O bhoolnewaale
Posted on: May 23, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today’s song is the FIRST NFS sung by Kishore Kumar on this Blog. This was written by Kewal Sharma and the music was by Ramesh Gupta-who was a wellknown lyricist.
This is a 1946 recording, which also means this could be Kishore Kumar’s FIRST EVER RECORDED SONG.
We all know that as a playback singer he sang for the first time in a Hindi movie in Ziddi-48 under the music direction of Khemchand Prakash. Obviously, he must have cut some NFS records prior to that. However,I could not find anywhere a clearcut and irrefutable proof about it, but the logic says that this must be his FIRST song.
Kishore kumar has sung 9 NFS, out of which one short song is a Title song for a TV serial of the early TV era,”Yeh jo hai Zindagi”. So actually there are only 8 Kishore Kumar NFS in all. These songs are very difficult to find anywhere. However I have located four out of these and hope to post them all at some later days on this Blog.
Kishore Kumar is my favorite singer, but only for songs before 1970.I simply love his early songs.
Kishore kumar came to Bombay in 1945 to become a Singer, but circumstances and people forced him to act in the films. So he became a singing actor. In one of his interviews he had said that he was a ‘Reluctant actor and a willing Singer’.
There is so much written about Kishore Kumar and so much information is available on the Net and in Books that unless there is something new or atleast less known, there is no point in writing about him-unless ofcourse one wants to opine about him.
I had read one of his interviews he had given to Filmfare sometime in 1970 or so, wherein he had spoken about many personal things, which were intersting and not much publicised. Here are few of those, for our readers-
Abhas Kumar or Kishore Kumar’s father Kunjilal Ganguli was a pleader in Khandwa-MP. This Bengali family had settled here for many years.
Those days, many Bengali families had settled along the BNR or Bengal Nagpur Railway track, who were posted around these places. That is why there is a sizeable Bengali population in places like say Nagpur.
His father’s income in those days, ie. 1930s,was about Rs.30 a month. They were living in their Bungalow there. Kishore’s maternal uncle-Mama- Dhananjoy Banerjee was a singer and Kishore learnt many things from him.
In the film Padosan-1968, Kishore Kumar has mimicked his Mama, viz. long hair, kajal in eyes and chewing Paan always. The get up was so good that Sunil Dutt and Mehmood were worried that Kishore would steal the show away from them !
Kishore tells us about his London tour with Lata ji. When Lata ji first asked Kishore if he would join in her London shows, Kishore says, he first was surprised, then thrilled and finally worried, because of Lata’s discipline. Lata never went to the stage without proper rehearsals and Kishore was a lazy person. In one show, Lata first went to the stage, introduced Kishore and when kishore entered amidst clapping with the announcement that he will present a song ! Kishore was stunned. He did not know what to do. Then he sang S D Burman’s Bhajan, ‘ Pee le pee le hari naam ka pyaala’. Even for that song Kishore got a standing ovation !!
Kishore remembers thatwhen he was studying in college, his brother Ashok Kumar was already a Hero in films. Once Ashok kumar’s first film ” Jeevan Naiya” came to Khandawa. Kishore and all his friends went to see the film with great expectation. They were expecting fights like Master Vithal, horse riding and the hero beating a dozen villains. Instead they saw a soft and sentimental film,in which ,in one scene,Ashok kumar even gets slapped on the cheeks ! It was a hugh disappointment. Kishore wrote a letter to his brother that in the next film he must fight villains or else he should forget about having any Fans in Khandwa !
Sometimes kishore acted very funny bordering on crack behaviour. While this interview was going on, Kishor Kumar suddenly got up and left the room through the rear door. The journalist was shocked. After waiting for some time, he started packing up and then suddenly Kishor Kumar entered the room by the front door !
When his Bungalow was getting done up,he had stayed in a flat on Warden Road. He had painted a Board on his door ” BEWARE OF KISHORE KUMAR “. One day the producer director H.S.Rawail came to his house to pay his dues. After payment was made, they shook hands. All of a sudden Kishore took his hand and bit him ! To a shocked Rawail, he asked,’ Did you not see the board on my door ? ”
Just before coming to Bombay from Khandwa, he had owed 5.75 rupees to the college canteen. He used this fact in the song ” De do mera paanch rupaiah bara aana” in Chalti ka naam gaadi.
When Kishore Kumar married Leena Chandavarkar, they never expected to get any children, as Kishore was already over 50 years old by that time. However, when their son AMIT was born, they were so happy that Kishore said,” For the first time in my life, I have got emotional security now ”
His life was full of stories of his eccentricities, but everyone agrees that he was a Great Singer.
Today’s song ” O Bhoolanewale,yaad kar ” reminds you of the old singing style of the 40s. The song is very soft, slow but very melodious. I am sure you all will like it too.
Song-O bhoolnewaale (Kishore Kumar NFS)(1946) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Kewal Sharma, MD-Ramesh Gupta
Lyrics
Bhoolnewale
O bhoolnewaale
muhobbat ka zamaana yaad kar
yaad kar
o bhoolnewaale
aa meri ujdi hui
aa meri ujdi hui duniya ko phir aabaad kar
yaad kar o bhoolnewaale
phool murjhaaye huye hain
aur roti hai bahaar
jaanewaale dhoondhti hai
tujh ko aankhen baar baar
aankh kehti hai tu ro
aankh kehti hai tu ro
kehta hai dil par yaad kar
yaad kar o bhoolnewaale
baagh mein betaab dekha
hai bahaaron ne mujhe
raat ko betaab dekha
hai sitaaron ne mujhe
dil ko aisi zindagi ki
dil ko aisi zindagi ki
qaid se aazaad kar
yaad kar o bhoolnewaale
yaad teri jaa nahin sakti
dil e barbaad se
pehle tujh se kee muhabbat
ab hai teri yaad se
mere armaanon ki duniya
mere armaanon ki duniya
khauf se barbaad kar
yaad kar o bhoolnewaale
bhoolnewaale
8 Responses to "O bhoolnewaale"
May 23, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Thank you for this gem of a song, Arunji!
Loved its soft and smooth melody.
I think Kishore and Leena’s son was Sumit. Amit was his elder son’s name.
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May 24, 2013 at 1:50 pm
This could be first and last NFS. Please confirm. He also song many songs in Gujarati. I have the stock.
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May 24, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Nitin ji,
I will request you to kindly read the write up.
I have mentioned that he has sung 9 NFS etc etc.
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March 7, 2022 at 8:54 pm
I am unfortunate to have missed hearing this one. The song is no longer available. Can anyone post a link for me please?
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May 23, 2013 at 5:31 pm
Dear Arun,
Thanks for posting Kishore Kumar’s first NFS which I heard for the first time just now. Surprisingly, there is not an iota of Saigal style in his singing.
My liking for Kishore’s songs are more or less the same as yours – pre-70s with a few exceptionally good songs beyond 70s too.
In one of his interviews which I am not able to recall now, he had said that eccentricities and odd behaviours were his deliberate creations just to ward off those whom he disliked or who had created problems for him.
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May 23, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Kamath ji
Thanks for your comments.
Yes,I have also read what he had said about his eccentricities.I feel,sometimes he overdid it. Talking to his trees in Garden,putting up a board on his Juhu House ” This is an Assylum”, etc were not his deliberate actions,but part of his original nature.
There is a story that once during a shooting,he was supposed do drive his car and stop when the director says CUT. The Director forgot to say CUT, and kishore kumar drove on till he reached Lonavala !
I loved KK,despite all this !
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