Duniya mein rehna hai to kaam karo pyaare

Posted by: Atul on: July 19, 2012

In: "Advice" song | "Elephant" song | "roadside tamaasha" song | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Rajesh Khanna songs | Rajesh Khanna songs by Kishore Kumar | Song with a message | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1971 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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I have mentioned it in the past that I am quite absent minded when it comes to remembering important dates. There were occasions when I turned up at my work place, only to realise that it was a holiday. But more importantly, I tend to be absent minded about important dates of personal importance too, viz birthday of my spouse etc, which is never a good idea. Fortunately, my daughter, who always keeps track of such dates comes to my rescue.

It was the same for me with this blog too in the past. This blog started on this very day four years ago on 19 july 2008. This date passed unnoticed the next year. With passage of time, the blog has added more and more regulars and a few of them are much better organised when it comes to remembering important dates. They not only tell me about important dates, they send me contributions for these occasions too. Moreover, I too have tried to mend my ways. Believe it or not, I remembered this date this time 🙂

completing four years on internet ! Four years is regarded as a lifetime on internet and that way we can be proud of the fact that we have not only come through unscathed during these years, but we in fact have grown up nicely during the four years. It has become a meeting ground of like minded music lovers. The regulars of this blog share certain common values, even though these values have not been written down anywhere in the blog. They are all generous, knowledgeable, intelligent, mature and well settled individuals, whose love for the common cause is deep and long lasting. By interacting with them online, one feels that the interaction is taking place face to face. One can make guesses about them based on these online interactions. When one finally meets them face to face, it does not appear that we are meeting with a stranger. I was fortunate to meet two regulars of this blog, namely Raja and Sudhir ji, and I found them exactly what I had thought them to be, based on my online interactions with them, viz, extremely intelligent, kind, considerate, and humble. That way, the online interaction here is different from many social sites where people often create fake profiles. Here in this blog, what we percieve is what we get. That to me is one of the biggest achievement of this blog. This blog has helped create a close knit online communuity of like minded individuals, who share common interests, and in fact, they share in each others’ joys and sorrows too.

Working is such congenial online atmosphere naturally leads to collaboration among them voluntarily and willingly. Yes, this blog has now become an online collaboration where we are adding up valuable information about Hindi movie music. Quite a good deal of information contained in this blog was first made available on internet in this blog. Many lesser known songs and artists are being brought to the public domain after decades here. All this information will hopefully serve as a valuable and authentic reference material in future.

When my love affair with Hindi movie music began in late 1960s as a pre teen kid, I was not aware that one day, more than four decades later, I will have a music blog where I will have the company of such like minded individuals on a daily basis. Those days few people were aware of computers and internet was non existent. The computers themselves used to be huge four storey building sized machines and only big organisations could afford them.

When I was growing up in late 1960s, one day I heard a song called “Mere Saamne Waali Khidki Mein” on radio. I loved the song, and I was told by my Mama (maternal uncle) that the singer was Kishore Kumar. Later I heard several songs of Kishore Kumar. A few months later, the songs of “Aradhana” became the rage of the nation. Most songs of this movie were sung by Kishore Kumar. I came to know that Rajesh Khanna was the hero of that movie. Rajesh Khanna as an actor and Kishore Kumar as the male playback singer became the hottest property in Hindi movies.

It is mentioned by many (and I read it today in newspapers too) that Rajesh Khanna was a heart throb of females. But to say that Rajesh Khanna was not a heart throb of others is incorrect. He was a heart throb of everyone, age and gender no bar. “Haathi Mere Saathi” (1971) was a Rajesh Khanna movie which was tailormade for kids like me. The movie had Rajesh Khanna and a few elephants in it who would follow the commands of Rajesh Khanna and perform tricks. What more does a kid want ? And the movie had awesome songs too. Kids like me were not into romantic songs or sad songs from this movie, but into songs like “Chal Chal Chal Mere Saathi” and “Duniya Mein Rehna Hai to Kaam Karo Pyaare”.

This movie in fact is a hit with pets too. Memsaab has mentioned in her blog that her late dog Gemma enjoyed watching this movie with her. I have not tried watching this movie with my dogs, but I will not be surprised if they too watch this movie with interest. The flip side is, they may then become addicted to watching movies, and I do not want my dogs to become lazy couch potatoes. 🙂 I will then need to tell my dogs that one needs to work hard in this world to supvive, be it humans or elephants or dogs. See how the elephants are performing in this song. If the dogs are like my daughter, all this advise will fall on deaf ears though. 🙂

Watching the picturisation of this song again after four decades, I once again felt the need to have pets like elephants. If one can have pets like cat (miniature version of tiger) then why we do not have miniature version of elephants. If a portable sized animal that was a miniature version of wild elephant existed then it would have become one of the most popular pets with human beings, I feel.

On the occasion of this blog’s anniversary, as well as on the occasion of the sad demise of Rajesh Khanna, here is this much loved song from “Haathi Mere Saathi” (1971). The song is sung by Kishore Kumar and it is picturised as a roadside tamasha song where people gather and watch elephants performing tricks alongwith Rajesh Khanna, Tanuja, Junior Mehmood etc.

Anand Bakshi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal.

On this occasion, I thank all the visitors, regular and well wishers of this blog who have helped make this blog a much loved place on the cyberspace. I hope that the blog will continue to get the same love and affection and blessing from music lovers. We still have a long and enjoyable musical journey ahead of us and I hope that we will be able to see many more anniversaries of this blog in future.

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Song-Duniya mein rehna hai to kaam kar pyaare (Haathi Mere Saathi)(1971) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Laxmikant Pyarelal

Lyrics

meharbaanon
kadardaanon
doston
yaaron
arre khel dekho khel

one two three up

duniya mein rehna hai to kaam kar pyaare
haath jod sabko salaam kar pyaare
duniya mein rehna hai to kaam kar pyaare
haath jod sabko salaam kar pyaare
warna ye duniya jeene nahin degi
khaane nahin degi peene nahin degi
khel koi naya subah shaam kar pyaare
duniya mein rehna hai to kaam kar pyaare
he haath jod sabko salaam kar pyaare
warna ye duniya jeene nahin degi
khaane nahin degi peene nahin degi
khel koi naya subah shaam kar pyaare
he duniya mein rehna hai to kaam kar pyaare

paise bina duniya mein roti nahin milti
ee ee ee ee ee ee
roti nahin milti
langoti nahin milti ee
paise bina duniya mein roti nahin milti
roti nahin milti
langoti nahin milti
naam apna na badnaam kar pyaare
haath jod sabko salaam kar pyaare
he duniya mein rehna hai to kaam kar pyaare

ek din tere mere khwaab honge poore
ae ae ae ae ae ae
aisi koi baat kar chal o jamoore
ek din tere mere khwaab honge poore
aisi koi baat kar chal o jamoore
reh jaayen sab dil thhaam kar pyaare
haath jod sabko salaam kar pyaare
he duniya mein rehna hai to kaam kar pyaare

chal
ooparwaale ko yaad kar
taange mein lagi jaise ghodi chali jaaye
ae ae ae ae ae ae
rassi pe gori aise daudi chale jaaye
taange mein lagi jaise ghodi chali jaaye
rassi pe gori aise daudi chale jaaye
chal ghar chalen
raam raam kar pyaare
duniya mein rehna hai to kaam kar pyaare
haath jod sabko salaam kar pyaare
warna ye duniya jeene nahin degi
khaane nahin degi peene nahin degi
khel koi naya subah shaam kar pyaare

Tags: 1971, Anand Bakshi, Haathi Mere Saathi, Kishore Kumar, Laxmikant Pyarelal, Rajesh Khanna, Tanuja

27 Responses to "Duniya mein rehna hai to kaam karo pyaare"

1 | Arunkumar Deshmukh
July 19, 2012 at 10:21 am

Atul ji,
CONGRATULATIONS on completing 4 years.
Like you said rightly,the company of likeminded companions makes the journey more enjoyable.
This musical yatra is a great treasure,for it not only consists of songs,info and comments from the knowledgeables,but it is woven with sweet memories of meeting the right kind of people and conducive environment too.
Thanks to you for making this platform available and wish you many more milestones and a total satisfaction.
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