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The 83 most popular/ significant Hindi-Urdu songs of 1963

A note about the credits

Who wrote the song Hañsta hua noorãni chehra for the film Parasmani? A usually reliable website said Farooq Qaisar, while Prof. Bhargava, rightly, credited it to Asad Bhopali, as confirmed by SaReGaMa.

A note about years

Geetmala ki Chhaon Mein’s jacket says that Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke was released in 1962. Mr Sayani’s commentary, Sureela Safar and Geet Kosh put it in 1963. Geet Kosh should have been enough but out of abundant caution Indpaedia checked the film’s censor certificate. 14 February 1963, it read. An ironic date for a film about a murder arising out of an extra-marital affair, but appropriate to the film’s title.

Jaidev: unsuccessful despite Hum Dono

The first mystery that Mr Sayani hints at is why Dev Anand’s Navketan never repeated Jaidev as music director despite the phenomenal success of his score for Navketan’s 1961 film Hum Dono? (The film included the no. 2 and no. 12 hits of the year.)

Everyone—from the Anands to Jaidev—was always tight-lipped about this. Indpaedia’s theory is that Navketan’s regular composer, the very powerful SD Burman (who had been among Jaidev’s bosses), had taken offence to being left out of Hum Dono, despite having given Navketan all its top musical hits, before and after.

The second mystery surrounds the breakup of Sahir and Jaidev. They had collaborated on Hum Dono’s timeless classics. Mujhe Jeene Do was being made around that time (1962). Sahir had penned four lyrics for the film. He was a superstar. Jaidev, despite a major hit under his belt, had not outgrown the ‘assistant to music directors’ label. The normal protocol is for the lyricist to go over to the music director’s music room (normally a room in the composer’s house), where they sit together and marry the score to the words. Sahir, perhaps because of his stature, sent word to Jaidev that whoever wanted to set his words to music would have to come over to his, Sahir’s, house, along with his tabla and baaja (normally a harmonium). Jaidev found this unacceptable (and, obviously, inconvenient). Therefore, they never worked together again.

Pyar ka aalam

The low-budget film Yeh Dil Kisko Dooñ, one of Shashi Kapoor’s earliest as a hero, had an absolutely delicious Rafi song that went, Phir aane laga yaad wohi pyar ka aalam. GCM, in its usual blundering manner, specified that this was a 1962 film, though in his commentary Mr Sayani had said that it was a 1963 film.

There was only Geet Kosh to appeal to, and 1963 it said. YouTube agreed. The film’s censor certificate renewal of 1983, too, hints at 1963.

In the process Indpaedia’s volunteers found the answer to what had till then been a mystery to them. Whose was the female voice that popped up periodically and uttered just three little words: Pyar ka aalam? It was pointless to check with the GCM jacket or its equally sloppy parent website, Saregama, both of which credit only Mohammed Rafi with the singing. Perhaps for that reason radio jockeys of even the 1960s normally forgot to mention the female singer of this song.

Only a year later, in 1964, Sangam’s Hoga ki naheen started a tradition that was taken forward by Aman’s Aaj ki raat and An Evening in Paris’ ja-ja. All of these (and many subsequent) films gave copious credit to their leading ladies, who were no singers, for the phrases that they mouthed.

Therefore, it was often assumed that the phrase Pyar ka aalam must have been chanted by Yeh Dil’s heroine (Ragini, we are informed by the film’s credits) before it became fashionable to credit non-singing stars.

Not so. Geet Kosh tells that it was Usha Khanna’s voice. The film’s credit titles include Khanna among those who sang for the film.

(There must have something seriously wrong with the singing credits of this film’s discs. Even Geet Kosh does not know who the female singer of Mera dil tum pe aa gaya was. The book just says, ‘female voice.’ Geet Kosh had to contact Iqbal Qureshi to solve the mystery of Pyar ka aalam, and to get the name of the singer of Main hoon pyare teri diwani [it was Asha Bhosle].)

Ramlal

Ramlal, the music director of Sehra, was a leading shehnai player, an instrument that you can hear on Taqdeer ka fasana. Chandrakantha informs us that his full name was Ramlal Hirapanna.

Songs in the ‘next rung’

The Geetmala ki Chhaon Mein CDs list 11songs that were ‘in the shade’ (chhaoñ songs) this year. Prof Bhargava has compiled a list of 16 runners-up. The two lists have no songs in common. Thus, between the two, there are 27 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.)

Binaca Geetmala’s top 32 songs of 1963

	Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)
1	Jo vaada kiya woh nibhana parhega (Pahãrhi/ Taal Keherwã)	Taj Mahal	Roshan	Sahir Ludhianvi	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
2	Dil ek mandir hai (Raag Jogia/ Taal Dãdrã)	Dil Ek Mandir	Shankar Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Suman Kalyanpur, Mohammed Rafi
3	In hawaoñ meiñ, in fizaoñ meiñ tujhko mera pyar pukare Aaja re tujhko mera pyar pukare (Raag Bhoopãli, Pahãrhi/ Taal Keherwã)	Gumrah	Ravi	Sahir Ludhianvi	Asha Bhosle, Mahendra Kapoor
4	Chalo ik bar phir se, ajnabi ban jayeiñ ham dono	Gumrah	Ravi	Sahir Ludhianvi	Mahendra Kapoor
5	Aawaz dekè hameiñ tum bulao (Shivarañjini/ Jhap Taal)	Professor	Shankar Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
6	Mujhko apne gale laga lo, ai mere hamrahi	Hamrahi	Shankar Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Mohammed Rafi, Mubarak Begum
7	Hañsta hua noorãni chehra, kâli zulfeiñ rang sunehra (Raag Bhairavi)	Parasmani	Laxmikant Pyarelal	Asad Bhopali	Kamal Barot, Lata Mangeshkar
8	Zindagi kitni khoobsoorat hai, aaiye aapki zuroorat hai	Bin Badal Barsaat	Hemant Kumar	Shakeel Badayuni	Hemant Kumar/ Lata Mangeshkar
9	Aaj chhedo muhabbat ki shehnaiyañ/ Dil ke tukde huye aur jigar lut gaya	Son of India	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar
10	O janewale ho sake to laut ke aana	Bandini	Sachin Dev Burman	Shailendra	Mukesh
11	Ik ghar banauñga, tere ghar ke samne	Tere Ghar Ke Samne	Sachin Dev Burman	Hasrat Jaipuri	Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
12	Tum hi tum ho merey jeevan meiñ	Ek Dil Sau Afsane	Shankar Jaikishan	Shailendra	Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
13	Ae gulbadan, ae gulbadan, phuloñ ki mehek kanto ki chubhan	Professor	Shankar Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Mohammed Rafi
14	Dil tera dîwana hai sanam	Dil Tera Deewana	Shankar Jaikishan	Shailendra	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
15	Woh jab yaad aaye bahut yaad aaye (Raag Kalyãn/ Taal Keherwã)	Parasmani	Laxmikant Pyarelal	Asad Bhopali	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
16	Dil todne vale, tujhe dil dhooñdh raha hai	Son of India	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
17	Mora gora ang layi le	Bandini	Sachin Dev Burman	Gulzar	Lata Mangeshkar
18	Bhagvan ik qusoor ki itni badi saza	Gehra Daag	Ravi	Shakeel Badayuni	Mohammed Rafi
19	Dil jo bhi kahega, maneiñge duniya meiñ hamara dil hi to hai (Raag Kalyãn/ Taal Keherwã)	Dil Hi To Hai	Roshan	Sahir Ludhianvi	Mukesh
20	Aaj ki taaza khabar	Son of India	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Shanti Mathur
21	Ruk ja raat theher ja re chanda	Dil Ek Mandir	Shankar Jaikishan	Shailendra	Lata Mangeshkar
22	Ye vadiyan ye fizâeiñ bula rahi hain tumheiñ (Pahãrhi/ Taal Keherwã)	Aaj Aur Kal	Ravi	Sahir Ludhianvi	Mohammed Rafi
23	Paoñ chhoo lene do phoolon ko inaayat hogi	Taj Mahal	Roshan	Sahir Ludhianvi	Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
24	Mere mehboob tujhe, meri muhabbat ki qasam (Raag Jhinjhoti/ Taal Dãdrã)	Mere Mehboob	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Mohammed Rafi/ Lata Mangeshkar
25	Tum agar mujhko na chaho to koi baat naheen (Raag Yaman Kalyãn/ Taal Keherwã)	Dil Hi To Hai	Roshan	Sahir Ludhianvi	Mukesh
26	Zaroorat hai zaroorat hai	Manmauji	Madan Mohan	Rajinder Krishan	Kishore Kumar
27	Ek dil aur sau afsane (Raag Bhairavi/ Taal Dãdrã)	Ek Dil Sau Afsane	Shankar Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Lata Mangeshkar
28	Lãgã chunari mein daagh chhupaooñ kaise (Raag Sindhu Bhairavi/ Taal Keherwã)	Dil Hi To Hai	Roshan	Sahir Ludhianvi	Manna Dey
29	Tera mera pyar amar	Asli Naqli	Shankar Jaikishan	Shailendra	Lata Mangeshkar
30	Jurm-e-ulfat pe hameiñ log saza detè hain (Raag Gaur Malhãr/ Taal Keherwã)	Taj Mahal	Roshan	Sahir Ludhianvi	Lata Mangeshkar
31	Govinda aala re aala zara matki sambhal Brij-bala	Bluff Master	Kalyanji Anandji	Rajinder Krishan	Mohammed Rafi
32	Jaan e bahaar husn tera bemisaal hai (Raag Mãlkauñs/ Taal Dãdrã)	Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya	Ravi	Shakeel Badayuni	Mohammed Rafi

The next 27 songs

Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)	GC	AB
Raaz é dil un sé chhipaya na gaya	Apna Bana ke Dekho	Ravi	Asad Bhopali	Mohammed Rafi		AB
Tujhe jeevan ki dor sé bãñdh liya hai (Raag Bihãg)	Asli Naqli (1962)	Shankar-Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi		AB
O mere mâjhi, merè sâjan hain us paar	Bandini	Sachin Dev Burman	Shailendra	Sachin Dev Burman	GC
Is bhari duniya meiñ koi bhi hamara na hua (Raag Bhairavi/ Taal Dãdrã)	Bharosa	Ravi	Rajinder Krishan	Mohammed Rafi		AB
‘Ek baar zarâ phir keh do, mujhe sharmãke tum dîwãnã’ ‘Aisi meethi-meethi baateiñ karke, kahãñ seekha hai dil ka lubhãnã?’	Bin Badal Barsaat	Hemant Kumar	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar, Hemant Kumar		AB
Hum teré pyar meiñ sara aalam kho baithey	Dil Ek Mandir	Shankar-Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Lata Mangeshkar		AB
Nigahein milane ko jee chahta hai (Raag Yaman Kalyan/ Taal Keherwã)	Dil Hi To Hai	Roshan	Sahir Ludhianvi	Asha Bhosle	GC
Hé Ganga maiyya tohé piyari chadhaibo (Bhojpuri language)	Ganga Maiya Tohé Pîyarî Chadhaibo	Chitragupt	Shailendra	Lata Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar		AB
Aap aayé to khayal é dil é nâshâd aaya/ kitne bhoole huye zakhmon ka pata yaad aaya	Gumrah	Ravi	Sahir Ludhianvi	Mahendra Kapoor		AB
Thumak thumak mat chalo	Kahin Pyar Na Ho Jaye	Kalyanji-Anandji	Indeewar	Mukesh	GC
Teré pyar meiñ dildaar jo hai mera haal é zaar (koi dekhé ya na dekhé) (Raag Bihãg/ Taal Keherwã)	Mere Mehboob	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar		AB
Yaad meiñ teri jaag-jaag ké hum, raat bhar karvateiñ badalté haiñ (Raag Darbãri Kãnarhã)	Mere Mehboob	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Mohammed Rafi/ Lata Mangeshkar		AB
Poochho na kaise mainè raen bitâyi (Raag Ahîr Bhairav/ Taal Keherwa)	Meri Surat Teri Aankhen	Sachin Dev Burman	Shailendra	Manna Dey	GC
Teré bin sooné nain hamãré, baat takat gaye sânjh sakhãré (Kãfi, Pîloo/ Taal Dãdrã)	Meri Surat Teri Aankhen	Sachin Dev Burman	Shailendra	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi		AB
Tere bachpan ko jawani ki dua	Mujhe Jeene Do	Jaidev	Sahir Ludhianvi	Lata Mangeshkar	GC
Zindagi ké safar meiñ akelé thé hum	Nartakee	Ravi	Shakeel Badayuni	Mohammed Rafi		AB
Khuli palak meiñ jhootha gussa, bañd palak meiñ pyar (Jeena bhi mushkil)	Professor	Shankar-Jaikishan	Shailendra	Mohammed Rafi		AB
Ai dilruba, ai dilruba, nazrein mila	Rustam Sohrab	Sajjad Hussain	Jan Nissar Akhtar	Lata Mangeshkar	GC
Pankh hoté to ud aati ré, rasiya O (Raag Bhoopãli/ Taal Keherwã)	Sehra	Ramlal	Hasrat Jaipuri	Lata Mangeshkar		AB
Taqdeer ka fasana (Raag Dés/ Taal Dãdrã)	Sehra	Ramlal	Hasrat Jaipuri	Lata Mangeshkar	GC
Jo baat tujh meiñ hai teri tasveer meiñ naheeñ	Taj Mahal	Roshan	Sahir Ludhianvi	Mohammed Rafi		AB
Dekho rootha na karo	Tere Ghar Ke Samne	Sachin Dev Burman	Hasrat Jaipuri	Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar	GC
Dil ka bhanwar karé pukar	Tere Ghar Ke Samne	Sachin Dev Burman	Hasrat Jaipuri	Mohammed Rafi	GC
Sau baar janam lengé, sau baar fanaa hongé/ ai jaan é wafã phir bhi, hum tum na judã honge (Raag Kaushik Kãnarhã/ Taal Keherwã)	Ustadon ke Ustad	Ravi	Asad Bhopali	Mohammed Rafi		AB
Phir aane laga yaad wohi pyar ka aalam	Yeh Dil Kisko Doon	Iqbal Qureshi	Qamar Jalalabadi	Mohammed Rafi	GC
Koi mujh sé poochhé ki tum mere kya ho	Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke	Ravi	Rajinder Krishan	Mohammed Rafi		AB
Yeh khamoshiyan yeh tanhaiyan	Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke	Ravi	Rajinder Krishan	Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi	GC

24 additional songs with a classical background

Song	Film	Music Director	Lyricist	Singer(s)
Mujhe galé se laga lo bahut udas hooñ maiñ (Raag Asawari/ Taal Keherwa)	Aaj Aur Kal	Ravi	Sahir Ludhianvi	Asha Bhosle, Mohd. Rafi
Mujhe tum se muhabbat hai magar main keh nahin sakta (Pahãrhi/ Taal Keherwã)	Bachpan	Sardar Malik	Hasrat Jaipuri	Mohammed Rafi
Balma anãri man bhayé, kã karooñ samajh nã aayé (Raag Hemant/ Taal Keherwã)	Bahurani	C. Ramchandra	Sahir Ludhianvi	Lata Mangeshkar
Ab ke baras bhéj bhaiyyã ko babul (Raag Pîloo/ Taal DîpChañdi)	Bandini	Sachin Dev Burman	Shailendra	Asha Bhosle
Voh dil kahañ se laooñ, teri yaad jo bhulã dé (Pahãrhi/ Taal Keherwã)	Bharosa	Ravi	Rajinder Krishan	Lata Mangeshkar
Ai dil ab kahiñ lé ja, na kisi ka main na koi méra (Raag Bhairavi/ Taal Keherwa)	Bluff Master	Kalyanji Anandji	Rajinder Krishan	Hemant Kumar
Bedardi dagabaz, jã, tu nahin bãlam morã (Raag Bageshri/ Teen Taal)	Bluff Master	Kalyanji Anandji	Rajinder Krishan	Lata Mangeshkar
Pag ghunghru bole chhananan chhum, jãgo hé Dévta (Raag Mãlkauñs/ Teen Taal) Keherwã)	Dev Kanya	Shri Nath (SN) Tripathi	B.D. Mishra	Asha Bhosle, Mahendra Kapoor
Yãd na jaye, beete dinoñ ki, jã ké na aaye jo din (Raag KîrwãNi/ Taal Keherwã)	Dil Ek Mandir	Shankar-Jaikishan	Shailendra	Mohammed Rafi
Mãsoom chehra yeh qãtil adãyeiñ (Raag Bhîm Palãsi/ Jhap Taal)	Dil Tera Diwana (1962)	Shankar Jaikishan	Hasrat Jaipuri	Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
Pãyal-wãli dekhna (Raag Maru Bihãg/ Taal Keherwã)	Ek Raaz	Chitragupta	Majrooh Sultanpuri	Kishore Kumar
Holi khélat Nand-lãl, Biraj meiñ … Jogi-rã sar rar (Kãfi/ Taal Keherwã)	Godan	Pt. Ravi Shankar	Anjaan	Mohammed Rafi
Hiya jarat rehat din raen, ho Rãmã (Raag Tilak Kamod/ Taal Dipchandi)	Godan	Ravi Shankar	Anjaan	Mukesh
Jeewan jyot jalé, ko-û nã jãné kab nikasé din (Raag Sohini/ Teen Taal)	Grahasti	Ravi	Shakeel Badayuni	Asha Bhosle
Yeh hawa, yeh fiza, hai udãs jaisé mera dil, aa bhi jaa (Raag Bhoopãli/ Taal Keherwã)	Gumrah	Ravi	Sahir Ludhianvi	Mahendra Kapoor
Zara sun haseena é nãznîñ, merã dil tujhi pe nisãr hai (Pahãrhi/ Taal Rûpak)	Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya	Ravi	Shakeel Badayuni	Mohammed Rafi
Mere mehboob mein kya nahiñ? Voh to lãkhoñ meiñ hai ik hasîñ (Raag Sãrañg)	Mere Mehboob	Naushad	Shakeel Badayuni	Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle
Nãchey man mora magan tig-da dhî-gî dhî-gî (Raag Bhairavi/ Teen Taal)	Meri Surat Teri Aankhen	Sachin Dev Burman	Shailendra	Mohammed Rafi
Dîwana keh ke aaj mujhe phir pukariye (Raag Gara/ Taal Dãdrã)	Mulzim	Ravi	Shakeel Badayuni	Mohammed Rafi
Salãmat raho (Raushan tum hi sé duniya, raunaq tumhi jahãñ ki) (Pahãrhi/ Taal Keherwã)	Parasmani	Laxmikant Pyarelal	Indeewar	Mohammed Rafi
Watan pe jo fida hoga, amar voh nau-jawan hoga (Himalay ki bulandi…) (Raag Gujari Todi/ Taal Dãdrã)	Phool Bane Angare	Kalyanji-Anandji	Anand Bakshi	Mohammed Rafi
Main chali main chali, peechhé peechhé jahãñ (Raag Bhairavi/ Taal Keherwã)	Professor (1962)	Shankar-Jaikishan	Shailendra	Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar
Tum to pyãr ho, O sajanã (Raag Mãru Bihãg/ Taal Keherwã)	Sehra	Ramlal	Hasrat Jaipuri	Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
Khuda é bartar teri zameeñ par, zameeñ ki khãtir yeh jañg (Raag Todi/ Taal Keherwã)	Taj Mahal	Roshan	Sahir Ludhianvi	Lata Mangeshkar

Binaca Geet Mala 1963: greatest hits

Contents

The 83 most popular/ significant Hindi-Urdu songs of 1963

A note about the credits

A note about years

Jaidev: unsuccessful despite Hum Dono

Pyar ka aalam

Ramlal

Songs in the ‘next rung’

Raags in songs

Binaca Geetmala’s top 32 songs of 1963

The next 27 songs

24 additional songs with a classical background

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