The prize catch of the album is Hemant Kumar's soul-stirring plea Ya dil ki suno duniyawalon ya mujhko abhi chhup rehne do. The Bheegi bheegi fiza number has Asha at her animated best as she lends lip to Kaifi's picturesque description of the monsoons in Mahableshwar, the Maharashtra hill-station. Lata's Kuch dil ne kaha, kuch bhi nahin is a dilemma we all experience at some time or the other. Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Anupama is one of the albums that have reached out to a large number of people. Who can be unaffected by the poignancy of Rafi's voice in lines like Zinda rehne ke mausam bahut hai magar, jaan dene ki rut roz aati nahin. When it was re-employed in the recent patriotic fare Tinnu Verma's Maa Tujhe Salaam, this otherwise routine film came to life and made one's eyes well with tears. This patriotic song in the 1964 Chetan Anand-directed war film Haqeeqat could move a heart of stone. Two other Kohraa songs, both penned by Kaifi are still crystal clear: the pessimistic O bekarar dil ho chuka hai mujhko aansoon se pyar mujhe tu khushi na de and the positive Raah bani khud manzil, peeche reh gayee mushkil. Yeh nayan dare dare holds you spellbound even today. The romanticism of Hemant Kumar's sonorous voice and Kaifi's mesmerising words tinged with the haunting quality in keeping with the eerie mood of the film. Hemant Kumar was so enamoured by Kaifi's writing in this home production, that he repeated him in Anupama.
She sounds lilting, adeptly articulating and vocally interpreting Kaifi's poetry.
This is one of actress-singer Suraiya's last recorded numbers. Here is a line from this song as proof: Woh gham haseen hai jis gham ke zimedaar ho tum. The beauty of Kaifi's lyrics lay in their beguiling simplicity. Soulfully tuned by the senior Burman, this song was further enhanced by Geeta Dutt's pain-lashed voice to make it the perfect theme song for a lost season of grace.ĭhadakte dil ki tammana O mera pyar ho tum When Kaifi teamed up with S D Burman for Guru Dutt's Kaagaz Ke Phool, he came up with some scintillating gems like that treatise on disenchantment: Dekhi zamane ki yaari, bicchde sabhi baari baari.īut one of the most popular choices is the deeply emotional Waqt ne kiya kya haseen situm tum rahein na tum, hum rahein na hum. Most of music maestro S D Burman's famous 1950s scores had lyrics by the renowned Sahir Ludhianvi - whether it was Navketan's Baazi and Taxi Driver, Bimal Roy's Devdas or Guru Dutt's Pyaasa. P oet-lyricist Kaifi Azmi belonged to the golden period of Hindi film music from the 1950s to the mid-1970s when Shailendra, Sahir Ludhianvi, Shakeel Badayuni, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Neeraj and others wrote exquisite lyrics.ĭinesh Raheja lists some of Kaifi Azmi's most moving songs: