Dekho Logo Ye Kaisa Zamaana
Posted on: June 26, 2023
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#the Decade of Sixties – 1961 – 1970 #
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Today’s song is from the movie ‘Bandish’ from 1969.
I was not aware of this song till 2018 when I took up to present a write-up on singer Jaspal Singh for the song “Jin Khoja Tin Paayian Gehre Paani Paith” from the movie ‘Paayal Ki Jhankaar’ (1980) which was posted on the blog on 02.04.2018. This article is a part of the series I am presenting on the ‘special voices of the seventies’ and Jaspal Singh is one of those voices. So far I have presented nine posts in this series and there are more yet to come in the future.
Jaspal Singh is the singer of today’s song. Let us first go through his journey in Bollywood which I had mentioned in the above post. Since this background is necessary for today’s post also. I am reproducing below, the edited text from the above mentioned post of 02.04.2018.
Jaspal Singh was born on 23rd March 1943 in Amritsar, Punjab. (However on all official records his date of birth had been recorded as 28th March 1943). His father was running a hotel and their hotel was once situated just opposite to the famous Golden Temple in Amritsar’. Their hotel was later demolished and was compensated for by the government, as mentioned by him in his interview on RSTV-Guftagoo. He is one of five siblings – four brothers and one sister, again as per his interview on RSTV-Guftagoo.
Jaspal Singh completed his graduation from Amritsar and later on persuaded LLB from Ghaziabad. However, he was neither interested in business nor doing the advocacy. His only interest was to sing and become a play back singer which his mother and sister supported well. Since his childhood he was fond of singing and he was singing in his school and college functions and was popular among his circles in Amritsar. He was also been invited for singing in functions. He too, like other upcoming singers, was a great fan of Rafi Saab whom he admires a lot. Later on he got a chance to sing with Rafi Saab in films which was a great day for him.
His journey to movies and becoming a play back singer was full of hard work and struggle and he succeeded only because he had this talent, passion and instinct to become a play back singer for movies. It so happened that his sister got married and was settled in Bombay (now Mumbai). This came like a blessing for young Jaspal Singh who thereafter kept visiting Bombay, initially during the summer vacations and thereafter more often, to fulfill his dream of becoming a playback singer for movies.
His sister, knowing about his passion and intentions, persuaded her husband to try that Jaspal Singh gets an opportunity to sing in movies. Their continued efforts resulted in Usha Khanna ji giving him his first break for playback singing in 1969, in the movie ‘Bandish’. His first recorded song was a solo song “Dekho Logo Ye Kaisa Zamaana”, which went quite unnoticed.
Usha Khanna ji give him another chance in 1969 to sing in the movie ‘Anjaan Hai Koi’, this time a duet with Mahendra Kapoor which due to its tune and words was somewhat noticed and reach a larger audience. I have presented this duet of Mahendra Kapoor and Jaspal Singh from ‘Anjaan Hai Koi’ on the blog on 01.02.2023, which is “Beta Khel Mat Matka“.
In today’s post I am going to present the first song sung by Jaspal Singh for Hindi films which went unnoticed then. For this song Jaspal Singh was credit with his original name i.e. Jaspal Singh Phokela.
‘Bandish’ (1969) was directed by Charandas Shokh for JJ Films, Bombay. It had Sonia Sahni, Shailendra, Azra, Ulhas, Brahmachari, Shyam Kumar, Sarita Devi, SK Prem, Mirza Musharraf, Uma Dhawan, Sushma, Kundan, Dhanraj, Habib, Madhumati, Manmohan and others.
This movie has six songs composed by Usha Khanna. Akmal Hyderabadi is the lyricist of the songs in this movie. Asha Bhonsle, Krishan Kalle, Mohd Rafi, and Jaspal Singh (as Jaspal Phokela) are singers for the songs in this movie. Two songs from this movie have been posted on the blog earlier.
Here is the brief about the story of this movie as mentioned by Shri Arunkumar ji in his comments on the song “Jaaiye Jaaiye Huzoor, Aapko Kis Ne Roka Hai” of this movie posted on the blog earlier.
The story of this film is about CID Inspector Anand, who is a courageous, loyal and is devoted to elimination of traitors of the country. I thought this was CBI’s job, but the producers of this film firmly believed that CID does this work. Anand is sent abroad to many countries and returns victorious every time after eliminating traitors. But the supply of traitors is in plenty in India, hence he is appointed now in India.
He meets Shabnam in a train journey and becomes involved with her. The traitors kidnap Shabnam (why her?) and Anand and they are brought to Lobo’s den. He wants secret information from Anand. That time Anand realizes that Shabnam is their accomplice. He escapes from there and finds out that Shabnam’s father is held by the traitors. After few reels, Anand, as expected, traces the culprits, arrests them and also captures Shabnam. Culprits are handed over to the police and Shabnam, he keeps for himself!
Now coming to the hero of this movie i.e. Shailendra. Here we need to correct ourselves and replace the information about him as mentioned in the song ‘”Abhi To Raat Baaqi Hai“, as there seems to be the ‘same name confusion’ about two different actors named Shailendra.
The lead actor Shailendra in this movie ‘Bandish’ is actually Parduman or Praduman Singh Randhawa. He is the son of Dara Singh from his first wife Bachno Kaur. He was born on 12th April 1946. Dara Singh wanted his eldest son to become a wrestler like him. However Praduman was interested in films.
He was a co-producer of the movie ‘Nasihat’ (1967) with Saudagar. This movie was a home production of Dara Singh where his brother Randhawa was also the actor.
Praduman then appeared in movies like ‘Aankhen’ (1968) (where he played the role of Akram) and ‘Ganga Tera Paani Amrit’ (1971) (where he played the role of Ballu, a friend of Shatrughan Sinha) where he was credited as Parduman.
He handled the publicity of the movie ‘Isi Ka Naam Duniya Hai’ (1962) (with DR Bhonsle and Chandu).* He also worked as title designer for ‘Hare Kaanch Ki Chooriyaan’ (1967) and as a title artist for the movie ‘Upkaar’ (1967).*
*(This information is confirmed from the titles of these three movies)It is later in ‘Bandish’ that he changed his name for screen as Shailendra. It seems that he quit the film industry later and settled down as a farmer at Meerut (UP). He has two sons and a daughter.
In this regard I would like to mention that the information about Praduman Sing Randhawa mentioned in ‘Wikipedia’ is more authentic in my view compared to other many sources where they have even included the movie ‘Teesri Kasam’ (1966) and many other movies considering him as ‘Shailendra’. However I would request knowledgeable readers to add additional information about him and correct us wherever required. Our dear Prakash ji had mentioned in his comments on the song of ‘Ganga Tera Paani Amrit’ about guessing this person with Shatrughan Sinha as Parduman Randhawa long back.
Well, now coming to today’s song which on screen is performed by the actor–comedian Brahmachari.
I tried to look for detailed information about his journey to films. But sadly there is no biographical information about Brahmachari available as of now. We checked with many sources but as of now only the following information can be presented here.
Born as Murari Lal Vashishtha, Brahmachari started his film career with the movie ‘Dus Lakh’ (1966). He went on to act over one hundred and fifty movies (as per filmography available on internet/YouTube link). We have seen him in many movies e.g. ‘Ek Naari Ek Brahmachari’ (1971), ‘Mere Jeevan Saathi’ (1972), ‘Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka’ (1975), ‘Fakeera’ (1976), ‘Ek Se Badh Kar Ek’ (1976), ‘Kaalia’ (1981) etc. I am not mentioning complete list here in this post. ‘Kaali Topi Laal Roomal’ from the year 2000 is said to be his last movie.
Actor Brahmachari has two sons and a daughter. Both of his sons are famous actor i.e. Puneet Vashishtha and Harsh Vashishtha. His daughter’s name is Renu Sharma. Sunaina Vashishtha is the wife of Brahmachari.
Actor Brahmachari passed away on 1st August’2001. This is mentioned by his son Puneet in his comment on the above ‘YouTube’ link.
Let us now listen to today’s song where Brahmachari is lip syncing for the voice of Jaspal Singh. Also seen in picturisation are many beautiful ladies whom I am unable to identify. That also reminds me of the well-known song “Rekha O Rekha Jab Se Tumhe Dekha’“picturised on Brahmachari and Tabassum in the movie ‘Adhikaar’ (1971). I am not aware if he got to perform any other songs too. I think there may be a few more. I request our knowledgeable readers to help add more songs picturised on Brahmachari.
Over to the today’s song now. This song is a nice song to listen to and watch too. The video of the song has three stanzas whereas the audio has one stanza less. The location of the picturisation of this song looks like Mumbai’s Taj Hotel, Gateway of India, and around the sea and other locations in Mumbai.
Video
Audio
Song – Dekho Logo Ye Kaisa Zamaana (Bandish) (1969) Singer – Jaspal Singh, Lyrics – Akmal Hyderabadi, MD – Usha Khanna
Lyrics
dekho logo
ye kaisa zamaana
sambhaalo sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe
tang libaada
tang badan pe tang libaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada
dekho logo
ye kaisa zamaana
sambhaalo sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe
tang libaada
tang badan pe tang libaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada
nayi zindagi ka naya rang dekho
nayi zindagi ka naya rang dekho
zamaana dikhaata hai ang ang dekho
na aanchal hai laamba
na daaman kuchh zyaada
na aanchal hai laamba
na daaman kuchh zyaada
dekho logo
ye kaisa zamaana
sambhaalo sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe
tang libaada
tang badan pe tang libaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada
badan pairhan mein
samaata nahin hai
badan pairhan mein
samaata nahin hai
chaman ab chaman mein
samaata nahin hai
chhalakne laga hai
suraahi se baada (?)
chhalakne laga hai
suraahi se baada (?)
dekho logo
ye kaisa zamaana
sambhaalo
sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe tang labaada
tang badan pe tang labaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada
idhar dekhiyega
udhar dekhiyega
idhar dekhiyega
udhar dekhiyega
nazar hai pareshaan
kidhar dekhiyega
nigaahen to kam hain
nazaare zyaadaa
nigaahen to kam hain
nazaare zyaadaa
dekho logo
ye kaisa zamaana
sambhaalo sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe
tang libaada
tang badan pe tang libaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada
dekho logo
ye kaisaa zamaana
sambhaalo sambhaalo
hua main deewaana
tang badan pe
tang libaada
tang badan pe tang libaada
jaane haseenon ka kya hai iraada
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा
देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा
नई ज़िंदगी का नया रंग देखो
नई ज़िंदगी का नया रंग देखो
ज़माना दिखाता है अंग अंग देखो
ना आँचल है लांबा
ना दामन कुछ ज़्यादा
ना आँचल है लांबा
ना दामन कुछ ज़्यादा
देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा
बदन पैरह्न में
समाता नहीं है
बदन पैरह्न में
समाता नहीं है
चमन अब चमन में
समाता नहीं है
छलकने लगा है
सुराही से बादा (?)
छलकने लगा है
सुराही से बादा (?)
देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा
इधर देखिएगा
उधर देखिएगा
इधर देखिएगा
उधर देखिएगा
नज़र है परेशान
किधर देखिएगा
निगाहें तो कम हैं
नज़ारे ज़्यादा
निगाहें तो कम हैं
नज़ारे ज़्यादा
देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा
देखो लोगो
ये कैसा ज़माना
संभालो संभालो
हुआ मैं दिवाना
तंग बदन पे
तंग लिबादा
तंग बदन पे तंग लिबादा
जाने हसीनों का क्या है इरादा
4 Responses to "Dekho Logo Ye Kaisa Zamaana"
June 27, 2023 at 4:35 pm
Just now I have completed(and sent the email) writing Phandebaaz(1978) film songs for BTYC Dated 28th June 2013,
and I found One song picturised on
Brahmachari alongwith Dharmendra(Playback singing by Amit Kumar and Mohammed Rafi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEYnnTYorDc
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June 27, 2023 at 8:39 pm
Thank you Avinashji for info on Brahmachari. Never knew Puneet Vashisht is his son.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
June 27, 2023 at 11:33 am
Very interesting and informative post.
Keep it up, Avinash ji and you will enjoy doing such posts.
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June 27, 2023 at 12:03 pm
Thank you Sir ji. Your appreciating it means a lot for me.
Thanks again,
Regards,
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