Ulfat ki zindagi ke jo saal hon hazaar
Posted on: September 7, 2015
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.
Today’s song is from film Hangaamaa-52. It is sung by Lata, Chitalkar and Rafi. It is a very lilting and melodious song. Finding such songs still uncovered in this Blog underlines a fact that there is still a hugh treasure out there in the realms of Old Hindi Film Songs which is yet to be tapped and brought to light.
We all know about the C Ramchandra-Lata connection and a lot has already been written about that, but we will not go through that now. it was a known fact that C Ramchandra insisted on having Lata songs in every film that he signed as a composer. Later on every producer became aware of this pre-condition of C Ramchandra. No producer had any objection to this, as long as their film songs became popular. There was a time when the name of C Ramchandra used to be a sureshot guarantee for the music of the song becoming popular. Today’s song too is from that period.
I was very curious to know the extent of C Ramchandra’s partiality to Lata as a singer. Actually, Lata came into his musical scheme of things 7 years after he had started as a composer. The period when Lata sang for him was from 1949 to 1958 (Lata’s songs for C Ramchandra after 1958 were negligible). In this 9 year period CR gave music to 63 films and Lata sang 298 songs in them. I made a table to highlight what sort of contribution Lata had made to his films during these 9 years, in comparison to her songs with other composers for their entire career period. The table confirms that C Ramchandra depended heavily on Lata’s songs. No wonder then that when Lata stopped singing for him after 1958 then his career took a nosedive.
| MD | Films | Total Lata songs | solos | Duets | Solos/film | Duets/film | Lata songs/film |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laxmikant Pyarelal | 271 | 666 | 392 | 274 | 1.44 | 1.01 | 2.45 |
| Shankar Jaikishan | 124 | 453 | 313 | 140 | 2.52 | 1.12 | 3.65 |
| R D Burman | 164 | 327 | 200 | 127 | 1.21 | 0.77 | 1.99 |
| Kalyanji Anandji | 147 | 297 | 150 | 147 | 1.02 | 1.00 | 2.02 |
| C Ramchandra | 63 | 298 | 196 | 102 | 3.11 | 1.62 | 4.73 |
( Duets with CR-47, with others-55)
As one can see from this table, C Ramchandra was heavily dependent on Lata. While ensuring that she got songs to sing, perhaps he never thought of the future scenario-if Lata left him. So much for the CR-Lata relationship in his music arena !
There are quite a few actors who were very lucky that they did not have to struggle at all to become a Hero in Hindi films. Actor Surendranath, B.A.LL.B is an excellent example. He joined Sagar Movietone straight as a Hero. Of course, he had the extra qualification that he could sing well. ( That is the reason Sagar was projecting him as a reply to Calcutta’s K L Saigal.). OK, Surendra had an asset, but what about Pradeep Kumar ? He came from Bengal and became a Hero in Hindi films directly. An exceptional case is that of Ashok Kumar. The Hero’s role was offered to him on a Silver platter ( not offered-thrust on him ! ) to start his Film career.
And yet there were actors who started directly as Character artistes. For people like Kanhaiyalal, Asit Sen, S N Banerjee, A K Hangal or Harindranath Chatopadhyaya etc, at least they were past their youth and hence took up character artist roles in films, but what about young, and good looking starting as an old man’s role to begin their film career ? One such actor was DAVID ABRAHAM.
David Abraham Cheulkar (21 june 1909 – 2 january 1982), popularly known as DAVID, was a Jewish Hindi film actor and he was a member of Mumbai’s Marathi speaking Bene Israel community. In a career spanning four decades, he played mostly character roles, starting with 1937 film “Zambo”, and went on to act in over 110 films, including memorable films like, Gol Maal (1979), Baton Baton mein (1979) and Boot Polish(1954) for which he was awarded the 1955 FilmFare Best Supporting Actor Award.
David graduated from the University of Bombay with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the year 1930. After a six year unsuccessful struggle to land himself a job, he decided to try his luck in the Hindi film industry by becoming a professional actor. During these years of struggle, he also managed to obtain a degree in law from the Government Law College.So, he was B.A.’, L.L.B.
Finally, on January 15, 1937, with the help of his close friend Mr. Nayampalli, a veteran character actor, he managed to land himself his first role in a movie. The movie wasZambo and it was being produced and directed by Mohan Bhavnani who was the Chief Producer of the Films Division of the Government Of India.
The role was that of an old man. David had sported ” Ërol Flynn” like moustache,which he had to shave off and put a grey moustache and beard for the role. Thus his first role itself was of an old man. His second role in film Double cross-38 was also of a senior Professor.
From 1937 to 1940 he was working in Bhavnani Productions in different capacities like Prodn. Manager,continuity clerk, Assistant Director, Clapper Boy, Telephone operator and as an Actor. He lost his job on 1-2-1940 and started work on freelance basis.
David was actively associated with IPTA, a theatre organization and went on to be part of many Khwaja Ahmed Abbas’s films, including, Palme dór nominee Pardesi (1957),Shehar aur Sapna (1963), which won the 1964 National Award for Best Feature Film, Munaa and Char Dil Char Raahein.
Strongly associated with friendly uncle roles, David is best known for his portrayal of “John Chacha” in the 1954 hit and FilmFare Best Film Award winner and Palme dór nominee, Boot Polish, directed by Prakash Arora, for which he won the 1955 Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. The song “Nanhe Munne Bachche” from the film, picturized on him became a memorable song of that era.
In his prime, in the period 1959-1975, David was one of the best and the well-known anchor, Compère and a host of prominent award shows and other functions. In one of the speeches Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister, had said that any events of such nature would surely be incomplete without David’s speech.
He was involved in promoting sports, and later became India’s Olympic Games representative He was awarded the Padmashree award in 1969 by Government of India.
His last film was Pavitra Ganga-84, released after his death.
He never married and died on 2 january 1982 in Toronto, Canada of a heart attack at the age of 73.
Film Hangaama-52 was produced by Ram Kamlani under the banner of their family company Gope Productions. He also directed it. The music was by C Ramchandra,with Chic Chocolate ( Antonio Xavier Vaz ) as his assistant. Chic was an integral part of C Ramchandra’s team. He was an excellent Trumpet player. Gore gore o baanke chhore ( Samadhi-50) and Shola jo bhadke ( Albela-51) were his creations. He died in 1967 at the age of just 51 years.
Film Hangama’s cast included Nutan, Nasir Khan, K N Singh, David, Cuckoo, Gope, Yakub etc etc.
The film had 9 songs. Today’s song is just the second song on this Blog. The first one was also discussed by me. Let us now enjoy this song.
Song- Ulfat ki zindagi ke jo saal hon hazaar (Hangaama)(1952) Singers- Lata, C Ramchandra, Rafi, Lyrics-Rajinder Krishan, MD-C Ramchandra
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Lyrics
hawaa hai thhandi thhandi
chaandani hai
yaar hain ham hain aen
magar hai zindagi
sau saal ki
sau saal to kam hai
ulfat ki zindagi ke jo saal hon hazaar
tum ham se ham bhi tumase
ji bhar ke karen pyaar
karen pyaar
ulfat ki zindagi ke jo saal hon hazaar
tum ham se ham bhi tumase
ji bhar ke karen pyaar
karen pyaar
tum ham se ham bhi tumse ji bhar ke karen pyaar karen pyaar
do din ki zindagi mein kyaa kyaa kare koi
kyaa kyaa kare koi
do din mein kyaa jiye koi
kyaa mare koi
kyaa kyaa kare koi
duniyaa ki ek raat ho
aashiq ki chaar chaar
duniyaa ki ek raat ho
aashiq ki chaar chaar
tum ham se ham bhi tumse ji bhar ke kare pyaar kare pyaar
ulfat ki zindagi ke jo saal hon hazaar
tum ham se ham bhi tumase
ji bhar ke karen pyaar karen pyaar
o o o o
baaton mein beet jaaye
baaton mein beet jaaye ye mausam-e-jawaani
kaisi banaayee toone maalik ye zidagaani
maalik ye zidagaani
baaton mein beet jaaye
ye mausam-e-jawaani
kaisi banaayee toone maalik ye zidagaani
maalik ye zidagaani
baazi bahut hai chhoti lambi hai jeet haar
baazi bahut hai chhoti lambi hai jeet haar
tum ham se ham bhi tumase ji bhar ke karen pyaar karen pyaar
ulfat ki zindagi ke jo saal hon hazaar
tum ham se ham bhi tumse
ji bhar ke karen pyaar karen pyaar
ulfat ki zindagi ke jo saal hon hazaar
tum hamse ham bhi tumase
ji bhar ke karen pyaar karen pyaar
ulfat ki zindagi ke jo saal hon hazaar
tum ham se ham bhi tumse
ji bhar ke karen pyaar karen pyaar
ulfat ki zindagi ke jo saal hon hazaar
tum ham se ham bhi tumase
ji bhar ke karen pyaar karen pyaar
2 Responses to "Ulfat ki zindagi ke jo saal hon hazaar"
September 7, 2015 at 9:23 pm
According to my record CR with Lata>54; with SB>25; with Asha>15; with GD>7; with Binapani>6; with Meena Kapoor>3; one each with Sulochna, Usha M, Parul, Amirbai, Lalita D,.Vanmala, Gandhari, Mohantara, Rajkumari and Leela Sawant
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September 7, 2015 at 8:44 pm
Even in the film in question they have sung 5 duets out of 9 songs which is more than 50%; could be maximum duets in one film easily beating the average 1.62>>which is roughly 2 duets per film. If we assume 8 songs per film; 2/8>>25%
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