songlvr1 on March 22, 2009
Thanks for posting this song. I have been searching for this song for years. many thanks.Can you please put up the lyrics.?

Madhu Nair on March 23, 2009
dear friend, thanks for the commets. 'panchi bawara chand se preet lagaye
chaya dekh nadi mein murakh,phoola nahi samaye, woh harjayi taron ke sang
apni raas rachaye, chand se preet lagaye kaun bataye tujhe chakora, gore
mann ke kale, jyun jyun preet badayega tu tyun ttun ye ghatt jaye chand se
preet lagaye. thanks and regards madhu sudhan

Chandrashekhar Gupta on March 23, 2009
Nothing like the original, but do take a moment to also listen to the later
day great Nayyara Noor superbly vocalising this number live, as posted by
raqaw on 19 June 2007.

songlvr1 on March 23, 2009
Once gain , many thanks for the lyrics. I have been wanting to sing this song. It is beautiful simple song in raag Kedar.

songlvr1 on March 23, 2009
Soory I posted my reply in the wrong place. Many many thanks for the lyrics. I have always wanted to sing this song . Great song in Raag Kedar.

Madhu Nair on March 23, 2009
dear chandra shekhar ji. i have the song panchi bawara sung by nayyara
noor. the other song which i like is woh jo hum mein tum mein karar tha' by
nayyara noor. thanks and regards madhu sudhan

deepaksgulvadi on March 24, 2009
Lovely song sung by Khurshid. Thanks for uploading.

Preeti Malhotra on May 27, 2009
A Gem of a Song ! My salute to you !

Preeti Malhotra on May 27, 2009
A Gem of a Song ! My salute to you for providing this very rare masterpiece
!

Preeti Malhotra on May 27, 2009
The Lyrics are by Shri Dina Nath Madhok ! He was a well known lyricist in
the forties and fifties.

Madhu Nair on May 28, 2009
dear friend, thanks a lot for the comments posted on the song 'panchi
bawara...i have posted some rare gems from old hindi songs. hope u will
like them also. thanks and regards madhu sudhan

shyml1 on June 17, 2009
This is raag Kidara. Nayyara Noor is superb but there is no comparison with
Surdas Khurshid. Both are a treasure for keeping for next generations.

V. Siddhartha on July 24, 2009
You blessed my morning today, my friend. In my mind this beloved melody has
long been a synonym for Khurshid, but I am hearing it after more than five
decades. Came upon it by sheer happenstance as I was clicking around. The
joy is like that of suddenly meeting a long-lost friend again. Many
thanks,kpm5886.

Madhu Nair on July 24, 2009
dear friend, thanks a lot for your kind words on the song 'panchi bawara'.
this one was my father's favourit also. it is surprising that no one else
has posted a better version of the song till date. thanks and regards madhu
sudhan

Maina on July 24, 2009
True Gem !! Great singing, rich lyrics and the music part is also
excellent. Thank you Mago Ji for sharing this beloved melody with me. Many
thanks for KPM Sir too for this upload. My Best Regards to both of you,
Your Maina

KhalidAsgharRadioPak on July 24, 2009
Thanks dear Vipan Bhai (chamogaa), for sending this video. No doubt, it is
RARE. i listened it, after 45 years. Thanks to kpm5886, who up loaded.
khalid Asghar.

V. Siddhartha on July 25, 2009
Khalid Bhai, since you knew Nayyara Noor well as a fellow singer, I imagine
you have heard her rendition of this song too. It is also very sweet. It's
a relatively simple melody, not terribly difficult to sing. Yet it is
enormously melodious and is fondly remembered by millions. There's virtue
in simplicity as they say.

oldclassics60 on July 25, 2009
Great Post !! Lovely song. Thank you VC Mago ji for sharing and thanks to
kpm Sir for upload ! Regards, Raina

Madhu Nair on July 26, 2009
dear raina ji, thanks for your comment on panchi bawara.. regards madhu
sudhan

Madhu Nair on July 26, 2009
dear khalid sahab, i am so delighted to get your comments posted on 'panchi
bawara..'. this was my father's favourit. he left us in 2002. i didn't had
this song to make my father happy. i am happy that there are other people
in this world who like this song. thanks and regards madhu sudhan

KhalidAsgharRadioPak on July 27, 2009
Dear Madhu Sudhan, indeed it is a matter related to nostalgia and by good
music, we feel our lost very dear, like father, with us.Music is,
absolutely, a wonderful nexus and bridge to make people united and help in
sharing feelings and experiences. It is also a positive aspect of doing
catharsis, to live happily . Take care. My prayers will remain with you.
Thanks. Khalid Asghar.

kbgrofaz on August 02, 2009
Well I like Nayyara Noor a lot and she sang this song fairly well. But no one can ever replicate this song. This song belonged to Khursheed.

kbgrofaz on August 02, 2009
Madhu Sudhan; Thanks a million for posting this one of rarest gems. My father loves Khursheed, K.L. Saigal Ji and others like Kanan Devi etc. Watching him listening to these great singers I became an avid fan of them too. What a treat to have this on YouTube.

ex721 on August 07, 2009
Chand say peet lagaye.Thanks for uploading this song i used to listen as a child.

PREM SETH on September 28, 2009
Absolute Treat ! A small correction --- The lyrics are by late Shri Dina
Nath MADHOK, not modak !

Madhu Nair on October 24, 2009
thank u for the comments regards madhu

Tonyroy00 on November 03, 2009
This is a gem by Khursheed Bano...unmatched..god bless her..

SeaBreezeCenter on November 05, 2009
Thanks for uploading this rare song.

srinivas rao on November 07, 2009
Thanks Madhu for this wonderfull Song. Srinivas

onlymullika on November 18, 2009
God bless the singer,the composer and the uploader

Visveswar .s on December 26, 2009
this song is based on raag kedar and it is beautifuly rendered by singing
stars of yester years. even my father liked this song and used to hear it
many times and we also developed interest in this type of songs based on
classical raags. smt kursheed Bano has a soft voice which suits this type
of songs. I am a great fan and I have heard many songs rendered by this
great artist. It is good for youngsters to develop interest as it gives
good relaxation. Thanks for uploading.

saraswatkp on January 17, 2010
To me it appears that this song also has the voice of K.L.Sehgal.If it is true then i request for that version

mooazz on March 03, 2010
To me it appears that this song also has the voice of K.L.Sehgal.If it is
true then i request for that version

Tony Navaid Rashid on March 15, 2010
i had the honour of interviewing her in her last days in Karachi for
Newsline magazine. what a great star she was.

chandrashekharjain on June 11, 2010
More you listen to this song more you like it.This is GEM of a song and no
one can sing it the way Khurshid ji has sung . My late father was a fan of
Khurshid and with him we searched several music shops of Chandni Chowk
Delhi (around 1984-85)for Khurshid's gramophone records but couldn't find
any.On youtube only a few songs are available and a few more such uploads
will be very nice

BNBahadurMr on July 24, 2010
Great song... I have been hearing this as also the other versions on
youtube... I would like one info... Is there a male version of this
song...I vaguely remember...Can anyone enlighten?????? BNB

orientlover1 on August 19, 2010
looks very much like Meena Kumari (eyes, smile and hair style as well as her face )

Tonyroy00 on November 24, 2010
Untouchable legend.what more can I say.so lucky to have been born in this era to hear her voice... Chand sey preet lagaye...words cannot describe it..

Milahi1935 on June 03, 2011
Khursheed has sung a GREAT masterpiece. She has put in the moorkian and the
high notes perfectly. Only complaint is that the composer made the song too
short. Also, khursheed should have been asked to finish with higher notes
this song, somewhat like Rafi did years later. Khursheed had the capacity
to go to the fourth octave but was seldom given the music to do so.

drprabhakarawtade on January 28, 2012
beutiful song... iske saath gungunaao aur masti me doob jaao.

Suresh Kumar on February 28, 2012
@orientlover1 The lady here is definitely Meena Kumari. I have Khursheed's
Tansen, in which she acts opposite K L Saigal. She looks very different.

orientlover1 on February 28, 2012
I was just comparing similarity of features of the two ladies. Lady appearing in this picture is in fact Khursheed Bano. She may look different in the movie Tansen due to time difference between two photos. A close look on the above photo will show a mole on the right side of face around upper lip. Meena Kumari did not have any such mole on her face which was perfectly smooth and clear. However, I have a feeling that Meena Kumari imitated Khursheed Bano's style in her early movies.

Suresh Kumar on March 12, 2012
@orientlover1 My father was in the RAF and stationed in Lahore from the
early 1940s till the partition. He was a fan of Saigal, Khursheed,
Noorjehan, Suraiya and Ashok kumar. He was an avid film-goer. When he died
in 2000 at the age of 86, his memory was still sharp. So I think we need to
dig up the past of Saraswati Devi and the film Achhut Kanya to find out who
the other Khursheed is. There are many such grey areas in our early films.

Suresh Kumar on March 12, 2012
@Suresh9714 We should have a forum where we can ask questions about these
grey areas and let our living legends Yusuf Khan, Shamshad Begum and Lata
Mangeshkar answer. Being veterans in the film industry, they may remember.

orientlover1 on March 13, 2012
RAF station was at Walton, a town then outside Lahore. It has a railway station with the same name. First? flying school in the subcontinent was established at Walton in 1929. Walton also has a railway training school with a Railway Colony. Railway network in this region was called N.W.R (North Western Railways) which was changed to P.W.R in 1960 and then to P.R in early 1970s. My father was an instructor at Railway Training School. I was born in Railway Colony at Walton.

orientlover1 on March 13, 2012
I remember my mother used to talk about an actress called Khursheed whom she had seen in movies in early 1930s. That was certainly not the Khursheed Bano of Tansen fame (seen in frames above). I believe there were two actresses under the name Khursheed. That was perhaps the reason that the she took Bano as her second name. It is also possible that the older Khursheed (Mishochar Home?) was perhaps Parsi as the name suggests.

orientlover1 on March 13, 2012
I would suggest you may read the following books by Saadat Hassan Manto, a famous Urdu short story writer who spent several years in Bombay during 1940s. They will give you an insight into the life of celebrities of Bombay film industry during those years:
1) Meena Bazar (Hindi) published by Rajkamal and Prakashan in 1962 from New Delhi and probably also from Jallundar.
2) Stars from Another Sky (English translation of Manto's articles). Year and name of publisher are not known.

Suresh Kumar on March 17, 2012
@orientlover1 Thank you. I shall certainly look for these books.

Suresh Kumar on March 17, 2012
@orientlover1 You are right. They are two different personalities. The
older one was certainly the contemperory of Devika Rani in the beginning of
the Bombay Talkies, as many of those early talkies had Saraswati Devi as
Music Director. I remember now that there was a talk of the Homji sisters.
Could the two Khursheeds have been sisters? The family of Khursheed Bano
can throw light on this.

Suresh Kumar on March 17, 2012
@orientlover1 Thanks for this info on Walton. Glad to know that you were
born there. Dad never talked about Walton. He always talked about Lahore
and how he used to jump the walls and go to see films as they showed only
very old films in their tent.