Wo bhoole ham ko lekin ham kaise bhool jaayen
Posted on: November 21, 2013
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“Saugandh”(1942) was a New Theatres Production. It was directed by Hem Chander. The star cast of this film includes Pahadi Sanyal, Bharti, Asit Baran, Chandrawati, Suprabha Mukherjee, Shrilekha, Chhavi Biswas, Vinay Goswami, Khagen Pathak, Farouk Mirza, Dar Kaashmiri, Nemo, Tulsi Chakravarty, Puttan, Narayan Rao, Maya Bose, Gopal Das, Kaali Ghosh, Heera Bai, Natwar, Jawahar Lal, Kaalo, Dwijen Sanyal. The songs of this film are penned by Pt. Natwar, and the music is RC Boral.
Here is what Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved in house encyclopaedia, has to say about this movie:
SAUGANDH-1942 was a New Theatres film, based on a totally Bengali background. The screenplay and direction was by Hemchandra Chunder and the story and dialogues were by Boney Chatterjee.
Bipin was a hardworking man who built his business single handedly. His family was, wife, son Kumar-who studies in Calcutta and Arun- who is about to complete school in the village. Arun is more interested in loving Shanti-daughter of their neighbour and enemy Nilamber. Bipin falls sick and Kumar is called back. Kumar leaves his love-Prabha,daughter of his professor Laxmidas, and returns only to see the father dying. He gives father a promise that he will take care of business and family.
Kumar patches up with Nilamber to marry Shanti with Arun and sends Arun to Calcutta for further education. In Calcutta,Arun meets Bilas, who leads him waywards and introduces him to Gunsundari-a society girl. Kumar learns about all this, meanwhile their mother is ill and dies before Arun comes back. Kumar admonishes Arun, but he goes back to Calcutta to meet Gunsundari who throws him out. Next day Arun is arrested for her murder. Kumar reaches Calcutta and takes all the blame on himself.
Shanti and Prabha together with help of police find out that the murderer is Bilash.
Arun’s eyes open, they all return to village and both brothers get married.
This pattern of story was repeated several times not only in Hindi, Bengali but also many other languages later.
Here is a “broken heart” song from the movie. This song is sung by Shanti. The song is picturised on a lady who I guess is Bharati. I request our knowledgeable readers to help identify her.
All sources (obviously copying from HFGK) mention that the song is sung by Shanti and Asit Baran. But it is clear that this song is a female solo sung by Shanti.
I wonder who this singer is. Is she Shanti Sudha Ghosh, a playback singer active those days or someone else ? Or is it so that the name is nothing but the name of the character in the movie who lip syncs this song ? I request our knowledeable readers to throw light on the identification of this female singer.
Lyrics of this song were sent to me by Nitin Shah.
Song-Wo bhoole hamko lekin ham kaise bhool jaayen (Saugandh)(1942) Singer-Shanti, Lyrics-Pt Natwar, MD-R C Boral
Lyrics (Provided by Nitin Shah)
ham kaise bhool jaaye aen
kaise bhool jaayen
wo bhoole hamko lekin
ham kaise bhool jaayen aen
kaise bhool jaayen
baithe hain unke (?) ham
wo aaye ya na aayen
aayen ya na aayen
baithe hain unke (?) ham
wo aaye ya na aayen
aayen ya na aayen
armaan dil ke apne ae ae ae
armaan dil ke apne
nikle hain bann ke aansoo
armaan dil ke apne
nikle hain bann ke aansoo
mehfil mein wo (?) ke
baithe khushi manaayen
mehfil mein wo (?) ke
baithe khushi manaaye
aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa
aaa aaa aaa
aaa aaa aaa
pehlu mein dil na hota
to ye khalish na hoti ee
ham to ye jaante hain
dil ki hai sab khataayen
aen aen aen
wo chaahen ya na chaahen
iss se garaz nahin kuchh
wo chaahen ya na chaahen
iss se garaz nahin kuchh
ham unko chaahate hain
ye kis tarah bhulaayen aen
kis tarah bhulaayen
ham unko chhaahate hain
ye kis tarah bhulaayen aen
kis tarah bhulaayen
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November 21, 2013 at 9:27 am
Shanti alongwith Mumtaz also sang in Dharti Ke Lal-1946 ab na zabaan pe taale daalo MD: Ravi Shankar
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