Poochhe to kaun poochhe ye baat aasmaan se
Posted on: June 16, 2019
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Saw “Bees Saal Pehle” which released on 6th June 1972, viz a few days back aaj se “saintees saal pehle”.
It starts off as any horror movie of those times. We have Vinod Mehra driving a vehicle (highly polluting by the standards set in the modern days) through a ghat road in perfect weather, rather late in the evening. His vehicle stalls when he stops it to see what or who has jumped over the cliff, doesn’t find a thing but now he has to look for help to restart his journey.
He sees a bungalow close by-predictably- and it is almost dark by the time he gets there. He knocks and the door opens by itself (was reminded of Mehmood from “Pyar Kiye Jaa”). He walks in with a “Koi hai? Arre koi hai?” (anybody there?). And an old man (Iftikhar) materializes and offers him a room for the night in the cob-web infested house.
Surprisingly the room has a clean patch. And as is the norm since time immemorial (my first experience was in the Ashok Kumar- Madhubala starrer “Mahal”) Vinod Mehra hears a lady scream and then sob and then sing plaintively. Sure enough, Vinod runs out of the room seeking the old man and asks for an explanation.
Then the movie goes into “Bees Saal Pehle” there was a Choudhury (Abhi Bhattacharya) in a city nearby, whose only heir (Ritesh) was in love with a sweet girl (Farida Jalal) of the area but had to marry another damsel (Anupama) to relieve her of her distress. By the time the movie got to this point in the story it had given us a party song, a romantic song, a line of a bhootiya (haunting) song and a “questioning the god” song.
Essentially the movie had eight songs with one of them appearing twice in the movie. The singers used were Lata Mangeshkar, Ranu, Asha Bhonsle, Kishore Kumar and Hemant Kumar as playback singers. S.H.Bihari was the lyricist and Hemant Kumar was the producer (Geetanjali Pictures) and music composer. Movie was directed by Probir Roy. The title card said that Ritesh (Hemant Kumar’s son) was introduced in this movie and I was surprised to see Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s name in the star cast. I didn’t get to the part where Hrishida makes a screen appearance as by then I had found my song to go with this post.
Going by the time of release of this movie, today’s song could well be one of the last songs that Hemant Kumar sang for Hindi movies. His journey started in 1935 with recording a song for All India Radio, Bengali non-film songs happened in 1937 and first film song was for “Nimai Sanyas” in Bengali in 1941. His first Hindi film came in the form of “Anand Math” of Filmistan in 1952. He had a 50-year long career dedicated to music- he was a Rabindra Sangeet exponent. I am sure we have had Hemantda’s detailed biography in a few posts of this blog.
We remember Hemant Kumar Mukherjee, of the wonderful voice, with a song sung and composed by him in the later part of his career, today on his 99th birth anniversary.
Audio
Song-Poochhe to kaun poochhe ye baat aasmaan se(Bees Saal Pehle)(1972) Singer-Hemant Kumar, Lyrics-S H Bihari, MD-Hemant Kumar
Lyrics
poochhe toh kaun poochhe
yeh baat aasmaan se
yeh kaisi dushmani thhi
bijli ko aashiyaan se
poochhe to kaun poochhe
barbaadiyon ko apni
aabaadiyaan samajh le ae
barbaadiyon ko apni
aabaadiyaan samajh le ae
aisa junoon laaye
har aadmi kahaan se
poochhe toh kaun poochhe
yeh baat aasmaan se
yeh kaisi dushmani thhi ee
bijli ko aashiyaan se
poochhe toh kaun poochhe
4 Responses to "Poochhe to kaun poochhe ye baat aasmaan se"
June 16, 2019 at 4:24 pm
Atul ji you can add the full set of lyrics based on the audio link given above:
poochhe toh kaun poochhe
yeh baat aasmaan se
yeh kaisi dushmani thi ee
bijli ko aashiyaan se
poochhe toh kaun poochhe
sehne ko is jahaan mein
gham saikadon hain lekin….
sehne ko is jahaan mein
gham saikadon hain lekin
patthar ka dil banaake
laaye koi kahaan se
poochhe toh kaun poochhe
jiss mod se thi manzil
do chaar hi kadam par…..
jiss mod se thi manzil
do chaar hi kadam par
us mod par musafir
bichhadaa hai karwaan se ae…ae
barbaadiyon ko apni
aabaadiyaan samajh le ae ae ae
barbaadiyon ko apni
aabaadiyaan samajh le ae ae
aisa junoon laaye
har aadmi kahaan se
poochhe toh kaun poochhe
yeh baat aasmaan se
yeh kaisi dushmani thi ee
bijli ko aashiyaan se
poochhe toh kaun poochhe
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June 16, 2019 at 4:43 pm
This can be tagged “Remonstrating with the Almighty” song.
Hemant Kumar’s Journey from ‘Bees Saad baad” to ‘Bees Saal Pehle” with a ten year gap. Good song.
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June 18, 2019 at 4:15 pm
Nalini Ji,
Going by your statement, did Hemanth Kumar’s singing in Hindi films, more or less , ended around the time this movie was released?
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
June 16, 2019 at 3:17 pm
longer audio link : ????/?
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