Main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya
Posted on: February 5, 2009
“Ham Dono” was a 1961 movie featuring Dev Anand ( double role) with Nanda and Sadhana. This movie had Dev Anand in the role of an army man.
Jaidev made quite an impression as the music director of this movie. The most well known song of this movie was this song “main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya”. It was written by Sahir Ludhianvi and sung by Rafi.
This song was picturised on Dev Anand in army fatigues and who is seen smoking away. Dev Anand looks quite like a Gurkha officer in his dress.
This song is one that I have listened to many a times over the last three decades, and I have seen its picturisation only just now.
It is a beautiful song to listen to. And considering the story line, I suppose this is quite a popular jaimala song too.
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Song-Main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya (Ham Dono) (1961) Singer-Rafi, Lyrics-Sahir Ludhianvi, MD-Jaidev
Lyrics
main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya
har fikr ko dhuyen me udaata chala gaya
har fikr ko dhuyen me udaa
barbadiyon ka sog manaana fizool tha
barbadiyon ka sog manaana fizool tha
manaana fizool tha
manaana fizool tha
barbadiyon ka jashn manata chala gaya
barbadiyon ka jashn manata chala gaya
har fikr ko dhuyen me udaa
jo mil gaya usiko muqaddar samajh liya
jo mil gaya usiko muqaddar samajh liya
muqaddar samajh liya
muqaddar samajh liya
jo kho gaya main usko bhulaata chala gaya
jo kho gaya main usko bhulaata chala gaya
har fikr ko dhuyen me udaa
gham aur khushi me fark na mahsoos ho jahan
gham aur khushi me fark na mahsoos ho jahan
na mahsoos ho jahan
na mahsoos ho jahan
main dil ko us mukaam pe laata chala gaya
main dil ko us mukaam pe laata chala gaya
main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya
har fikr ko dhuyen me udaata chala gaya
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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मैं ज़िंदगी का साथ निभाता चला गया
हर फिक्र को धुएँ में उड़ाता चला गया
हर फिक्र को धुएँ में उड़ा
बरबादियों का सोग मनाना फुजूल था
बरबादियों का सोग मनाना फुजूल था
मनाना फुजूल था
मनाना फुजूल था
बरबादियों का जशन मनाता चला गया
बरबादियों का जशन मनाता चला गया
हर फिक्र को धुएँ में उड़ा
जो मिल गया उसी को मुकद्दर समझ लिया
जो मिल गया उसी को मुकद्दर समझ लिया
मुकद्दर समझ लिया
मुकद्दर समझ लिया
जो खो गया मैं उसको भुलाता चला गया
जो खो गया मैं उसको भुलाता चला गया
हर फिक्र को धुएँ में उड़ा
ग़म और खुशी में फर्क न महसूस हो जहां
ग़म और खुशी में फर्क न महसूस हो जहां
न महसूस हो जहां
न महसूस हो जहां
मैं दिल को उस मुकाम पे लाता चला गया
मैं दिल को उस मुकाम पे लाता चला गया
मैं ज़िंदगी का साथ निभाता चला गया
हर फिक्र को धुएँ में उड़ाता चला गया
14 Responses to "Main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya"
February 9, 2009 at 3:01 am
One of my all-time favorites from Rafi, with Dev Anand in it. Double bonus, indeed! I saw this movie only recently, but I remember hearing from cousins that the cigarette lighter became very popular in their colleges!
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April 15, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Encouraging song for smokers…dedicated to all the smokers.
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April 21, 2013 at 6:45 pm
Why this song has SMOKING songs categorie,the song should come in the INSPIRATION categorie.Listen the words carefully he says ,every worry was ignored,and forgotten,there was no meaning of being sad on destruction.I was satisfied what I got.it was my destiny.I forgot what I lost.
What is use of it….what do you think Am I right ??
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April 22, 2013 at 10:35 am
Yes it comes under inspiration, positive thinking category, since the hero speaks about being positive and accept life as it comes, instead of crying over spilled milk. It talks about creating a mind-set where nothing effects you and you flow with life.
maya
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April 22, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Yes, this is an all time great inspirational ( motivational and philosophical also) song !!
the last stanza in fact is very important, which talks about being ‘stable and able’ the ‘sthitpradnya’ – ‘gam aur khushi mein farq na mehsoos ho jahaan….’ ! Sahir saab after all ….
Atul ji , can we add the Inspiration song tag also !!!
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April 22, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Wow! there is a real lobbying to make this song tagged as “Inspirational”! Are u guys working for tobacco companies or what?
He he. Since when smoking away your worries became inspirational? May be u guys also support legalizing Marijuana 🙂
Philosophical. Yes. Inspirational. No.
🙂
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April 22, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Neither we Smoke nor we work for tobacco companies! Smoking does’nt make worries inspirational. We do not support legalizing any thing that is anti-social and or injurious to health.
Thanks for supporting it as a ‘philosophical’ one !!
(It would have been better if Dev Anand was not shown smoking on -screen, and the ‘dhuaa’ would be symbolic only to show that the worries disappear in air like the smoke)
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April 22, 2013 at 10:53 pm
I was just kidding, man! So chill! 🙂 They would have to change a lot more than just not showing dev anand smoking on screen. Like Rafi Saab’s way of singing “udaaaaaaata chala gaya” as if he is “high” on smoke here. Or the lighter music which made this song iconic in the first place! Different people get inspirations from different sources. But it was just sorta opening a can of worms. Next thing u know someone would claim “Tu Pi Aur Jee” should be inspirational 🙂
Btw, since ur a fan of Sahir Saab, u would probably know that people would go to meet him at his place, but they wont go upstairs. It was easy to meet him at the Paan Ki Dukaan, smoking with his associates. In fact, when he died, he was smoking, playing cards, and still had cards in his hand. Here’s a quote on Sahir and Amrita Pritam:
“The two of them would meet without saying a word and Sahir would puff away with his cigarettes, and after he left, Amrita would smoke the cigarette butts left by him. After his death, she hoped the smoke from her cigarettes would meet him in the other world.” 😉
In any case, I was just joking. Whatever inspiration works for u or anyone else as long as it used positively and not to hurt others.
Regards.
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April 23, 2013 at 10:11 am
Sir, thanks !!! i was also just making it clear from my side and my point of view. Any thing can be a source of inspiration for any body, and we actually do not know what would work for somebody to get inspired.and as rightly said by you it should be only for doing good for others and contributing for the overall development and positive things for the society.
Yes, i do know about Sahir saab’s ‘shayraana aadtein'(and the many controversies surrounding it), and certainly not like all of them, except only his writings about social values, women’s issues,nature, and about deteriorating human values.
thanks and regards,
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April 23, 2013 at 1:02 pm
Friends all,
It is really interesting, this dailogue. It depicts such change in values across the decades. A time was when smoking was a ‘by-the-way’ part of life. And now, it has become a subject of controversial debate. Just couple of days back, while driving, I was listening to the CD no. 16 of the ‘Geetmala Ki Chhaaon Mein’ set, which is presented by Ameen Sayani. This song is played in vol. 16, and I was surprised and very amused that Ameen Sb actually spoke out a warning against hazards of smoking, before playing this song, in his own endearing way. And I wondered at this change in attitudes and social behavior over time. Back in 1961, when he may have played this song on Binaca Geetmala or any other program, he wouldn’t have even thought about the ill effects of smoking.
Ah yes, we are more aware now about the fatal effects of smoking, and yes, there is a whole new industry that now depends on the warnings and labels and advertisements and displays related to smoking. However, the fact continues to be that the tobacco industry continues to find more and more new customers and continues to grow and make profit. And sometimes I wonder whether this entire exercise about warnings etc. is of any use.
Before this phenomena overtook the social conscience, smoking was sporty, it was fashionable, it was the in thing, and ah yes, it was a matter of philosophy too. Many an author from the 19th and 20th centuries have written about smoking. In many works of literature, in many films, especially in the west, the act and the process of smoking has been a subject authors and film makers have dwelt upon, and even used as a device to move forward with the threads. Authors like John Stienbeck, Hemingway, and Ayn Rand have written about it. For Stienbeck, smoking represents an occasion to socialize, and to work towards enhancing relationships. For Ayn Rand, the burning spot at the tip of the cigarette is manifestation of the idea glimmering inside the brain. Her thesis was that smoking helps to concentrate the mental faculties, like the burning tip, and helped the brain to find solutions. So many other lines of thought have been explored, just on this simple act of inhaling and then blowing away nebulous smoke.
This song is definitely about smoking. The signature music of the entire film is the tiny jingle that plays on the ‘cigarette’ lighter. If the hero had not been a smoker, well then the director would have been hard placed to find some item of a man’s attire that plays music. A tiepin? A comb? A belt? A purse? . . . Naah, it had to be a cigarette lighter, the only thing that a man may carry oh his person, that sensibly can be linked to playing music. Ah yes, the other option could have been a cigarette box, but then again. . . 🙂
The song begins with the cigarette, and the first ‘dhuen mein udaata chala gaya’ is clearly a flourish of blowing the smoke away. In the middle of the second stanza, the cigarette is discarded in a small pond of water. If you are hearing a very clear recording, you will be able to distinguish a very tiny ‘plonk’ sound as the cigarette hits the water. The cigarette is never shown as hitting the water, but when shown, it is clearly visible that it has just landed on the water surface. And then when the third stanza starts, our protagonist, the captain lights up another cigarette.
It is a remarkable piece of poetry that Sahir Sb has put down the entire philosophy of life, in the cigarette smoke that a smoker blows away, without even once using the word ‘cigarette’ in the entire song. (One may recall another song,”Zindagi Cigarette Ka Dhuaan, Ye Dhuaan Jaata Hai Kahaan” (‘Faasla’, 1974), Kaifi Azmi Sb has been more explicit with his choice of words. And oh, I just realized, both these songs are composed by Jaidev. 🙂
Yes, it is philosophical, as well as inspirational. But I will weigh my preference in favor of philosophical, rather than inspirational. For the major content of the verses is strongly philosophical, and is inspirational only by implication. The philosophy revolves around beating the sorrows. This theme is repeated again and again, in all the three verses. And to beat the sorrows, the protagonist takes help of philosophy. The inspiration part is simply, not be weighed down with sorrows, just rake them away. . . or blow them away in smoke. Some of the new age thinkers would call it defeatist. That is simply another point of view.
🙂 🙂
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February 5, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Tanjua?
I think it was Nanda and Sadhna
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