Duniya mein rahaa aaj nahin koi hamaaraa
Posted on: November 5, 2023
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Today’s song is from a social film Dolti Naiya-1950.
The film had a record 8 Lyricists writing 10 songs, sung by 8 singers. The cast of the film was Nigar Sultana, Shyama Dulari, Amarnath, S.Mazhar, Bhudo Advani and many others, including 3 Mirzas, namely Sharif Mirza, Agha Mirza and Mirza Musharraf.
Everyone who is working or doing a business has ambitions. A simple clerk wants to become a Manager, a Manager wants to become General Manager etc. Similarly a shop owner wants to increase his business so that he can have a chain of shops. This is a very commonly found human quality. Nothing wrong with it. I started my career as a Medical Representative with the Multinational Glaxo Laboratories of U.K. and ambitious as I was, I went on climbing the steps and became company’s General Manager, then a Management Consultant and presently a Director in a couple of Companies.
Film industry was not an exception. Everybody who joined was eager to do a better job. Actors wanted to become Heroes. Heroes wanted to become Directors. There are quite a few examples like Master Vithal, M.Kumar, Shahu Modak, Prem Adib etc who became directors. Fatima Begum from old times and Hema Malini from recent times also directed films. Among all these the No.1 goes to actor Dev Anand for directing 19 films. He had, of course, had the quantity but the quality can not be vouched.
Many comedians too directed films, like Mehmood, I.S.Johar, Radhakishen, Asrani, Deven Verma, Kishore kumar etc. Guru Dutt became an actor and a director from being just a Choreographer, while singer Uma Devi became Tun Tun, a Comedienne. The ways of the film industry are strange indeed !
One of the old time comedians Mirza Musharraf also had harboured a desire to become a Director. With today’s film, his desire was fulfilled for once. This was his first and the last film as a Director. The name of MIRZA MUSHARRAF AGHA may not ring any bells in the newer generation, as he was a comedian in the 30s and 40s-till the late 60s.
During the 30s and 40s there were quite a few real comedians, who regaled the audiences with their humour. Comedians like V.H.Desai, Ghory and Dikshit (the jodi like Laurel and Hardy),Mirza Musharraf, Bhudo Advani, Noor Mohammad Charlie, Yakub (he had travelled to 15 countries including UK and USA,before joining films) and Gope, Fatty prasad and Durga Mota were much in demand for comic roles in the films. With the times, one by one, all went behind the curtains, giving way to newer set of comedians like Bhagwan, Sunder, Radhakishen, Mukri, I.S.Johar, Majnu,etc. Nowadays, of course, Comedians have disappeared from films, because almost everyone in a film does Comedy, these days.
Somewhere in 2013, when I interviewed the son of comedian Bhudo Advani in Mumbai, he told me that his family and Mirza Musharraf’s family were very close. I naturally asked him if there are any close relatives of Musharraf that he knows of, so that I could contact them and try to get an interview. To my good luck he told me that Mirza’s daughter stays in our area of Andheri only and also gave me her address. Next Sunday I searched for that address and met the son in law of Mirza Musharraf. I explained to him my purpose for the visit that I wanted to interview Mirza’s daughter. However he clearly told me that it was not possible as Muslim married women do not talk with strangers. He further said that if I was keen he could give me the interview, but he demanded a heavy amount of money for that. I was disappointed, as any amount of my statements that I do not earn money from these interviews, he was not convinced and was adamant about money. Finally I returned from there empty handed and disillusioned. Then I collated information on Mirza Musharraf from various other credible sources.
Mirza Musharraf was born in a sophisticated educated family, on 12-6-1912, at Shujabad-Punjab. His father was an inspector of Police and claimed to be a scion of the Royal Mughal family. He matriculated from Lahore in 1930. He was keen on becoming a Journalist, so he worked in Daily Zamindar, Tariq and Shahid. He was a Nationalist, joined Congress and became Secretary of Lahore Congress committee. He was imprisoned but father got him released. He decided to change profession to films.
He got a small role of a party guest in the film ” Qazak ki beti-37′, which was being made by one of his acquaintances in Lahore. His second film was Prem Yatra-37. These were uncredited and insignificant roles, but they gave his clever mind a good idea of film line and acting.
A R Kardar who was into films was known to him in Lahore. Kardar took Mirza to Calcutta. There he acted in the film Milap-37. The Hero was Gul Hamid, who died in between and was replaced by Prithviraj Kapoor. Mirza also acted in the film Mandir-37. When Kardar shifted to Bombay, he too shifted.
He was very fond of writing Lyrics. He came to Bombay to write film songs and was employed by General films. Those days educated persons were eagerly employed by film studios. He first wrote Lyrics for A.R.Kardar’s film “Baghban”-1938. This was the film in which K N Singh did his first role as a villain. In this period, Mirza got married also.
During shootings Kardar required an artist and Mirza was called to fill up the slot, as per the studio norms. Mirza had no dialogues, but he exhibited excellent use of facial expressions and comic timing. This actually killed his dream of becoming a lyrics writer, because after that he was made a comedian and got several films. As a comedian,Mirza worked from 1938 to 1972,working in over 400 films. His last film was Roop tera Mastana-1972, where he was credited. Later he made appearances in films like Pathar se takkar-80 and Anjaam khuda jaane-89 uncredited.
When he was at the peak of his career, a happy producer gave his Bungalow at Versova free to him for living. Though Versova was then quite far off and sparsely populated, Mirza lived there like a king. The marriages of both of his daughters took place there.
Mr. Sanjit Narwekar-the famous Film historian/journalist writes in his book, “The story of Hindi Film comedy “,about Mirza. His specialty was interspersing his Hindi dialogues with English words-quite a curiosity in the pre-independence days. He was almost a permanent with V.M.Vyas and played cameo roles in a fairly long career. According to Saadat Hasan Manto in his book, stars of another sky -whichever film he acted, he used to be the darling of the Heroes.He was particularly liked by Kardar, K.Asif and Rafiq Gaznavi. In many films Mirza lip synched songs,but only in ONE film,he got to sing himself. That was the film Gharib ka laal-1939, in a duet and a solo. He also sung a few lines in the films Piya Milan-45 and CAPTAIN KISHORE-1957. He sang along with Mohd.Rafi and Tun Tun.
In one of the interviews Mirza gave to magazine Shama, in August 1981, he described some of his experiences in the film world. This interview is a part of the book ” Ye un dinon ki baat hai” written by my friend Yasir Abbasi. Here are a few of his stories. In Bombay, he got to know Nazir-actor, director, producer and owner of Hind Pictures studios, and his nephew K.Asif (Mughal-E-Azam fame). Asif did not work, so Nazir opened a Tailor’s shop for him, but still he did nothing. His interests were different.
Mirza also came closer to director S M Yousuf. Mirza was present in his marriage to actress Nigar Sultana. Mirza describes how K.Asif eloped with Nazir’s wife and his Mami(aunt) Sitara Devi. Asif later married Yousuf’s wife Nigar Sultana also. Still later Asif married Dilip kumar’s sister too. Asif was notorious in such matters.
Mirza knew Mohd. Rafi since Lahore days. When Rafi came to Bombay, Mirza introduced Rafi to many film people. Mirza claims that Rafi’s first Hindi recorded song was from the film Kul Kalank-45, ” Topiwale Babu'[ a duet with Amirbai karnataki. This song was shot on Mirza and Amirbai on screen. Rafi, it seems, got Rs. 75 for this song. Mirza acted in the film Grihasti-48, which became a Hit film, running for 105 weeks in Bombay. In a public poll, Mirza got a second prize for acting in this film (first was Yaqub) and he got a Gold medal of 3 Tolas. In his difficult days, Mirza sold it, he says.
There are many more anecdotes he describes, but maybe some other time. Mirza Musharraf died in 1991.
In this film, there is an actress called Shyama Dulari. During this period there were few other actresses having the name Shyama. This caused a “Same Name Confusion” about their Filmographies. Here is some information about this Shyama (Shama) Dulari. Not much is known about her personal life. Shyama Dulari hailed from a small city of Madhya Pradesh. She was interested in acting and had acted in school and college dramas. After education, she came to Bombay and appeared for a screen test and interview at Filmistan. She passed the test, but did not like the salary that was offered.
She went to Poona and met W.Z. Ahmed of Shalimar Pictures. He was quite impressed with her and signed an exclusive contract for 3 years, offering her a very lucrative salary. However in the next two years she acted only in two films – Meerabai-1947 and Shehzadi-47. Due to the contract, she could not work anywhere else also. After 1947, when Ahmed migrated to Pakistan along with Neena, she came to Bombay. Jayant Desai signed her for the lead role in the film Lakhpati. Unfortunately, due to her father’s illness, she had to leave Bombay and go back to her native city in M.P.
She came back and tried to get work. She worked in films like Rangeela Rajasthan-1949, Shair-49,Roshni-49,Rooplekha-49, Nakli Baap-49, Jal Tarang-49, Ek Teri Nishani-49, Char Din and Dolti naiya-1950. Her last known film was Babul-50 wherein she did a small role.
No information after that. Problem was that at the same time the famous actresses Shyama (Khurshid Akhtar) and Shyama Dulari were in the film line. Shyama initially was acting under the names like Baby Akhtar, Baby Khurshid and Baby Shyama; whereas Shama Dulari was credited as Shama, Shama Dulari and sometimes Shyama also. I listed films in Shyama’s name and tried to see the credits of films which were available. Though very few films are available on You Tube, I tried to separate the films for Shama Dulari based on her credits and by conjuncture. Still there could be some errors, which will be corrected when proof comes up suitably.
The story of this film is not known. One of the singers of this film is ‘Nargis’. She is not that famous Nargis from RK films. This Nargis was the first wife of Music Director Nashaad aka Shaukat Ali, Shaukat Dehalavi, Shaukat Hussain and Shaukat Hussain Haidari.
Today’s song is sung by Rajkumari Dubey.
Song-Duniya mein raha aaj nahin koi hamaara (Dolti Naiyya)(1950) Singer- Rajkumari, Lyricist- Prakash B.A., MD- Ram Prasad
Lyrics
Duniya mein rahaa aaj nahin koi hamaaraa aa aa
koi hamaaraa
deta nahin mujhko to sahaaraa bhi sahaaraa
sahaaraa bhi sahaaraa
armnaanon ki ik chhoti si basti ujad gayee
ban’ne se pahle haaye ye qismat bigad gayee
bigdee huyee taqdeer ko kisne hai sanwaaraa
kisne hai sanwaaraa
toofaan mein naiyya ko to har koi bachaa le ae
haan naiyya mein ho toofaan to o
phir kaun sambhaaley
parwaah nahin doobe ya mil jaaye kinaaraa
mil jaaye kinaaraa
deta nahin mujhko to sahaaraa bhi sahaaraa
sahaaraa bhi sahaaraa
aahen meree gairon ki hansee baun ke rah gayee
aankhen meree bewaqt ki baaarish se bah gayee
chamke baghair kho gaya ummeed ka taaraa
ummeed ka taaraa
duniya mein rahaa aaj nahin koi hamaaraa aa aa
koi hamaaraa
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November 9, 2023 at 7:02 pm
Thanks Arun ji for the post packed with rare informations….
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November 11, 2023 at 10:44 pm
Thanks, Prakash ji.
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