Sun Champa sun Taara
Posted on: October 12, 2008
“Apna Desh” was a movie that appealed to majority of movie goers. It had almost every thing that the movie going janta wanted. In those days, movie going public were undergoing a change of taste. Movies where hero sang sad songs and got bashed by the villains were proving unpopular. People wanted the heroes of 1970s to be more assertive and active than just singing sad songs.
The movie ” Apna Desh” lived upto those standards. In this movie, the hero gets bashed up till the half time, but just at the stroke of interval, he has enough of being bashed, and he swears that he would get even, once the audience are back from the interval. And the hero, Rajesh Khanna lived upto his promise.
Dhishum dhishum sounds, which were few and far between and were only heard in Dara Singh movies till then, became fairly commonplace in mainstream movies of 1970s, beginning with movies like “Apna Desh”.
Of course, the movies did not give up on songs and dances, just because the hero felt like fighting. There were quite a few wonderful songs in this movie, which became popular. In fact, listening to songs on radio and loudspeakers, and then watching the movie to see how they were picturised was a divine experiience for most movie goers. At least that was certainly the case for a 8 year old kid like me.
The picturisation of “Sun Champa sun taara”, a song that I had heard blaring from loudspeakers many a time, left me spell bound. It was not I who had paid for the ticket, but some grown up, or else I would have said that this song itself was a paisa wasool song. In fact, I found the entire movie a paisa wasool experience.
I doubt that the readers of this blog can be made to go through the same experience that I went through when I watched this song on big screen 37 years ago, but this song is such that one can enjoy watching it even today, with hardly any loss of gloss in the intervening period.
Song- Sun Champa sun Taara koi jeeta koi haara (Apna Desh) (1972 ) Singers- Lata, Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD- R D Burman
Lyrics
sun Champaa sun Taaraa koi jeetaa koi haaraa
are badaa mazaa aaye haay suno meri baat
jhoomen naachen gaayen chalo aaj saari raat
sun Champaa sun Taaraa koyi jeetaa koyi haaraa
are badaa mazaa aaye haay suno meri baat
jhoomen naachen gaayen chalo aaj saari raat
sun ri Champaa sun Taaraa …
O Taara
sach ke gale mein padi maalaa
jhoothon kaa to munh huaa kaalaa
ho sach ke gale mein padi maalaa
jhoothon kaa to munh huaa kaalaa
kaise huaa aise huaa
kaise huaa aise huaa hairaan hai jag saaraa
sun Champaa sun Taaraa koyi jeetaa koyi haaraa
are badaa mazaa aaye haay suno meri baat
jhoomen naachen gaayen chalo aaj saari raat
sun ri Champaa sun Taaraa …
O Taara…
bandaa hoon main to seedhaa-saadaa
kartaa hoon tumse main ye waadaa
ho bandaa hoon main to seedhaa-saadaa
kartaa hoon tumse main ye waadaa
aaj se hogaa woh dukh mera
aaj se hogaa woh dukh mera dukha hai jo tumhaaraa
sun Champaa sun Taaraa koyi jeetaa koyi haaraa
are badaa mazaa aaye haay suno meri baat
jhoomen naachen gaayen chalo aaj saari raat
sun ri Champaa sun Taaraa …
O Taara…
chham-chham jo baaji meri paayal
dil dushmanon ke huye ghaayal
ho chham-chham jo baaji meri paayal
dil dushmanon ke huye ghaayal
is jeewan pe sabka haq hai
is jeewan pe sabka haq hai apnaa hai ye naaraa
sun champa sun taara koi jeeta koi haara
are badaa mazaa aaye haay suno meri baat
jhoomen naachen gaayen chalo aaj saari raat
sun champaa sun taaraa koyi jeetaa koyi haaraa
sun Champaa sun Taaraa koyi jeetaa koyi haaraa
are badaa mazaa aaye haay suno meri baat
jhoomen naachen gaayen chalo aaj saari raat
sun ri Champaa sun Taaraa
O Taara
9 Responses to "Sun Champa sun Taara"
October 13, 2008 at 3:22 am
Thanks a lot, Kanan. It is encouraging comments like this that fuels this blog.
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October 15, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Atul, I love this song !!!
Like you say, this song alone is total paisa vasool for the whole movie.
Mumu’s dancing, Kishore for Rajesh, RD’s music – what more can one ask for !
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May 10, 2009 at 9:09 am
Have come back to this song today to relive Rajesh-Mumu classics.
Thanks to your posting “suno kaho” (Aap Ki Kasam) today I have suddenly got into the mood now to watch Rajesh-Mumu songs. 🙂
You may get some farmaishes in this context soon for any missing songs from your already rich collection. 🙂
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May 10, 2009 at 10:30 am
I have got in the same mood. So give your farmaishes. That way I may well know about a few songs that I may not be aware about at present.
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[…] songs before. What songs and what picturisation ! Rona kabhi nahin rona(Apna Desh), followed by Sun champa sun Taara(Apna Desh), followed by Kajra lagake gajra sajake(Apna […]
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October 12, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Lovely song. One of the first dance songs I remember knowing as a kid. May be because it played quite often on chitrahaar.
Btw, awesome blog you’ve got. I’ve been browsing around for a while but didn’t post because it required registration. Finally created a login and this is my first comment.
Keep the good songs coming!
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