Duniyaa ne mujhko hai samjhaa naakaaraa
Posted on: June 13, 2023
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#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # (Debutant Movie-Naalaayak -1978)
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There are few write-ups that I had left unfinished before the ‘gang-out’ happened. They remained unfinished and so got delayed. Today’s post is one such delayed post which was about ‘summer vacations in my childhood days’ and memory of one such movie watched during one summer vacation.
The vacations are over this year and I guess that schools have re-opened everywhere, except a few states where vacations have been extended due to severe heat conditions that still exist.
This article can serve as a part of ‘summer nostalgia’ post that gives me an opportunity to remember this movie and enjoy one of its songs.
Summer vacations spent during our childhood are very special for us. Memories of those summer vacations are fondly remembered and recalled by us even after we grow up. These are cherished memories that never fade away.
This is a very special time of the year when my memories of summer vacations spent many decades ago during my childhood get recollected and refreshed. Every year in ‘summer’, I remember ‘summer vacations’ of my childhood days. Summer vacation of 1983 is one summer vacation that I remember with special fondness.
I had passed the standard tenth examination in ‘1983’ so this was an important year of my life and the memories of this year’s ‘summer’ are also special for many reasons. I have written about them in my earlier posts on the blog. Still, much is yet to be written about the movies and songs of ‘1983’. But I am not going to write about ‘1983’ in this article. Rather I am going back four years to the ‘summer of the year 1979’ in this post.
I vividly remember the daily routine during the summer vacations. Our day used to start with watering the plants in our courtyard, sprinkling of water in the courtyard. Then after tea and snacks we used to go out and play cricket with all friends in the neighborhood.
Coming back after playing cricket we used to take bath and wait for lunch. The lunch time was coincided with listening to songs on radio. (I specially remember that during one such afternoon I got to listen to the songs of ‘Amarprem-1971’ in the programme ‘Ek Hi Film Ke Geet’ and I fell in love with them.
The afternoon time after lunch was divided between reading books, comics, etc, and taking nap.
We eagerly waited for the heat and sun to come down. After five in the evening we used to play cricket again. After our cricke, it was time for storing water, watering the plants and sprinkling water in the courtyard again. In those We used to sleep in the courtyard in the open air below the skies so spraying water in the vicinity helped in keep in the place cool and comfortable.
Some days in the morning we used to go for shopping with the elders for bringing mangoes, water melon etc which used to be the part of the ‘celebration’ of ‘summer’.
In the evening we expected to get treated with ‘kairi panaa’ with dinner.
Other than reading books, playing cricket, and cards, we brothers used to eagerly await for the most ‘thrilling’ part of the summer and i.e. visiting to our grandparents staying at the nearby city Akola which was around 30 kms from Paras-the place we were staying.
That meant we would be getting to watch movies with our cousins and one of my Uncles. That was the most exciting part of the summer. There we used to get ‘ice-candy’s’, ‘kulfis’ daily. While watching the movies we used to eat ‘kharemure’ (salted peanuts), ‘jamuns’, etc. We also used to buy booklets of ‘film songs’ which my grandfather never liked. Then we used to play ‘cinema’ in our house by holding pieces of films collected and projecting them on a white cloth by using sunlight from a mirror reflection on the film and a magnifying glass to make it big.
Recalling those days I wonder how we enjoyed (and were able to ‘live’:) ) without TV, Mobile, Internet etc. 🙂
Coming back to movie watching, I remember we mostly preferred to watch the ‘matinee’ show or ‘afternoon show’ so that we were back home by evening time.
During one such vacation, which must be in ‘1979-summer’ we (I and my two younger brothers) and cousins had watched this movie ‘Naalaayak-1978’ at Akola (CP & Berar circuit). I just now noticed in HFGK that this movie was passed by Censor Board with ‘A’ certificate. I wonder how we children were allowed entry into the movie hall to watch this movie. I have no recollections if one of my Uncles accompanied us. I do not have any recollections whether we liked the movie or not. Those were the days when we were not ‘fans’ of any actors. Watching a movie was considered ‘more important’ by us and not the starcast.
In those days movies used to get released in small town theatres much after they were passed by the Censor Boards and released in major cities. The time gap for a movie to get released in smaller places (like Akola)after their release in major cities was two to four months.
I vividly recall that Akola joined the ranks of “major” cities in early 1980s, in the sense that movies began to get released in Akola on the very day of the ‘All India Release’ of the movie. For example, ‘Laawaaris-1981’ was released in Akola on the same date when it was released in other major locations in the country.
It was also common for films to run in theatres for many weeks (15 to 30 weeks or even more like 50 weeks) unlike nowadays when some movies disappear within a week even before they get noticed.
The lasting memory from this movie ‘Naalaayak’ that I carried is the song under discussion.
But before that here are the details of this movie:-
“Naalaayak-1978” was directed by Padmanabh for ‘Veena Films, Bombay’. It was produced by Jagdish Sharma. It had Jeetendra, Leena Chandavarkar, Nirupa Roy, Satyen Kappu, Sujit Kumar, Asrani, Dara Singh, Master Raju, Raza Murad, Sanjana, Murad, Dhanraj, Aarti, Darshan, Onkar, Abhimanyu Sharma, Gurbachan, Kundan, Thakur, Sunil Johan, Kiran Khan and others.
Actress Bindu had made a special appearance in this movie.
Story and screenplay of this movie was written by K.A. Narayan and dialogues were written by Ahsan Rizvi.
Editing of this film was done by Das Dhaimade.
This movie was passed by Censor Board on 12.12.1978 with restricted viewing i.e. ‘A’ Certificate.
“Naalaayak-1978” has four songs written by Verma Malik and composed by Kalyanji-Anandji. Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd Rafi and Kishore Kumar had given their voices to the songs in this movie.
The story of this movie is very simple and the story progresses on the screen in a predictable way to bring the desired results.
Laxman (Jeetendra) is the ‘good-for-nothing (naa-laayak)’ younger brother of Ram Narayan (Satyendra Kappu). Laxman is brought up by his sister-in-law Sita (Nirupa Roy) after his mother’s death. But this Laxman is not ideal younger brother that we know in ‘stories’ from ‘Ramayana’.
And as usual in our movies the ‘laad pyaar’ by the Bhaabhi has totally spoiled this young man in his twenties (in the movie), (Jeetendra must be around 35-36 in his real life then ).His lifestyle is totally against his elder brother’s ideals and principles. While his elder brother is an honest and hardworking person and the most trustful of his employer, Laxman is engaged in gambling, night clubs, drinks and everything which is not acceptable to his elder brother.
Well we have Raju (Master Raju) the son of Ram Narayan and Sita Narayan who loves his Chachu Laxman very much.
They have a family friend Prem (Sujit Kumar) who frequently visits the family but has his own agenda which the family is unaware of. And there is also a good family friend Inspector Ramesh (Raza Murad).
Rita is modern women who often visits the night club and enjoys gambling. She has younger sister Seema (Leena Chandavarkar). Rita and Laxman know each other well and Laxman often visits Rita to play cards and drinks.
It so happens that once Rita orders a ‘necklace’ from the jeweler where Ram Narayan is working. When the product is ready and since it is costly (six lakhs) the owner asks Ram Narayan to deliver this necklace personally to Rita at her home.
Later on Rita calls to the jeweler and informs that this ‘haar’ is ‘naqli’ and she will go to police if this is not settled. Ram Narayan on advice of Prem goes to Rita’s home to the matter, but it does not get resolved.
He leaves Rita’s place, but Rita is murdered around the same time and all the evidences brings Ram Narayan in jail. He is convicted in court under the charge of murder and sentenced to death.From here our ‘naalaayak’ hero comes into action and with the help of Pahalwan (Dara Singh) and Lallu Kumar (Asrani) finds out the real culprit and get released his ‘begunaah’ elder brother.
Lallu Kumar (Asrani) and Pahalwan also provides ‘comic relief’ in between.Finally Laxman’s Bhaabhi Sita has to say this ‘ab meri nazron mein tujhse badaa laayak aur koyi nahin’ 🙂
So, where people would take years to become ‘good for something’ or ‘laayak’ our hero does it with just in over ‘two hours’ time 🙂
Coming back to the actor who plays the elder brother of Jeetendra in this movie i.e. Satyen Kappu.
In my growing days when I used to come across this name Satyen Kappu I used to think that there might be some mistake and maybe the name has been spelled wrongly instead of Satyen Kapoor. But it is not like that. His screen name is indeed Satyen Kappu.
In his childhood days he used to be addressed by the nickname of ‘Kappu’. He continued the same for his ‘screen name’.
However, it seems that, his screen name ‘Satyen Kappu’ was arrived after lot of thinking after exploring ‘several’ options.
Why I am saying this because if one carefully notes the credits of his earlier movies he was credited initially as Satyendra Kumar in ‘Kabuliwaala-1961’, as Satyendra Kapoor in ‘Kati Patang-1970’, as Satyendra Kumar (Kappu) in ‘Amarprem-1971’, as ‘Sathyan Kumar in ‘Chhoti Bahu-1971’, again as Satyendra Kapoor’ in ‘Jawaani Deewaani-1972’, and ‘Satyandra Kappu’ in ‘Seeta Aur Geeta-1972’ etc and later on continuing with ‘Satyendra Kappu’. 🙂
Satyen Kappu was born as Satyendra Sharma (and not as Satyendra Kapoor as many sources mentioned) on 6th February’1931 in Bombay (now Mumbai).
His father owned an ice-cream factory in Mumbai known as ‘Delight Kulfi’. His parents were Budhsen Sharma (Panipat, Haryana) and Gangadevi. He had an elder brother Radheshyam Sharma.
Both of Satyen Kappu’s parents left the children in their childhood and their relatives brought them up. They took Satyen to the ‘Gurukul Kurukshetra’. His Primary education was in Sanskrit medium there at the ‘Gurukul’.
Then he came to Panipat after some years and used to watch ‘jalsa’ or ‘drama’ (in Sanskrit e.g. Mahabharata) which was played by senior students of ‘gurukul’ Kurukshetra which he used to watch. Satyen stayed in Panipat for two years. He used to participate in ‘Ramleela’ where he used to play Sita in ‘Ramayan’. And on ‘janmashtami’ he used to play Radha in the dramas. Seeing his interest in ‘acting’ his brother took him to Bombay where he started watching dramas of ‘Prithvi Theatres’. In Bombay he soon got to know about ‘IPTA’ and soon he joined it IPTA in 1953 as a member.
His only wish was to become a ‘good actor’ and that desire kept him doing different roles in the dramas. Satyen Kappu was a great admirer of Ashok Kumar and his style of acting, and wanted to become a versatile actor like him.
The famous director Bimal Roy was the President of IPTA at that time. He noticed the talent in Satyen Kappu and he gave him small roles in his films. Satyen Kappu had a very small role in ‘Naukri-1954’ where he had only one scene with Kishore Kumar (as mentioned by Satyendra Kappu himself). Later on he was given a role in ‘Kabuliwaala-1961’ (credited as Satyendra Kumar). However ‘theatre’ was Satyen’s passion so he was more interested in that and he keep continuing working in theatre. Later on when he was acting in movies, he also used to work in plays (in theatre) and TV Serials too and was very much active till his last days.
It so happened that watching one of his dramas producers/directors Ramesh Behl, Narendra Bedi, Shakti Samanta and Ramesh Sippy offered him roles in their movies and thus Satyen Kappu become a regular feature in films and went on to act in around more than 350 films.
He gives full credit to IPTA for developing his acting skills as wells as his personality and proudly mentions ‘IPTA’ as his ‘school of life’ and giving him the real education to sustain in life and achieve whatever he wanted to be – a good actor.
He used to say that he has not taken much education but working at IPTA, observing different people in real life and ‘real life characters around’ has teach him many things.
He also admires the ‘great dramatist’ Agha Hashar (Muhammad Shah known as Agha Hashar Kashmiri 03.04.1879-01.04.1935) who influenced him a lot.
We have seen Satyen Kappu doing all type of character roles and always giving a ‘strong’ and ‘remarkable’ performance on screen in whatever role he did for. There is a long list of movies where we have seen him in various character roles with positive as well as negative shades. I think there is not a movie of him where I have watched the movie and not liked his performance. He looked always composed, sober, and down to earth in his roles and so was he in his life too. His role in the movie ‘Sholay-1975’ is mostly remembered for. I would also like to mention one of his later movies i.e. ‘Aaj Ka MLA Ramavtar-1985’ where I liked him in the role of a ‘politician’. He had been a co-star of many of the great actors of Hindi Films, e.g. ‘Yaadon Ki Baarat’, ‘Khotey Sikke’, ‘Don’, ‘Deewaar’, ‘Dost’, ‘Haathh Ki Safaai’, ‘Dream Girl’, ‘Mr. Natwarlal’, ‘Chameli Ki Shaadi’ etc etc where he appeared in different roles.
He loved poetry and that influence can also be seen in his acting expressing different emotions.
He also acted in regional movies in ‘Gujarati’, ‘Rajasthani’, ‘Awadhi’, ‘Brij’, ‘Bhojpuri’ etc.
He married to Kailashwati on 8th December ‘1951 and they had four daughters (Uma, Vinita, Dipti and Trupti). Trupti became a writer and she writes screenplay and dialogues for the Television Serials.
‘Sarhad Paar-2006’ was the last movie he appeared in.
He left this world on 27.10.2007 at Mumbai due to ‘cardiac arrest’. (He was suffering from Diabetes).
(Source of information about Satyen Kappu – Tabassum Talkies, Bollywood Aaj Aur Kal (a conversation with Satyen Kappu, Wikipedia, Movie titles of movies mentioned above)).
🙂
Laxman (Jeetendra) meets Seema (Leena Chandavarkar) for the first time on the ‘Race course’ where she is ‘loosing’ on every ‘horse’ and Laxman wins on a ‘mare’.
Laxman tries to give her some ‘tips’ on ‘horse trading’ but she refuses ‘apni tips-wips apne paas hi rehne dijiye mujhe ghodon se koi dilchaspee nahin.’
Seema tells him that is she is not interested in any type of ‘juaa’ because she neither has the ‘shauk’ or ‘zaroorat’ of it … she came there only to accompany her friend.
‘Zindagi bhi to ek juaa hai madam, ismein kabhi jaan lagaani padti hai kabhi dil haarnaa padtaa hai’ Laxman tries to impress her again …
‘To haariye jaakar dil vil, kaun aap ko rokta hai, lekin mere pichhe kyun pade hain aap… badtameez kahin kaa … naalaayak!!!
Little did she know that it doesn’t matter to a man if ‘maa, baap, bhaai, bhaabhi’ and all others say this ‘word’ to a man, but a ‘girl’ like ‘her’ couldn’t because that could be a reason for the ‘hero’ to ‘consume poison’ or break into a song 🙂 like this one …
Enjoy the song and try to listen to the other songs that you may ‘land on’ while humming this song. 🙂
Song-Duniya ne mujhko hai samjha naakaaraa (Naalayak)(1978) Singer-Rafi, Lyrics-Verma Malik, MD-Kalyanji Anandji
Lyrics
hey ae ae ae ae ae
duniyaa ne
mujhko hai samjhaa naakaaraa aa
duniyaa ne
mujhko hai samjhaa naakaaraa aa
naalaayak naalaayak
kah ke pukaaraa aa
aur koyee kuchh bhi kahe
buraa nahin maanoongaa
aur koyee kuchh bhi kahe
buraa nahin maanoongaa
toone kahaa to zehar khaa ke mar jaaungaa
toone kahaa to zehar khaa ke mar jaaungaa
he ae ae ae ae
duniyaa ne
mujhko hai samjhaa naakaaraa aa
naalaayak naalaayak kah ke pukaaraa aa
hey ae ae
teri aankhon mein hijaab
hijaab laajawaab
oye haaye ye shabaab
shabaab laajawaab
pyaar ke sawaal kaa
de pyaar mein jawaab
de pyaar mein jawaab
ho teri meri jodi hogi
jodi laajawaab
oye aankhen hongi meri
aur tere honge khwaab
tera mera pyaar hogaa
hogaa laajawaab
o hogaa laajawaab
thhukraaon naa aa aa aa
maan jaao naa
aur koyee thhukraaye
buraa nahin maanoongaa
aur koyee thhukraaye
buraa nahin maanoongaa
toone thhukraayaa
zehar khaa ke mar jaaungaa
toone thhukraayaa
zehar khaa ke mar jaaungaa
duniyaa ne
hey ae ae ae ae
mujhko hai samjhaa naakaaraa aa
naalaayak naalaayak
kah ke pukaaraa aa
hey ae ae
zaraa suno to huzoor
naa jaao door door
meri ankhiyon ke noor
karo naa yoon guroor
kisi naa kisi ko
apnaaogi zuroor
apnaaogi zuroor
ho tera pyaar paaoongaa main
paaoongaa zuroor
ho chaahe badnaam
yaa ho jaaun mashhoor
aaj tujhe saath leke
jaaungaa zaroor
leke jaaungaa zaroor
zaraa aao naa aa aa
chhod jaao naa
aur koyee chhod jaaye
buraa nahin maanoongaa
aur koyee chhod jaaye
buraa nahin maanoongaa
toone mujhe chhodaa
zehar khaa ke mar jaaungaa
toone mujhe chhodaa
zehar khaa ke mar jaaungaa
hey ae ae ae ae ae
duniyaa ne
mujhko hai samjhaa naakaaraa aa
naalaayak naalaayak kah ke pukaaraa aa
aur koyee kuchh bhi kahe
buraa nahin maanoongaa
aur koyee kuchh bhi kahe
buraa nahin maanoongaa
toone kahaa to zehar khaa ke mar jaaungaa
toone kahaa to zehar khaa ke mar jaaungaa
4 Responses to "Duniyaa ne mujhko hai samjhaa naakaaraa"
June 13, 2023 at 10:26 pm
Avinash ji,
Never knew S Kappu had so many names!
Arre! I gave him another name!!
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June 14, 2023 at 12:16 am
Avinashji
I always thought that Satyen “Kappu” was shortened form of Satyen “Kapoor”
Thank you for giving new knowledge
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June 13, 2023 at 6:40 pm
Dear Avinash ji,
I am very glad to see your post with a new style of writing. This was very interesting and also full of information.
I wish you all the best in your efforts to cross over the beaten track.
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June 13, 2023 at 10:13 pm
Thanks a lot for liking this post and your appreciating it Sir ji.
It means a lot for me.
I will keep trying to make the posts more interesting as possible.
Regards,
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