Hindu muslim sikh isaai aapas mein hain bhaai bhaai
Posted by: Atul on: August 15, 2016
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular 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.
Greetings to Atulites and all the readers of the Blog on the occasion of India’s 69th Independent Day.
I glanced through almost all the 92 patriotic songs covered so far in the Blog. These songs can be broadly divided into two categories – those written for the films released before India’s independence and those written for the films released after independence. It was the first categories of patriotic songs which was challenging for film fraternity to get them to slip through the strict film censorship during the British rule. In this ‘game’, the film lyricists played a very important role.
The main theme of the patriotic songs during the British rule was the unity among the diverse religious groups and to ward off the evil eyes on India. In such songs a line or two is often found about the need for the unity of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh. The evil eyes could be any group or the country but the message was clear to most of the Indians that in the song, it was covertly meant to be the British rule.
During the Second World War (1939-45), the film censorship became more stringent. But the song writers devised a new method to hoodwink the Censor Board by the use of double entendre in the patriotic songs. The best example of the use of double entendre is door hato ae duniyaawaalon hindustan hamaara hai, written by Kavi Pradeep for ‘Kismat’ (1943). Here the world’ duniyaawaalon’ in the context of Second World War could mean any country supportive of German, Italy and Japanese expansionism. But for most Indians, it was apparent that Kavi Pradeep meant it to be the British Rule.. To make the song pass through the Censor Board, Kavi Pradeep wrote one of the verses in the song ‘tum na kisi ke aage jhuknaa German ho ya Jaapaani’ And the song inspired our freedom fighters.
On the occasion of India’s 69th Independence Day, I present a rare patriotic song ‘Bharat ke rahnewaalon jaago huwaa savera’ from the film BHAI (1944). The major part of the song is rendered in chorus with Zeenat Begum singing a few lines. The song was penned by Shatir Ghaznavi and it was set to music by Ghulam Haider.
The couplet
Hindu muslim sikh isaai
aapas mein hain bhai bhai
preceding the main song seems to give an impression to the Censor Board that the song was about creating communal harmony and not about inspiring the freedom fighters. But the covert intention becomes clear when the main song starts with ‘Bharat ke rahnewaalon jaago huwaa savera’. ‘Let the darkness of slavery be over with the sunrise in the morning’ is the intended message in ‘suraj ne aankh kholi aur jag gaya andhera’. The lyricist has cleverly used the message of communal harmony with that of fighting with the enemies creating the communal rift. And at that time the ‘enemy’ was none other than the British rulers.
I have not been able to decipher lyrics in a few places especially when the song is sung in a chorus. I hope Atul ji and other readers with keener ears would get the words right.
This is a rare patriotic song in the sense that the song was not available on YT until I made a video from a mp3 clip and uploaded the same on YT about a month back.
The message in the song written more than 70 years back is still valid today with change in the profiles of enemies – both within and outside the country.
Song-Hindu Muslim Sikh Isaai aapas mein hain bhaai bhaai (Bhai)(1944) Singer-Zeenat Begam, Lyrics-Shatir Ghaznavi, MD-Ghulam Haider
Chorus
Lyrics
Hindu Muslim Sikh Isaai
aapas mein hain bhai bhai
Bharat maa ki god ke paale
aazaadi ke sab shaidaai(?)
jaago
jaago
Bhaarat ke rehne waalon
jaago
huwa savera
Bhaarat ke rahne waalon
jaago
huwa savera
sooraj ne aankh kholi
wo jag gaya andhera..aa
Bhaarat ke rahne waalon
jaago
huwa savera
Bhaarat ke rehne waalon
jaago
huwa savera
Bharat ke dushmanon ko
thokar se tum udaa do
matti ke hain khilaune
matti mein hi mila do
duniya ko ye bataa do
lalkaar kar suna do
ham pees denge jisne
Hindustan ko teraa aa
jaago
jaago
Bhaarat ke rehne waalon
jaago
huwa savera
Bhaarat ke rehne waalon
jaago
huwa savera
jo haath badhe hind ki jaanib
wo tod do
jo aankh uthhe mulk pe
wo aankh phod do
toote huye dilon ko tum aapas mein jod do
jhagde tamaam waqt ki nadi(?) mein chhod do
jaago
jaago
jaago
Bhaarat ke rehne waalon
jaago
huwa savera
Bhaarat ke rehne waalon
jaago
huwa savera
?? ?? ?? ??
janta ?? hamaara
karte jo hindu muslim
aapas mein bhaai chaara
?? se aa milegi
gango jaman ki dhaara
uthh jaayega watan se
barbaadiyon ka dera
jaago
jaago
Bhaarat ke rehne waalon
jaago
huwa savera
Bhaarat ke rehne waalon
jaago huwa savera
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
August 15, 2016 at 11:00 am
Shatir Ghaznavi
Kaneez (1949)
Tum Kya Jaano Mere Maathe Ki Bindiya Ka Mol
Ja Ud Ja Re Kagwa Le Ja Sandeswa
Apni Ruthi Hui Kismat Ko Maana Lu
O Bhulne Wale Is Dil Se Teri Yaad
Aankh Michauli (1942)
Maar Gayo Ek Teer Haaye Ram
Aankh Michauli Aankh Michauli Aao Sakhi Khele
Ae Ri Mai Mai Ri Mere Babul Se
Balam Re Yaad Karo Wo Baat
Dekho Ji Na Chhedo
Bhai (1944)
Dhire Dhire Ga Re Panchhi
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