Jaam uthhaa le peene waale
Posted on: September 2, 2023
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Today’s song is from the film Aaj aur Kal (1947).
This was actually an unique film having an unusual storyline in which was shown a City Of Future i.e. a city of the year 2047 ! Hindi film industry is not known to make films based on scientific or science fiction stories. 99.99 % filmmakers did not dare make such films for fear of losing money if the film fails. However, its not that such films were not made at all, but their number would not fill even the number of fingers on both hands !
As far as I remember offhand, there was a film ” Wahan” made by Prabhat Films in 1937, in which the story was set on another planet. The only novelty was some imaginary scenes and dresses/costumes of another planet, otherwise the story was the usual Love triangle and such things. Then there was the film ” Khwab ki duniya”-(1937), which was based on the famous novel ” The invisible Man ” by H.G.Wells. (Much later a film on this story was made as “Mr. X “(1957) and a spoof of this story as ” Mr. X in Bombay”(1964) ). In 1938, a film called “Professor Waman, M.Sc.” was based on a scientist doing some research roughly like ” Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”.
During the late 50’s and early 60’s, I used to be a fan of films made by Republic Serial from Hollywood, which were shown as a Morning Show on Friday, Saturday and Sundays. I do remember having seen at least 2 films which had stories of space travel and life on other Planets, showing aliens etc. The films were ” The Forbidden Planet” and ” Trip to the Moon”.
The only film made in Hindi, so far as my Knowledge goes, which actually showed Space travel and landing on the Moon was ” Trip to Moon” aka ” चांद पर चढाई “, made in 1967 by a Madras based filmmaker. By coincidence, just 2 years later, in 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong actually stepped on the Moon. Surprisingly wrestler Dara Sing did the role of an Astronaut in this film. Recently on 23rd August 2023, Dara Singh’s son Vindu, wrote in his memoirs about this film in an E Times issue. One can see Dara Singh’s photo in Astronaut’s suit in this article. The film is not available as far as I know. If it is available, the readers are requested to inform me please. Although this film had an unusual story, its timing was unfortunately not right. 1947 was an year of turmoil in India.
In olden days, there were 3 major film centres-Bombvay, Lahore and Calcutta. After 1947, all the Hindi film activity at Lahore shifted to Bombay. By mid 50’s even Calcutta almost stopped making Hindi films. Many Hindi speaking artistes in various disciplines of film making shifted to Bombay and finally Bombay became the only and the main Hindi film making Centre.
The year 1947 is a reminder not only for the Independence of India, but also for the upheaval that took place in the film industry that time. More than in any other industry in India, Muslims were plentiful, working in different sections and departments of the Hindi film industry. majority of them migrated to the newly formed Muslim Nation of Pakistan. This did create a lot of disturbance in the film industry. Right from the beginning of 1947, there were signs that soon the British would leave India – after dividing it into two Nations, India and Pakistan. When the month and date became known for the Partition, there was a great hurry among the filmmakers to complete their projects on hand and in process, compromising many factors like quality of the film, number of songs and such other things.
This resulted in the record number of films made in 1947 alone – 181 Hindi films and about 100 films in other languages in India. This was a record which remained unbroken till 1985, when 187 Hindi films were made. Thus from 1931 to 1985, this record remained unbroken for more than 50 years ! Obviously, this resulted in a big compromise on quality to achieve quantity with many films produced half heartedly. Most or rather many films made in 1947 remained obscure, unheard of and many flopped due to poor quality. Actually only few films were released in 1947, because many films were released in 1948 and 1949, with some films being released in Pakistan too.
Did you ever hear about films Amar Asha, Angoorbala, Attention, Barrister, But Tarash, Chalte Chalte, Chandrahas, Dagabaz Dost, Dehati,Ek kadam,Gaurav,Giribala, Heera, Intezar ke baad, Jhalak,Jurmana, Khaufnak aankhen, Lalaat, Mangalsutra, Moti, Sewa gram, Stage girl, Tohfa or Utho jago ? Of course not all films were below standards. Some of the landmark films were also made in 1947, like Shehnai, Mirza Sahiban, Jugnu, Saajan, Naatak, Meera, Elan,Aap ki sewa mein, Dard, Do Bhai, Neel Kamal or Parwana etc. However by and large the picture was like this only.
When I decided on a song from this film Aaj aur kal (1947), I was keen to know the details of the film like the producer, the story etc. For many days, I tried all possible sources but I could not get any information. The HFGK gave only the usual details without even the names of the Lyricists. My urge for getting the storyline was so strong that finally I decided to do what I had never done to get the story of a film.
I wrote directly to Shri Harmandir Singh Hamraz ji and requested him to send me the photos of the film booklet if he has it. To my joy, within an hour’s time he sent me the film booklet’s photos on my WA number. How nice of him ! I sincerely thank him for his prompt action and help rendered to me.
As per the film booklet, the film was produced by Dewan Khushi Ram and the Banner was Chitra productions, Lahore. Story, screenplay and dialogues were by the Director Khwaja Ahmed Abbas himself. The Music Director was Khwaja Khurshid Anwar and lyrics were by Zahir Kashmiri and Sohanlal Sahir. The film was shot at Pancholi and Shorey studios in Lahore. The cast was Nayantara ( a Heroine borrowed from Rajkamal of V.Shantaram, as per the film booklet), Shyam, Nita, Rashid Ahmed (Rasheed Khan) Arif and others. The story, in short, as per the booklet was….
A poet, a millionaire, his servant, a priest, a society lady, a mysterious foreigner-JohnPardesi and Ram Mohan-a well dressed gentleman thief, crew of 2 pilots and Air Hostess Lily travel to Calcutta in a plane. On the way, they get into a storm and their plane lands, mysteriously, inthe future India of 2047 !
In this country all those who do labour, get all good things and indolent parasites starve. Even the Millionaire and the society lady are made to work here. Ram Mohan, seeing all this, gets converted to fruitful labour. He is helped by Bharti – a local Doctor general. They fall in love. However, the council of New India forbids Bharti to marry Ram, due to his past.
Meanwhile John Pardesi with the help of the Sonachand, the millionaire tries the ” wine, women and songs” formula with the people to enslave them Ram warns Bharti and others but they ignore. Lily, who also loves Ram, warns him about their plan to kill him, but he does not believe her. She steals a secret document as a proof, but she is killed.
John tries to kill Ram by firing bullets at close range, but he is not killed as he is armed with Non Violence and Truth (Gandhi Formula), in this city. John and Sonachand are arrested and sent back to the old world and Ram is allowed to marry Bharti.But Ram decides to go back to the old world so that he can protect his world against people like John and Sonachand. He promises Bharti to come back in future and marry her, when his work in old world is over. The End.
The Music Director K.K.Anwar was a respected composer in India and Pakistan. Today we will talk about a Giant among the Pakistan film industry, post Partition- KHAWAJA KHURSHID ANWAR ji. He is probably the only composer on whom plenty of information is available here and in Pakistan. One of the major sources of his information is Dr.Surjit Singh ji’s site and the other is Cineplot. Additionally, there are many Pakistani sites and Blogs where information is available on him.
Khwaja Khurshid Anwar (21 March 1912 – 30 October 1984) was a filmmaker, writer, director and music composer who gained extreme popularity both in India and Pakistan. He is widely credited as being one of the most original and inventive music directors of his generation.
Khwaja Khurshid Anwar was born into a Kashmiri family on 21 March 1912 in Mianwali (now in Pakistan) where his maternal grandfather Khan Bahadur Dr.Sheikh Atta Mohammad (who’s daughter married philosopher-poet Muhammad Iqbal, to whom he was thus a nephew) held the post of civil surgeon. His father Khawaja Ferozuddin Ahmad was a well-known Barrister settled in Lahore. The ace jurist had a love for music so much so that he had a huge collection of gramophone records of Indian classical and neo-classical music and his precocious son had an unhindered access to them all. Moreover, in the weekly soirees of music which were held in the lawyer’s house, renowned masters used to perform, and it was here that the young Khurshid Anwar developed a taste for classical music. Viewing Khrshid Anwar’s keen interest, Khansahib Tawakkal Hussain took him under his tutelage in 1934.
Khurshid Anwar was also a brilliant student at Government College, Lahore, the renowned seat of learning. Having topped in the Masters in Philosophy (1935), he appeared in the examination for Indian Civil Service (ICS) but due to his political and anti-Raj activities, the colonial masters would not let him share power. Interestingly, he had also absented himself from the prize-distribution ceremony of the Punjab University held to honour the students with distinctions. When his name was called to receive the Gold Medal in Philosophy, nobody turned up. The British Chancellor of the University who was awarding medals remarked that the student having forgotten to receive the medal is a true philosopher. Actually,he was busy listening to music in his home.
In 1939 Khurshid Anwar joined All-India Radio, Delhi as Programme Producer/Music. It was from here that he acceded to the requests of A.R. Kardar, the renowned film producer, to join Bombay filmdom as Music director. He made his debut as a music director in Kardar’s Punjabi venture “Kudmai” (1941]. His first Hindi film was “Ishara”(1943]. The film gained much popularity from its songs which included “Panghat pe muraliya baje” by Suraiya, “Shabnam kyon neer bahaye” by Gauhar Sultana, and “Dil deke dagha nahin dena” by Vatsala Kumathekar. Some of his other Hindi films were Parakh (1944, with Saraswati Devi), Yateem (1945, with K. Dutta), Aaj Aur Kal (1947), Pagdandi(1947), and Parwaana(1947) which was the last movie in which K. L. Saigal acted and sang. For “Singaar” (1949) he got the Clare Award for Best Music Director. His later films “Nishaana” (1950) and “Neelam Pari” (1952) added new feathers to his cap. He remained an inspiration to many later day music directors in both India and Pakistan. For many years, Roshan was a disciple of his, as was Shankar of Shankar Jaikishan. He was regularly praised by his contemporary Naushad Ali, who considered him to be one of the finest composers in the subcontinent.In one of the interviews,however,he said that Naushad’s knowledge of Classical music was not good,but he manged to churn out melodious songs.
Khurshid Anwar migrated to Pakistan in 1952. It was in fact his arrival in a newly independent land where the nation was in search of its expressions in arts especially in music. And it was here in 1956 that Khurshid Anwar gave Pakistani film music its identity through his magnum opus “Intezar”. The film also gave a new lease of life to Noor Jehan, his lead singer for the years to come. After, “Intezar”, Khurshid Anwar continued with his stylistic creations in films such as, Mirza Sahiban (1956), Zehre Ishq (1958), Jhoomer (1959), Koel(1959), Ayyaz (1961), Ghunghat (1962), Haveli (1964) Chingari (1964), Sarhad (1966), Hamraz (1967), Guddo (1970),Heer Ranjha (1970), Salam E Mohabat (1971), Parai Aag(1971), Shireen Farhad (1975), Haider Ali (1979) and Mirza Jat (1982).
Khurshid Anwar died on 30 October 1984 in Lahore after a protracted illness. In recognition of his contribution in enrichment film music, the Bombay film industry awarded him the coveted Mortal-Men-Immortal-melodies Award (1982). Great Urdu poet of the 20th century, Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a lifelong friend of Khurshid Anwar. During an interview, in reply to a query of Anwar Maqsood, Faiz acknowledged that he was inspired by Khurshid Anwar.
He has also been praised for his efforts to keep Classical music alive not only through his compositions but also through his unique collection of classical Music performances recorded by EMI Pakistan, known as Aahang-e-Khusravi in two parts(1978). Raag Mala has ten volumes including 90 Raags in ten Thaats. Each Raga has a short introduction in the voice of Khurshid Anwar explaining the characteristics of the Raag followed by its audio performance by renowned Classical singers of Pakistan. The second part of Aahang-e-Khusravi is Gharon Ki Gayaki in 20 volumes which consists of audio recording of representatives of the main Gharanas of Classical singers in Pakistan. In recognition of his services for the cause of music, he was awarded the coveted ‘Sitara-e-Imtiaz’ by the Government of Pakistan in 1980.
He got Nigar awards 3 times. He also got the President’s award for Best Music and Best story for the film Intezar-56. Film Intezaar-56 was released on 12-5-1956 at Lahore.It was produced by Sultan Jilani and directed by Masood Parvaiz.Thecast consisted of Noorjehan,Santosh kumar ( real name Syed Moosa Raza ),Asha Posley and others. Film Intezar was so famous and a Hit film that in India,Dilip Kumar,K.Asif and financer Seth Palan ji wanted to release the film in India. The south Giant producer S S Wasan of Gemini studios contacted him and asked for the rights of the film and enquired how much will be his fees. Khursheed Anwar replied that his works are open for all those who will join him in the crusade against vulgar music. He said there will be no fees and the film was remade in Tamil subsequently.
He had great respect for S.D.Burman, followed by Salil Chaudhari for their musical genius in India.
He made one Punjabi and 9 Hindi films in India and 18 films in Pakistan. As a producer and also writer he made 6 films and directed 3 films in Pakistan. In India, he has composed 72 songs, but not even onesong is by Lata Mangeshkar. He used Geeta, Asha etc, but not Lata. There was a story circulating that Lata was called for rehearsals for a song composed for film Neelampari-52. She came but did not wait for the composer to come after hearing that the composer can neither sing nor play a single instrument ! In an interview, on asking about this, his brother Khawaja Sultan Ahmed ji said that it was not true. She was tied up with HMV for consecutive 5 days for recording and so could not come for rehearsals. He also said that Khurshid Anwar ji could sing well and played instruments too.
Today’s song is sung by Naseem Akhtar and chorus. The song is written by Zahir Kashmiri as per the film booklet.
Song-Jaam uthha le peene waale (Aaj Aur Kal)(1947) Singer-Naseem Akhtar, Lyricist-Zahir Kashmiri, MD-Khursheed Anwar
Naseem Akhtar + chorus
Lyrics
jaam uthha le peene waale
o peene waale
jaam uthha le o
jaam uthha le o
rut hai suhaani aayi
peene ka sandesa layi
pee matwaale
jaam uthha le oy
jaam uthha le o
kyun kal pe aas lagaaye
yoonhi murjhaaye
samaa hai suhaana
dil seene mein machla jaaye
jawaani lehraaye uthha paimaana
rut hai suhaani aayi
peene ka sandesa layi
aish manaale
jaam uthha le o
jaam uthha le o
jaam uthha le peene waale
o peene waale
jaam uthha le oy
jaam uthha le o
jab bichhad ke jee ghabraaye
ae ae
jab bichhad ke jee ghabraaye
koi yaad aaye to kya gham khaana
aa man ki lagi bujhaayen
aen aen
aa man ki lagi bujhaaye
suraahi chhalkaayen
chale paimaana
rut hai suhaani aayi
peene ka sandesha laayi
pee matwaale jaam uthha le o
jaam uthha le o
jaam uthha le peene waale
o peene waale
jaam uthha le oy
jaam uthha le o
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