Hamne apna tumhe samjha ye badi bhool huyi
Posted on: January 5, 2012
Most Hindi movie songs that we get to listen to are from movies that are released for public view and these songs figure in these movies.
But there are cases when the songs may have been excluded from the released movie. Most excluded songs from released movies die premature deaths, but some of them survive and even outlast the movie itself.
What about the situation where the movie itself fails to get released. As can be expected, in most cases like this, one never gets to listen to the songs of such unreleased movies. But in some rare cases, songs from such unreleased movies make it to the public ears. With time, these songs are forgotten.
Mr Sadanand Kamath recalls listening to this song on radio a lot in his younger days. At that time he was not aware the this song was from an unreleased movie. Secondly, he thought that the song was sung by Suman Kalyanpur.
When he listened to the song again recently, he found out that this song was from an unreleased movie called “Jitni Door Utne Paas”. Moreover, he is now convinced that the song is sung not by Suman Kalyanpur, but by Lata.
Shakeel Badayuni is the lyricist of this song and C Ramchandra composed the music.
Today (5th january) is the death anniversary of C Ramchandra. As a tribute to the great maestro, here is this (by now) rare song from an unrelaesed movie. It is a nice song to listen to, and we should count ourselves lucky that this song made it to the public domain even if the movie could not.
Song-Hamne apna tumhe samjha ye badi bhool huyi (Jitni Door Utne Paas)(unreleased)(1960) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Shakeel Badayuni, MD-C Ramchandra
Lyrics(Provided by Sadanand Kamath)
aadmi ka dil badal deta hai,
paise ka nasha
tumse umeed-e-wafaa thhi,
tum bhi nikle bewafaa
aaa
hamne apna tumhe samjhaa
hamne apna tumhe samjhaa,
ye badi bhool huyi
hamne apna tumhe samjha,
ye badi bhool huyi
kar liya tum pe bharosaa,
ye badi bhool huyi
hamne apna tumhe samjhaa
aaj ham dard se,
taqdeer se ghabaraayen hain
aaj ham dard se,
taqdeer se ghabaraayen hain
thes khaayee hai to aansoo
bhi nikal aaye hain
pehle anjaam na sochaa
ye badi bhool huyi
hamne apna tumhe samjhaa,
ye badi bhool huyi
hamne apna tumhe samjhaa
kyaa khabar thhi
ee ee
aa aa aa aa aa
kyaa khabar thi ke tum
is tarah badal jaaoge
is tarah badal jaaoge
tod kar pyaar ke waadey
hamein tadpaaoage
hamne dil se tumhe chaaha,
ye badi bhool huyi
hamne apna tumhe samjhaa,
ye badi bhool huyi
5 Responses to "Hamne apna tumhe samjha ye badi bhool huyi"
January 5, 2012 at 11:44 am
Atul ji,
Yes,but that was much later,on 26th January 1963,on Ramleela Grounds,New Delhi,in presence of Nehru ji.
There are details about how this song came up,in the autobiography of C.Ramchandra,in which he has given the sequence of events how Lata Mageshkar skilfully hijacked this song from Asha Bhosle-who actually was slated to sing this song and how,at the last minute Asha’s flight ticket was cancelled,and how Asha wept unconsolably.
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January 5, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Really? I was not aware of this fact. But it should be true as you have mentioned that it was written in C.Ramchandra’s autobiography. I have heard another story about this song. After Lataji was done singing this song, Nehruji had tears in his eyes and the first thing he asked was that where is the writer of this song? And he was quite upset when he found out that the lyricist,Pradeepji was not even invited at this ocassion. Arunji, is it true?
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January 5, 2012 at 11:29 am
Atul ji,
JITNE DOOR UTNE PAAS-1961 was to be a Raghavan production film in which,as per plans,the lead pair was to be Pradeep Kumar and Bina Rai.However,4 songs were recorded and the film was abondoned after shooting few reals.it was never completed also.
This song has another significance.
The Lata- C.Ramchandra combination was making waves in the early and middle 50s.During this period,Lata sang a record 298 songs in 63 films for C.Ramchandra.Out of this only 76 songs were duets and 222 songs were Lata solos or with chorus.
After 1957/58,there was a distance in the relationship of CR and Lata for personal reasons and they stopped working together.NAVRANG was a film,in which CR used Asha Bhosle extensively and made the songs popular.
However in 1961,it was V.Shantaram,who brought CR and Lata together again and she sang for him for the film ‘STREE’.
Then came JITNE DOOR UTNE PAAS.As if this title indicated the CR-Lata relationship,CR put all his skill in it and an excellent solo song ‘Hamne apna tumhe samza…’ came up.Both felt as if this song expressed their own feelings towards each others. However the gap in their relationship never filled up till the end.
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January 5, 2012 at 11:33 am
Thanks a lot for this information.
Lata-C Ramchandra also came together for the immortal patriotic song “Ae mere watan ke logon”.
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