Vyjayanthimala in the song Sun Rasiya, Kaahey Ko Jalaye Jiya, Aa Ja from the film Nagin.
Original colours.
The last 17m11sec of Nagin were in colour and consisted of one long sequence of songs. However, none of them made it to the BGM annual charts. Two other songs from the film did, including the no.2 song of the year.

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The 39 most popular/ significant Hindi-Urdu songs of 1954

Notes about the credits

Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik in the song Jayein To Jayein Kahan from the film Taxi Driver

i) Who sang the song Chhota sa ghar hoga badloñ ki chhaoñ meiñ in the film Naukri ? An otherwise reliable website writes: Kishore Kumar and Usha Mangeshkar. But Prof. Anil Bhargava, Mr. Harmandir Singh ‘Hamraaz’ and countless websites write that the female singer was Shaila Bellé and not Usha Mangeshkar. The film’s credits give the names of make up assistants but not of singers. SaReGaMa, that ultimate repository of Indian popular music, credits only Usha Mangeshkar (there is no mention of Kishore, though in the 60-second excerpt that you hear on SaReGaMa you hear only Kishore’s voice). This glaring omission reduces the credibility of the SaReGaMa website. However, because of SaReGaMa’s stature, Indpaedia has gone along with it.

ii) Who wrote the lyrics and music of the song Chandamama door ké pooé pakaaéiñ boor ke in the film Vachan? Hindi Geet Mala credits Ravi Shankar with the music and Ravi with the lyrics.

However, But Prof. Anil Bhargava, Mr. Harmandir Singh ‘Hamraaz’ and YouTube say that Ravi composed the music and Prem Dhawan wrote the lyrics. Indpaedia has followed them.

iii) Who composed the music of the No. 2 song of the year, Man Doley Mera Tan Doley? More than one YouTube upload credits the tune to ‘Ravi and Kalyanji,’ adding that the two were assistants to Hemant Kumar. One assumes that the Ravi in question would be the man who later created hit after hit for producer- director BR Chopra (e.g. Waqt). However, the credit titles of the film mention only Hemant Kumar, and Indpaedia has gone along with the official credit.

The back cover of the LP and the label in the centre of the EP (a disc with two songs on each side), all mention only Hemant Kumar as the composer of this particular song.

‘Ravi and Kalyanji’ are not mentioned as assistant music directors in the official credits of the film. However, we are informed that the assistant music director of the film was a person called Ravi Shanker.

Surely not the maestro?

Not likely. The full name of the Chopras’ favourite was Ravi Shankar Sharma, so it must have been he.

Indpaedia has been able to get hold of several black discs, of the type that used to be called SP (Standard Play, i.e. only one song on each side), which credit the been played in the film to ‘Ravi Shanker and Kalyanji.’ In both Hindi and Urdu, this instrumental track has been described as a gat (a composition). The Urdu credit tells us that the track is ‘bhaag 2’ (part 2).

The word before ‘gat’ in Urdu could possibly be been . In Hindi, it reads more like ‘bom.’

Binaca Geetmala’s Top 16 songs of 1954

	Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)
1	Jayen to jayen kahan?	Taxi Driver	Sachin Dev Burman	Sahir Ludhianvi	Talat Mahmood/ Lata Mangeshkar
2	Man dole mera tan dole	Nagin	Hemant Kumar	Rajinder Krishan	Lata Mangeshkar
3	Ye lo main haari piyaa, hui teri jeet re	Aar Paar	O P Nayyar	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Geeta Dutt
4	Insaaf kaa mandir hai ye bhagwan ka ghar hai	Amar	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Mohammed Rafi
5	Rahi matwale, tu chhed ik baar, man ka sitar	Waris	Anil Biswas	Qamar Jalalabadi	Suraiya, Talat Mahmood
6	Chandamama door ke pooye pakaaen boor ke	Vachan (1955)	Ravi	Prem Dhawan	Asha Bhosle
7	Man ki been matwari baje	Shabab	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
8	Kaise koyi jiye zeher hai zindagi (Badal hai yaañ dhuâñ?)	Baadbaan	Timir Baran, S K Pal	Indeevar	Geeta Dutt
9	Chhota sa ghar hoga badloñ ki chhaoñ meiñ	Naukri	Salil Chowdhury	Shailendra	Kishore Kumar, Usha Mangeshkar
10	Na ye chaand hoga na tare rahenge	Shart	Hemant Kumar	S H Bihari	Geeta Dutt, Hemant Kumar
11	Gaya andhera hua ujâra	Subah Ka Tara	Chitalkar Ramchandra	Noor Lucknowi	Lata Mangeshkar, Talat Mahmood
12	Kabhi aar kabhi paar lâga teer e nazar	Aar Paar	O P Nayyar	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Shamshad Begum
13	Aaj achanak rooth key mujh se (Bolo ray zameen, bolo aasman)	Chakradhari	Avinash Vyas	Kavi Pradeep	Mohammed Rafi
14	Jaadugar saîñyaa chhodo mori baîñyaa	Nagin	Hemant Kumar	Rajinder Krishan	Lata Mangeshkar
15	Maiñ peeké nahin aaya	Kavi	Chitalkar Ramchandra	Rajinder Krishan	Talat Mahmood
16	Na milta gham to barbadi ke afsane kahañ jate	Amar	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar

11 songs in the ‘next rung’

The Geetmala ki Chhaon Mein CDs have only five ‘songs in the shade’ (chhaoñ songs) from 1954. Prof Bhargava has compiled a list of seven. The two lists have only one song in common. Thus, in all there are eleven 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)

Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)	GC	AB
Babuji dheere chalna, pyar mein zara sambhalna	Aar Paar	O P Nayyar	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Geeta Dutt		AB
Aa neele gagan tale pyar hum karen	Badshah	Shankar-Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Hemant Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar	GC
Bol pardesia yeh tu kya kiya	Mangu	O P Nayyar	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Asha Bhosle	GC
Aaj pehli tareekh hai	Paheli Tarikh [sic]	Sudhir Phadke	Qamar Jalalabadi	Kishore Kumar	GC
Charandas ko jo peeney ki aadat na hoti	Pehli Jhalak	C. Ramachandra	Rajinder Krishan	Kishore Kumar		AB
Chandan ka palna, resham ki dori	Shabab	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar, Hemant Kumar		AB
Jeena teri gali mein, marna teri gali mein	Shabab	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar	GC	AB
Sar e mehfil jo jala parwana	Shama Parwana	Husnalal Bhagatram	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Mohammed Rafi, Suraiya		AB
Chahe koi khush ho	Taxi Driver	Sachin Dev Burman	Sahir Ludhianvi	Kishore Kumar, chorus	GC
Dil jaley to jaley	Taxi Driver	Sachin Dev Burman	Sahir Ludhianvi	Lata Mangeshkar		AB
Dekho maney naheeñ roothi haseena	Taxi Driver	Sachin Dev Burman	Sahir Ludhianvi	Asha Bhosle, Jagmohan Bakshi		AB

Raags in songs

Vyjayanthimala in Man Dole Mera Tan Dole from Nagin (1954)
Colourised

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 frequently spelt ‘raga,’ while ‘taal’ is also spelt ‘tal.’)

Wherever a taal has been mentioned, it is the one verified by ChandraKantha.com, and sometimes the raags, too.

Twelve additional songs with a classical background

Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)
Kabhi aar kabhi paar lâga teer é nazar (Raag Pîloo/ Taal Keherwã)	Aar Paar	See No. 12 above
Insaf ka mandir Hai (Raag Bhairavi/ Taal Dadra)	Amar	See no.4
Jaanewãlé sé mulaqat na hone pãee, dil ki dil meiñ rahi (Raag Yaman Kalyãn / Taal Dãdrã)	Amar	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar
Khamosh hai khévan-hãr mera, naiyya meri dûbi jãti hai (Raag Bhairavi/ Taal Keherwa)	Amar	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar
Tere sadqe balma (Raag Bhîm Palãsi/ Taal Dãdrã)	Amar	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar
Aa neele gagan talé pyar hum kareiñ (Raag Bhîm Palãsi/ Taal Dãdrã)	Badshah	See above
Lapak jhapak too aa re badar-wã (Megh Malhãr, Miyãñ ki Malhãr/ Teen Taal)	Boot Polish (1953)	Shankar-Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Manna Dey
Mere pyar mein tujhe kya mila (Raag Désh/ Rupak Taal) -	Maan	Anil Biswas	Raja Mehdi Ali Khan	Lata Mangeshkar
Jaadugar saîñyaa chhodo mori baîñyaa (Raag Briñdãvani Sãrañg/ Taal Keherwã)	Nagin	No. 14
Sun ri sakhi more sajna bulayé mohe jana hai pee ki nagariya (a.k.a.) (Pahãrhi, DîpChañdi, Moghuli/ Taal Keherwã)	Nagin	Hemant Kumar	Rajinder Krishan	Lata Mangeshkar
Jab tum hi hamein barbad (Raag Todi/ Taal Keherwã)	Pilpili Saheb	Sardul Kwatra	Hasrat Jaipuri	Lata Mangeshkar
Chandan ka palna, resham ki dori (Raag Pîloo/ Taal DîpChañdi)	Shabab	See above
Dayã kar ai Giridhar Gopal (Multãni/ Teen Taal)	Shabab	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Amir Khan
Jo main jaanti bisarat hain saiñyãñ (Man saajan né har leenha) (Raag MãñD/ Taal Dãdrã)	Shabab	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar
Jogan ban jaoongi (Raag Brindavani Sãrang)	Shabab	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar
Man ki been matvãri bãjé (Raag Bahar/ Teen Taal)	Shabab	No. 7
Lãyi hayãt, aayé… Yehi arman lekar aaj apne ghar se ham nikle (Raag Tilang/ Taal Dãdrã)	Shabab	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Mohammed Rafi
Gaya andhera hua ujâra (Pahãrhi/ Hinch/ Dãdrã)	Subah Ka Tara	No. 11
Jãyeiñ to jayen kahañ? (Raag Jaunpuri/ Taal Keherwã)	Taxi Driver	No.1

Binaca Geet Mala 1954: greatest hits

Contents

The 39 most popular/ significant Hindi-Urdu songs of 1954

Notes about the credits

Binaca Geetmala’s Top 16 songs of 1954

11 songs in the ‘next rung’

Raags in songs

Twelve additional songs with a classical background

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