Saturday, 9 February 2019

जा रे, जा रे उड़ जा रे पंछी बहारों के देस जा रे

  1. A superb song by Lata Mangeshkar composed by Salil Chowdhury for the film Maya (1961) - with Dev Anand and Mala Sinha. 
  2.  This film was made just an  year or tow after Salil-da had persuaded Lata Mangeshkar to sing in Bangla and had created sensation with her ver first Bangla song:  Na Jeona(Bangla version of O Sajna). The lyrics are by Majrooh Sultanpuri. 

    The Lata Mangeshkar - Salil Chowdhury bond extended to the entire Mangeshkar clan with Salil-da ensuring that several compositions of Hridaynath Mangeshkar in Marathi got rendered in Bangla - and he himself wrote lyrics for those. Of course, Asha Bhosle too sang several songs for Salil-da.

    This one also has a Bangla version, equally good if not better. The audio clip with some random shots is on YouTube.


    Bangla version


    जा रे, जा रे उड़ जा रे पंछी
    बहारों के देस जा रे
    यहाँ क्या है मेरे प्यारे
    क्यूँ उजड़ गई बगिया मेरे मन की
    जा रे ...

    ना डाली रही ना कली
    अजब ग़म की आँधी चली
    उड़ी दुख की धूल राहों में
    जा रे ...

    मैं वीणा उठा ना सकी
    तेरे संग गा ना सकी
    ढले मेरे गीत आहों में
    जा 

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