It is sheer passion that I think has made Atul choose this as a hobby. While Greta has done a great service to Bollywood, I also feel that Atul has done great service for the cause of Hindi music. In these stress-filled times, it is so relaxing and emotionally touching to see such relationships bloom. My son also maintains a cricket score card and I will surely tell him about you too. Mr Raja and Mr Atul – hats off to your friendship. It is very touching to see how the Internet has created friendship among people who would otherwise have not interacted. It’s not a literal translation but will hopefully help.

Thanks a lot, Atul.Ītul, since this is a very popular birthday song I’ve tried to provide an English translation for those who would like to have one.

I did not expect Atul to turn this around so quickly on the blog. It is my favourite birthday song – I love Rafi’s voice in this, I love the picturisation, I love the lyrics. This birthday song was fresh in my mind – I remember searching for it a few days earlier on his blog and not finding it. Over dinner, Atul asked me for a song farmaish “on the spot”. Indeed Atul and I can relate to a lot of things – I used to also maintain cricket statistics in this manner. Those were pre-internet days, so every piece of info we could gather from any source was very valuable. We discussed other stuff too – including a diary he used to maintain way back in 1976, with handwritten cricket scorecards and Hindi film songs. Atul walked me through the process he goes through to post songs on his blog. He has these one-liners that I call Atulisms. I have long admired Atul’s witty comments, not just on this blog but also on our cricket forum. They pray that the Lord may bestow on youĮven if it means the day of resurrection arrives firstĪs Atul says, the two of us finally managed to meet each other. The stars from the sky send you this message The flowers from the gardens send you these greetings In this beautiful assembly, I could’ve also brought you flowersīut my heart said, what need does she have Like others here I could’ve also brought you a gift today Taaron ne gagan se tujhko ye payaam bhejaa Phoolon ne chaman se tujhko hai salaam bhejaa Nahin, nahin, aisaa haseen, koi nahin hai Song- Baar baar din ye aaye.happy birthday to you (Farz) (1967) Singer-Rafi, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal It is written by Anand Bakshi and music is composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal. So here is this song, sung with gusto by Rafi. Babita, Sunita, Greta- all are similar sounding names. Raja tells me that this would have been ideal birthday song for Greta too had we been able to post it a few days earlier. This song is sung by Rafi and it is picturised on Jeetendra, Babita and whole lot of characters assembled to celebrate the birthday of Babita, who plays Sunita. It is the first farmaish that I have got in person. He gave this birthday song from “Farz” (1967) as his farmaish. I could not resist asking him to give a farmaish. We were both unanimous that Greta is playing a stellar role in popularising old Hindi movies and the lesser known actors of Hindi movies. We also discussed people whom we both admire, such as Memsaab. He was interested to see my songs collection and my methodology of posting songs in the blog. We spent some three hours together and discussed whole lots of issues of importance. It was the first time I ever met a regular visitor of my blog in person. It was a matter of great happiness to me that I was able to meet with Raja face to face yesterday night (29 october 2010). In the earlier days of this blog when I used to post just one song a day, Raja was one the earliest regular visitor of this blog and his encouragement went a long way in the development of this blog.Īll these days, we had interacted only on internet. I used to discuss Hindi movie songs on that forum, and later I hit upon the idea of this song blog. We have spent five fun filled years together in this cricket forum. With time, we discovered that we shared many things in common, viz age, similar interests etc. Both of us are today members of a cricket forum called Cricforum. I know him on internet from 2005, when we became familiar to each other because of our mutual interest in cricket. I in fact cherish their comments and encouragement.Īmong the regular visitors of this blog, Raja occupies a very important place in my heart. Some of them have become regulars and they feel like friends and even family to me. Recently the blog clocked one million visits, which is not bad for a non professional blog like this.ĭuring these two years, I have received lots of encouragement from lots of visitors by means of comments, suggestions, farmaishes etc. In these two years, we have passed many milestones.

Happy birthday song bar bar ye din aaye