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{{Infobox song
| name = Mera Kuch Saamaan
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| type =
| artist = [[R D Burman]]
| album = [[Ijaazat]]
| released = 1987
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| recorded = [[Mumbai]], [[India]]
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| genre = [[Film score]]
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| label = [[Sa Re Ga Ma]]
| writer = [[Gulzar]]
| producer = [[R D Burman]]
}}
"'''Mera Kuch Samaan'''" ([[Hindi]]: मेरा कुछ सामान, literally: Some of my things) is a popular song from the acclaimed 1987 movie ''[[Ijaazat]]'', directed by [[Gulzar]], who also wrote the song. The song was composed by [[R D Burman]] and sung by [[Asha Bhosle]]. In the film, the song takes cue from the poem, Maya ([[Anuradha Patel]]) leaves behind in letter, for her former lover Mahinder ([[Naseeruddin Shah]]), asking him to return her things. As he read on, he finds they are not physical things she wants back, but memories of times spent together.<ref name=deccan>{{cite news |title=Remembering Asha Bhosle's best songs on her birthday |url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/24006/remembering-asha-bhosles-songs.html |newspaper=[[Deccan Herald]] |date=7 September 2011 }}</ref>

The song remains one of singer Asha Bhosle's most popular,<ref name=daji/> and her personal favourite, as in a 2005 interview with ''[[The Fader]]'' magazine, calling it autobiographical, she said, "Mera Kuch Samaan..This song is my life."<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Facder |journal=[[The Fader]] |year=2005 |issue= 34–35|page=40 |publisher=The Fader, Inc. }}</ref> In a 2010 [[Twitter|tweet]], singer Asha Bhosle, noted, "[[R. D. Burman|Pancham]] jokingly referred to song ''Mera Kuch Samaan'' as 'Luggage Song'. My band members still call it that when we are on concert tour".<ref>{{cite news|title=Javed Akhtar and Asha Bhosle join Twitter|url=http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?ID=ENTEN20100143380&keyword=bo&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA|date=8 June 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714213405/http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?ID=ENTEN20100143380&keyword=bo&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA|archive-date=14 July 2012}}</ref>

==About the song==

Even at the time of its release the song was noted, and even "ahead of its times",<ref name=deccan/> for its unusual non-rhyming lyrics in [[free verse]], and for blurring the line between poem and lyric.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gulzar explains difference between poems and lyrics|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/gulzar-explains-difference-between-poems-and-lyrics-news-national-lb3qOejifib.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022183915/http://www.sify.com/movies/gulzar-explains-difference-between-poems-and-lyrics-news-national-lb3qOejifib.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 October 2012 |publisher=Sify Movies |date=29 January 2011}}</ref> When Gulzar first showed the non-rhyming lyrics to RD Burman, he jokingly complained that Gulzar would next ask him to set a newspaper headline to music.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040911223133/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/08/30/stories/2004083001120100.htm Rocking with R.D], from The Hindu Metro Plus (30 August 2004).</ref>

The soft music composition chosen by RD Burman, kept the focus completely on the vocals and the words, it not only highlight the unusual lyrics, but also brought Asha versatility as a singer to the fore. It pitted Asha in "a league apart from her contemporaries" and made it one of her best songs.<ref name=deccan/> She won her second [[National Film Award (India)|National Film Award]] for [[National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer|Best Female Playback Singer]] for the song of 1988, the first one being for ''Dil Cheez Kya Hai'' from ''[[Umrao Jaan (1981 film)|Umrao Jaan]]'' (1981).<ref>[http://dff.nic.in/2011/35th_nff_1988.pdf 35th National Film Award]</ref>

[[Ulhas Bapat]], veteran [[santoor]] player, who had collaborated with Burman since 1978 until his last film, ''1942 A Love Story'', played santoor in song's [[Break (music)|interludes]], especially innovative ''[[meend]]'' pieces.<ref>{{cite news |title=Stringing it along|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_stringing-it-along_1103652 |publisher=[[DNA (newspaper)|DNA]] |date=16 June 2007 }}</ref>

==Awards==
Asha Bhosle won the [[National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer]] for her rendition of the song, and [[Gulzar]] won the [[National Film Award for Best Lyrics]] and [[Filmfare Best Lyricist Award]] for his lyrics.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091256/awards Awards] [[IMDb]].</ref>

==Legacy==
Years later, "Mera Kuch Samaan" was the title of the [[greatest hits album]] of Gulzar's greatest hits as a lyricist, released in 2005 by [[Saregama]] Ltd.<ref>{{cite news|title=Chatterati|url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=147313|publisher=[[Indian Express]]|date=7 September 2005|access-date=20 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051204055124/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=147313|archive-date=4 December 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Gulzar on his new Anthology 'Mera Kuch Samaan'|author=Subhash K Jha|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/gulzar-on-his-new-anthology-mera-kuch-samaan-news-bollywood-kkfvzHdefai.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022183817/http://www.sify.com/movies/gulzar-on-his-new-anthology-mera-kuch-samaan-news-bollywood-kkfvzHdefai.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 October 2012 |publisher=[[Sify.com]] Movies |date=23 September 2005}}</ref> It was also part of the greatest hit [[compilation album]], ''[[The Very Best of Asha Bhosle, The Queen of Bollywood]]'', released in 2003. The song was also part of the compilation album, "Precious Platinum" released on her 75th birthday in 2008, by Saregama India Ltd.<ref name=daji>{{cite news |title= Asha Bhosale Celebrates 75th Birthday |url=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=50889&n_tit=Asha+Bhosale+Celebrates+75th+Birthday |publisher=[[Daiji World]] |date=8 September 2008 }}</ref>

In May 2011, theatre festival of plays based on 10 short stories of Gulzar, titled ''Mera Kuch Samaan'' was organized in Delhi and Mumbai.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gulzar theatre festival next week |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-08/delhi/29522106_1_gulzar-stories-salim-arif |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927184334/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-08/delhi/29522106_1_gulzar-stories-salim-arif |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2012 |work= [[The Times of India]]|date=8 May 2011 }}</ref>

==Version==
Asha Bhosle reprised the song in the album, ''[[You've Stolen My Heart|You've Stolen My Heart: Songs From R.D. Burman's Bollywood with Asha Bhosle]]'', released in August 2005, recorded with Asha and [[Kronos Quartet]], a string quartet founded by David Harrington, as a tribute to Rahul Dev Burman. According to Harrington, .."the experience of a lifetime has tinged her voice with even more poignancy when she sings a song like Mera kuch samaan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Our 'Boss' joins the big league|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-08-28/news-interviews/27853534_1_asha-bhosle-david-harrington-kronos-quartet |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927184608/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-08-28/news-interviews/27853534_1_asha-bhosle-david-harrington-kronos-quartet |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 27, 2012 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=Aug 28, 2005 }}</ref> The album was recorded over eight days at San Francisco studios, and went to win a nomination for [[Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-12-09/entertainment/17403558_1_mariah-carey-chemical-brothers-la-soul/8 |title=Complete List Of Grammy Nominees |date=December 9, 2005 |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=San Francisco Chronicle }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Later she said that her favourite number from the album was "Mera Kuchh samaan..which "is very close to my heart as it transports me back into time when I was with Pancham."<ref>{{cite news |title=Grammy nomination a tribute to RD|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-12-12/news-interviews/27837293_1_pancham-asha-bhonsle-album |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927184612/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-12-12/news-interviews/27837293_1_pancham-asha-bhonsle-album |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2012 |work=[[The Times of India]]|date=12 December 2005 }}</ref>
Young Music composer Ritesh Bhoyar has refreshingly recomposed this song, as per him it is the most difficult lyrics to compose in Indian film industry.

== References ==

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==External links==
* {{YouTube|9mjFCidDpcY|Mera Kuch Samaan}}
* [http://www.geetmanjusha.com/hindi/lyrics/1.html Lyrics in Hindi]

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[[Category:Hindi film songs]]
[[Category:1987 songs]]
[[Category:Songs with music by R. D. Burman]]
[[Category:Indian songs]]
[[Category:Songs with lyrics by Gulzar]]
[[Category:Asha Bhosle songs]]

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