Ro ro nain ganwaaun sajanwa aan milo
Posted on: November 1, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few months back, I came across a thumri ‘ro ro nain gawaaun sajanwaa aan milo’ sung by Ashraf Khan. I liked this thumri and assumed it to be a traditional thumri bandish rather than from a Hindi film. I marked it in my play list and forgot about it. It was only when I read an article on actor-singer Ashraf Khan written by Arun Kumar Deshmukh as part of a series of his articles on some lesser known singers for this blog that I realised that the thumri sung by Ashraf Khan which I referred to earlier was in fact a thumri based song from the film ‘Baaghbaan’ (1938).
I was aware of Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Baaghbaan’ (2003) under B R Chopra’s banner but never knew that a film by similar name was released as early as 1938. The information on IMD and other sources on the internet revealed that the film was produced under the banner of General Films and directed by A R Kardar. The star cast included B Naderkar, Bimla Kumari, Sitara Devi, Mirza Musharraf, Yakub, Wasti, K N Singh, Ashraf Khan, Yasmin, Putlibai ( probably the same actress who became famous by her new name Shamim Ara in Pakistani film industry).
A feature of this song is that there are no orchestration between stanzas but there are very short musical interludes between first and second lines of antras. After listening to this thumri based song many times, I can say that the voice and emotions could have come only from a Godly man. Although this song is addressed to the beloved, Ashraf Khan’s rendition gives me a feel of a devotional song as if addressed to the Almighty. Lyrics of the song were written by Mirza Musharraf. Mustaq Hussain composed the music for the film. I guess, he was the same person known as Ustad Mustaq Hussain Khan, the renowned Hindustani classical singer belonging to Rampur Gharana.
Only audio clip is available of this song. Since Ashraf Khan also acted in this film, it is apparent that this song must have been picturised on him.
Song-Ro ro nain ganwaaun sajanwa aan milo (Baaghbaan)(1938) Singer-Ashraf Khan, Lyrics-Mirza Musharraf, MD-Mushtaq Hussain
Lyrics
sajanaa aa aa aa waa
sajan aa aa
aa aa
aa aa waa
aan milo
o o o o
ro ro nain gawaaun
sajanwaa aan milo
ek pal chain na paaun
sajanwaa aan milo
ro ro nain ganwaa aa aa aa
aa aa un
yaad tumhari jab aa jaawe
dukhiyaa man ko aur dukhaa de
kisko haay lagnaaun
sajanwaa aan milon
ro ro nain gawaaun
sajanwaa aan milo
tumne mukhdaa kyun modaa hai
preet ka rishtaa kyun todaa hai
kisko meet banaaun
sajanwaa aan milo o o
ro ro nain gawaa aa aa aa
aa aa un
is sansar ke roop tumhi ho
sundar sapnaa sirf tumhi ho
tum bin chain na paaun
sajanwaa aan milo
ro ro nain gawaa aa aa
aa aa aa aaa
aa aa aa aaa
sajanwaaa aa waaa
aa aa aa aaa
ro ro nain ganwaaun
sajnwaa aan milo o o o
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February 14, 2021 at 7:44 pm
Do we know the english translations of this??
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