Pyaar huaa chupke se

Most songs of this blog are from an era between 1931 to 1980s. Songs later than 1980s are often described by me as songs of post golden era when the songs were not what they used to be in the earlier decades.



I am not the only one to make this demarcation of songs of Hindi movies. There are many people who think likewise. It is interesting that at my younger age, my tastes were just the opposite. At that time I only wanted to listen to the current (read 1970s) songs and I disliked old songs. Even songs more than 5 to 6 year old were regarded as old songs by me. Is it not curios to realise that at an young age, I would only listen to current songs, but at my present age I would not listen to current songs, but love to listen to old songs. These days I like to listen to precisely those songs that I did not like to listen then, viz songs of 1960s and earlier.

But it does not mean that good songs did not get created after 1980s. They were created, and in quite a few cases, they were created by the very same people who are often believed to be responsible for the deterioration in quality of Hindi movie music. But by and large, the overall standard of songs declined considerably after 1980s.

Even in this barren period, we came across some movie albums whose music took the nation by storm and media naively hailed it as the return of the golden era of music.

It was one fine day in 1993 when I listened to a few songs that I had never heard before and they felt like songs from 1980s. The music was stunning and I wondered how I had never heard these songs before. I subsequently came to know that these songs were from a new movie called “1942 A love story” (1993) and that its music was created by R D Burman who by that time was no more. R D Burman, the most influential music director of 1970s, whose dominance in 1970s was absolute had died unsung and as a disillusioned man in 1991. He was short of work by the time he died at quite a young age (he was barely 53 years old then). Though he had left a legacy of hundreds of great songs behind, this music of “1942 a love story” (1993) was quite something. a few in the media in their typical manner went overboard and hailed it as R d Burman’s greatest ever musical creation. I must admit that I did not find much wrong with this assessment, though I now believe,with the benefit of “maturity” that one should not make comparisons and one should just ennjoy music on its own merit instead of labeling music as the greatest, or the second greatest etc.

The songs of “1942 a love story” (1993) stunned music lovers and took the audience by storm. I have no doubt in my mind that the movie became a hit because of the music. a fresh as lily Manisha Koirala, then a few movies old in the industy looked at her prettiest in this movie and she was the other main reason for the success of the movie.

The movie itself was no great shakes. the movie was supposedly a movie where anil Kapoor was a freedom fighter, but I found little authenticity in the picturisation. Showing people of 1942 dressing and behaving like peole of 1990s, using appliances that were not available in 1940s etc meant that I watched the movie only once and no prizes for guessing what drew me to the movie hall in the first place.

The songs of this movie are all pure gems, and they continue to remain pure gems to this day.

The movie unearthed a new singing talent before Hindi movie audience. It was Kavita Krishnamurty who did playback for Manisha Koirala in all the songs. What a refreshing new voice it was to listen to ! And she was superb in what was her debut in Hindi movies.

Jawed Akhtar, who till 1970s was a part of the Salim Javed writing duo had taken up lyrics writing after splitting with Salim Khan and he was doing well in his sporadic assignments as a lyricist. And the lyrics of this movie are a testimony to the fact that he was a chip of the old block as far as writing great lyrics were concerned. H in fact had started his lyrics writing in 1980s itself when his father the great Jaan Nissar Akhtar was still active.

Guess who has sent me the lyrics of this song. It is sent to me by Peevesie, who was perhaps a toddler when this movie was released. But she loves this songas does her mother and brother. Yes, they are the first family of this blog. Peevesie and her Mom are regulars to this blog and off late Peevesie’s brother has also left a comment where he petitioned me to consider posting a few new songs too. Indeed why not, as long as they are as great as the song under discussion.

Here is this fantastic song from “1942 A love story” (1993). It is sung by Kavita Krishnamurty and it is picturised on Manisha Koirala. This is a song which is best savoured while listening to the full audio instead of watching the curtailed versions.

Here the the longest audio version of this song that is available on internet, though Peevesie says it is still 10 seconds shorter than what she has heard in the past.

Here is this fantastic song from “1942 A love story” (1993). The music of this movie earned R D Burman a posthumous Filmfare award for best music composition.

“1942 A love story” (1994) had six songs in it. All the songs of the movie have been covered in the blog. Here are the links of the other songs of the movie:

Ek ladki ko dekha to aisa lagaa(1942 A Love Story)

Kuchh naa kaho kuchh bhi naa kaho (1942 A love story)

Rimjhim rimjhim rumjhum rumjhum (1942 A Love Story)

Rooth na jaana tumse kahoon to (1942 A Love Story)

Ye safar bahut hai kathin magar (1942 A Love Story)



Song-Pyaar huaa chupke se (1942 A love story)(1994) Singer-Kavita Krishnamurty, Lyrics-Jawed Akhtar, MD-R D Burman

Chorus

Lyrics(Provided by Peevesie)

dil ne kaha

chupke se

ye kya hua

chupke se

aa aa aa aa

aa aa aa aa

aa aa aa aa

kyun naye lag rahein yeh dharti gagan

maine pucha toh boli yeh pagli pawan

pyaar hua

chupke se

yeh kya hua

chupke se

kyun naye lag rahe hain yeh dharti gagan

maine poocha toh boli yeh pagli pawan

pyaar hua

chupke se

yeh kya hua

chupke se

titliyon se suna…aa

titliyon se suna…aa

maine kissa baagh ka

baagh mein thhi ik kali

sharmeeli anchhui

ik din

manchala bhanvra aa gaya

khil uthi wo kali

paaya roop naya

poochhti thhi kali

ki mujhe kya hua

phool hansa

chupke se

pyaar hua

chupke se

maine baadal se kabhi

ee

ho maine baadal se kabhi

ye kahaani thhi sunee

parvaton ki ik nadi

milne saagar se chali

jhoomti

ghoomti

ho naachti dolti

kho gayi apne saagar mein jaake nadi

dekhke pyaar ki aisi jaadugari

chaand khila

chupke se

pyaar hua

chupke se

kyun naye lag rahe yeh dharti gagan

maine poocha toh boli yeh pagli pawan

pyaar hua

chupke se

yeh kya hua

chupke se

kyun naye lag rahe hain yeh dharti gagan

maine pucha toh boli yeh pagli pawan

dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na

dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na

dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na

dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na

dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na

dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na

dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na

dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na

dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na dolo na

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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)

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दिल ने कहा

चुपके से

ये क्या हुआ

चुपके से



आ…ss

आ…ss

आ…ss

क्यूँ नए लग रहे हैं यह धरती गगन

मैंने पुछा तो बोली यह पगली पवन

प्यार हुआ

चुपके से

यह क्या हुआ

चुपके से

क्यूँ नए लग रहे हैं यह धरती गगन

मैंने पुछा तो बोली यह पगली पवन

प्यार हुआ

चुपके से

यह क्या हुआ

चुपके से

तितलियों से सुना…आ

तितलियों से सुना…आ

मैंने किस्सा बाग़ का

बाग़ में थी इक कली

शरमीली अनछुई

इक दिन

मनचला भंवरा आ गया

खिल उठी वो कली

पाया रूप नया

पूछती थी कली

की मुझे क्या हुआ

फूल हंसा

चुपके से

प्यार हुआ

चुपके से

मैंने बादल से कभी

हो मैंने बादल से कभी

ये कहानी थी सुनी ई

पर्वतों की इक नदी

मिलने सागर से चली

झूमती

घूमती

हो नाचती डोलती

खो गई अपने सागर में जाके नदी

देखके प्यार की ऐसी जादूगरी

चाँद खिला

चुपके से

प्यार हुआ

चुपके से

क्यूँ नए लग रहे हैं यह धरती गगन

मैंने पूछा तो बोली यह पगली पवन

प्यार हुआ

चुपके से

यह क्या हुआ

चुपके से

क्यूँ नए लग रहे हैं यह धरती गगन

मैंने पुछा तो बोली यह पगली पवन

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