Sunsaan Jamuna ka kinaara…meri bhi ik Mumtaz thhi
Posted on: May 2, 2013
When I was a school kid then I found most, if not all subjects as boring. Even out of all these boring subjects, history took the cake. It was extremely difficult to remember the names of the kings, their eras, and what they did during their reign. And in case these kings happened to be born before the era of Christ then remembering their dates of birth and death was even more confusing. 🙂 Emperor Ashok, for instance was born in 304 BC and died in 232 BC. What kind of kings they were who died before they were born, was the doubt in the minds of many students of tender years.
The reign of all these kings followed similar pattern. They would frequently wage wars against other kings. Remembering the years of the wars as well as the name of the battlefield, and the outcome of the war was as difficult as it is to recall the results of IPL matches of the previous editions.
The fact that the textbooks as well as the teachers of those days failed to make the topics interesting played a big role in making these topics boring.
On the other hand, the same students would easily remember everything that they watched in movies made on historical characters. For instance, everyone who has watched “Mughal e Azam” (1960) will readily tell you that Emperor Akbar was a hefty individual with a croaking voice :).
The modern day text books are far more interesting and modern day students have many great teaching aids available to them that makes any topic quite interesting.
Any topic can be made interesting if one can look for interesting things from that era. It becomes much more easy to know about Shahjahaan once you realise that it was he who got Tajmahal as well as Delhi’s Red fort constructed.
Reading about these monuments and watching their photographs and video is one thing. Visiting these monuments is an experience that no amoung of textbook reading can impart. A visit to Tajmahal for instance can make a person far more interested in the history of that era than mere reading of history textbooks.
I as well as my wife watched the Tajmahal quite late in our lives. We went there a few years ago with our daughter. Watching the Taj Mahal was an experience that made our daugter understand many things about history of that era.
While most people are interested in going inside the Tajmahal to watch the tombs, I found the adjacent small building much more interesting. This building houses the original documents, equipments etc from that era. I found it interesting to see the original “firman” where kings of far flung aresa were ordered to supply marble for the construction of the Taj. It wsa then that I realised that Marble were sent not only from places like Makrana, but also from Jabalpur.
It is quite obvious that the city of Agra basks in the reflected glory of Tajmahal. Tajmahal sustains the economy of the city.
It is also noticeable that we in India do not respect our heritage. The river Yamuna flowing behind the Taj is reduce to a sewer and little seems to have been done to addreess the problem.
Tajmahal has inspired a few movies as well as a few songs. “Tajmahal” (1963) and “Taj” (1956) are two movies that readily come to mind.
It turns out that a few NFS too have been composed on Tajmahal. Here is a wonderful NFS which is written by Madhukar Rajasthani. Manna Dey is the singer as well as the composer of this song.
Here is this wonderful NFS on Tajmahal. This song serves as a belated birthday greeting to Manna Dey too.
Lyrics of this song were sent to me by Khyati Bhatt.
The uploader of this song has added some nice photographs alongwith the song that has a magical effect on viewer.
Song-Sunsaan Jamuna ka kinaara…meri bhi ik mumtaz thhi (Manna Dey NFS)(1970) Singer-Manna Dey, Lyrics-Madhukar Rajasthani, MD-Manna Dey
Lyrics(Provided by Khyati Bhatt)
sunsaan Jamuna ka kinaara
pyaar ka antim sahaara
chaandni ka kafan odhhe
so raha kismat ka maara
kis se poochoon main bhala ab
dekha kahin Mumtaaz ko
meri bhi ik Mumtaaz thhi
meri bhi ik Mumtaaz thhi
pattharon ki ot mein
mehki huyi tanhaayiyaan
kuchh nahin kehtin
baaliyon ki jhoomti aur dolti parchhaayiaan
kuchh nahin kehtin
kheltin saahil pe lehar le rahi angdaayiaan
kuchh nahin kehtin
ye jaan ke chup chaap hai mere muqaddar ki tarah
hum ne to inke saamne khola thha dil ke raaz ko
kis se poochoon main bhala ab
dekha kahin Mumtaaz ko
meri bhi ik Mumtaaz thhi
meri bhi ik Mumtaaz thhi
ye zameen ki god mein
kadmon ka dhundhla sa nishaan
khaamosh hai
ye rupehla aasmaan
madhham sitaaron ka jahaan
khaamosh hai
ye khoobsoorat raat ka
khilta hua gulshan jawaan
khaamosh hai
rangeeniyaan madhosh hain
apni khushi mein doob kar
kis tarah inko sunaaun
ab meri aawaaz ko
kis se poochhoon main bhala ab
dekha kahin Mumtaaz ko
meri bhi ik Mumtaaz thhi
meri bhi ik Mumtaaz thhi
meri bhi ik Mumtaaz thhi
meri bhi ik Mumtaaz thhi
8 Responses to "Sunsaan Jamuna ka kinaara…meri bhi ik Mumtaz thhi"
May 3, 2013 at 12:00 am
It was famous NFS in our engineering days in Pune. I would sing this song very often. Its difficult song to sing especially the stanzas as one as to sing two lines without gasping for the breath. Just try it without taking the breath..
ye jaan ke chup chaap hai mere muqaddar ki tarah
hum ne to inke saamne khola thha dil ke raaz ko
Please correct baaliyon ki jhoomti> daaliyo ki….
This is not the original recording which took place well before 1970. No wonder this voice sounds thakela. Further in the original 78 RPM (Vividh Bharti’s Gair filmi gaane)instead of
ye jaan ke chup chaap hai> it was ye jaan ke anjaan hai
The song is beautiful imagery likening his love to Mumtaz’s
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May 3, 2013 at 8:24 am
Nitinbhai,
If you do find the original song, can you please send me the link?
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May 3, 2013 at 8:18 am
Atulji,
Don’t have enough words to say THANKS for writing a very informative 😉 post and sharing your memorable memories of school days. ” History” was always a “mystery” for me. I was also not good (may be was never interested) at S. S. (Social Studies for the new SSC which included History, Geography and Civics). And my maternal uncle (Mama) was my teacher during that year. He was THE BEST teacher for this subject in entire school, so you can imagine how much pressure I must have gone through. I still can’t solve the mystery as why someone need to study history, as it’s a HISTORY (gone). Geography never impressed me as I always love to learn the culture and geography of different countries by actually visiting them. The definition of Civics was just “politics” for me. 😯 I had a hard time preparing for my US Citizenship Civics test. I was so relieved when it was over!!!!
Your experience of understanding the history connected to Tajmahal after watching the video is valid as most of the humans are a visual learner, specially when the subject is of least interesting to that person. And again, the same person can be an auditory learner in the fields/subjects of his interest. It was hard for me to remember the history of a king, but was a piece of a cake to remember the entire song of a movie with singer, MD, lyricist, artists… My father used to say, “If you concentrate on S.S. like this, you won’t have any problem!” Lekin tab chhoti thi to bol nahin sakti thi ki ye dono mein zameen aasmaan ka fark hai” 🙂
Sorry for the long comment, but your post reminded me, my love towards S.S. during my high school years 🙂 . Thanks again for writing a wonderful post to fulfill my wish of posting this song. 🙂
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May 3, 2013 at 9:28 am
Khyatiben
Try to shop for Manna De NFS CDs in the stores; you can’t expect to find the black beauty.
History badi bewafa
raat ko ratti
subah safa
Since it is always either His story or Her story and never Our story. Thats why we never ever get to remember Their story.
Actually its a matter of interest. Do we forget the birthdays, annivs etc our beloved ones and not to forget our old film stars’. So there.
The best I like about this NFS it reminds me of the aeroplane take-off. Like the plane it sets into motion>ye jaan ke anjaan …..and takes of>dil ke raaz ko… leading to a crescendo of sorts. NFS ek alag duniya hai. iske chapet mein aaoge to filmi gaane bhul jaaoge haan (haan – a la Amitabh)
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May 3, 2013 at 11:25 am
Thanks for posting this NFS by Mannada. The accompanying visuals in the video are breathtaking.
Who stocks NFS CDs these days? Chances of getting the original recording, at least for me, are rare.
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May 4, 2013 at 4:19 pm
Thank you Atuji for this NFS song of Madhukar Rajasthani. Even after listening to this song for n… number of time, one will never get tired. I had the 48 rpm EP record of this song which one of my friends took it and never returned it. There were three more songs in this record all three composed and sung by Manna Dey to the lyrics of Madhukar Rajasthani. And all of them were my favourites. I am listing those songs here and would request you to do a post on each of the songs.
1. Nathli se toota moti re
2. Pal bar ki Pehchan
3. Bindiya jane kahan koyi
Later I purchased a cassette of MannaDey’s songs where I found the songs and the cassette is still in good condition.
Your write-up preceding the song made a good reading.
Thanks a lot.
P S -Khyati Bhatt’s comments was also interesting.
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Thanks for your comments. Often the comments on a song writeup add up a great deal to our knowledge of the song being discussed.
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May 2, 2013 at 8:36 pm
I liked HIstory, it was memorising the dates that was hard. Also, British history was confusing.
But this song is lovely. It has unusual lyrics. What’s more, it has a singer like Manna Dey to lend weight to it.
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