Wo aa gaye hain pyaar ki duniya liye huye
Posted on: September 16, 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.
There are many lyricists who joined Hindi film industry since the talkies came into being. While some of them became famous, many remained in the background though some of them were connected with the film industry for a considerable length of time. The result is we do not have much information about the latter category of lyricists as far as their their detailed profiles are concerned. In this category, the names of Dr. Safdar ‘Aah’ Sitapuri, Rammurti Chaturvedi, Bhutaram Sharma, Shams Lucknowi, Kaif Irfani, Shevan Rizvi and many more come to my mind. Among the ‘many mores’ is the lyricist Aziz Kashmiri about whom very little is known of his life before he joined Hindi film industry.
With suffix ‘Kashmiri’ attached to his name, one can guess that Aziz Kashmiri originally belonged to Kashmir. My hunch is that like many Kashmiris who migrated to Lahore, the then cultural capital of undivided Punjab for getting more exposure to their chosen fields like writers, poets, musicians etc, Aziz Kashmiri, being a poet, may have decided to pursue his career in Lahore. But Lahore being one of the 3 important centres for film productions in undivided India, it is quite likely that he may have been noticed by one of the Lahore based film producers to write songs for his films. What followed thereafter was Aziz Kashmiri started his filmy career as a lyricist, beginning with Roop K Shorie’s film ‘Himmat’ (1941) in which he wrote all the 10 songs for the music director Pt. Govindram.
It was a good beginning for Aziz Kashmiri in his filmy career. He wrote 29 songs for his next four films – ‘Nishani’ (1942), ‘Paapi’ (1943), ‘Daasi’ (1944) and ‘Iraada’ (1944) under the music direction of Pt. Amarnath. His career spanned nearly 4 decades but his total output in terms of the number of songs penned during this period was dismally low around 270 in 55 films. When I browsed through the type of films for which he wrote songs and his association with the production banners and music directors, the low output did not surprise me.
During the initial stage of his career, Aziz Kashmiri was mostly associated with films produced by Roop K Shorie who was known mainly for producing films in the genre of light comedy. Obviously, the lyricist who was also a poet would not get much opportunity to show case his poetic prowess. Also, if one gets majorly tied up with a particular production house, his successful career is tied with the box office success of the films produced by the production house. Unfortunately for Aziz Kashmiri, Roop K Productions’ films after ‘Mukhda’ (1951) failed at the box offices.
Aziz Kashmiri wrote songs for 14 films under the music direction of Vinod who, though a very talented music director, got mostly B grade films. Due to untimely death of Vinod in 1959, Aziz Kashmiri’s association with him came to an end. It is interesting to note that Aziz Kashmiri’s association with Roop K Shorie and Vinod was so strong that when both of them shifted to Bombay (now Mumbai) after partition, Aziz Kashmiri also migrated to Bombay to be with his group.
By mid-50s, with the rise of lyricists like Rajinder Krishan, Shailendra, Hasrat Jaipuri, Sahir Ludhianvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Shakeel Badayuni etc who were associated with the top film production banners, it was difficult for Aziz Kashmiri to create a niche for himself in the film industry. However, he got a saviour in O P Nayyar for whom he wrote songs for as many as 9 films between 1966 and 1969. But in all these films, he was not the sole lyricist. One can say that Aziz Kashmiri’s career as a lyricist virtually ended in 1969 though he wrote songs for a film each in 1971, 1974 and 1982.
As I said earlier, Aziz Kashmiri got few opportunities to write songs where he could showcase his poetic leaning. One of his few songs where I get the feeling of a poet writing the song is haath seene pe jo rakh do to qaraar aa jaaye. Recently, I came across one more song of Aziz Kashmiri where I can get a similar impression. The rare song is ‘wo aa gaye hain pyaar ki duniya liye huye’ sung by Khan Mastana for the film JANMAPATRI (1949). The song is set to music by Gulshan Sufi.
When a poet in a lyricist comes out in the form of a ghazal and the playback singer with a background of the Etawah Gharana renders the ghazal, the outcome has to be superb. Khan Mastana has rendered the ghazal in an unique style which takes me to this ghazal again and again.
JANMAPATRI (1949) was produced and directed by K P Sahani under the banner of Popular Production. The star cast consisted of Ajit, Sudha Rao, Pran, Leela Gupte, Zebunissa etc. The film had 8 songs, all written by Aziz Kashmiri.
With this song, ‘Janmapatri’ (1949) makes its debut in the Blog.
Song-Wo aa gaye hain pyaar ki duniya liye huye (Janmpatri)(1949) Singer-Khan Mastana, Lyrics-Aziz Kashmiri, MD-Gulshan Soofi
Lyrics
wo aa gaye hain
haan aan aan
wo aa gaye hain
pyaar ki ee ee
duniya liye huye ae ae ae
baithe hain ham bhi
dil mein tamanna liye huye
haan
baithe hain ham bhi dil mein tamanna liye huye
haan
aankhon mein shokhiyaan hain
haan aan aan
aankhon mein shokhiyaan hain
to dil mein sharaaraten aen hain aen
aaye hain wo bhi saath mein kya kya liye huye
haan
aaye hain wo bhi saath mein kya kya liye huye
haan
aa aa aa
sharmaa ke dekhte hain
haan
aan aan aan aan aan
aan aan aan aan aan
sharmaa ke dekhte hain
wo yoon mujhko baar baar
sharmaa ke dekhte hain
wo yoon mujhko baar ba…….ar
jaise hain apni
aankh mein parda liye huye
haan
jaise hain apni aankh mein parda liye huye
haan
wo aa gaye hain pyaar ki duniya liye huye
haan
baithe hain ham bhi dil mein tamanna liye hu…..ye ae hai ae
3 Responses to "Wo aa gaye hain pyaar ki duniya liye huye"
September 16, 2016 at 10:42 am
Lets give due credit to the MD who composed such a beautiful ghazal.
Gulshan Sufi
Aaina (1944)
Mauji Jeevan(1944)
Durban (1946)
Saathi (1946)
Devar (1946)
Pati Seva (1947)
Sabz Baag (1951)
Zamane Ki Hawa(1952)
Fariyaadi (1953)
Ghamand (1955)
Any more?
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September 16, 2016 at 9:59 am
Wah, What a gazal and that too in my favorite singer Khan Mastana !!
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