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**MyLeva** · 09-07-2006, 08:00 AM

Wow! Am I glad to see this thread. Bumped into it only today.

Talking of Hemant Kumar's creations,
in the same Khamoshi ,KK's "Woh shaam" is one of his very best. Good chorus arrangement too! My most favourite composition of Hemant's is "Kuch dil ne Kahaa, Kuch bhee nahin" by Lata for "Anupama". This is Lata at her sweetest and romantic best. The tune is just a killerand overalll a very sensitive composition. The same movie had songs like Lata's "Dheere Dheere machal Aye Dil-e-Bequaraar" and his own "Yaa dil ki suno duniyawalon". Who can forget his "Kahin deep jale kahin dil" and "Mera dil ye pukare aaja" , both in "Bees saal baad".There was another super Hemant-Lata duet (of course composed by Hemant himself) which goes like "Dekho woh chaand chupke kartha hai kya ishaare".

My other hot favourite HFM composers are SDB, Roshan (my favourite melody maker), Madan Mohan, C Ramachandra, Sajjad Hussain, Anil Biswas, Salilda and RC Boral-Punkaj Mullick. Naushad Ali too was great ,but at times found his melodies lacking that extra bit of emotional touch. SJ were never my favourite composers as their base melodies except for a few like "Rasik Balma", "Dil ki girah Khol do" , "Mujh ko apne gale lagaa lo" were very weak and they followed a formula. Most of their songs would have tunes only for 2 lines. In the sense, there would no strong anu-pallavi and the stanza would be a one-liner (tunewise) and would get repeated 4 or 5 times and then loop back to the pallavi. Their tunes were a bit too simplistic for them to be ranked along with the other greats though commercially they were tops along with OP Nayyar. I am just stating my opinions and hope I have not hurt the sentiments of fellow DFers. Some SDB favourites for Kaushik & Co . (Other than Guide)

Tandi hawayen by Lata. (naujavan)
Remember this was copied in Tamil as "Konjum puraave" sung by MLV.
Chaand phir nikla (Lata) (Paying Guest)
Yehi meri manzil (Lata) (House No 44)
Thum na Jane (Lata) (sazaa)
All songs of "Tere Ghar Ke Saamne".
and many more.

I loved his love-duets , so endearing
kora kaagaz thaa (aradhana)
aaj madhosh hua jaye re (Sharmilee)
Dekho Roota na karo (tere Ghar ke saamne)
Aye maine kasam lee (Tere mere sapne)

Would like to discuss Roshan, my all-time favourite in my future postings.

09-07-2006, 08:00 AM	#38
MyLeva Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 478 Senior Member	Wow! Am I glad to see this thread. Bumped into it only today. Talking of Hemant Kumar's creations, in the same Khamoshi ,KK's "Woh shaam" is one of his very best. Good chorus arrangement too! My most favourite composition of Hemant's is "Kuch dil ne Kahaa, Kuch bhee nahin" by Lata for "Anupama". This is Lata at her sweetest and romantic best. The tune is just a killerand overalll a very sensitive composition. The same movie had songs like Lata's "Dheere Dheere machal Aye Dil-e-Bequaraar" and his own "Yaa dil ki suno duniyawalon". Who can forget his "Kahin deep jale kahin dil" and "Mera dil ye pukare aaja" , both in "Bees saal baad".There was another super Hemant-Lata duet (of course composed by Hemant himself) which goes like "Dekho woh chaand chupke kartha hai kya ishaare". My other hot favourite HFM composers are SDB, Roshan (my favourite melody maker), Madan Mohan, C Ramachandra, Sajjad Hussain, Anil Biswas, Salilda and RC Boral-Punkaj Mullick. Naushad Ali too was great ,but at times found his melodies lacking that extra bit of emotional touch. SJ were never my favourite composers as their base melodies except for a few like "Rasik Balma", "Dil ki girah Khol do" , "Mujh ko apne gale lagaa lo" were very weak and they followed a formula. Most of their songs would have tunes only for 2 lines. In the sense, there would no strong anu-pallavi and the stanza would be a one-liner (tunewise) and would get repeated 4 or 5 times and then loop back to the pallavi. Their tunes were a bit too simplistic for them to be ranked along with the other greats though commercially they were tops along with OP Nayyar. I am just stating my opinions and hope I have not hurt the sentiments of fellow DFers. Some SDB favourites for Kaushik & Co . (Other than Guide) Tandi hawayen by Lata. (naujavan) Remember this was copied in Tamil as "Konjum puraave" sung by MLV. Chaand phir nikla (Lata) (Paying Guest) Yehi meri manzil (Lata) (House No 44) Thum na Jane (Lata) (sazaa) All songs of "Tere Ghar Ke Saamne". and many more. I loved his love-duets , so endearing kora kaagaz thaa (aradhana) aaj madhosh hua jaye re (Sharmilee) Dekho Roota na karo (tere Ghar ke saamne) Aye maine kasam lee (Tere mere sapne) Would like to discuss Roshan, my all-time favourite in my future postings.
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