Honthon pe masarrat hansti hai
Posted on: June 6, 2016
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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.
Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 44
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The moment the film PEHLI NAZAR (1945) is mentioned, the first name associated with the movie that comes to my mind is Mukesh. His song “dil jaltaa hai to jalne de” quickly acquired an iconic status. The song has some interesting anecdotes too which have been discussed elsewhere in the Blog. The other details of the film such as Mazhar Arts banner, theme of Muslim social background, the director, the cast, lyricist and the music director come to my mind later.
The film was one of the muslim social films that followed in the wake of the success of ‘Qaidi’ (1942) and ‘Najma’ (1943). I remember that some of the classic black and white films were occasionally shown on the Doordarshan during its black and white avtar (i.e, prior to 1982). Sami, one of the commentators on the Blog, had seen the film under discussion on Doordarshan sometime in 1974. He has given a very brief story of the film:
It was an excellent movie with a tragic story involving Munawar Sultana, Veena and Motilal. The story was about two Pathan families in which there are two brothers living as neighbours. Their daughters, Munawar Sultana and Veena are so fond of each other that they feel more of sisters than cousins. An engagement gets arranged between Motilal and Veena. When Motilal comes to see Veena, by chance, he sees Munawar Sultana in the house. Thereby he changes his mind and insists on breaking off the engagement with Veena. He proposes for Munawar Sultan thereby creating a big rift between the two close families.
I do not know how the film ends. Unfortunately, the classic films like ‘Pehli Nazar’ (1945) is not available for viewing even though, as I understand, some of such classic films are available with the National Film Archives of India, Pune. If this film was shown on Doordarshan, it may still be available in the Archives. I do not know the reasons why Archives do not make VCD/DVDs of such films and sell them in the market. Even though it may not be a commercially viable proposition, the authorities can still issue DVDs/VCDs in the form of the collectors’ items and price them in the same manner as they do in the case of commemorative coins.
‘Pehli Nazar’ (1945) had 10 songs, all penned by Dr. Safdar Aah Sitapuri which were set to music by Anil Biswas. 5 songs from the film have been covered in the Blog. I am presenting the 6th song from the film which, to the best of my knowledge, was not available in YT till now. The song is ‘honthhon per masarrat hansti hai’. The singer is not identified in http://www.myswar.com and in a few other websites. I also understand that HFGK too is silent as far as the name of the singer is concerned. However, the voice sounds like that of Parul Ghosh. I checked this with Sudhir ji who confirmed my assumption. So I have, for the time being, considered this song as sung by Parul Ghosh.
This song clearly bears the usual stamp of Anil Biswas.
Song-Honthon pe masarrat hansti hain (Pehli Nazar)(1945) Singer-Parul Ghosh, Lyrics-Safdar Aah Sitapuri, MD-Anil Biswas
Lyrics
honthhon pe masarrat hansti hain
honthhon pe masarrat hansti hain
armaan jinhen thhukraatein(?) hain
armaan jinhen thhukraaten(?) hain
khwaabon mein jo ab tak aate thhe
khwaabon mein jo ab tak aate thhe
wo aaj mere ghar aate hain
wo aaj mere ghar aate hain
honthhon pe masarrat hansti hain
deedaar se inke tasawwur hain
deedaar se inke tasawwur hain
taskeen(?) unhen ham dete thhe
taskeen(?) unhen ham dete thhe
lo darshan ki pyaasi aankhon
lo darshan ki pyaasi aankhon
wo jalwaa aaj dikhaate hain
wo jalwaa aaj dikhaate hain
wo jalwaa aaj dikhaate hain
wo jalwaa aaj dikhaate hain
armaan jinhen thhukraate(?) hain
armaan
ae baad-e-sabaa aa aa
ae baad- e- sabaa paighaam ye le
barkat kuchh jaan-e-tamanna ko
barkat kuchh jaan-e-tamanna ko
tum aaoge jis raste se
tum aaoge jis raste se
hum palken wahaan bichhaate hain
hum palken wahaan bichhaate hain
hum palken wahaan bichhaate hain
hum palken wahaan bichhaate hain
armaan jinhen thhukraaten(?) hain
khwaabon mein jo ab tak aate thhe
wo aaj mere ghar aate hain
honthhon pe masarrat hansti hain
9 Responses to "Honthon pe masarrat hansti hai"
June 6, 2016 at 1:49 pm
Parul Ghosh also crooned in
Kanchan (1941)
Basant (1942)
Kismet (1943)
Hamari Baat(1943)
Najma (1943)
Namaste (1943)
Sawaal (1943)
Jwar Bhata (1944)
Pratima (1945)
Milan (1946)
Nai Maa (1946)
Nateeja (1947)
Bhakt Pundalik(1949)
Andolan (1951)
Any more?
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June 6, 2016 at 10:59 pm
HFGK is not silent on the name of the singer.
Unfortunately most contributors of this blog does not refer to the appendix pages of HFGK first to see if there are any corrections mentioned.
Have commented the same about a half of dozen times on this blog in past couple of years.
Anyways, check the back pages of HFGK and u shall find ur answer.
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June 7, 2016 at 11:24 am
Yep. Parul Ghosh’s name is indeed mentioned for the song under discussion on the back pages of HFGK under additional information.
I hope the matter is resolved.
Thanks.
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December 30, 2016 at 11:33 pm
In this film Parul Ghosh sang for Veena only and in two songs – “Hoton pe musarrat ” was the happy song as Veena is waiting for Motilal to come to her house and another sad song or more of a “naat” ( religious Muslim song) “Karam kar Raham kar” picturised on Veena when she is in distress as the rift between the families keeps on getting worse.
Naseem Akhtar sang for Munawar Sultana in the solo “Unka ishara” and in both the duets with Mukesh “Pehli nazar ka teer” and “Jawani yeh bharpoor” which were both picturised on Motilal and Munawar sultana. The beauty of both of these 2 lovely duets was that each one was singing without being next to each other , in track with the conservative Muslim story in the film.
The ending was very tragic as Munawar Sultana rushes and poisons herself out of fear as her father, Mazhar Sultan, an angry Pathan wants to kill her as part of honor killing.
The last words she utters brought goose pimples to me as she says”Ya Ghafoor Al Rahim aapke darbar mein haazri ho rahin hoon” ( Oh Merciful and Forgiving Lord- I am about to enter into your court of judgment). Her death reunites the family again and Motilal marries Veena who was actually meant for him.
Munawar Sultana always considered this as one of her finest movies.
How I wish this film could be made available and the film institute in Pune is really doing a wrong thing by not making DVDs of these rare movies to be made available for enthusiastic fans of old films…
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December 30, 2016 at 11:46 pm
Also if you might find out , the 78 rpm record mentions Mushtaq as the male singer as that was the name of Motilal in the film. Even “unka ishara” has Hameeda written on the record as that was the name of Munawar sultana in the film while Veena was named Sahibjaan. Radio Ceylon would mention wrongly many times that the singer was Hameeda Banu just by reading the name on the record.
There were other songs like “Leke dil chupke” which was a fun song between all the girls playing games. Another one was a funny song “Khan Kabul se aaya hai” which was picturised on Cuckoo and 2 other artistes acitgn as a Pathan man wooing her until he runs in fear as his Pathani wife appears on the scene and beats the hell out of the two.
Another song “Dil ko samjhaaye” was picturised on actress Pravin Pul singing in front of Munawar Sultana and I thin that was her first film.
Needless to say that the 2 Mukesh solos were picturised on Motilal.
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June 6, 2016 at 1:12 am
Sadanand ji and Sudhir ji,
Many sources on the net seem to have conspicuously avoided mentioning Parul Ghosh’s name.
By 1945 she was a very well know singer with Basant, Hamari Baat, Namaste, Kismet etc to her credit.
I mean if she had sung in this movie, her name would have been obviously mentioned.
Cineplot does not include this film to her. A pdf file with me of Anil Biswas film songs list does not include her name. HFGK silent.
As far as voice recognition is concerned, it seems to me that the slight nasal touch of “papiha re” seems to be missing.
Thanks.
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June 6, 2016 at 6:56 am
Mahesh ji,
If HFGK is silent on the name of the singer, it is obvious that it may not have been mentioned on the 78 RPM record.
I had read in the context of Mukesh’s songs in the film that the 78 RPM records of the songs had the name of ‘Mustaq’, the name of the character Motilal played. So, I presume that 78 RPM record of the song under discussion may also have published the name of the character in the film rather than the playback singer’s name.
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