Tum meri raakho laaj hari
Posted on: September 3, 2014
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“Dekh Kabira Roya” (1957) was produced and directed by Amiya Chakraborty for Srirangam, Bombay. The movie had Anita Guha, Ameeta, Anoop Kumar, Daljit, Jawahar Kaul, Shubha Khote, Shivraj, Pravin Paul, Shyam Kumar, Ridku, Robert, Balwant Rahi, Chandabai, Shanti, Omkarnath, Shankarrao Nagarkar, Rampal, Sundar etc in it.
Nine out of its ten songs have been discussed in the blog.
The tenth and final song was not available. It was to locate this song that I watched the movie. It was then that I got a gist of the story line of this movie. The movie is a light hearted tale of three out of job men – a singer, a painter and an editor, and three girls fall in love with them, mistaking them for the other. Thus, the music loving girl falls for the painter, mistaking him for the singer, painting loving girl falls for the editor, mistaking him for the painter while the girl with the literary bent falls for the singer, mistaking him for the editor.
In this tenth and final song, the music loving girl Ameeta, who has fallen in love with Jawahar KaulDaljit Puri (thinking him to be a singer) takes him to meet her mother (Pravin Paul). Pravin Paul insists that he should sing a bhajan. He tries to wriggle out of the situation but to no avail. He had to sing while Pravin Paul too joins in the singing (in Sudha Malhotra’s voice). All this while, Ameeta is away, as she has been sent to the market by Pravin Paul to bring some sweets.
This song is sung by an unindentified male voice (he could be Jawahar KaulDaljit Puri himself) and Sudha Malhotra. Rajinder Krishan is the lyricist. Music is composed by Madan Mohan.
I request our knowledgeable readers to help identify this male voice whose identity is not yet known.
With this song, “Dekh Kabira Roya” (1957) joins the list of movies that have all their songs covered in the blog.
Song-Tum meri raakho laaj hari (Dekh Kabira Roya)(1957) Singers-Male voice, Sudha Malhotra, Lyrics-Rajinder Krishan, MD-Madan Mohan
Lyrics
aa aa
aa aa aa aa
hari ee ee ee
ee ee ee
hari ee ee ee
ee ee ee
tum meri raakho laaj hari
tum meri
maata ji aap bhi khadtaal bajaaiye na
tum meri raakho laaj hari ee
tum meri raakho laaj hari ee
tum jaanat sab antaryaami
tum jaanat haan
tum jaanat haan aan
tum jaanat
(cough cough cough cough)
tum jaanat sab
aa aa aa aa
aaa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
tum jaana sab antaryaami
karni kachhu na kari
prabhu ji mere
karni kachhu na kari
tum meri raakho laaj hari ee
tum meri raakho laaj hari ee
beta tum bhi gaao na
maataaji
aap hi
gaate rahiye
nahin nahin beta
ab tum gaao
aa aa aa
hari ee ee
haan aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
avgun mose bisrat naahin
avgun mose
haan avgun mose
haan avgun
(cough cough cough cough)
avgun mose
aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa
avgun mose bisrat naahin
palchin ghari ghari
prabhu ji mere
palchin ghari ghari
tum meri raakho laaj hari ee ee
tum meri raakho laaj hari
beta chup kyun ho gaye
gaao na
hari ee ee ee ee ee
hari ee ee ee ee ee
raakho laaj hari
raakho laaj hari
raakho laaj hari
raakho
hari ee ee ee
maaya aa aa aa
hari
hari
hari
raakho laaj
hari
hari
haay hari
11 Responses to "Tum meri raakho laaj hari"
September 3, 2014 at 9:25 am
Actor Daljit had formed a popular pair with Chitra, in late 50s for C Grade movies.
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September 3, 2014 at 10:21 am
Yes! quite a pair: Sati Pareeksha, Baghi Sardar, Basre Ki Hoor, Indar Sabha, Alam Ara, Lal-E-Yaman, Hatimtai Ki Beti, Roop Basant, Sakhi Hatim, etc.
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September 3, 2014 at 1:16 pm
Sudha Malhotra; Dekh Kabira Roya(1957); Rajindra Krishnan; Madan Mohan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfuDkdhBHfc
I had sent it more than a year ago
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September 3, 2014 at 11:29 pm
Congratulations Atul ji – Atul ji ( 🙂 (double for the lyrics also ) for covering all songs of this movie ‘Dekh Kabira Roya – 1957’ and taking it to the ‘list of moives – all songs covered’
YIPPEE …. !!!
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September 4, 2014 at 12:34 pm
YIPPEEEE! It is the first time I listened to most of the songs from this movie, and what a treasure trove. Loved each one of those songs. My favourite though was “Ashkon Se Teri Humne Tasveer Banayi Hai” by Asha.
Dekh Kabhira Roya (1957) joins the ranks of movies where all songs from the movie have been discussed on the blog. Congratulations and thank you Atul ji!
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September 4, 2014 at 4:29 pm
Dear Atul ji,
Congratulations for covering all the songs of “Dekh Kabira Roya”, a favourite movie, which I had seen many times during my pre-teen years. Madan Mohan at his very best. (Was he ever less than very good?)
It was a movie whose each song was a gem. Indeed, it is difficult to say which is the best song in the film. I mean one would be at a loss to compare Manna Da rendering ‘Kaun Aaya Mere Man Ke Dware’ with Lata Didi’s ‘Meri Veena Tum Bin Roye’ & ‘Tu Pyar Kare Ya Thukra De’, not to say about Asha Tai’s ‘Ashkon Se Teri Humne Tasveer Banayi Hai’.
However, to each his own: My personal favourite happens to be ” Hum Se Aaya Na Gaya’.
Thanks once again and with best wishes,
Avadh Lal
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September 3, 2014 at 8:33 am
Dont know about the male singer, but the male actor is Daljeet Puri and not Jawahar Kaul.
Also, if u watched the entire movie with concentration, u would have found the 11th song 🙂
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September 3, 2014 at 8:38 am
Thanks for the identification.
I only watched parts of the movie in order to locate this song. I did not realise that the movie had another song in it (HFGK mentions only ten songs).
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September 3, 2014 at 10:11 am
Oh its just a parody, obviously not covered by HFGK, but as u know, becomes important for a small artist like Sunder. Also, he is hilarious! 🙂 I do, but not really necessary to consider it as 11th song…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4_4pd10Hjc
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