जा जा रे चन्दा जा रे तेरी चांदनी जियरा जलाए_ Private Secretary,62_Lata_Prem Dhawan_D.Dilip_a tribute

Song : Jaa jaa re chandaa jaa re.. Film : Private Secretary,1962, Singer : Lata Mangeshkar, Lyricist : Prem Dhawan, Music Director : D Dilip, Director: Chander Bahl, Cast: Ashok Kumar,Jayashree Gadkar,Raja Gowswami,Uma Kant,Mohan Choti,Poornima,N A Ansari, Production Co: Radiant Movies, Lyrics:- Jaa jaa re chandaa jaa re teri chaandni bhi mera jiyaraa jalaaye jaaye Jaa jaa re chandaa jaa re teri chaandni bhi mera jiyaraa jalaaye jaaye Jaa jaa re chandaa jaa re duniya to saari soyi sapno ki raat mein duniya to saari soyi sapno ki raat mein ik main hi jaagoon jaage gham mere saath me ankhiyaan to bhar bhar aaye baat baat mein Jaa jaa re chandaa jaa re teri chaandni bhi mera jiyaraa jalaaye jaaye Jaa jaa re chandaa jaa re koyi bhi sahaara mera nahin hai jahaan mein koyi bhi sahaara mera nahin hai jahaan mein ik bhi sitaara mera nahin asmaan mein dukh hai hazaaron meri ek jaan mein Jaa jaa re chandaa jaa re teri chaandni bhi mera jiyaraa jalaaye jaaye Jaa jaa re chandaa jaa re teri chaandni bhi mera jiyaraa jalaaye jaaye Jaa jaa re chandaa jaa re.. D Dilip (Dilip Dholakia) Music Director :- Gujarat’s veteran singer/musician Shri Dilip Dholakia.. was into music at the age of seven, when he used to accompany his grandfather Manishankar Dholakia to the Swaminarayan mandir in Junagadh to sing bhajans and play pakhawaj. Later he learnt classical singing from Pandurang Amberkar, a disciple of Khan Saheb Aman Ali Khan, who was also the guru of Lata Mangeshkar. After he was selected as an artist on All India Radio, in Mumbai, he got the offer to sing a song for the film Kismatwala produced by P.B. Zaveri. The composer was Ratanlal, younger brother of composer Khemchand Prakash, and he made Dholakia sing three songs. Sometime later, Dholakia joined Chitragupta as an assistant and also sung a song for him in Bhakta Pundalik. He then started composing independently and among the Hindi films he composed for were Baghdad Ki Raatein, Teen ustad and Private Secretary. He did a lot of Gujarati films like Diwadandi, Satyawan Savitri (which had songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohd. Rafi), Mota Ghar Ni Dikri, Kanku, Sat Na Parkhe and Jalam Sang Jadeja. thus Dilipbhai gave music in eight Hindi films. Among his popular Hindi and Gujarati film songs are: ‘Ja ja re chanda ja re…’ (written by Prem Dhavan and sung by Lata Mangeshkar for Private Secretary); ‘Mile nain gaya chain…’ (written by Prem Dhavan and sung by Lata Mangeshkar for Private Secretary); ‘Milan na dipak sahu bujai gaya chhe…’ (ghazal written by Befam and sung by Mohd. Rafi for Snehbandhan; ‘Eklaj aavya manva…’ (written by Befam and sung by Bhupinder for Jalam Sang Jadeja). Dholakia also worked on Sugam Sangeet and devotional songs. He co-ordinated with Hridaynath Mangeshkar to record his compositions viz. Meera Bhajan Part-I, Bhagwat Geeta (in Sanskrit), Gyaneshwari Geeta (in Marathi), an album of Urdu ghazals by Ghalib, and compositions for HMV records sung by Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Kishori Amonkar and Hridaynath Mangeshkar. The singer-composer has organised music programmes for ‘Festival of India’ in United Kingdom with renowned artistes like Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Nikhil Banerjee, Manna Dey and Anup Jalota. His private albums in Gujarati are all popular. Gujarati film Divadandi was released in year 1950. Though the film was not superhit, its one song written by Venibhai Purohit, composed by Ajit Merchant and sung by Dilip Dholakia is superhit even today. The song is: Tari ankh no afini… Initially people misunderstood that this song was sung by Mukeshji. In 1946 he sung a song ‘Dukh ki is nagri mein baba koi na puchhe baat’ in ‘Laj’ film under Ramchandra Pal’s music composition arrangement. He sung Saigal’s 1944 song of film Bhanvra’s song Thukra rahi hai duniya in chorus. He was introducted to musician Snehal Bhatkar in HMV studio with whose help a record of songs ‘Bhint fadi ne piplo ugyo’, and ‘Aadha tel aur aadhaa paani’ was made. In this record Dilipbhai was singer and Venibhai Purohit was writer. In 1948 Avinash Vyas gave chance to Dilipbhai for two duet songs in film ‘Sati son’.