Sukh aur dukh is duniya mein taqdeer ne baante hain
Posted on: December 5, 2023
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I had discussed in my earlier articles, a couple of lesser-known actors like Shaam Kumar and Keshav Rana, who have worked in a large number of films but mostly remained unidentified for the general film audience. But their faces were known to them even though they may appear in the films in small roles or sidekicks. One of such actors was Kamal Mehra.
The information about Kamal Mehra as to which place he belonged, how did he land in Hindi films and what happened after the end of his filmy career is not available online. From the filmography, I guess he commenced his acting career with Kidar Sharma’s ‘Thes’ (1949) when he was known as Kanwal Mehra. He was mostly seen in producer, F C Mehra’s films in the 1950s. His most active years in the films was during 1950-70. His last film was ‘Jeena Hai Pyaar Mein’ (1983).
I have watched Kamal Mehra in some films without knowing his name. In fact, I used to get confused whether the actor I had watched in the films was Kamal Mehra or Rajan Haksar, another character actor of his time. In the age of internet, now it has become easy to identify the actors online. Kamal Mehra has done varied roles – as a dance master to Shashikala in ‘Chacha Chowdhury (1953), an eccentric film director in ‘Aji Bas Shukriya’ (1958), a circus clown in ‘Shikaari’ (1963), a side kick to Biswajeet in ‘Kismat’ (1968) and in ‘Naami Chor’ (1977), an advocate in ‘Paras’ (1971) etc. All these roles had some comical elements. Most of his 50 odd films he did during his filmy career were ‘B’ grade, mainly comprising genres of action, fantasy and costume dramas.
Kamal Mehra turned producer with ‘Saat Samundar Paar’ (1965) under his own banner, Pride of Asia Films. Next, he produced ‘Kismat’ (1968) which became a box office hit. With ‘Naami Chor’ (1977) he debuted as a director which was his last film as producer and director. The star cast included Biswajit and Leena Chandavarkar in the lead roles supported by Shatrugan Sinha, Dev Kumar, Durga Khote, Raj Mehra, David, Keshto Mukherjee, Lata Sinha, Hiralal, Mirza Musharaff, Manmohan, Brahmachari, Bipin Gupta, Gajanan Jagirdar and Kamal Mehra. It is a ‘masala’ film comprising the main genres of films such as romance, music, dances, comedy, villain, fights etc.
The gist of the film’s story is as under:
The film starts with a flash back mode when in a police station, Raja makes a confessional statement of his crime giving reasons as to why he turned a petty thief and a safe cracker.
Many years back, Raja’s father, Kundanlal (Gajanan Jagirdar) after returning from a long tour, confronts his boss, Dhanpat Rai (Hiralal) for the rape of his sister which led to her suicide. During their scuffle, Dhanpat Rai gets killed. Kundanlal is arrested. The court awards him a life imprisonment, leaving his wife, (Durga Khote) and two children, a boy and a girl to fend for themselves.
In order to avoid stigma from the society, Kundanlal’s wife and two children shift to some other city. Raja becomes a petty thief during his childhood to sustain the family. By the time he is adult, he has been in and out of the jails multiple times. Over a period of time, he becomes an expert in breaking locks and safe. During one of his such releases from the jail, he accidentally meets Leena (Leena Chandavarkar) in a train who is a doctor in a hospital and is a daughter of a judge. They have bickerings from time to time whenever they meet.
After completing life imprisonment, Kundanlal is released. Outside the jail, Vinod (Shatrugan Sinha), posing himself as Raja receives him and take to his flat and his posh office. The reason is that it is a ploy by a crime syndicate Boss (Manmohan) to punish Kundanlal for killing his father, Dhanpat Rai. Vinod tries various tricks to take Raja in his gang so that he also becomes in their control for punishment. But all his attempts fail.
Raja who is already in love with Leena and whose influence on him had led to his giving up crime is about to be engaged to Leena when Police Inspector, Anand (Dev Kumar) who has one sided love with Leena, decides to frame him in safe-cracking crime by creating a situation in the engagement party during which a boy is ‘accidentally’ get locked in a big safe. Raja helps in opening the safe but get arrested by Inspector Anand on the ground that he is the same safe cracker police is looking for. When Raja is being taken to police station, the Boss orders his henchmen to blow up the police jeep. The attempt fails. After a long fight with the Boss and his henchmen and after police intervention, Raja triumphs and get united with his mother, sister and also with Leena.
I found the film to be trash. No wonder, it badly flopped at the box office. After this film, Kamal Mehra did not attempt to produce or direct any film. Biswajeet’s acting career, which was already on a waning phase, did not help him to regain his status of a star-actor.
The film had 5 songs written by Shaadab (3), Sardar Hairat (1) and S H Bihari (1) which were set to music by Kalyanji-Anandji. I am presenting the first song from the film which is played in the background as the film’s titles roll. The song is ‘sukh aur dukh iss duniya mein taqdeer ne baaten hain’ which is rendered by Mukesh. The song is written by Shaadab which sets the theme of the story. The third antara of the song gets played in the background when Gajanan Jagirdar, after his release from the prison, meets his grown-up daughter without both of them being aware of it as such. However, the record version of the song has only two antaras.
It is unfortunate that such a beautiful song was a part of a trash film.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Sukh aur dukh is duniya mein taqdeer ne baante hain (Naami Chor)(1977) Singer-Mukesh, Lyrics-Shadaab, MD-Kalyanji Anandji
Lyrics (based on video clip):
sukh aur dukh iss duniya mein
taqdeer ne baate hain….
ek daaman mein phool bhare hain
ek mein kaaten hain
ho o o o
ek mein kaaten hain…..
jo paapi ka naash kare wo
apraadhi kehlaaye ae
lekin ye taqdeer ka likkha
koi badal na paaye ae
jab ke khud insaaf ka maalik
dekh ke chup rah jaaye
ho o o
sukh aur dukh iss duniya mein
taqdeer ne baate hain aen aen
ek daaman mein phool bhare hain
ek mein kaate hain
rona iska dekh raha hai
tu insaaf ke waali ee
apne lahu se ki thhee jisne
bagiya ki rakhwaalee ee
aag laga di iss duniya ne
jal gayi sab hariyaali
ho o o
sukh aur dukh iss duniya mein
taqdeer ne baate hain aen
ek daaman mein phool bhare hain
ek mein kaaten hain
dharti ka seena phat jaaye
aa jaaye toofaa aan…
toone apne ghar mein ye
insaaf kiya bhagwaan….
inke dil pathar ke nahin hain
ye hain tere insaan
ho o o o
sukh aur dukh iss duniya mein
taqdeer ne baate hain aen
ek daaman mein phool bhare hain
ek mein kaanten hain
4 Responses to "Sukh aur dukh is duniya mein taqdeer ne baante hain"
December 5, 2023 at 1:20 pm
Arun ji,
Thanks for the additional information about the background to his debut film. So, one can guess that Kamal Mehra was from Delhi.
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December 5, 2023 at 8:54 pm
Thanks Sadanand ji for Kamal Mehra post, I always associate him with Manmohan desai, as I have seen him in two manmohan desai films sharaarat(1971) and Kismat(1969) and
I always remember him in Sanjeev Kumar`s Badal(1966) song “Apne liye jiye to kya jeeye, aei dil tu jee zamaane ke liye”
according to one site Kamal Mehra got one son who produced one shelved film “Mit Jayenge Mitne waale” starring Dharmendra, Govinda…..
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December 5, 2023 at 9:42 pm
Probably the producer, Dharam Mehra had to shelve the film “Mit Jaayenge Mitaane Waale’ (1987) after the death of its director, Kamal Mehra.
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December 5, 2023 at 11:24 am
How kamal Mehra got into films ?
One day, when the famous producer- director Kedar Sharma was in Delhi in connection with the premier of one of his pictures, he noticed a smart young man in a queue in front of the booking office of the Odeon cinema.
The film maker was struck by the lad’s personality and signed him up on the spot. Young Kamal Mehra then came to Bombay to star opposite Geeta Bali in Kedar Sharma’s ‘Thes’ -49. Subsequently the young man has featured in several films including Dhoon in which he played the villain. Today he plays comedy roles in most of his pictures. (from Filmi Year Book-1958)
He has worked in 50 films. He directed the film Naami Chor-1977 and produced 3 films. His last film as an actor was Jeena hai pyar mein-1983.
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