Ek tum ho jise hum to kabhi yaad na aaye
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In my last article, I had discussed Basu Chatterjee’s film, ‘Gudgudee’ (1997) which was inspired from a Hollywood film, ‘The Seven Year Itch’ (1955). In this article, I have taken up for discussion yet another film of Basu Chatterjee which was inspired from a Hollywood film, ‘The Fortune Cookie’ (1966). The film is ‘Laakhon Ki Baat’ (1984). The film was produced and directed by Basu Chatterjee. The star cast included Sanjeev Kumar, Farooq Shaikh, Anita Raj, Anjali Sen, Utpal Dutt, Pinchoo Kapoor, Dinesh Hingoo, Subbiraj, Javed Khan, Bhagwan Sinha etc. Neither the name of the storywriter nor the acknowledgement of the inspiration for the film was mentioned in the credit titles of film.
Broadly, the story of the film is about two persons – one who is money minded and the other who gets trapped in the plan of the money-minded person only to get back to his ex-wife who is also money minded. A sports photographer of a newspaper gets hit on his head by lobbed hockey ball while covering a woman’s hockey match. He is hospitalized. His brother-in-law who is an unsuccessful lawyer, sees it an opportunity to earn money by claiming a big amount in compensation from the newspaper owner for the fake injury of the spinal cord of the photographer. But he needs the cooperation of the photographer. The stingy newspaper owner is not going to succumb to the lawyer’s notice. He engages a private detective to keep a surveillance on the photographer and the lawyer to find out the nature of his injuries. What follows is one-up-man-ship between the lawyer, newspaper owner and the private detective which results in hilarious situations. The story in details is as under:
A women’s hockey match is in progress when the credit titles of the film are rolling. Alok (Farooq Shaikh), a sports photographer working in a newspaper is present to take some pictures of the ongoing match. Suddenly, a hockey ball hit by the captain of the team, Neela (Anjali Sen) lands on Alok’s head, He falls on the ground and becomes unconscious. He is shifted to hospital where his mother and his sister along with her husband, Prem (Sanjeev Kumar) are waiting for doctor’s report on Alok’s well-being.
While waiting in the hospital, Alok’s sister recalls that in his childhood, Alok had met with an accident, injuring his vertebrae. Prem is a lawyer who is unsuccessful in his profession. He earns money by some manipulations like filing claims for damages. Prem gets an idea to encash on the injury of Alok by filing a suit for damage of Rs.20 lakhs from Alok’s employer. He tells Alok to pretend to suffer from a major spinal cord injury affecting his movement of one leg and losing sensations in his fingers. But Alok is not ready to do this as he is now fine and wants to get the discharge from the hospital once the doctor gives his approval. Neela, the hockey team captain whose hit was responsible for Alok’s hospitalization, visits hospital to meet him.
Shobha (Anita Raj), Alok’s ex-wife comes to know about the incidence through the newspaper reports. She also visits hospital and meets him. Even though Alok and Shobha got divorced on petty matters, they still love each other. But Shobha is also money minded as she wants to live a luxurious life which is not possible with Alok. Prem sees this an opportunity to once again convince Alok that pretending the serious injuries and suing his employer for damage of Rs.20 lakhs, his financial condition will improve which would facilitate reuniting with Shobha. Alok is now ready to follow whatever Prem tells him to do.
Prem files suit for damages against the owner of the newspaper, Rungta (Pinchoo Kapoor) assuming that Rungta will come to the out of court settlement. In anticipation of getting the amount, Prem has bought a car and a costly suit for himself and a saaree for his wife. But Rungta is a hard nut to crack. He engages a private detective, Maganbhai (Utpal Dutt) to find out the extent of injuries to Alok.
Rungta also engages a team of specialist doctors to check Alok about the extent of his injuries who give report that they are unable to determine the extent of injuries of Alok. The fact is that Prem, in anticipation, has arranged a doctor who gives the injection for the temporary numbness of Alok’s leg and a hand to neutralize the checking by a team of doctors. Maganbhai, the private detective comes with an idea that after Alok gets discharge from the hospital and goes home, he would install in his house the concealed cameras and microphones to record Alok’s movements and talks on 24 hours basis.
On the next visit to hospital, Neela gifts Alok a wheel chair, the cost of which was contributed by all the hockey players. Her visits to the hospital to meet Alok become frequent to help him. They become friendly which turns into their liking for each other. She also helps in his house after his discharge from the hospital. She even arranges Alok benefit hockey match to financially help him.
Shobha on the other hand also offers Alok that she would stay with him in his house until he is fully recovered. In fact, her love for Alok stems from the fact that he would get a good compensation amount which would enable her to enjoy a luxurious living. With Shobha staying with Alok, Neela finds herself isolated as her dream of living with Alok gets shattered. With that kind of mental framework, Neela is suspended by her club from playing hockey for 5 years for her bad behavior during a match. When Alok comes to know about this, he is disturbed as he knows that it is her love for him that cost her hockey career.
After his secret gets out, Manganbhai visits Alok’s house to remove all his eavesdropping gadgets when accidentally he comes to know that Alok is normal and his so-called injuries were fake. Prem looses the compensation amount and so does Alok. Shobha is annoyed with Alok as her dream of a luxurious life has been shattered. She leaves Alok never to return. Neela has decided to leave the city and give up playing hockey. Alok persuades her to continue playing hockey and not to leave the city. He offers her to stay with him permanently as his ex-wife has left his house. The film ends with Neela hugging Alok.
As indicated earlier, the film is inspired from the Hollywood film, ‘The Fortune Cookie’ (1966). I could not get to watch the English film online. But I did watch some snippets from the film as well as the synopsis available online. It appears to me that the Hindi film is almost frame by frame copy of the English film except that Basu Chatterjee changed the story to Indian setting. For instance, the match was changed from American Football to Hockey. Instead of Insurance company, the lawyer claims compensation from the newspaper owner in Hindi film. The photographer is accidentally hit by a male football player. In Hindi film, the photographer gets hit by the lobbed shot by a women player to bring the love angle for the photographer. Nonetheless, Basu Chatterjee has nicely adapted the story to the Indian setting for the Indian audience. The film is interesting to watch for the excellent performances of three stalwarts – Sanjeev Kumar, Farooq Shaikh and Utpal Dutt.
The film has five songs including a double version song which have been written by Yogesh Gaud and set to music by Manas Mukherjee. He started his career as a singer in Kolkata. He switched over to become the independent music director in Bengali films. He shifted to Mumbai and assisted Salil Chowdhary for sometime before becoming an independent music director in Hindi film with ‘Teesra Patthhar’ (1976). He composed music for 11 Hindi films before he passed away on October 16, 1986 at the age of 43. Sagarika and Shaan, his daughter and son, respectively are singers.
I am presenting the first song from the film, “Ek Tum Ho Jise Hum To Kabhi Yaad Na Aaye’ rendered by Anuradha Paudwal. The song is picturised on Anjali Sen who had donned the role of Urmila in Ramanand Sagar’s ‘Ramayan’ (1987). She has also worked in about a dozen Hindi films.
The background to the song is that Alok’s (Farooq Shaikh) ex-wife, (Anita Raj) decides to stay with him after his discharge from the hospital till he has fully recovered. With this, Neela (Anjali Sen) is now not required to stay with him. She has fallen in love with him but now she comes to know that Shobha is Alok’s ex-wife and they are inclined to revive their relation. Leena is in emotional turmoil as Alok is oblivious of her love for him which she could not explicitly express to him.
This song is very melodious and sounds like that of the composition of Salil Chowdhury.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Ek tum ho jise hum to kabhi yaad na aaye (Laakhon Ki Baat)(1984) Singer-Anuradha Paudwal, Lyrics-Yogesh, MD-Manas Mukherjee
Lyrics (based on audio clip):
ek tum ho jise
hum to kabhi yaad na aaye
ek tum ho jise
hum to kabhi yaad na aaye
ek hum hain jo tumhen
kabhi bhool na paaye
ek tum ho jise
hum to kabhi yaad na aaye
tum aankhon se jaan sakey na
aankhon ki bhaashaa
hum bhi tumse kah na paaye
mann ki abhilaashaa..
tum aankhon se jaan sake na
aankhon ki bhaashaa
hum bhi tumse kah na paaye
mann ki abhilaashaa..
iss uljhan ko aakhir koi kaise suljhaaye
andekhi ye agan hai
koi kaise bujhaaye
ek tum ho jise
hum to kabhi yaad na aaye
anjaane mein baandh liyaa hai
tumse jo bandhan
uss bandhan ke saath bandhi hai
dil ki har dhadkan
anjaane mein baandh liyaa hai
tumse jo bandhan
us bandhan ke saath bandhi hai
dil ki har dhadkan
saanson ke sang naam tumhaara
honthon pe aaye
ye baaten koi kaise ab tumko bataaye
ek tum ho jise
hum to kabhi yaad na aaye
ek hum hain jo tumhen
kabhi bhool na paaye..
ek tum ho jise
hum to kabhi yaad na aaye
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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एक तुम हो जिसे
हम तो कभी याद ना आये
एक तुम हो जिसे
हम तो कभी याद ना आये
एक हम हैं जो तुम्हें
कभी भूल ना पाये
एक तुम हो जिसे
हम तो कभी याद ना आये
तुम आँखों से तो जान सके ना
आँखों की भाषा
हम भी तुम से कह ना पाये
मन की अभिलाषा
तुम आँखों से तो जान सके ना
आँखों की भाषा
हम भी तुम से कह ना पाये
मन की अभिलाषा
इस उलझन को आखिर कोई कैसे सुलझाइए
अनदेखी ये अगन है
कोई कैसे बुझाये
एक तुम हो जिसे
हम तो कभी याद ना आये
अनजाने में बांध लिया है
तुमसे जो बंधन
उस बंधन के साथ बंधी है
दिल की हर धड़कन
अनजाने में बांध लिया है
तुमसे जो बंधन
उस बंधन के साथ बंधी है
दिल की हर धड़कन
साँसों के संग नाम तुम्हारा
होंठों पे आए
ये बातें अब कैसे कोई तुमको बताए’
एक तुम हो जिसे
हम तो कभी याद ना आये
एक हम हैं जो तुम्हें
कभी भूल ना पाये
एक तुम हो जिसे
हम तो कभी याद ना आये
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