Let me present my favourite ten of SD Burman’s Bengali private songs, which have been adapted in Hindi, as my tribute to the great genius. There are about two dozen such songs, which have a Hindi version – mostly film songs in the voice of well known playback singers, some in his own voice, both film and non-film. But there are a number of songs which would dazzle you, either because of their beauty, or because the adaptation may not be obvious at the first instance. Some of these songs are very well known, and have been already mentioned on this blog earlier by the readers, such as Ghum bhulechhi for Hum bekhudi mein tumko pukare chale gaye, or Rongila rongila rongila re for Aan milo aan milo Shyam sanwre. Some more may be known to the readers. These songs are among all time great compositions of SD Burman, without most of us being aware that these are adapted from original Bengali songs sung by SD Burman. The readers also mentioned many of his Bengali songs, which were adapted by SD Burman as Hindi film songs in the voices of Mohammad Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar and Geeta Dutt. I have already done his non-film Hindi songs, which was very well received. In course of searching his songs, I found there were so many of them in each category, and many of them absolutely outstanding, that I decided to cover his non-film Hindi and Bengalis songs in separate posts. I then decided to cover only his non-film songs, which would have included both Hindi and Bengali songs. Then I came across Harvey’s post, Sun mere bandhu re, on his film songs. I started with the idea of doing a post on my top ten favourite songs of SD Burman, which would have included his film as well non-film Hindi and Bengali songs. My journey has taken many interesting turns.
With this post my SD Burman journey is intersecting Ashok Vaishnavji’s mega-project on multiple version songs.
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