Kuhu kuhu bole koyalia...

I heard this song at first sung by the Amrita TV Super Star participant and eventual winner Roopa. A melodious classical song which is actually a ragamalika(garland of ragas). I wanted to get the original song and with www.4shared.com, i could get the Hindi duet sung by the greats Lata Mangeshkar and Mohd Rafi. I was reading the review of this song and it said the original composition of this song "Hayi Hayigaamani Saage" was made for the Telugu movie "Suvarna Sundari(1957)" by music director Adi Narayana Rao. This film was later dubbed to Hindi. So I went on searching for the Telugu original and eventually found it. Thanks to www.google.com. This song was sung by Shri Ghantasala and Jikki. Jikki was the one who sung "Kadhali vaazha thayyil irunnu" song in Malayalam. Further googling helped me to get the Tamil version of this song "Thesuluvathe". This was sung by Ghantasala and P. Susheela. In this ragamalika, the ragas switch from Sohni (Hamsanandi), Bahar (Kanada), Juanpuri (Juanpuri) and Yaman (Yamuna Kalyani). The Hindi version had won the national award in 1958, where as the Telugu original was neglected. One more interesting observation is that the female voice in Telugu version of this song is of Jikki, whose mother tongue is Tamil while the female singer in Tamil version, ie, P. Susheela's mother tongue was Telugu.

Music surely has no barriers, at least not language.

Telugu version:
http://www.oldtelugusongs.com/newsongs/vintage/SuvarnaSundari_1957-Ghantasala&Jikki-HayiHayigaaamaniSaage-SamudralaSr_AdinarayanaRao.mp3

Hindi version:
http://www.4shared.com/file/36871029/11805392/kuhu_kuhu_bole_koyalya.html?s=1

Tamil version:
http://www.4shared.com/file/80769179/5a0d5706/gandasala_thesulavuthe_with_susila.html?s=1

Lyrics(Hindi version) :

Raaga: Sohni

kuhu-kuhu bole koyaliya

kunj-kunj mein bhanvare dole

gun-gun bolen... kuhu ...

saja singaar ritu aayi basanti

jaise naar koi ho rasvanti

sa ni da ma da ni sa, ga ma ga ma da ni sa

re sa ni da ni sa re sa ni sa re sa ni

da ni ni da ni ni da ni, ma da da ma da da ma da

sa re ga ma da na

saja singaar ritu aayi basanti

jaise naar ho rasvanti

daali-daali kaliyon ko titaliyaan choomein

phool-phool pankhadiyaan kholen, amrit gholen, aa ...

Raaga: Bahaar

kaahe ghata mein bijuri chamke

ho sakta hain megharaaj ne baadariya ka

shyaam-shyaam mukh choom liya ho

chori-chori man panchhi ude, naina jude aa ...

Raaga: Jaunpuri

chandrika dekh chhayi, peeya, chandrika dekh chaayi

chanda se milke, man hi man muskaayi

chhayi chandrika dekh chhaayi

sharad suhavan, madhu manbhavan

virahi jaanu ka sukh sarasaavan

chhaayi-chhaayi poonam ki ghataa, ghoonghat hata

aa ... kuhu-kuhu ...

Raaga: Yaman

saaras raat man bhaaye preeyatama, kamal-kamlini mile

kiran haar damke, jal mein chaand chamke

man saanand, aanand dole re

ni re ga ma da ni sa, da ni sa, sa ni sa, ga re ga

sa re ni sa da ni ma da sa, ni re ni re

da ni da ni ma da ma da ga ma ga ma

ga ma da ni sa, ga ma da ni sa, da ni sa

Jhini re jhini re...

This was a song I heard while watching the Anwar Jamal picture "Swaraj-The Little republic" some 2 years ago at the Film festival on Water in Bangalore. Came to know that it is from the album "Indian Ocean". Further research revealed that the lyrics wrote by Saint Kabir Das about life, as a finely woven cloth. The lyrics describes that man should try to keep the cloth clean and be given back to God untorn and clean. The folkish touch accompanied by guitar and percussion makes the memorable lyrics flow...

झीनी रे झीनी रे झीनी चदरिया, झीनी रे झीनी रे झीनी चदरिया
के राम नाम रस भीनी चदरिया, झीनी रे झीनी रे झीनी चदरिया
अष्ट कमल दल चरखा डोले, पांच तत्व, गुण तीनि चदरिया
साइँ को सियत मास दस लागे, ठोंक-ठोंक के बीनी चदरिया
सो चादर सुर नर मुनि ओढ़ी, ओढ़ी के मैली कीनी चदरिया
दास कबीर जतन सो ओढ़ी, ज्यों की त्यों धर दीन चदरिया

This is fine, this is fine cloth.
It is been dipped in the name of the lord
The spinning wheel, like an eight-petal lotus, spins,
with five tatvas and three gunas as the pattern.
Lord stiched it in 10 months (the gestation period)
The threads have been pressed to get a tight weave.
It has been worn by gods, people, and sages
they soiled it with use.
Kabir says, I have covered my self with this cloth with great care,
and eventually will leave it like it was.