10 Responses to "Devta tum ho mera sahaara"
June 19, 2012 at 4:09 pm
This is such an OUTSTANDING song!!! It has become my new favourite song. Listening to it non-stop. Mubarak Begum, Rafi saab, Kaif Bhopali, Jamal Sen – thank you for this amazing, amazing song.
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July 5, 2012 at 3:04 am
Hi Atul,
I’m mesmerised by this song and have heard it many, many times by now. Can never get enough of this song. I saw the movie recently – this song comes constantly in the movie.
If I may, I think the following lines in the above lyrics need to be changed:
1) uski bansi bajaate ho jab tum
should be
hanske bansi bajaate ho jab tum
2) gungunaata hai jhankaar saara
should be
gungunaata hai sansaar saara
Thanks,
Raja
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August 1, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Video link not working. New video links with improved video quality :
Version-1 : http://youtu.be/U1TjubgBOyg
Version-2 : http://youtu.be/sVxu_vwrk2I
Version-3 : http://youtu.be/o0Txy05QnVQ
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July 13, 2013 at 10:24 am
“Daaera” was a film far ahead of its time and flopped. Jamal Sen’s music was mesmerizing. Is this film available on VCD/DVD?
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July 14, 2013 at 3:01 am
Sheshadriji,
Just read Arunji’s comments about Meena Kumari’s on screen close-up shot of 6 mins and 30 seconds.
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July 14, 2013 at 6:24 am
Sheshadriji,
You can download the DVD of this movie on the EDU Productions site. Memsaab has written a preview in her own style, which you may agree or differ. Just watch it before reading the story-line.
Here is the site with many more movies.Tom has worked really hard for all Hindi Cine lovers to restore these movies and made it available on his site. Thanks to Rajaji, Avaji and others to do the subtitle.
http://memsaabstory.com/edu-productions/
Enjoy it! 🙂
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July 13, 2013 at 7:14 pm
Seshadri ji,
Yes, this film was almost in the genre of an art film, in an era when the term art film was not even known in the Hindi film industry. It is not that the subject matter (of a lady being married to a gentleman much much older than herself), was not dealt with earlier. We have V Shantaram’s ‘Duniya Na Maane’ starring Shanta Apte and Keshavrao Daate from 1937, that dealt with this subject. However, V Shantaram’s film focused on the social and familial aspect of this relationship and scenario. In our real life society, the fact of such marriages has been evident historically. The lady is expected to accept her position and is not expected to express her feelings and desires.
‘Daaera’, on the other hand, was scratching the surface of a topic that was more taboo. A lady who is married to a man old enough to be her father, confronts a situation wherein her feelings and desires for another person are awakened. A young man in the neighborhood takes interest in her. Unwantingly, and without expressing explicitly, she gets drawn into that emotion. The mother of the boy actually visit the old man, with the intention of starting a dialogue for an alliance of her son with his ‘daughter’. Before the conversation can get to that point, it is revealed that she not a ‘daughter’ but is the wife. The visitors backtack, and thence starts the tragic phase of this film.
The film did not go down well with audiences, because they could not accept the thesis of the married lady getting her desires awakened by another person, not her husband. The film is actually very well underplayed, and there is no explicit expressions of emotions or even dialogues to that effect. The entire episode is dealt with encounters from a distance, and messages.
It is not only the music that is mesmerizing. The entire film, with its interplay of light and shadows, is a spellbinding experience. The entire film appears to be a slowly unfolding verse – very captivating. (A film that would be a visual disaster if ever colorized.)
Another interesting aspect of this film is that it is directed by Kamaal Amarohi. And suddenly the autobiographical aspect of this film comes into juxtaposition. Meena Kumari and Kamaal Amrohi had got married in 1952 – with an age difference of fiteen years. Was this film the reason that Kamaal Amarohi, already married twice by this time, chose to marry Maahjabeen? Food for speculation.
This film has not been released on DVD/VCD yet. But the VHS rip version and a TV transmission version are doing rounds on the internet. I have the original VHS of this film with me. I can send you a copy on disc, if you are not able to locate it on the internet.
Rgds
Sudhir
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July 14, 2013 at 2:55 am
Thanks Sudhirji for the on/off screen history of this film. I love all the songs of this movie, fav being Aansoo to nahin hai aankhon mein…. Aa bhi jaa meri duniya mein….. Mubarak Begum’s finest song (solely my personal liking/opinion) Dekhte Jaao Bhadak Uthi Hai Shamme Zindagaani……, played in the beginning. You can also see the “interesting” message “Samarpan… Maataon aur Behnon ki Sewa Mein…” at 1:07 on the video clip
I will take your offer of copy on the disc, if don’t find it on the net.
Thanks again.
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October 13, 2011 at 7:07 pm
New Video links :
The first version : http://youtu.be/T_1KwCmKuD8
The second version : http://youtu.be/ctRlMGduMHY
However, video qualities are poor. Hence the Audio version : http://youtu.be/WRJ-RTumR78
Mubarak Begum had 7 songs in this film and the success of this film would have charted a new course in her carrier as a singer. But the film flopped miserably sealing the fate of Mubarak Begum as a successful singer.
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