Hum tum ik kamre meiñ bañd hoñ…
Dimple Kapadia bañd karoing the kamra and making sure that baahar se koi andar na aa sake in Bobby

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The 73 most popular/ significant Hindi-Urdu songs of 1973

These include songs released in the previous year

Was Yaari really No. 1?

According to Binaca Geet Mala the song Yari hai imaan mera yaar meri zindagi from the film Zanjeer was the most popular song of 1973. Ham tum ik kamre mein from Bobby followed at no.2.

Binaca Geet Mala was a highly respected institution and Yari a warm, loveable song about friendship, but with not much of a tune (try humming it without words).

Ham tum, on the other hand, had an easy melody with what in those days was considered a naughty twist in the lyrics and ‘picturisation’ (a teenaged couple locked together in a room). The general impression was that it was not slightly but infinitely more popular than Yari. (The word ‘picturisation’ is not merely bad but terrible English. The correct word in most contexts is ‘filming’ and in this context ‘concept.’)

Therefore, Indpaedia consulted that ultimate lie-detector: the number of views on YouTube.

Of the various postings of Yari on YouTube, Akram Ramay’s is the most popular. It was viewed 2,38,187 times till 24 May 2015. All uploadings of this song on YouTube put together do not seem to add up to much more. Filmi Gaane’s uploading of Hum tum had been viewed 5,04,435 times till the same date.

And Filmi Gaane’s was only the 2nd-most-viewed posting of Hum tum on YouTube.

Shemaroo’s posting of Hum tum had been viewed 25,83,161 times. Thiry lakh vs. 2.3 lakh. The Bobby song had been viewed 12.9 times more often than the Zanjeer song.

Binaca Geet Mala has been the only credible hit parade in the history of India’s Hindi-Urdu popular music, but such a wide 1,290% gap does call into question its methods of shrota sanghoñ ki rayé or whatever.

Racism at no.14

Jayshree plays a pretty Naga called, ha, ha, Jao, in the racist Ye Gulistan Hamara.
Ao teenagers have won the Miss Nagaland contest more often than any other Naga community since 2012. Esther Jamir, an Ao, is a model on the national circuit.

The film Ye Gulistan Hamara was about ‘the Naga issue.’ It had a song sung by Danny Denzongpa (his native Sikkim was an independent country then), which was filmed on a clown (Johnny Walker, who plays a drunken Ao in the song and keeps stumbling as he chases actress Jayshree). (Contrary to what was said on vol.37 of GCM, the song was not filmed on Danny.)

Now, what kind of a name is Ao? According to Mr Amin Sayani it is a ‘Nepal kay aas paas kay kirdaar ka naam’ (the name of a character who lived near or around Nepal.)

Wow!

Do these Bombay Bimbos (Mumbai was Bombay in 1972)—not just Mr Sayani but all those involved in the making of this offensive song, director Atma Ram and lyricist Anand Bakshi downwards—realise how much hurt their racism causes other communities—the Aos in this case.

As for ‘Nepal kay aas paas’ is concerned, Indpaedia measured the shortest aerial distance between Nepal’s easternmost town, Birtamode, and Mokokchung in the Indian state of Nagaland, which is the Aos’ headquarter. The distance is 884km. Would you say that Hyderabad/ Udaipur/ Bhopal/ Chittorgarh are ‘Mumbai kay aas paas,’ though they are only 707km/ 756km/ 775km/ 864km from Mumbai.

The question is NOT of poor geography but of being ignorant of and excluding fellow Indians, of making the Aos, the Nagas, the North Easterners feel unknown and thus unwanted in India.

Why is a part of India, why are an Indian people, being defined in terms of another country? Would these Bombay Bimbos dare define Jammu, Amritsar or Jaisalmer as ‘Pakistan kay aas paas sheher,’ though these are the three Indian towns closest to the border?

Why just border towns? Mumbai is less than 700km. from Pakistan’s Keti Bunder South Wildlife Sanctuary by air. Would Mr Sayani dare define Mumbai as a place that is ‘Pakistan kay aas-paas’?

We repeat: Mumbai is MUCH closer to Pakistan than Mokokchung is to Nepal.

The problem began not with vol.37 of GCM but in 1972 itself when the Aos, the Nagas, the North Easterners in general and secular Indians everywhere were all offended by this tasteless pun on the name of the Ao tribe. (This was apart from the Gurkha-style slurring of paas into paash. Rural Gurkhas might not be able to say ‘s’ but all Aos and educated Gurkhas can). And Mr. Ao, played by Johnny Walker, is seen as a stupid and unattractive character, a bumbling alcoholic to boot.

Northeastern Indians, especially the Aos, were so hurt that the makers of Ye Gulistan Hamara had to re-do the offensive song. The revised opening words were ‘Merey paash-i aao.’

Like a good Mindless Mumbai Millionaire Mr Sayani chose (inadvertently, we hope, because we love him, though we love the north-east far more) to use the offensive version 40 years later, in 2012, and aggravated it by defining the Aos in terms of a foreign country.

Tamil at no. 15

Dimple Kapadia showing kya hota (what would happen) agar aisa ho (if they were locked together in a hut). From Bobby (1973)
The Fisheries Deptt. hut in Pahalgam in which this song is said to have been filmed has since been unofficially called the Bobby Hut.

Mutthu kodi kavaadi harhaa is Tamil for ‘dive into the ocean to find the pearl.’

Nothing offensive in the lyrics, but once again it was the film’s clown and his equally clownish inamorata (played by Rama Prabha, a famous Telugu comedienne) who got to sing in the ‘other’ language.

Inside stories

Mr Amin Sayani informs us: The song Chaen se hum ko kabhi from the film Pran Jaye Par Vachan Na Jaye was removed from film, because, according to rumours, there was tension between composer OP Nayyar and singer Asha Bhosle. However, the song was left alone on the LP (long playing record).

The ‘next rung’

The Geetmala ki Chhaon Mein CDs list 22 songs that were ‘in the shade’ (chhaoñ songs) this year. Prof Bhargava has compiled a list of 11 runners-up. The two lists have one song in common (and that is a song that was played in passing on disc 37 of GC but has not been listed on the jacket as a chhaoñ song). Thus, between the two, there are 32 unique songs in the ‘next rung.’

GC: Geetmala ki Chhaon Mein is a set of 50 CDs issued by Saregama in instalments that continued into 2012-13. The set concentrated on songs that had ‘remained in the shadow’ (chhaoñ) of the main annual list of Binaca and its successor Geet Malas. These, thus, were the ‘next rung’ of songs, which were popular but did not make it to the main annual list.

AB: Bhargava, Anil, Binaca Geetmala ka Sureela Safar (Hindi; 2007; Rs.1,200), Vangmaya Prakashan, Jaipur-302015. vangmaya_jpr@yahoo.com)

Raags in songs

Few film songs that have a root in Indian classical music remain faithful to a raag throughout their length. Indpaedia volunteers have sometimes mentioned raags even when there is merely a hint of that raag in a song. (Raag is also spelt raga.)

Wherever a taal has been mentioned, Indpaedia’s volunteers have crosschecked it with (Raag David Courtney/ ChandraKantha.com, and sometimes the raags, too.

Binaca Geetmala’s 37 top songs of 1973

	Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)
1	Yari hai imaan mera yaar meri zindagi	Zanjeer	Kalyanji Anandji	Gulshan Bawra	Manna Dey
2	Baahar se koi andar na aa sake [ham tum ik kamre mein]	Bobby	Laxmikant Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar, Shailender Singh
3	Do béchare bina sahare	Victoria No. 203	Kalyanji Anandji	Varma Malik	Kishore Kumar, Mahendra Kapoor
4	Meri bheegi bheegi si palkon pe (Raag Kîrwãni/ Taal Keherwã)	Anamika	R D Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Kishore Kumar
5	Samjhauta ghamon se kar lo	Samjhauta	Kalyanji Anandji	Indeevar	Kishore Kumar/ Lata Mangeshkar
6	Tere nainon ke main deep jalaunga	Anuraag	Sachin Dev Burman	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
7	Ab chahé maañ rootthe yaañ baba	Daag	Laxmikant Pyarelal	Sahir Ludhianvi	Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
8	Yaree ho gayee yar say lak tunu tunu	Do Chor	R D Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Lata Mangeshkar
9	Dheere se jana khatiyan mein	Chhupa Rustam	Sachin Dev Burman	Neeraj	Kishore Kumar
10	Jab andhera hota hai, aadhi raat ke baad	Raja Rani	‘R D Burman’ (‘Age of Aquarius’/ Hair)	Anand Bakshi	Asha Bhosle, Bhupinder Singh
11	Hawa ke saath saath, ghata ke sang sang, o saathi chal	Seeta Aur Geeta	R D Burman	Anand Bakshi	Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle
12	A B C D chhodo naina se naina jodo	Raja Jani	Laxmikant Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar
13	O mere dil ke chaen, chaen aaye mere dil ko dua keejiye	Mere Jeevan Saathi	R D Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Kishore Kumar
14	‘Mera nâm-i Ao, merey pâsh-i aao.’ ‘Ho! Tera naam Ao to mera naam Jao’	Ye Gulistan Hamara	Sachin Dev Burman	Anand Bakshi	Danny Denzongpa, Lata Mangeshkar
15	Mutthu kodi kavaadi harhaa (Aiyo ray, aiyo, aiyo, pyar mein jo na karna châha voh bhi)	Do Phool	R D Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Asha Bhosle, Mehmood
16	Tere mere milan ki yeh raina	Abhimaan	Sachin Dev Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
17	Dheere dheere bol koyi sun na le	Gora Aur Kala	Laxmikant Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh
18	Gir gaya jhumka. Girné do	Jugnu	Sachin Dev Burman	Anand Bakshi	Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
19	Kaali palak teri gori khulne lagee [ik chorni]	Do Chor	R D Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
20	Meré dil mein aaj kya hai	Daag	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Sahir Ludhianvi	Kishore Kumar
21	Main ek chor tu meri rani	Raja Rani	R D Burman	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar
22	Sansar ki har sheh ka itna hi fasaana hai (Raag Bhûpãli/ Taal Keherwã)	Dhund	Ravi	Sahir Ludhianvi	Mahendra Kapoor
23	Meet na mila re man ka koi to milan ka karo re upayé	Abhimaan	Sachin Dev Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Kishore Kumar
24	Chal chaleiñ ai dil, kareiñ chal kar kisi ka intezaar	Jheel Ke Us Paar	Rahul Dev Burman	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar
25	Musafir hoon yaro na ghar hai na thikana	Parichay (1972)	R D Burman	Gulzar	Kishore Kumar
26	Tu na mili to hum jogi ban jaeiñgey	Victoria No. 203	Kalyanji Anandji	Indeevar	Kishore Kumar
27	Gori gori gaoñ ki gori re (Raag Tilañg/ Taal Dãdrã, Hinch)	Ye Gulistan Hamara	Sachin Dev Burman	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar
28	Gum hai kisi ke pyar mein dil subah shaam	Rampur Ka Lakshman	R D Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar
29	Aaj mausam bada beiman hai	Loafer	Laxmikant Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Mohammed Rafi
30	Buré bhi hum bhale bhi hum [Banarasi babu]	Banarsi Babu	Kalyanji Anandji	Rajinder Krishan	Kishore Kumar
31	Sun ri pavan, pavan purvaiyya, main hun akeli albeli (Raag Bhairavi/ Taal Hinch)	Anuraag (1972)	Sachin Dev Burman	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar
32	Jhooth bole kauva kaatey	Bobby	Laxmikant Pyarelal	Vitthalbhai Patel	Shailender Singh, Lata Mangeshkar
33	Deewane haiñ deewane ko na ghar chahiye	Zanjeer	Kalyanji Anandji	Gulshan Bawra	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
34	Zara sa usko chhua to usne, haye, usne macha diya shor	Shor	Laxmikant Pyarelal	Santosh Anand	Lata Mangeshkar
35	Kai sadiyoñ se, kai janmoñ se, tere pyar ko tarse mera man	Milap	Brij Bhushan	Naqsh Lyallpuri	Mukesh
36	Bahon mein chale ao	Anamika	R D Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Lata Mangeshkar
37	Thokar meiñ hai meri sara zamana	Shehzada	R D Burman	Rajinder Krishan	Kishore Kumar

32 songs in the ‘next rung’

Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)	AB	GC
Mujhe meri biwi se bachao	Aaj Ki Taza Khabar	Shankar-Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Kishore Kumar		GC
Piya bina piya bina bañsiyã bãjé nã	Abhimaan	Sachin Dev Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Lata Mangeshkar		GC
Teri bindiya re	Abhimaan	Sachin Dev Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi		GC
Hungama ho gaya (Sab né pee hai, mujh peh ilzaan kyoñ hai?)	Anhonee	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Varma Malik	Asha Bhosle	AB
Wasta hi na jab raha tumse	Chori Chori	Shankar-Jaikishan	Gulshan Bawra	Mukesh		GC
Ham aur tum, tum aur ham	Daag	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Sahir Ludhianvi	Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar	AB
Uijhan suljhe na rasta sujhe na	Dhund	Ravi	Sahir Ludhianvi	Asha Bhosle		GC
Sundar ho aisi tum jidhar chalo ek baar	Dil ka Raja	Rahul Dev Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Mohammed Rafi	AB
Rasm-é-ulfat ko nibhayeiñ (Raag Madhuvañti/ Taal Keherwã)	Dil Ki Rahen	Madan Mohan	Naqsh Lyallpuri	Lata Mangeshkar		GC
Pyãr kabhi kam na karnã	Ek Mutthi Aasman	Madan Mohan	Indeewar	Kishore Kumar, Vani Jairam		GC
Dil ka soona saaz	Ek Naari Do Roop	Ganesh	Asad Bhopali	Mohammed Rafi		GC
Aaj socha to ansoo bhar aaye	Hanste Zakhm	Madan Mohan	Kaifi Azmi	Lata Mangeshkar		GC
Hai tere saath meri wafa	Hindustan Ki Kasam	Madan Mohan	Kaifi Azmi	Lata Mangeshkar		GC
Har taraf ab yehi afsane hain	Hindustan Ki Kasam	Madan Mohan	Kaifi Azmi	Manna Dey		GC
Chanda ki kiranoñ se	Intezar	Chitragupt	Varma Malik	Kishore Kumar		GC
Ab kay saawan meiñ jee darey, rimjhim tan peh	Jaise ko Taisa	Rahul Dev Burman	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar	AB
Dil meiñ jo bâteiñ haiñ aaj chalo hum keh deiñ	Joshila	Rahul Dev Burman	Sahir Ludhianvi	Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle	AB
Kachche dhaage kay saath jisé bâñdh liya jaye	Kachche Dhaage	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar	AB
Koi shehri babu, dil lehri babu	Loafer	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Asha Bhosle	AB
Kanhaiya, Kanhaiya tujhe aana padega, vachan Geeta wala nibhana padega	Maalik	Kalyanji-Anandji	Rajinder Krishan	Mahendra Kapoor	AB
Chala jata hoon	Mere Jeevan Saathi	Rahul Dev Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Kishore Kumar		GC
Beeti na bitai raina (Raag Bihãg)	Parichay (1972)	Rahul Dev Burman	Gulzar	Lata Mangeshkar, Bhupinder		GC
Sãrey kay sarey gãma (Raag Alhaiya Bilãwal/ Taal Keherwã)	Parichay	Rahul Dev Burman	Gulzar	Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle	AB	GC
Sandhya jo aaye	Phagun	Sachin Dev Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Lata Mangeshkar		GC
Chain se humko kabhi	Pran Jaye Par Vachan Na Jaye	O P Nayyar	S.H. Bihari	Asha Bhosle		GC
Johnny O Johnny, jaldi say aa ja	Raja Jani	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Kishore Kumar	AB
Barkha rani zara jamke barso	Sabak	Usha Khanna	Saawan Kumar	Mukesh		GC
Badi door se aaye hain	Samjhauta	Kalyanji-Anandji	Indeewar	Mohd. Rafi, Mukesh		GC
Kyon layo saiyan paan	Saudagar	Ravindra Jain	Ravindra Jain	Asha Bhosle		GC
Sajna hai mujhe sajna ke liye	Saudagar	Ravindra Jain	Ravindra Jain	Asha Bhosle		GC
Neeñd chura kay raatoñ meiñ (Hum phir baat badal)	Shareef Badmash	Rahul Dev Burman	Anand Bakshi	Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar	AB
Mera sab kuchh mere geet re	Zindagi Zindagi	Sachin Dev Burman	Anand Bakshi	Manna Dey		GC

Four more songs with a classical background

Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)
Ab to hai tum se har khushi apni (Mand/ Taal Keherwã)	Abhimaan	Sachin Dev Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Lata Mangeshkar
Nadiya kinaré hérãyé aayee kangna, aisé ulajh gayé anãri sajnã (Raag Pîloo/ Taal Dãdrã)	Abhimaan	Sachin Dev Burman	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Lata Mangeshkar
Ré ré bahãr aayi, aayi, san san pavan chalé purvãî [Lañk-pati Lañkésh ki jai] (Raag Bahãr)	Jai Hanumaan	Narayan Dutt	Bharat Vyas	Asha Bhosle, Mahendra Kapoor
Banã ke kyuñ bigãrhã ré, bigãrhã ré nasîbã, ûpar wãlé (Raag Shivarañjini/ Taal Keherwã)	Zanjeer	Kalyanji Anandji	Gulshan Bawra	Lata Mangeshkar

Binaca Geet Mala 1973: greatest hits

Contents

The 73 most popular/ significant Hindi-Urdu songs of 1973

Was Yaari really No. 1?

Racism at no.14

Tamil at no. 15

Inside stories

The ‘next rung’

Raags in songs

Binaca Geetmala’s 37 top songs of 1973

32 songs in the ‘next rung’

Four more songs with a classical background

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