Liye chal gadiyaa o mere mitwaa
Posted on: January 20, 2024
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‘Door Naheen Manzil’ (1973) was produced and directed by Hari Walia. The cast included Sanjeev Kumar, Reshma, Pradeep Kumar, Faryal, Durga Khote, Suresh, Ramavatar, Sadhana Khote etc, with special appearances of Manmohan Krishna, Hina Kausar, Joginder, and Maruti. The film was released on October 9, 1973.
It would appear that the film was in the making for a long time. The original music director was Roshan who had recorded a title song of the film. After his death on November 16, 1967, Shankar-Jaikishan were roped in. The film’s original cast included Nutan in the lead role. However, she withdrew from the film after she had some problem with Sanjeev Kumar while working with him in the film ‘Devi’ (1970). Nutan was replaced by debutant Reshma. Some online references mention her to be one of the sisters of Bindu. Reshma does have some facial resemblance of Bindu.
There may be about a dozen Hindi films with the stories of two brothers falling in love with the same girl, generally with one responsible brother and the other, the brat. Finally, one of the brothers get the girl. But in ‘Door Naheen Manzil’ (1973), the circumstances makes the elder brother to take care of the girl who is supposed to be abandoned by a man the elder brother is not aware. It is only when they meet after a long time that the man is none other than his younger brother. The girl comes to know about the circumstances and now she is caught between a younger brother whom she loved and his elder brother who has given her shelter when she needed badly being an orphan. How does this tangle get resolved?
The story of the film is as under:
Kewal (Sanjeev Kumar) is a pilot in Air India on international routes. He is in love with Anjali (Reshma) who is an orphan and works as a Nurse in a hospital. Whenever, Kewal comes back to Mumbai from his international travels, he meets Anjali and spend times with her. In one of such meetings, they were required to spend a night together in a hotel because she was late for returning to her hospital quarters whose gate closes early in the night. He intends to marry her on his return from the next international flight as she carries his child in her womb.
Shankar (Suresh), his childhood friend who is also in Mumbai has become an alcoholic and a womaniser. Many times, Kewal has caught Shankar in inebriated conditions during which he was trying to molest ladies. He has warned Shankar to desist from such acts. For this reason, Shankar is angry as well jealous with Kewal for his relations with Anjali. Shankar plans to retaliate.
Anjali meets a Dadi Maa (Durga Khote) in her hospital whose grandson, Guddu (Master Ratan) has been admitted here. Anjali tends Guddu in the hospital and after his discharge, she meets Dadi Maa and Guddu periodically in their temporary residence in Mumbai to enquired about the well-being of Guddu.
One day, Anjali sees a photograph of Kewal with a lady in a newspaper with a caption that they are going to get married. Anjali is shocked and she has no one to share her trauma except Dadi Maa who suggests her to join her on her return journey to thier native place and spend sometime to get over the trauma. Anjali resigns from her job and goes with Dadi Maa and Guddu.
In the native place, Dadi Maa lives in a palatial house where her son Ashok (Pradeep Kumar) is in timber business and owns a large chunk of land. Guddu is his son from his wife who had ditched him after having extra-marital relationship with a man. This has created hatred for woman in the mind of Ashok. As a result, he resents the presence of Anjali in the house. Days pass and there is always some conflicts between him and Anjali about her singing, placing more idols of Gods in the house etc.
After knowing the reasons for his bizarre behaviour, Anjali tries to pacify him by saying that just because of the wrong doing of one woman, it is not right to treat all women in the same yardstick. Gradually, Ashok mellows down and starts behaving normally with Anjali when he comes to know that like him, she is also the victim of a man who have discarded her after she had become pregnant from him. Ashok assures Anjali that he would take care of her and also of her child when born.
When things have nicely settled down for Anjali, she faces yet anther litmus test. Kewal after returning from the international flight, comes to know that Anjali has resigned from her job and has left the city for some unknown destination. He gets worried as she has no one in the family or friends to guide her. After not finding her anywhere, Kewal decides to visit his native place for a change which he had abandoned long time back.
One day, Anjali is shocked to find Kewal sitting in her house. Soon Dadi Maa and Ashok come to the house and are delighted to see Kewal after a long time. Kewal is the second son of Dadi Maa and the younger brother of Ashok. Anjali is in a piquant situation. She is caught between two brothers – one, whom she loved and the other, who gave her the shelter. In this milieu, Anjali leaves the house without the knowledge of anyone. At nick of the time, Ashok reaches the railway station where she is waiting for the train to arrive. He takes her back to the house but she does not disclose the reason for abruptly leaving the house.
Anjali’s closeness to Ashok creates a doubt in the mind of Kewal. He fails to get the reasons from Anjali for her unusual behaviour with him. He goes to a local bar for a drink where he meets Shankar who has also come to the native place to meets his blind grandfather and his sister (Faryal). Kewal is worried that Shankar may spill the beans about his relations with Anjali to Ashok. His fear becomes true as Shankar, in an inebriated condition, goes to Ashok and Shankar follows him. When he is about to spill the beans, Kewal pounced upon him. After a brief fight with Kewal, Shankar manages to kidnap Anjali to drive her out of the place. But his sister comes on the way and injures Shankar by firing from the revolver belonging to him. The police team comes and arrest him.
Before he is taken to the police station, Shankar requests the police to allow him to make a confession in the presence of Ashok, Kewal and Anjali. He reveals that just to create a rift between Kewal and Anjali, it was he who got published the fake news in the papers with the photograph of Kewal and a lady with the caption that they are going to get married. The film ends with Ashok performing the ritual of uniting Kewal and Anjali.
From the story, I feel that with Nutan being the original lead actress, it was planned to be a woman-oriented film. With Reshma taking Nutan’s place, her role seems to be somewhat watered down. The film suffers from some continuity problems probably arising out of a long delay in completion of the film during which the film’s shooting may have been halted for a long period. The move over from one scene to another in couple of places does not appear to be linear narrations nor the flashback. Probably, it may be some kind of editing errors while converting the film from VHS tapes to VCD. It was only when I watched the second half of the film, I could get some connection in the story. For example, I did not understand what is the role of Shankar (Suresh) in the first half of the film – a villain or a supporting character who comes in contact with Kewal (Sanjeev Kumar). It was only in the second half I came to know that Shankar and Kewal belonged to the same native place and they were childhood friends. But later on, Shankar had developed a hatred for Kewal out of jealousy.
‘Door Naheen Manzil’ (1973) had 5 songs with one song spread over to 3 different scenes in the film. The songs were written by Anjaan (3) and Indeevar (2) which were set to music by Shankar-Jaikishan (4) and Roshan (1). Except the one, I found rest of the songs melodious. Two songs have already been covered on the Blog. I present the 3rd song, “Liye Chal Gadiyaa O Mere Mitwaa” to appear on the Blog. The song is written by Indeevar and is rendered by Suman Kalyanpur on the music direction of Roshan. It is a ‘boat song’ (or a raft song?) picturised on Reshma and Sanjeev Kumar when they go for a ride during their romantic sojourn prior to their forthcoming marriage. Incidentally, this is the last released song of Roshan after his death in November 1967.
The film’s soundtrack has three antaras of the song while the audio clip has two antaras. This is a typical Roshan composition with sitar and flute recitals dominating in the prelude. The rhythm pattern used in the song gives a feel of a boat song.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Liye chal gadiyaa o mere mitwaa (Door Naheen Manzil)(1973) Singer-Suman Kalyanpur, Lyrics-Indeewar, MD-Roshan
Lyrics (Based on Video Clip):
liye chal gadiya
o mere mitwa
door naheen manzil
o o o door naheen manzil
liye chal gadiya
o mere mitwa
dekho deewaani hawa
le udi aanchal mera
dekho deewaani hawaa..
le udi aanchal mera
dheere dheere dil bhara
jiyaa ghabraaye
meraa jiyaa ghabraaye
tan mein bijlee leharaaye ae piya
liye chal gadiya
o mere mitwa
door naheen manzil
o o o door naheen manzil
khush bahut hain aaj hum
maang le kuchh bhi sanam
khush bahut hain aaj hum
maang le kuchh bhi sanam
tujhse pyaaraa kuchh nahin
dilon jaan hain tu
meri dilon jaan hai tu
tere naam sab kuchh kar diya
liye chal gadiya
o mere mitwa
door naheen manzil
o o o…
wo lagi mann mein agan
piglaa jaataa hai badan
wo lagi mann mein agan
piglaa jaataa hai badan
pyaar ki sheetal kiran
sholaa banti jaaye
sholaa banti jaaye
toone mujhko ye kya kar diya
liye chal gadiya
o mere mitwa
door naheen manzil
o o o door naheen manzil
liye chal gadiya
o mere mitwa
door naheen manzil
o o o door naheen manzil
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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ले चल गडिया
ओ मेरे मितवा
दूर नहीं मंज़िल
ओ ओ दूर नहीं मंज़िल
लिए चल गडिया
ओ मेरे मितवा
देखो दीवानी हवा
ले उड़ी आँचल मेरा
देखो दीवानी हवा
ले उड़ी आँचल मेरा
धीरे धीरे दिल भरा
जिया घबराए
मेरा जिया घबराए
तन में बिजली लहराए॰॰ए पिया
लिए चल गडिया
ओ मेरे मितवा
दूर नहीं मंज़िल
ओ ओ दूर नहीं मंज़िल
खुश बहुत हैं आज हम
मांग ले कुछ भी सनम
खुश बहुत हैं आज हम
मांग ले कुछ भी सनम
तुझसे प्यारा कुछ नहीं
दिल ओ जान है तू
मेरी दिल ओ जान है तू
तेरे नाम सब कुछ कर दिया
लिए चल गडिया
ओ मेरे मितवा
दूर नहीं मंज़िल
ओ ओ
वो लगी मन में अगन
पिघला जाता है बदन
वो लगी मन में अगन
पिघला जाता है बदन
प्यार की शीतल किरण
शोला बनती जाये
शोला बनती जाये
तू ने मुझको ये क्या कर दिया
लिए चल गडिया
ओ मेरे मितवा
दूर नहीं मंज़िल
ओ ओ दूर नहीं मंज़िल
लिए चल गडिया
ओ मेरे मितवा
दूर नहीं मंज़िल
ओ ओ दूर नहीं मंज़िल
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