Khaali peeli khaali peeli… kaahe ko bom maartaa hai
Posted on: July 10, 2009
As special songs go, this song is very special indeed. Let me enumerate why this song is special.
This is one of the first great comedy songs where Kishore Kumar acted as well as sang the song. This is from a movie called ” Tamasha”. Though a great comedy song, this song is not all that easy to find out. Fortunately, some kind soul has uploaded this great, but rare, song and we are now privileged to watch this song.
The song is picturised on Kishore Kumar, Dev Anand and Meena Kumari. If this song is any indication, this movie is a great romantic comedy like “Miss Mary” which came 5 years later. In other words, this movie could well be the template for “Miss Mary” which also starred Kishore Kumar and Meena Kumari and there it was Gemini Ganeshan instead of Dev Anand.
This song must be the first song which used slang lingo of Bombay as spoken on the streets of Bombay rather than the sophisticated language of mushaayaras (poetry sessions). And this song was written by Bharat Vyas, who is typically known for using rather more sophisticated words as he mainly wrote songs for historical/ mythological movies. And what a superb song he has written. It is extremely witty, funny and entertaining.
What about the music director ? It is another person in an unfamiliar role. Manna Dey, who is mainly known as a singer of serious semi classical songs, is the music director of this tapori song.
For this blog, this song is the 1600th song. I could not have thought of a better song than this song to post as the 1600th song of this blog.
Let us all salute the genius of Kishore Kumar, Bharat Vyas and Manna Dey for creating this precious gem of a song.
And I take this opportunity to thank all my readers and visitors. Please keep your encouragement coming. Your love and encouragement keeps me going, Your comments, suggestions , farmaishes etc keep me motivated. So please continue to shower your blessing on this blog so that this blog can keep bringing cheers to all its followers.
Song-Khaali peeli khaali peeli (Tamasha) (1952) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Bharat Vyas, MD-Manna Dey
Lyrics
he
khaali peli kaahe ko bom maarta hai re
arre chal
khaali peeli kaahe ko
akhaa din baith ke
bom maartaa hai
khaali peeli
khaali peeli
khaali peeli kaahe ko
akhaa din baith ke
bom maartaa hai
khaali peeli kaahe ko
akhaa din baith ke
bom maartaa hai
left left left right
halt
saste uthke baatroom me tu
jaake snaan kar
Hamam Lux se ragad ragad
badan ko saaf kar
khatiya se chhod raasta
taiyyar tera nashta
bhabhi take hai raastaa
O aalsi
he he
O aalsi
kaahe ko kaahe ko kaahe ko
himmat haarta hai
bom maarta hai
khaali peeli kaahe ko
akhaa din baith ke
bom maartaa hai
khaali peeli
haan
henw mew
Ye ladki phir se yahaan kyon aaa gayi
nana ne kiya ghotaala
o gadbadjhaala
samajh nahin aala re
hoy
nana ne kiya ghotaala
o gadbad gadbadjhaala
samajh nahin aala re
farr farr
nanaji ne baithe baithe apni akal ghumaayi hai
nanaji ne baithe baithe apni akal ghumaayi
bacho bacho ji
bacho bacho ji ye naar naweli
padhaane tumhe aayi hai
padhaane tumhe aayi hai
cat maane billi rat maane chooha
cat maane billi rat maane chooha
L O V E
L O V E
L O V E
love maane pyaar
pyaar maane mohabbat
mohabbat maane hee hee hee hee he he he he
mi mi mi mi mi
na na na
arre baap re baap
ab kya karen
jhootha sachchaa pyaar jataao
thandi thandi aahen bharo
haay umm unh
iske prem mein paagal bankar
kabhi jiyo aur kabhi maro
maro maro
hoy hoy hoy
gar baat meri maan le
to teraa bedaa paar hai
nahin to bacchoo naao teri
gudup
majhdhaar hai
yahi hai mera faisla ab dekhen tera hauslaa
o pahalwaan
o pahalwaan
kaahe ko kaahe ko kaahe ko
himmat haarta hai
bom maarta hai
khaali peeli kaahe ko akhaa din baith ke
bom maartaa hai
b o m ..maarta hai
hai hai hai hai hai
10 Responses to "Khaali peeli khaali peeli… kaahe ko bom maartaa hai"
July 10, 2009 at 1:57 pm
I do hope this film makes it to DVD with subtitles one day…I’ve been looking since you alerted me about it 🙂 Thanks for this.
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July 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm
And I have to add that Kishore just continues to charm me more and more and more…this song is hilarious.
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July 10, 2009 at 9:49 pm
What a delightful song, for the 1600th position! I have never heard this one before! Now that you are so good at finding all these lost songs, I still hope that you or someone here can find the children’s song, which was a parody of various songs, and used to play in November/Dec 1962 or 1963. It was about the lion which was tricked into seeing its own reflection in the well, and then it jumped in to fight with its reflection. One part of it went: Poonchwale, tera jawab nahin …, then Yahoo…oo..chahe koi mujhe junglee kahe, and Zara saamne to aao chhaliye … and I think even Ehsaan tera hoga mujhpar … was in there. Does anyone at all remember this?
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July 10, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Arrey, just too good !!!
Never heard this song before – hearing it for the first time just now.
So many gems out there that I have never heard.
This song is just superb – muppet masti to the core. 🙂
Congrats on reaching 1600, Atul. And a perfect song for that landmark.
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July 12, 2009 at 1:15 pm
What absolute fun that was! Thanks Atul as always for highlighting these lost gems. And congratulations on the 1600th 🙂
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July 13, 2009 at 2:31 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lalitha,Raja, Suhan. It was my pleasure posting this song.
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March 1, 2010 at 3:59 am
Lalitha,
Please see my finding at this page.
https://atulsongaday.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/tumhi-ho-maata-pitaa-tumhi-ho/
It’s also from Main Chup Rahungi. As you had written about this movie there, I posted it on that page.
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July 10, 2009 at 10:54 am
yeaaaaaaaaaa
atul what a treat! what a feat! what a feast! and we r hungry for more of the same.
clap! clap!! clap!!! a standing ovation to you!
keep up the gr8 work.
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July 10, 2009 at 11:39 am
Thank you ! Thank you !
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