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September 1995
Lata & 239 lyricists of Hindi movie songs
Dear fellow RMIMwallas and walliis,
The following is a continuation of my previous post about
Lata's songs. Once again, this includes only songs from HINDI MOVIES,
other languages are excluded and non-filmi songs are also excluded.
This one is about lyricists. I believe that she sang for
almost every lyricist who wrote songs for Hindi movies after 1946
or so.
In my opinion, Lata (about 5250 songs up to 1992) is the
most admired female singer, even though Asha (about 7500 songs up
to 1992) has sung more songs. Clearly the relative number of songs
Lata has sung for any lyricist can serve as a first approximation
to the popularity (not necessarily quality) of the particular
songwriter.
The list has the name of the lyricist (and his collaborator,
if any), the total number of songs with them and the total number of
films with them. Apart from the usual songs, the list includes even
those songs which were removed from the movie or for which no records
were issued or from the movies that were never released. It should be
mentioned that the total number of estimated songs in all the Hindi
movies from the period 1931-1992 is 50000 and the total number of
Hindi movies from the same period is believed to be about 7000.
Once again, this is straight from the book, no editing
has been done by me, except to correct obvious misspellings.
Note: To make the pronunciation easy, I have used the excellent
transliteration scheme of Avinash Chopde, mostly.
Lyricists songs movies
aana.nd baKshii 679 309
raajendra krishaN 554 158
majarooh 431 165
shailendra 356 127
hasarat 296 135
bharat vyaas 206 67
shakiil badaayuu.Nnii 204 51
prem dhavan 197 78
saahir 160 58
indiivar 156 111
P. L. sa.ntoshii 78 22
qamar jalaalaabaadii 74 33
anjaan 69 52
raajaa mehadii alii Ka.N 66 30
asad bhopaalii 65 34
varmaa malik 60 40
gulazaar 55 29
panDit narendra sharmaa 55 17
pradiip 52 18
kaifii aazamii 48 26
gulashan baavaraa 46 31
jaa.N nisaar aKtar 39 18
S. H. bihaarii 37 16
yogesh 37 25
Kumaar baaraaba.nkavi 33 9
naqsh laayalapurii 30 22
D. N. madhok 26 8
gopaal si.Nha nepaalii 26 9
sarashaar sailaanii 22 9
faaruuq qaisar 21 14
mulkaraaj bhaakha.Dii 21 6
amit khannaa 20 11
kaif irafaanii 20 16
kedaar sharmaa 20 7
sa.ntosh aana.nd 20 10
tanveer naqavii 20 8
nuur lakhanavii 19 4
panDit indra 19 4
nidaa faazalii 18 14
gauhar kaanapurii 17 8
naqshab jaarachavii 17 8
ravindra jain 17 9
neeraj 16 7
aziiz kashmiirii 15 5
maayaa govind 15 9
vishveshvar sharmaa 14 7
B. D. mishraa 13 5
panDit B. C. madhur 13 4
jaaved aKtar 12 5
ehasaan rizavii 11 5
kulva.nt jaanii 11 7
ravi 11 6
saavan kumaar 11 4
sarasvatii kumaar diipak 11 8
viTThalbhaaii paTel 11 10
M. G. hashmat 10 8
iishvar chandra kapuur 10 4
naazim paaniipatii 10 3
shevan rizavii 10 4
traditional and classical 10 9
manoj kumaar 9 3
kaif bhopaalii 8 3
raammuurtii chaturvedii 8 3
shailii shailendra 8 4
uddhav kumaar 8 7
ziyaa sarahadii 8 3
anjum jaipurii 7 4
deevaan sharar 7 4
satyendra atthaiyaa 7 5
banavaasi 6 2
ra.ngiin 6 3
samiir 6 5
L. meghaanii 5 1
aKtar romaanii 5 4
aadil & uddhav duo 5 1
dev kohalii 5 2
habiib sarhadii 5 1
indrajiit si.Nha tulasii 5 5
miiraabaaii 5 3
nyaay sharmaa 5 2
paravez shamsii 5 1
shaharayaar 5 1
shiv kumaar 5 1
vaahid quraishii 5 3
viirendra mishraa 5 2
vishvaamitraa aadil 5 3
A. aah shikaarpurii 4 3
Dr. safadar aah 4 3
Kaavar zamaa.N 4 2
aarazuu lakhanavii 4 2
aish kanwal 4 2
brajendra gau.D 4 2
chandrashekhar paandey 4 3
madan 4 2
mahipaal 4 2
ravindra piipaT 4 2
sarataaj 4 1
valii saahib 4 3
vasa.nt dev 4 2
K. L. paradesii 3 2
aKtar yuusuf 3 1
aKtar-ul-imaan 3 1
anjum piiliibhiitii 3 2
arjun 3 1
bahazaad lakhanavii 3 2
bashar navaaz 3 1
hasan kamaal 3 3
kafiil ajar 3 2
keshav 3 2
panDit faanii 3 2
panDit sudarshan 3 2
shakiil nuumaanii 3 1
shamiim jaipurii 3 3
shams aziimaabaadii 3 2
Dr. hariiraam aachaaryaa 2 1
G. L. raaval 2 2
S. P. kallaa 2 1
aabid gularej 2 1
aalam syaahaposh 2 1
amiir Kusaro 2 2
arjun dev "ashq" 2 1
arshii ajamerii 2 1
baalakavii bairaagii 2 1
gaafil haranaalavii 2 2
haragovind 2 1
hasrat & ravindra jain 2 1
jaaved anvar 2 1
jalaal maliihaabaadii 2 2
kamaal amarohii 2 1
madhuraaj 2 1
mahendra praaN 2 1
mulkaraaj 2 1
padmaa sachadev 2 1
panDit nira.njan sharmaa 2 1
panDit raamamurtii 2 1
prahlaad sharmaa 2 1
prayaag raaj 2 2
prem baarabaTanii 2 2
raNdhiir 2 1
raaj baladev raaj 2 1
raajesh roshan 2 1
ravindra raaval 2 2
saGiir usmaanii 2 1
saradaar pa.nchhii 2 1
shaadaab 2 2
shambhuu sen 2 1
The following are one movie-one song "combos" as saamii bhaaii would
say. They just wrote one song for one movie that Lata sang.
A. qariim Dr. iqabaal Dr. raahii maasuum razaa
F. M. qaisar G. D. maaDagulakar
S. R. chopraa saaz ravi sha.nkar sharmaa
afzal shaadaab amar ansaarii amiir Miinaaii
amiir kaajalabaaz amritaa priitam anjaan & kapuur
anvar saaGar asad bhopaalii & jafar gorakhapurii
avinaash vyaas B. K. purii B. R. sharma
ba.nkimchandra chaTarjii baalakrishaN
buuTaaraam sharmaa daaG darabaarilaal shamiim
dayaanaath pande dvaarkaanaath fiiroz
fiiroz jaala.ndharii gulaabacha.nd gulashan jalaalaabaadii
harshh haruN hasarat lakhanavii
huddaa kaamil rashiid kaanu ghosh
keshariinaath vaidya keshav trivedii kumud tripaaThii
lekharaaj bhaakha.Dii maKaduum mahiyudiin madahosh bilgraamii
madhukar raajasthaanii mahendra dehalavi manamohan saabir
manohar khanna mashahar miir aniis
miir takii miir motii B. A. muniir aarazuu kaazamii
munshii farog munsif mushtaar haidarii
na.ndii khanna naTraaj nigaar
nizaam panDit mukharaam sharmaa
parataav lakhanavii prabhaa Thaakur prakaash
prakaash baKshii prakaash meharaa prakaash pa.nkaj
prem dhavan & saradaar jaafarii prem saara.ng
qamar jalaalaabaadii & manoj kumaar qatiil shifaaii
raajakavii tulasii raam pa.njavaanii raghupat raay
ramesh pa.nt ramesh shastrii ruupabaanii
saaGar nizaamii saahir bhopaalii sabaa afagaanii
salaauddiin paravez saradaar jaafarii saravar
shailendra & kaifii aazamii shekhar
shriiraam boharaa shyaam hindii shyaam laal
shyamalaal shams si.nghaar sika.ndar bhaaratii
som Thaakur V. N. ma.ngal viir muhammad purii
vinod kapuur yuusuf
Next time, I will endeavor to type in the same kind of info for
about Lata's male singing partners in Hindi movies.
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A comparison with Mukesh:
For comparison purposes it may be noted that all the songs ever
sung by Mukesh, during the period 1941-1982, in movies of all languages
and including non-movie records like bhajans, ghazals etc. is 994.
A compilation of the FULL TEXT of each of the 992 songs (info about
2 bangla songs was obtained after the publication of the book) and all the
relevant info about the song, like the movie, year, MD, lyricists
and co-singers, if any, was published by Mr. Harish Raghuwanshi of
Surat, Gujarat in a 684-page book called "Mukesh Geet Kosh" in 1985.
The book is out of print now, but Mr. Raghuvanshi is working on the
second edition. He has recently published an authoritative and
comprehensive 412 page encyclopaedia of 599 Gujarati movies (1932-1994).
He can be reached at:
Mr. Harish Raghuwanshi
Vision House
Sagrampura,
Near Putli
SURAT - 395 002
Gujarat
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The above info comes mostly from the book
"Lata Mangeshkar Gandhar Svaryaatraa 1945-1989"
Edited by Vishwas Nerurkar and published by
Mrs. Vasanti P. Nerurkar,
2/15, Kailash Parwat, Gilbert Hill,
Andheri (W)
Bombay 400 058
Telephone: 22-624-3587
A definitive and complete reference book with lots of rare pictures.
Entries are in the format:
Song #, beginning of song, film, year, music, lyricist,
partners, if any
Additional info from
Listener's Bulletin, a monthly, edited by Hamraaz Saahib and
published by the Secretary, the Flying Listener's Club, Kanpur.
One final note: Many of you have written saying that I have done
a job that is herculean, monumental, heroic, marathon etc. Please
remember that the compilers have put in much greater effort working for
many many years, going to the Poona archives, HMV archives in Bombay
and Calcutta, the famous booklet shop of Mr. Hussainibhai Bookletwalla
of Grant Road, Bombay, private record collections, cine artists
and what not. In comparison with all that, I remain, sirs and madams,
only your humble typist:
Surjit Singh, a movie fan, period.
