Hello hello Gentleman milaate kyun nahin hamse nain
Posted on: October 31, 2009
Some two years back, I had collected a list of songs picturised on Railways and I thought that I had covered almost all the songs that were there on this topic. By now, I have discovered several more Rail songs.
This rare and old song from “Actress” (1948) is one such song. The picturisation of this song shows a few ladies singing in a moving train. They are mocking a gentleman who is dressed in western clothes. This song is from 1948 when India had recently become independent from England. Gandhi, the leader of the freedom struggle had given the call for giving up western ways of dressing and had exhorted the Indians to dress in native dressed using homdespun yard called Khadi. This song talks of the same ideals of Gandhi.
This light hearted song is sung by Shamshad Begam, Lalita Dewoolkar and others. It is picturised on Rehana and Meena and others. I guess that the western attired gentleman is Prem Adeeb, but I can be totally wrong.
The song is written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and music is composed by Shyam Sunder. It is a lovely song and a rare gem. I stumbled upon this song nly just now and I loved listening to it (and watching it).
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Audio
Song-Hello hello gentleman milaate kyun nahin hamse nain (Actress) (1948) Shamshad Begam, Lalita Dewoolkar, Lyrics-Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, MD-Shyam Sundar
Lyrics
hello hello gentleman
milaate kyun nahin hamse nain
milaate kyun nahin hamse nain
tabeeyat kaisi hai kaisi hai kaisi hai
tabeeyat tabeeyat tabeeyat
kaisi hai kaisi hai kaisi hai
hello hello hello hello hello hello
Hat to hamne phenk diyaa
Hat to hamne phenk diyaa
tum phenko necktie
tum phenko necktie
chalaa gayaa Angarez
kah do in sab ko good bye
kah do in sab ko good bye
English cheezen kar do ban
English cheezen kar do ban
be an indian if you can
be an indian if you can
hello hello gentleman
milaate kyun nahin hamse nain
tabeeyat kaisi hai kaisi hai kaisi hai
tabeeyat tabeeyat tabeeyat
kaisi hai kaisi hai kaisi hai
hello hello hello hello hello hello
aankhen kholo
aankhen kholo
badal gayaa hai India kaa map
badalaa India kaa map
bhaag gayi Angrezi topi
rah gayi Gandhi cap
bhaag gayi Angrezi topi
rah gayi Gandhi cap
rah gayi Gandhi cap
rah gayi apni Gandhi cap
down down Angrezi topi
down down Angrezi topi
up up Gandhi cap
up up Gandhi cap
khaddar pahno
aji tum khaddar pahno
khaddar pahno gentleman
phenko English fllallen
phenko phenko phenko phenko phenko
3 Responses to "Hello hello Gentleman milaate kyun nahin hamse nain"
October 31, 2009 at 2:56 pm
What a cute song this is !
Had never heard this song before – thanks, Atul.
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August 25, 2015 at 9:59 pm
Here is the audio with full version and better quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ABZ01RVjM
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October 31, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Lovely song, very cute! Thanks for digging it up!
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