Chhoone Na Doongi Shareer Najariya Se Jee Bhar Lo
Posted on: April 25, 2023
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Today’s song is a special song from the film ‘Captain India’ (1960).
Our regular readers may recall that just a few days ago, within this month, 2 songs having the same mukhda with different lyrics were posted on this Blog. The mukhda was “Nacho, Nacho, Nacho”. The first song to appear was from the dubbed film – ‘RRR’ (2022), which was posted and discussed superbly by our friend Gajendra Khanna ji on 3-4-2023. The second song with the same mukhda was from the film ‘Gogola’ (1966) and was posted and discussed by me on 17-4-2023.
Today’s song is also a second song with a similar mukhda which was posted by me on 30-1-2023. The first song was from the film ‘Pehla Pyar’ (1947). The mukhda is “Chhoone Na Doongi Shareer”. This is an unusual coincidence that within a span of just 3 months, we have two sets of 2 songs each having the same mukhda.
The ‘Pehla Pyar’ (1947) song had Premnath as the MD with lyricist Balam Pardesi. Today’s song has Hemant Kedar as the MD with lyricist Rajaram Saki , who also happens to be the film’s producer.
Captain India title reminds me of the Republic Serial films of the early 50’s decade – Captain Marvel and Captain America, which were my childhood favorites. Those days all such films as ‘The Three D Ma’n, ‘The Forbidden Planet’, ‘SSS117 Goes Wild’, ‘Trip to the Moon’, ‘Hercules Unchained’ and many such titled films made our childhood dreams adventurous, magical and entertaining. Most of these films were seen on Friday and Saturday, bunking the school.
The morning show tickets used to be very low like 5 annas, 9 annas, 12 annas and 1 Rupee for the Balcony. I have heard that these days the multiplex cinema tickets range from Rs. 150 to 750 or so. Thank God I stopped seeing films in theaters since the mid eighties – 1985 to be precise. Having not visited a cinema theater since 40 years, I am already branded as इतिहास पुरुष , पुराण पुरुष and an Antique by the Generation X !
‘Captain India’ is a plain and simple stunt film. The story of the film is. . .
Seth Mohan Lal is a rich merchant in Burma. He decides to return to India, with his only daughter Krishna and settle in Roop Nagar to lead a retired life. Gangster Rajan from Rangoon comes to know that the Haveli Mohan Lal is to buy has some great secret hidden in it. If he can get that secret he can rule the world. So, he follows Mohan Lal to India.
Meanwhile Krishna meets Shekhar – a Press reporter by job, lover boy by habit and an all round spy as a hobby. After singing the mandatory love songs and doing exercise around trees, they decide to marry and tell her father about their love. Rajan is very business minded and so, Mohan Lal gets killed and the young couple is frightened with the existence of Ghosts etc. in the Haveli.
Madhu is the moll of Rajan and she too loves Shekhar. She reveals the actual plan of Rajan and about the secret formula in the Haveli. Suddenly, Madhu gets killed in the arms of Shekhar. She is murdered by Rajan. Now he is after the lives of Krishna and Shekhar and they are on the run. With the help of the Police, Rajan is caught red handed, but he sets fire to the Haveli and the secret formula gets burnt.
All’s well that ends well. After the end, the audience is well and goes home cursing the film.
Coming back to the unusual name of the MD, Hemant Kedar. On the first look it seems like a pair of MDs like Shankar-Jaikishen, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anand ji or Husnlal-Bhagatram, but NO. It is the adopted name of Ramkrishna Shinde. His name is not known to many. Few years back, our Sadanand Kamath ji had written short notes on him in his 2 posts here. Now more information has been collected about him. Here is a short biodata.
The composer of today’s film ‘Captain India’ (1960), Ramkrishna Shinde was a multi talented composer, who could not shine, though he had talents. Further he started his career at a time when India’s big composers like C Ramchandra, Naushad, Husnlal-Bhagatram, Shankar-Jaikishan etc were in their best performing period and had hogged almost all the major production houses as their patrons. In this flood of musical tsunami, smaller composers remained smaller due to non availability of exposure and good banners, waning into oblivion ! Those who had talents plus good luck survived, but composers with talents without luck were soon forgotten.
Ramkrishna Shinde was born on 19-4-1918 in Malvan area of Maharashtra coastal belt. He was eldest among 2 brothers and 2 sisters When he was 9 years old, his father died and the family was shifted to Bombay, by aunt and uncle. His interest in music was unusual. He took votal training from Pt Sitaram and learnt sitar from Pt Madhav Rao. For survival, he took up a job in Dawn Mills. In 1944, he got married. Same time, he met dancer Parvati Kumar and tabla player Ramakant. He soon left the job and started giving music to Marathi stage plays. He was a very popular composer.
His first Hindi film as a composer was Manager’ (1947), followed by ‘Kiski Jeet’ (1948) and then ‘Bihari (148), with Naresh Bhattacharya. Not getting films anymore, he turned to giving music to dance ballets. He became so famous that 27 of his ballets went abroad with his music. He was called by Amiya Chakrawarty for giving dance music in Usha Kiran’s film ‘Gauna’ (1950).
He returned to Hindi films again. This time as Hemant Kedar. Reason for this name – his favourite raagas were Hemant and Kedar. He gave music to ‘Khaufnak Jungle’ (1955),
‘Police Station’ (1959) and ‘Captain India’ (1960).Hemant Kedar (like Daan singh and Jaidev) must be one whose unreleased films numbered many or more than his released films. Some of his unreleased films are
‘Hamari Kahani’, ‘Avinash’, ‘Sati Mahananda’, ‘Jannat Ki Hoor’, ‘Peeli Kothi’ and ‘Paataal Devta’. This last mentioned was the film in which actress Mumtaz made her debut, but this movie was not released.
Hemant Kedar gave music in two Marathi films. Side by side, he did 5-6 programs on All India Radio. After the advent of television, he started giving music in TV ballets and was in great demand for such programs. He did about 15 ballets on TV. While working for the Ballet music for Ajit Sinha’s ‘Rituchakra’ and Raja Dhale ‘Chadalika’, he became ill and expired on 14-9-1985, leaving behind his wife and two daughters. Luckily, his wife had a good job.
[Thanks to http://www.beetehuedin.blogspot.com and the book Marathi Chitrapat Sangeetkar Kosh, by Madhukar Potdar for this information.]
The lead pair in this film was Kamran and Krishna Kumari. Krishna Kumari (not to be confused with the 1930s actress of the same name nor the south Indian actress T Krishna Kumari) was born Rajinder Kaur in Rawalpindi in West Punjab (now part of Pakistan) on October 3, 1934. Her debut came in the film ‘Bela’ (1947), after which she appeared in ‘Nao’ (1948). Then came ‘Girls School’ (1949) etc. Occasionally playing the heroine in B-grade films including ‘Vanraj’ (1952), ‘Gorilla’ (1953), ‘Black Rider’ (1960), ‘Captain India’ (1960), ‘State Express’ (1961) and ‘Khush Naseeb’ (1964), she is probably much better known as a temptress or vamp in films like ‘Baghdad Ka Jaadu’ (1956), ‘Zimbo’ (1958), ‘Police Station’ (1959), ‘Lady of the Lake’ (1960), ‘Jaadu Mahal’ (1962) and dozens of similar action, horror and fantasy films. Krishna Kumari’s career lasted 20 years, and during that time she managed to chalk up an impressive amount of credits, even if most of the pictures she made were not considered important by critics. She acted in 118 films. her last credited film was ‘Sampoorn Ramayan’ (1973).
Let us now enjoy this special song, sung by Asha Bhosle. . .
Song- Chhoone Na Doongi Shareer Najariya Se Jee Bhar Lo (Captain India) (1960) Singers – Asha Bhosle, Lyricist – Rajaram Saki, MD – Hemant Kedar
Lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
chhoone na doongi shareer
najariya se jee bhar lo
oo oo
sapnon ki hoon main tasveer
najariya se jee bhar lo
chhoone na doongi shareer
is duniya kisko khabar hai
aaya hai kaun kahaan se
haathon mein mere ras ki gagariya
jug jug ke tum ho pyaase
peene na doongi neer
najariya se jee bhar lo
sapnon ki hoon main tasveer
najariya se jee bhar lo
chhoone na doongi shareer
main ambar ki tum dharti ke
hum tum hain dono door
jaise ke chaand chakori ka joda
jaise ke chaand chakori ka joda
milne se ho majboor
phir kyun huye ho adheer
najariya se jee bhar lo
sapnon ki hoon main tasveer
najariya se jee bhar lo
chhoone na doongi shareer
roop nagar ke do jaadugar
nainon ki reet niraali
pyaale hain do do peete hain sau sau
pyaale hain do do peete hain sau sau
phir bhi na hotey khaali
chhodo ji chhodo mera cheer
najariya se jee bhar lo
sapnon ki hoon main tasveer
najariya se jee bhar lo
chhoone na doongi shareer
najariya se jee bhar lo
chhoone na doongi shareer
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir Kapur)
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छूने ना दूँगी शरीर
नजरिया से जी भर लो
ओ ओ
सपनों की हूँ मैं तस्वीर
नजरिया से जी भर लो
छूने ना दूँगी शरीर
इस दुनिया में किसको खबर है
आया है कौन कहाँ से
हाथों में मेरे रस की गगरिया
जुग जुग के तुम हो प्यासे
पीने आ दूँगी नीर
नजरिया से जी भर लो
सपनों की हूँ मैं तस्वीर
नजरिया से जी भर लो
छूने ना दूँगी शरीर
मैं अम्बर की तुम धरती के
हम तुम हैं दोनों दूर
जैसे के चाँद चकोरी का जोड़ा
जैसे के चाँद चकोरी का जोड़ा
मिलने से हो मजबूर
फिर क्यों हुये हो अधीर
नजरिया से जी भर लो
सपनों की हूँ मैं तस्वीर
नजरिया से जी भर लो
छूने ना दूँगी शरीर
रूप नगर के दो जादूगर
नैनों की रीत निराली
प्याले हैं दो दो पीते हैं सौ सौ
फिर भी ना होते खाली
छोड़ो जी छोड़ो मेरा चीर
नजरिया से जी भर लो
सपनों की हूँ मैं तस्वीर
नजरिया से जी भर लो
छूने ना दूँगी शरीर
नजरिया से जी भर लो
छूने ना दूँगी शरीर
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