Kuchh kuchh kareeb jab se wo begaanaa ho gayaa
Posted by: Atul on: July 28, 2023
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Today’s song is from the film Ankh ka Nasha(1956).
Same Title films were also made in 1928 and 1933. The Talkie film of 1933 was a remake of the 1928 Silent film. Today’s film was made by Natraj Productions, Bombay and was produced by a Trio of Madan- Ved and Daljeet. The film was directed by the Debut making team of Ved-Madan. They went on directing 8 more films in next 14 years. Their films were Johnny Walker (1957), Mr. Cartoon M.A.(1958), Kala Admi(1960), First Love(1961), Neeli Aankhen(1962), Gazal(1964), Haye Mera Dil(1968) and Sau saal beet gaye(1970). The Lyricist of all the 7 songs was Harsh and the Music Composer was Pt.Dhaniram. The cast of the film was Anita Guha, M.Rajan, Raj mehra, Shammi, Chaman Puri, W.M.Khan, Helen etc
An interesting name in the cast was Chaman Puri. Some readers may remember him as the eldest brother of Madan Puri (30-9-1915 to 13-1-1985, 430 films) and Amrish Puri (22-6-1932 to 12-1-2005, 283 films. Chaman Puri (2-10-1914 to 22-6-1998, 95 films) had one more brother Harish Lal Puri and one sister Chandrakanta. Both were not connected with films in any way. All the siblings were the First Cousins of Actor Singer K.L.Saigal.
Chaman Puri started his career from Calcutta, with the help of Saigal, in the film Abhagin (1938) and Street Singer(1938) made by New Theatres, Calcutta. His other famous films were Sargam(1950), Bahaar(1951), Shart(1954), Paying Guest(1957), Howrah Bridge(1958), Leader(1964), The Train(1970), Victoria 303(1972) etc.
There were 3 more cases of 3 brothers working in films as Actors. The first was Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar and Anup Kumar. The other Triplet was Johnny Walker aka Badruddin, Tony Walker aka Kamaluddin and Vijay Kumar aka Jamaluddin. The third was Dev Anand, Chetan Anand and Vijay Anand. Offhand I don’t remember any other Triplet of male actors. If any reader remembers, please write in the comments section.
Edit: How did I forget Kapoor brothers Raj, Shammi and Shashi. Another example is from the family of Raj Kapoor’s brother in law family, viz Premnath, Rajendranath and Narendranath.
However, among the Actresses such triplet cases were more. The first was Zubeida (Alam Ara fame)- Sultana-Shahzadi. Some others were Zohra-Mushtari-Anuradha (Khursheed Akhtar), Patience Cooper- Violet- Pearl, Sitara Devi-Alaknanda-Tara Devi, Shakila-Noor-Nasreen and Padmini-Ragini-Lalitha. Let us know about any other names.
2 Brothers or 2 sister cases like Dilip Kumar and Nasir Khan and Leela Desai and Monica Desai were many in numbers.
The story of the film Ankh ka Nasha had nothing to do with its title. Perhaps the writer meant the Nasheeli ankhen of the film Heroine ! Maybe ! The story was :-
Gulnar was the most beautiful dancer of Ispahan. The king of Ispahan loved two people the most. His son-Murad and his General Azam khan, who won many wars for him. By chance they both loved Gulnar, but she loved young Murad. However the king fixed her marriage with the General-Azam khan. Murad and Azam khan started quarreling. The king was furious and ordered the beheading of Gulnar. Next day, before sunrise, Murad and Gulnar ran away from the kingdom. On their way, they met a Caravan, whose head was Jabbar. He caught both and threw Murad in the jungle to die without food and in an unconscious condition.
Jabbar was a slave dealer and took Gulnar to the king of Dilbad. There the king and the Vazir fought for Gulnar. The vazir arrested the King and kept Gulnar in his Harem. Meanwhile Murad was saved by a kind soul named Baglol. Both of them went to Dilbad to make money, not knowing that Gulnar was there. There the Vazir’s sister-Yasmin fell in love with Murad. From Yasmin , he came to know that Gulnar was there only. Murad and Baglol killed Vazir and Yasmin, freed the king and got Gulnar. The king made him the Vazir and married him to Gulnar.
Gulnar’s role was done efficiently by actress Anita Guha. Anita was born on 17-1-1939 on the Indo-Burma border, where her father was a Forest Officer. Her childhood was spent in the North-East, but after Partition her family shifted to Calcutta. She did her schooling here. In the early 50s, she became “Miss Calcutta”. In 1952, she also won in the Kolynos Talent competition in Bombay, along with Chand Usmani and Peace Kanwal.
A R Kardar signed a contract with her for 2 years and she returned to Calcutta. However, she started getting many film offers in Bangla, so she cancelled her contract with Kardar and did many films in Bangla Language. Meanwhile she also picked up Hindi fluently.
Actor producer Omprakash met her in one of his visits to Calcutta and he offered her the Heroine’s role in film Duniya Gol Hai-1955, opposite Karan Dewan. She accepted the film and shifted to Bombay. Not having proper guidance, she started accepting any film that came to her. As a result in A grade films, she did side roles and in B grade films she became a Heroine. After Duniya Gol hai and Tangewali, she did many Hindi films. Her first Mythological film was Pawanputra Hanuman in 1957 and then she was branded a Religious film heroine. She however did some social and comedy films like Gateway of India, Dekh kabira Roya, Goonj uthi shehnai etc etc.
In 1961, she appeared as Sita, in Babubhai Mistry’s Sampoorna Ramayana, which made her a household name. But it was her title role in Jai Santoshi Maa (1975) that brought her the most fame. She had never even heard of goddess Santoshi until she was offered the role, as this was a little- known goddess. It was only a guest appearance, and her scenes were shot in 10–12 days. She fasted during the shooting. The low-budget movie was a surprise hit and broke box office records while becoming a cultural phenomenon. The goddess Santoshi now became a famous goddess, and women all over India worshipped her. People treated the movie theatres showing Jai Santoshi Maa as a temple, bringing offerings of food, leaving slippers at the door. Guha claimed that people came to her asking her to bless them, as they perceived her to be a real goddess.
Other mythological films she acted in include Kavi Kalidas (1959), Jai Dwarkadesh (1977) and Krishna Krishna (1986). She wasn’t happy that she became typecast as a mythological actress, because acting offers eventually stopped coming her way. Her earlier credits include period films such as Sangeet Samrat Tansen (1962), Kan Kan Mein Bhagwan (1963) and Veer Bhimsen (1964). She played Rajesh Khanna’s adoptive mother in the huge hit Aradhana (1969).
Anita Guha was married to actor Manik Dutt, they had no children. After her husband’s death, she lived alone in Mumbai where she died of cardiac failure on 20 June 2007. Anita Guha was the maternal aunt of actor Prema Narayan and Prema is the daughter of her sister Anuradha Guha. She was also the aunt of another film actress Mithu Mukherjee.
She acted in more than 100 films and acted in Hindi (72 films),Bangla, Rajasthani and Bhojpuri films. (The post is based on information culled from beetehuedin.com, S. Sarvaiya’s article, muVys, HFGK, Ateet ke sitare,wiki and my notes.)
Today’s song-a qawwali- is sung by Sabita Bannerjee, S.Balbir, Krishan Goel and Chorus. Not much is known about Krishan Goel. Krishan Goel was born on 29th September 1927, and he left this world on 4th June, 2010. At the age of six, he started singing in the court of Maharaja Hari Singh Ji of J&K, and was a friend of Prince Karan Singh Ji. During his later years, he also used to accompany Jagjit Singh in his concerts.
Krishan Goel sang very few songs in HFM, and most of them are quite difficult to locate. atulsongaday blog has six songs sung by him.
He was born in Jammu. He got educated in Lahore and started singing on Lahore Radio. He came to Bombay in 1946 and in 1947 he met Shyambabu Pathak, who gave him a chance to sing 2 Bhajans in the film ‘ Krishna Sudama’ -47. He had also acted in that film in a small role. He had also acted in the film Apna Desh-1949.
He had some limitations in singing. He could not sing in high pitch. Due to this , he got few singing opportunities. He sang in films like,Krisna Sudama, Dahej, Dhuaan, Kaale Badal, Ladki, Lanka Dahan, Mallika, Naag padmini, Passing show, Ankh ka Nasha,Raees and Khul ja sim sim. He sang 20 songs in 12 films. He did not sing after 1957.
Some more additional information about Krishan Goel is that later in life, he joined a famous Bombay restaurant, Copper Chimney, and used to sing there as well. ( the period is around 1996-7). He was a shy and reserved person. ( Thanks to Arvinder Sharma ji-his relative- for this extra information).
Song- Kuchh kuchh kareeb jab se wo begaan ho gayaa (Aankh Ka Nasha)(1956) Singers- S.Balbir, Krishan Goel, Sabita Bannerjee, Lyricist- Harsha, MD- Pt. Dhaniram
Lyrics
aa aa aa
haan aan aan aan
kuchh kuchh kareeb jab se
haan aan aan
wo begaana ho gaya
ki wo gul khila huzoor
ke afsaana ho gaya
ajee afsaana ho gaya
ik chhed thhee ke unse zara
aan aan aan
rasm raagaa (??) ho
haaye ae ae
ab dil ko zid hui hai
poochho kya
kya
ke unse nikaah ho
ajee unse nikaah ho
aa aa aa aa
unse nikaah ho
kaisa mijaaz dil ka raeesaana ho gaya
jee raeesaana ho gaya
aa aa aa aa
kaisa mijaaz dil ka raeesaana ho gaya
haaye
wo gul khilaa huzoor ke
afsaana ho gaya
ajee afsaana ho gaya
kya arz keejiye
aa aa aa aa
ke ajab mard zaat hai
unglee thhamaaiye to
to kya
to kalaai pe haathh hai
ajee kalaai pe haathh hai
aa aa aa
kalaai pe haathh hai
aa aa aa aa
ye inse baat karne ka jurmaana ho gayaa
ajee jurmaana ho gayaa
aa aa aa aa
ye inse baat karne ka jurmaana ho gayaa
haaye
wo gul khila huzoor ke afsaana ho gayaa
ajee afsaana ho gayaa
jee rehne deejiye
na yoon ulloo banaaaiye
haan aan aan aan
bache hain ham jo yoon
hamen aen aen
unglee thhamaaiye
haan aan aan aan aan aan
ye waada karke saaf mukar jaana ho gayaa
jee mukar jaana ho gayaa
aa aa aa aa
ye waada karke saaf mukar jaana ho gayaa
dekho jee tum jagaao naa
aa aa aa aa
ab mere pahar ho o o
nahin to
geedad kee maut aayee to
bhaaga wo shahar ko
aa aa
ajee bhaaga wo shahar ko
aa aa aa aa aa
ajee bhaaga wo shahar ko
aa aa a
machhar ki zaat dekhiye
parwaana ho gayaa
ajee parwaana ho gayaa
aa aa aa
machchar ki zaat dekhiye
parwaana ho gayaa
machchar hoon main to meree
khataa maaf keejiye
haaye
per mera to abaap hi ee ee
insaaf keejiye
aa aa aa aa
humko qubool aap kaa nazranaa ho gayaa
ajee nazranaa ho gayaa
aa aa aa aa
humko qubool aap kaa nazranaa ho gayaa
sach ho gaya
wo gul khila huzoor ke parwaana ho gayaa
ajee afsaana ho gayaa
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