Dekhiye aap bahut pyaar na keejiye humse
Posted on: October 19, 2023
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, 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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‘Iraada’ (1971) was produced by A Ghani and Rajdeep under the banner of Life & Arts, Bombay (Mumbai) and was directed by Rajdeep who also acted and wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues. The cast included Shahida, Sarita, Rajdeep, Iftekhar, Murad, Hiralal, P Kailash, Randheer, Kundan, S Nazir, V Gopal, Tun Tun, Shaikh, Rani, Satya Rani, Baby Tasneem, Baby Mahjabeen. The film was a suspense thriller.
I have watched the film on one of the video sharing platforms which is in ‘Black and White’. The film may have taken longer time to complete as by early 1970s, almost all the films were made in colours. Also, in one of the scenes in the film, a film poster of ‘Do Kaliyaan’ (1968) is visible. I have not much understood the story of the film as I feel that the film’s scenes have not been properly placed in sequential order in the VCD of the film. For example, in a scene, the Sheth ji’s Manager tells the police inspector that he has been removed from the job. But after some scenes, which have no link, another scene appears where the same Manager is seen having been fired from his job by Shethji’s daughter. I have tried to make some semblance of the suspense story.
The film starts with Ratan (Rajdeep) making a visit to the house of Seth Laxmidas as he gets a news that Sethji’s life is in danger. However, when he visits his house, he finds Sethji killed. He runs out of his house. Police Inspector (Iftekhar) is assigned to investigate the murder of Sethji. Ratan, on his own, is probing the murder of Sethji by becoming friendly with Sunita (Shahida) which turns into a love affair.
In the meanwhile, Ramayya (S Nazir), a cycle rickshaw fellow, informs the police inspector (Iftekhar) that he has seen a person coming out of Sethji’s house in the night when murder took place. The police are now suspecting that unknown person to be Ratan who was present in the house when the murder took place. He is interrogated but police has no evidence or proof to arrest him. Since he is a suspect, Sunita starts keeping a distant from him. Ratan is now emotionally affected. The only way to gain the confidence of Sunita is to find out the killer of her father. In the meanwhile, Jeevanlal (P Kailash), Sethji’s sacked Manager, gets eliminated by a masked man who is double-crossing Sunita as he was a prospective groom for her with an eye on Sethji’s vast property.
After a lot of investigations and collecting photographic evidences from the family album, Ratan comes to know that the main motive of the killer was to grab the vast property of Sethji by deliberately making Anita (Sarita) as Sunita and Sunita as Anita. Ratan also comes to know that Anita is a foster daughter of Sethji since her parents were supposed to have died in a train accident. Ratan is also on the radar of the killer to eliminate him as he is too much in the know. How Ratan reaches to nab the killer in his den who gets caught by the police while trying to kill Ratan, is the climax of the film. Ratan and Sunita are united.
The film had 4 songs written by Urdu poet, Kafeel Azar whose nazm, ‘baat niklegi to phir door talak jaayegi’ rendered by Jagjit Singh in one of his non-film albums in 1976 facilitated his entry into Hindi films as lyricist. The four songs were set to music by Mohammed Shafi (2) and Vitthal-Mumtaz (2). With a hyphen between Vitthal and Mumtaz, it can be construed that they were music director duo whose name I heard for the first time when “chaman ki jaan ho rangeen ye bahaar ho tum” was covered on the Blog. At that time, I had tried my best to know their background but without success.
After about 7 years, I am again on the work to know about this music director duo after I heard another song from the film a few days back. After watching the film, ‘Iraada’ (1971), I got an impression that the makers of the film may have Hyderabad connection. Incidentally, the story of the film is based in Hyderabad. So, Vithal of Vitthal-Mumtaz duo could be Hyderabad-based Pandit Vitthal Rao, one of the most popular ghazal singers and composers whose rendition of ghazals I had heard in the past. On the basis of the information gathered from the articles written about him, I could not get his name being linked to the Vitthal-Mumtaz music director duo. Also, I did not have any lead as to who Mumtaz was.
Since Pandit Vitthal Rao had died on June 25, 2015, I started looking for tributary statements and articles appearing on the newspapers in around that date. I found that he was already in the news in prominent newspapers prior to his death because he was found missing for more than 3 weeks before his death. Almost none of the newspapers or the personalities who spoke about Pandit Vitthal Rao, ever talked about his connection to films. At last, I found a tributary article written by Dr. Kalpana Sringar, one of the disciples of Pandit Vitthal Rao, which appeared on the ‘Deccan Chronicle’ dated June 27, 2015. In this article, she mentioned his association with two Hindi films. ‘Iraada’ (1971) and ‘Dukh Sukh’ (1974) as composer in addition to some Telugu films. This settled the matter that Vithal of music director duo, Vitthal-Mumtaz was Pandit Vitthal Rao.
Since I had already gathered some material on Pandit Vithal Rao during the course of my research, I give below his profile.
Pandit Vithal Rao Shivpurkar (1929-25/06/2015) was born in Hyderabad in a Marathi speaking family. He started performing as a singer at the age of seven on Nizam’s Deccan Radio. Knowing his interest in singing, his father had put him under the tutelage of Guru Laxman Rao Panchopoti. Later, he was drafted into the Nizam’s Army Band. He was proficient in Urdu, Persian, Hindi and Sanskrit. When he was in his teen, he became a singer in the court of Nizam ruler, Mir Osman Ali Khan in 1943 and thereafter in the court of his son, the last Nizam, Moazzam Jha. He mostly sang ghazals and devotional songs.
After the end of Nizam rule in Hyderabad, Pandit Vithal Rao started giving public concert mostly in around Hyderabad. Soon his name as a ghazal singer spread to other parts of the country and also abroad. But he was not looking his singing career as a profession to exploit commercially. His main aim was to propagate the interest in understanding ghazals among the non-Urdu speaking persons. During his lifetime, Pandit Vithal Rao groomed nearly 150 disciples, but he never demanded any money from them.
Pandit Vithal Rao received offers to migrate to other states, but he never left Hyderabad. His fame even reached Bollywood and he was asked by Naushad and Mohammed Rafi to relocate to Mumbai which he declined as he did not want to leave Hyderabad.
According to one of his disciples, Pandit Vithal Rao had rendered more than 1000 different ghazals, most of them without referring to any book. Dilip Kumar. poets Bashir Badr and Wasim Barelvi, apart from musical fraternity such as Jagjit Singh, Talat Aziz, Anup Jalota held him in high respect. Nargis had once commented that since he was a Marathi, how he can bring nazaaqat (delicacy) in his ghazal singing. But when he sang to her a nazm by Saifuddin Saif, ‘teri ruswaaiyon se darta hoon jab tere shehar se guzarta hoon’, it moved her to tears.
Pandit Vithal Rao breathed his last in very unfortunate circumstances. Sometime in the last week of May 2015, he had visited Shirdi on a pilgrimage along with his family members. However, he was found missing from Shirdi on May 29, 2015, while in the queue for darshan. Apart from the local police, his family members, a few of his admirers and disciples visited Shirdi to trace him but could not find him. Pandit Vithal Rao was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease which caused his temporary memory-lose, making his search difficult. Even Government of Telangana was searching for him who was to be felicitated on June 2, 2015, on the formation of Telangana State. He was also to sing a song for the occasion.
Finally, Pandit Vithal Rao was found unconscious at the Begumpet railway station on June 24, 2015, by a railway personnel who could not identify him. He was admitted to Gandhi Hospital in Hyderabad where he died on June 25, 2015. His unclaimed body was kept at the at the mortuary of Gandhi Hospital where his family members identified him and claimed the body. [Information collected from the various sources including online newspapers, writings of a few of his disciples including a tributary article by Dr Kalpana Sringar which appeared on ‘Deccan Chronical, June 27, 2015].
Pandit Vitthal Rao loved Hyderabad so much that despite suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and resultant memory loss, after about 3 weeks, he made it to reach Begumpet railway station and breath his last in Hyderabad at the age of 86.
Some of Pandit Vitthal Rao’s well-known disciples are Kiran Ahluwalia, a US-based Canadian Indian Ghazal, Punjabi folk singer and fusion musician, Mumbai-based Indira Naik, Sufi and Ghazal singer, and Rahul Sipligunj from Hyderabad who has sang ‘Naatu Naatu’ in RRR (2021). In November 2006, Kiran Ahluwalia presented her Guru, Pandit Vitthal Rao at the Alliance Francoise de Vancouver in which she accompanied her Guru for his vocal concerts in Vancouver.
The song which led me to Pandit Vitthal Rao is ‘dekhiye aap bahut pyaar na keeje hamse’ from the film, ‘Iraada’ (1971) rendered by Delphin and Suresh Rajvanshi. I have never heard the name of Delphin as a playback singer. Probably, this one is the only song she has rendered for a Hindi film. The song is written by Kafeel Azar which is set to music by Vitthal-Mumtaz. The song is picturised on Rajdeep and Shahida. Mandolin has been prominently used in the orchestration of the song.
The soundtrack of the song in the film has only two antaras while the audio clip of the song has an additional antara.
The first line of the song reminds me of a line ‘dekhiye app ne phir pyaar se dekha mujhko’ in the song, phir na keeje meri gustaakh nigaahi ka gilaa from ‘Phir Subah Hogi’ (1957). Incidentally, I find that both the songs have been written in the same metre.
Audio Clip:
Song-Dekhiye aap bahut pyaar ka keejiye humse (Iraada)(1971) Singers-Delphin, Suresh Rajvanshi, Lyrics-Kafeel Azar, Md-Vitthal Mumtaz
Lyrics (based on audio clip):
dekhiye aap bahut pyaar na keejiye hamse
dekhiye aap bahut pyaar na keejiye hamse
maan bhi jaaiye
maan bhi jaaiye inkaar na keeje hamse
maan bhi jaaiye
hum mohabbat mein tadapne ki sajaayen denge
hum tadap kar bhi mohabbat ko duaayen denge
baat badh jaayegi israar na keejiye hamse
maan bhi jaaiye
maan bhi jaaiye inkaar na keeje hamse
maan bhi jaaiye
hum abhi aapse jeene ki adaa seekhenge
hum sahaara hi nahin denge to kya seekhenge
ye ? abhi sarkar na keeje hamse
dekhiye aap
dekhiye aap bahut pyaar na keejiye hamse
dekhiye aap
ham kisi aur ke daaman se lipat jaayenge
ham ko manzoor hai hum raah se hat jaayenge
aise jazbaat ka izhaar na keejiye hamse
maan bhi jaaiye
maan bhi jaaiye inkaar na keeje hamse
dekhiye aap bahut pyaar na keejiye hamse
maan bhi jaaiye
maan bhi jaaiye
maan bhi jaaiye
maan bhi jaaiye
5 Responses to "Dekhiye aap bahut pyaar na keejiye humse"
October 19, 2023 at 5:47 pm
Thanks Sadanand ji
a lot for introducing the rare song, rare movie and thanks for informing about the music directors,…..
I remember Kafeez Azar` name as lyricist in some Horror films like Samri, Tahkhana, Band Darwaza etc…
and also remember his lyrics of (Lata/Laxmipyare combination) “Dooree na rahe koi aaj itnaa kareeeb aao” written by Kafeel Azar(Kartavya 1979)picturised on Rekha,which is one of my favorite Lata solo composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal, (already posted in the blog, but in our blog it was wrongly mentioned as that song was written by Varma malik)
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October 19, 2023 at 7:05 pm
Prakashchandra ji,
Thanks.
As per SAREGAMA website also, the song ‘doori na rahe koi….’ has been accredited to Kafeel Azar.
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October 19, 2023 at 7:21 pm
Yes Vinyl image of the film also mentions his name, so the correction about that particular post is required, thanks for writing back to me Sadanand ji
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
October 19, 2023 at 9:51 am
Sadanand Ji,
Hats off to you for the following
1. Stumbling into hardly heard/noticed films, not available in popular platforms, & watching it even when the reels are mixed up with loss of continuity ,and being unable to pick up threads of the plot
2. Noticing talented people ( Read Vittal Rao) and compiling all possible details from umpteen sources.
Thanks for the painstaking efforts and the post.
Listening to todays song reminded me of ‘Dekhiye aapne phir pyar se dekha mujko..” from ‘Phir subha hogi’
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October 19, 2023 at 10:24 am
Satish ji,
Thanks for your profuse appreciation.
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