Mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik
Posted on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Sadananad Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
ALBELAA (1951) was a musical blockbuster produced and directed by Master Bhagwan. In my childhood days, I had quite often heard ‘shaam dhale khidki tale tum seeti bajaanaa chhod do’ but none of the other songs from the film. I saw this film for the first time on Doordarshan in early 80s. Thereafter, I must have seen this movie a couple of times after I bought VCD of this film last year. This was Bhagwan’s first venture for a big budget film after producing and directing some low budget C grade films. The film was the third highest box office grosser of 1951 ranking after ‘Aawaraa’ and ‘Baazi’. It was an amazing feat for Bhagwan to achieve a box office success with this film despite having a run of the mill story ( probably based on his own life), a lacklustre direction and a non-conventional lead actor like him. The credit goes to the film’s foot tapping songs which became a craze those days and are still popular with the new generation as well.
There were films in the early 50s with great songs like Goel Cine Corporation’s ‘Adaa’ (1951) which failed miserably at the box office. But ‘Albelaa’ had some other other ingredients for a box office success. The new generation of audience was attracted by the catchy tunes of the songs based on western music, Bhagwan’s slow step dance and Geeta Bali’s lively presence in the film. Additionally, the audience was impressed with the conceptualisation of most of the song sequences which were visual treats for them. The only exception to this was the song ‘dheere se aajaa re ankhiyan mein’ – in my view, the best song in the film which was wasted by its inept conceptualisation. But for the masses, that was excusable as other positive factors in the film overwhelmed them to see the film repeatedly. Bhagwan’s dance steps became so popular with the masses that even the later year actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Govinda adopted it in some of their films. Bhagwan’s dance steps are still popular and I see youngsters replicating them in most of the street celebrations.
I recall reading a news report in the Times of India sometime in 1975 that Bhagwan had pledged the original print of ‘Albelaa’ to one Ranjeet Budhkar ( I hope, I got the name correctly) against the money he owed to him. When he failed to repay the amount, Budhkar released the film for re-run in a couple of theatres in central Mumbai to recover his dues. The response to the film was so great that it continued to run for a few more weeks. In the same report, it was mentioned that in one of those theatres when some popular songs like ‘shola jo bhadke’ was appearing on the screen, the audience got so ecstatic that many of them would throw coins towards the screen. Anyway, Budhkar must have recovered the amount more than what was due from Bhagwan and the concerned theatre staff got ‘bonus’ by way of collecting coins after each show :D. A positive aspect of ‘Albelaa’ print being pledged with Budhkar was that the film along with his other film ‘Bhagam Bhag’ were saved from a devastating fire at Bombay Laboratory where all his other films were destroyed.
As many as 7 songs from this film have been discussed in the blog. The song under discussion is ‘mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik’ sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Chitalkar. Rajendra Krishan wrote the lyrics which was set to music by C Ramchandra. The background to this song is that after being pulled up by his boss for not despatching the letters, Pyarelal(Bhagawan) sits for completing the job. But at the stroke of 12’ o clock, he starts imagining that he is singing the song with Asha ( Geeta Bali), the famous stage actor. At the end of the song, Pyarelal realises that he was actuallys inging the song in the office among his colleagues. Later he is fired from the job by his boss for singing in the office.
This song is a welcome change from the current style of dancing in the films which is more of acrobatic exercise and less of the dance.
Song-Mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik (Albela)(1951) Singers-Lata, C Ramchandra, Lyrics-Rajinder Krishan, MD-C Ramchandra
Lata + C Ramchandra
Lyrics
mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik
o baje raat ke baarah
haay teri yaad ne maaraa
mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik
o baje raat ke baarah
haay teri yaad ne maaraa
khaamosh zamaanaa soye
ik meraa hi dil roye
ik meraa hi dil roye
khaamosh zamaanaa soye
ik meraa hi dil roye
ik meraa hi dil roye
aur dil par teer chalaaye
aur dil par teer chalaaye
ek jhilmil kartaa taaraa
haay teri yaad ne maaraa
mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik
o baje raat ke baarah
haay teri yaad ne maaraa
na bane baat kuchh keh ke
aur jale jiyaa chup reh ke
aur jale jiyaa chup reh ke
na bane baat kuchh keh ke
aur jale jiyaa chup reh ke
aur jale jiyaa chup reh ke
bas chupke chupke tadpe
bas chupke chupke tadpe
majboor koyi bechaaraa
haay teri yaad ne maaraa
mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik
o baje raat ke baarah
haay teri yaad ne maaraa
ankhiyon se nindiyaa bhaagi
palkon mein rimjhim laagi
palkon mein rimjhim laagi
ankhiyon se nindiyaa bhaagi
palkon mein rimjhim laagi
palkon mein rimjhim laagi
ab aan milo o sajnaa
ab aan milo o sajnaa
dil tadap tadap kar haaraa
haay teri yaad ne maaraa
mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik
o baje raat ke barah
haay teri yaad ne maaraa
3 Responses to "Mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik"
March 31, 2012 at 1:40 am
Sadanand ji
Thanks for this post, what a wonderful reminder once again. The kind of song that set apart C Ramchandra’s music from the other composers of his time.
Rgds
Sudhir
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August 7, 2014 at 3:56 pm
Such soothing beauties, each one of them. Thank you Sadanand Ji for such an informative write-up.
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March 25, 2012 at 10:05 am
Each song of this film is a gem.
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