Jeene ki ek adaa hai
Posted on: December 12, 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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‘Film Hi Film’ (1983), was produced by Shahab Ahmed and was directed by Hiren Nag. The film starred Pran in a role of a film producer with Seema Deo as his wife and Ramesh Deo as his Secretary. Rest of the cast consisted of Raj Kishor, Birbal, Mohan Choti, Pandit Iqbal, Mulchand, and the new faces, Furqan, Bipin, Sonia and Beena. The screenplay and dialogues were written by Kamaleshwar. It was a novel idea to incorporate scenes and songs from some of the incomplete/shelved films of 1950s, 60s and 70s into the story of the film.
The film is about an old-time filmmaker, Seth Gyanchand Shah (Pran), one of the top film producers, who has now become a pauper. He recalls his golden days of film making while giving an interview for a documentary film for which he gets a fee of Rs.50000/-. With this money in hand, he is tempted to make a new beginning as a film producer by taking new faces and training them for acting in the film. How he faces the enormous problems of arranging finance, overcomes other obstacles to complete and release the film is the essence of the story.
Shahab Ahmed who had earlier produced ‘Cinema Cinema’ (1979) was on a visit to Bombay Film Laboratory. He found to his dismay that there were umpteen cans of incomplete films lying there. Such films included those made by film directors like Ramesh Saigal, (‘Sikhwa’, 1954), Vinod Kumar (‘Ye Basti Ye Log’ – 1958), Manibhai Vyas (‘Reporter’ – 1960), R S Tara, (‘Picnic’ – 1960), Nandlal Jaswantlal (‘Behrupia’- 1964), K Asif, (‘Sasta Khoon Mehnga Paani’-1964), Kishore Sahu (‘Naya Mandir’-1961 and ‘Jahaan Miley Dharti Aakaash’-1962), Raj Khosla. (‘Saajan Ki Galiyaan’ – 1968), Surendra Mohan (‘Khuda Gawaah’-1970), ‘Kailash Kapoor (‘Ek Thhi Chaadar Ek Thhi Sudha’ – 1970) and many more. There were more than 2000 incomplete films lying in the laboratory. Shahab Ahmed thought that why should film audience be deprived of such abandoned films for which producers and artists had made enormous efforts. So, he came with the idea of incorporating scenes and songs from a few select such films to make a full-length feature film. Thus, the idea of making ‘Film Hi Film’ (1983) was born. [Source: ‘…..and Pran’ by Bunny Rueben (2005)].
The gist of the story of the film is as under:
Seth Gyanchand Shah (Pran) has been a successful filmmaker for over 3 decades. However, for the film under production, he is short of finance to commence the film’s last schedule of shooting. He goes to his co-producer, Jamnadas requesting him to contribute his share of finance for the film. He shows his inability to pay his share of money under the pretext that his funds are locked in other business.
Savitri (Seema Deo), who is already disgusted with her husband’s filmmaking business, refuses to take money from her wealthy father to finance the film. Instead, she leaves the house and shifts to her parental house. Caught in a bind, Gyanchand sells his house and the car and borrow money against promissory notes to complete the film. After the release of the film, Gyanchand is financially broke. His cheques bounce. His creditors file a criminal case against him for cheating and is awarded imprisonment of 5 years.
After the release from the jail, Gyanchand lives alone in a hutment. One day, a documentary film maker who is planning a film on Gyanchand visits him with his team to interview him. At first, he refuses to give interview but agrees after he is told that his experience in the filmmaking of over 3 decades would be helpful to the new generation of film makers. He starts with his first experience of visiting a film’s shooting in a studio. As he talks about his experiences, the scenes and songs from a few unreleased films appear on the screen as supplements to his talks.
At the end of the interview, Gyanchand is paid Rs.50000/- as his honorarium. Gyanchand is happy and he immediately thinks of making a new film. But making a film with this sum is not going to be easy. Some of the artists and crew who had earlier worked with him in his good days volunteer to work for him free. He selects 4 new actors to whom he imparts training in acting and dialogue delivery. He promises all of them that if the film is successful, he would pay them. Savitri, who comes to know about her husband’s new film from a film magazine, visits him and gives all her jewelleries for raising finance for the film by saying that ‘agar film tumhaari zindagi hai to tum meri zindagi ho’.
Gyanchand completes the film. However, no distributor is willing to even watch the film leave alone the distribution on the ground that the audience would not like his old style of film making. Frustrated by his inability to get the film released, Gyanchand comes home, and he is about the destroy the film’s negatives when all his actors prevent him from doing so. At that moment, Jamnadas, his former co-producer visits him and volunteers to distribute his film as a penance for not financially helping him earlier. The film gets released and receives good response from the audience during which his wife, Savitri joins him in celebrations.
I had watched this film some year back and I had liked it. In fact, at that time, I felt sympathetic to the character played by Pran who has given a good performance. However, when I watched once again on a video sharing platform, I felt that a good subject with a novelty of using clips from some unreleased films have been attempted with an amateurish way by the director and probably the editor as well.
‘Film Hi Film’ (1983) had 11 songs of which 9 songs were incorporated in the film from unreleased films. Only 2 songs were recorded for the film afresh which were written by Indeevar and set to music by Bappi Lahiri. Of the 9 songs from unreleased films, 3 songs have been already covered on the Blog under the films’ original titles.
I am presenting the first of the two songs specifically recorded for the film, ‘jeene ki ek adaa hai humko to ek nasha hai’ rendered by Kishore Kumar. The song appears in the film when shooting of dance song is going on in the presence of film’s producer, Seth Gyanchand Shah (Pran) and his Secreatary, Girdhari (Ramesh Deo). The last stanza of the song is repeated twice in the film in the background – once when Pran is signing promissory notes, selling his bungalow and car etc to borrow funds to finance the film and the second time when he gets 5 years imprisonment and is in the jail.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Jeene ki ek adaa hai (Film Hi Film)(1983) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Indeewar, MD-Bappi Lahiri
Chorus
Lyrics (based on video clip):
Scene 1
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tu ru ru
tu ru ru ru ru…
tu ru ru
tu ru ru ru ru…
tu ru ru
tu ru ru ru ru…
tu ru ru
tu ru ru ru ru…
jeene ki ek adaa hai
humko to ek nashaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
jiske liye jeena hai
jiske liye marnaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
jeene ki ek adaa hai
humko to ek nashaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
ye hi haqeeqat ye hi sapnaa
yahi manzil yahi rastaa apnaa
ye hi haqeeqat ye hi sapnaa
yahi manzil yahi rastaa apnaa
aankhon mein jo.. phirtaa hai
dil par jo likhaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
jeene ki ek adaa hai
humko to ek nashaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
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Scene-2
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ek ek deepak bujhte dekhaa
humne khud ko bikte dekhaa
ek ek deepak bujhte dekhaa
humne khud ko bikte dekhaa
honthh hanse dil royaa hai
kho ke jise na khoyaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
jeene ki ek adaa hai
humko to ek nashaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
film hi film
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Scene-3
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ek ek deepak bujhte dekhaa
humne khud ko bikte dekhaa
ek ek deepak bujhte dekhaa
humne khud ko bikte dekhaa
honthh hanse dil royaa hai
kho ke jise na khoyaa hai
bolo to wo kyaa hai
2 Responses to "Jeene ki ek adaa hai"
December 12, 2023 at 10:43 pm
As I read this post I recalled seeing this film on YouTube a few years bk
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December 12, 2023 at 5:45 pm
Thanks Sir for the post on Film hi film
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