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Talent is his trademark

Bhupen Hazarika, the original 'King of Bollywood', remains in obscurity working in an odd film here and there despite the awards and felicitations that have come his way, says ZIYA US SALAM.

A picture of dignity ... composer and singer Bhupen Hazarika receiving the Padma Bhushan award from the then President K. R. Narayanan.
A picture of dignity ... composer and singer Bhupen Hazarika receiving the Padma Bhushan award from the then President K. R. Narayanan. IT SHALL remain one of the delicious ironies of fate that Anu Malik remains the favourite of Bollywood dream merchants, notching up double digit films every year while an infinitely more talented Bhupen Hazarika still has to rely on "Dil Hoon Hoon Kare" from "Rudaali" (1993) to establish an acquaintance with posterity. In New Delhi to attend the International Film Festival of India recently, Bhupen Hazarika was a picture of dignity and content. "I am happy with life. After all these years of struggle and all the awards and felicitations that have come my way, I have no regrets. I never visualised it when I started out. I wanted to be a journalist, though I was a serious student of music. I am at peace with everybody, with the world. Now, I have just one message for the new generation: Simplicity always wins. You don't have to be the son of a rich man to see the world." Incidentally, Hazarika, 76, is the son of a schoolteacher and set out to see the world when India was just keeping its tryst with destiny. "I have done 122 films in Assamese, Bengali and Hindi. I have got love from all over. I got the Dadasaheb Phalke Award after "Rudaali". I cannot compose songs like "Khatiya" and "Choli ke Peeche". I was happy when "Dil Hoon... " beat such songs in the countdown shows. Film music is not marriage video or a Punjabi party. Movies have become a consumer product. Now, even when they talk of patriotism in Hindi cinema and the NRIs coming back home to the homeland, it is like commercialisation of patriotism. I cannot do that." Yet, he is no old man yearning for retrospective contentment while cribbing about the present. He showers praise on Ilaiyaraja and A. R. Rahman. "I love all good things of life. I find Rahman and Ilaiyaraja on the right track. Whenever they go off the track, they know how to come back to the right path. I sang once for Rahman, he just told me to do what I wanted! I tell him to take it easy, take a break and avoid repetition of tunes. That is the way to last longer. He agrees but then there is the problem with directors. After one hit song, all of them want similar songs!" How come the man whose Assamese songs have been translated into Japanese, Nepalese and many other languages, is not seen more often in Hindi cinema: "I love Hindi but nobody brought me here. When I started out I did not have the money to stay in Delhi or Mumbai for a month and wait for work. Until one day, Atma Ram — Kalpana Lajmi's uncle — gave me "Aarop". I composed the song "Nainon Mein Darpan Hai, Darpan Mein Koi". It became a hit. To tell you the truth, it is originally a cowboy song in the Northeast. I heard this from a boy in the Khasi Hills. I immediately learnt the tune but I did not copy it." Well, "Rudaali" too was sheer accident. "I was in the Capital with other film personalities, meeting at the National School of Drama. There Lajmi had sent her film proposal for "Rudaali" with my name as the music director and I did not even know! I did the film for free ... actually One Rupee ... which again, never came my way!" Yet again the man, given to frequent bouts of nostalgia, lapses into the past. "The tune, 'Dil Hoon... ' was actually composed way back in 1962 for an Assamese film, "Moniram Dewan". I used that tune for "Rudaali", recalls this student of Jyotiprasad Aggrawalla, the man who made the first Assamese film in 1935. Recalls Hazarika, a product of Cotton Collegiate Higher Secondary School in Assam, "I wanted to do many things when I started out. I wanted to be a journalist, so I did Ph.D in Mass Communication from Columbia University. I wanted to be a lawyer and sing in the bathroom. So I went ahead and did M.A. in Political Science from Benares Hindu University. There I also learnt music for four years from Sangeet Bhavan without having to pay any fee. I was enamoured with the rhythm and melody of the hills and the plains. I met luminaries of Indian People's Theatre Association and music possessed me. I did not know Marx but my first song was on Shankara Deva. Then and there I realised that a slogan could not be a song, it must reach out to the heart. Ragas cannot be distorted — they are the soul of music. In Guwahati, I was an Assamese. In Kolkata, I became a Bengali but I became an Indian after coming to Uttar Pradesh, particularly BHU. I was lucky to get in touch with people like Jyotiprasad and Narayan Menon who guided me." "I went to America in 1949. I went via Paris where I met my idol Picasso. I did not know how to react when I met the legendary painter. He wanted to know if I were really his follower and asked me about what quality I liked the best in his works! When I replied I liked the 'Blue period', he was convinced. I had no camera, so there was no proof of that morning meeting. I wanted to touch Picasso and his words stay with me: 'Hazarika goes to America'! In America, I washed dishes, wrote commentary for short films in New York for 250 dollars. It was a lot of money for me. I became a Leftist in the land of Capitalism." In America, he met another idol of his — Paul Robson — and the rest, is "Old Man River, You Don't Do Nothing, You Just Keep Rolling Along... " The song stayed with him and was transliterated into almost every Indian language. In Assam, the river was called Brahmaputra, in U.P. it was called Ganga by Narendra Sharma — "Oh Ganga Behti Ho Kyon..." This cool, composed, soft-spoken man from a family of singers is now busy wooing the next generation in Kalpana Lajmi's "Kyon", based on the problems of growing up and the responsibilities of parents. "I am also planning an Assamese film. It should be ready by the end of the year," informs Hazarika, who has composed music for films like "Saaz", "Daman", "Mil Gayi Manzil Mujhe" and "Gaj Gamini" in the past. "Well, like "Rudaali", "Gaj Gamini" also happened by chance. M. F. Husain called up from a press conference in London to tell me that I was doing the film. I was not even given the time to think. He just decided for me!"

Well, if life is an accident, this humble man with lofty deeds has had some sweet things happening to him. "No complaints. I am happy," signs off the man who has been at the helm of affairs of Assam Sahitya Sabha, Sangeet Natak Akademi and has also dabbled in politics.

Bard of the Brahmaputra

by Sanjoy Hazarika A few weeks ago, in the northern Assam town of Tezpur,a small group gathered in the elegant drawing room of the Goswamis,a prominent doctor couple, sipping drinks and listening to a long- time politician recount one of his favorite anecdotes in the Assam Assembly. The politician spoke of how a mischief-making MLA had got another opposition member, who was quite easy to sway, to challenge the then leader of the opposition, Dulal Baruah, in the House on a point of order. An outraged Baruah thundered at his backbencher to shut up, but the instigator was not done yet. "Press on a point of order," he hissed at his wavering colleague. "Point of order!" yelled the member, now defiant, but once again stumped when the Speaker asked him, quite legitimately, "On what grounds?" He fumbled, but then his friend whispered again, "Say, bad grammar." "Bad grammar, sir," suggested the legislator. The House dissolved in laughter as Dulal Baruah turned purple with rage and gazed balefully at his two tormenters. The name of the assemblyman is not important, but there is much to be said of the mischief-maker, who was no other than Bhupen Hazarika. Bhupenda, as he is lovingly called by millions, is recognised by many as one of the greatest cultural figures that Assam has produced, next only to Sri Sri Sankaradeva, the Vaishnavite preacher of the 15th century, and Rupkonwar Jyoti Prasad Agarwalla, the early 20th-century singer-composer. Bard and balladeer, poet and politician, journalist, singer, lyricist, musician, filmmaker, writer — but Bhupenda is much more than all this. He is a communicator of romance, passion, universalism and humanism. He has gathered awards aplenty: for his contribution to cinema, to music, to culture, and to the vigour he reinstilled in the Assamese, jostling them awake through song, and forcing them to rethink old attitudes. In 1994, he was awarded the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest award in India for contribution to films. Hazarika is cherished in Dhaka as much as he is in Guwahati. His song on the war of Bangladesh's freedom, "Joi Joi Naba Jata Bangladesh" (hail the newborn Bangladesh), is a stirring marching tune which was on every Bengali's lips during those harrowing days. His songs are not limited to Assamese and Bengali, and Bhupenda's rich baritone is equally at ease with Hindi, Urdu and English. Hazarika's internationalism (or 'regionalism') goes further than his vocal chords, as is evident when he talks of his special relationship with Nepalis. He was born in Tezpur, a town that has quite a significant number of them. The black Nepali cap, which is his signature, he began wearing, he says, when his father died many years ago and someone in the neighbourhood gave him a topi to wear. The khukuri pin that adorns his topi is a gift from Hazarika's friends and admirers in Nepal. Bhupenda is without doubt one of the greatest living cultural communicators of South Asia. He has swayed millions with the power and passion of his voice, and the message of universal brotherhood and humanism, which comes through in his songs. He has a genius for weaving a magical tapestry out of traditional Assamese music and lyrics, breathing new life into the language, synthesising old and new strands of music, and instilling a sense of pride among the inhabitants of the Brahmaputra valley. Hazarika showed signs of early musical genius even before he started singing on All India Radio in 1937, at the age of eleven. As a young adult, he swiftly made his mark as singer and composer. Later, Hazarika travelled to New York, where he earned a doctorate in audio-visual and mass communications from Columbia University. He served in the Assam Assembly in the 1960s as an independent MLA. He has also headed the Assam Sahitya Sabha, the literary bastion of the Brahmaputra valley's dominant civilisation. Few know that, during his time at Columbia University, Hazarika was a friend of Paul Robeson, the great black American singer, actor and civil rights activist. Robeson's passionate crusade for social justice and black pride has permeated Bhupenda's own worldview. Inspired greatly by Robeson's powerful rendition of the song "Ole Man River", Hazarika created his own moving ode to the Brahmaputra. The waterways of Assam have been a the source of inspiration for Hazarika's songs and lyrics all these years. "The Brahmaputra is the lifeline of Assam," he says. One of his notable collaborations for Doordarshan was Luit Kinare (by the banks of the Luit), a mosaic of ordinary tales that is both cheerful and poignant. (The Luit merges with the Dibang in Arunachal to create the mighty sea-like expanse of the Brahmaputra.) Whereas he had been a legend in Eastern India for decades, it was his compositions for the film Rudali which won Hazarika recognition across the Subcontinent. At the age of 70, he retains the energy of a much younger man, and he is presently working on a television serial on the freedom movement in Assam. Perhaps the best example of the humanistic ideals that imbue his works is the song "Manuhe Manuhar Babe" (for man), composed in 1964: If man wouldn't think for man
With a little sympathy
Tell me who will– comrade.
If we repeat history
If we try to buy
Or sell humanity
Won't we be wrong –comrade?
If the weak
Tide across the rapids of life
With your help
What do you stand to lose?
If man does not become man
A demon never will
If a demon turns more human
Whom shall it shame more–comrade?

S. Hazarika is Delhi-based correspondent for the New York Times and an author with special interest in the Indian Northeast. Bedabrata Lahkar of the Assam Tribune helped research this article. Translation of "Manuhe Manuhar Babe" by Pradip Acharya.

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	arre maala japo re chhat maiya ke naam ki	Mahendra Kapoor [+], Usha Mangeshkar [+] [duet,+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Kavi Pradeep	Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="arre maala japo re chhat maiya ke naam ki" name=song>< = value=mk name=singer>< = value=um name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=pradeep name=lyrics>< = value="Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	beete na beete na raina	Lata Mangeshkar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Rudaali	1993 [1990..1999]	Dimple Kapadia, Raakhee	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="beete na beete na raina" name=song>< = value=lm name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=Rudaali name=movie>< = value=1993 name=year>< = value="Dimple Kapadia" name=actors>< = value=Raakhee name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	brahma vishnu mahesh ki laadli chhat maiya	Mahendra Kapoor [+], Usha Mangeshkar [+] [duet,+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Kavi Pradeep	Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="brahma vishnu mahesh ki laadli chhat maiya" name=song>< = value=mk name=singer>< = value=um name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=pradeep name=lyrics>< = value="Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	chale aao na sataao more hiyara ki	Asha Bhonsle [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Maya Govind	Aarop			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="chale aao na sataao more hiyara ki" name=song>< = value=amb name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=mayagovind name=lyrics>< = value=Aarop name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	dil hoom hoom kare ghabraaye	Bhupen Hazarika [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Rudaali	1993 [1990..1999]	Dimple Kapadia	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="dil hoom hoom kare ghabraaye" name=song>< = value=bh name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=Rudaali name=movie>< = value=1993 name=year>< = value="Dimple Kapadia" name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	dil hoom hoom kare ghabraaye	Lata Mangeshkar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Rudaali	1993 [1990..1999]	Dimple Kapadia	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="dil hoom hoom kare ghabraaye" name=song>< = value=lm name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=Rudaali name=movie>< = value=1993 name=year>< = value="Dimple Kapadia" name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	ek kali do pattiyaan	Bhupen Hazarika [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar				< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="ek kali do pattiyaan" name=song>< = value=bh name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	haath mere madhu ka pyaala tera rup bana madhushala	Manna Dey [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Maya Govind	Aarop			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="haath mere madhu ka pyaala tera rup bana madhushala" name=song>< = value=md name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=mayagovind name=lyrics>< = value=Aarop name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	hey jai yashoda nandan hey mohan shyaam	Bhupen Hazarika [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Maya Govind	Aarop			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="hey jai yashoda nandan hey mohan shyaam" name=song>< = value=bh name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=mayagovind name=lyrics>< = value=Aarop name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	insaan insaan ke liye jeevan jeevan ke liye	Kamal Ganguly Bhupen Hazarika	Bhupen Hazarika	Gajanan Varma	Chamelee Memsaab			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="insaan insaan ke liye jeevan jeevan ke liye" name=song>< = value="Kamal Ganguly Bhupen Hazarika" name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value="Gajanan Varma" name=lyrics>< = value="Chamelee Memsaab" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	jaa jaa jaa	Asha Bhonsle [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Rudaali	1993 [1990..1999]	Dimple Kapadia, Raakhee	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="jaa jaa jaa" name=song>< = value=amb name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=Rudaali name=movie>< = value=1993 name=year>< = value="Dimple Kapadia" name=actors>< = value=Raakhee name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	jaa jaa jaa	Bhupen Hazarika [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Rudaali	1993 [1990..1999]	Dimple Kapadia, Raakhee	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="jaa jaa jaa" name=song>< = value=bh name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=Rudaali name=movie>< = value=1993 name=year>< = value="Dimple Kapadia" name=actors>< = value=Raakhee name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	jaa jaa jaa	Lata Mangeshkar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Rudaali	1993 [1990..1999]	Dimple Kapadia, Raakhee	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="jaa jaa jaa" name=song>< = value=lm name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=Rudaali name=movie>< = value=1993 name=year>< = value="Dimple Kapadia" name=actors>< = value=Raakhee name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	jaane kya hai jee darta hai	Lata Mangeshkar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Ek Pal			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="jaane kya hai jee darta hai" name=song>< = value=lm name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value="Ek Pal" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	jabse tune bansi bajaai re	Lakshmi Shankar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Maya Govind	Aarop			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="jabse tune bansi bajaai re" name=song>< = value=ls name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=mayagovind name=lyrics>< = value=Aarop name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	jhoothhi moothhi mitva aawan bole	Lata Mangeshkar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Rudaali	1993 [1990..1999]	Dimple Kapadia, Raakhee	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="jhoothhi moothhi mitva aawan bole" name=song>< = value=lm name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=Rudaali name=movie>< = value=1993 name=year>< = value="Dimple Kapadia" name=actors>< = value=Raakhee name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	kekar naiya mein irchi mirichiya	Vindhyavaasini Devi	Bhupen Hazarika	Vindhyavaasini Devi	Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="kekar naiya mein irchi mirichiya" name=song>< = value="Vindhyavaasini Devi" name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value="Vindhyavaasini Devi" name=lyrics>< = value="Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	main to sang jaaoon banvaas	Bhupen Hazarika [+], Lata Mangeshkar [+] [duet,+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Ek Pal		Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Farooque Sheikh	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="main to sang jaaoon banvaas" name=song>< = value=bh name=singer>< = value=lm name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value="Ek Pal" name=movie>< = value="Naseeruddin Shah" name=actors>< = value="Shabana Azmi" name=actors>< = value="Farooque Sheikh" name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	main to sang jaaun banwaas	Lata Mangeshkar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Ek Pal			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="main to sang jaaun banwaas" name=song>< = value=lm name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value="Ek Pal" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	maula o maula	Bhupen Hazarika [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Rudaali	1993 [1990..1999]	Raj Babbar, Dimple Kapadia	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="maula o maula" name=song>< = value=bh name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=Rudaali name=movie>< = value=1993 name=year>< = value="Raj Babbar" name=actors>< = value="Dimple Kapadia" name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>

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	mere maathe ka sindur mujhse gaya door	Lata Mangeshkar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Kavi Pradeep	Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="mere maathe ka sindur mujhse gaya door" name=song>< = value=lm name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=pradeep name=lyrics>< = value="Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	nainon mein darpan hai darpan mein koi	Kishore Kumar Ganguly [+], Lata Mangeshkar [+] [duet,+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Maya Govind	Aarop		Rajesh Khanna, Saira Bano, Vinod Khanna, Vinod Meh	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="nainon mein darpan hai darpan mein koi" name=song>< = value=kkg name=singer>< = value=lm name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=mayagovind name=lyrics>< = value=Aarop name=movie>< = value="Rajesh Khanna" name=actors>< = value="Saira Bano" name=actors>< = value="Vinod Khanna" name=actors>< = value="Vinod Meh" name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	o phoolon ki deshwaali aang aang tera phoolonwaala	Manna Dey [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Maya Govind	Aarop			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="o phoolon ki deshwaali aang aang tera phoolonwaala" name=song>< = value=md name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=mayagovind name=lyrics>< = value=Aarop name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	o pinjrre ke tote bata bata mere rootthe piya ka pata	Usha Mangeshkar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Kavi Pradeep	Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="o pinjrre ke tote bata bata mere rootthe piya ka pata" name=song>< = value=um name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=pradeep name=lyrics>< = value="Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	o videshi bandhu durbhagi o pardesi bandhu akaaki	arundhatihomchoudhary	Bhupen Hazarika	Gajanan Varma	Chamelee Memsaab			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="o videshi bandhu durbhagi o pardesi bandhu akaaki" name=song>< = value=arundhatihomchoudhary name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value="Gajanan Varma" name=lyrics>< = value="Chamelee Memsaab" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	o videshi bandhu durbhagi o pardesi bandhu akaaki	Bhupen Hazarika [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gajanan Varma	Chamelee Memsaab			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="o videshi bandhu durbhagi o pardesi bandhu akaaki" name=song>< = value=bh name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value="Gajanan Varma" name=lyrics>< = value="Chamelee Memsaab" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	patna ke haat par nariyar kinbe zaroor	Vindhyavaasini Devi	Bhupen Hazarika	Vindhyavaasini Devi	Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="patna ke haat par nariyar kinbe zaroor" name=song>< = value="Vindhyavaasini Devi" name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value="Vindhyavaasini Devi" name=lyrics>< = value="Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	phoole daana daana phoole baaliyaan	Bhupinder Singh [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Ek Pal			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="phoole daana daana phoole baaliyaan" name=song>< = value=bs name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value="Ek Pal" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	pighalta hua	Asha Bhonsle [+], Udit Narayan [+] [duet,+]	Bhupen Hazarika		Darmiyaan	1997 [1990..1999]		< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="pighalta hua" name=song>< = value=amb name=singer>< = value=un name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=Darmiyaan name=movie>< = value=1997 name=year>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	rasik bhanvare o re ek kamsin kali ka ras le le	Asha Bhonsle [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Kavi Pradeep	Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="rasik bhanvare o re ek kamsin kali ka ras le le" name=song>< = value=amb name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=pradeep name=lyrics>< = value="Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	saathi ghodawa sooraj dev rath asawaar	Vindhyavaasini Devi	Bhupen Hazarika	Vindhyavaasini Devi	Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="saathi ghodawa sooraj dev rath asawaar" name=song>< = value="Vindhyavaasini Devi" name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value="Vindhyavaasini Devi" name=lyrics>< = value="Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	sab kuchh mila tu na mila	Asha Bhonsle [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Maya Govind	Aarop			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="sab kuchh mila tu na mila" name=song>< = value=amb name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=mayagovind name=lyrics>< = value=Aarop name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	sabki god sawaaranewaali meri bhi god sawaaro	Usha Mangeshkar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Kavi Pradeep	Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="sabki god sawaaranewaali meri bhi god sawaaro" name=song>< = value=um name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=pradeep name=lyrics>< = value="Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	samay o dheere chalo bujh gayi raah se chhaanon	Bhupen Hazarika [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Rudaali	1993 [1990..1999]	Dimple Kapadia	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value=itrans-537.gif name=words>< = value="samay o dheere chalo bujh gayi raah se chhaanon" name=song>< = value=bh name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=Rudaali name=movie>< = value=1993 name=year>< = value="Dimple Kapadia" name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	samay o dheere chalo bujh gayi raah se chhaanon	Lata Mangeshkar [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Rudaali	1993 [1990..1999]	Dimple Kapadia	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value=itrans-537.gif name=words>< = value="samay o dheere chalo bujh gayi raah se chhaanon" name=song>< = value=lm name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value=Rudaali name=movie>< = value=1993 name=year>< = value="Dimple Kapadia" name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	toot gaya mera sapna suhaana	Manna Dey [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Maya Govind	Aarop			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="toot gaya mera sapna suhaana" name=song>< = value=md name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=mayagovind name=lyrics>< = value=Aarop name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	uag hey sooraj dev bhaile bhinusarwa	Vindhyavaasini Devi	Bhupen Hazarika	Vindhyavaasini Devi	Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="uag hey sooraj dev bhaile bhinusarwa" name=song>< = value="Vindhyavaasini Devi" name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value="Vindhyavaasini Devi" name=lyrics>< = value="Chhath Maiya Ki Mahima" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	vashikaran kaajal kaare naina yeh do saanware	arundhatihomchoudhary	Bhupen Hazarika	Gajanan Varma	Chamelee Memsaab			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="vashikaran kaajal kaare naina yeh do saanware" name=song>< = value=arundhatihomchoudhary name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value="Gajanan Varma" name=lyrics>< = value="Chamelee Memsaab" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	zara dheeme zara dheere leke jaiyo doli badi naazuk meri behna bholi	Bhupen Hazarika [+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Ek Pal		Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Farooque Sheikh	< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="zara dheeme zara dheere leke jaiyo doli badi naazuk meri behna bholi" name=song>< = value=bh name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value="Ek Pal" name=movie>< = value="Naseeruddin Shah" name=actors>< = value="Shabana Azmi" name=actors>< = value="Farooque Sheikh" name=actors>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>
	zara dheere zara dhime leke jahaho doli	Bhupen Hazarika [+], Bhupinder Singh [+], Haimanti Shukla [+], Usha Mangeshkar [+] [quad,+]	Bhupen Hazarika	Gulzar	Ek Pal			< =http://www.earthmusic.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nuts/corrections.cgi method=post>< = value="zara dheere zara dhime leke jahaho doli" name=song>< = value=bh name=singer>< = value=bs name=singer>< = value=hs name=singer>< = value=um name=singer>< = value=bh name=md>< = value=gulzar name=lyrics>< = value="Ek Pal" name=movie>< = value=0 name=done>< =submit value=Correction></>

Originally posted by: adwarakanath

Thanks for such detailed informtion about this giant of music 👏

Thanks for taking time to look at this thread.

Somehow, I open up a thread and Qwest ji ends up contributing a lot more than me... 😆

Thanks Qwest ji for sharing so many articles on this legend...
How true (and sad) is this:
"while an infinitely more talented Bhupen Hazarika still has to rely on "Dil Hoom Hoom Kare" from "Rudaali" (1993) to establish an acquaintance with posterity"

Also, I'm changing the title of this thread so that it can be shared on the music corner, wherever that may be 😆 (thanks soulsoup ji for this)...

Originally posted by: juggyE

Somehow, I open up a thread and Qwest ji ends up contributing a lot more than me... 😆

Thanks Qwest ji for sharing so many articles on this legend...
How true (and sad) is this:
"while an infinitely more talented Bhupen Hazarika still has to rely on "Dil Hoom Hoom Kare" from "Rudaali" (1993) to establish an acquaintance with posterity"

Also, I'm changing the title of this thread so that it can be shared on the music corner, wjuggyEherever that may be 😆 (thanks soulsoup ji for this)...

juggyE ji

Thanks JuggyE for the opportunity yes I grew up with his powerful music and also I would like to thanks Anol ji for his thoughts. Thanks Anol for the Idea for changing the name to Bhupen Hazarika he is deserves more than these he is only leaving ledge.

Dr. Bhupen Hazarika is a stalwart in the annals of India's cultural heritage today.

A multifaceted genius, he is a good poet, music composer, singer, actor, journalist, author and film-maker of the very highest repute. He is the only living pioneer of Assam's film industry in the Northeast, and has been therefore, rightly hailed as the uncrowned king of North-Eastern India's cultural world.

Education

Bhupen Hazarika was born in 1926, in Sadiya, Assam. An extremely academically prolific person, he did his Inter (Arts) in Guwahati in 1942, and went on to Banaras Hindu University to complete his B. A. in 1944 and his M. A. in Political Science in 1946.

Soon after, he left for New York, USA where he lived for five years and received his doctorate (PhD) in Mass Communication from Columbia University. He also received the Lisle Fellowship from Chicago University, USA to study the use of educational project development through cinema.

Achievement in Cinema

Bhupen Hazarika is ranked amongst the leading film makers of the nation. He is probably the only living pioneer who is solely responsible for placing the fledging Assamese cinema on the all India and on the world cinema map. He has been the only person in the past 40 years to propagate the better cinema movement and has integrated all the seven north-eastern states, including tribal culture, through the medium of cinema. His remarkable popularity brought him to the legislative Assembly as an Independent member between 1967 to 1972, where he was solely responsible for installing the first state owned film studio of its kind ever, in India in Guwahati, Assam.

Bhupen Hazarika began his career in films as a child actor in the second talkie film to be made in the pioneering years of 1939 in the film .Indramalati...

A prodigious genius he wrote and sang his first song at the age of 10 after which there has been no looking back.

He has produced and directed composed music and sang for the Assamese language films .Era Batar Sur. in 1956, .Shakuntala. In 1960, .Pratidhwani. In 1964, .Lotighoti. In 1967, .Chick Mick Bijuli. In 1971, .Mon Projapati. In 1978, .Swikarokti. In 1986, .Suraj. In 1988. He also directed, composed music and sang for .Mahut Bandhure. In 1958. He produced, directed, and composed music for Arunachal Pradesh.s first Hindi feature film in colour .Mera Dharam Meri Maa. In 1977. He directed a colour documentary for the Arunachal Pradesh Government on Tribal folk songs and dances entitled .For that the Sun Shines. In 1974.

He produced and directed a documentary .Emuthi Saular Kahini. Based on the co- operative movement for the Govt. of Assam entirely in the format of lyrics. He produced and directed a half-hour documentary for Calcutta Doordarshan Kendra in 1977 on the folk songs and dances of north east India entitled .Through Melody and Rhythm... He produced and composed music for five reeler colour documentary to promote tourism for the Govt. of Assam in 1981. He produced and composed music for the internationally famous award winning Hindi feature film .Ek Pal. in 1986, directed by Kalpana Lajmi, starring Shabana Azmi, Nasiruddin Shah, and Faroque Shaikh. He produced and composed the music for the extremely popular television serial .Lohit Kinare. Directed by Kalpana Lajmi, based on famous short stories of Assam for the prime time National Network in 1988. He has been the Executive Producer, Music Composer for the recent award winning film in Hindi .Rudaali. starring Dimple Kapadia, Raj Babbar, Amjad Khan and Rakhi.

He has won the President.s National Award for the best film maker thrice: for .Shakuntala. .Pratidhwani., and .Loti Ghoti. In 1960, 1964 and 1967 respectively. He won the Arunachal Pradesh Government's Gold Medal in 1977 for his outstanding contribution towards Tribal Welfare, and Upliftment of Tribal Culture through cinema and music. He also won the National Award as best music composer in India in 1977 for the Assamese film .Chameli Memsaab...

Dr. Bhupen Hazarika has been the Chairman, Eastern Region on the Appellate Body of the Central Board of Film Censors, Government of India for 9 years consecutively till 1990. He is on the Script Committee of the National Film Development Corporation, Eastern India.

He is the director on the national level on the Board of Directors of National Film Development Corporation, Government of India.

He was the Executive Council Member of the Children Film Society (N.CYP) headed by Mrs. Jaya Bachchan. He is the member of the Board of Trustees for the Poor Artists Welfare Fund, Government of India. He was the Chairman of the Jury of the National Film Awards in 1985 and was a jury member several times from 1958 to 1990. He is at present also on the Governing Council for policy making decisions for the Film and Television Institute, Government of India, Pune.

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Government of India bestowed the honour of Producer Emeritus on him. Bhupen Hazarika was also a member of P. C. Joshi Committee appointed by the Information Ministry for revitalizing software programming through television for the coming 21st century.

He has rendered music, written lyrics and sung for numerous Assamese, Bengali and Hindi films from 1930s to the 1990s. Bhupen Hazarika has scored music and sung for the highest number of Assamese films made in the past 40 years.

He has directed music in outstanding Bengali films, such as .Jiban Trishna., .Jonakir Alo., .Mahut Bandhure., .Kari o Komal., .Asamapta., .Ekhane Pinjar., .Dampati., .Chameli Memsaab., .Dui., .Bechara., and Hindi films like .Arop., .Ek Pal., and .Rudaali.. He has in 1995 given music for Sai Paranjype.s Hindi feature film .Papiha. and Bimal Dutt.s Hindi feature film .Pratimurti..

In 1996 he has composed music for Plus Channel.s Hindi feature film .Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe. directed by Lekh Tandon starring Meenakshi Sheshadri.

In 1996 he has also composed for Plus Channel.s Hindi feature film .Saaz. directed by Sai Paranjype starring Shabana Azmi.

In 1996 he has composed music for Pan Pictures Hindi feature film .Darmiyaan. Starring Kiron Kher and Tabu directed and written by Kalpana Lajmi.

In 1998 he has composed music for Hindi feature film .Gajagamini. Written and Directed by eminent painter Mr. M. F. Hussain.

He had produced a 52 episodes tele-serial titled .Dawn. For telecast on Star TV. The serial casts Shahbaaz Khan, Mona Ambegaonkar, Deepa Lagoo, Tom Alter and others.

He has also produced another 18 part documentary entitled . Glimpses of the Misty East. on the socio economic and cultural progress in North Eastern India from 1947 to 1997 , assigned to him by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt of India for celebration of Fifty years of India.s Independence.

In 2000 he has composed music for Hindi feature film .Daman. Written and Directed by Ms. Kalpana Lajmi.

In 2003 he composed music for Hindi feature film "Kyon" Directed by Ms. Kalpana Lajmi.

Achievements in Music and Culture

He is considered today the last of the great mass singers and the only great ballad singer alive in India. Involved in the Indian movement from his very childhood, till today he writes and composes masterpieces teeming with social consciousness which are in striking contrast to his famous love songs. Besides being associated with films, Bhupen Hazarika has won the hearts of the entire Indian people through his discs through which he has rendered some of his finest compositions.

For Bhupen Hazarika music has always been his first love. He met Paul Robson with whom he became closely associated between 1949 and 1955 in USA. It was during this period he was awarded a Gold Medallion in New York as the best interpreter of India.s folk songs by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Bhupen Hazarika sings in numerous languages but writes his lyrics and poems in his home language, Assamese. Bhupen Hazarika has rightly been hailed as India.s Cultural Ambassador abroad for placing the folk music of Eastern India on the map of world folk music.

He has travelled widely as a Delegate to Conferences on Mass Communication, Poetry, Music, Performing Arts and Cinema from the Belgium Congo to Samarkand, from the Mississipi to Danube, to Europe, Canada, South-East Asia, Japan, USA, UK and Australia.

He represented India in Berlin at the World Conference of Composers who used songs as an instrument in social change. He was given the honour of inaugurating the World Seminar in Congress Hall with his own songs on the liberation of Bangladesh.

Bhupen Hazarika.s popularity is so tremendous as a performing artist that for the last 50 years he has been the biggest crowd puller and was honoured for the Golden Jubilee of his singing career in 1991. Achievements in Literature

Bhupen Hazarika has been conferred the highest the highest honour by making him the president of Sahitya Sabha in 1993.

He is one of the leading author / poets of Assam and has to his credit more than one thousand lyrics and more than fifteen major books on short stories, essays, travelogues, poems and children's rhymes.

He is an extremely popular journalist and editor for the past two decades of the popular monthlies .Amar Pratinidhi. And .Pratidhwani.

Honours Conferred The country bestowed its greatest honour on him, the Padmashri in 1977 for his outstanding contribution to the field of culture in India.

In 1977 he won two awards in West Bengal. The Bangla Chalachitra Prasar Samity and the Bangla Chalchitra Purashkar Samity for being the best music director for the film .Dampati... In 1978 he won two awards from Bangladesh as rhe best music director for the film .Simana Periye. from the Bangladesh Journalists Association and the Bangladesh film industry.

The Gramophone Company of India bestowed on him the Gold Disc for his outstanding contribution towards Indian Music in 1978.

In 1979 and 1980 he won the Ritwick Ghatak Award as best music directors for two theatre plays .Mohua Sundari. and .Nagini Kanyar Kahini..

In 1979 he won the All India Critic Association Award for the best performing folk artist in India.

In 1987 he was conferred the National Citizen.s Award at New Delhi for his outstanding excellence in music.

The Government of Assam bestowed its highest award the .Shankar Dev Award. in 1987 for his contribution to Assam.s culture.

In 1987 he won Assam.s .Man of the Year. award.

Sangeet Natak Academy - New Delhi awarded him in 1987 for his outstanding contribution towards Indian music.

The Bengal Journalist.s Association honoured him with the .Indira Gandhi Smriti Purashkar. in 1987.

In 1992, the Government of West Bengal honoured him with the award for his contribution to the World of Arts.

In 1993, he was honoured India.s Oscar .The Dadasaheb Phalke Award. for his lifetime.s contribution to development of Indian cinema.

In 1993, he was conferred as the first Indian Music Director for best music Internationally for the film .Rudaali. at the Asia Pacific International Film Festival at Japan.

In 1999, he has been appointed by the Honourable President of India as the Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi for a period of five years.

In 2000, he has been appointed by the Government of India as the Trustee of Indira Gandhi Centre of Arts for a period of ten years.

He has been appointed by the Government of India as the trustee of ICCR, for a period of 3 years.

In 2001, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian award and he was given the Lata Mangeshkar Award for his overall contribution in music by the Madhya Pradesh Government.

In November 2001, he was honoured with the Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) from the Tezpur University.

In 2003, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika has been appointed the member of the Prasar Bharati Board, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, and Government of India.

Bhupen Hazarika is one of the only forces in India today who is a true exponent of National Integration, expressed wonderfully through a variety of media.

Thanks for the articles and mp3's of Bhupen Hazarika Ji.
He is great...

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Has anybody heard "Ek kali do Pattiyaan..Naazuk Nazuk Ungaliyan." ?

I simply love his "Ganga" (Hindi Version). 👏