O taana der naa taanaa taana der naa
Posted on: April 26, 2024
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Today’s song is from a well known film of 1952-Bewafa.
The film was not famous for its story, but because two big stars – Raj Kapoor and Ashok Kumar – were acting together in it. Raj Kapoor was young and only three years old in films, with 20 films, whereas Ashok Kumar was a senior actor with 16 years’ experience and 41 films under his belt. Raj was already shining as an actor and a Director Of 3 successful films. Ashok Kumar had done a variety of films and even now, at the age of 41 years, he was still in much demand as a Hero.
Naturally people expected a solid treat to enjoy in this film. In addition, the Heroine was Nargis – a mere 23 years old, good looking actress with already 41 films (including child roles) behind her, at just 23 years’ age. So, you can’t blame the audience for expecting an entertaining film. Some of the film’s songs recorded before its censoring (9-12-1952) had already become popular. So, when the film was released and people went to see it, they were simply thrilled. But ALAS ! When they came out, they were quiet and silent. The film had failed !!
Film Bewafa-52 was an eminently flop film of RK-Nargis. They worked in 17 films together, including both versions of Jagte Raho. This film had come at such a time when there was a wave ( or a fashion ? ) of Tragedy films. Saigal films had given a respectable status to Tragic films ( and songs) and actors like Dilip Kumar took them to greater heights. After a few initial films, Dilip Kumar started dying in films. He had started his career with “jwaar Bhaata”-44, in which Agha was the Hero and Dilip played a side role. In later years the roles were reversed and Agha became a comedian and played side roles in films when Dilip was the Hero.
Starting with Jugnu-47, Dilip, habitually died in films like Nadiya ke paar-48, Mela-48, Shaheed-48 and Andaz-49. Then again he ‘died’ in Devdas-55 and Musafir-57. He became famous as a Tragedy King, but a wrong message went to producers/directors that if the Hero dies, the film becomes a hit. This started a ‘killing spree’. Probably this was taken too seriously by Director M L Anand in film Bewafa-52 and he ensured that all the three main characters of the film die one after another ! Perhaps this was too much for the audience to take and they too killed the film turning it into a grand flop !!
The cast of the film Bewafa was Raj Kapoor, Nargis and Ashok Kumar with many others in smaller roles. The film revolves around these three characters only. The film was produced by Nargis herself, under the banner of her company ‘The art centre-Bombay’. The entire film was filmed in RK studio. The songs were written by Sarshar Sailani and Shams Azimabadi. The Music Director was A R Qureshi aka Alla Rakha, the famous Tabla Maestro and father of Tabla wizard Zakir Hussain. There were 9 songs in the film. Today’s song is the 9th song to be discussed here. The story of the film was-
RUPA’S(Nargis) life began in a Chawl. She led a miserable existence with her uncle who was a drunkard, who ill treated and tortured her. RAJ (Raj Kapoor), her neighbour, had always a playful attitude towards Rupa. He even sympathised with her pitiful state and preferred only to help her, which she used to accept, though reluctantly. One day she was forced to leave the chawl and wanted to put an end to her life but Fate had decreed otherwise. She met Ashok ( Ashok Kumar), a poor and unsuccessful artist who lived in a humble room in the neighbourhood. Ashok, with a connoisseur’s eye, thought Rupa an ideal model for his paintings. This proved true. Ashok and Rupa became rich overnight. Rupa forgot her miserable past and was happy in her present rich environment with Ashok.
At this juncture Raj arrives on the scene-a completely changed Raj dressed like a gentleman with aristocratic behaviour and habits. Rupa was very pleased to meet Raj after such a lapse of time. She introduced Raj to Ashok-who though had not met each other before but had heard of each other. Ashok was not well impressed with Raj nor Raj with the former. Raj’s intimacy with Rupa grew more and more every time they met. Ashok did not approve of this association as he thought that Raj was not good enough for Rupa and that he was more after her money. Raj on the contrary gave all the assurances to Rupa that he only cared for her and nothing else mattered to him in the world. All these developed into a conflict and misunderstanding amongst the three Rupa, Raj and Ashok.
Actually Raj was a gambler and owed large amounts to creditors,who were after him for money. He only pretended to love Rupa. He wanted her money and not her love. She could not understand this. Ashok tried to tell her to keep away from Raj, as he understood his intentions. One day after an argument with Ashok over Raj, she leaves her house and goes to Raj. They stay in a hotel. Raj’s creditors are after him to get money from Rupa. He steals her bag and starts running.
People think he is a thief and follow him. His creditors think he is running away with the booty and they fire at him. Meanwhile Rupa follows Raj. She is completely disillusioned to see her love being so bewafa and greedy. Raj dies of bullet injuries. Rupa returns to Ashok, but Ashok too takes poison and dies as he had loved her. Seeing this Rupa collapses and dies. Seeing all this the audience also faints ! After some time they get up and go home silently !!
Today’s song is sung by Shamshad Begum and Chorus. It is a Dance/song video. This song was written by Sarshar Sailani.
Sarshar Sailani (12 March 1914 – 10 April 1969) was a lyricist, Story, Dialogue writer, Screenplay Writer, who was not much educated (not a graduate), but was a school teacher, used to participate in Mushairas. Motiram liked his shayari. When Motiram started his First film “Arsi” (1947), he invited Sailani to write story, song and dialogues for this film. Some songs became popular & Sailani jumped into the film line.
Sarshar Sailani was born on 12 March 1914 in Ludhiana, in Punjab. He was yet another Hindu writer, who took a Muslim name. His real name was Bhim Sen.
The film “Arsi” was made by Jeevan Pictures, Lahore. It was directed by Daud Chaand. All the 11 songs were written by Sarshar Sailani. This was his first film as a Lyricist. The owner of Jeevan Pictures, was Motiram Jain and he was a lover of Shayari and poetry. Interestingly, Sarshar Sailani acted only in one film & that is Arsi (1947).
Music directors Lachhiram called Sarshar Sailani for his next film Mohini (1947) & Shyamsunder called for Ek Roz (1947). Along with director Daud Chaand, Sailani also shifted to Bombay. However, after the Partition, Daud returned to Lahore but Sailani remained in India. He wrote lyrics in many movies, generally he got only low budget films, but he worked with some quality composers.
In all, he wrote 150 songs in 32 films. From 1960 onwards, after the film ‘ Bade ghar ki bahu’, he stopped songwriting and took up only story, dialogue writing, in which he did many good films. some of such films were Bewafa,Baaz,Barsat ki raat,Unpadh,Aayi milan ki bela,Aapki parchhaiyan,Ganga ki laharen, Majboor, Aaye din bahaar ke, Aman, Devar, Gunahon ka devta, kanyadaan,Aya saawan jhoom ke, Anjana etc.etc. His last film as a dialogue writer was Maa aur Mamta-70.
Sarshar Sailani worked with music directors like Pandit Amarnath, Anil Biswas, Pandit Govind Ram, Husnlal Bhagatram, Lachhiram, Hansraj Bahl, Roshan, Ghulam Haider, A. R. Qureshi, Chitragupt, Sardul Kwatra & Jaidev. Sarshar Sailani died on 10 April 1969 in Mumbai.
The Music Director was A.R.Qureshi. Ustad Allah Rakha, born as Allah Rakha Khan Qureshi, was born in Jammu and Kashmir on 29-4-1919. He was an Indian tabla player who popularised the art of tabla playing all over the world. Allah Rakha was born to a soldier, who later returned from the army and worked as a farmer after that to earn his bread and butter. Being the eldest of seven sons, his father did not expect him to learn music and opposed his idea of learning classical music.
Ustad Allah Rakha, as a young boy of 12 years, found the instrument fascinating while visiting his uncle in Gurdaspur. His inclination towards Indian classical music and the Performing Arts made him run away to Lahore for further learning, as he found little scope of learning the art-form in his home-town. Allah Rakha studied at the Punjab school of classical music (gharana) where he became a student of Ustad Mian Khadarbaksh Pakhawaji (Mian Quader Bakshi). He was trained to be a singer under Ustad Ashiq Hussain.
Allah Rakha was also associated with theater as he lived in Pathankot for sometime and worked for a theater company. In 1930, Allah Rakha worked at radio station in Lahore. According to reports, he moved to Delhi after six years, in 1936, to work with All India Radio. In 1940, he moved to Bombay and worked with Pandit Ravi Shankar and again on All India Radio. He was the station’s first ever tabla solo player then.
After which he even composed music for 42 Hindi films from 1943 to 1958. His first film as a MD was Mahasati Anusuya-43 and the last released film was Idd ka chaand-64. He even sang 14 songs in 7 films between 1942 to 1949.He worked mostly in films made by Hind Pictures, Magnet films, Sunrise films and Mohan studios of Dave brothers. Barring 1 or 2 films like “Bewafa”-52, he got only C grade stunt films or Muslim ibadat films. He gave music in 3 Punjabi Films Madari -1950,Fumman-1951, Jagga-1964. He gave BG music in PYar Ki Baatein 1951. He acted in Aabida- 1947. Uma Devi (Tuntun) first sang in Wamiq Azra-46 under MD A R Qureshi.
Ustad Allah Rakha had married twice. He was first married to Bavi Begum and had three sons, Zakir Hussain, Fazal Qureshi and Taufiq Qureshi and two daughters Khurshid Aulia née Qureshi and Razia. Razia served him in his later years and was like a constant companion to her father. She died after a routine cataract surgery and Allah Rakha could not cope with the shock of her death and immediately slipped into a coma and passed away within 24 hours on 3-2-2000. Zakir Hussain is one of the most renowned tabla players of India.
Allah Rakha’s son Zakir Hussain grew up to be another legend in the country. Zakir Hussain has also been honoured with the Padma Shri in 1988 and the Padma Bhushan in 2002, by the Government of India. The honour that was bestowed upon his father by the Sangeet Natak Akademi came to him as well in 1990. Hussain has been working in films and on albums in India as well as abroad. Hussain owes his career to his father, who had made sure that he remained focused on this art-form.
Ustad Allah Rakha had established the Alla Rakha Institute of Music in Bombay in 1986 and imparted his knowledge of the instrument to all his disciples in the institute. Allah Rakha and sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar brought classical Hindustani music to Western audiences as well. He was honoured with the Padma Shri Award by the Government of India in 1977 for his contributions to elevate the reach of tabla playing as an art form across the globe. Later on, Sangeet Natak Akademi also honoured him.
Ustad Allah Rakha and sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar brought classical Hindustani music to Western audiences as well. Their partnership reached legendary heights with performances at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and the Woodstock Festival in 1969. The two performed together in many festivals and elevated the respect and popularity of tabla playing as an art form. Other than Pandit Ravi Shankar, he also worked with renowned Kathak dancers like Sitara Devi and Birju Maharaj.
Ustad Allah Rakha found fans not only in India but abroad as well. Reportedly, American percussionist, the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart, was his huge fan. Hart always tried to learn from him even from single visits that Ustad used to make to his country. Hart was also quoted saying, “Alla Rakha is the Einstein, the Picasso; he is the highest form of rhythmic development on this planet.”
Other than the Grateful Dead drummer, Mickey Hart, Ustad Allah Rakha inspired George Harrison from The Beatles as well. Both of them performed together for a Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. Mickey Hart also collaborated with him for Rolling Thunder in 1972. The picture we have here is of Hell’s Angels member Terry The Tramp with tabla player Ustad Alla Rakha as they were set to perform together at the Monterey International Pop Festival, June 17th, 1967. He had collaborated with many prominent rock groups.
While Ustad used to generally team up with Pandit Ravi Shankar for his performances, he once collaborated with jazz drummer Buddy Rich for an album, Rich à la Rakha in 1968. Some of his greatest works have been in the form of albums Improvisations, West Meets East, Album 3 (with Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin, Jean Pierre Rampel, Martine Gelliot), Angel (1976), Master Drummers with Zakir Hussain (1991), Tabla Duet, Chhanda Dhara (1994), Ultimate in Taal-vidya, Magnasound/OMI (1996).
With today’s song, all songs of the film Bewafa-1952 are covered and it becomes a YIPPEE film.
Song- O taana dere na taana taana der na(Bewafa)(1952) Singer- Shamshad Begum, Lyricist-Sarshar Sailani, MD- A.R.Qureshi
Chorus
Lyrics
oye taana
der na taana
taana der na
taana der na taana
taana der na
mere dil mein aa jaana
gaana pyaar ka gaana
mere dil mein aa jaana
gaana pyaar ka gaana
taana der na taana
taana der na
taana der na taana
taana der na
oy haiyya appa
aare happa
haiyya happa
o haiyya happa
aare happa
haiyya happa
o taana der na taana
taana der na
taana der na taana
taana der na
bulbul jaise phoolon mein kho jaata hai
bulbul jaise phoolon mein kho jaata hai
bhanwra jaise kaliyon ka ho jaata hai
bhanwra jaise kaliyon ka ho jaata hai
tum bhi mere ho jaana
tum bhi mere ho jaana
gaana pyaar ka gaanaa
o taana der na taana
taana der na
taana der na taana
taana der na
oy haiyya happa
aare happa
haiyya happa
o haiyya happa
aare happa
haiyya happa
o taana der na taana
taana der na
taana der na taana
taana der na
khushiyon ka hai mela dil ki basti mein
khushiyon ka hai mela dil ki basti mein
aao hum bhi mil ke naachen masti mein
aao hum bhi mil ke naachen masti mein
bhar ke dil ka paimaana
bhar ke dil ka paimaana
gaayen pyaar ka gaanaa
taana der na taana
taana der na
taana der na taana
taana der na
oy haiyya happa
aare happa
haiyya happa
o haiyya happa
aare happa
haiyya happa
o taana der na taana
taana der na
taana der na taana
taana der na
mere dil mein aa jaana
gaana pyaar ka gaana
mere dil mein aa jaana
gaana pyaar ka gaana
taana der na taana
taana der na
taana der na taana
taana der na
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