Kabhi na himmat haar bande
Posted on: April 17, 2013
“Station Master” (1942) is a very old movie. Little information was available on internet about this movie till we began to discuss songs from this movie in the blog. And then our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh shared all the information about this movie that one may be interested in.
Here is what he has to say about this movie :-
STATION MASTER(1942), a Prakash pictures film was directed by Chimanlal Luhar, who was a stunt fim director in those days(Dynamite, Rambha Rani, Service limited, Captain Kirtikar, Silver king, Talash e haque, Vikram Charitra etc). While Naushad was the Music Director, lyrics were by P.L.Santoshi, Pt.Indra and B.R.Sharma. The story, screenplay and dialogues were written by Santoshi and V. Aundhkar.
The cast was Suraiyya, Prem Adeeb, Jeevan, Gulab, Amirbai, Jagdish Sethi, Kaushalya, Pratima, Shakir, Umakant Desai etc.
Jagdish Sethi has done the old Station master Paramanand’s role, Prem adeeb is Arun, the young guard and Ratnmala is Usha, the Station Master’s daughter.
Arun and Usha are in love, but wicked Manikbabu, booking clerk, induces the Station Master to marry Usha to Niranjan, a widower Traffic Superintendent. They marry. Manikbabu wants Arun to marry his half mad daughter Shyama (kaushalya).
There is a Train accident,in which Niranjan dies and Arun gets injured trying to avert the accident. All is well when the Station Master Paramanand is exonerated from the blame of accident due to the statement of Arun.
Arun and Usha sing a song and marry !
As many as four songs from this movie have been discussed in the past. Here is the fifth song from this movie. It is sung by Amirbai Karnataki. This song is picturised on Amirbai Karnataki and others at a phase in the movie when things are looking bleak for the main characters of the movie following a train accident. The song is about not giving up on the face of adversity.
Pt Indra is the lyricist. Music is composed by Naushad.
Song-Kabhi na himmat haar bande (Station Master) (1942) Singer-Amirbai Karnataki, Lyrics-Pt Indra, MD-Naushad
Lyrics
bande
bande ae
bande
kabhi na himmat haar bande
jeewan hai khilwaad bande
kabhi na himmat haar bande
jeewan hai khilwaad bande
yahi khel ki reet hai bande
yahi khel ki reet hai bande
haar haar kar jeet bande
kabhi na ho laachaar bande
sab kuchh sahna
achche rehna
do din sukh hai
do din dukh hai
kaisa soch vichaar
kaisa soch vichaar
kabhi na himmat haar bande
jeewan hai khilwaad bande
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April 18, 2013 at 11:53 am
Wah wah what a melody. Hats off to Naushad miyan and the lyricist.Thanks a lot.
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