Uff ye mausam khushnuma
Posted on: February 22, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Secrecy, Puzzles, riddles, Mystery and fantasy are the initiators of curiosity in Human Mind. The mind dreams of the things it wishes, but can not do and knows that it can not do. That is where the seeds of Action films and stunts are sown.
A normal person likes to see a man do super-human activity like fighting with hungry lions or teaching a lesson to Roadside Romeos or punishing wrong-doers etc. If possible he would like to do these things himself, but it is not possible for an ordinary man. If someone is thrashing a thief or stopping someone from troubling hapless women, the public gathers and cheers him. We have seen it many times.
The film makers took advantages of this human nature and made films about super-natural heroes who rode Horses, fought 10 goons at a time, jumped into and out of fire with ease and generally staked their lives to save the poor and the weak in the society. The audience simply loved it and action films established themselves. There is nothing childish about it. These movies help majority of moviegoers enjoy such superhuman acts vicariously.
When film making started in India, it was but natural, because of our heritage, that most initial films were mythological. With the begining of silent films from Raja Harishchandra in 1913 till 1921 all films were Mythologicals.
The First off-beat film was ” England Returned or Bilet ferat” a Comedy film made by Indo British films, Calcutta,released on 2-2-1921.
The First fantasy film was ‘Princess Badar or The tale of Kamar-al-Zamin’ made in 1922 by Madan Theatres,Calcutta.
The First Costume film was ‘ The song of the slave ‘-1922,made by Photoplay Syndicate,Calcutta.
The First Crime film was ‘ The Kala Naag or Triumph of Justice ‘-1924, made by Kohinoor films,Bombay. The First detective film was ‘ Justice or Nyaya’-1925, made by Premier Photoplay, Poona.
And finally the First Action film was ” The choice of a Bride “-1929,made by Surya Film Company, Bangalore.
After this there were many Action films made in Silent movies till the last silent film in India-” Niyoti”-1934, made by Aurora Film Corporation, Calcutta, released on 15-9-1934.
( Thanks to Dr.R K Verma and his book “Silent Cinema”).
When the Talkie films started , here too Mythologicals led the list. However the First Action Film in Talkie was ” Dagabaz Aashiq”-1932, closely followed by another action film “Do Badmash” made by Imperial and Ranjit respectively.
After this there was no looking back. There was enough material available for Mythological, Historical, religious, social, fantasy and Costume films in India,with its rich Heritage, but for Action and Stunt films, movie makers looked to the west.
The legendary King Arthur, Robin Hood, William Tell, Zorro and Tarzan etc all became sources of inspiration for action and stunt films in India. Skillful adaptation and Indianization of western Heroes coupled with the fertile imagination of story writers in our studios provided enough fodder. It is through this that emerged the ideas of ‘Masked men’,’Hunterwali’ and various Baghis.
Out of these the Tarzan stories were more popular as they combined Mystery, jungles, superhuman powers and great strengths which tamed the wild animals. Countless films were made with Tarzan as the central character.
When the normal titles finished, the imaginative writers combined Tarzan with Alladin, Delialah, Rocket, Gorilla, Mermaid, King Kong, Hercules, cobra, circus and even Fairyland. When this too was exhausted, they joined him with places like Delhi, spies like 303 etc. They gave Tarzan a Daughter also. When indianisation of Tarzan was complete, in came ZIMBO !
Whatever the title, the script ideas were more or less the same. It was ensured that the Hero’s supernatural powers and strength was used and wild animals were shown in abundance.
Today we will talk about one such film called ” TARZAN KI MEHBOOBA “. In the original novels of Burrows, Tarzan was loved by a city bred young girl who tries to ‘civilise’ Tarzan. But the ways of Indian Films are different. Here the ‘Mehbooba ‘ is a tribal girl herself who requires getting ‘civilised’ herself !
Anyway in this film Tarzan is played by Azaad (more about him in some other episode) and the mehbooba is played by the petite Tabassum.
Tabassum is an actress of a kind who was an Allrounder- not in body shape-,(that she is Now!), who is the only one having succeeded in 5 different mediums of entertainment. Films, TV, Radio, Print Media and Stage. Here is a small note about her, as it appears on her Facebook page-
” Tabassum ,during her years as child star , was dubbed by her fans , the movie -industry and the media as “THE SHIRLY TEMPLE OF INDIA”.
FILMS
She made her debut at the age of two and half years, in 1946, in her first film –Famous Pictures “Nargis’. This film was produced by Baburao Pai ,directed by D.D.Kashyap ….“Nargis” starred the legendary Nargisji herself with Rehman ,Shahnawaz ,Alka ,Achrekar and BABY TABASSUM.
In a short span of about six years Tabassum chalked up a record of child artist roles in more than thirty films , and she’s working in films even today with a total of more than 100 films to her credit.
TELEVISION
Tabassum was the first to start the movie- oriented T.V. series on Doordarshan (India’s Government owned Television channel) which started on October 2nd, 1972. On October 8th 1972 , she launched her famous series of film-personality interviews. The first person to be interviewed in these series , titled “PHOOL KHILE HAIN GULSHAN GULSHAN” was a veteran music director Naushad.
This programme ran continuously on Doordarshan for 21 years ..
Various cultural organizations ,audiences ,and the media in general even the then INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING MINISTER Mr. V.P. Sathe have dubbed Tabassum as THE T.V. QUEEN OF INDIA .
RADIO
Tabassum started on radio in 1946 with children programmes and did many other programmes regularly on All India Radio.
For 15 years from 1970 to 1985 Tabassum ran a regular radio programme of jokes on the commercial services of Radio Ceylon. The same programme was later switched also to Vividh Bharti where continued for many years. She is still doing programmes regularly on Vividh Bharti.
She was conferred the award of “JOKES QUEEN OF INDIA”.
AUTHORSHIP AND JOURNALISM
Tabassum has been writing Urdu poetry , jokes , short stories since her childhood which were being regularly published in Urdu and Hindi magazines , newspapers , etc.
During her more than sixty four years long career in show business ,Tabassum has also written seven books of Jokes ,Poetry , and Urdu shayris , the first of which was published at the age of 17 years when she had just passed her matriculation examination. She did her B.A. in Urdu from Aligarh University.
For the past many years Tabassum has also fitted journalism into her over crowded schedule when she took over as editor of the large circulation of a Woman’s magazine GRIHA LAKSHMI which is published monthly from New Delhi since last 17 years.
STAGE
As Baby Tabassum ,Filmlands original child-star the Shirley Temple of India , began to appear on stage shows since the tender age of three to four years. Over three decades ago she launched her own stage show unit named “TABASSUM HIT PARADE’. This stage entertainment unit has over the past three decades performed variety entertainment shows all over India and in almost every country of the world from U.S.A.and Canada to the United Kingdom and Europe ,the Middle east and Gulf countries to South-east Asia , Singapore and the far east in Hong Kong ,China ,Taiwan and Japan.
Now she is busy in promoting a stage programme titled “Tabassum Bhajan Sandhya” in India and abroad as spiritual entertainment.
On May 8th 1995 various well known cultural organizations of India celebrated TABASSUM’S HALF CENTURY IN FILM INDUSTRY AND SHOW BUSINESS AND WAS LARGELY ATTENDED BY FILM AND OWN MEDIA PERSONALITIES INCLUDING THE PRESS. ”
The cast of the film was Azaad, Tabassum, Kammo, Habib, Rajan Kapoor,Dilip Dutt, Tun Tun, Dog Moti, Monkey Zippy etc. The music was by Suresh Kumar and the Lyrics were by Anjaan and Yogesh gaud.
The story was-
TARZAN is the undisputed king of the jungle. In this jungle, there is a Tribe called Akra, whose chief is Timoko. His young daughter Nimoni is the love object of Tarzan. They sing songs and move about together, which is not digested by the the Tribe’s witch doctor, Limo.
One day Limo kills the chief Timoko and declares that he is the chief of the tribe hereafter. He keeps Nimoni under house arrest and announces his plans to marry her.
Nimoni, with the help of Tarzan’s monkey Zippy and her friend Sakhi, sends message to Tarzan. Tarzan rushes to rescue her, but is captured by Limo and kept in a cell. Limo plans to kill Tarzan and marry Nimoni on the New Moon Night, when his powers as a witch doctors are in full swing.
On the day of marriage Dog Moti, monkey Zippy and an army of wild Animals attack the Tribal village. The witch doctor is killed by them and they rescue Tarzan and Nimoni.
Tarzan and Nimoni are reunited.
Song-Uff ye mausam khushnumaa (Tarzan Ki Mehbooba)(1966) Singer-Suman Kalyanpur, Lyrics-Yogesh, MD-Suresh Kumar
Lyrics
uff ye mausam khushnuma
ye fizaan
ye rut jawaan
uff ye mausam khushnuma
ye fizaan ye rut jawaan
aur sanam ho bhola qaatil
samjhe na dil ki jubaan
to koi kya kare
to koi kya kare
haay kya kare
uff ye mausam khushnuma
haaye zulmi nazar ye kya kar gayi
nas nas mein nasha koi bhar gayi
arre raam kasam main to mar gayi
haaye zulmi nazar ye kya kar gayi
nas nas mein nasha koi bhar gayi
arre raam kasam main to mar gayi
dil pe yoon jab kahin
gir pade bijliyaan
aur sanam ho bhola qaatil
samjhe na dil ki jubaan
to koi kya kare
to koi kya kare
haay kya kare
uff ye mausam khushnuma
ye main kaise kahoon mere dilruba
madhosh jawaan meri ye ada
lehra ke ye jaalim bole kya
jab kbhi yoon uthe
dil mein ye aandhiyaan
aur sanam ho bhola qaatil
samjhe na dil ki jubaan
to koi kya kare
to koi kya kare
haay kya kare
uff ye mausam khushnuma
ye fizaan ye rut jawaan
aur sanam ho bhola qaatil
samjhe na dil ki jubaan
to koi kya kare
to koi kya kare
haay kya kare
6 Responses to "Uff ye mausam khushnuma"
February 23, 2013 at 5:34 pm
Arunji,
I fully agree with Prakashji. If a batsman is continuously hitting four after four,six after six the poor spectator becomes spellbound and forgets to clap even.Pl don’t get discouraged.
DS
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February 22, 2013 at 10:33 pm
Sir,
Your series on ‘Tarzan’ movies is a brilliant idea. I have enjoyed reading both the posts so far. Not that i have seen any of those movies. My experience of ‘C’ grade film and stunt films is ‘zero’ . Those movies were never shown on t.v. and i dont know if they played on radio , songs from such movies.
And about Tabassum , you have invoked a host of memories. She was entertainment personified. I was not knowing that she was into writing poetry and books too. She seems to have dabbled in everything. I think she had produced some T.V. serial also few years back, but not sure.
Just remembered, Tabassum doing a comic act in ‘New year programme’ on T.V. ‘Phool khile hain Gulshan Gulshan’ is a programme whose success is never surpassed.
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February 23, 2013 at 10:39 am
nahm ji,
Thank you for your comments.I am happy that you appreciate my efforts.Since there were no comments by anybody,I was wondering if my efforts are in futility.
I started this series because such informations are not available easily and I thought that our readers deserve this. I know that many old timers must be enjoying this,but they are wary in writing any comments.
Anyway,I will complete this series with new points in every article.
Thanks again.
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February 23, 2013 at 11:29 am
Arun ji
Aisaa nahin hai
Aapke har ek post mein itnaa information rehtaa hai, kaisse koyee aapkaa dhanyawaad kare, ye hi soch mein rehthe hain ke aur ek(ek ke baad ek) anomol khazaanaa hamein tohfe ke roop mein dete jaathe hain aap.
Main aapke(aur blog ke aur sabhi ,har ek post ko bhi….) har ek post ko student ki tarhaa padhthaa hoon. Par comments nahin likhthaa hoon kyon ke har baar mere paas aapke liye(aur ek se ek behatar post ke likhnewaalon ko bhi…) shabond ki kamee pad jaathi hai., aapke itne achche post ko shabdon dwaaraa “Thanks” kehnaa bahut neeras lagtaa hai.
Hope you understand my words.
Regards
prakash
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February 23, 2013 at 1:21 pm
Prakash ji,
Thanks for your words. I can understand your feelings.
Its not that every post needs comments from readers,I dont expect it either,but comments do give some indication how things are being enjoyed by people.
I know that my posts are read by many people and I am happy with that.
Thanks.
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