Ye mujh se kaha dil ne chupke se baar baar
Posted on: August 8, 2014
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a 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.
GEMS FROM THE MIGRATORS…..song no.10…LAST SONG OF THE SERIES.
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After Partition in 1947, it did not take long for things to become normal in the Indian film industry. This was mainly because ready replacements were available in plenty to fill the vacancies caused by migration. As far as producers and financers were concerned, almost all producers and film makers had arrived here from Lahore. It was actually Lahore which felt the absence of Film makers. Pakistan film Industry was somehow managed well by the experienced people who went from India and Pakistan enjoyed a ” GOLDEN AGE OF FILMS AND MUSIC ” from 1959 to 1977. Once the old generation retired, there was no second line to take over from them.
The film industry in Pakistan was never an organised one. Moreover the often changing Goverments did not bother to do anything to protect, sustain, help or develop the infrastructure of Film industry. Unlike India, there was neither a Films Division, nor was there anything like Film and Television Institute to build local artistes in different fields.
By 2010,the film industry in Pakistan was in such a poor shape that, against India’s film production of 13526 films in 2011, Pakistan had produced only 7 films in that year !
While Indian films were distributed in over 90 countries, there was no International market for Pakistan films.
All studios in Pakistan were in ruins and Theatres had been demolished.
Can you believe, In the entire Islamabad city, there is ONLY ONE Theatre-a multiplex of 4 screens ! (info from-Filmistan-Javed Shaikh 0n pk.politics.in dated 10-4-2014 )
In the last 9 episodes, we heard songs composed by the Music Directors who migrated to Pakistan,i.e. West Pakistan. Today we will talk about a famous and talented composer of Hindi/Bangla films, who migrated to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). His name is KAMAL PRASANNA DASGUPTA or simply, Kamal Dasgupta.
It is a moot point whether Kamal should be called a Film composer or a NFS composer in Hindi and Bangla. He can be called the Originator or the Pioneer, who established NFS during the period from 1935 to 1955. It was he who introduced the word ” Hindustani Song” for NFS on the 78 RPM records.
Kamal Prasanna Dasgupta was born on 28-7-1912 in village Narail,Jessore district in East Bengal. He matriculated in 1928 and did his B.Com. Then he earned a doctorate in music from the Banares Hindu University. His father Tara Prasanna died early. Kamal, his brother Subal and sister Sudhira were brought up by the eldest brother Bimal Dasgupta.
In 1935, he joined HMV as a Music Director. Here he met Kazi Nazrul Islam, who was also employed there. Kamal was a singer himself and sang many songs in Hindi, Bangla and also Tamil. He tuned almost 400 songs written by Kazi as Nazrul Geeti. It was here that he met and developed the talents of singer Juthika Roy and Jagmohan. The modern songs tuned in Rabindra and a mixed ghazal style were labelled as ” HINDUSTANI SONG ” and soon became popular all over the country. Lyricist Faiyaz Hashmi was the third person in the team of Kazi, Kamal and Faiyaz. Besides Jagmohan, Kamal Dasgupta also helped Talat Mehmood and Hemant Kumar to get established with NFS in Hindi and Bangla. His close ties with Juthika Roy were ‘special’. She wanted to marry him, but when it was clear that it was not possible, she chose not to marry at all and remained a spinster throughout her life.
He gave music in 16 Hindi films like Jawab, Hospital, Rani, Meghdoot, Arabian Nights, Bindiya, Krishna Leela, Pehchan, Zameen Aasmaan, Faisla, Giribala, Manmaani, Chandrashekhar, Vijay yatra, Iran ki ek raat and Fulwari. However, except for Jawab and Hospital his songs did not become very popular. Kanan Devi became a National name after she sang “Ye duniya Toofan mail” in Jawab-42. He also gave music in 22 Bangla films.
Kamal was a chain smoker and suffered from Gall Bladder stones. Instead of an operation, he started taking Morphin injection for pain relief, but then he became its addict. His elder brother died and all the family responsibility fell on his shoulders. He had earned a lot, but all his money was lost when his bank went bankrupt. In Calcutta, New theatre was almost on the verge of closing down. Arrival of new blood in music field took away focus from him and he felt neglected. He became a depressed person. Around 1958 he migrated to Dhaka-East Pakistan. He converted to Islam, changing his name to Kamal Islam. He also married singer Firoza begum, a convert from Jew. The got 3 sons and a daughter.
After the emergence of Bangla Desh, the Government tried to help him, but it was too late by then as he had become disillusioned and depressed. In frustration he wrote to a friend “The pictures you see in front, everybody remembers them and praises them. But nobody wants to know the people who work behind the
scenes, nor talk about them. That is the nature of the world.”
His was not in good terms with his wife. In his final days, he contracted T.B. Finally he said Good-Bye to this world on 20-7-1974. The originator and populariser of NFS in India and a maker of memorable songs like “Toofan mail” left us forever-unsung !
Today we will listen to one of his songs from the famous film JAWAB-1942. There were 10 songs in the film. There is lot of controversy in identifying singers of this film. Famous songs like ” door desh ka rehnewala “-credited to Kanan devi and Asit Baran,and another song from this film ” Balayen loon main uss dil ki ” -credited to P C Barua were actually sung by MUNIR ALAM. It is according to Jagmohan Sursagar as per information on RMIM dated 20-7-2010. This seems to be possible because Asit Baran did not act in this film and since he never gave Playback to other artistes ( he sang his own songs), he can not be the singer of “door desh ka rehnewala.”
The story of Jawab-42 was very interesting-
JAWAB-1942 was a M.P.production film owned jointly by Madhukar Chatterjee and Prathamesh Barua (that’s why it was named M-P ).This popular film firmly established this production co. as a foremost producer of social films in Bengal.
Jawab was made a Bi-Lingualfilm. Hindi Version was Jawab and the Bengali name was SHESH UTTAR. the Music director was same for both versions and some songs, notably the most famous Kanana Devi’s song,”Yeh duniya Toofaan Mail” was made in same tune also in Bengali.
When I saw the Bengali version of the film,I got the Bangla version of the Song recorded, so I have both the Hindi as well as Bengali versions of Toofan Mail-in audio.
Prathamesh Chandra Barua,a leading Actor/Director of Bengal Cinema made successful films on the problems of Rich and upper class families. The Heroes of such films did nothing(they did not need also) for a living and had peculiar problems, for example-Devdas-35 and Mukti-37.
Jawab was PCB’s last major film with such theme. The Music was by Kamal Dasgupta.
The Lyrics of this film were written by Pt.Madhur-whose real name was Budhichandra Agarwal.
A rich,selfabsorbed and introvert Manoj(PCB) is sent to his future in-laws’ town for recovery, but loses his way and lands in a small town. The Railway station master gives him shelter and his daughter Meena(Kanan devi) tends to him. He falls in her love. Meanwhile search for him starts at both places and Rambha(Jamuna) with whom he was to get married,arrives in his town.
There is a confrontation between Jamuna,PCB and Kanan Devi and both ladies want an answer(JAWAB) from him as to whom he has chosen. Needless to say that seeing the earthy, worldwise Kanan compared to rich, arrogant Jamuna, he wisely chooses Kanan Devi only. It was a very interesting and simple film which became hit in both languages,due to its songs mainly.
With this we come to the end of this series,’ Gems from the Migrators’. I do hope that you enjoyed the songs. So,Bye for now,may be we will meet again for a New series sometime…may be…
Song-Ye mujh se kaha dil ne chupke se baar baar (Jawaab)(1942) Singers-Anima Dasgupta, Kalyani Das, Lyrics-Pt Madhur, MD-Kamal Dasgupta
Lyrics
Ye mujhse kahaa dil ne
chupke se baar baar
nas nas mein preet chhaayi
main kyun na karoon pyaar unhen
kyun na karoon pyaar
Ye mujhse kaha dil ne
chupke se baar baar
nas nas mein preet chhaayi
main kyun na karoon pyaar unhen
kyun na karoon pyaar
naajon se pale dil se
kaise sahoge peed
naajon se pale dil se
kaise sahoge peed
geeton ke zakhm dil mein
ban jayegnge bahaar
main kyun na
kyun na karoon pyaar unhen
kyun na karoon pyaar
ye kaun hai jalaata
jalne mein maza aata
ye kaun hai jalaata
jalne mein maja aata
bas shamma ke jalne pe
Parvaana hai nisaar
main kyun na
kyun na karoon pyaar unhen
kyun na karoon pyaar
bedard ki thokar se
kya tera haal hoga
kya tera haal hoga
bedard ki thokar se
kya tera haal hoga
kya tera haal hoga
ho jaaye ban ke dil ka
ye dard madadgaar
ho jaaye ban ke dil ka
ye dard madadgaar
phir dard madadgaar
main kyun na
kyun na karoon pyaar unhen
kyun na karoon pyaar
ye mujhse kaha dil ne
chupke se baar baar
nas nas mein preet chhaayi
main kyun na karoon pyaar unhen
kyun na karoon pyaar
9 Responses to "Ye mujh se kaha dil ne chupke se baar baar"
August 8, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Failsa-1947 he collaborated with Anupam Ghatak for all the songs.
If Rani is of 1952 then its MD was DC Dutt.
Again Phulwari-1946 had music by Hansraj Behl.
Hats off to KD for giving true gems of NFS:
bhala sa kitna apna bachpan
madhuban me na shyam bulaao by Hemantda.
with Talat:
chaudvin manzil pe zaalim aa gaya
tasveer teri dil mera behla na sakegi
tum lok laaj se darti thi
nigahon ko chura kar reh gaye
main teri chhabi banaonga
ye baja ke daur e bahar hai
woh rang rang ke jalwe
gham-e-zindagi ka yaarab na mila koyi
nazar bulbul ki kehti hai
sab din ek samaan nahin tha
dil ki duniya basa gaya
soye hue hain chand aur taare >ghoomer chhaya chander chokhe in bangla
He had invested money in a bank in Kolkata which sank, KD lost all
his savings. This affected him deeply to the point that he had lost
his mental balance. He was running a grocery store in later years. KD considered Khemchand Prakash to be one of the greatest MD> “Woh hum sab se baazi le gaya”. His wife was called ‘Nazrul Sangeet Samagri’ – the queen of Nazrul Sangeet.
His non-film songs for Talat, Hemant, Jagmohan, Juthika Roy are most
wonderful and hummable. He was also a terrific singer. There are only 3 duets with Juthika Roy but they are all heavenly. KD can be compared to RC Boral and Pankaj Mullick.
His two sons – Hameen and Shafin became popular band singers (their
band’s name was ‘Miles’). A couple of their songs were copied by
several Hindi MDs including Anu Malik.
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August 9, 2014 at 9:35 am
Hi ! Am an on and off visitor to this blog. What you guys do here is commendable and humongous. Came here looking for a writeup about a song and surprised to see you have no songs at all from the movie. Sitamgar (1985) had quite sizeable hits like “chand roz meri jaan ” ” mausam pyar ka” and most of all, the song, which I was looking for information on, “meri tarah Allah kare” picturized on the fabulous Parveen Babi.
Maybe I haven’t searched properly. Am going by YouTube for info on these songs being from the movie. I may be wrong. If so, apologies in advance.
Thank you.
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August 10, 2014 at 8:08 pm
We have still lots and lots of songs from the Golden era to be covered, though in between songs of 80’s/90’s and even from the recent years are posted on suitable occasions.
So, the songs mentioned by you may be in line and would be coming any time in future.
Thanks !!
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August 9, 2014 at 7:41 pm
Poonamji,
More stress is given to songs up to 1969.
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August 11, 2014 at 6:29 am
Arunji, thanks for this excellent series on the Migrators. I didn’t comment on all the posts but I did find this series full of very interesting information and trivia. As you know, this is a fascinating topic for me. 🙂
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August 14, 2014 at 11:31 pm
Thank you for the absorbing series. Indeed you have presented some wonderful “Gems from the Migrators”. This post on Kamal Dasgupta was the icing on the cake. Thoroughly enjoyed the post and the series.
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August 8, 2014 at 9:52 am
Wonderful series Arun Ji! Very different and thoroughly enjoyed! Thanks for taking the effort to bring us these series. Looking forward to the next series :).
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