Tumhe dulhan mili hamen bhaabhi mili
Posted by: Atul on: January 17, 2014
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Here is the 20th song in the ” VINTAGE KISHORE ” series. This is a marriage song, sung by Kishore kumar in the film Humsafar-53. The music director is Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.
The lure of the films is so great that from the time Talkie films started, it attracted many famous and expert musicians of the Vocal and instrumental variety. In the early period, it was almost an unwritten rule to have film’s Music Director with a classical background. Many were dragged into films and many came to movies eagerly on their own.
Thus you had experts like Pransukh Nayak, Govindrao Tembe, Keshavrao Bhole, Ustad Zande Khan, Meer sahib, Annasaheb Mainkar, Dada Chandekar, Ustad Mushtaq Hussain, Firoze Dastoor, Suresh babu Mane, Heerabai Badodekar, Manik Verma, Saraswati Rane, Master Krishnarao, Shridhar Parsekar, Pt.Ganpat rao, Pt.Jagannath Prasad, and many others who made their contributions to film music.
During the subsequent periods, some more like Ghantasala, Pt. Amarnath (of Garam coat), Pt.Motiram, Shankarrao Vyas, Prabhakar Jog, Ustad Amir Ali, ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Bhaskar Chandavarkar, Shobha Gurtu, Kishori Amonkar, Sharang Dev, Ustad Dilawar Khan, Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Balmurli krishna etc also made their presence felt in the Film music.
Not only Classical Vocalists, but also some famous Instrumentalists like Pannalal Ghosh, Pt.Ravi Shankar, Ram Prasad, Ali Akbar Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasiya, Pt.Shivkumar Sharma, ustad Vilayat Khan etc also contributed to HFM.
One of these was Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, International Sarod Player. Chetan Anand brought him from Jodhpur palace to give music to two of the Navketan films, Aandhiyan-52 and Humsafar-53. Jaidev was his assistant for both the films. Ali Akbar Khan was an International star next only to Pt. Ravishankar. Here is his short Biography,adapted from Wikipedia,with thanks.
Ali Akbar Khan (April, 14 1922 – June, 18 2009), often referred to as Khansahib or by the title Ustad (master), was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Khan was instrumental in popularizing Indian classical music in the West, both as a performer (often in conjunction with Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar), and as a teacher. He established a music school in Calcutta in 1956, and the Ali Akbar College of Music in 1967, which is now located in San Rafael, California and has a branch in Basel, Switzerland. Khan also composed several classical ragas and film scores. He was a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Trained as a musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, Khan first came to America in 1955 on the invitation of violinist Yehudi Menuhin and later settled in California. Khan was nominated for five Grammy Awards and was accorded India’s second highest civilian honor, thePadma Vibhushan, in 1989. He has also won a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts’s National Heritage Fellowship.
Ali Akbar Khan was born in the village of Shibpur, Comilla, in present-day Bangladesh (then East Bengal),on 14-4-1922, to renowned musician and teacher,Allauddin Khan and Madina Begum. Soon after his birth, Khan’s family returned to Maihar (in present day Madhya Pradesh, India) where his father was the primary court musician for theMaharaja of the princely state.
From an early age Khan received training from his father in various instruments as well as vocal composition, but finally gravitated towards the sarod. Allauddin was a perfectionist and a strict taskmaster, and Khan’s lessons started before dawn and often lasted 18 hours a day. Khan also learned to play the tabla and the pakhavaj from his uncle, Aftabuddin Khan, who he visited at Shibpur. During this period he met several prominent musicians, such as the sarodist Timir Baran and flutist Pannalal Ghosh, who came to study with his father; in later years he was joined in his lessons by his sister Annapurna Devi, who became an accomplished player of the surbahar, and fellow student Ravi Shankar. Shankar and Annapurna Devi were married in 1941.
Of his training on the sarod, he wrote:
“If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist—then you may please even God.”
Ali Akbar Khan, after years of rigorous training gave his debut performance at a music conference in Allahabad in 1936, at the age of 13. Three years later, in December 1939, he accompanied Ravi Shankar on the sarod during the latter’s debut performance at the same conference; this was the first of many jugalbandis (duets) between the two musicians. In 1938 Khan gave his first recital on All India Radio (AIR), Bombay (accompanied on the tabla by Alla Rakha), and starting in January 1940, he gave monthly performances on AIR, Lucknow. Finally in 1944, both Shankar and Khan left Maihar to start their professional careers as musicians; Shankar went to Bombay, while Khan became the youngest Music Director for AIR, Lucknow and was responsible for solo performances and composing for the radio orchestra.
In 1943, on his father’s recommendation, Khan was appointed a court musician for the Maharaja of Jodhpur, Hanwant Singh. There, he taught and composed music besides giving recitals and was accorded the title of Ustad by the Maharaja. When the princely states were wound down with India’s independence in 1947 and Hanwant Singh died in a plane crash in 1948, Khan moved to Bombay.
In Bombay, he won acclaim as a composer of several film scores, including Chetan Anand’s Aandhiyan, Satyajit Ray’s Devi, Merchant-Ivory’s The Householder, and Tapan Sinha’s Kshudhita Pashan (“Hungry stones”), for which he won the “Best Musician of the Year” award. He also played Sarod for a song in 1955 film Seema which had the music composed by Shankar Jaikishan. Later in 1993, he would score some of the music for Bernardo Bertolucci Little Buddha. Beginning in 1945, Khan also started recording a series of 78 rpm disks (which could record about three minutes of music) at the HMV Studios in Bombay. For one such record he conceived a new composition Raga Chandranandan (“moonstruck”), based on four evening ragas, Malkauns, Chandrakauns, Nandakauns and Kaushi Kanada. This record was a huge success in India, and the raga found a worldwide audience when a 22-minute rendition was re-recorded for the Master Musician of India LP in 1965 − one of Khan’s seminal recordings.
Khan was based in the United States for the last four decades of his life. He toured extensively until he was prevented from doing so by ill-health in the period prior to his death from renal failure. Ali Akbar Khan married three times, and is survived by seven sons and four daughters. The most notable of his children are Dhyanesh Khan (1941-90; sarod), Pranesh Khan (tabla), and Alam Khan (sarod). Khan was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1989, among other awards. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991. In 1997, Khan received the National Endowment for the Arts’ prestigious National Heritage Fellowship, the United States’ highest honour in the traditional arts. Khan has received two Grammy nominations. He died on 18-6-2009.
Film Humsafar-53 was a Navketan film. It was produced by M.N.Watal and Directed by A.N.Banerjee-who was merely a cinematographer in Navketan. He is not known to have directed any other film in his life again. It looks like a case of Ghost Direction, which was very common in Navketan.
Ali Akbar Khan was the music direcor. There were 8 songs in the film,for which 5 singers were used. Kishore had 2 solos in this film. One of them was a Bhajan-Kishore kumar’s First Bhajan in the career. As it is, Kishore has not sung many bhajans. The simple reason was that by the time he became a prolific No 1 singer in the films, the trend was such that there were hardly any Bhajans in the films those days. This Bhajan was posted on this Blog recently. Today we will hear the other solo song of Kishore Kumar from this film.
The cast of the film was Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik, Chetan Anand, Smriti Biswas, Johnny Walker etc.
The story of the film was woven around two thick friends of contrasting natures. Veer and Vivek are close friends. Vivek,the elder one is of a serious nature, mature, quiet and intellectual, but very weak, whereas his friend Veer is full of energy, enthusiastic, brimming with new ideas and a born leader of men.
Both friends come to Bombay-Vivek to earn a living as a writer and Veer to make a fortune. In Bombay, they stay in a chawl, where they get introduced to Malti and her mother, who are very helpful. Both friends fail to succeed and in an attempt to help them, Malti also loses her job. Vivek falls ill seriously with Asthma.
Veer is frustrated and annoyed with the world. Jaggu, a lame beggar near their chawl, suggests Veer to become a Dacoit to earn money. He challenges Veer to show that he has guts to do this. Veer accepts the challenge and runs away to the hills, where he builds his team of dacoits. he loots only those who trouble the helpless and needy. Soon he is known as a robin Hood type Dacoit.
Vivek and Malti are worried about Veer, who is now in love with Radha, a dancer girl kidnapped by his gang. Meanwhile a publisher accepts a novel from Vivek and the novel brings him luck. Soon Vivek becomes famous, rich and healthy. One day Veer comes in disguise to meet Vivek. The friends and Malti meet. Malti and Vivek convince Veer to surrender to Police and go straight in life hereafter. Veer changes and surrenders to police. He gets a small sentence as he has not done a major crime.
When Veer comes out of prison, Vivek, Malti and Radha are waiting for him outside the jail !
Let us now listen to Kishore Kumar’s solo song from this film……
Song-Tumhe dulhan mili hamen bhaabhi mili (Humsafar)(1953) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Sahir Ludhianvi, MD-Ali Akbar Khan
Chorus
Lyrics
Hey
tumhe dulhan mili
hamen bhaabhi mili
hey tumhe dulhan mili
hamen bhaabhi mili
soone jungle mein ek murgaabi mili
soone jungle mein ek murgaabi mili
O bhaabhi
choon choon choon choon
O bhabhi choon choon choon choon
apni bhaabhi hai
apni bhaabhi hai kyaa
ek
ta ta ta ta
tasveer hai
naachta
gungunaata hua
peer hai
peer hai
naachta
gungunaata hua
peer hai
peer hai
sach to ye hai ki
dulha ki taqdeer hai
taqdeer hai
hai hai hai hai
Aaj ulfat ki chitthi jawaabi mili
Aaj ulfat ki chitthi jawaabi mili
ho tumhe dulhan mili hamen bhaabhi mili
ho tumhe dulhan mili hamen bhaabhi mili
aaa aaa
kyaa bataayen tumhe
aaj kya mil gaya
haan
hey
kyaa bataayen tumhe
aaj kya mil gaya
arre mil gaya
arre mil gaya
mil gaya
mil gaya
mil gaya
kyaa mil gaya bhai
bataayen
bemaza zindagi ko maza mil gaya
bemaza zindagi ko maza mil gaya
pyaar ko pyaar ka aasra mil gaya
pyaar ko pyaar ka aasra mil gaya
aasra mil gaya
haan maza mil gaya
aaj dil ke khazaane ki chaabi mili
aaj dil ke khazaane ki chaabi mili
ho tumhe dulhan mili
hamen bhabhi mili
ho tumhe dulhan mili
hamen bhabhi mili
soone jungle mein ek
murgaabi mili
soone jungle mein ek
murgaabi mili
ho tumhe dulhan mili
hamein bhabhi mili
ho tumhe dulhan mili
hamein bhabhi mili
ho tumhe dulhan mili
hamein bhabhi mili
ho tumhe dulhan mili
hamein bhabhi mili
ho tumhe dulhan mili
hamein bhabhi mili
ho tumhe dulhan mili
hamein bhabhi mili
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5 Responses to "Tumhe dulhan mili hamen bhaabhi mili"
February 4, 2014 at 1:03 pm
Arun ji, nice song….reminds me of Marathi song “Daav Mandun Mandun Modu Nako”. I am sure you prepared list of ICM artists off hand! I too recalled few Rais Khan, Aziz Khan, Khan Mastana, Alla Rakha Khan, Zakir Hussain, Samta Prasad, Nikhil Ghosh among others! Of course Sajjad Hussain, Husnalal & Bhagatram & Jamal Sen were too well known. Warm Regards,
Umesh
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July 25, 2024 at 9:36 pm
The correct lyrics at the end the first antara are:
“Aaj ulfat ki chitthi jawaabi mili”, meaning ulfat ki chitthi ka jawaab mil gaya bhaabhi ke roop mein.
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Thanks for the correct words. New generation music lovers will not know what “jawaabi chitthi” meant.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
January 18, 2014 at 3:42 pm
Thanks for your efforts as well as Wikipedia.
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