Ho door desh se aa jaa re
Posted on: April 8, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This is his 200th writeup in the blog.
SHOKHIYAN (1951) was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma under the banner of Ambitious Pictures. The star cast included Premnath, Suraiya, Jeewan, Kamlesh Kumari, Nazira, Shanta Kanwar, Achala Sachdev, Ramesh Sinha etc. There were 8 songs in the film of which 6 were penned by Kidar Sharma and remaining two songs by his brother Himmat Rai Sharma. Kidar Sharma was impressed with Jamal Sen’s classical and Rajasthani folk tunes he demonstrated to him and thus got the music direction of the film.
The film story was based on the Portuguese invasion in some part of South India. Kidar Sharma decided to take Suraiya as the heroine for the film in the role of a tribal girl. It is said that since she was of a fair complexion, Kidar Sharma used even some mud for make up on her to look like a tribal girl. The film was one of the costliest ones of that time costing about Rs.15 lakhs. The film failed miserably at the box office and despite having good songs, Jamal Sen’s career as a music director received a setback.
The film had beautiful songs mostly based on classical raagas and folk tunes of Rajasthan. Three songs from this film have already been discussed in the blog including the iconic song sapna ban saajan aaye. I have chosen ‘door desh se aa jaa re’ as the 4th song from the film for discussion which is sung by Suraiya, Lata Mangeshkar and Chorus. In fact, it is more of a chorus song than Suraiya-Lata song. The song was written by Kidar Sharma. The composition of the song is based on some Rajasthani folk music with a lot of percussion based musical interludes. The song is rhythmic. The antaraas start with slow paced rendition by Suriaya/Lata Mangeshkar but become fast paced as the chorus singers take over. It is a tribal dance probably in the background of some joyous events. The song has been beautifully picturised on a set giving a tribal atmosphere. Jamal Sen was known for his expertise in percussion and mastery of classical and Rajasthani folk music. He has used his expertise in this song as well all other songs in the film. Note the fast paced dholak beats.
By the way, this song is one of the five songs Suraiya and Lata Mangeshkar sang together. Kidar Sharma, in his autobiography ‘The one and lonely Kidar Sharma’ mentions that when Lata Mangeshkar came to know that Jamal Sen was the music director for ‘Shokhiyan’ (1951), she told him that she would like to sing even one line in a song knowing fully well that Suraiya was the heroine of the film and therefore she would sing for herself. Thus she sang a couple of lines in the song under discussion giving playback for Kamlesh Kumari and another unidentified actress. Of course, Lata Mangeshkar did sing a solo referred to above and one duet with Promodini Desai in the film.
Song-Ho door desh se aa jaa re (Shokhiyaan)(1951) Singers-Suraiyya, Lata , Lyrics-Kidar Sharma, MD-Jamal Sen
Suraiya+Lata, Chorus
Lyrics
o o o o o
o o o o o
o o o o o
ho door desh se aa jaa re
ho door desh se aa jaa re
aa jaa re ae ae
aa jaa re
mosey rahaa nahin jaaye
mosey rahaa nahin jaaye
main morni mar jaaoungi
aa aa aa aa aaa
taane de mohe saratiyaa aa
mori basti hansi udaaye
chhod ke jo
jaaye pardesi ee
chhod ke jo
jaaye pardesi ee
paachhe laut na aaye
paachhe laut na aaye
aa ke dheer bandhaa jaa re
aa jaa re
aa jaa re
mosey rahaa nahin jaaye
mosey rahaa nahin jaaye
main morni mar jaaoungi
aa aa aa aa aaa
ban ban bhatkoon rain diwas
jiyaa kisi bidh kal naahin paaye
nagri jo
sooni bhayi
nagri jo
sooni bhayi
phir nainaa kyun bhar aaye
nainaa kyun bhar aaye
nainon ki pyaas bujhaa jaa re
aa jaa re
aa jaa re
mosey rahaa nahin jaaye
mosey rahaa nahin jaaye
main morni mar jaaoungi
aa aa aa aa aaa
umad umad kar badariyaan
baras baras tarsaayen
saawan ki
ye sautane ae
saawan ki
ye sautane ae
mohe aathon pahar jalaayen
aathon pahar jalaayen
saawan ko samajhaa jaa re
aa jaa re
aa jaa re
mosey rahaa nahin jaaye
mosey rahaa nahin jaaye
main morni mar jaaounngi
12 Responses to "Ho door desh se aa jaa re"
April 8, 2013 at 10:38 am
Sir, heartiest Congratulations on your 200th post !!! thanks for bringing us the gems of hindi cinema, enriching our knowledge and our ‘musical life’ with your articles!!! ‘aap ka saath aur margadarshan hamare liye saubhagya ki baat hain !
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April 9, 2013 at 10:53 am
Thanks.
I feel happy to share whatever knowledge and information I have in regard to HFSs and feel more happy when such affords are lauded.
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April 8, 2013 at 10:57 am
Kamathji,
Its a great achievement to have achieved this feat. Hope the cupboard is still filled with ammunition and few more skeletons.
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April 9, 2013 at 11:00 am
Thanks.
Now there are more outflows than inflows in the cupbaord:)
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April 8, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Sadanandji,
Congratulations on your 200th post. I have enjoyed your NFS series and info on the artists. I am sure you have many more of these coming up. Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge.
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April 9, 2013 at 11:03 am
Thanks for appreciating articles on NFSs. There are 3-4 NFSs in the pipelines.
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April 9, 2013 at 9:53 am
Kamath ji,
I congratulate you for reaching a milestone of 200 posts,presenting songs of significance and some kind of history.
It is always a pleasure to read your posts,because they provide indepth information,which is indicative of your efforts to make the post a complete one. I have rediscovered and learnt many things from your posts. Sometimes your write up makes me sit up and check my own notes to make amendments too.
I look forward to your similar presentations in coming times.
-AD
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April 9, 2013 at 11:15 am
Thanks for your eloquent praise.
I feel, it is the other way round for me. I was motivated by your numerous informative comments and anecdotes on the blog. I thought why not make such types of information as part of the articles. Thus I made a beginning.
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April 10, 2013 at 11:32 am
I wonder why was I reminded of ‘bichhua’ by Salilda. Salilda was a great musician who could draw inspiration from whatever source, including this song while composing ‘bichhua.’
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April 14, 2013 at 9:15 pm
WOW! What a beautiful song! Thanks a lot Kamath ji!
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April 8, 2013 at 10:16 am
Sadanand ji
Congratulations on your 200th writeup.
Prakash
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April 9, 2013 at 10:45 am
Thanks.
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