{"id":3119,"date":"2016-08-15T19:52:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2023-06-30T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T08:19:29","slug":"rimjhim-ke-taraane-the-breezy-rain-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/rimjhim-ke-taraane-the-breezy-rain-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rimjhim ke Taraane… The Breezy Rain Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rain<\/p>\n

Rim jhim ke taraane leke aayi barsaat<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Yaad aaye kisi se vo pehali mulaaqaat<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Geeta

Geeta Dutt and Mohd Rafi created the quintessential rain song with SD Burman’s music and Shailendra’s lyrics<\/p><\/div>\n

This song in Kala Bazar<\/em> (1960) is picturised on Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman with the song playing only in the background. Geeta Dutt and Mohd Rafi sing with their heart and soul a beautiful tune composed by SD Burman to lyrics by Shailendra.<\/p>\n

The song became the most iconic rain song and is spontaneously remembered with the pitter-patter of rain. It catches the mood perfectly, the rhythm of falling rain drops and the romance. The moments the clouds gather and the first drops fall this song starts playing at the back of the mind of many a music lover.<\/p>\n

bheege tan man pade ras ki puhaar<\/em>
\npyaar ka sandesa laayi barkha bahaar<\/em>
\nmai na bolu aankhein kare ankhiyo se baat<\/em><\/p>\n

The usage of the song in the background is beautifully brought forth in the lyrics by Shailendra.<\/p>\n

For me, this is the quintessential rain song. The most supreme rain song ever created, composed, sung and appeared on Hindi screen. I can never have enough of it and love listening to it, it just gives me that ehsaas of rain whenever I listen to it, like no other song does.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Sharing

Sharing an umbrella in the rain – romance in the downpour!<\/p><\/div>\n

“Vijay Anand is widely attributed as one of the finest in the industry in terms of positioning a song in a movie and\u00a0its picturisation. He can be safely credited with some of the finest Navketan releases since the late 1950-s.\u00a0Vijay Anand has gone on record in an interview that SD Burman was very perceptive about the power and impact of the medium of films and took a keen interest in understanding the situation of a song and its context in the landscape of the entire movie.<\/p>\n

In the same interview he has mentioned about a particular incident where it was SD Burman who had suggested that the song \u2018Rimjhim ke taraane le-ke aayi barsaat<\/em>\u2019 in Kala Bazar<\/em> (1960) be picturised on the hero and the heroine with the song playing only in the background. Vijay Anand immediately liked the idea and thus was the lovely Rafi-Geeta duet created.”\u00a0(Source: Archisman Mozumdar – as narrated to Moti Lalwani in November 2012<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Rimjhim ke taraane leke<\/strong> (Kala Bazar, <\/em>1960) SD Burman \/ Shailendra \/ Geeta Dutt and Mohd Rafi. The song is interspersed in a scene.<\/em><\/p>\n