I have about three nominations:
Paradox Rift Garchomp:
Garchomp ex is the Pokémon that exactly fits my play style. It has a powerful first attack [f] which forces you to attach 1-3 fighting energies from your discard pile to your pokemon. I feel like this is inherently decent. Each type has their own acceleration E.G. psychic embrace, bax, lightning generator and I feel like this is the current fighting counterpart. Chomp has a versatile [cc] discard all energy, 120 to one Pokémon second attack which I once used to ko a Flaffy back in block E. Garchomp falls short due to the presence of miraidon and Iron hands as they hit it for weakness. It falls short due to the lack of good supporting fighting pokemon but I’d like to hear someone argue why brilliant stars lucario isn’t good enough. 160 Chomp attack cannot two hit zard ex sadly.
It had everything going for it. Searchable with irida. Free retreat. Tera. Temporal forces drilbur (ability) when you play this on to your bench, you may search your deck for up to three 3 [f] and discard them; put drillbur in discard pile (so a searchable battle compressor). Somewhat sad to see a fan favorite fall short. I’m not suggesting we change chomp’s type but maybe we could’ve given Gabite a good ability to make the line more playable. Chomp was inherently good but the meta failed it.
Crown zenith Kyogre:
[wwwc] 180 to any pokemon, return 3 [w] to hand. This is inherently good because the energies are not discarded and you you wont need to go to the trouble of retrieving them. This is a good tech in any baxcalibur engine as you have a one prizer 180 snipe, instead of giving up a chienpao. It falls short because of fire is not prevalent. Off the top of my head I have three worthy candidates for kyogre: Squawkabilly ex, (when they’re active) entei V and gouging fire ex. 180 is a high number but it is irrelevant in this meta.
Geeta:
Inherently good, but not needed. Every deck already has their own method of acceleration. Could be good in a meta where supporters are serchable (trainers mail, vs seeker). Use geeta on turn one going second to power up Raging Bolt EX or Regidrago V. But honestly it’s so replaceable by arven for setup would have been more useful.
Only been playing for 2 years so please go easy on me. Open for discussion. Would like to hear from you guys about any other cards that answers the title

So mai ek 12th class mp board ka student hu, 11th barbaad ho gai isliye nhi ki maine padai nahi ki. because isilye kyo ki mujhe thik guidance nhi mili aur mai bas blind hokar padta rha 8 hours daily on an average and full year without leaving any day but fir bhi fail ho gya kyonki mujhe pata bhi nhi taiyari kese karni hai mai bas "PW" ke old lecture dekhta tha aur ek lecture ko samjhne mai hi pura din chala jaata tha. ab depression mai hu suicide ke alawa aur koi option nhi dikh rha hai, mujhse pda hi nhi jaata hai bilkul concentrate nhi kar pata hu, dar lagta hai ki kahin itna padne ke baad bhi fail na ho jaun, agr offline coaching maine li hoti to sayad asa nhi hota but baap ke paas paise nhi hai and again I am doing the same mistake, aur school wale padate hi nhi hai.
log bolte hai ghumne jao, meditate karo, anulom vilom karo, geeta pado bhai agar itni Simple cheeze hi karni hoti to mai kab ka kar chuka hota, ye sab maine karke dekh liye kuch nhi ho rha hai, abhi 4 mahine bache hai ye bhi depression mai nikal jayenge aur mai dekhta rhunga, mujhse planning bhi nhi ho paati hai, idk I can't able to explain my problem here, sab lightly lete hai, maine 2 baar suicides karne ki koshis ki but kiya nhi even tried to jump in front of train, mujhe nhi pata but meri problem bahut serious hai in sabdo se mai apni seriousness bata nhi paa rha hu, dusre logo ke liye ye normal baat hogi but mere liye bahut hai, I am gonna failed 12th class and I am still can' t able to explain my problem, I face so much difficulty in simple things, mai thik se soch bhi nhi pata hu, log bolte hai stress na lekar padai kar, are to bhai padkar bhi kuch nhi hoga mera yaar mai kitna hi padu fail hi hona hai aur 11th mai bhi yhi hua tha Mere sath.
I need someone to plan my studies, give me hope to live. this is very serious, give me right material and don' t suggest Psychiatrist meri mummy bipolar thi abhi ilaaj khatam hua hai unka. mere papa mummy se bahut pareshan the agar mai aise bolunga ki mujhe Psychiatrist ki jaroorat hai to bo mujhe maar dalega... paise bhi nhi hai we are living in a small town, mushkil se 4-5 hajar mai pure mahine ka kharcha chalta hai and all we can do is to eat only, hamne saara paisa khar banane mai laga diya.

I've done this challenge before in previous games. Now I'm doing it here. I suspect these games may be interesting. Due to their open world nature, almost every battle that isn't part of the story is optional, meaning I'm gonna be very underleveled.

Rules

• No optional trainers
• Must run from wild battles if possible
• No Exp Candy (including Rare Candy)
• No Exp Point Meal Power
• No Bag in Battle
• No Picnic
• "Set Battle Mode" (Violet no longer has this option, but I can just manually decline switching)
• No going to Kitakami

Report

# - Name (Location)
1 - Nemona 1 (Cabo Poco) I chose Quaxly as my starter. If I get to Quaquaval, I probably can win off Swords Dance and Aqua Step. Assuming I get that far of course.
2 - Wild Lechonk (Poco Path) The catching tutorial puts you in a forced wild battle vs Lechonk that you are forced to catch. This is good for me, because I'm not getting another team member for a while.
3 - Arven 1 (Poco Path) In general I will try to switch between my team on each pokemon to maximize exp. In the harder battles we may not have time for that, but I'll do it when I can.
4 - Nemona 2 (South 1) The LV9 Pawmot outspeeds and one-shots my LV8 Quaxly and LV6 Lechonk. There's not much I can do. Luckily, this is one of the few battles you are not required to win. Perhaps Sprigatito would have been better to knock out the Pawmot and get full exp from this battle, but hopefully it won't matter in the long run.
5 - Team Star Grunt 1 (Mesagoza)6 - Team Star Grunt 2 (Mesagoza) Easy battle, but be careful when switching vs the Yungoos. Its Stakeout ability does double damage against those that switch in.
7 - Titan Klawf 1 (South 3) Katy was giving me trouble, so I'm starting here. I tried to use Rest and Growl to outlast and slowly defeat Klawf, but the defense drops from its Rock Smash were causing problems. To fix this, I drove past Klawf, past Artazon, jumped the river to get past the Schedar Squad base, then drove to the Delibird Presents in Levincia to buy the Covert Cloak. Now I'm immune to Rock Smash's secondary effect. Assuming one of Klawf's 3 opening moves is Block, Quaxly can use Growl twice before needing to Rest, but then it has to keep resting every 3 turns to not die, and can't progress further. If I instead start with Lechonk using 1 Mud-Slap before going down, I can keep Quaxly's Rest loop going until a miss, then get another Growl in. At that point I now have spare time in the Rest loop for additional Growl, Work Up, and actually attacking. I'm not actually worried about Lechonk fainting here and falling behind on exp, because the first phase of the Titans don't award exp anyway.
8 - Titan Klawf 2 (South 3) I know if I can get past the first phase, Arven's help will make the second phase easy. Between Quaxly's Growl and Arven's Shellder's Life Dew, the Klawf can't do much of anything. From this one battle, Quaxly gained 3 levels and Lechonk 4.
9 - Gym Leader Katy (Cortondo) Cortondo's gym challenge is easy to do with no battle. Instead of bothering with the maze, kick the olive right over the fences and jump after it. I tried to use Chesto Resto here, but the Tarountula's Bug Bite kept eating the berry. What I ended up doing was Wing Attack to get rid of the special-attacking Lokix, used Growl on Tarountula until it was at -6, used Work Up a bunch, the swept the rest of the team.
10 - Gym Leader Brassius (Artazon) For the gym challenge, only collect the sleepy Sunflora. The running ones will battle you if you catch them. This is the first gym where Quaxly is weak, and Lechonk doesn't really have anything, so I needed more power. I decided to search the world for an Acrobatics TM that can be gotten without the rest of Miradon's abilities. The one in the cliffs east of Casseroya Lake can be gotten by falling down from Glaseado. Quaxly's starts with Substitute, and Petilil tries Sleep Powder, which is blocked. I then used Encore to force it to keep doing that while Quaxly uses Work Up. Since Quaxly outspeeds, I can keep using Encore every 3 turns to continue the lock. Brassius will not switch to break free. Acrobatics nearly sweeps after that, except for Sturdy Sudowoodo. It lives with 1 hp, then breaks the Substitute with Trailblaze. Thanks to the speed boost, it goes first in the next round and KOs Quaxly before it can move again. Quick Claw Lechonk does that last 1 damage to win.
11 - Team Star Grunt 3 (East 1)12 - Team Star Grunt 4 (West 1) Titan Bombirdier was giving me trouble, so I figured I would at least deal with the guards of the Segin and Schedar squad bases. Easy battles. Quaxly is now a Quaxwell.
13 - Pokemon Trainer Youssef (Tagtree Thicket) Looking ahead at the list of trainers, I saw that Youssef's lead Gulpin only has Toxic and Spit Up as damaging moves. With Substitute, it basically can't hurt you. Easy Work Up sweep despite being half its level.
14 - Nemona 3 (Gym 3, Levincia) Nemona will appear at whatever gym you enter third. Encore-lock the Rockruff into Double Team, use some Work Up, hit it anyway, then sweep with Aqua Jet.
15 - Titan Bombirdier 1 (West 1) I went and got a Liquidation TM from somewhere (I think from Glaseado but don't remember). With that, Mystic Water, and Quaxwell's additional levels, Bombirdier is a range of being a two-shot. Good enough. 16 - Titan Bombirdier 2 (West 1) You don't actually get a break to heal between Bombirdier's phases, but luckily it was too focused on Arven's Nacli to finish off Quaxwell. Lechonk is now an Oinkologne.
17 - Titan Orthworm 1 (East 3) Oinkologne uses Tail Whip a couple times and does damage with Rocky Helmet, then swap in Quaxwell to Low Sweep a couple times.
18 - Titan Orthworm 2 (East 3) Oinkologne kept resting and doing Rocky Helmet damage which Arven's Toedcool did all the work.
At this point, I tried to go fight Giacomo, but the game won't even let you enter the squad base unless you have 3 pokemon for the squad fight minigame. There is a third coming eventually, so I have to save these for later.
19 - Gym Trainer Marti (Levincia) 20 - Gym Trainer Michael (Levincia) Oinkologne can handle these with Dig.
21 - Gym Leader Iono (Levincia) Quaxwell can Liquidation and Aqua Jet to get rid of Wattrel. Then it uses two Growl on Bellibolt. After the three Sparks it received during this, its at 1 health. Swap to Oinkologne. With Bellibolt's attack dropped, Oinkologne can hold it in a Rest loop despite its Electromorphosis ability. With its spare time, it uses Trailblaze to boost its speed. Luxray goes down to 2 Dig. Oinkologne has little hp after that, and Mismagius hits too hard for Rest to matter, so Oinkologne goes down with a Tera and Silk Scarf boosted Giga Impact for about 60% damage. (Mismagius is Tera electric and thus not ghost) Quaxwell then comes back in, but even if it had more than 1 hp, Mismagius would outspeed and one-shot. Try for Aqua Jet. With the boost from Mystic Water and Torrent, it is barely not enough. I have a plan though. Sometimes it rains in Levincia. If I wait for this natural rain before starting the battle, that final Aqua Jet will do more damage. Take it from the top for victory this time.
22 - Gym Trainer Hugo (Porto Marinada) Oinkologne uses Giga Impact twice. I like this move.
23 - Gym Leader Kofu (Cascarrafa) Oinkologne uses Bullet Seed with Loaded Dice to take out Veluza and Wugtrio, then Tera Giga Impact for Crabominable. Quaxwell ends the battle with Brave Bird.
The Medali gym challenge tasks you with battling other trainers to learn what dish you need to order from the Treasure Eatery to summon Larry. However, if you already know the order (Grilled Rice Balls, Medium Serving, Fire Blast Style, Lemon) from a previous playthrough or just guess every combination, you do not need to battle any of them. This is actually bad for me because it they were mandatory I could get more exp, but they aren't, so I don't.
24 - Gym Leader Larry (Medali) 25 - Nemona 4 (Gym 5, Medali) I'm listing these battles together because after beating Larry a cutscene takes you straight to Nemona without a chance to save or adjust your team. The strategy is similar for both because it has to be. Oinkologne uses Chilling Water to lower Komala / Lycanroc's attack, so Quaxwell can use Work Up to sweep. The difficulty came from having to use the same moveset for both battles. Quaxwell needs Rest and Work Up to raise its stats, Aqua Jet to outspeed Nemona's Pawmo, and Liquidation to one-shot Larry's Staraptor. This means it didn't have room for Growl, and Oinkologne had to do all the attack-lowering itself. That's fine against Lycanroc, but against Komala, I end up in a 3-turn Rest loop until it runs out of PP for Slam. With a PP Up on Oinkologne's Rest it works out. Once you enter your sixth gym, which for me is Montenevera, Jacq will shot up and give you the Lucky Egg, which is a held item that increases exp by 50% for its holder. I will try to always have that equipped to someone when possible.
26 - Gym Trainer Tas (Montenevera) 27 - Gym Trainer Lani (Montenevera) 28 - Gym Trainer MC Sledge (Montenevera) These battles are fairly easy. If you gang up on and quickly eliminate one of their pokemon, it becomes a 2-on-1. Oinkologne being a normal type also helps. Thief is its best move here. Against Sledge, alternate using Protect with Quaxwell and Oinkologne so the Drifblim's Self-Destruct can't knockout the whole team.
29 - Pokemon Trainer Harrington (North 3) This is the guy guarding the Ruchbah squad base. Oinkologne use Yawn then Protect to put each pokemon to sleep, then finish them off with Body Slam, or Quaxwell's Liquidation. Up until now, I haven't a pokemon that could boost both attack and speed. Quaxwell had Work Up for attack and Oinkologne had Trailblaze for speed. Now Oinkologne also has Work Up, and Quaxwell is a Quaquaval with Aqua Step. Quaquaval also gets Swords Dance. Things should start going quick now.
30 - Gym Leader Ryme (Montenevera) Oinkologne uses Yawn to put the Mimikyu to sleep and Quaquaval uses Swords Dance / Aqua Step to sweep. Also if it seems like you're ahead, Ms. Ryme's crowd's cheers boost your stats instead. With all this in mind, its easy to see, it's not that hard to beat this MC.
31 - Titan Iron Treads 1 (Asado Desert) Oinkologne uses Yawn Protect to put it to sleep, then Chilling Water to reduce its attack to nothing. 32 - Titan Iron Treads 2 (Asado Desert) Same thing again, but also Arven's here too.
33 - Nemona 5 (Gym 7, Alfornada) Yawn the Lycanroc, swap to Quaquaval. Swords Dance, Swords Dance, Aqua Step revolution. Lycanroc did wake up and use Sand Attack, and I missed against Pawmot, but its Spark didn't kill me, so I won anyway.
34 - Gym Trainer Emily (Alfornada) 35 - Gym Trainer Rafael (Alfornada) These battles were easy and not really worth mentioning, but I have a fun story about Emily. The first time I played Violet, I didn't know that the levels in the game were such that you had to do it in order. (I assumed level would be scaled such that the later explored location had the high level things). After beating Katy, I ended up going up the bridge near the coast to the top of Alfornada Cavern, and got up there without any Miradon abilities. I avoided all battles on the way there, and so didn't see the problem yet. I challenged the gym. Obviously I had no chance with Tulip, or even Rafael, but I was able to beat Emily, despite her being like 35 levels above me. Her attacking moves are all psychic-type, and I had a dark-type Mastiff.
36 - Gym Leader Tulip (Alfornada) Start with Oinkologne so Farigiraf uses Reflect, then swap to Quaquaval to Encore lock it. (If I started with Quaquaval, Farigiraf just spams Zen Headbutt). After using Growl a bunch while resetting Encore as needed, swap back to Oinkologne. Work Up, Trailblaze, wait for the Reflect to run out, then sweep with Body Slam.
The most important part of beating Tulip is that seven gym badges unlocks the finals of the school classes, which unlocks sidequests you can do with each of the teachers. If you do all the language classes, and Salvatore's sidequest, he awards you with a level 5 Galarian Meowth. While it is very low level for this point, we're not getting any more team members until Miradon in the final battle, so I'll take it.
37 - Squad Boss Giacomo (West 1) 38 - Squad Boss Mela (East 1) 39 - Squad Boss Atticus (Tagtree Thicket) Now that I have three pokemon, I can go battle all the Squad bosses I've been skipping. I've decided not to count the minigame where you fight the whole squad as a battle, because it doesn't go into a normal battle and is this weird minigame where you run around and throw pokeballs at things. (And you don't earn exp, but that's also true of the Titan's phase 1s). If you disagree with that decision, just add 5 to my final count at the end. Obvious easy battles, because I was meant to battle these earlier. Although the Starmobiles' hardcoded speed stat is still faster than me. Atticus' Skuntank kept spamming Sucker Punch which made the setup quick.
40 - Gym Leader Grusha (Glaseado) I would want to setup against the lead Frosmoth, but I still have no way of lowering special attack (O, the days when Confide was a universal TM). I had Oinkologne use Double-Edge to punch through Frosmoth, then did the setup against Beartic instead.
41 - Squad Boss Ortega (North 3) Start with the usual plan of Yawn Protect Chilling Water vs Azumarill, then bring in Quaquaval to sweep. Had a bit of a standoff where Quaquaval was using Swords Dance but Azumarill was using Charm to undo it several turns in a row. The next problem is that even +6 Tera Mystic Water Aqua Step is not enough to one-shot the Starmobile, which sweeps in return. I try again with the Metronome equipped, which is barely not enough. I try one more time, but before starting the sweep, I wait for Azumarill to use Bounce, then deliberately miss once while it is in the air to increase the Metronome count by 1.
42 - Titan Dondozo 1 (Casseroya Lake) 43 - Titan Dondozo 2 (Casseroya Lake) 44 - Titan Tatsugiri (Casseroya Lake) Yawn Protect makes the Titans very easy.
45 - Team Star Carmen (North 2) Pecha Berry cancels out Toxic and gives time for a Swords Dance, Aqua Step the Croagunk to outspeed Primeape, then Brave Bird.
46 - Squad Boss Eri (North 2) Oinkologne was having difficulty with its attack-lowering duties due to its fighting weakness, so I brought in Meowth to assist. With a Focus Sash, it can use Charm once then falls to 1 hp. Then switch in Oinkologne. Croagunk at -2 attack does half damage, which is kinda equivalent to Oinkologne not having a fighting weakness. Then I have the sane problem as Ortega: +6 Aqua Step doesn't oneshot the Starmobile. Neither does Liquidation. Brave Bird with the Life Orb does it. Funny enough, in my successful attempt, Croagunk crit the Oinkologne and Quaquaval died to Brave Bird recoil, leaving the 1 hp Meowth as the only reason I won the battle.
47 - Arven 2 (Poco Path) Greedent only has physical attacks, so Chilling Water is good. Hand out some Covert Cloaks to avoid getting Paralyzed by Body Slam.
48 - Director Clavell (Uva Academy) The opening Oranguru has Foul Play which makes it bad to setup against, but the other pokemon aren't much better. I have Oinkologne use Substitute with PP Up to remove all the Foul Play PP, and Yawn, Protect, and Leftovers to live long enough to do all that. Once Oranguru is trying Dream Eater while I'm still awake, I know its safe to bring in Quaquaval to sweep.
49 - Team Star Penny (Uva Academy) I found my new favourite strategy. Oinkologne uses Yawn, then gets swapped out with Eject Button so Quaquaval gets to enjoy the full sleep time to itself. Get those Swords Dance up before it wakes. It's nice that things like Eject Button and Focus Sash are infinite use now so we can actually use them in a playthrough. Anyway, Quaquaval sweeps with Aqua Step and Brave Bird. This seems like it shouldn't work because Penny's whole team has Quick Attack and Baby-Doll Eyes, but they don't use them for some reason.
50 - Elite Four Rika (Pokemon League) Lead special attackers keep giving me problems, because I couldn't reduce their damage, but Meowth might be able to help. I gave it the Lucky Egg a while ago, and its catching up. It's a level 42 Perrserker now and can learn Baton Pass. Oinkologne uses Yawn Eject Button to bring in Perrserker, who uses Fake Out to waste the drowsy turn. Two Amnesia while Whiscash sleeps, Stealth Rock so the later Sturdy Donphan actually gets one-shot, and last second Baton Pass the Amnesia boosts to Quaquaval. Swords Dance a bunch, the Aqua Jet Whiscash, Donphan Camerupt. Aqua Jet to outspeed Dugtrio's Sucker Punch, and Close Combat to get past Clodsire's Water Absorb.
51 - Elite Four Poppy (Pokemon League) Similar to last battle, but the Perrserker passes Iron Defense and the Sealth Rock are for Sturdy Magnezone this time.
52 - Elite Four Larry (Pokemon League) If it ain't broke. Back to passing Amnesia this time. Quaquaval uses Ice Spinner for Tropius and Altaria.
53 - Elite Four Hassel (Pokemon League) It broke. Can't do Yawn Eject Button since Noivern outspeed Oinkologne. Instead I won via stupid. Start Quaquaval. It uses Super Fang, I use Encore. Super Fang keeps having your current hp, but it will only KO if you were already at 1. For Quaquaval, that's an 8-hit, which is plenty of time to setup. As long as I don't trigger Dragalge's Poison Point while I have like 4 hp left.
54 - Champion Geeta (Pokemon League) The Espartha looks like it should be a problem, but its actually fine. Lumina Crash is a psychic move that always harshly lowers your special defense, but its a secondary effect, so Covert Cloak works. It also has the Opportunist ability, so it will copy your stat gains. The stats I'm gaining are attack and special defense, which are not helpful to it. Perrserker sets up Amnesia and Swords Dance, wait for Reflect to almost run out, Pass to Quaquaval, then sweep.
55 - Nemona 6 (Mesagoza) Oinkologne and Perrserker lower Lycanroc's attack with Chilling Water and Charm, Perrserker Pass Quaquaval some Swords Dance, then sweep.
56 - Wild Glimmora (Area Zero) 57 - Wild Iron Bundle (Area Zero) 58 - Wild Iron Treads (Area Zero) 59 - Wild Iron Treads (Area Zero) 60 - Wild Iron Hands (Area Zero) 61 - Wild Iron Jugulis (Area Zero) Very easy. 2-on-1 multi battles against wild pokemon. Perrserker can even Fake Out to give its ally a free turn for whatever. I checked to see if you can run from these. You cannot. I forgot to check if I could catch them though. Whatever.
62 - AI Turo (Zero Lab) Oinkologne is not fast enough to Yawn Eject Button against Iron Moth, but it has another option: Yawn, then die next turn. Quaquaval just needs two Swords Dance to sweep. Iron Hands will use Fake Out along the way, but it won't accomplish anything. I even had Perrserker ready with Focus Sash and Iron Head in case Iron Valiant lived somehow, but it didn't come up.
63 - Paradise Protection Protocol (Zero Lab) The power of friendship!

Conclusion

I think I was pretty much correct with my prediction. It was kinda tricky until I got Quaquaval, especially Brassius and Iono, then it was turbo mode after that.
I didn't realize how good Perrserker was going to be. I assumed it was going to be underleveled the whole time, but with Lucky Egg and exponential exp level thresholds, it caught up again, and its Baton Pass was very useful. At the end, it and Oinkologne were level 56, and Quaquaval was 60.
Also reusable items made some cool strategies open up with Eject Button or Focus Sash, so that's neat.
I did spend a lot of time wandering around picking up items. I wonder if there's a challenge idea of not being allowed to pick stuff up. Hmm
Anyway, smell you later.

"Behno aur Bhaiyo” was the greeting style of the golden voice of Radio legend “Ameen Sayani” as he introduced India to the most popular songs on India’s first Bollywood song countdown called Binaca Geetmala. The Bollywood music chart aired on Radio Ceylon from 1952 to 1988 and from 1989 to 1994 on Vividh Bharti and week after week all of India looked forward to hearing the familiar voice of the legend as he shared the best songs of Bollywood. At the end of each year Binaca Geetmala announced the number 1 most popular song of the year based on record sales and listener club feedback. I want to take this opportunity to share some trivia and mini reviews of the Binaca Geetmala top songs of the year from 1953 to 1993. Let's start with the songs crowned "the top of the pop" by Binaca Geetmala in the evergreen 50s and how they fared against their competition in that year's Filmfare awards.
1953 - "Yeh Zindagi Usi Ki Hai" from the movie “Anarkali" beautifully sung by Lata Mangeshkar with music by C Ramchandra and lyrics by Rajinder Krishan was the first annual top song of the Binaca Geetmala. Basant Prakash was the original composer for the movie and recorded one song with Geeta Bali. However due to a disagreement with the producer, he was replaced by C Ramchandra who brought in Lata to sing all the remaining songs for the movie. “Yeh Zindagi Usi Ki Hai” was the ultimate heartbreak song of that era which Anarkali (played by Bina Rai) sings as she is buried alive behind a wall as a helpless Salim (played by Pradeep Kumar) struggles to reach in time to save his love. C Ramchandra used the help of another music icon Roshan (Grandfather of Hrithik and father of Rajesh and Rakesh Roshan) to collaborate on the composition of the melody of this song. This movie introduced the talented Nasir Hussain to Bollywood who started his career as a writer for this movie and would go on to create the masala film genre with musical extravaganzas like Yaadon Ki Baraat, Hum Kissi Se Kum Nahin and many many more. Even though the song ruled the charts but it lost the first ever Filmfare Award for music direction to Naushad’s iconic “Tu Ganga Ki Mauj” from Baiju Bawra.
1954 - “Jayen To Jayen Kahan” from “Taxi Driver’ sung by Talat Mahmood with music by S.D. Burman and Sahir Ludhianvi’s poetry ruled the charts the following year. This was one of the best songs by the forgotten music Icon Talat Mehmood. His good looks made him an actor in several movies with Nutan and Suraiya but would give up acting to focus on singing. His smooth and velvety vocals were the voice of Dilip Kumar and early Dev Anand. The arrival of Mohammed Rafi and the infusion of rock n roll into Bollywood music in the 60s would sideline Talat Mahmood, who unfortunately literally disappeared from the landscape of modern Bollywood. This brilliant song is drenched with melancholy as Talat’s vocals emotes the pathos of Sahir’s poetry. S.D. Burman won his first Filmfare Award for best music director for this song for “Taxi Driver”. The song was picturized on Dev Anand and a second version sung by Lata Mangeshkar was shot on Kalpana Karthik who Dev Sahib fell in love with and married secretly on the set during a break while shooting “Taxi Driver”.
1955 - “Mera Joota Hai Japani” from the movie "Shree 420” sweetly sung by Mukesh with music by Shankar Jaikishan and Shailendra’s lyrics made Raj Kapoor an Indian Icon and a global star. It’s patriotic theme made it the biggest song of the year in India and the Russians went absolute gaga over this song when RK gave them the highest possible honor of his crown “Sar Par Laal Topi Roosi”. The song has been used in multiple Hollywood movies like Mississippi masala, Gravity and Deadpool. Hemant Kumar’s “Nagin" with it's haunting "Been" melody would win the Filmfare Award for music direction even though Shankar Jaikishan’s soundtrack topped record sales.
1956 - "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Jeena Yahan” from “C.I.D.” was playfully sung by Mohammed Rafi and Geeta Dutt with the music of O.P. Nayyar and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s lyrics. Johnny Walker and Kumkum’s street hustling characters warn their fellow citizens about the fast life of their favorite city in this iconic anthem "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Jeena Yahan, Zara Hatke Zara Bachke, Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan”. Mohammed Rafi was the closest we can get to a true “Method” singer who brilliantly adapted his vocal style to the actors he sang for. He sat with Johnny Walker for a few days before recording the song to observe his mannerisms and modulate his voice to best fit him on screen. He took singing to the next level of the art form. “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” would rule the chart and hearts of India but unfortunately lose at the Filmfare awards to the RK classic “Chori Chori” which was an album full of iconic songs like “Aaja Sanam Madhur Chandni Mein Hum” and “Yeh Raat Bheegi Bheegi”.
1957 - "Zara Saamne Toh Aao Chhaliye” from "Janam Janam Ke Phere” was one of the earliest hit duets by Lata and Rafi with the music of S.N. Tripathi and lyrics by Bharat Vyas. S.N. Tripathi was a forgotten multitalented genius of early Bollywood who composed, sang, dubbed, wrote, acted, produced and directed movies. He exclusively composed music for mythological movies and was best known for being the first to use the “Jai Hind” slogan in a song during the British Raj. This song was picturized on its leads Nirupa Roy and Manhar Desai for the movie “Janam Janam Ke Phere” which was also known as "Sati Anapurna”. This was the first movie directed by Manoo Desai who would revert to his full name of "Manmohan Desai” as he began his long commercially successful career of super hits with his next movie “Chhalia” with Raj Kapoor. His first movie was average and quickly forgotten but he would have a stellar 60s with Shammi Kapoor, an even brighter 70s with Rajesh Khanna before he would direct a string of 7 super hit movies with Big B in the 70s and 80s. O.P. Nayyar’s “Naya Daur” would be the big winner at Filmfare awards that year.
1958 - "Hai Apna Dil Toh Awara” from “Solva Saal” was an amazing haunting song sung by Hemant Kumar with S.D. Burman’s music and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s beautiful lyrics. The song was picturized on Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman and the mouth organ on this song was played by the maestro Dada Burman’s son and future maestro Pancham AKA R.D. Burman. Filmfare awards were dominated that year by the Bimal Roy classic “Madhumati” for which Salil Chowdhury won best music director and the first playback singer award was actually won by Lata Mangeshkar (There was no female singer category) for "Aaja Re Pardesi” and Shailendra won the first award for best lyricist for Yahudi’s “Yeh Mera Deewanapan Hai"
1959 - "Haal Kaisa Hai Janaab Ka” from “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” passionately sung by Kishore Kumar with Asha Bhosle to the music of his guru S.D. Burman and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s lyrics. This is the song during which Kishore and Madhubala fell in love. Madhubala never looked happier and more beautiful than she did in this song and Kishore’s pitch and yodels never sounded better. This playful song ruled the charts but Filmfare awards were taken over by Raj Kapoor’s “Anari” as Shankar Jaikishan won best music director, Mukesh became the first male singer to win for singing and Shailendra would win his second back to back best lyricist award for “Sab Kuch Seekha Humne”.
1960 - "Zindagi Bhar Nai Bhoolegi Wo Barsaat Ki Raat" from the movie “Barsaat Ki Raat" beautifully sung by Mohammed Rafi with music by Roshan and lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi was the decade’s first annual top song of the Binaca Geetmala. The image of Madhubala admiring Bharat Bhushan’s voice as she eagerly listens to this song on radio masterfully depicts the importance of radio and the Geetmala in those days. The film popularized qawwalis, however Rafi’s ultra-romantic version of Sahir’s poetry was a masterpiece. The song was about Madhubala and Bharat Bhushan’s characters chance meeting on a stormy night as Roshan’s brilliant background score channels their internal storm without a single word spoken between the two characters throughout the scene. Bharat Bhushan’s poet translates his experience from that brief encounter into this amazing song. Rafi would win the Filmfare Award that year for another iconic song “Chaudhvin Ka Chand” for which Shakeel Badayuni would get the best lyricist award as Shankar Jaikishan won for best music director for “Dil Apna Preet Parai” which featured Lata’s iconic “Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh”.
1961 - "Teri Pyaari Pyaari Surat Ko” from “Sasural” became Mohammed Rafi's second top chartbuster of the decade with Shankar Jaikishan’s music and Hasrat Jaipuri’s lyrics. Rajendra Kumar had already a few hits under his belt including playing Nargis’s son in Mother India in the 50s, however the 60s saw his actual rise to stardom and “Sasural” was one of the initial blockbusters which earned him the crown of Jubilee Kumar. Kumar’s lead actress in the movie was B Saroja Devi who was called the "Saraswathi of acting” in the Kannada film industry. This would be one of her biggest Hindi movies as Kumar tries to woo her with the flirtatious "Teri Pyaari Pyaari Surat Ko, Kisi Ki Nazar Na Lage, Chashme Budoor”. The song topped the charts and also won Rafi his 2nd consecutive Filmfare Award for singing.
1962 - "Ehsaan Tera Hoga Mujh Par” from “Junglee” became Mohammed Rafi’s 3rd consecutive top of the chart song with another delightful collaboration with Shankar Jaikishan and Hasrat Jaipuri. This song was originally planned as a Mohammed Rafi only song, but the director felts its power and got Lata to sing her version of this classic tune. This was Junglee's romantic anthem and played a big role in shaping Shammi Kapoor’s romantic image as it skyrocketed him to mega-stardom with back to back hits in the 60s. Shankar Jaikishan won best music director for another Shammi Kapoor masterpiece “Professor” while Lata won the best singer award for the haunting “Kahin Deep Jale” from the surprise superhit "Bees Saal Baad” which also earned Shakeel Badayuni his 3rd consecutive Filmfare Award for best lyrics.
1963 - "Jo Wada Kiya Woh Nibhana Padega” from “Taj Mahal” was the amazing Lata - Rafi duet which became one of the most memorable songs of the golden era with the music of Roshan and Sahir Ludhianvi’s masterful lyrics. This song conquered everything, the hearts of Indians, the Geetmala with astronomical sales and Roshan winning his only award for music director along with Sahir Ludhianvi’s first win for Lyrics. Sahir was one of the greatest Urdu poets to write Bollywood songs and he was among the first to tell composers to compose music around his lyrics and demanded that All India Radio also give credit to the songs lyricist when playing the songs. The song featured Pradeep Kumar and Beena Rai who both achieved tremendous success with Taj Mahal but it also became among their last hit movies in lead role. Beena Rai who was married to Prem Nath retired from movies and Pradeep Kumar couldn’t compete with the fresh blood of Shammi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar and even smaller actors like Biswajeet and Joy Mukherjee. He very quickly got sidelined into character actors roles but got immortalized forever as a result of this evergreen romantic gem.
1964 - “Bol Radha Bol” from “Sangam” once again brought the Raj Kapoor - Shankar Jaikishan - Shailendra - Mukesh collaboration to the top of the charts. This was a fun and naughty song as Raj Kapoor with a Gopi-esque feather in his hair teases a sensual Vyjayanthimala in a red swimsuit while swimming in the river. There is an interesting story behind the origin of the song. RK tried multiple times to sign Vyjayanthimala for the movie. After several follow ups, he sent her a telegram asking her “Bol Radha Bol, Sangam Hoga Ke Nahi” to which she replied “Hoga Hoga, Zaroor Hoga”. When RK happily showed her confirmation telegram to Shailendra, the poet immediately sang “Tere Mann Ki Ganga aur Mere Mann Ki Jamuna Ka Bol Radha Bol Sangam Hoga Ke Nahi”. The rest is history. Sangam was one of the biggest blockbusters of Raj Kapoor’s career grossing more than 700 crore rupees (Adjusted for inflation), however on Filmfare night, a small movie named “Dosti” would bring down the Goliath “Sangam” by winning all the best music director, singer and lyricist awards.
1965 - "Jis Dil Mein Basa Tha Pyaar Tera” from the movie “Saheli” sung by Mukesh with the music by Kalyanji Anandji and lyrics by Indeevar topped the charts. The movie featured Pradeep Kumar and Kalpana right before they both disappeared into the oblivion of Bollywood character acting. The movie was directed by Arjun Hingorani before he got super-obsessed with Dharmendra and the letter “K” and made “Kab, Kyon Aur Kahaan”, “Kahani Kismat Ki”, “Khel Khiladi Ka”, "Katilon Ke Katil”, “Karishma Kudrat Ka” and “Kaun Kare Kurbani” with Garam Dharam. Kalyanji Anandji and their assistants Laxmikant Pyarelal collaborated to create this melancholic masterpiece. Ravi’s “Khandaan" would be the big winner sweeping best music director, singer and lyricist awards.
1966 - "Baharon Phool Barsao Mera Mehboob Aaya Hai” from “Suraj” sung by Rafi with Shankar Jaikishan’s music and Hasrat Jaipuri’s romantic lyrics topped the charts in the year when one of India’s brightest Gems “Guide” received tremendous critical acclaim for its songs and music. The movie featured a child artist named Baby Sonia who would grow up to become Neetu Singh AKA Mrs Rishi Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor’s mother. The fans adored the love with which Rajendra Kumar showered his leading actress Vyjayanthimala as he sang this romantic song for his beloved. The song topped the charts and sweeped the Filmfare Award by winning best music director, lyricist and singer. 1967 - "Saawan Ka Mahina Pawan Kare Sor” by Mukesh and Lata was another beloved chartbuster and Filmfare Award winning masterpiece composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal on Anand Bakshi’s lyrics. Dosti was LP’s breakthrough album and earned them their first award after which they returned to assisting Kalyanji Anandji. Milan was the movie which truly established them as a standalone dynamic musical duo and future stars of Indian music. The song also established Anand Bakshi as a lyricist earning him his first of 41 Filmfare nominations and began his 300+ movie collaboration with Laxmikant Pyarelal. The song has a funny and brilliant wordplay between Mukesh and Lata as Sunil’s villager character sings the word “Sor” which Nutan’s educated pupil sings “Shor” and he responds “Shor Nahi Sor, Sor”. This melodious masterpiece is the heart and soul of the movie which would earn LP their 2nd Filmfare award after Dosti while the lyrics award would go to the patriotic masterpiece “Mere Desh Ki Dharti” sung beautifully by Mahendra Kapoor. Mahendra would also win best male singer for Hamraaz’s “Neele Gagan Ke Tale”. Lata’s sister Asha Bhosle would win her first Filmfare Award for Dus Lakh’s “Garibon Ki Suno” in the first award best female singer award.
1968 - "Dil Vil Pyar Vyar Main Kya Jaanu Re” from “Shagird” sung by Lata Mangeshkar with Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s lyrics would become the biggest hit of the year. The song was picturized on Saira Bano along with Joy Mukherjee and played a critical role in making the movie a superhit. The song and movie were nowhere to be seen on award night as Shankar Jaikishan’s Shammi Kapoor blockbuster “Brahmachari” would win best director, male singer and a posthumous lyricist award for Shailendra. Asha Bhosle would win her consecutive second Best female singer Filmfare award for Shikhar’s "Parde Men Rahne Do”.
1969 - "Kaise Rahoon Chup Ki Maine Pi Hi Kya Hai” from “Intaqam” was sung by Lata with LP’s music and Rajendra Krishan’s lyrics. So Laxmikant Pyarelal ended the 60s at the top of the charts for 3 consecutive years and signaled a change of guards from the maestros of the golden era to the masters of the 70s masala. Lata sang the song with such perfection that her slurring delivery convinced fans that the nightingale must have been under the influence while recording the song. Lata sounded more drunk than Sadhana appeared on screen and earned her a 17th Filmfare nomination for singing. She would lose to herself for Jeene Ki Raah’s "Aap Mujhe Achhe Lagne Lage”.
1970 - "Bindiya Chamkegi Choodi Khankegi" from the movie “Do Raaste” was full of spunk and energy for the new decade with Lata singing Anand Bakshi’s playful lyrics to Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music. The 70s began with the first superhit collaboration of iconic Kaka - Mumu Jodi as Mumtaz rose from a B Grade movie actress to the first superstar’s leading lady. This was Mumtaz’s 60th movie in the industry and the one that finally made the once child artist turned “stunt film heroine" into a bonafide star and inspiration for millions of struggling artists starting at the bottom of the Bollywood food chain. This was Rajesh Khanna’s 270 Crore (Adjusted for inflation) grossing blockbuster and number 5 in his 17 movie consecutive hit spree. With this movie he would solidify his superstardom and continue delivering hit after hit. The success of this movie would start his hit pairing with Mumtaz in 10 iconic movies. ”Bindiya Chamkegi” ruled the pop charts, while Shankar Jaikishan’s “Pehchan” and “Jahan Pyar Mile” would give the legends the edge at Filmfare Awards over LP in the early days of the decade.
1971 - "Zindagi Ek Safar Hai Suhana” from Andaz was sung with such passion and energy by Kishore and Asha that this Shankar Jaikishan and Hasrat Jaipuri classic was enough to make the movie a box office success. The movie was released at the height of Rajesh Khanna’s superstardom with his face right in the center of the poster, his name in bold above all other actors and this song picturized on him was in every trailer and promo, despite the fact that Kaka only had a 10 minute cameo including the song in the movie. The lead actor of the movie was Shammi Kapoor whose 60s box office charm and magic had vanished. A first time director named “Ramesh Sippy” always wanted to make his debut with Shammi, so when the dancing star of the 60s agreed to take on a more mature role in “Andaz” a new star director was born. Sippy would go on to make the biggest movie of all time, "Sholay” and follow it with masterpieces like “Shaan”, “Shakti” and Saagar”. Shammi got one of his last superhits as a lead actor but everyone knew that the reason for the movie’s success was fans flocking to the cinema to watch Kaka ride a bike as he sang “Zindagi Ek Safar Hai Suhana”. Hasrat Jaipuri would win the best lyrics Filmfare Award for the song. Shankar Jaikishan would also dominate at the awards again but it would be Raj Kapoor’s “Mera Naam Joker” which would earn them yet another best music director and Manna Dey his only filmfare award.
1972 - “Dum Maro Dum” from “Hare Rama Hare Krishna” sung by Asha Bhosle would establish R.D. Burman’s music as the new wave sound of the decade and etch Anand Bakshi’s lyrics into the annals of Bollywood’s pop music history. Asha Bhosle would win the Filmfare award for this brilliant psychedelic number which Dev Anand wasn’t too interested to include in his movie. Pancham and Anand Bakshi were so sure about its potential that they would not hear “No” from the movie’s legendary writer - actor - producer - director. They stood their ground and India swayed to the hypnotic melody, sounds and vocals of the song. Dev Sahib would get his first directorial super hit, Pancham would become the go to composer for the fresh pop sound and India would get their first glimpse of the sensual Zeenat Aman.
1973 - "Yaari Hai Imaan Mera, Yaar Meri Zindagi” and “Zanzeer” would change Bollywood forever as it would announce the beginning of the era of a angry young man. Manna Dey’s exceptional vocals would immortalize Gulshan Bawra’s ode to friendship and earn Bawra the best lyricist award. Zanzeer was a Dharmendra vehicle which he couldn’t make because of a really busy schedule. So the director Prakash Mehra offered it to Dev Anand, who didnt like the "no smile, no song and all business" cop character and declined the movie. Raj Kumar who was a cop before joining films liked the script but his dislike for Prakash Mehra's looks made it impossible to cast him. Raj Kumar is known to have made the following statements to Mehra, “Hum Yeh Film Karenge, Aur Zaroor Karenge, Lekin Humhe Set Par Tumhara Yeh Manhoos Chehra Nahin Dikhna Chahiye” and its amazing follow up “Humhe Yeh Kahani Pasand Hai, Bahut Pasand Hai, Lekin Tumhare Baalo Se Aati Hui Yeh Ghatiya Tel Ki Badboo Ki Wajah Se ,Hum Yeh Film Nahin Banayenge”. Truly hilarious. Mehra would also get rejected by Dilip Kumar, after which Pran would tell him to watch a movie called “Bombay to Goa” with a lanky young actor called Amitabh Bachchan. Rest is history. Big B would get crowned the next superstar with Zanjeer and it would become his first hit movie with future wife Jaya, Prakash Mehra found his muse and leading man of 7 blockbusters, Salim Javed would become the genius writing duo for the ages, Pran would solidify himself as the highest paid “character” actor and Ajit’s iconic character “Teja” would say “ Lilly don't be silly”. Now this is how icons are born.
1974 - "Mera Jeevan Kora Kagaz Kora Hi Reh Gaya” from “Kora Kagaz” sung magnificently by Kishore Kumar with Kalyanji Anandji’s music and M.G. Hashmat’s lyrics. The movie was centered around Jaya’s character and it required a middle aged actor to play the role of her estranged husband. None of the middle aged actors wanted to change their image and play the role against Jaya, Sanjeev Kumar was unavailable and all the newer actors were too young for the role. That is how the legendary director of Guide, Jewel Thief, Johny Mera Naam and several other masterpieces and Dev Anand’s brother, Goldie Anand got roped into the play the role. The movie would become his first super hit as a lead actor. Kishore's epic song “Kora Kagaz” was beautifully picturized on Jaya. Kalyanji Anandji would win best music director award for the short 3 song soundtrack of “Kora Kagaz”, but Mahendra Kapoor and Santosh Anand would win best singer and lyrics for Roti Kapda Aur Makaan.
1975 - "Baaki Kuchh Bacha To Mahangai Maar Gayee” from “Roti Kapda Aur Makaan” would top the charts the following year after RKAP had already won Filmfare year awards for the previous year. Laxmikant Pyarelal’s composition of Varma Malik’s lyrics about India’s socio-economic condition, sung by Lata, Mukesh, Jaani Babu Qawwal and Narendra Chanchal rang true and connected with the public especially the youth during an unemployment crisis. The movie had already completed its Filmfare award cycle even though the song stayed top of mind and charts, other movies like Rajesh Roshan’s debut “Julie”, Kishore Kumar’s “Amanush” and Sulakshana Pandit’s “Sankalp” would win the awards.
1976 - "Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein Khayaal Aata Hai” from the iconic “Kabhi Kabhie” was an exceptional composition by Khayyam of Sahir Ludhianvi’s iconic poetry given voice by Mukesh and Lata. The movie and the song had such heart and soul that it conquered the box office, the charts and the awards as it won for best music director, lyricist and male singer. Mukesh had unfortunately passed away on his US tour and his award was accepted posthumously. Mukesh was another maestro whose sweet voice was taken away too soon at the age of 53. He left for his heavenly abode when he was still at the top of his game in a year when he received 3 Filmfare nominations and songs. Mukesh had recorded songs for other movies yet to be released for which he would receive 2 more nominations in the next two years. Such was the immortality of his voice and music. A true icon and legend.
1977 - "Husn Haazir Hai Mohabbat Ki Sazaa Paane Ko” from “Laila Majnu” was yet another Sahir Ludhianvi masterpiece in Urdu poetry which was brought to life by Madan Mohan through the voice of Lata Mangeshkar. The maestro Madan Mohan had already passed away in 1975, so he never saw the success of his music for Laila Majnu. After his passing away, the producer H.S. Rawail reached out to the young and upcoming Rajesh Roshan to compose the remaining songs for the movie, however Rajesh refused to step into the shoes of the maestro as he didnt consider himself worthy enough of the honor. S.D. Burman’s erstwhile assistant and music composer Jaidev would step in to complete the work of the maestro. Rishi played Majnu to the debutant Ranjeeta’s Laila in this hit love story, however there was no love lost on the set as Rishi would refuse to promote her. Ranjeeta had already signed a few movies which would also become box office hits, however mainstream actors would start stepping away from working with her in movies forcing her to get confined to smaller roles and B grade movies. Surprisingly the movie would also be completely absent from the Filmfare awards which would be dominated by "Amar Akbar Anthony", "Hum Kissi Se Kum Nahin” and the invasion of middle cinema movies like “Manthan”, “Gharonda”, “Bhumica” and “Swami”.
1978 - "Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se, Maine Dekha Jo” from "Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se” sung by Hemlata with lyrics and music by Ravindra Jain became the next year's biggest hit. This was a heartbreaking movie from Rajshri starring Ranjeeta and Sachin which did well at the box office but would get crushed by Big B's “Don” and Raj Kapoor’s “Satyam Shivam Sundaram” on Filmfare Awards night.
1979 - "O Saathi Re” from “Muqaddar Ka Sikandar” sung by Kishore Kumar with Kalyanji Anandji’s music and Anjaan’s lyrics was the big song of the last year of the decade. Kader Khan had written a mammoth 16 pages of dialogues based on his own life’s challenges for Big B to deliver in the movie before he performs this song on stage. Amitabh refused to deliver such a long monologue but Kader also refused to shorten the dialogues. Amitabh then sat down with Kader to reason with him but he was brought to tears on hearing Kader’s life journey and pains which inspired the dialogues. He agreed to do the scene with the 16 pages of dialogues before Kishore Kumar sings the drenched in melancholy “O Saathi Re”. The movie and all its songs became superhit but middle cinema continued to rule at the awards as smaller movies “Gol Maal”, “Dada” and “Sargam” would win the Filmfare awards.
1980 - "Dafli Wale Dafli Baja” from “Sargam” sung by Lata and Rafi with Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anand Bakshi’s lyrics became the only song ever to debut and stay at the top of the charts for 25 consecutive weeks till it was officially retired. The movie would be Jaya Pradha's triumphant entry into Bollywood during the days when she couldn’t even speak a single word of Hindi which made her role of a mute in Sargam a perfect Bollywood debut for her. This movie helped Chintu get more single hero movies. Laxmikant Pyarelal won their 6th Filmfare award for “Sargam” and Rafi would return to form as he sang all the songs of this superhit album like he used to sing in the 50s and 60s.
1981 - “Mere Angne Mein” from Laawaris sung by the superstar Amitabh Bachchan and a 14 year old Alka Yagnik with the music of Kalyanji Anandji and Anjaan’s lyrics topped the charts for most of the year. This was one of the most commercial Amitabh voiced tracks of his career. Amitabh himself sang the most popular version of this folk song in which he croons about the benefits of having a Tall, Fat, Dark, Light Skinned or Short wife. The video of the song was so popular as Amitabh appears as the multiple kind of wives he is singing about that the movie got repeated viewings so that the fans could dance again and again to this number with Big B. Umrao Jaan, Ek Dujhe Ke Liye, Love Story and Kudrat would split the Filmfare music awards.
1982 - "Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain” from “Khud-Daar” was a fun duet by Lata and Kishore with Rajesh Roshan’s music and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s lyrics. Amitabh began his career with the movie Saat Hindustani where he and another struggling actor Anwar Ali became close friends. Anwar Ali was Mehmood’s younger brother and Amitabh lived with Anwar in Mehmood’s guest house for the initial few years of his career. Mehmood gave Anwar and Amitabh a break in his movie Bombay and Goa. Rest is history. Anwar Ali’s career didnt kick off like his friend and he was in deep financial troubles in the 80s when he decided to produce a movie with his friend Big B. Since Anwar couldn’t afford the superstar and his usual entourage of Salim-Javed, Prakash Mehra and Manmohan Desai, Amitabh decided to help out his friend by not taking any signing amount and working for a very small payday and brought in his friends Kader Khan and Ravi Tandon to write and direct the movie. The movie was released the month Amitabh got a near fatal injury while shooting for Coolie. Hordes of fans rushed to the hospital to pray for the superstar and also to the cinema hall to make Khud-Daar one of the biggest hits of the year. India sang and danced to the movie’s songs and learned how to say “I love you” in English, Gujrati, Bengali and Punjabi like Kishore does in this song. Filmfare Awards focused on movies like "Namak Halal", “Nikaah" and "Prem Rog" and also finally rewarded R.D. Burman for his illustrious career by finally naming him Best music director for “Sanam Teri Kasam”.
1983 - "Shayad Meri Shaadi” from “Souten” brought a Rajesh Khanna song to the top for the first time in more than 10 years as Kishore and Lata sang to Usha Khanna’s music and Sawan Kumar’s lyrics. The movie lived upto its name as Rajesh Khanna and his leading lady Tina Munim had an affair during the shooting of the movie in Mauritius. This love affair would lead to Dimple’s divorce with Kaka and Tina’s split with Sanjay Dutt. Sawan Kumar made the most of the news of their affair to promote the movie as he leaked pics of the two leads at a wedding function, leading to further rumors of their marriage. Everyone went to the cinema to watch the movie which was creating such giant waves in the lives of its stars making it a good box office year for Kaka, who was rediscovering love, fame and movie success again with movies like "Avtaar" and "Agar Tum Na Hote”. Usha Khanna’s music was very well received by the public making her the first female composer to get a Filmfare nomination. However R.D. Burman’s soulful songs of “Masoom” would rule at Filmfare Awards winning best music director, lyricist and singer awards.
1984 - "Tu Mera Hero Hai” from “Hero” sung by Anuradha Paudwal and Manhar Udhas with Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anand Bakshi’s lyrics ruled at the box office and Geetmala in 83 and 84. Subhash Ghai introduced Jackie Dada and Meenakshi Seshadri to their fans with this romantic love story. This song played a big role in making Jackie an instant star. Meenakshi’s character and most of India fell in love with Jackie Dada during this memorable romantic song. However Filmfare Awards were completely dominated by Bappi Lahiri’s "Sharaabi" especially with Kishore Kumar earning all best singer nominations for the same movie.
1985 - “Sun Sahiba Sun” from Raj Kapoor’s final and boldest movie “Ram Teri Ganga Maili” sung by Lata with Ravindra Jain’s music and Hasrat Jaipuri’s lyrics ruled the charts and awards. Raj Kapoor was initially planning to make RTGM to launch Rishi and Neetu Singh after "Mera Naam Joker”, but the failure of Joker made him change his plan to make a safer movie “Bobby”. The song “Sun Sahiba Sun” was written by Hasrat Jaipuri in the 50s for a RK Film called “Ajanta” which got shelved. Shankar Jaikishan used the melody for the song “I Love you" in “Sangam”. 30 years later RK would bring the melody and the lyrics together to compose the year's most successful song. Ravindra Jain would win the best music director Filmfare Award for the movie but Hasrat Jaipuri would lose the best lyrics award to “Mann Kyo Bahka” from another bold movie named “Utsav”.
1986 - "Yashoda Ka Nandlala” from “Sanjog” sung by Lata with Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anjaan’s lyrics was a surprise track to top the charts. The movie was also a surprise mainstream drama from Jeetendra, right in the middle of his South Indian movie remake spree as he released more than 140 movies in the 80s. This movie featured Jaya Pradha who partnered with Jeetendra in 24 movies. The melancholic track about loss sung by Lata struck a chord with the fans and reached the top of the charts. There was no Filmfare Awards held for 2 years due to the Indo-Pak conflict on the border.
1987 - "Chitthi Aayi Hai” from “Naam” made a star of Manhar’s younger brother Pankaj Udhas who sang this haunting song with music from Laxmikant Pyarelal and Anand Bakshi’s soulful lyrics. BBC Radio worldwide selected “Chitthi Aayi Hai" in the top 100 songs of the millennium. The song evoked such emotions that it revived the careers of Mahesh Bhatt, Sanjay Dutt and kicked off Pankaj Udhas and Paresh Rawal’s careers. Rajendra Kumar made the movie with the intent to revive the failing career of his son Kumar Gaurav, but despite his good performance and critical acclaim, it wouldn’t change the downward trajectory of his career. There was no Filmfare Awards held for 2 years due to the Indo-Pak conflict on the border.
1988 - "Papa Kehte Hain” from “QSQT” announced the arrival of Aamir Khan and Udit Narayan whose infectious vocals raised this song to the top with newbie composers Anand-Milind and the lyrics of the legend Majrooh Sultanpuri. The Masala King of the 70s “Nasir Hussain” handed over the reigns of his kingdom to his son “Mansoor Khan” who wanted to share his fresh take on the age old tragic romantic stories of Romeo and Juliet, Laila Majnu and Heer Ranjha. The movie which gave birth to Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Mansoor Khan, Raj Zutshi, Anand Milind, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, launched T-Series into the stratosphere and kicked off the fad of calling movies with long titles by their spunky acronyms “QSQT”, DDLJ, HAHK, K3G and so on. In this song Aamir is playing the same guitar on stage that his cousin Tariq played in Yaadon Ki Baarat, the 70s blockbuster in which Master Aamir played the role of a young Tariq. The song also had a cameo appearance of his newly wed wife Reena Dutta dancing to her hubby’s debut song. Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Anand-Milind and Udit Narayan all started their careers with Filmfare Awards for QSQT.
1989 - "My Name is Lakhan" from “Ram Lakhan” sung by "Mohammed Aziz” would become Laxmikant Pyarelal’s 5th and Anand Bakshi’s 4th top Geetmala song of the decade. The opening drum beats and the fun “Dhina Dhinaa Dhi Daa, Rum Pum Pum Pum, One Two Ka Four and Four Two Ka One” has become part of Anil Kapoor’s Jhakaas DNA. This is his go to song, his go to dance steps, his go to style and attitude. All of India danced to the beats of this song but the storm known as "Maine Pyar Kiya” swept the filmfare awards.
1990 - "Gori Hai Kalaiyaan” from “Aaj Ka Arjun” was a mega hit from Bappi Lahiri as Shabbir Kumar and Lata sang Anjaan’s lyrics in the surprise Big B hit movie marking a brief return to form after several of his big movies failed to impress at the box office. The years big musical “Aashiqui” would win all Filmfare awards for its music and songs.
1991 - "Dekha Hai Pehli Baar” from the musical romantic film “Saajan” would reign at box office and Filmfare Awards giving Nadeem Shravan and Sameer their first Geetmala top of the pop song voiced by the iconic S.P Balasubrahmanyam and Alka Yagnik. Nadeem Shravan would win their second consecutive Filmfare award for the movie.
1992 - “Maine Pyar Tumhi Se Kiya Hai” from “Phool Aur Kaante” sung by Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Paudwal would reunite the “Aashiqui” singers with their composer Nadeem Shravan and lyricist “Sameer” again for another top of the pop chartbuster. Kumar Sanu, Nadeem Shravan and Sameer would also win at the Filmfare Award but for another movie “Deewana”.
1993 - Binaca Geetmala would announce their last annual chartbuster “Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai” voiced by Alka Yagnik and Ila Arun with Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anand Bakshi’s lyrics from the movie “Khalnayak”. Alka Yagnik would win the Filmfare Award for singing for this song. The movie and song were both engulfed by controversy due to Sanjay Dutt’s arrest and the song’s racy lyrics. Despite facing ban for a short period of time, the song especially Madhuri’s dance performance would return to top the charts and earn its Filmfare Award. The song would also end Binaca Geetmala’s 40 year run of counting down the most famous songs of the week and year for its fans. One of the last gems from the ages of the maestros was finally put to bed as Ameen Sayani bid farewell to his hordes of radio fans.
Binaca Geetmala Top Song of the Year Playlist

"Behno aur Bhaiyo” was the greeting style of the golden voice of Radio legend “Ameen Sayani” as he introduced India to the most popular songs on India’s first Bollywood song countdown called Binaca Geetmala. The Bollywood music chart aired on Radio Ceylon from 1952 to 1988 and from 1989 to 1994 on Vividh Bharti and week after week all of India looked forward to hearing the familiar voice of the legend as he shared the best songs of Bollywood. At the end of each year Binaca Geetmala announced the number 1 most popular song of the year based on record sales and listener club feedback. I want to take this opportunity to share some trivia and mini reviews of the Binaca Geetmala top songs of the year from 1953 to 1993. Let's start with the songs crowned "the top of the pop" by Binaca Geetmala in the evergreen 50s and how they fared against their competition in that year's Filmfare awards.
1953 - "Yeh Zindagi Usi Ki Hai" from the movie “Anarkali" beautifully sung by Lata Mangeshkar with music by C Ramchandra and lyrics by Rajinder Krishan was the first annual top song of the Binaca Geetmala. Basant Prakash was the original composer for the movie and recorded one song with Geeta Bali. However due to a disagreement with the producer, he was replaced by C Ramchandra who brought in Lata to sing all the remaining songs for the movie. “Yeh Zindagi Usi Ki Hai” was the ultimate heartbreak song of that era which Anarkali (played by Bina Rai) sings as she is buried alive behind a wall as a helpless Salim (played by Pradeep Kumar) struggles to reach in time to save his love. C Ramchandra used the help of another music icon Roshan (Grandfather of Hrithik and father of Rajesh and Rakesh Roshan) to collaborate on the composition of the melody of this song. This movie introduced the talented Nasir Hussain to Bollywood who started his career as a writer for this movie and would go on to create the masala film genre with musical extravaganzas like Yaadon Ki Baraat, Hum Kissi Se Kum Nahin and many many more. Even though the song ruled the charts but it lost the first ever Filmfare Award for music direction to Naushad’s iconic “Tu Ganga Ki Mauj” from Baiju Bawra.
1954 - “Jayen To Jayen Kahan” from “Taxi Driver’ sung by Talat Mahmood with music by S.D. Burman and Sahir Ludhianvi’s poetry ruled the charts the following year. This was one of the best songs by the forgotten music Icon Talat Mehmood. His good looks made him an actor in several movies with Nutan and Suraiya but would give up acting to focus on singing. His smooth and velvety vocals were the voice of Dilip Kumar and early Dev Anand. The arrival of Mohammed Rafi and the infusion of rock n roll into Bollywood music in the 60s would sideline Talat Mahmood, who unfortunately literally disappeared from the landscape of modern Bollywood. This brilliant song is drenched with melancholy as Talat’s vocals emotes the pathos of Sahir’s poetry. S.D. Burman won his first Filmfare Award for best music director for this song for “Taxi Driver”. The song was picturized on Dev Anand and a second version sung by Lata Mangeshkar was shot on Kalpana Karthik who Dev Sahib fell in love with and married secretly on the set during a break while shooting “Taxi Driver”.
1955 - “Mera Joota Hai Japani” from the movie "Shree 420” sweetly sung by Mukesh with music by Shankar Jaikishan and Shailendra’s lyrics made Raj Kapoor an Indian Icon and a global star. It’s patriotic theme made it the biggest song of the year in India and the Russians went absolute gaga over this song when RK gave them the highest possible honor of his crown “Sar Par Laal Topi Roosi”. The song has been used in multiple Hollywood movies like Mississippi masala, Gravity and Deadpool. Hemant Kumar’s “Nagin" with it's haunting "Been" melody would win the Filmfare Award for music direction even though Shankar Jaikishan’s soundtrack topped record sales.
1956 - "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Jeena Yahan” from “C.I.D.” was playfully sung by Mohammed Rafi and Geeta Dutt with the music of O.P. Nayyar and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s lyrics. Johnny Walker and Kumkum’s street hustling characters warn their fellow citizens about the fast life of their favorite city in this iconic anthem "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Jeena Yahan, Zara Hatke Zara Bachke, Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan”. Mohammed Rafi was the closest we can get to a true “Method” singer who brilliantly adapted his vocal style to the actors he sang for. He sat with Johnny Walker for a few days before recording the song to observe his mannerisms and modulate his voice to best fit him on screen. He took singing to the next level of the art form. “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” would rule the chart and hearts of India but unfortunately lose at the Filmfare awards to the RK classic “Chori Chori” which was an album full of iconic songs like “Aaja Sanam Madhur Chandni Mein Hum” and “Yeh Raat Bheegi Bheegi”.
1957 - "Zara Saamne Toh Aao Chhaliye” from "Janam Janam Ke Phere” was one of the earliest hit duets by Lata and Rafi with the music of S.N. Tripathi and lyrics by Bharat Vyas. S.N. Tripathi was a forgotten multitalented genius of early Bollywood who composed, sang, dubbed, wrote, acted, produced and directed movies. He exclusively composed music for mythological movies and was best known for being the first to use the “Jai Hind” slogan in a song during the British Raj. This song was picturized on its leads Nirupa Roy and Manhar Desai for the movie “Janam Janam Ke Phere” which was also known as "Sati Anapurna”. This was the first movie directed by Manoo Desai who would revert to his full name of "Manmohan Desai” as he began his long commercially successful career of super hits with his next movie “Chhalia” with Raj Kapoor. His first movie was average and quickly forgotten but he would have a stellar 60s with Shammi Kapoor, an even brighter 70s with Rajesh Khanna before he would direct a string of 7 super hit movies with Big B in the 70s and 80s. O.P. Nayyar’s “Naya Daur” would be the big winner at Filmfare awards that year.
1958 - "Hai Apna Dil Toh Awara” from “Solva Saal” was an amazing haunting song sung by Hemant Kumar with S.D. Burman’s music and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s beautiful lyrics. The song was picturized on Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman and the mouth organ on this song was played by the maestro Dada Burman’s son and future maestro Pancham AKA R.D. Burman. Filmfare awards were dominated that year by the Bimal Roy classic “Madhumati” for which Salil Chowdhury won best music director and the first playback singer award was actually won by Lata Mangeshkar (There was no female singer category) for "Aaja Re Pardesi” and Shailendra won the first award for best lyricist for Yahudi’s “Yeh Mera Deewanapan Hai"
1959 - "Haal Kaisa Hai Janaab Ka” from “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” passionately sung by Kishore Kumar with Asha Bhosle to the music of his guru S.D. Burman and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s lyrics. This is the song during which Kishore and Madhubala fell in love. Madhubala never looked happier and more beautiful than she did in this song and Kishore’s pitch and yodels never sounded better. This playful song ruled the charts but Filmfare awards were taken over by Raj Kapoor’s “Anari” as Shankar Jaikishan won best music director, Mukesh became the first male singer to win for singing and Shailendra would win his second back to back best lyricist award for “Sab Kuch Seekha Humne”.
1960 - "Zindagi Bhar Nai Bhoolegi Wo Barsaat Ki Raat" from the movie “Barsaat Ki Raat" beautifully sung by Mohammed Rafi with music by Roshan and lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi was the decade’s first annual top song of the Binaca Geetmala. The image of Madhubala admiring Bharat Bhushan’s voice as she eagerly listens to this song on radio masterfully depicts the importance of radio and the Geetmala in those days. The film popularized qawwalis, however Rafi’s ultra-romantic version of Sahir’s poetry was a masterpiece. The song was about Madhubala and Bharat Bhushan’s characters chance meeting on a stormy night as Roshan’s brilliant background score channels their internal storm without a single word spoken between the two characters throughout the scene. Bharat Bhushan’s poet translates his experience from that brief encounter into this amazing song. Rafi would win the Filmfare Award that year for another iconic song “Chaudhvin Ka Chand” for which Shakeel Badayuni would get the best lyricist award as Shankar Jaikishan won for best music director for “Dil Apna Preet Parai” which featured Lata’s iconic “Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh”.
1961 - "Teri Pyaari Pyaari Surat Ko” from “Sasural” became Mohammed Rafi's second top chartbuster of the decade with Shankar Jaikishan’s music and Hasrat Jaipuri’s lyrics. Rajendra Kumar had already a few hits under his belt including playing Nargis’s son in Mother India in the 50s, however the 60s saw his actual rise to stardom and “Sasural” was one of the initial blockbusters which earned him the crown of Jubilee Kumar. Kumar’s lead actress in the movie was B Saroja Devi who was called the "Saraswathi of acting” in the Kannada film industry. This would be one of her biggest Hindi movies as Kumar tries to woo her with the flirtatious "Teri Pyaari Pyaari Surat Ko, Kisi Ki Nazar Na Lage, Chashme Budoor”. The song topped the charts and also won Rafi his 2nd consecutive Filmfare Award for singing.
1962 - "Ehsaan Tera Hoga Mujh Par” from “Junglee” became Mohammed Rafi’s 3rd consecutive top of the chart song with another delightful collaboration with Shankar Jaikishan and Hasrat Jaipuri. This song was originally planned as a Mohammed Rafi only song, but the director felts its power and got Lata to sing her version of this classic tune. This was Junglee's romantic anthem and played a big role in shaping Shammi Kapoor’s romantic image as it skyrocketed him to mega-stardom with back to back hits in the 60s. Shankar Jaikishan won best music director for another Shammi Kapoor masterpiece “Professor” while Lata won the best singer award for the haunting “Kahin Deep Jale” from the surprise superhit "Bees Saal Baad” which also earned Shakeel Badayuni his 3rd consecutive Filmfare Award for best lyrics.
1963 - "Jo Wada Kiya Woh Nibhana Padega” from “Taj Mahal” was the amazing Lata - Rafi duet which became one of the most memorable songs of the golden era with the music of Roshan and Sahir Ludhianvi’s masterful lyrics. This song conquered everything, the hearts of Indians, the Geetmala with astronomical sales and Roshan winning his only award for music director along with Sahir Ludhianvi’s first win for Lyrics. Sahir was one of the greatest Urdu poets to write Bollywood songs and he was among the first to tell composers to compose music around his lyrics and demanded that All India Radio also give credit to the songs lyricist when playing the songs. The song featured Pradeep Kumar and Beena Rai who both achieved tremendous success with Taj Mahal but it also became among their last hit movies in lead role. Beena Rai who was married to Prem Nath retired from movies and Pradeep Kumar couldn’t compete with the fresh blood of Shammi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar and even smaller actors like Biswajeet and Joy Mukherjee. He very quickly got sidelined into character actors roles but got immortalized forever as a result of this evergreen romantic gem.
1964 - “Bol Radha Bol” from “Sangam” once again brought the Raj Kapoor - Shankar Jaikishan - Shailendra - Mukesh collaboration to the top of the charts. This was a fun and naughty song as Raj Kapoor with a Gopi-esque feather in his hair teases a sensual Vyjayanthimala in a red swimsuit while swimming in the river. There is an interesting story behind the origin of the song. RK tried multiple times to sign Vyjayanthimala for the movie. After several follow ups, he sent her a telegram asking her “Bol Radha Bol, Sangam Hoga Ke Nahi” to which she replied “Hoga Hoga, Zaroor Hoga”. When RK happily showed her confirmation telegram to Shailendra, the poet immediately sang “Tere Mann Ki Ganga aur Mere Mann Ki Jamuna Ka Bol Radha Bol Sangam Hoga Ke Nahi”. The rest is history. Sangam was one of the biggest blockbusters of Raj Kapoor’s career grossing more than 700 crore rupees (Adjusted for inflation), however on Filmfare night, a small movie named “Dosti” would bring down the Goliath “Sangam” by winning all the best music director, singer and lyricist awards.
1965 - "Jis Dil Mein Basa Tha Pyaar Tera” from the movie “Saheli” sung by Mukesh with the music by Kalyanji Anandji and lyrics by Indeevar topped the charts. The movie featured Pradeep Kumar and Kalpana right before they both disappeared into the oblivion of Bollywood character acting. The movie was directed by Arjun Hingorani before he got super-obsessed with Dharmendra and the letter “K” and made “Kab, Kyon Aur Kahaan”, “Kahani Kismat Ki”, “Khel Khiladi Ka”, "Katilon Ke Katil”, “Karishma Kudrat Ka” and “Kaun Kare Kurbani” with Garam Dharam. Kalyanji Anandji and their assistants Laxmikant Pyarelal collaborated to create this melancholic masterpiece. Ravi’s “Khandaan" would be the big winner sweeping best music director, singer and lyricist awards.
1966 - "Baharon Phool Barsao Mera Mehboob Aaya Hai” from “Suraj” sung by Rafi with Shankar Jaikishan’s music and Hasrat Jaipuri’s romantic lyrics topped the charts in the year when one of India’s brightest Gems “Guide” received tremendous critical acclaim for its songs and music. The movie featured a child artist named Baby Sonia who would grow up to become Neetu Singh AKA Mrs Rishi Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor’s mother. The fans adored the love with which Rajendra Kumar showered his leading actress Vyjayanthimala as he sang this romantic song for his beloved. The song topped the charts and sweeped the Filmfare Award by winning best music director, lyricist and singer. 1967 - "Saawan Ka Mahina Pawan Kare Sor” by Mukesh and Lata was another beloved chartbuster and Filmfare Award winning masterpiece composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal on Anand Bakshi’s lyrics. Dosti was LP’s breakthrough album and earned them their first award after which they returned to assisting Kalyanji Anandji. Milan was the movie which truly established them as a standalone dynamic musical duo and future stars of Indian music. The song also established Anand Bakshi as a lyricist earning him his first of 41 Filmfare nominations and began his 300+ movie collaboration with Laxmikant Pyarelal. The song has a funny and brilliant wordplay between Mukesh and Lata as Sunil’s villager character sings the word “Sor” which Nutan’s educated pupil sings “Shor” and he responds “Shor Nahi Sor, Sor”. This melodious masterpiece is the heart and soul of the movie which would earn LP their 2nd Filmfare award after Dosti while the lyrics award would go to the patriotic masterpiece “Mere Desh Ki Dharti” sung beautifully by Mahendra Kapoor. Mahendra would also win best male singer for Hamraaz’s “Neele Gagan Ke Tale”. Lata’s sister Asha Bhosle would win her first Filmfare Award for Dus Lakh’s “Garibon Ki Suno” in the first award best female singer award.
1968 - "Dil Vil Pyar Vyar Main Kya Jaanu Re” from “Shagird” sung by Lata Mangeshkar with Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s lyrics would become the biggest hit of the year. The song was picturized on Saira Bano along with Joy Mukherjee and played a critical role in making the movie a superhit. The song and movie were nowhere to be seen on award night as Shankar Jaikishan’s Shammi Kapoor blockbuster “Brahmachari” would win best director, male singer and a posthumous lyricist award for Shailendra. Asha Bhosle would win her consecutive second Best female singer Filmfare award for Shikhar’s "Parde Men Rahne Do”.
1969 - "Kaise Rahoon Chup Ki Maine Pi Hi Kya Hai” from “Intaqam” was sung by Lata with LP’s music and Rajendra Krishan’s lyrics. So Laxmikant Pyarelal ended the 60s at the top of the charts for 3 consecutive years and signaled a change of guards from the maestros of the golden era to the masters of the 70s masala. Lata sang the song with such perfection that her slurring delivery convinced fans that the nightingale must have been under the influence while recording the song. Lata sounded more drunk than Sadhana appeared on screen and earned her a 17th Filmfare nomination for singing. She would lose to herself for Jeene Ki Raah’s "Aap Mujhe Achhe Lagne Lage”.
1970 - "Bindiya Chamkegi Choodi Khankegi" from the movie “Do Raaste” was full of spunk and energy for the new decade with Lata singing Anand Bakshi’s playful lyrics to Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music. The 70s began with the first superhit collaboration of iconic Kaka - Mumu Jodi as Mumtaz rose from a B Grade movie actress to the first superstar’s leading lady. This was Mumtaz’s 60th movie in the industry and the one that finally made the once child artist turned “stunt film heroine" into a bonafide star and inspiration for millions of struggling artists starting at the bottom of the Bollywood food chain. This was Rajesh Khanna’s 270 Crore (Adjusted for inflation) grossing blockbuster and number 5 in his 17 movie consecutive hit spree. With this movie he would solidify his superstardom and continue delivering hit after hit. The success of this movie would start his hit pairing with Mumtaz in 10 iconic movies. ”Bindiya Chamkegi” ruled the pop charts, while Shankar Jaikishan’s “Pehchan” and “Jahan Pyar Mile” would give the legends the edge at Filmfare Awards over LP in the early days of the decade.
1971 - "Zindagi Ek Safar Hai Suhana” from Andaz was sung with such passion and energy by Kishore and Asha that this Shankar Jaikishan and Hasrat Jaipuri classic was enough to make the movie a box office success. The movie was released at the height of Rajesh Khanna’s superstardom with his face right in the center of the poster, his name in bold above all other actors and this song picturized on him was in every trailer and promo, despite the fact that Kaka only had a 10 minute cameo including the song in the movie. The lead actor of the movie was Shammi Kapoor whose 60s box office charm and magic had vanished. A first time director named “Ramesh Sippy” always wanted to make his debut with Shammi, so when the dancing star of the 60s agreed to take on a more mature role in “Andaz” a new star director was born. Sippy would go on to make the biggest movie of all time, "Sholay” and follow it with masterpieces like “Shaan”, “Shakti” and Saagar”. Shammi got one of his last superhits as a lead actor but everyone knew that the reason for the movie’s success was fans flocking to the cinema to watch Kaka ride a bike as he sang “Zindagi Ek Safar Hai Suhana”. Hasrat Jaipuri would win the best lyrics Filmfare Award for the song. Shankar Jaikishan would also dominate at the awards again but it would be Raj Kapoor’s “Mera Naam Joker” which would earn them yet another best music director and Manna Dey his only filmfare award.
1972 - “Dum Maro Dum” from “Hare Rama Hare Krishna” sung by Asha Bhosle would establish R.D. Burman’s music as the new wave sound of the decade and etch Anand Bakshi’s lyrics into the annals of Bollywood’s pop music history. Asha Bhosle would win the Filmfare award for this brilliant psychedelic number which Dev Anand wasn’t too interested to include in his movie. Pancham and Anand Bakshi were so sure about its potential that they would not hear “No” from the movie’s legendary writer - actor - producer - director. They stood their ground and India swayed to the hypnotic melody, sounds and vocals of the song. Dev Sahib would get his first directorial super hit, Pancham would become the go to composer for the fresh pop sound and India would get their first glimpse of the sensual Zeenat Aman.
1973 - "Yaari Hai Imaan Mera, Yaar Meri Zindagi” and “Zanzeer” would change Bollywood forever as it would announce the beginning of the era of a angry young man. Manna Dey’s exceptional vocals would immortalize Gulshan Bawra’s ode to friendship and earn Bawra the best lyricist award. Zanzeer was a Dharmendra vehicle which he couldn’t make because of a really busy schedule. So the director Prakash Mehra offered it to Dev Anand, who didnt like the "no smile, no song and all business" cop character and declined the movie. Raj Kumar who was a cop before joining films liked the script but his dislike for Prakash Mehra's looks made it impossible to cast him. Raj Kumar is known to have made the following statements to Mehra, “Hum Yeh Film Karenge, Aur Zaroor Karenge, Lekin Humhe Set Par Tumhara Yeh Manhoos Chehra Nahin Dikhna Chahiye” and its amazing follow up “Humhe Yeh Kahani Pasand Hai, Bahut Pasand Hai, Lekin Tumhare Baalo Se Aati Hui Yeh Ghatiya Tel Ki Badboo Ki Wajah Se ,Hum Yeh Film Nahin Banayenge”. Truly hilarious. Mehra would also get rejected by Dilip Kumar, after which Pran would tell him to watch a movie called “Bombay to Goa” with a lanky young actor called Amitabh Bachchan. Rest is history. Big B would get crowned the next superstar with Zanjeer and it would become his first hit movie with future wife Jaya, Prakash Mehra found his muse and leading man of 7 blockbusters, Salim Javed would become the genius writing duo for the ages, Pran would solidify himself as the highest paid “character” actor and Ajit’s iconic character “Teja” would say “ Lilly don't be silly”. Now this is how icons are born.
1974 - "Mera Jeevan Kora Kagaz Kora Hi Reh Gaya” from “Kora Kagaz” sung magnificently by Kishore Kumar with Kalyanji Anandji’s music and M.G. Hashmat’s lyrics. The movie was centered around Jaya’s character and it required a middle aged actor to play the role of her estranged husband. None of the middle aged actors wanted to change their image and play the role against Jaya, Sanjeev Kumar was unavailable and all the newer actors were too young for the role. That is how the legendary director of Guide, Jewel Thief, Johny Mera Naam and several other masterpieces and Dev Anand’s brother, Goldie Anand got roped into the play the role. The movie would become his first super hit as a lead actor. Kishore's epic song “Kora Kagaz” was beautifully picturized on Jaya. Kalyanji Anandji would win best music director award for the short 3 song soundtrack of “Kora Kagaz”, but Mahendra Kapoor and Santosh Anand would win best singer and lyrics for Roti Kapda Aur Makaan.
1975 - "Baaki Kuchh Bacha To Mahangai Maar Gayee” from “Roti Kapda Aur Makaan” would top the charts the following year after RKAP had already won Filmfare year awards for the previous year. Laxmikant Pyarelal’s composition of Varma Malik’s lyrics about India’s socio-economic condition, sung by Lata, Mukesh, Jaani Babu Qawwal and Narendra Chanchal rang true and connected with the public especially the youth during an unemployment crisis. The movie had already completed its Filmfare award cycle even though the song stayed top of mind and charts, other movies like Rajesh Roshan’s debut “Julie”, Kishore Kumar’s “Amanush” and Sulakshana Pandit’s “Sankalp” would win the awards.
1976 - "Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein Khayaal Aata Hai” from the iconic “Kabhi Kabhie” was an exceptional composition by Khayyam of Sahir Ludhianvi’s iconic poetry given voice by Mukesh and Lata. The movie and the song had such heart and soul that it conquered the box office, the charts and the awards as it won for best music director, lyricist and male singer. Mukesh had unfortunately passed away on his US tour and his award was accepted posthumously. Mukesh was another maestro whose sweet voice was taken away too soon at the age of 53. He left for his heavenly abode when he was still at the top of his game in a year when he received 3 Filmfare nominations and songs. Mukesh had recorded songs for other movies yet to be released for which he would receive 2 more nominations in the next two years. Such was the immortality of his voice and music. A true icon and legend.
1977 - "Husn Haazir Hai Mohabbat Ki Sazaa Paane Ko” from “Laila Majnu” was yet another Sahir Ludhianvi masterpiece in Urdu poetry which was brought to life by Madan Mohan through the voice of Lata Mangeshkar. The maestro Madan Mohan had already passed away in 1975, so he never saw the success of his music for Laila Majnu. After his passing away, the producer H.S. Rawail reached out to the young and upcoming Rajesh Roshan to compose the remaining songs for the movie, however Rajesh refused to step into the shoes of the maestro as he didnt consider himself worthy enough of the honor. S.D. Burman’s erstwhile assistant and music composer Jaidev would step in to complete the work of the maestro. Rishi played Majnu to the debutant Ranjeeta’s Laila in this hit love story, however there was no love lost on the set as Rishi would refuse to promote her. Ranjeeta had already signed a few movies which would also become box office hits, however mainstream actors would start stepping away from working with her in movies forcing her to get confined to smaller roles and B grade movies. Surprisingly the movie would also be completely absent from the Filmfare awards which would be dominated by "Amar Akbar Anthony", "Hum Kissi Se Kum Nahin” and the invasion of middle cinema movies like “Manthan”, “Gharonda”, “Bhumica” and “Swami”.
1978 - "Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se, Maine Dekha Jo” from "Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se” sung by Hemlata with lyrics and music by Ravindra Jain became the next year's biggest hit. This was a heartbreaking movie from Rajshri starring Ranjeeta and Sachin which did well at the box office but would get crushed by Big B's “Don” and Raj Kapoor’s “Satyam Shivam Sundaram” on Filmfare Awards night.
1979 - "O Saathi Re” from “Muqaddar Ka Sikandar” sung by Kishore Kumar with Kalyanji Anandji’s music and Anjaan’s lyrics was the big song of the last year of the decade. Kader Khan had written a mammoth 16 pages of dialogues based on his own life’s challenges for Big B to deliver in the movie before he performs this song on stage. Amitabh refused to deliver such a long monologue but Kader also refused to shorten the dialogues. Amitabh then sat down with Kader to reason with him but he was brought to tears on hearing Kader’s life journey and pains which inspired the dialogues. He agreed to do the scene with the 16 pages of dialogues before Kishore Kumar sings the drenched in melancholy “O Saathi Re”. The movie and all its songs became superhit but middle cinema continued to rule at the awards as smaller movies “Gol Maal”, “Dada” and “Sargam” would win the Filmfare awards.
1980 - "Dafli Wale Dafli Baja” from “Sargam” sung by Lata and Rafi with Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anand Bakshi’s lyrics became the only song ever to debut and stay at the top of the charts for 25 consecutive weeks till it was officially retired. The movie would be Jaya Pradha's triumphant entry into Bollywood during the days when she couldn’t even speak a single word of Hindi which made her role of a mute in Sargam a perfect Bollywood debut for her. This movie helped Chintu get more single hero movies. Laxmikant Pyarelal won their 6th Filmfare award for “Sargam” and Rafi would return to form as he sang all the songs of this superhit album like he used to sing in the 50s and 60s.
1981 - “Mere Angne Mein” from Laawaris sung by the superstar Amitabh Bachchan and a 14 year old Alka Yagnik with the music of Kalyanji Anandji and Anjaan’s lyrics topped the charts for most of the year. This was one of the most commercial Amitabh voiced tracks of his career. Amitabh himself sang the most popular version of this folk song in which he croons about the benefits of having a Tall, Fat, Dark, Light Skinned or Short wife. The video of the song was so popular as Amitabh appears as the multiple kind of wives he is singing about that the movie got repeated viewings so that the fans could dance again and again to this number with Big B. Umrao Jaan, Ek Dujhe Ke Liye, Love Story and Kudrat would split the Filmfare music awards.
1982 - "Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain” from “Khud-Daar” was a fun duet by Lata and Kishore with Rajesh Roshan’s music and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s lyrics. Amitabh began his career with the movie Saat Hindustani where he and another struggling actor Anwar Ali became close friends. Anwar Ali was Mehmood’s younger brother and Amitabh lived with Anwar in Mehmood’s guest house for the initial few years of his career. Mehmood gave Anwar and Amitabh a break in his movie Bombay and Goa. Rest is history. Anwar Ali’s career didnt kick off like his friend and he was in deep financial troubles in the 80s when he decided to produce a movie with his friend Big B. Since Anwar couldn’t afford the superstar and his usual entourage of Salim-Javed, Prakash Mehra and Manmohan Desai, Amitabh decided to help out his friend by not taking any signing amount and working for a very small payday and brought in his friends Kader Khan and Ravi Tandon to write and direct the movie. The movie was released the month Amitabh got a near fatal injury while shooting for Coolie. Hordes of fans rushed to the hospital to pray for the superstar and also to the cinema hall to make Khud-Daar one of the biggest hits of the year. India sang and danced to the movie’s songs and learned how to say “I love you” in English, Gujrati, Bengali and Punjabi like Kishore does in this song. Filmfare Awards focused on movies like "Namak Halal", “Nikaah" and "Prem Rog" and also finally rewarded R.D. Burman for his illustrious career by finally naming him Best music director for “Sanam Teri Kasam”.
1983 - "Shayad Meri Shaadi” from “Souten” brought a Rajesh Khanna song to the top for the first time in more than 10 years as Kishore and Lata sang to Usha Khanna’s music and Sawan Kumar’s lyrics. The movie lived upto its name as Rajesh Khanna and his leading lady Tina Munim had an affair during the shooting of the movie in Mauritius. This love affair would lead to Dimple’s divorce with Kaka and Tina’s split with Sanjay Dutt. Sawan Kumar made the most of the news of their affair to promote the movie as he leaked pics of the two leads at a wedding function, leading to further rumors of their marriage. Everyone went to the cinema to watch the movie which was creating such giant waves in the lives of its stars making it a good box office year for Kaka, who was rediscovering love, fame and movie success again with movies like "Avtaar" and "Agar Tum Na Hote”. Usha Khanna’s music was very well received by the public making her the first female composer to get a Filmfare nomination. However R.D. Burman’s soulful songs of “Masoom” would rule at Filmfare Awards winning best music director, lyricist and singer awards.
1984 - "Tu Mera Hero Hai” from “Hero” sung by Anuradha Paudwal and Manhar Udhas with Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anand Bakshi’s lyrics ruled at the box office and Geetmala in 83 and 84. Subhash Ghai introduced Jackie Dada and Meenakshi Seshadri to their fans with this romantic love story. This song played a big role in making Jackie an instant star. Meenakshi’s character and most of India fell in love with Jackie Dada during this memorable romantic song. However Filmfare Awards were completely dominated by Bappi Lahiri’s "Sharaabi" especially with Kishore Kumar earning all best singer nominations for the same movie.
1985 - “Sun Sahiba Sun” from Raj Kapoor’s final and boldest movie “Ram Teri Ganga Maili” sung by Lata with Ravindra Jain’s music and Hasrat Jaipuri’s lyrics ruled the charts and awards. Raj Kapoor was initially planning to make RTGM to launch Rishi and Neetu Singh after "Mera Naam Joker”, but the failure of Joker made him change his plan to make a safer movie “Bobby”. The song “Sun Sahiba Sun” was written by Hasrat Jaipuri in the 50s for a RK Film called “Ajanta” which got shelved. Shankar Jaikishan used the melody for the song “I Love you" in “Sangam”. 30 years later RK would bring the melody and the lyrics together to compose the year's most successful song. Ravindra Jain would win the best music director Filmfare Award for the movie but Hasrat Jaipuri would lose the best lyrics award to “Mann Kyo Bahka” from another bold movie named “Utsav”.
1986 - "Yashoda Ka Nandlala” from “Sanjog” sung by Lata with Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anjaan’s lyrics was a surprise track to top the charts. The movie was also a surprise mainstream drama from Jeetendra, right in the middle of his South Indian movie remake spree as he released more than 140 movies in the 80s. This movie featured Jaya Pradha who partnered with Jeetendra in 24 movies. The melancholic track about loss sung by Lata struck a chord with the fans and reached the top of the charts. There was no Filmfare Awards held for 2 years due to the Indo-Pak conflict on the border.
1987 - "Chitthi Aayi Hai” from “Naam” made a star of Manhar’s younger brother Pankaj Udhas who sang this haunting song with music from Laxmikant Pyarelal and Anand Bakshi’s soulful lyrics. BBC Radio worldwide selected “Chitthi Aayi Hai" in the top 100 songs of the millennium. The song evoked such emotions that it revived the careers of Mahesh Bhatt, Sanjay Dutt and kicked off Pankaj Udhas and Paresh Rawal’s careers. Rajendra Kumar made the movie with the intent to revive the failing career of his son Kumar Gaurav, but despite his good performance and critical acclaim, it wouldn’t change the downward trajectory of his career. There was no Filmfare Awards held for 2 years due to the Indo-Pak conflict on the border.
1988 - "Papa Kehte Hain” from “QSQT” announced the arrival of Aamir Khan and Udit Narayan whose infectious vocals raised this song to the top with newbie composers Anand-Milind and the lyrics of the legend Majrooh Sultanpuri. The Masala King of the 70s “Nasir Hussain” handed over the reigns of his kingdom to his son “Mansoor Khan” who wanted to share his fresh take on the age old tragic romantic stories of Romeo and Juliet, Laila Majnu and Heer Ranjha. The movie which gave birth to Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Mansoor Khan, Raj Zutshi, Anand Milind, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, launched T-Series into the stratosphere and kicked off the fad of calling movies with long titles by their spunky acronyms “QSQT”, DDLJ, HAHK, K3G and so on. In this song Aamir is playing the same guitar on stage that his cousin Tariq played in Yaadon Ki Baarat, the 70s blockbuster in which Master Aamir played the role of a young Tariq. The song also had a cameo appearance of his newly wed wife Reena Dutta dancing to her hubby’s debut song. Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Anand-Milind and Udit Narayan all started their careers with Filmfare Awards for QSQT.
1989 - "My Name is Lakhan" from “Ram Lakhan” sung by "Mohammed Aziz” would become Laxmikant Pyarelal’s 5th and Anand Bakshi’s 4th top Geetmala song of the decade. The opening drum beats and the fun “Dhina Dhinaa Dhi Daa, Rum Pum Pum Pum, One Two Ka Four and Four Two Ka One” has become part of Anil Kapoor’s Jhakaas DNA. This is his go to song, his go to dance steps, his go to style and attitude. All of India danced to the beats of this song but the storm known as "Maine Pyar Kiya” swept the filmfare awards.
1990 - "Gori Hai Kalaiyaan” from “Aaj Ka Arjun” was a mega hit from Bappi Lahiri as Shabbir Kumar and Lata sang Anjaan’s lyrics in the surprise Big B hit movie marking a brief return to form after several of his big movies failed to impress at the box office. The years big musical “Aashiqui” would win all Filmfare awards for its music and songs.
1991 - "Dekha Hai Pehli Baar” from the musical romantic film “Saajan” would reign at box office and Filmfare Awards giving Nadeem Shravan and Sameer their first Geetmala top of the pop song voiced by the iconic S.P Balasubrahmanyam and Alka Yagnik. Nadeem Shravan would win their second consecutive Filmfare award for the movie.
1992 - “Maine Pyar Tumhi Se Kiya Hai” from “Phool Aur Kaante” sung by Kumar Sanu and Anuradha Paudwal would reunite the “Aashiqui” singers with their composer Nadeem Shravan and lyricist “Sameer” again for another top of the pop chartbuster. Kumar Sanu, Nadeem Shravan and Sameer would also win at the Filmfare Award but for another movie “Deewana”.
1993 - Binaca Geetmala would announce their last annual chartbuster “Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai” voiced by Alka Yagnik and Ila Arun with Laxmikant Pyarelal’s music and Anand Bakshi’s lyrics from the movie “Khalnayak”. Alka Yagnik would win the Filmfare Award for singing for this song. The movie and song were both engulfed by controversy due to Sanjay Dutt’s arrest and the song’s racy lyrics. Despite facing ban for a short period of time, the song especially Madhuri’s dance performance would return to top the charts and earn its Filmfare Award. The song would also end Binaca Geetmala’s 40 year run of counting down the most famous songs of the week and year for its fans. One of the last gems from the ages of the maestros was finally put to bed as Ameen Sayani bid farewell to his hordes of radio fans.

Hey all,I am fairly new to TCG, within the last 6 months, but I've picked up on it fairly well, but have really only had the opportunity to play online. With that being said, I have played around 1,500 matches in the last 6 months due to that platform's availability, so it's allowed me to get what seems to be a solid understanding of the mechanics of the game, especially given that it shares important mechanics with Texas Hold-Em, in terms of the use of outs and the basic idea of LEGAL card-counting and knowing what cards you still have available to you in your deck to get what you need to get to win. With that being said, I am having a hard time understand why I am seeing so many Charizard Ex decks online right now, it's a cool card and a very capable one with Infernal Reign, but I strongly prefer to use the non-rule box Charizard that features the Burn Brightly ability.
This guy does his damage by sitting on the bench and giving you 2-4-1 on fire energy, you can literally use him to do some nasty energy acceleration on some otherwise meh fire type cards:
- Torkoal (Coinflip: 80 damage for every heads - one flip for each fire energy attached with Concentrated Fire, you basically can one hit KO any Pokemon in the game by turn two or three, maybe earlier with Magma Basin other some other accelerators that are out there.
- Heatmor: Exciting Flame does a pedestrian 90 damage with two fire energy and one colorless. However, if you have three additional energies attached (colorless), then you can do an additional 180 damage to any benched Pokemon, which presents the rare opportunity to snag a double KO in many situations. Since you have Zard's 2-4-1 energy acceleration, you literally just need three fire energies attached to get this done
.- Entei has a energy-dependent damage attack.- You can use this Zard to speed up your energy acceleration for big results when you have him working with Arceus VSTAR's Trinity Nova. Blissey V's 30 damage per energy jumps to 60 per energy for every fire energy attached, Wyrdeer's 40 damage per energy goes to 80, and since all of these Pokemon fall as colorless, they work very well with this deck, really almost any deck for that matter
I'm not really trying to drag the dark Zard EX down, but hell, if you could have this Zard on the field and then have Zard EX move into the active, Infernal Reign goes from strong to ridiculous, Zard EX is doing 180 damage for one fire energy, so many other possibilities. I just don't see why people are not utilizing this strategy since they literally are already doing all the evolutionary work to get there. Zard EX is an effective Pokemon, but when I execute this strategy correctly with this deck, I probably win a solid 90% if not more. Am I missing something, or am I right on this? I just want to make sure I am analyzing this game correctly, this Charizard centered strategy is easily my strongest deck as of now, but I see so many Zard EX decks coming across that I feel like I must be missing something. It even allows you to use Arcanine in there as well, and could make the energy costs for a Charizard V become much more reasonable. I've attached my deck list because I would love some feedback so I can get a concept for what I am doing right or wrong, some things that go through my mind when I built this deck:- I put a premium on getting the pokemon I need in my hand and evolving (obviously that's the whole point of this deck) that's why there's so many VIP Pass, Rare Candy, Mesagoza, etc, etc. I'm sure that I might be overdoing it but I really do not want to get fucked by a bad shuffle. But I am open to feedback on a better way to do this, that's why I am here!
- Because I have four Rare Candy and a variety of other ways to access those Rare Candy and my Zards and Charmanders, I didn't see the need for Charmeleon. Am I right on this? That's always been a nagging question for me, although so far I haven't had too many issues getting the cards out to evolve my Zard.
- I do like this deck because I can use Path to the Peak (and I am thinking about putting one or two more copies in there) without an issues, as my Zard isn't affected by Path to the Peak, but the EX/Tera Zard is. I know that Wyrdeer, Arceus VSTAR, Radiant Charizard, would run into an issue in my deck with PTTP, but as long as it's timed right, I don't think it will be a big problem. My question is should I put one or two more Path to the Peak in there, and what would you replace?
- Are there any other supporter cards or just any other cards in general that you would suggest go well with this deck?Thanks for the feedback you provide, sorry about the novel, I just am having a blast playing this and really enjoying the level of thought that needs to be put into this game, I never imagined I would be into playing Pokemon cards, but there was a point before I met my husband where I never thought I would be into anything related to Pokemon as well. Here we are!
Deck List:
Pokémon: 15 1 Arcanine ex SVI 32 1 Arceus V PR-SW 306 1 Arceus VSTAR PR-SW 307 1 Blissey V CRE 119 1 Torkoal SVI 35 1 Delphox V LOR 27 1 Growlithe SVI 31 2 Charmander PGO 8 1 Entei OBF 30 1 Heatmor FST 41 1 Entei V BRS 22 1 Simisear V BRS 27 2 Charizard PGO 10 1 Radiant Charizard PGO 11 1 Wyrdeer V ASR 134 Trainer: 14 1 Magma Basin BRS 144 1 Mesagoza SVI 178 PH 2 Jacq SVI 175 2 Energy Search SVI 172 2 Arezu LOR 153 1 Artazon PAL 171 4 Battle VIP Pass FST 225 1 Adventurer's Discovery FST 224 2 Boss's Orders PAL 172 1 Peonia CRE 149 1 Geeta OBF 188 1 Lady FLI 109 2 Switch SVI 194 4 Rare Candy SVI 191 Energy: 2 16 Basic {R} Energy Energy 10 2 Double Turbo Energy BRS 151 Total Cards: 60

I was on Kashmere Gate metro and a man came up to me decently dressed said he lost His wallet and he needs 50rs .
I said give me one reason that it is not a scam ? You have also phone , I looked on his pocket and phone was big in size . He started showing his bank account with desperation . Bhai bahot respectfully baat kar raha tha aur mein itne mein pighal gaya I said I have 30rs change and I will give you . With a quotable of Geeta “ mere haath mein Karm karna hai ab galat hai ya Sahi mein nahi keh sakta “ .
But ab lag raha scam because uske phone mein internet tha kyunki paytm chala liya tha bank account dikhane ke liye to uspe calling balance bhi hai . To apne kisi dost / relative ko call kar sakta tha .
But nvm ab kya hi kar sakte hai .

Was pretty excited... Got 3 packs because the Charizards I've been seeing on this sub are amazing. Wanted to try for my own! Here are my pulls.

Was pretty excited to get a Charizard! No idea if anything is worth more than sentimental value. Loved the rush of opening packs again though!

Not to bad I think (though no 3 Zards in 1 go like others have done xD)

 Kalyug 

Kalyug toh hai manavta ka aandhkar, paap karte ab sabhi chor kar pooja path. Manushya me bhara swarth aur irshya bhav, ghamand hai dimaag me jaise angad ka paav.
Main hi hu wajah log sabhi se lad rahe, dusro ko kar dukhi swayam sukhi rahe, Na maan me koi bhawna na hai bhagwaane me aastha, swayam ke swarth ke liye chune koi bhi ratsa.
Ha aastha… sabhi ke maan se mit chuki, bhagwaan ko na mante phir bhi usse mangte, khud hi galti kar bhagwan pe hi dosh dalte Ye dalte…
Manushya kar rahe hai bas lagatar paap, na hi soche punya ka na hi kare pachyataap. Laalach me ha doob gaye aaj sare, karte din bhar paap jitne aakash me sitare.
Manushya ji raha hai kewal ek hi ab dvesh me, Mere paas uske jaise na vesh hai na tej hai. Andhe ho gaye hai sab laalach ke karan, paap karte sab karke sadhu vesh dharan.
Sadhu vesh dharan kar ravan ne kiya paap, kiya tha nari ka apahran bin soche koi anjaam, us mahaveer yoddha ko bhi phir kisi ne maar diya, us stri ke pati ne hi phir uska sath tyaag diya.
Ban rahe hain sabhi ab ravan aur kans, na pariwar ki parwah hai, na hi devesh granha ka ant, kitno ko hi maar kar ye dhong karte swatantra. Ha swatantra…
Kahte ye log swatantrata gandhi ne dilwaye, toh batao mujhe ki bhagat singh jaise vero ko fashi kyu aaye. Gandhi ne kara tha souda taki uska hi kewal naam rahe, baki sabhi vero ka kewal kikabo me naam mile.
log bhi the woh murkh jo ki baat unhone maan liya, ek safed jhoot ko bhi sacha kissa maan liya, agar ahinsha ke karan hi mili hoti ye azadi toh log khushi se rahte, kyu hoti desh me bambari…
Ha mai hi hu woh bramha, jisne hai racha ye brahmand, mai hi hu woh vishnu , jo sambhale ye pura sansaar, mai hi hu woh shiv, jise karna hai iska narsanhar, mai wahi bhagwaan hu jiski kalpana ko kahte tum sansar.
Mai hi geeta ka saar hu, mai hi samay ka bhaar hu, Maine hi hai quraan likhi, maine hi woh geeta hai kahi Mai hi hu woh narsimha jisne hiranyakashap ko mara tha, mai hi hu woh ram jisne ravan ko haraya tha, mai hi woh kalki hu jo bhavish me aane wala hai, tu punya apne jod le kyuki koi na bachne wala hai.
Mai hi ginta paap tere aur mai hi ginta punya, khud ko tu shudhar le isse pahle lu viraat roop, hai mera swaroop tere paapo se bhi kai bada, usse hi dekh kar arjun tha kaap pada.
laalach ko apne man se jaldi se tu de hata, kaal hai mera ek hath aur dusra tujhpe pada, deta tujhe sab kuch jo bhi tu hai chahta, phir bhi man tera na bhare aur bharta ghara tu paap ka, par galti shayad meri hai jo maine banaya sharir ye maat sa….
Ha mitti se hai tu bana usme hi phir mil jana hai, phir itna kyu karta paap jab mere paas hi aana hai, mai dukhi hu ki tu meri hi hai ek kalpana, mere gyaan ko manta tu kewal ek swapn sa.
Maine hi banaya hai ye jiwaan mrityu ka khela, ye khel chalta jaise, samay ka koi ghera, mai hi hu savera aur mai hi raat ka andhera, aur tu kahta hai ki mai kewal mandir me rahta.
Mai aarambh hu mai ant bhi, mai hi hu anant bhi, mai hi jiwan ka aashu hu mai hi mrityu ka shankh bhi. Mai kisi ka allah hu toh mai hi kisi ka bhagwaan, Maine hi diya tha buddh ko woh gyaan, mai hi wapaas louta tha shuli par chadh kar mahan, mai hi hu woh nanak jisne failaya tha gyaan, mai hi hu woh bhagwaan jisne diya tumne ye sansaar.
Mai anek nahi mai ek hu tere liye toh fake hu, ye nakli bate kar tu aur mai tera mrityu sandesh hu. Jab tu aayega mere paas toh bhul jayega sare paap, sarvanash hoga paap ka, bas hath tu aage badha, mai hu khada tere saye me, har kan-kan me har maye me.
Mai hi hu kalyug aur mai hi hu kaal bhi, main hi jeevan ka kaal hu aur main hi jiwankaal bhi, mai hi hu mrityu aur main hi jeevan ka saar bhi, Main dharm me bhagwan hu aur main hi hu vigyan bhi.

Toh bhai log maine ek gaana likha hai aur ye mera 1st hai, toh agar tum lag bata sako ki ye kaisa hai zarur batana. Gaane ka naam hai "Mai kon hu"
Mai kon hu
Ye kaal hai manavta ka aandhkar, paap karte ab sabhi chor kar pooja path. Manushya me bhara swarth aur irshya bhav, ghamand hai dimaag me jaise angad ka paav.
Main hi hu wajah log sabhi se lad rahe, dusro ko kar dukhi swayam sukhi rahe, Na maan me koi bhawna na hai bhagwaan me aastha, swayam ke swarth ke liye chune koi bhi ratsa.
Ha aastha… sabhi ke maan se mit chuki, bhagwaan ko na mante phir bhi usse mangte, khud hi galti kar bhagwan pe dosh dalte sabhi dalte...
Manushya kar rahe hai bas lagatar paap, na hi soche punya ka na hi kare pachyataap. Laalach me doob gaye hai aaj sare, karte din bhar paap jitne aakash me sitare.
Manushya ji raha hai kewal ek hi ab dvesh me, Mere paas uske jaise na vesh hai na tej hai. Andhe ho gaye hai sab laalach ke karan, paap karte sab karke sadhu vesh dharan.
Sadhu vesh dharan kar ravan ne kiya paap, kiya tha nari ka apahran bin soche koi anjaam, us mahaveer yoddha ko bhi phir kisi ne maar diya, us stri ke pati ne hi phir uska sath tyaag diya.
Ban rahe hain sabhi ab duryodhan aur kans, na pariwar ki parwah hai, na hi devesh granha ka ant, kitno ko hi maar kar ye dhong karte swatantra. Ha swatantra…
Kahte ye log swatantrata gandhi ne dilwaye, toh batao mujhe ki bhagat singh jaise vero ko fashi kyu aaye. Gandhi ne kara tha souda taki uska hi kewal naam rahe, baki sabhi vero ka kewal kikabo me naam mile.
log bhi the woh murkh jo ki baat unhone maan liya, ek safed jhoot ko bhi sacha kissa maan liya, agar ahinsha ke karan hi mili hoti ye azadi toh log khushi se rahte, kyu hoti desh me bambari…
Ha mai hi hu woh bramha, jisne hai racha ye brahmand, mai hi hu woh vishnu , jo sambhale ye pura sansaar, mai hi hu woh shiv, jise karna hai iska narsanhar, mai wahi hu bhagwaan jiski kalpana ko kahte tum sansar.
Mai hi geeta ka saar hu, mai hi samay ka bhaar hu, Maine hi hai quraan likhi, maine hi woh geeta hai kahi. Mai hi hu woh narsimha jisne hiranyakashap ko mara tha, mai hi hu woh ram jisne ravan ko haraya tha, mai hi woh kalki hu jo bhavish me aane wala hai, tu punya apne jod le kyuki koi na bachne wala hai.
Mai hi ginta paap tere aur mai hi ginta punya, khud ko tu shudhar le isse pahle lu viraat roop, hai mera swaroop tere paapo se bhi kai bada, usse hi dekh kar arjun tha kaap pada.
laalach ko apne man se jaldi se tu de hata, kaal hai mera ek hath aur dusra tujhpe pada, deta tujhe sab kuch jo bhi tu hai chahta, phir bhi man tera na bhare aur bharta ghara tu paap ka, par galti shayad meri hai jo maine banaya sharir ye maat sa….
Ha mitti se hai tu bana usme hi phir mil jana hai, phir itna kyu karta paap jab mere paas hi aana hai, mai dukhi hu ki tu meri hi hai ek kalpana, mere gyaan ko manta tu kewal ek swapn sa.
Maine hi banaya hai ye jiwaan mrityu ka khela, ye khel chalta jaise, samay ka koi ghera, mai hi hu savera aur mai hi raat ka andhera, aur tu kahta hai ki mai kewal mandir me hu rahta.
Mai aarambh hu mai ant bhi, mai hi hu anant bhi, mai hi jiwan ka aashu hu mai hi mrityu ka shankh bhi. Mai kisi ka allah hu toh mai hi kisi ka bhagwaan, Maine hi diya tha buddh ko woh gyaan, mai hi wapaas louta tha shuli par chadh kar mahan, mai hi hu woh nanak jisne failaya tha gyaan, mai hi hu woh bhagwaan jisne diya tumne ye sansaar.
Mai anek nahi mai ek hu tere liye toh fake hu, ye nakli bate kar tu aur mai tera mrityu sandesh hu. Jab tu aayega mere paas toh bhul jayega sare paap, sarvanash hoga paap ka, bas hath tu aage badha, mai hu khada tere saye me, har kan-kan me har maye me.
Mai hi hu kalyug aur mai hi hu kaal , main hi jeevan ka kaal hu aur main hi jiwankaal , mai hi hu mrityu aur main hi jeevan ka saar , Main dharm me bhagwan hu aur main hi hu vigyan .

I've been doing a run of Pokemon Violet and have found the game to be REALLY easy, thanks to my Oricorio named 'The Word'. I was a bit sceptical of using them first, but ever since using them I can confidently say they are one of my favourite pokemon!

Why do I think they're so great?

For anyone who's played competetive you may know Oricorio gained the move "quiver dance" in gen 9, which is half the reason they are good. Quiver Dance is an egg move, however, so unless you catch another pokemon who learns quiver dance (venomoth or litigant) Oricorio will be pretty useless
They also have 4 forms (changed via nectar I can get at delibird shop) which are fire, electric, ghost and psychic, which means I can change their typing (and the move relavation dance) depending on the situation
Oricorio also has tera fire, but I have only ever used it in that ice gym, as switching their type isn't that impactful when I know what they are going to be up against

What they have done in the playthrough:

Oricorio was definitely the MVP in my playthrough, as they have been helpful throughout the entire game one way or another, such as:
The water gym- Oricorio didn't have any good moves at this point, so they were used to baton pass a quiver dance to my toxtricity
The normal gym- Ghost Oricorio was able to quiver dance Infront of the komala and then sweep
The ghost gym- The main star of the show here was donphan with earthquake, but Oricorio being immune to earthquake meant they were still consistently able to inflict damage while enabling donphan
The psychic gym- I had to KO the Farigiraf since it had physical moves, but Oricorio could easily set up on Gardevoir (I used electric Oricorio because ghost was weak to crunch and shadow ball)
The ice gym- Tera fire Oricorio EASILY won this fight
I haven't challenged the Elite 4 yet, but Psychic Oricorio should EASILY beat Geeta. Geeta leads with an Espathra and I have EV's Oricorio specifically to outspeed it and can boost it's special defense with quiver dance to easily get to +6. Luminia Crash halves special defense, but I have given Oricorio a covert cloak so that shouldn't be a problem
Tldr; Oricorio is REALLY good and has shown me why the bird is the word. It's a crime how not that many people know about this MONSTER