts)
  • Plagiarism and computerization (Nuts)
  • Singers and actors (Nuts)
  • Dev Anand: The hero with TWO golden voices (Sami Mohammed)
  • Films Songs: Music vs. Lyrics (Sami Mohammed)
  • Different versions of songs (Preetham Gopalaswamy)
    • The HMV Section

    This is NOT a commercial promotion for HMV cassettes or CD's. The lists of songs/cassettes/CD's contained here is purely meant for information purposes. This list has been compiled due to the efforts of many RMIMers whose names are mentioned below. I hope that these lists will help the music lover choose the cassettes/CD's of his/her taste. This is by no means an exhaustive list. It also contains a list of cassettes brought out by companies other than HMV.

  • Info. reg. HMV's Golden Collection (GC) series (various RMIMers)
  • Anil Hingorani's CD collection (Anil Hingorani)
  • From Preeti's Collection (Preeti Ranjan Panda)
  • List of songs in 7 different GC's (Vandana Venkatesan)
  • GC: Asha Bhosale (Vandana Venkatesan)
  • GC: Lata duets (Preetham Gopalaswamy)
  • GC: Geeta Dutt duets (Preetham Gopalaswamy)
  • GC: Manna Dey duets (Preetham Gopalaswamy)
  • GC: Naushad (Sami Mohammed)
  • GC: S.D. Burman (Vandana Vekatesan)
  • GC: Dharmendra (Vandana Vekatesan)
  • GC: Rajendra Kumar (Vandana Venkatesan)
  • Lata/Madan: 2 cassettes (Prince Kohli)
  • List of songs on the Salil Chaudary CD (Prince Kohli)
  • Rare gems: Lata Mangeshkar (Kalyan Kolachala)
    • Various Lists

    Lists of songs/films of various singers, music directors, etc.

  • List of Naushad's Films (Sami Mohammed)
  • List of Naushad's Singers (Sami Mohammed)
  • List of Roshan's films (Satish Subramanian and Sami Mohammed)
  • Roshan/Sahir Combos (Sami Mohammed)
  • Ghulam Mohammed's films (Faez Kaiser, Arun Mahajan, Vikrant and Satish Subramanian)
  • List of Shankar Jaikishan films (Ambrish Sundaram and Satish Subramanian)
  • List of Khaiyyam films (Satish Subramanian)
  • First films of some music directors (various RMIMers, posted by Arunabh Chowdhuri)
  • Rafi's Gems: An alphabetical list (Sandhya Rao)
  • Rafi's Gems: List of songs for different moods (Shrinivas Hegde)
  • A list of Lata Mangeshkar's music directors (posted by Surjit Singh)
  • A HUGE list of Lata's solos from Anil's CD collection (Anil Hingorani)
  • The stars pick Lata's top 10 songs (Snehal Oza)
  • List of Suman Kalyanpur's songs (Vandana Venkatesan)
  • Difficult songs to sing (Ramesh Hariharan)
    • Miscellaneous Articles from RMIM

    Some more articles which do not fall under any of the above categories

  • The making of Moghul-e-Azam (Satish Subramanian and Umesh Garg)
  • Ganesh Chathurthi offerings (Rajan Parrikar)
  • Cantara: A Konkani song (Rajan Parrikar)
  • Songs from the film Raagini (Rajan Parrikar)
  • A Rafi/N.Datta gem (Rajan Parrikar)
  • A Talat/N.Datta gem (Sami Mohammed)
  • Spring and the Sony ka dabba (Sami Mohammed)
  • Aziz Ahmed Khan Warsi: An exceptional quawwal (Sami Mohammed)
  • Music of the sixties (Snehal Oza)
    • Notes and chords of film songs

    Here are a couple of links to notes and chords for some film songs

  • Notes for some film songs (link to Arun Verma's page)
  • Chords for some film songs (link to Arun Verma's page)
  • Chords for some popular songs (Alok Goyal)
    • The RMIM "Net-togethers"

    Here is the "Aankhon dekha haal" of the RMIM get-togethers held so far

  • The first RMIM get-together (Ramesh Hariharan)
  • The first RMIM get-together - part 2 (Sami Mohammed)
  • The second RMIM get-together (Ketan Dholakia)
  • The RMIMeet in Washington D.C. (Ketan Dholakia)
  • The RMIMeet in Washington D.C. - part 2 (Ajay Divekar)
  • The desert island event at the RMIMeet (Ashok Dhareshwar)
  • The RMIMehfil in California (Harish Suvarna)

  • Picture quiz from the first RMIM get-together
  • Picture quiz from the second RMIM get-together
  • Picture quiz from the RMIMeet in Washington D.C.
    • Hot Links to the Music World

    Some links to the world of Indian film music

  • The RMIM Page: (maintained by Satish Subramanian) A must-visit site !!

  • Anurag Shankar's awesome Archive of Hindi Movie Songs - The ITRANS Songbook (ISB)

  • An alternate site for the Archive of Hindi Movie songs maintained by Navin Kabra at the University of Wisconsin.

  • New additions to the ISB. This site is maintained by Rajiv Sridhar and contains songs which are yet to be added to the main ISB. If you don't find a song at any of the sites listed above, check out Rajiv's page before posting a request for lyrics on RMIM. Rajiv is part of the team that transliterates songs from English to Hindi.

  • Tanweer's Mohammed Rafi Page (Check out Rafi Sahab's rare pictures!)

  • Karan Bali's wonderful page on Geeta and Guru Dutt

  • Arc hive of Ghalib's Ghazals maintained by Navin Kabra

  • Dinesh Prabhu's Urdu Dictionary maintained by Navin Kabra

  • Irfan's masala homepage

  • Arun Verma's music page

  • The Hindi MIDI page (A very useful link for midi files, karaoke and chords for film songs)

  • rec.music.indian.misc (RMIM) The Indian music newsgroup

  • RMIM-FAQ maintained by Prince Kohli and Satish Subramanian. This has a wealth of information regarding film songs.

  • Info about the RMIM Auto-mailer which allows you to get many wonderful a rticles, posted earlier on RMIM. Most of the articles listed on this page can al so be obtained directly via e-mail using this wonderful tool set up by Satish Su bramanian and Prince Kohli.
    • Thanks for browsing through my film music page; hope you enjoyed it!

    Phir miloge kabhi is baat ka waada karlo,
    Humse ek aur mulaquaat ka waada karlo...




    SAMI MOHAMMED     (A Naushad fan)
    July 11, 95 se ab tak, musafiron ne is aashiaane par rukne ki zehmat ki.

    Kal aur aaenge naGHmon ki, khilti kaliyaan chun-newaale
    Mujhse behter kehnewaale, tumse behtar sun-newaale
    Kal koi mujhko yaad kare, kyun koi mujhko yaad kare
    Masroof zamaana mere lie, kyun waqt apna barbaad kare

    Main pal do pal ka shaaer hun...

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