Bone phagun mone aagun, lyrics Robi Guha Mazumdar It transpires that Sachin Tendulkar’s father was a great fan of SD Burman, and named him after the music maestro.)ġ. (As I write this tribute to this great artiste from Bengal, who made Bombay his karmabhoomi, Kolkata is going berserk to pay tribute to an artiste of cricket from Bombay, who is retiring from international cricket. Nevertheless, I have taken the help of a friend to provide meaning of some these songs. Here I should tell the readers – if you like SD Burman (is there anyone who does not?), not knowing the language would not reduce your enjoyment of these songs one bit.
#Sd burman bengali songs lyrics series
I conclude the series with what I consider ‘the ultimate SD Burman’ – his pure Bengali songs, as my tribute to the great genius. I had set upon to make this year as SD Burman special, and I have already written a number of posts on him. Not only because of their large number, but also because of their stunning beauty, any discussion on his songs is not complete without mentioning his pure Bengali songs. Therefore, naturally it is in these songs that he is at his best.
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This is what he had absorbed in his childhood, and this was his natural habitat. It is Bengali folk, which was the soul of his music. Therefore, I term them as pure Bengali songs. That still leaves about 95 Bengali songs which to my knowledge have no Hindi versions. I have also written on his Bengali songs and their Hindi versions. Most of these songs have achieved everlasting popularity, without the listeners becoming aware of their original source. SD Burman himself sang some of these Hindi adaptations in films as well as non-films. A few were also adapted by other composers. I wrote on his Hindi non-film songs a year ago.įurther down the internet era, I stumbled upon the largest treasure trove of SD Burman – his Bengali songs numbering over 130, about 35 of which were adapted in Hindi, mostly by SD Burman himself in different voices – Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey, Geeta Dutt etc for films. While his film songs number 15, his Hindi non-film songs are over 25, and range from classical to semi-classical (thumri) to bhajan to folk to romantic geets. He was professionally trained in classical music and he was synonymous with folk music of rural Bengal. In the internet era I became aware of many more of his non-film songs, where he seems to be more exuberant, freed from the constraints of film-music. Dheere se jana was one such landmark of SD Burman. Many of these non-film songs achieved enormous popularity, at times far outstripping film songs.
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In the radio era, one also became aware of his non-film song Dheere se jana bagiyan mein, because Vividh Bharti had a half an hour slot at 2 PM for ghazals and geets of singers like Kamla Jharia, Malika Pukhraj, Jagmohan and Master Madan etc, as also of the well known playback singers, most of whom sang in this related genre. Harvey has written an excellent post on his film songs. These songs were enough to give him an immortal place in film music but he sang about a dozen more, such as Wahan kaun hai tera, Safal hogi teri aradhana, Doli mein bithai ke kahar etc. SD Burman’s either of these two songs would tower over twenty other songs in a one hour programme.
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In the radio era, when the faintest strains of Sun mere bandhu re or O re majhi mere sajan hain us paar fell into my ears from a distant radio, I would be inexorably drawn towards it, as if pulled by a magnet.