Na Jao Saya from Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam - Page 3

Sahib, Bibi Aur Ghulam is pretty much my favourite film of all time - it has everything. In this song Meena Kumari's tragic Choti Bahu tries to hold onto the love of her wandering husband. It has always seemed to me very like the Countess's aria "Porgi Amor" from Mozart's Marriage Of Figaro (in soul, that is - it bears no structural similarity). Figaro is another of my favourite works... but is it not unjust that Sahib, Bibi Aur Ghulam is seldom accorded the respect as great art that is so readily paid to Figaro?

The music is in the form of GIF graphics, so you don't need any special software for it - just save the images to your hard-disk and print them later with any graphics package (or you can even print the music directly from your browser - just right-click on the music image and select 'View Image' from the pop-up menu so you're looking at just the music itself without the rest of the page, then select 'Print' from your browser's File menu - then hit the 'Back' button in your browser to return to the page).

If you have any comments or questions at all, please drop me a line at xorys@idirect.ca - I'd be pleased to hear from you.