Nainon mein naina mat daalo
Posted on: March 29, 2014
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Hindi movies began to have songs as soon as they began to talk. These songs could be classified under hundreds of genres and themes.
Love songs are one of the major categories of songs in Hindi movies and each of these categories have severeal sub categories, sub sub categories and so on. I do not think that anyone had tried to classify various Hindi movie songs into its various categories. This exercise is going to be as complicated as classifying flora and fauna of the world into its various categories (which has been done, as students of biology already know). The categorisation of flora and fauna is known as taxonomy.
We in this blog has hundreds of categoies of songs and classifying them into some musical taxonomy will be an interesting exercise though an extremely time consuming one. Instead of delving deep into that and ending up with boggled mind, it is better to took at some smaller categories that we frequently come across in Hindi movie music.
It is to be kept in mind that unlike biological taxonomy, the basic categories of HFM taxonomy can be combined to come up with new derived categories. That way, the categories of HFM are more like colors, rather than like the species of living world.
Confining us to just love songs, we find that many of these love songs use various body parts to symbolise various feelings related to love. “Dil” (Heart) for instance symbolises love in Hindi movies. “Dil Dena” means to fall in love with someone. But the most common usage of “Dil” in Hindi movie lyrics is not “dil dena” but “dil ka tootna”. Though “dil” is physiologically made of muscles, Hindi movie songs would like us to believe that “dil” is made of some fragile variety of glass that can get cracked at the drop of a hat. The number of songs that talk of “dil tootna” are countless.
“Dil dena” and “dil ka tootna” are preceded by “Aankh ka milna” (meeting of eyes), “aankhen chaar hona” (two pairs of eyes sighting each other) or even “Aankh ka ladna” (literal meening collision of eyes), which lead to “aankh ka jhukna” (lowering of eyes in case of females) and later “aankh churaana” (not seeing eye to eye) etc. The word “aankh” has other synonyms like “nazar”, “nigaah” etc and there are similar idioms with them as well.
There there are songs where “Aankh” (or its variants) can be used alongwith “heart” (or its variants) and many other body parts viz. “Jigar” (liver), “honth” (lips), “naak” (nose), “kaan” (ears), “baal” or “zulf” (hair), “Chehra” (face), “kalaayi” (wrist), “baanh” (arms), “seena” (chest), “ungli” (finger), “paaon” (feet), “kamar” (waist), “tan” or “badan” (body) etc. Then there are body products like “Aansoo” (tear drops), “khoon” (blood), “paseena” (sweat), “doodh” (milk) etc as well.
Another major category of songs are those that mention various garments or parts there of. Who can forget songs that talk of “dupatta”, “pagdi”, “pallu”, “daaman”, “Salwar”, “kurta”, “ghoonghat”, “lehanga”, “roomaal” etc.
If garments find mention in hindi movie songs, then how can jewelery be left behind. We have songs mentioning jewelery worn from head to toe (that may cost from nothing to millions), viz. “bindiya”, “nathni”, “baala”, “maala”, “phool”,”haar”, “jhumka”, “choodi”, “kangan”, “paayal”, “paajeb” etc.
Nature is not ignored in Hindi movie songs either. Various elements of nature are used to express various feeling of human heart. “baadal” or ghata (clouds), “aasmaan” (sky), “chaand” (moon), “sooraj” (sun), “taare” (stars), hawa (wind), nadi (river), saagar (sea), Toofaan (storm), varios seasons, viz “baarish” (rain), patjhad or khizaan (autumn) etc often get combined with body parts and garments in Hindi movie songs.
Flora and Fauna are not ignored either. From the animal kingdowm, we see “mor” (peacock), “papeeha” (brain fever bird), “bulbul”, “Maina”, “tota” (parrot), Kauwwa or kaaga (crow), “panchhi” (bird), “sher” (tiger),”ghoda” (horse), “bhaaloo” (bear), “haathi” (elephant) etc while plant kingdom provide HFM with words like “jungle” (forest), ped (tree), “daal” (branch), “jhoola” (swing), “naao” (boat) etc.
Even the portions of houses find liberal use in HFM. There are songs that use words like “Dar” or “darwaaza” or “kiwadiya”(door), “khidki” or “jharokha”(window), “chhat” (roof), “atariya” (balcony) etc. Even common household items viz “sheesha” (mirror), “Sez” (bed), “parda” or “chilman” (curtain) etc have helped create some memorable songs in HFM.
One can go on and on to find lots and lots of other categories of songs if one has the time and inclination. The above discussion just gives some idea about the range of themes/ categories that songs of HFM emcompass. When all these themes combine with each other (and they are often combined) and we can thus derive countless new categories of songs from the basic categories. Sky and lyricists imagination is the limit in the matter.
Here is a song from the earlier days of HFM. This song uses the basic theme of “Aankh”, by using its synonym, viz “Nain”. “Nainon Mein Naina Mat Daalo” is the basic premise of this song. This song is sung by Zohrabai Ambalewaali. D N Madhok is the lyricist. Music is composed by Naushad.
This song is from a movie called “Jeewan” (1944) which makes its debut in the blog with this song.
Lyrics of this song were sent to me by Nitin Shah.
Song-Nainon mein naina mat daalo(Jeewan)(1944) Singer-Zohrabai Ambalewaali, Lyrics-D N Madhok, MD-Naushad
Lyrics(Provided by Nitin Shah)
nainon mein naina mat daalo
ho ji balam
tumhen meri qasam
nainon mein naina mat daalo
ho ji balam
tumhen meri qasam
ye deewaanon ki toli
takti hai meri choli
main sabse aankh-micholi kheloon
kheloon
haan kheloon
haan nainon mein naina mat daalo
ho ji balam
tumhen meri qasam
bedard jawaani aayi
duniya ne thhokar khaayi
main hans ke ik angdaai le loon
le loon
haan le loon
haan nainon mein naina mat daalo
ho ji balam
tumhen meri qasam
nigaahon se muskaate
bhare we roop(?) dikhaate
phoolon ka gend bana ke kheloon
kheloon
haan kheloon
haan nainon mein naina mat daalo
ho ji balam
tumhen meri qasam
5 Responses to "Nainon mein naina mat daalo"
March 30, 2014 at 3:15 pm
Missing word :
nigaahon se muskaate
bhare ‘ behroop ‘ dikhaate
‘behroop’ = roop badalna, in disguise
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March 30, 2014 at 7:10 pm
@ Atul ji – Interesting post ! 🙂 like that ‘combining with Nature and ‘flora and fauna’ and the ‘portions of houses’ too 🙂
@ Shah Saheb – thanks for this rare song !
@ nahm ji – thanks for the missing word!
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March 31, 2014 at 4:35 am
Limited Biological taxonomy and unlimited HFM taxonomy…. interesting post. Thanks Atulji. 🙂
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March 29, 2014 at 12:09 pm
Atulji,
Thanks for the post. You have tried to cover the full gamut of most commonly used lafz without which the lyricists will handicapped. Also the intangibles like love, muhobat, pyar, prem etc. All these words and more sum up to make our jeewan.
Nainji errr Nahmji would be happy about the song.
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