Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music – Volume XI – March 2023 Edition

Welcome to March 2023 edition of XI^th Volume of Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.

Songs of Yore presents the festival of colors, Holi, with Kleptomania in Bollywood.

Sampada Sharama has a pointed question: Hindi cinema can’t seem to separate Holi from harassment, is it too much to seek consent? – Hindi cinema has been trying to make its case for normalising harassment on Holi acceptable for decades, and no one’s calling them out.

Presently we move on to our section on tributes and celebrations for the month –

Mausam Aaya Hai Rangeen – Rememberng Sulochana Kadam on her 90^th birthday.

How OP Nayyar was one of the original disruptors of Hindi film music – Ajay Mankotia – ‘Almost all Hindi film songs have beat patterns which are straight and regular. But OP Nayyar had other ideas.’…. the revolution OP Nayyar wrought was bringing on board both the Western and Indian beats to songs. This dual usage gave the song a hitherto unknown texture. One example – ‘Balma Khuli Hawa Mein’ (Kashmir Ki Kali, 1964).

Bollywood Odyssey – The Singing Taxman’s Journey into Film Music, Ajay Mankotia, Readomania

A millennial watches Chashme Buddoor: Farooq Sheikh’s rom-com reminds you of simpler times, but hasn’t aged well – Arushi Jain  – Chashme Buddoor can be watched for its well-meaning performances, not just from Farooq and Deepti, but from every actor and well-intended script.

Continuing the series, the year-wise review of Lata Mangeshkar’s career, on Lata Mangeshkar, Mehfil Mein Teri revisits 1957 – Lata Mangeshkar on the occasion of festivals of Gudi Padwa | Ugadi | Pongal.

March 2023 episode of VIII^th volume of Fading Memories, Unforgettable Songs takes up Ghulam Mohammed and His Singers: 1953. Till now we have covered Ghulam Mohammed’s songs for the year

1943 to 1949 in 2021, and

1950-1952 in 2022.

Shailendra Sharma @ Golden Era of Bollywood has not posted the memorial tribute posts for the month till the writing for the present post.:

We now move on to posts on other subjects –

The Bewitching Artistry of Raat Bhi Hai Kuch Bheegi Bheegi -The intoxicating dance in tune with the rustic, enthralling music of Raat bhi hai kuch bheegi bheegi has a hypnotic effect on Shirish Waghmode.  The song leaves you bewitched and besotted. The white-attired beauty named Waheeda glides across the mirrored floor like a swan, glamorously preening and parading her skills. The music of Jaidev is as rustic and mellifluous as a folk melody can be. Sahir plays with the words, which act like silver anklets, to add rhythm to his lyrics.

Bhabhi Songs Part 2: With the Nanad – the first part was Bhabhi songs with Devar

Ballads of Love: Ecstacy – D P Rangan comes with an objectively exhaustive article on one of the most common themes of Bollywood songs.

र and ल in Hindi Film Music – Many indigenous (or देशज) words replace the consonant ल with र. – for example: song where र has been used instead of ल:- Gaya Andhera Hua Ujala

song with lallation: Munna Bada Pyara

song with trilling र : Ek Baat Suni Hai Chachaji Batlaanewaali Hai – Naram Garam (1981)

Ten of my favourite spooky songs, duly presenting a smoke-covered a ghostly figure (invariably female), wandering about in the night and singing a signature spooky song.

My Favourites: Comic Songs are the Hindi films songs that make you smile widely, sometimes even laugh out loudand Kishore Kumar’s Comic Songs where the singer’s vocal calisthenics complement the actor’s clowning.

The Only song that… lists very unusual songs, like The only song that Geeta Dutt & Suraiyaa sang together  – Preet Ka Naata Jodnewaale – Afsar (1950) – Pt.Narendra Sharma – S.D.Burman

From Bollywood Rewind – Sampada Sharma – Indian Express’s weekly column:

• • Jaya Bachchan’s Kora Kagaz explains why a relationship will never survive if you allow parental interference – Kora Kagaz highlights that one’s relationship will always get influenced by those around them, but it is only up to them to choose what relationships they want to save.
  • This 1970s film romanticises child marriage, positions it as the best thing that could happen to the institution of marriage – Director Tarun Majumdar, who made Balika Badhu in 1976, was living in a bubble when he made a film that showed the practice of child marriage as if it was the best gift that the institution of marriage could ever receive.
  • When Shashi Kapoor played a man who found movie actors talentless and frivolous, right at the cusp of his filmy stardom – In Shakespeare Wallah, Shashi Kapoor plays Sanju, a cheating lover who can’t let go of his movie star girlfriend while he is in love with an English theatre artist.

In continuation to our tradition of ending the post with a few songs of Mohammad Rafi, for the year, it is planned to recall the first duet Mohamad Rafi and Geeta Dutt had with a music director.

Chahe Qismat Humko Rulaaye – Neelam Pari (1952) – Lyrics: Hasrat Jaipuri- Music: Khursheed Anwar

Jeevan Kya Hai Dhalta Suraj – Dana Pani (1953) – Lyrics: Kaif Irfani – Music: Mohan Junior

Sun Sun Sun Sun Zaalima Pyar Humko Tumse Ho Gaya – Aar Paar (1954) – Lyrics: Majrooh Sultanpuri – Music: O P Nayyar

Ek Ladka Ek Ladki, Ek Ladka Ghar Se Nikal Gaya – Khushboo (1954) – Lyrics: G S Nepali – Music: Shankar Lal

I look forward to your inputs to enrich the contents of Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.

Disclaimer: This monthly series of posts is my best-effort-based compilation of posts on Hindi film songs that I normally visit regularly. As I record my sincere thanks to all the original creators of these posts, any other posts that I have nor covered herein shows my lack of awareness of existence of such posts and is by no means any disrespect to their work. The copyrights to the posts, images and video clips remain the properties of the original creators.

Carnival of Quality Management Articles and Blogs – Volume XI – March 2023 Edition

Welcome to March 2023 edition of the XI^th volume of Carnival of Quality Management Articles and Blogs.

The theme for the XI^th volume of our Carnival of Quality Management Articles and Blogs is The Defining Trends of Quality Management – An Analytical Survey.

Our first topic for a detailed look at the theme is Short Term Competitive Advantage.

There are two basic types of competitive advantages: cost leadership and differentiation. When combined with the scope of a firm’s activities, they give rise to three generic business strategies:

• • cost leadership – where the firm seeks to become the low-cost producer in an industry.
  • differentiation – where the firm seeks to position itself uniquely along one or two dimensions that the customer values; and
  • focus – where a firm tries to optimize its strategy by selecting a segment or a group of segments in the industry, and seeks to achieve competitive advantage in the target segment(s).

The VRIO framework[1] is a tool for identifying the competitive advantages of an organization (if they have any). The VRIO (Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization) is the four-question framework used to evaluate the resources and capabilities of an organization. The VRIO framework categorizes the organization’s tangible as well as intangible resources into one of the following groups: competitive parity, temporary competitive advantage, unused competitive advantage, or long-term competitive advantage.

The process of analysing organization’s  internal environment (internal analysis tools)[2] as well as the external environment (external analysis) is extremely important in the strategic planning process. Typically, the category that usually poses the biggest potential for improvement is the Unused Competitive Advantage Category.

The resources in the Unused Competitive Advantage category don’t have the support, processes, and culture in place to completely utilize their value. The next step is to develop a strategic plan that takes these unused competitive advantages into account and works to support these resources through strategic management will allow companies to transform their resources into sustained competitive advantages. A well thought-out and crafted strategic plan[3] will align the processes, people, and structure needed to support these resources and turn them into sustainable competitive advantages.

In a world where a competitive advantage often evaporates in less than a year,[4] strategy is still useful but not by sticking to the same old playbook. In order to seize the transient advantage, the organization needs a new playbook which positions the organization’s current working between two statements of assessment – Focused on extending existing advantages vs. Capable of coping with transient advantage.

Defining where you want to compete, how you intend to win, and how you are going to move from advantage to advantage is more critical than ever in the critical in the times of the digital revolution, a “flat” world, fewer barriers to entry, globalization, when the competitors and customers have become too unpredictable, and industries too amorphous.

That should keep organization always thinking about is it possible to restore a balance between durability and variability of the organization in terms of strategy?

We will take up the possible answers in our next episode. Till then, download a free guide and canvas to identify organization’s sustainable competitive advantage(es).[5]

We will now turn to our regular section -.

We now watch ASQ TV episode on –

• • The Importance of Continuous Improvement – David Cote, CEO at Honeywell, explains how continuous improvement must be channelled into the business to make difference, not simply measuring for measurement’s sake.
  • Measuring and Inspecting Leads to Consistent Growth – Charlie Lanktree, CEO at Eggland’s Best, explains how rigorous inspection and commitment to quality allows the company to continue business growth.

Till writing of the present episode, new additions to Jim L. Smith’s Jim’s Gems.

So we take up the article ‘From the Editor’ (of Quality Magazine) – by Darryl Sealand:

• • • Riddle Me This – A man is walking down the middle of the street dressed in all black. There are no streetlights. No moon. At the same time, a car is driving down the same road with no headlights. At the last second, the car swerves to avoid hitting the man. How can this happen?

(Alert: Please do not read further till you have figured out the answer.)

The tactic deployed in riddle like this is called extraneous detail. The story overloads the reader with imagery of darkness and descriptions of things associated with night—streetlights, headlights, the moon—to distract the reader from what is not being said.

Most of the times, our knowledge and experience can potentially lead us to poor assumptions, and hence poorer outcomes. Poor assumptions are part of what is called a syllogistic fallacy.

Don’t feel bad if you have ever participated in a syllogistic fallacy, as the greats like Shakespeare have been called out for a syllogism that falls apart in the end. And don’t feel bad if you didn’t figure out the riddle. With millions of points of data, we can be overwhelmed by what is important and what is not.

By the way, answer to the riddle was: It is daytime.

I look forward to your views / comments / inputs to further enrich the theme of The Defining Trends of Quality Management – An Analytical Survey.

Note: The images or video clips depicted here above are through courtesy of respective websites who have the copyrights for the respective images /videos.

[1] What is the VRIO framework?

[2] Internal firm analysis: Understanding a firm’s resources and capabilities

[3] How to Write a Strategic Plan: The Cascade Model.

[4] Transient Advantage – Rita McGrath

[5] https://onstrategyhq.com/competitive-advantages-guide-download/

Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music – Volume XI – February 2023 Edition

Welcome to February 2023 edition of XI^th Volume of Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.

Presently we move on to our section on tributes and celebrations for the month –

Remembering Madhubala – Today and Forever – Anuradha Warrier – Madhubala’s porcelain prettiness, dazzling smile and trademark giggle masked a gifted actor with so much more to offer.

Nimmi – ‘The Unkissed Girl of India’ – D P Ranagn pays tribute to Nimmi on her 90th birth anniversary (b. 18 Feb 1933 – d. 25 March 2020).

The Masters: Jan Nisar Akhtar – Of Romance and Hope – Anuradha Warrier – For a poet who was part of the Progressive Writers’ Movement, Jan Nisar Akhtar’s lyrics for Hindi film songs were delicately shaded with the disparate colours of romance.

Continuing the series, the year-wise review of Lata Mangeshkar’s career, on Lata Mangeshkar, Mehfil Mein Teri revisits Lata Mangeshkar’s songs with lesser known or forgotten male singers.

Lata Mangeshkar: Ten Solos, Ten Composers – Part 4 is the last post in the series of Lata Mangeshkar obituary series, beginning with My Favourite Solos with Ten Composers, followed by the songs the other great music directors for whom Lata sang some exceptional songs and Ten Solos, Ten Composers

Gujara Hua Zamana – 21 Gaan Salute to Lataji!! – a tribute on her first death anniversary.

“The Sculptors of Film Music’ series presents Anthony Gonsalves, one of the pioneering music arrangers of Hind Film Music of Golden Era.

February 2023 episode of VIII^th volume of Fading Memories, Unforgettable Songs takes up Talat Mahmood – Duets with Asha Bhosle – 1951| 1952 | 1953. Till now, we have explored –

In 2017, an overview of Talat Mahmood’s duets receding from the memory.

In 2018, Talat Mahmood’s duets with rare co-singers,

In 2019, Talat Mahmood’s duets with Mubarak Begum and with Madhubala Jhaveri,

In 2020, Talat Mahmood’s duets with Geeta Dutt, essentially from 1950 to 1952,

In 2021, Talat Mahmood: Duets with Geeta Dutt, from  1954 to 1957, with one duet even in 1972, and

In 2022, Talat Mahmood: Dets with Shamshad Begum.

Shailendra Sharma @ Golden Era of Bollywood has not posted the memorial tribute posts for the month till the writing for the present post.:

We now move on to posts on other subjects –

Yeh Un Dinoñ Ki Baat Hai – In Conversation with Yasir Abbasi – Yeh Un Dinoñ Ki Baat Hai: Urdu Memoirs of Cinema Legends, selected and translated by Yasir Abbasi and published by Bloomsbury India, brings together an eclectic collection of memoirs written by renowned writers and cine artists and published in Urdu magazines of yore, many of which are now defunct.

Book Review: “चल उड़ जा रे पंछी (संगीतकार चित्रगुप्त: व्यक्ति एवं कृति)” – By: Dr. Narendra Nath Pandey | Kautilya Books, New Delhi: 2022 | ISBN: 978-93-90885-68-8

Book Review: Jerry Pinto’s ‘Helen: The Making of a Bollywood H-Bomb’

A hospitality professional recounts her encounters with film stars and directors – L Aruna Dhir –

Zeenat Aman recalls the time she was ‘earnest’ for her new job at 16: ‘We shot around the Taj in a quest for the perfect image’ – Zeenat Aman quipped that her advertisement, however, was eclipsed by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain’s memorable campaign for the brand.

My Favourites: Women and Chores’ Songs – Some of these songs are absolutely wonderful, and some of the sequences make absolute sense in the context of the film.

Melodies with partly sung mukhda are the songs wherein mukhada precedes humming, or even an anatara.

The Bicycle Saga, commenced last year with Part !, peddles on with Part 2 (A couple on the bicycle) and Part 3 (Solo bicycle songs).

Ten ‘Anti-Love’ Songs – These are not ‘Don’t love me’ songs but are the songs which wonder why people fall in love.

The Gaali Songs are quite light-hearted fun songs even as the lyrics do contain cuss words like Badtameez, Bluffmaster, Junglee, Jaanwar, Loafer and so on

From Bollywood Rewind – Sampada Sharma – Indian Express’s weekly column:

• • Decades before Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan vowed to save Bharat Mata, Dharmendra played the fan-favourite spy in Ankhen – Dharmendra and Mala Sinha starrer Ankhen, directed by Ramanand Sagar, is the story of a spy who is ready to sacrifice himself for his Bharat Mata.
  • Jaya Bachchan’s Piya Ka Ghar puts focus on female desire when the sasural won’t let the newlyweds be – Jaya Bachchan and Anil Dhawan starrer Piya Ka Ghar, directed by Basu Chatterjee, has the newly weds struggling for some alone time until the woman puts her foot down and decides to move on.
  • Gulzar’s Angoor, the original Cirkus, is the ‘comedy of errors’ that drags a one-line premise for over two hours – The 1982 film Angoor, directed by Gulzar, is way more subtle than Rohit Shetty’s Cirkus, but watching it in 2023 feels like an arduous task.

We have concluded Micro View of Duets for 1943, with MY Top Music Directors.

In continuation to our tradition of ending the post with a few songs of Mohammad Rafi, for the year, it is planned to recall the first duet Mohammad Rafi and Geeta Dutt had with a music director.

Shamma Jalti Hai To Parwane Chale Aate Hain – Bawra (1950) – Ghafil Haranalvi – Krishna Dayal

Chupke Chupke Dil Mein Aane Wale – Haramra Ghar (1950) – Rammurthy Chaturvedi – Chitragupta

Jise Dundte Phirti Hai Meri Nazar – Sheesh Mahal (1950) – Nazim Panipati – Vasant Desai

Panghat Pe Dekho Aayi Milan Ki Bela – Naujawan (1951) – Sahir Ludhianvi – S D Burman

I look forward to your inputs to enrich the contents of Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.

Disclaimer: This monthly series of posts is my best-effort-based compilation of posts on Hindi film songs that I normally visit regularly. As I record my sincere thanks to all the original creators of these posts, any other posts that I have nor covered herein shows my lack of awareness of existence of such posts and is by no means any disrespect to their work. The copyrights to the posts, images and video clips remain the properties of the original creators.

The Micro View of Songs of 1943 – MY Top Music Director(s)

As has been repeatedly noted in My Best Solo Male Singers, or Female Singers or Duets, my own choices are basically too inadequate to enable help form any basis for selecting My Top Music Director for the year 1943.

The beacon image @ the Overview post, shows four films – Kismet (Music: Anil Biswas), Tansen (Khemchand Prakash), Ram Rajya (Shankar Rao Vyas) and Wapas (Music: R C Boral).  The point table of Best Songs of music directors @ @ Best songs of 1943: Wrap Up 4 also reflects this image.

Of these four, songs of Wapas has all the flair of vintage songs. In all possibilities, these songs must have immediately been lapped up by the then fans of music of that era. However, being too closely molded on the style of vintage era, the songs have not been able to transcend its footprint the subsequent Golden Era.

So is the case with Ram Rajya.

Tansen has five solo songs by the evergreen K L Saigal as well as one duet with Khursheed. Khursheed also has three solo songs. That itself gives Tansen a head start. The film itself may not appeal a typical Golden Era films follower like me, but the orchestration of the songs by Khemchand Prakash ensures that the songs remain equally appealing as the songs of later years of 1940s- the transition years from vintage to golden era.

Even if we discount the fervent following that Ab Himalay Ki Choti Se can bring up now, other songs have undeniable impact on the Golden Era followers even if the singers are prominently vintage era singers. Undoubtedly, the credit should vest Anil Biswas fro his path breaking music composition style.

So even as SoY adjudges Khemchand Prakash as The Music Director for the year 1943, on the basis of four to two advantage in the point table of Best Songs of music directors @ @ Best songs of 1943: Wrap Up 4, I would rather choose to remain neutral between Khemchand Prakash and Anil Biswas as My Top Music Directors for the year 1943.

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P.S.

All the episodes of Micro View of Best Songs for 1943 @SoY can be read / downloaded from one file, by clicking on the hyper link.

Similarly, the respective episodes of Micro View of Male Solo Songs for 1943 @SoY as well as those of Female Solo Songs and Duet Songs can be read / downloaded by clicking on the respective hyper link.

Carnival of Quality Management Articles and Blogs – Volume XI – February 2023 Edition

Welcome to February 2023 edition of the XI^th volume of Carnival of Quality Management Articles and Blogs.

The theme for the XI^th volume of our Carnival of Quality Management Articles and Blogs is The Defining Trends of Quality Management – An Analytical Survey.

Our first topic for a detailed look at the theme is Future Competitiveness.

Competitive advantage is the favourable position an organization seeks in order to be more profitable than its rivals, in the short as well as long run. To gain and maintain a competitive advantage, an organization must be able to demonstrate a greater comparative or differential value than its competitors and convey that information to its desired target market.[1]

“If a man…make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, tho’ he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.” Attributed to one of Emerson’s lectures in the nineteenth century, these words seem to have anticipated the exhortations of the twentieth: manage for uniqueness, develop a distinctive competence, create competitive advantage.[2]

Tweaking a management system based on old rules will no longer be effective. It is time to act now to start building an organization in accordance with the new principles.[3]

The three main types of competitive advantages are differentiation, cost advantages, and focus advantages.[4]

McKinsey outlines how companies can reimagine themselves for the future by asking: Who we are? How do we operate? How do we grow?[5]

Further reading: Future of work

We will continue in our next episodes with more detailed insight into the subject of competitive advantage.

We will now turn to our regular section -.

We now watch ASQ TV episode on –

• • Effective 21st Century Quality Leadership – Mike Turner, Managing Partner, Oakland Consulting, discusses the business challenges of the 21^st century, and how quality professionals should respond in order to meet them.

Till writing of the present episode, new additions to Jim L. Smith’s Jim’s Gems and From the Editor’ (of Quality Magazine) – by Darryl Sealand have yet to come up. So, we take up

• • The Multi-dimensionality of Quality – Speaking of Quality | Duke Okes – People outside the qualify profession see it as a potentially negative, narrow focus on just trying to find things wrong. Meanwhile, those who have made it a profession are more likely to see it as one with endless opportunities to learn and contribute to the success of the organization and its employees, customers and suppliers. … Quality is not a single field, but in fact the integration of knowledge from many fields of science, technology and management. … At its foundation, quality is about managing organizational processes that will meet stakeholder needs and expectations. … This is complicated by the fact that each customer or player who encounters the product during its life cycle may have different definitions of quality.  .. This multi-dimensionality then allows each quality professional to find a niche that suits their level of interest in technology and/or management roles, enabling them to have satisfying work that will yield a more productive environment. …Evolution of industry will require adaptation of known quality principles and technologies to new products …Technology will help improve many aspects of quality management. …Like many other support functions, quality personnel not only manage several critical processes such as calibration and corrective action, but they play a technology transfer role that embeds quality philosophies and methods into core functions. …Whether one wants to be a technologist, facilitator or leader, the opportunities for contribution and growth are immense.

I look forward to your views / comments / inputs to further enrich the theme of The Defining Trends of Quality Management – An Analytical Survey.

Note: The images or video clips depicted here above are through courtesy of respective websites who have the copyrights for the respective images /videos.

[1] competitive advantage – Nicole Laskowski, Rachel Lebeaux

[2] Sustainable Advantage – Pankaj Ghemawat

[3] Organizing for the Future: Why now? – Elizabeth Mygatt, Richard Steele, Mitya Voloshchuk

[4] 3 Main Types of Sustainable Competitive Advantages

[5] Organizing for the future: Nine keys to becoming a future-ready company

 

Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music – Volume XI – January 2023 Edition

Welcome to January 2023 edition of XI^th Volume of Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.

Mehfil Mein Meri opens the New Year with A New Beginning………., with a new subject to one’s liking.

So True….. everything is done in full flow when you do it because you like it.

Indeed, a very good thought to begin the New Year.

SoY opens the new year account with ‘Parent’-‘Adult’-‘Child’ in songs has also an implicit message that every ‘adult’ should continue to strive to keep ‘child’ within remain live throughout the life cycle.

Presently we move on to our section on tributes and celebrations for the month –

Hrishikesh Mukherjee: Master of the Middle Path By Ratnottama Sengupta – A heartfelt piece as a centenary tribute to master filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.  – “This is one of the biggest ironies of life you know! That, as we grow in years, we grow more experienced, and richer in thought. But, the more we have to give to the world, the less equal, less capable our body gets…”

An exclusive pen and ink sketch of Hrishikesh Mukherjee by renowned artist Subrata Gangopadhyay

Pyarelal Santoshi: Jack of All Trades? – D P Ranagn pays tribute to polymath  Pyare Lal (P.L.) Santoshi

Films Are Art, Not Commerce was the motto that Khwaja Ahmed (K.A.) Abbas that remains a testament to this man’s dedication, commitment and perseverance.

Continuing the series, the year-wise review of Lata Mangeshkar’s career, on Lata Mangeshkar, Mehfil Mein Teri revisits favourites from the year 1956 in 1956 – Lata Mangeshkar

The Masters: Kaifi Azmi b- Born Sayyed Athar Husain Rizvi on in Mijwan (Azamgarh, Eastern Uttar Pradesh) in a zamindar family, Kaifi Azmi demonstrated his poetic skills very early on.

“Hum Ko Mann Ki Shakti Dena Mann Vijay Karein” – Lalita Kumari – Born in Peshawar on July 6, 1938, Lalita Kumari entered the world of Hindi films through Navketan’s AandhiyaN (1952).

Behind the Scenes – A Patchwork Quilt is just that – a patchwork of memories – of Paranjpye’s life, travels, plays, films – and the persons and personalities she met along the way.

November 2022 episode of Fading Memories, Unforgettable Songs takes up Jaidev: Brilliant, But Underrated, Composer:  1976 – 1977. Till now,

In 2018, we listened to his songs from the most successful films phase of 1955 to 1963.

In 2019, we listened to his more remembered songs from his less remembered films for 1964 to 1970,

in 2020, we listened to highly appreciated songs from the films that did not succeed in 1971,

In 2021, we recalled the songs that have faded out because the films flopped in 1972-1973, and

In 2022, we listened to his melodies form relatively not so known films for the years 1974 and 1975

Shailendra Sharma @ Golden Era of Bollywood has not posted the memorial tribute posts for the month till the writing for the present post.:

We now move on to posts on other subjects –

Contribution of Marathi Composers in Bollywood – Part I focuses on Snehal Bhatkar and  N Dutta, Part II on Dattaram, Sudhir Phadke and Vasant Desai and Part III on C Ramchandra.

Some Favorite Noor Jehan Film Songs Related to Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (and some other Qalandars too), the songs that come from the playback singing that she did in Pakistani films revolving around Lal Shahbaz Qalandar – or, in at least one or two cases, other Qalandars or saints in the Sufi tradition

Chal Ri Sajani Ab Kya Soche – Torn Between Two Worlds – Chal ri sajani ab kya soche is synonymous with the bidaai, the heart-breaking moment of departure when the bride steps across the threshold into an unknown world. Shirish Waghmode revisits this classic created by the SD Burman-Majrooh-Mukesh team and emoted in perfect sync by Suchitra Sen and Dev Anand along with Nasir Hussain (the father) and Achala Sachdev (the mother) for Raj Khosla’s Bombai Ka Babu.

Javed Akhtar on how cinema has changed: ‘Improved on the form though lost out on the context’ – A Book Excerpt – Nasreen Munni Kabir’s conversation book ‘Talking Life’ follows ‘Talking Films’ and ‘Talking Songs’.

Bhabhi Songs Part 1: With the Devar – Some of the songs do not specifically have these kinship terms mentioned in the lyrics but the characters on screen play the role of the devar and bhabhi.

Ten of my favourite ‘two songs in one’, the songs where the two styles of the song alternate

The ‘Fusion Songs’ lists songs that has seamlessly interwoven two different styles of music in the song

Songs of Anger focuses on Hindi films songs with the words the words krodh (क्रोध)/ khafa (ख़फ़ा)/naaraaz (नाराज़)/gussa (ग़ुस्सा)

From Bollywood Rewind – Sampada Sharma – Indian Express’s weekly column:

Gulzar’s Parichay is a study of a dysfunctional family, but can we accept that ours is broken? – Gulzar’s Parichay is a humble reminder that love might be the solution to all problems but to actually solve those problems, loving each other is never sufficient.

Basu Chatterjee’s Khatta Meetha is India’s version of Modern Family, but with all the problematic tropes – Khatta Meetha might seem like a harmless, innocent film that is designed to appeal to the good-heartedness of a regular middle class family. But the movie casually ignores the tropes that it introduces and turns it into plot points.

Gulzar’s Achanak is what Akshay Kumar’s Rustom would have been if it didn’t take the easy way out – In Gulzar’s 1973 film Achanak, an army officer murders his cheating wife and her lover but then we start questioning how this relationship even disintegrated.

We have moved forward with Micro View of Duets for 1943, with Female-Female Duets⁽⁺⁾ and Triads⁽⁺⁾ to conclude with My Top Duets.

In continuation to our tradition of ending the post with a few songs of Mohammad Rafi, for the year, it is planned to recall the first duet Mohamad Rafi and Geeta Dutt had with a music director.

Jai Hind Ki Yeh KahaniyaN – Mansarovar (1946) – Deepak/IshwarChandra Kapoor – S N Tripathi

Sambhal Sambhal Ke Jaiyao O Banjare… Dilli Door Hai – Saajan (1947) – with Lalita Deolkar – Rammurti Chaturvedi – C Ramchandra

Phool Ko Le Baitha Khaar, Tera Kanto Se Hai Pyar – Chunariya (1948) – Mulkraj Bhakri – Hansraj Behl

Badla Hua Duniya Mein Ulfat Ka Fasana Hai – Hamari Manzil (1949) – Qamar Jalalabadi – Husnlal Bhagatram

I look forward to your inputs to enrich the contents of Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.

Disclaimer: This monthly series of posts is my best-effort-based compilation of posts on Hindi film songs that I normally visit regularly. As I record my sincere thanks to all the original creators of these posts, any other posts that I have nor covered herein shows my lack of awareness of existence of such posts and is by no means any disrespect to their work. The copyrights to the posts, images and video clips remain the properties of the original creators

The Micro View of Songs of 1943 – The Duets – MY Top Duet Songs

The first observation that comes up after the Micro Review of the Duets is that number of duets is large for the year 1943 than the normal. This is corroborated the statistics provided in the overview post of SoY – Duets occupy a 31.44% (172 out of total 547 songs) share of the total songs for which the singers are identified in HFGK.

However, out of these 172 duet songs I have been able to capture only 60 odd songs in the Micro View and SoY has taken note of 27 duets in the Memorable Songs of 1943. This makes it just half of the total population, too less for any meaningful objective study! Moreover, of the 60 duets in the Micro View, two male singers have 8 (Arun Kumar) and 6 (G M Durrani) with two or three other singers having more than one duets. That would leave almost a third of the duets with only by any given pair of singers.

With so larger proportion of one duet per pair, our practice of covering such single songs in the list of the songs that I liked during the first listening would make the list too long, and yet so incomplete. So, I will dispense with this practice for the year.

The rest of the songs that I have chosen here again have my own subjective choice, thereby rendering the entire list as being too inadequate and subjective to be classifies ‘Top Duets’ for year. So, to order some semblance to the content of the present list, I have heavily drawn from the songs included in Special Songs and Best Ten Duets of 1943 from Best songs of 1943: Wrap Up 3

Here are MY choices of duets of 1943, in the alphabetical order of name of te film-

GM Durrani, Sitara – Gori Baanke Nayan Se Chalaaye Jadua – Aabroo (1943) – ‘Hasrat’ Lakhanav – Govind Ram

Anjali and Motilal – Kaanton sa chubhata jata hai – Aage Kadam (1943) – Kailash Matwala – Master Madhav Lal and RC Pal

Master Amritlal, Leela Pawar – Ho Mat Piyo More Chhaila Tambaku Re – Aage Kadam (1943) – Kailash Matwala- Madholal Master and RC Pal

G M Durrani, Kaushalya – NainoN Mein NainaN Dinho Daal, O Baanke Nainawale – Angoori – Ram Murti – Ghulam Mustafa (G.M.) Durrani

Vishnupant Pagnis, Kaushalya – Jo Hum Bhale Bure Ho Tere – Bhakta Raj – D N Madhok – C Ramchandara

Ishwarlal, Kaushlya – Do Bol Mohabbatwale Koi Bolo ….  – Chirag – D N Madhok – Khemchand Prakash

Arun Kumar (Mukherjee), Suraiya – Bistar bichha diya hai tere ghar ke saamne – Hamari Baat (1943) – Wali Saheb – Anil Biswas

Arunkumar,  Amirbai Karnataki –  Hum Aisi Kismet Ko Kya Kahein Haye, Jo Ek Din Hansaaye Ek Din Rulaaye – Kismet (1943) – Pradeep – Anil Biswas

Chitalkar and Parul Ghosh – More Raja Ki Oonchi Atariya – Muskurahat (1943) – IC Kapoor – C Ramchandra

Paresh Banerjee and Rajkumari – Dhuein Ki Gaadi Udaye Liya Jaaye – Nai Kahani (1943) – Wali Saheb – Shyam Sundar

Paresh Banerjee and Rajkumari –  Manmandir  Mein Aye Baalam – Nai Kahani (1943) – Wali Saheb – Shyam Sundar

Parul Ghosh, Sitara – Fasle Bahar Gaae Ja Dil Mein Gam Rulae Ja– Najma – Anjum Pilibhiti – Rafiq Gazanavi  B A

S N Tripathi, Rajkumari – Panghat Par Paani Bharane – Panghat – Ramesh Gupta – S N Tripathi

Rafique Ghazanvi, Menka, Chorus – Panchhi Ud Chala Apne Desh, ….  – Prithvi Vallabh – Pt. Sudarshan – Rafique Ghazanvi

Kishore Sahu, Pratima Dasgupta – Niraali Duniya Hamari – Raja – Rammurti – Khan Mastana

Saraswati Rane and Amirbai Karnataki – Aao Ri Suhagan Nari Mangal Gaao Ri – Ram Rajya (1943)- Ramesh Gupta – Shankar Rao Vyas

Kamal Dasgupta and Anima Dasgupta – Saawan mein boondan ki jhalar daali – Rani (1943) – Pt. Madhur- Kamal Dasgupta

Noor Mohammad Charlie, Suraiya – Udate Panchhi Kaun Unako Bataye– Sanjog- D N Madhok – Naushad Ali

Jayshree and Zohrabai Ambalewali – Chaand sa nanha aye phoolon sa khil khil jaaye –Shakuntala (1943)- Ratan Piya – Vasant Desai

Khan Mastana, Zohrabai Amabalewali – Suahaani Suhaani Ho Gayi Suhaani, Sajan Apani Zindgani Ho Gayi Suhaani – Talaash  – A. Karim – Khan Mastana

Asit Baran and Binota Roy(?) – Jeevan Hai Bekaar Bina Tumhare – Wapas (1943) – Pt. Bhushan – RC Boral

Asit Baran and Indrani (?) – Bhool Na Jana Aaj Ki Baatein – Wapas (1943)- Munshi Zakir Hussain – music RC Boral

SoY, in Best songs of 1943: Wrap Up 3,  states that three duets – More Baalapan Ke Saathi Bhul Jaiyo Na – happy and sad versions – (Tansen, K L Saigal, Khursheed – Music – Khemchand Prakash); Dheere Dheere Aa Re Badal Dheere Dheere Aa (Kismet – Arun Kumar (Ashok Kumar), Amirbai Karanatki – Music: Anil Biswas) and Bharat Ke Ek Sannari Ki Katha Sunate Hai (Ram Rajya – Yashwant Bua Joshi and Yaswant Nikam – Music: Shankar Rao Vyas) have stood the test of times and are till so well  remembered even today. I, personally endorse the statement.

Carnival of Quality Management Articles and Blogs – Volume XI – January 2023 Edition

Welcome to January 2023 edition of the XI^th volume of Carnival of Quality Management Articles and Blogs.

The theme for the XI^th volume of our Carnival of Quality Management Articles and Blogs is The Defining Trends of Quality Management – An Analytical Survey.

The aim for the present episode to overview the major trends already identified in the first two years of the present decade that are expected to shape the working philosophy for the quality management professionals. We shall look at some of the critical trends in a little more details in the subsequent months.

In order to identify the first step is carry out the trend analysis.

The trend analysis can be carried out from either the perspective of past data or from the potential changes that can take place in the future.

The real, lasting, and positive change to happen from implementation of CAPA[1] (from the past trends) or from the actions emending out of strategic planning – based on appropriate risj management approach -may require rethinking on the organization’s approach to trend analysis w. r. t. the quality management philosophy. These three questions provide a good beginning before taking up new trend analysis areas or tools/ modifying the existing ones.

• What is the primary objective of the trend analysis? – One fundamental guiding principle is that a meaningful trend analysis should identify, evaluate and eliminate or prevent the issue that is having negative effect on product quality or customer expectations or to enable the organization to maintain / improve / sustain its competitive edge in the future.
• What method to choose? – Primarily this driven by the basic purpose of the trend analysis exercise.
• Is the data being analysed timely and adequate? – The timeliness of the data would mean that data neither should be outdated or should be irrelevant for the purpose and period of the trend analysis.

We now try to enlist major trends as identified in the presently documented literature:

1. 1. Changes in quality perceptions and approaches in terms of product and system quality as well as customer expectations.
   2. Evolving of management of risks under constantly changing business practices
   3. Knowledge sharing within and across the departments as well with outside stakeholders.
   4. Increasing significance of decision intelligence
   5. Improving the quality and reliability of the supply chain.
   6. Defining quality standards and related job roles in view of increasing need for seamless blending of technical and cross-functional skills.
   7. Increasing significance of integration of QEHS
   8. Increased importance of quality management approach with enterprise-level strategic planning

Apart from these generic issues, there are industry-sector specific trends analyses that can also help bring more generic issues under the radar.

The subject of trends analyses for very specific areas like  quality /environment /occupational and health and safety standards, geo-political-economical-social micro level and macro-level realignments, business performance measurement practices, micro- and macro-level racial and cultural changes etc.

There would be more trends identified in areas of Sustainability, Social relevance and Business continuity or Use of Quality 4.0 technology vis-à-vis Industry 4.0 technologies and IT technologies and the like.

Some of the Sources used as references:

• Trends in quality management
• Here are Eight Quality Management Trends to Look Out for in 2022!
• Top 7 Organizational Trends in Quality Management
• Major Trends in Quality Control

We will now turn to our regular section -.

We now watch ASQ TV episode on –

• Digital Transformation Now and Later – A very brief history of the term digital transformation and then into necessary resources to assist you and your organization along any point in the journey. Mentioned in this episode: Learn About Quality—Quality 4.0 https://asq.org/quality-resources/quality-4-0

We have taken up one article from Jim L. Smith’s Jim’s Gems:

• Motives Are Important in Everything We Do – The success of our endeavors depends not so much on the endeavors themselves but, rather, on our motive for doing them. …. The key to success of The greatest writers, the greatest quality professionals, the greatest companies – the greatest men and women in all walks of life –is to be found in the fact they were motivated more, at least in the beginning, by what was important to them, what society needed, or by what they felt they had to do, rather than the thought of profit. This is the actual secret – the key to success… True success comes from working on things we really care about.

From the Editor’ (of Quality Magazine) – by Darryl Sealand, we have –

• Knowledge is Power – From Sun Tzu to Chuck McGill – Why do we remember the past, and not the future? It is a perplexing question with no tangible, concrete answer. The question stems from, or at least often follows, Albert Einstein’s famous utterance, “Time is an illusion, although a stubbornly persistent one.”  …. We can even go as far as to replace the notion of memory with that of knowledge. Knowledge, after all, is facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education, i.e. the memories of that experience and education. So now the question becomes, “What if we had knowledge of the future?” … No matter your answer, the question points to the accuracy of an old, but particularly apt adage—Knowledge is power! ….As Sun Tzu states in the Art of War: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” … In the real world and on the “battlefields” of good business, particularly regarding the field of quality, knowledge lies in training. As contributing editor Genevieve Diesing writes, “As the pandemic and advances in technology impact the field, education and training remain paramount — especially for newcomers.”

I look forward to your views / comments / inputs to further enrich the theme of The Defining Trends of Quality Management – An Analytical Survey.

Note: The images or video clips depicted here above are through courtesy of respective websites who have the copyrights for the respective images /videos.

[1] Management of an Effective CAPA

The Micro View of Songs of 1943 – The Duets – Female – Female Duets(+) and Triads(+)

Female – Female Duets⁽⁺⁾

Unidentified singers – Tu Ek Suahan Sapana Kismatwala Jis ko Dekhe – Mazaq – Abdul Gulrez – Zahoor Raja

Parul Ghosh, Mumtaz – Bhala Kyun O Bhala Kyun Magar Kyun Kahegi Aisi Baat – Najma – Anjum Pilibhiti – Rafiq Gazanavi  B A

Parul Ghosh, Sitara – Fasle Bahar Gaae Ja Dil Mein Gam Rulae Ja– Najma – Anjum Pilibhiti – Rafiq Gazanavi  B A

Amirbai Karanataki, Mumtaz – Sajan Ke Nain Jadu Baan, Haye Main Vaari Jaaun– Najma – Anjum Pilibhiti – Rafiq Gazanavi  B A

Noor Jehan, Rajkumari – Jhoom… Aye Dil Gul-e-Naubahar Jhoom – Nauker – ? – Rafiq Gazanavi

Rajkumari, Unidentified singer – Panghat Ko Chali Panihari Re – Panghat – Pt. Indra – S N Tripathi

Rajkumari, Unidentified singer –Amma Mori Ho, Mohe Kisan Kunavr Var Deejo – Panghat – Pt. Indra – S N Tripathi

Baby Tara, Rajkumari Shukla – Chachi Ji Mori Chuha Kothe Ke  Beech – Panghat – Ramesh Gupta – S N Tripathi

Amirbai Karanataki, Veenakumari – Ham Kidhar Chale Ri Sakhi – Pratigya – Dr. Sardar ‘Aah’ – Indravadan Bhatt

Triads (+)

Zeenat Begum and Unidentified male and female singer – Main To Lahenga NahiN Pahenungi Laa De Malmal Ki Salwar – Sahara – Nazim Panipati – Pt. Govindram

Amirbai Karanataki, Pahari Sanyal, Unidentied person – Aai Re Aai Re Malin Singapur Se – ? – Ashok Ghosh

Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music – Volume X – December 2022 Edition

Welcome to December 2022 edition of X^th Volume of Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.

Presently we move on to our section on tributes and celebrations for the month –

Afsana Likh Rahi Hoon – Remembering Umadevi – Born in 1926, little Uma would act in Ramleela (perhaps religious plays were permitted) and listen to the radio. She was fascinated by Hindi film songs and tried remembering the names of the singers and music directors. She was selected by Ustad Allah Rakha for a film, called Wamiq Azra. The film was released in 1946. Umadevi was finally a playback singer. Here is her very sweet NFS – Naina Ban Gaye Sawan Bhado – Madhukar Rajasthani– K Murari Sharma

Sharmila Tagore, the original oomph girl who challenged India’s conservative bent: ‘When I showed 2-piece bikini to the photographer…’ – Sampada Sharma – Hindi cinema has seen some graceful, effortless actors in Meena Kumari, Nargis, Waheeda Rehman but it can be safely said the versatility of Sharmila Tagore remains unmatched to this day. Tagore had the rare ability to play any role with complete ease but there was one thing that remained consistent across all her roles, and that was her graceful attitude.

The Assumed ‘Curse’ Of 30: How Gendered Ageism Impacts The Careers Of Indian Women – Gulbahaar Kaur – Most individuals around the country questioned the future of an actress barely past a quarter of her life. Many young actresses of the 80’s and 90’s diminished from the big screen almost overnight due to the ‘curse’ of ageing. Beyond films this phenomenon remained consistent in other fields as well. Nevertheless, the situation seems to be changing gradually….

Continuing the series, the year-wise review of Lata Mangeshkar’s career, on Lata Mangeshkar, Mehfil Mein Teri revisits favourites from the year 1955 in 1955 – Lata Mangeshkar

Shatrughan Sinha was the first ‘angry young man’ but Amitabh Bachchan walked away with that title – Sampada Sharma –  On Shatrughan Sinha’s birthday(9^th December), here’s looking back at his professional rivalry with Amitabh Bachchan.

25 years of Chachi 420: Kamal Haasan film is a lesson on how not to mock a man playing a woman, and still be funny – Arushi Jain – One of the most endearing things about the film where Haasan plays a middle-aged woman is that the character is never reduced to a caricature. The laughs never comes from misogyny or a perverted gaze. Chachi 420 works as a story, not as a gimmick.

November 2022 episode of Fading Memories, Unforgettable Songs takes up Mohammad Rafi’s First Duet Song With The Music Director: 2^nd Five-Year Period: Year 1949 – Part II. Our journey began with the 1^st Five-Year Period of 1944 to 1948 in the year 2021. We then commenced the 2^nd Five-Year Period of 1949-1953 with Part I of the year 1949 in July 2022.

Shailendra Sharma @ Golden Era of Bollywood has not posted the memorial tribute posts for the month till the writing for the present post.

We now move on to posts on other subjects –

Bollywood’s Saffron-clad Sadhus Are Scheming Criminals Who Deserve Violent Ends – Jayasri Viswanathan – In Bollywood, Sadhu is not an ascetic who has renounced worldly attachments to attain moksha by practices guided by his guru. Onscreen, he is a scheming, lusty, political mastermind in cahoots with the tilak-dhaari antagonist.

When Kundan Shah told Saeed Mirza: ‘I hope I am not doomed to keep doing funny stuff’ – Saeed Mirza’s illustrated memoir – I Know the Psychology of Rats, Tulika Books – recounts his personal and professional bond with the ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’ director.

Tempus Fugit Songs integral to the plot, that help the plot to thicken. Some songs show time passing and the attendant changes that occur with time.  The present list has songs wherein the time passes and there are attendant changes/developments that are shown.

Thinker’s Songs – thinking is so integral to mankind there are many songs that talk about thinking. Our film songs do not need to delve into philosophy or poetry, they are about problems at hand relating to love, heartbreak etc.

One Lady Sings, The Other Dances – On a few occasions, one of the characters sings while the other dances to its tune. Many songs have a male character singing and a female character dances.

Consecutive Melodies are exceptions where one song is immediately followed by another.

From Bollywood Rewind – Sampada Sharma – Indian Express’s weekly column:

• ‘King of Romance’ Yash Chopra’s first love story was a tale of polyamory that was accepted by the masses – Yash Chopra’s Daag, starring Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore and Rakhee, was an unorthodox love story where the man ends up with two women and they all live happily ever after.
• Yaadon Ki Baaraat is not as fun as you remember it to be, feels like a parody of its genre – The 1973 film Yaadon Ki Baaraat is somehow remembered for being a masala Bollywood film but upon rewatching it now, it feels like a parody of its own genre.

We have moved forward with Micro View of Male-Female Duets for 1943, to Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. SoY has concluded the series with Best songs of 1943: Wrap Up 4, whereat Khemchand Prakash is adjudged the Best Music Director of 1943 for Tansen

In continuation to our tradition of ending the post with a few songs of Mohammad Rafi that are relevant to the topics covered in the present episode, we had instituted a series wherein we listened to Mohammad Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar’s duet with a music director for the first time in a Hindi film, every month for the year 2022.

We pay tribute to Dilip Kumar and Mohammad Rafi with some romantic- happy mood songs:

Preet Jata Ke Meet Bana Ke Bule Na Jana – Hulchal (1951) – with Lata Mangeshkar -Khumar Barabanqvi – Sajjad Hussain

Aashiq Hai Agar Hai Pyare – Insaniyat (1955) – Rajinder Krishna – C Ramchandra

Ishq Diwana Husn Bhi Ghayal Dono Taraf Ek Dard-e-Jigar Hai – Sungursh (1968) – Shakeel Badayuni – Naushad

Peete Peete Kabhi Kabahi Yun Jam Badalate Jaate HaiN – Bairag (1976) – Anand Bakshi – Kalyanji Anandji

I look forward to your inputs to enrich the contents of Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.

Disclaimer: This monthly series of posts is my best-effort-based compilation of posts on Hindi film songs that I normally visit regularly. As I record my sincere thanks to all the original creators of these posts, any other posts that I have nor covered herein shows my lack of awareness of existence of such posts and is by no means any disrespect to their work. The copyrights to the posts, images and video clips remain the properties of the original creators.

Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music wishes its readers a lyrically composed 2023 with happiness, health and progress in great harmony.

The episodes of January 2022 to December 2022 have been compiled as one file @ Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music, Volume X – 2022 and can be read / downloaded by clicking on the hyperlink