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Chaudhavin Ka Chand

 

Cast: Guru Dutt, Johny Walker, Minu Mumtaz, Rehman, Uma Devi, Waheeda Rehman

Music Director: Ravi

Director: M Sadiq

Producer: Guru Dutt Films

Lyrics: Shakeel Badayuni

Year: 1960

  

Yeh Lucknow Ki Sar Zamin Lyrics

 

ye laknau ki sar-zameen ...

ye laknau ki sar-zameen -5

ye rang-roop ka chaman

ye husn-o-ishq ka vatan

yahi to vo muqaam hai

jahaan avadh ki shaam hai

javaan-javaan haseen-haseen

ye laknau ki sar-zameen -2

 

shabaab-o-sher ka ye ghar

ye ahl-e-ilm ka nagar

hai manzilon ki god mein

yahaan har ek rah-guzar

ye shahar laaladaar hai

yahaan dilon mein pyaar hai

jidhar nazar uthaaiye

bahaar hi bahaar hai

kali-kali hai naazaneen

ye laknau ki sar-zameen -2

 

yahaan ki sab ravaayaten

adab ki shaahakaar hain

ameer ahl-e-dil yahaan

gareeb jaan-nisaar hain

har ek shaak par yahaan

hain bulbulon ki chah-chahen

gali-gali mein zindagi

kadam-kadam pe kah-kahen

har ik nazaara hai dilnasheen

ye laknau ki sar-zameen

ye laknau ki sar-zameen ...

 

nibhaayi apani aan bhi

badhaayi dil ki shaan bhi

hain aise maharabaan bhi

 

www.dishant.com/lyrics/Hindi-song-Yeh-Lucknow-Ki-Sar-Zami...

 

These are old blogs that were textless I am adding a bit for posterity..

 

I was born at my maternal grand father Daroga Nabban Sabs home at Pata Nala Imliwali Gali close to Kankar Kua..my grandmother Nazni Begum took care of us as Nabban Sab had died .. and his immediate family he had two wives had crossed over the border ..

I came to Bombay it was so called when I was 1 year old.. have lived in Mumbai since than..I lost my root in Lucknow ,, and grew new roots here ..my wife is a Lucknow born nee Qazilbash one of the oldest migrant familes from Iran.. with their complete Shajrah..

 

Our marriage was solemnized by Reverend Kalbe Abid Saab it has stood the test of time ,, my alcoholism and what not.. I have been sober for over 17 years ..but photography and the internet became greater intoxication s..I feel..I tried cutting the wires but they wont snap easily unless .. I pass away ..

 

Promotional art with Anthony Hopkins

Promotional art with Wesley Snipes

Tracklist

DISC 1: Outtakes & More

Complete Outtake Sessions

1-1 Brother Malcolm Version Of Let It Be 2 Full Takes In Color (Jan 31)

Two Of Us Rehearsal Session

1-2 With Medley That Also Include Hey Good Lookin', Take This Hammer, Five Foot High & Rising, Bear Cat Mama, Run For Your Life, Friendship, Step Inside Love And Let It Be) (Jan 31)

For You Blue Brand New Re-edit

1-3 For You Blue - Newly Re-Cut With New Arrival Footage From Another day

Newly Discovered Sound Outtake Snippets

1-4 I Me Mine (Jan 8)

1-5 Don't Let Me Down (Jan 22)

1-6 Two Of Us (Jan 22)

1-7 Paul and Heather (Jan 26)

1-8 Besame Mucho (Jan 29)

1-9 I Told You Before (Jan 27)

1-10 Three Cool Cats (Jan 29)

1-11 Let It Be TK27A (Jan 31)

1-12 Two Of Us (Jan 31)

From The Long And Winding Road Special

1-13 Yoko's Bit (Upgrade)

1-14 You Win Again (Upgrade)

Trailers, Etc.

1-15 Original Movie Trailer - Theatrical Version

1-16 Original Movie Trailer - TV Version

1-17 Original Slate From 1992 Restoration

1-18 Ed Sullivan's "The Beatles Songbook" (Fab 25 '70)

1-19 Don't Let Me Down - From Imagine 1988 Workprint

Let It Be - Naked Promotion

1-20 April Trailers

1-21 Japanese TV Commercial

1-22 Let It Be Naked Medley

1-23 November 17 Texted Trailer

1-24 November 17 Textless Trailer

1-25 Webtrailer

1-26 2013 iTunes Trailer

DISC 2: Promotional Films

The Promo's

2-1 Don't Let Me Down (1970)

2-2 Get Back (1970)

2-3 Let It Be (1970)

2-4 Two Of Us (1970)

2-5 Don't Let Me Down (1992)

2-6 Get Back (1992)

2-7 I Me Mine (1992)

2-8 For You Blue (1996)

2-9 Let It Be (1996)

2-10 Two Of Us (1996)

2-11 Get Back (2000)

2-12 Let It Be (2000)

2-13 Don't Let Me Down #1 (2003)

2-14 Don't Let Me Down #2 (2003)

2-15 Get Back # 1 (2003)

2-16 Get Back # 2 (2003)

2-17 Let It Be (2003)

2-18 Two Of Us (animated) (2003)

2-19 One After 909 (2009)

2-20 Don't Let Me Down (2015)

2-21 The Long And Winding Road (2015)

HQ Video's With Native Audio Re-Dubbed

2-22 Let It Be - Native Audio Re-Dub

2-23 Two Of Us - Native Audio Re-Dub

Other Promotional Films Utilizing Get Back/ Let It Be Footage

2-24 Old Brown Shoe (2007)

2-25 Old Brown Shoe Dissolving Version

2-26 The Ballad Of John & Yoko (1969 Censored)

2-27 The Ballad Of John & Yoko (2000)

my first textless banner!

 

-squee!- thanks to selina a.k.a. chromatic @ TDA for inspiring me to make this.

 

I have to admit it was very hard for me not to put text b/c i'm a text freak. I spent twenty minutes trying to find text for the Meet Me At The Corner banner.

 

So... I am finished. WITHOUT TEXT! Whoop

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Since Saturday 30 July 2011 tragedy hit me in the guts hard and strong, both my Nikon D 80 s died n their sleep.. I called up my dear friend Sundar Vetkar ace camera technician of Bohra Bazar to be told he was in Ratnagiri.. his hometown.

  

Sundar Vetkar is a great human being , whenever I give him my camera to clean the CCD or some minor flaw he wont charge me , and if he does it is a very nominal amount, his reasoning is that I use my camera to champion the cause of Humanity and I dont make money through my photography so he says in all simplicity he is ashamed to charge me..and he humbles me this great man .. greater than me in his humility... he humbles me with his words his kindness his love for me.

 

Yes this is a purely Mumbaikar quality..

 

So all of Saturday and all of Sunday I did not shoot a picture I watched both my grand daughters Marziya Shakir unwell at home and a little 14 days tot Nerjis Asif Shakir and didn't shoot her too..

  

I am hopelessly clueless shooting pictures of people by sticking the mobile phone on their smudgy faces ..

 

This evening I called Sundar Vetkar and he had come back from his hometown told him the malady of my ailing cameras , he asked me to come over to his tiny cubicle under a staircase at Bohra Bazar..in town..

 

Wife dear is fasting since four five days they open their Ramzan account before us men , accompanied me in the cab, I sat in the front and she at the back..Khan Saab was our friendly driver.. as I shut the doors of the cab, and passed Mori road basket weavers he said Firoze Bhai aren't you taking your usual shots I nodded I was shooting , only he could not see me camera .. he looked confused at this new invisible technology.. the traffic was bad as there was an accident at Mahalaxmi and the traffic was diverted via Arthur Road Jail .

 

I saw the pedestal of Khada Parsi the metallic boobed mermaids and I gorged the scenes the homeless sitting waiting for Ramzan and the elusive rain touched Ramzan Chand.. the chaos we took potholed roads and the JJ bridge I dont shoot potholes its the flavor of newsprint and pathos of DNA and Hindustan Times .

 

We reached Central Camera my taxi fare had shot up thanks to the traffic potholes my wife silently paid Rs 200..

 

We reached the famous camera lane I met Umesh Salgaonkar , a great photographer friend he gave me his invitation a group show near JJ art Gallery starting from 8 Aug..

 

I met Raju bhai handsome hunk of Vibgyor he asked me Dude where is your camera , I told him you cant see it but I took his shot..

 

I came to Reliable stores both Shyman Bhai and Raju bhai posed for me I took shots with my minds camera and moved on to Sundar Vetkars cubicle I handed him both the dead cameras told him to charge nominal as I am going through bad times bad karma bad luck he smiled nodded his head

..

Wife waited outside on the street , we decided to take the local from VT.. so we walked people whom I shot the vegetable vendors of Bohra Bazar looked at me as though I was a zombie.. and this young guy shouted out aloud Sahib tumcha camera kute ahey.. I pointed to my third eye on my forehead ..and he looked zapped .. he thought the rains has gotten to me and my third eye too..

 

We stood in the line , me my turban , my barefeet my rings and next to me my fast clinging burkha clad wife.. we took the Bandra local wife took her ticket and got into the ladies compartment while I sat with the gents..

 

A little urchin girl came tugged my pajama I took one shot she smiled I gave her some coins than I got up as Bandra had arrived her mother sitting near the door had a child on her wrinkled wretched breast that looked milk less to me I took one shot hurriedly .. and the Parsi gentleman with horned rimmed glasses gave me an evil stare I love Parsis but I did not shoot his picture.. I got off at Bandra wife followed me ..people looking at us .. I climbed the Foot over Mouth bridge shot the Garib Nagar plastic skyline..

 

As I reached the upper landing there was a Muslim beggar lady in a hijab her daughter both looked at me hoping the flash would pop up any moment I shot them in ambient light I shot them as tribute to Muslim Society on ChandRat .. I decided I would write a poem later ..

 

As I took the steps down another Muslim beggar man with two stumps stared into my camera eye and I took another shot sad as his Chand Rat was as bad as the last one last year and the one year before last..

 

Wife was getting annoyed she had her fast to break she muttered under her breath uff ab bandh bhi karo..

 

We than came to the signal near Lucky Hotel and the hijra waved out to me from a cluster of rickshas I took a shot , wife was now absolutely furious , I winked at the hijra .. and followed my wife through Jamatkhana Food lane .. the Muslim beggars stared at me crazily they thought I was fuckin stark naked without my camera I covered my imaginary shame but I took several shots .

 

Wife was all red fuming we parted at Jain Mandir lane she took her path homewards I came to my workplace ....I sat for a while congratulated my friend Mitul Thakkar he has become a father to Divan..I congratulated his wife Sonali his father my Savior in hard times Nitin Thakkar and Ashaji first time grand parents.

 

I left my workplace walked through Chinchpokli lane took two shots of the goats eating plastic on the dumps , and begrudgingly came out via a short cut to my house.. my lift man gave me a salute Saab Ramzan Mubarak.. Camera Kahan Hai..

 

And I just looked through him rudely and reached home .. than while the crackers burst outside I decided it was time to quit photography and get back to serious blogging on the net,..

 

With over 195564 photos in my Flickr photostram most of them textless all I need to do is change the Exif data add pictures without shooting anything for another 3 years..

  

Anyway Sundar Vetkar has promised to give me both my cameras tomorrow.. thank you for the visit on my camera less photo of the day..

  

माहे रमजान मुबारक, दुवा मे याद रखियेगा जी !

mother! textless second poster

She lives on blocks of rocks on the side of a road , that enters Bandra Bazar Road or exits from Bandra Bazar Road to Bandra Reclamation , a road that touches the Bandra Sea Link via the Lilavati Hospital close to Rang Sharda.

 

This ladies story is in pictures at my Flickr photstream as a set by the same name..she sits in the same posture , she bathes she does everything under an umbrella that has gone to seed you can see in the corner of my frame.

 

She does not talk, sahe has n friends , she was once rich from an affluent family they say, what is her real story nobody knows I have been seeing her in the same place same posture since 6 years.

 

Even during floods , cloud burst heavy showers even this place was inundated she managed to stay afloat, she is homeless but she has a home the sky is her umbrella , she has no internet connection , she does not get newspapers but she is alive , she gets tea food from people around , I shot her bathing once but after the first initial shot I was embarrassed to shoot further , it shamed me and the values I have been bought up on , I am a street photographer a poet a blogger but I am human to suffering pain.. I have seen bad times so I know the meaning of pain and misery.

 

I am a pictorial storyteller but I need words sometimes to prop my story..and most of my images at Flickr.com over 200000 are textless , some became poems , and some I updated bought them forward to highlight a particular story that became topical.

 

I would be helpless without my camera that is a tool I use for poetry and my angst as a photographer..

  

Because of financial constrains I have not yet upgraded my camera the only camera I have used for several years , but I dont envy those better equipped than me , my camera tells stories, it had conked I got it repaired recently.

 

But sometimes I wish I was connected to a foreign news agency so I could get some funds and share my stories too, funds to pay the people i shoot , my aim is to get funds through my pictures one day and give the bulk of it to children of prostitutes in red light areas.. the most neglected childhood believe you me ..

 

Its been ages since I last went to the red light area to shoot , and this is possible because I am close to a few hijra commercial workers soliciting at the Mumbai Hijra cages .

  

She is a beggar girl I met near the Mount Mary steps..she disappeared completely from the face of the earth..

 

may she always be happy

may she always be touched

by the rays of love and sunshine

may she always be young aglow

may she have no worries

on her brow may she live

long become a mother

a good wife married

to the right fellow

such are my thoughts

as a father a grand father

from my heart towards

her heart flow a picture

of life as a poem

I shot quite some time ago

it was a blank post

titled sounds of silence

why I left it blank textless

poemless at that time

I dont know

 

perhaps it was comment

at facebook on this link

by my best friend benn bell

sound of one hand clapping

that let in a breath of fresh air

through my souls window

or was it something more

or am I just a muslim

a hindu a christian

beneath the skin

of man yes or no

or am I the shadow

of a human god

who does not

live in heaven

but below

in the darkness

of my shadow

  

I am humbled by my friends both at Flickr and Facebook without their love I could never dream of shooting pictures as poems their love their warmth nurtures my mind ..into using the words littered as garbage in my head as a poem of life..

 

So I dedicate this poem to my Flickr and Facebook friends..thankfully I dont have a single friend on Blogspot or Tumblr .

 

"Thank you some words hit me in my sleep .. the last few lines

the picture has been haunting me as I never saw her again several visits I made to Good Luck and Mehboob studio.. I hope she is lucky wherever she is.".

 

UPDATE

I saw her again two years back , near Bandra Bandstand she was begging fat out of proportion , mother of a child ,, she recognized me tried to hide her face ,, I was in a hurry and late for an appointment ,, I was going to shoot the Unveiling of Mr Rajesh Khannas statue at Lands End ,, I was invited by Ms Dimple Kapadia,,

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