Mehandi lagi mere haath
Posted on: January 8, 2015
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If you live in a place like mine, you may think that the local administration cannot see public happy and they devise ways and means to put public to inconvenience on a regular basis. For instance, whenever I go to one of the important roads in my town (called Link road), I find some or the other construction work going on there all the time. And the work is carried out in such a manner that may put the public to the maximum inconvenience. And just when the people may have adapted themselves and begun to learn to live with that inconvenience, some new method of torture is devised by the imaginative administrators. 🙂
Two years ago, the standard method was to pick a busy cross road and dig up its centre. Naturally it would lead to traffic jams all the time while construction work would go on at a leisurely pace. When the construction work would be over after a few months, they would decide to repair the road. They would pick the portion of the road that would offer them the best opportunity of creating traffic jam and do their work merrily.
That road incidentally was full of trees and a few trees were located right at the centre of the road. These trees caused regular traffic jams on that road. Some day the local administrator decided that the trees have to go so that the road can be widened.
Very noble sentiments indeed. But how did they go about it ?
I have seen on TV (Discovery and other similar channels) that trees are uprooted and planted elsewhere. Later I came to know that relocation of trees have been done in India as well. If fact the last time I went to Jabalpur, I was told by my wife that a big banyan tree in the centre of the city was relocated elsewhere.
No such high tech measures in this town inhabited by simple minded people and administrators. They arranged for hacksaws and hacked down around 40 odd trees on the road (there were 80 odd trees on the road). This work was done on weekends when there was lesser traffic and more importantly because the courts were closed so that some “spoilsport” nature lovers may not be able to approach the court and obtain a stay. Though the trees would be hacked down promptly on the weekend, such promptness would be missing when it came to clear the felled trees from the road. As a result, that road would be impossible to use for road traffic for the next several days.
Just when things would settle down again, one more weekend would come and the remaining 40 odd trees would also be hacked down, and you guessed it, the felled trees would once again put public to inconvenience for the next several days.
Many days later, trees would be removed but traffic jam would still take place because the gaps/ projections left by the recently deceased trees would hamper smooth flow of traffic. But people would grin and bear, hoping that things can only get better.
THe road would finally begin to look wider and people would be able to drive on less clogged manner. What is more they would now have more space for their car to park. One such happy driver would park his car at a vacant place and go for some shopping. When he would come back and start his car, he would be unable to start his car and what is more a couple of traffic cops would descend on him. “You have parked on a no parking area so your car has been impounded”- he would be informed. The hapless car owner would come out and find a lock being fixed on his front tyre. But where is the “No Parking” sign here, he would wonder. The traffic cops would lead him to their superior, who would impose a fine and the relieved car owner would be happy to be allowed to go away.
The car owner would next day survey the entire length of the road to find out if there are any sections which mentions “Parking Zone” or “No Parking Zone” on the road. He would fail to detect any such signs. So he would righly conclude thatthe absence of such boards were a deliberate ploy by the traffic cops to supplement their meagre earnings.
Some local administrator would visit some other place (Kota perhaps ?) and find that vehicles were being parked in the centre of the road there. So he would come back and decide that the town (no just this road of the town), will have vehicle parking on the centre of the road ! So the road would begin to have cars and two wheelers being parked in the centre. Roadside mechanics would take advantage and would no perform their repair work on vehicles right on the centre of the road. 🙂
The arrangement would begin to run smoothly. But this arrangement would soon be withdrawn, perhaps at the behest of the traffic cops with dwindled extra earning. So the road would go back to the earlier arrangement, with no clearcut boards for Parking/ No Parking zones, much to the glee of traffic cops. 🙂
Now the administration would go to the other extreme. It would be decided that the road would now have road divider. So the road would be dug up right at the centre. And this dug up portion would be the width of a minor Panama Canal. 🙂 So the road traffic would once again begin to crawl on the road.
In short, this road stays in a state of flux all the time with some construction or the other always planned, specifically meant to throw the vehicular traffic off gear for most of the time.
Simple minded people still try to brave their way through that road, but people like me have found out alternative methods. I have discovered alternative routes that allow me to beat the traffic congestion on that road. On the last occasion that I was foolish enough to go to that road, I found myself stuck in a traffic jam due to a procession. Yes, processions too pick this road for impact. I wisely diverted my vehicle to another road and found my way back home.
I cannot help but feel that the administrators of this town must be big fans of old Hindi movies of 1950s and 1960s where the movie makers were quite fond of making their actors and audiences cry. 🙂 Lead actor/actress in these movies would be feel happy and he/ she would sing a happy song. The film maker would then make him suffer and the same hero/ heroine would then be seen singing the sad version of the same song. :).
Here is just the kind of song that would illustrate my point. This picturisation from “Mehandi Lagi Mere Haath”(1962) shows Nanda looking happy and singing happy version of the title song. And a few songs and scenes later, she is forced to sing the sad version of this same title song. 🙂
So here is this title song from “Mehandi Lagi Mere Haath”(1962)- both the versions. Lata is the singer and the song is picturised on Nanda, who to my mind was “Nimmi Lite” or “Meena Kumari Lite” as far as essaying such roles were concerned. 🙂
Anand Bakshi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Kalyanji Anandji.
Lyrics of this song were sent to me by Prakashchandra specially on the occasion of Nanda’s birth anniversary which falls today (8 january 2015).
So here is this title song from “Mehandi Lagi Mere Haath”(1962) on this occasion.
Part I (Happy version)
Part II (Sad version)
Song-Mehandi lagi mere haath (Mehandi Lagi Mere Haath)(1962) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-Kalyanji Anandji
Lyrics(Provided by Prakashchandra)
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Happy version
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aaa…aaaa….aaa….
aaaa….aaaa…..aaaaa….aaaa
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey
pi matwaare
aayenge dwaare
leke sang baaraat rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey
sarke chunariyaa
sar pe na theharey
laaj bithhaaye sau sau peharey
sarke chhunariyaa
sar pe na theharey
laaj bithhaaye sau sau peharey ae
dil dhadke din raat rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey
laakh chhuraayee ankhiyaan pee se
laakh ladee main apne jee se
laakh chhuraayee ankhiyaan pee se
laakh ladi main apne jee se
lekin khaayee maat rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey
chori chori chupke chupke
mujh mein samaaye mujh se bhi chhupke
chori chori chupke chhupke
mujh mein samaaye mujh se bhi chhupke
kar gaye saiyyaan ghaat rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey
pee matwaare aayenge dwaare
leke sang baaraat rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae
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Sad version
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mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey
bhool jaa iss ko o ae dil ye to
sapnon ki thhi baat rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey
anjaane mein main baawariyaa
likh baithhi tere naam umariyaa
anjaane mein main baawariyaa
likh baithhi tere naam umariyaa
nibh naa saki par baat rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey
maang bhi ujdi
dil bhi tootaa
mehandi kaa rang niklaa jhoothaa
maang bhi ujdi
dil bhi tootaa
mehandi kaa rang niklaa jhoothaa
ansuwan se dhoye haath rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey
bhool jaa iss ko
ae dil ye to
sapnon ki thhi baat rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey ae
mehandi lagi mere haath rey
2 Responses to "Mehandi lagi mere haath"
January 10, 2015 at 3:21 pm
I would like to dedicate the following song to the municipalities of India:
” Dekh li teri khudai,bas mera dil bhar gaya”.
:-))
Avadh Lal
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January 9, 2015 at 9:38 am
PC,
yeh to municipality ki khudaayi hai
magar hamare liye to duhaayi hai
aur desh ke liye badi ruswaayi hai
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