LATAnjali - 202

raat a.ndhiyaarii hai, maat dukhiyaarii hai
(Sajni, 1956)

Posted by:  Srinivas Ganti
Contributed by: Srinivas Ganti

Feb 2, 2002

There is a thread going on ALUP on the differences between Hindi and Urdu. Restricting ourselves to HFM it will be interesting to see if we can classify
lyricists as Kavi's and Shayars. Most of the poets have used Sanskrit based
words as well as Arabic and Persian based words prolificly. However there are some who have predominantly used Sanskrit words. Pt.Narendra Sharma is one among them. Today is his death anniversary. Here's a link to a post on this great poet, written by Snehal Oza.

https://members.tripod.com/~ATMJH/148.html

Pt.Narendra Sharma had a very fruitful association with master composer Sudhir Phadke.Sudhir Phadke is among those music directors who haven't done much work with Lata quantitatively but scaled the peaks qualitatively. Murliwala, Malti Madhav, Gokul Ka Chor, Pehli Tareek, Ratna Ghar, Sajni and Bhabhi Ki Chudiyaan are probably the only ones in which he worked with Lata.

Here's a masterpiece from Sajni. The way Lata begins with "raat andhiyaarii
hai" is mindblowing. We have a perfect sequel to "so jaa dukhiyaare".

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\startsong
\stitle{raat a.ndhiyaarii hai, maat dukhiyaarii hai}%
\film{Sajni}%
\year{1956}%
\starring{Anup Kumar, Sulochana}%
\singer{Lata}%
\music{Sudhir Phadke}%
\lyrics{Narendra Sharma}%
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raat a.ndhiyaarii hai
raat a.ndhiyaarii hai, maat dukhiyaarii hai
sukh se tuu so mere praan, mere maan, merii rai.n ke vihaar
raat a.ndhiyaarii hai

taare hai.n gagan me.n, aa.Nsuu hai.n nayan me.n
ab naa samaaye merii piir, mere man me.n
dharatii bhii roye aur roye aasamaa.N
mere praaN, mere maaN, merii rai.n ke vihaar
raat a.ndhiyaarii hai

sisak rahaa hai praaN, viinaa kaa taar taar
(jahaa.N bhii nayan jaaye a.ndhakaar a.ndhakaar)\-2
aa.Nsuuo.n ke motio.n kii tuu hai musakaa.N
mere praaN, mere maaN, merii rai.n ke vihaar
raat a.ndhiyaarii hai

jahaa.N bhii tuu rahe, mere aa.Nsuuo.n kii dhaar rahe
balahaarii jaauu.N maaN, meraa man praaN kahe
mere pyaare devataa kaa tuu hai varadaa.N
mere praaN, mere maaN, merii rai.n ke vihaar
raat a.ndhiyaarii hai, maat dukhiyaarii hai
raat a.ndhiyaarii hai
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#endindian
\endsong
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