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The 37 most popular Hindi-Urdu songs of 1989

A note about the Geet Mala

Rapidly deteriorating (short-wave) reception of Radio Ceylon compelled Ciba to look towards the infinitely clearer medium-wave All India Radio. However, AIR refused to broadcast a programme called Geetmala because that name was associated with its rival, Radio Ceylon. Cibaca had to compromise and, with effect from the 6 November 1989 broadcast, renamed the programme ‘Sangeetmala.’

For a few weeks (including a few weeks in 1990) the programme was broadcast from both Radio Ceylon and 24 stations of AIR’s popular music channel, Vividh Bharati. Then when the Geetmala gave up on Radio Ceylon altogether and shifted entirely to AIR’s Vividh Bharati, it reverted to its original name, Geetmala.

Therefore, for symbolic reasons, to show the changing and evolving life of India’s most popular radio programme (Mr Sayani claims that they had the biggest listenership in the world, which, given the huge Hindi-Urdu speaking population, is plausible), Indpaedia’s Hindi-Urdu hit song pages for 1989 and 1990 bear the title Cibaca Sangeetmala.

Cibaca Sangeetmala’s Top 24 songs of 1989

	Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)
1.	Ae ji o ji lo ji suno ji...my name is Lakhan	Ram Lakhan	Laxmikant - Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Munna Mohammed Aziz
2.	Saajan mera us paar hai	Gunga Jamuna Saraswati	Anu Malik	Indeevar	Lata Mangeshkar
3	Mere haathon mein nau nau choodiyan	Chandni	Shiv - Hari	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar
3b	Kya karte thay saajna	Lal Dupatta Malmal Ka	Anand-Milind	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Anuradha Paudwal, Udit Narayan etc
4.	Hum tumheiñ itna pyaar kareinge	Bees Saal Baad	Laxmikant - Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Anuradha, Mohd. Azeez
5.	Oye oye.........tirchhi topi waale, babu bhole	Tridev	‘Kalyanji – Anandji’	Anand Bakshi	Sapna Mukherjee, Amit Kumar
6.	Keh do ki tum meri ho varna	Tezaab	Laxmikant - Pyarelal	Javed Akhtar	Anuradha, Amit Kumar
7.	Tere Lakhan ne bada dukh deena	Ram Lakhan	Laxmikant - Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Lata Mangeshkar
8.	So gaya ye jahan, so gaya aasman	Tezaab	Laxmikant - Pyarelal	Javed Akhtar	Alka Yagnik, Shabbir Kumar, Nitin Mukesh, etc
9.	Hawa hawa ae hawa khushboo luta de	Hawa Hawa (Non Film)	‘Mehboob Ashraf’ (Kourosh Yaghmaie of Iran)	???	Hasan Jahangir
10.	Mujhe tumse hain kitne gile, tum itne din	Ram Lakhan	Laxmikant - Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Anuradha, Manhar
11.	Rang bhare baadal se, tere naino ke kaajal	Chandni	Shiv - Hari	Anand Bakshi	Jolly Mukherjee, Sri Devi
12.	Tere hum ae sanam pyaar mein waada raha	Jeena Teri Gali Mein	Babul Bose	Ravindra Rawal	Anuradha, Kumar Sanu
13.	Jeena teri gali mein	Jeena Teri Gali Mein	Babul Bose	Ravindra Rawal	Anuradha, S. P. Balsubramaniam
14.	Sooni sooni ankhiyon mein jugnoo chamak uthe	Lal Dupatta Malmal Ka	Anand - Milind	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Anuradha, Suresh Wadekar
15.	Jeena hai pyaar mein jeena	Love Love Love	Bappi Lahiri	Anjaan	Vijay Benedict, etc
16.	Dil deewana bin sajna ke maane na	Maine Pyaar Kiya	Ram Laxman	Asad Bhopali	Lata Mangeshkar, S. P. Balsubramaniam
17.	Baahar hai problem, ghar mein hai problem	Toofan	Anu Malik	Indeevar	Amitabh Bachhan
18	Dil tera kisne toda	Dayavan	‘Laxmikant – Pyarelal’	Azeez Qaisi	Mohd. Azeez
18b	Rama O Rama tu ney kaisi duniya	Rama O Rama	Rahul Dev Burman	Anand Bakshi	Amit Kumar, Jaishree Shivram
19.	Chahe meri jaan tu le le	Dayavan	‘Laxmikant – Pyarelal’	Azeez Qaisi	Jolly Mukherjee
20.	Padosan apni murghi ko rakhna sambhal	Jaadugar	Kalyanji - Anandji	Javed Akhtar	Amitabh Bachhan
21.	Ek ek ho jaayen phir ghar chale jaana	Gunga Jamuna Saraswati	Anu Malik	Indeevar	Kishore, Pankaj Udhas
22.	Babul ka ye ghar behna kuchh din ka	Daata	Kalyanji - Anandji	Anjaan	Alka, Kishore Kumar

10 ‘songs in the shade’ (chhaoñ)

(As determined by

Bhargava, Anil, Binaca Geetmala ka Sureela Safar, (2007), Vangmaya Prakashan, Jaipur-302015. vangmaya_jpr@yahoo.com)

Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)
Kitne saawan baras gaye (Bees Saal Baad)	Bees Saal Baad	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Anuradha Paudwal
Aas niraas kay rang rangi hai	Eeshwar	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Anjaan	Nitin Mukesh, Kavita Krishnamurthy
Kaushalya main teri tu mera Ram	Eeshwar	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Anjaan	Nitin Mukesh, Kavita Krishnamurthy
Pyar kee dhun sonata hoon (Disco Bhangra)	Ganga Jamuna Saraswati	Anu Malik	Prayag Raj	Muhammad Aziz etc
Yeh paisa bolta hai	Kala Bazaar	Rajesh Roshan	Payaam Saidi	Nitin Mukesh
Jinhe chahiye daulat, Rabba	Main Tera Dushman	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Indeewar	Shabbir Kumar, Anuradha Paudwal
Kisey dhoondta hai pagal saperay?	Nigahein	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Anuradha Paudwal etc
Saawan kay jhoolon ne mujh ko bulaya	Nigahein	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Muhammad Aziz
Tak dhina-dhin yeh na teri hai (Bom-, Bom-, Bombay hai meri)	Rakhwala	Anand-Milind	Sameer	Amit etc.
Kabhi main tumhara rasta dekhoon (Humein aasman nay bheja)	Shesh Nag	Laxmikant-Pyarelal	Anand Bakshi	Anuradha Paudwal, Suresh Wadkar

Three non-film hit songs 1989

	Song		Album		Singer(s)		Music Director		Lyricist
1		Hawa hawa, ai hawa		Hawa Hawa		Hassan Jehangir		‘Mehboob Ashraf’ (Kourosh Yaghmaie of Iran)
2		Zara dheerey dheerey		Alisha Madonna		Alisha Chinai		Bappi Lahiri
3		Rootho na papa, rootho na		Alisha Madonna		‘Leon D' Souza’		Shyam Anuraagi		Alisha Chinai

One additional song with a classical background

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 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.

The chart

Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)
Har waqt tere husn kã (Raag Kédãr/ Taal Dãdrã)	Chingari	Ravi	Sahir Ludhianvi	Mahendra Kapoor
Tere Lakhan ne barha dukh deenhã (Raag Kalyãn/ Taal Keherwã)	Ram Lakhan	No. 12 above

Cibaca Sangeet Mala 1989: annual list

Contents

The 37 most popular Hindi-Urdu songs of 1989

A note about the Geet Mala

Cibaca Sangeetmala’s Top 24 songs of 1989

10 ‘songs in the shade’ (chhaoñ)

Three non-film hit songs 1989

One additional song with a classical background

Raags in songs

The chart

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