Ek baat kahoon raaja kisi se na kahiyo
Posted on: January 11, 2015
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We are eleven days into the new year. The euphoria and enthusiasm that one felt on the first day of the year have died down and most of the new year resolotions have been duly forgotten by most people by now. 🙂
I do not believe in making new year resolutions knowing the fate of such resolutions, still I could not help but resolve that I would try and post one song everyday for the of the year that would mark the completion of all songs of that movie in the blog. In other words, I made a resolution that the blog will see at least one movies YIPPEED everyday during the year 2015 ! It is a very tall order indeed as it means (1) I will have to post for every day of the year without a break and (2) I will have to find a movie everyday that has just one song left to be discussed and (3) I have to make sure that the missing song is available to be posted.
So far I have managed to live up to the new year resolutions. I have been posting songs everyday so far and in fact at an average of six songs a day, which used to be our cruising speed per day in the past. Finding how many songs are left in different movies is an exercise that I am able to carry out easily these days thanks to the availability of HFGK with me (sent to me very kindly by M/S Arunkumar Deshmukh and Sudhir Ji on the occasion of the blog reaching 10,000th song.
It is the third requirement, viz ensuring that the final few songs are available turns out to be the most tricky. And if movies are old, then quite a few songs from the movie turn out to be difficult to trace. While most movie lovers may find sources like YT as inexhaustible sources of HFM, we in this blog have reached a stage when we often find that YT often do not contain the songs that we are looking for. In those circumstances, we have to look elsewhere and we then make those rare songs available ourselves. A good number of rare songs that were unavailable online were made available by us in the blog.
Take this movie “Sanyaasi” (1945) for example. This movie has ten songs according to HFGK. Yesterday I discussed the ninth song from “Sanyasi”(1945) in a bid to discuss the final song of the movie today. But if one thinks that the tenth song is available just like that then think again. This song is easily an extremely rare song. After searching online in vain, I searched in my collection and I was relieved to find that it was available with me.
When I listened too this song, I was amazed on quite a few counts. I do feel now that it is a remarkable song sung by a remarkable, even though unheralded singer.
This song is sung by Naseem Akhtar. Pt Madhur is the lyricist. Music is composed by Naushad.
The first thing that one notices about this song is its lyrics. The lyrics are quite raunchy. There were songs in HFM those days that were even banned for their lewd lyrics and the lyrics of this song fall in that category. It appears that such kind of lyrics were commonplace in village nautankis in North India those days (may be that is the case even now).
Only the audio of this song is available. Going by the lyrics, it appaers to be a mujra song or maay be a nautanki song performed by a kothewaali. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on the picturisation of this song.
After listening to this song, I became curious to know about Naseem Akhtar. One cannot find much information about her online, and whatever one can find about her online is inaccurate. The most accurate information about her is provided in this very blog by our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh. Here is what he has to say about her:
it was popularly believed that Naseem Akhtar is the sister of Sardar Akhtar( wife of Mehboob Khan) and Bahar Akhtar( wife of A.R.Kardar but it NOT TRUE !
Shri Kamalakar Pasupuleti, senior Film and music historian has informed me that Naseem was NOT their sister.
Both Sardar Akhtar-known as Daari and Bahar Akhtar-known as Beharo were tawayafs of Hiramandi Lahore. When A R Kardar eloped with Bahar Akhtar and married her, Sardar Akhtar registered a Police complaint of abduction. Kardar and his family were arrested and put in lock up. It was only after Bahar’s statement that she married Kardar on her own choice that they were released. Sardar Akhtar herself later married Mehboob Khan.
Naseem Akhtar’s father was a Sarangi player. they were originally from Kashmir. She was born in 1924. She started singing on Lahore Radio. Impressed with her singing style, composer Pt. Amarnath gave her a break in Nishani-1942. Till then she used to sing at rich persons’ functions and mehfils etc. After Nishani, she came to Bombay to sing for Khooni Laash-43. She never acted in any films. She sang in Bhai, Ek din ka Sultan, 40 karod, Flat no.9, Pehli nazar, Ratnavali, Dharma, Sanyasi, Tadbir, Shahjehan, Nek Parveen, Safar, Keemat, Sohni Mahiwal, Bhanwar, Ek Roz, Doli, Parai Aag etc. She sang for Naushad, Ghulam Mohd, Anil Biswas, Shyamsunder, Ghulam Hyder, Rafiq Ghaznavi, Govind Ram, Sajjad Hussain, Firoze Nizami and C.Ramchandra.
She left for Pakistan after Partition and sang in a few films, but was not successful. She got married and settled as a housewife. It seems that she died in Lahore on 11-5-2007 at the age of 87 years. Shri Kamalakar ji’s friend Mr. Sayeed Malik, a famous Film and Music Historian of Pakistan, had interviewed Naseem Akhatar and got information about her from her in person. Sayeed Malik’s articles on pre partition films/music are published on internet and some are available even today, on RMIM Archieves, for anyone to read. Sayeed Malik also died in 2007. ”
This blog had 12 songs sung by Naseem Akhtar. She typically sang songs picturised on ladies who sing about males eyes them lustily. These songs may have been mostly picturised on ladies playing mujrewaali, or bhabhi or Saali or as such. As mujrewaali, she would sing about her clients eyeing her lustily while as a Bhabhi, she would sing about her dewar (often quite young) eyeing her similarly. All quite rauncy stuff indeed.
This particular song scores quite high on the raunchiness scale. In this song the lady invites the man to come spend the night with her and she assures him that he would quite enjoy the experience.
With this rare song, all the eleven songs of “‘Sanyaasi”(1945) are now covered in the blog. With this, “sanyaasi” (1945) joins the list of movies that have all their songs covered in the blog.
Song-Ek baat kahoon raaja kisi se na kahiyo (Sanyaasi)(1945) Singer-Naseem Akhtar, Lyrics-Pt Madhur, MD-Naushad
Lyrics
Ik baat kahoon oon raaja
kisi se na kahiyo jee
haan raat bhar rahiyo
sawere chale jaiyo ji
raat bhar rahiyo
haan raat bhar rahiyo
sawere chale jaiyo ji
raat bhar rahiyo
haan raat bhar rahiyo
sawere chale jaiyo ji
sawere chale jaiyo ji
raat bhar rahiyo
sawere chale jaiyo ji
raat bhar rahiyo
haan raat bhar rahiyo
aankhon se aankhon mein masti parosoon
dil ki lagi ko tohe aaj main keh doon
nainon se aaike jiyarwa mein rahiyo ji
nainon se aaike jiyarwa mein rahiyo ji
raat bhar rahiyo
sawere chale jaiyo ji
raat bhar rahiyo
haan raat bhar rahiyo
bagiya pe diya jalaana haraam hai
sejiya mein jale maalon ka kya kaam hai
andheriya mein rehke bada hi maza paaiyo ji
andheriya mein rehke bada hi maza paaiyo ji
raat bhar rahiyo
sawere chale jaiyo ji
raat bhar rahiyo
haan raat bhar rahiyo
bagiya pe baithhi jawaani simat ke
aayena maike mein phir wo palat ke
baanke sipahiya tu ber ber kahiyo ji
baanke sipahiya tu ber ber kahiyo ji
raat bhar rahiyo
sawere chale jaiyo ji
raat bhar rahiyo
haan raat bhar rahiyo
5 Responses to "Ek baat kahoon raaja kisi se na kahiyo"
January 11, 2015 at 12:51 pm
Congratulations Atul ji on covering all songs of ‘Sanyaasi – 1945’ 🙂 , yahaan badhaai denewaalon mein ‘pehle main’ 🙂
The movie name needs to be corrected in last para of the write up.
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January 11, 2015 at 7:18 pm
When we had met Anil Biswas-ji in Bombay’ (That time it was still Bombay) he mentioned and praised very much her singing ‘Unka Ishara’ from ‘Pehli Nazar’.
(https://atulsongaday.me/2011/05/07/unka-ishaaraa-jaan-se-pyaaraa/)
He also told us that the prelude orchestration of that song was inspired from Western Music Symphony.
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January 12, 2015 at 10:37 am
Naseem Akhtar>>>>Pagli-43, Bhai-44, Chalis Karod-45, Pehli Nazar-45, Hamar Sansar-45, Laila Majnu-45, Nek Parveen-46, Tadbeer-45, Keemat-46, Sohni Mahiwal-46, Safr-46, Shahajehan-46, Aaj Aur Kal-47, Bhanwar-47, Doli47, Ek Roz-47, Sindoor-47, Paraai Aag-48,
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
January 11, 2015 at 12:10 pm
Atul ji,
Mixup of film names of Sanyaasi and Pehle App in the tags. Kindly correct.
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January 11, 2015 at 12:13 pm
Yes, there was quite a bit of mix up, which I have rectified now.
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