Ye duniya ki rail musaafir aage badhhtee jaaye
Posted on: May 31, 2023
This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, 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 other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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#the Decade of Fifties –1951 – 1960 #
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Regulars on the blog are aware that, besides being music-lovers and Hindi movie buff, many of the blog members also love ‘cricket’ and ‘rail/train’, or if I am not wrong especially the Indian Railways.
Travelling by train is something which is always interesting. Most of us enjoy and love it. It brings back many memories from our childhood days too.
From 2017 to 2019 when I was in Kenya for a project, I badly missed train travel. The place where I stayed for almost nine months in Nairobi had a rail track passing behind my residential place that reminded me of our Indian trains every time a train passed by.
When I returned back to India after finishing the project I was supposed to visit close relatives residing in Maharashtra. I needed to visit other places too. I reached back in India in December 2019 end and before I could make plans for any visits, pandemic arrived. The best plans of everyone came to a halt.
I had an an opportunity to visit Mumbai in February 2020 when I had also booked a ticket, but due to some minor operation I had to cancel it.
ye duniya ki rail musaafir
ye duniya ki rail musaafir
chhak chhak chalti jaaye re
pal pal aage badhhti jaaye ae
aage badhhti jaaye ae
Life moves on. The wheels of time keep ‘moving ahead’ as well.
As the effects of pandemic waned and the restrictions were lifted we had our elder daughter’s marriage in March’2022 at Vadodara. Most of our close relatives visited us and thus the long awaited get-together with relatives finally took place.
However, I keep longing to travel. Travelling became possible in April’2022 when I and my wife travelled to Nagpur to attend a marriage. I was working then and had got only two days leave so we had to return back immediately.
But this train travel after a long gap was still enjoyable though the railways had not started providing the ‘linens’ in the AC coaches till then.
saanson ki patri par bhaage
raah chale naa aadi
ismen lagey kismat ke pahiye
chal jaaye to gaadi baba
Finally I got this long vacation this year since 01st January’2023. My last contract with the employer ended on 31st Dec’2022, so I was a ‘free bird’ again.
We were already planning to travel to Nagpur and Parli Vaijnath in Maharashtra to meet in-laws, my mother at Parli, and other relatives. But in an unfortunate development my father in law had to be admitted to a Hospital in Nagpur and we had to rush there. That is how we travelled to Nagpur in Feb’2023 end. After alighting at Ajani Station (one station before Nagpur junction), we directly visited the Hospital where my father in law was admitted. After visiting him we went to their place which was our base station for the next 8/10 days.
My father in law got discharged from the hospital the next day so he was back at home and everybody was happy. My wife was happy and she took care of her father for his medicines, diet etc. till we were there.
Meanwhile I travelled to Amravati by road-with a friend from Nagpur- to meet our common friend who was with us in Kenya. This long awaited meeting was also happening after a long gap of more than three years.
Thereafter, I and my wife travelled to Chandrapur by bus to meet my maternal relatives and then back to Nagpur. This meeting also happened after a long gap of almost seven years (last we visited them when we were staying at Nagpur).
We visited some more relatives (including my cousins) staying in Nagpur and around (Koradi), and left for Parli-Vaijnath by a private travel bus. At Parli-Vaijnath we meet my mother, my younger brother and his family and stayed there for two days. From there we left by train for Shegaon via Akola.
We had to wait around half an hour at Akola station to board the next train for Shegaon. We stayed at Shegaon after visiting the holy place there and next morning started for Vadodara by train again.
So, after a fifteen days tour we arrived back at Vadodara. Meanwhile our younger daughter also travelled to Pune with her friends and she also reached arrived back at Vadodara the same day. We received her at the railway station as her train from Pune was supposed to arrive forty-five minutes after the arrival of our train.
All of us arrived back home after enjoyable journeys.
After a gap of two weeks we again travelled to Rajkot for my younger daughter’s project there and also to visit our elder daughter. After staying a Rajkot for a day we come back to Vadodara by train. Earlier we used to travel by our car to and fro, but this time we took a Volvo bus by state transport to go to Rajkot and we travelled by train in the return direction.
A trip to Kachchh was already overdue for me since 2019-20 for transfer of house to other owner there. (During this period my younger brother staying had visited us thrice including his visit for my daughter’s marriage).
This time I travelled alone by train to Gandhidham and took the ST bus for Mundra. That revived my memories of up/down travels when I was working near Adipur. This visit too was just for one day. I returned back the same day by means of a private transport service.
A pre-planned trip towards the North was already due as per schedule on April 11th.
Meanwhile, 24th March marked the third anniversary of ‘lock down in India’. Even a movie narrating the ‘lock down experiences/stories’ was released on that day, but it disappeared soon like it was never released. May be people were not interested to revisit those ‘horrifying sad stories and the struggle during the pandemic or lock down period’. This movie was also released on 24th March’2023.
While we were preparing for our next tour the news of ‘corona cases surfacing again’ had started doing the rounds.
We started our journey on 11th April for Pathankot by SVDK Exp. This was the first time that we had ‘planned’ a ‘vacation trip’ other than the visits we often took during summer vacations to visit our relatives in Maharashtra.
In this visit we were accompanied by the family of one of my friends. Examinations of their children had finished and so they wanted to travel. So they had requested us to accompany them.
This friend of mine had passed away due to cancer in 2012. He was one of my best friends whom I befriended in Kachchh. I named these three friends as my ‘3 idiots’. So this one ‘idiot’ left us too early at an young age. We were missing him a lot.
We were supposed to reach our destination i.e. Pathankot on 12th afternoon. But on the morning of 12th as we were still travelling there was a call from my brother-in-law from Nagpur that my father in law had left for his heavenly abode early morning. My wife was inconsolable and somehow we managed to calm her saying that we shall take a decision after reaching Pathankot or Dalhousie, where we had to stay. We were in a fix as we could not leave the other members i.e. my friend’s family alone.
After reaching Banikhet near Dalhousie from Pathankot we were informed that the funeral of my father in law had to be done the same day and it was not possible for us in any case to reach Nagpur to attend it. So finally we decided to go to Nagpur later for other rituals. The only consolation for us was that the we had met him in Feb-end and early March and our stay with him for a week at Nagpur, so the regret of not meeting him in recent past was not there..
We finished our trip to Dalhousie-Dharamshala-Amritsar and returned to Ahmedabad via Chandigarh on 17th.
As our tour was on many things were still happening around.
seth mahajan chor uchakke
is gaadi mein saath chaley
raat ko soye dhan loot jaaye
aur sawere haath maley
koyi bajaaye chain ki bansi
koyi neer bahaaye re
pal pal aage badhhti jaaye ae
aage badhhti jaaye ae
But the journey was on …
Ye duniyaa ki rail musaafir …
And, it always reminded us
is gaadi mein dekh naa pyaare
jaat paat ke phande ae
ek jagah par mil kar baithhe
sab bhagwaan ke bande baba
do din ka ye safar hai baba
mil jul kar kat jaaye re
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My elder daughter arrived from Rajkot the next day and we all left for Nagpur on 19th April afternoon (by air this time). After attending all rituals there I and my wife stayed back at Nagpur while our daughters returned to Vadodara early on 22nd of April.
I with my wife travelled back by train again on 27th from Nagpur to Vadodara.
Meanwhile my younger daughter was detected with Covid-19 and she had to be self-quarantined. Now the elder daughter had to stay with her till we arrived back. The day we reach Vadodara, our elder daughter left for Rajkot.
Now there was a family function due at Rajkot on 2nd May. Only I could attend it, as my wife had to stay back with my younger daughter at home.
I travelled on 2nd morning by Volvo bus, attended the function in the afternoon, and arrived back on the same evening by train …
My younger daughter recovered fully from Covid after ten days and got fully fit.
5th May’2023 (News headline)…
“The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has declared “with great hope” an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency, stressing that it does not mean the disease is no longer a global threat.”
A cycle completed …
The song being covered in this post is from the movie “Sitaaraa-1955”. (this song was pending since ‘2018’).
It was directed by S.K. Ojha for ‘All India Pictures, Bombay’. P. N. Arora was the producer of this movie. It had Vaijayantimala, Pradeep Kumar, Shashikala, Om Prakash, Gope, Jayant, Beghampara, Pam Avtaar, Shyam Kumar, Amar, Helen, Mirza Musharraf, Protima Devi, Badri Prasad, Parasram, Munshi Munakka, Indira Bansal, T.N. Charlie and others.
This movie was passed by Censor Board on 25.05.1955.
“Sitaaraa-1955” has eight songs. They were written by Shakeel Badayuni and music was composed by Ghulam Mohammad.
Five songs have already been posted earlier on the blog. Today I present the sixth song from this movie which is sung by Mohd Rafi.
Lyrics are by Shakeel Badayuni and music is composed by Ghulam Mohammad.
Only audio of this song is available.
Audio
Song-Ye duniya ki rail musaafir aage badhhti jaaye (Sitaara)(1955) Singer-Rafi, Lyrics-Shakeel Badayuni, MD-Ghulam Mohammad
Chorus
Lyrics
Ye duniya ki rail musaafir
Ye duniya ki rail musaafir
Chhak chhak chalti jaaye re
Pal pal aage badhhti jaaye ae
Aage badhhti jaaye ae
Saanson ki patri par bhaage
Raah chale naa aadi
Ismen lagey kismat ke pahiye
Chal jaaye to gaadi baba
Chal jaaye to gaadi ee
Nagar nagar mein thheharti rukti
Nagar nagar mein thheharti rukti
Manzil tak pahunchaaye re
Pal pal aage badhti jaaye ae
Aage badhhti jaaye ae
Aage badhhti jaaye
Is gaadi mein dekh naa pyaare
Jaat paat ke phande ae
Jaat paat ke phande ae
Ek jagah par mil kar baithe
Sab bhagwan ke bande baba
Sab bhagwan ke bande ae
Do din ka ye safar hai baba
Do din ka ye safar hai baba
Mil jul kar kat jaaye re
Pal pal aage badhti jaaye ae
Aage badhhti jaaye ae
Aage badhhti jaaye
Seth mahajan chor uchakke
Is gaadi mein saath chalen
Raat ko soye dhan loot jaaye
Aur sawere haath malen
Aur sawere haath malen
Koyi bajaaye chain ki bansi
Koyi bajaaye chain ki bansi
Koyi neer bahaaye re
Pal pal aage badhti jaaye ae
Aage badhhti jaaye ae
Aage badhhti jaaye
Ye duniya ki rail musaafir
Ye duniya ki rail musaafir
Chhak chhak chalti jaaye re
Pal pal aage badhti jaaye ae
Aage badhhti jaaye ae
Aage badhhti jaaye
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Devnagri Script lyrics (Provided by Avinash Scrapwala)
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ये दुनिया की रेल मुसाफिर
ये दुनिया की रेल मुसाफिर
छक छक चलती जाए रे
पल पल आगे बढती जाए ए
आगे बढती जाए ए
साँसों की पटरी पर भागे
राह चले ना आडी
इसमें लगे किस्मत के पहिये
चल जाए तो गाडी बाबा
चल जाए तो गाडी ई
नगर नगर में ठहरती रूकती
नगर नगर में ठहरती रूकती
मंजिल तक पहुंचाए रे
पल पल आगे बढती जाए ए
आगे बढती जाए ए
आगे बढती जाए
इस गाडी में देख ना प्यारे
जात पात के फंदे ए
जात पात के फंदे ए
एक जगह पर मिल कर बैठे
सब भगवान के बन्दे बाबा
सब भगवान के बन्दे ए
दो दिन का ये सफ़र है बाबा
दो दिन का ये सफ़र है बाबा
मिल जुल कर कट जाए रे
पल पल आगे बढती जाए ए
आगे बढती जाए ए
आगे बढती जाए
सेठ महाजन चोर उचक्के
इस गाडी में साथ चले
रात को सोये धन लूट जाए
और सवेरे हाथ मले
और सवेरे हाथ मले
कोई बजाये चैन की बंसी
कोई बजाये चैन की बंसी
कोई नीर बहाए रे
पल पल आगे बढती जाए ए
आगे बढती जाए ए
आगे बढती जाए
ये दुनिया की रेल मुसाफिर
ये दुनिया की रेल मुसाफिर
छक छक चलती जाए रे
पल पल आगे बढती जाए ए
आगे बढती जाए ए
आगे बढती जाए
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