Mujhse naaraaz ho to ho jaao
Posted on: February 19, 2024
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‘Paapa Kahte Hain’ (1996) was produced by Plus Films (of Mahesh Bhatt and Amit Khanna) and was directed by Mahesh Bhatt. The cast included Jugal Hansraj, Mayuri Kango, Anupam Kher, Tiku Talsania, Navni Parihar, Alok Nath, Reema Lagoo, Suhas Joshi, Soni Razdan, Javed Khan, Dinesh Hingoo, Abhimanyu Singh, Sujata Kango, Johny Bakshi etc. The film was planned as a tele-film. However, when the main cast was finalised, it was decided to make it a feature film with Jugal Hansraj and Mayuri Kango in the lead roles. While Jugal Hansraj had already worked in a lead role in ‘Aa Gale Lag Jaa’ (1994), for Mayuri Kango, it was her first film in the lead role and her mother, Sujata Kango also acted in this film.
About 5 years back, I had read a newspaper report that a former Bollywood actor has taken over as the Industry Head of Google India. The actor turned out to be Mayuri Kango. Her journey from an actress in the popular song, ‘ghar se nikalte hi’ from the film in the mid-1990s to one of the top posts in the corporate world is interesting. Her journey is also an inspiration, especially for women who are not successful in their filmy career to try some other sector to have a successful career.
Mayuri Kango (B:15/08/1982) was born in Aurangabad (Now Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar). Her father, Dr Balchandra Kango is a member of the Communist Party of India and currently, he is the National Secretary. Her mother, Sujata Kango is a theatre and TV artists. Whenever in a play, if a role of a child actor was required, it was Mayuri who will get that role. Mayuri was a bright student who completed her schooling from Aurangabad.
After the end of her Board examination, Mayuri visited her mother who was temporarily staying in Mumbai for her theatre work. Saeed Akhtar Mirza, a renowned TV and film director, while meeting her mother, saw Mayuri. He took her in a title role in his off-beat film, ‘Naseem’ (1995). The film won National Film Award for Best direction and Screenplay for Saeed Akhtar Mirza. After her debut, while Mayuri was waiting for her Board exam results, she was offered a lead role in ‘Paapa Kahte Hain’ (1996) by Mahesh Bhatt who was impressed by her performance in ‘Naseem’ (1995). She agreed to work in the film thinking that since it was a tele-film, she will be freed in short time to continue her college studies. In the meanwhile, she got selected for IIT, Kanpur for the Engineering degree. However, when Mahesh Bhatt decided to make ‘Paapa Kahte Hain’ (1996) as a full-length feature film, she was required to devote more time for the film’s shooting both in India and abroad. Looking at the start of her filmy career, she decided to drop out of IIT and instead she chose to do BA.
Despite the popularity of its songs, ‘Paapa Kahte Hain’ (1996) failed at the box office. However, Mayuri got a number of offers for Hindi films. At one point of time, she had 15 films on hand, However, more than half of them got either shelved or remained unreleased. Her released films were ‘Betaabi’ (1997), ‘Hogi Pyaar Ki Jeet’ (1999), ‘Baadal’ (2000), ‘Jeetenge Hum’ (2000), ‘Paapa The Great’ (2000), ‘Shikaari’ (2000) and ‘Adharam’ (2006). None of these films attained box office success. Later, she worked in a Telugu film, ‘Vamsee’ (2000) in a supporting role. With no career progression in her filmy career, Mayuri shifted to TV serials during 2000-2003.
Mayuri got married to an NRI, Aditya Dhillon in December 2003 and then shifted to New York. Here, she completed MBA in Finance and Marketing in 2005. She started her new career in digital advertising. The couple had a son born in 2011. In 2013, they shifted back to India as her career was taking shape and she required the family support to look after her son. Her in-laws are staying in Gurugram which she made her base. Her Linkedin profile indicates that Mayuri Kango had worked as a managing director at a global marketing agency, ‘Performics’. She was also previously the Chief Digital Officer in marketing and advertising agency, ‘Zenith’. Since April 2019, Mayuri Kango has been a part of Google India Company where she is serving as the Industry Head, based in Gurugram.
Mayuri Kango is very active on the social media platforms as well as on TV interviews during which she shared her experience of working in the corporate sector as a former actress. Initially, she felt that her corporate clients were not taking her seriously because of her filmy background. Perhaps, they thought that beauty and brains did not gell together. But she was successful in dispelling this myth over a period of time to scale a new height in the corporate world.
The story of ‘Paapa Kahte Hain’ (1996) is as under:
Sweety Khanna (Mayuri Kango) lives with her mother Vinita Gandhi (Navni Parihar), maternal grandmother Shobhna Gandhi (Suhas Joshi) and Grandfather Taraknath Gandhi (Tiku Talsania). She is very rebellious and emotionally charged girl. As a result, she does not get along well within the family as well in the school. She sometime suspects that she is an illegitimate child of her mother because she is not supposed to talk about her father. All she knows from her grandfather is that her father had eloped with her mother, and he did not turned up when she was born. The relationship between Taraknath and Vinita is strained as she holds him responsible for keeping her away from her husband.
As Sweety is now grown up, Taraknath arranges a marriage for her, and the engagement is fixed. Vinita is not happy. It is at this juncture, Vinita reveals to Sweety that she had met her father in the Seychelles. She got married to him as a minor. Taking advantage of this, Taraknath forced her father to divorce her failing which he would inform the police. After divorce, Taraknath brought her mother back to India. Sweety’s dad never knew her address and hence never came looking. Taraknath did not inform Sweety’s father that Vinita was pregnant when she was divorced and was brought back to India.
After getting the vital information about her father, Sweety runs away to Seychelles on the day of the engagement. At the airport, Rohit Dixit (Jugal Hansraj) has come to receive one Swati Anand on behalf of a hotel guest, Kishan Khanna (Anupam Kher). When Sweety is questioned by immigration about her purpose of visit to Seychelles, she does not answer but in the spur of the moment she says Rohit knows her. She herself presents to Rohit as Swati and goes with him to the hotel. She convinces Rohit that she is Kishan’s daughter and Rohit gives her the keys to Kishan’s room who is away on holiday with Swati Sinha (Sony Razdan) on a date. The fact is that Kishan is staying in the same hotel but in a different room with Swati who is a divorcee.
To enable her to move around Seychelles for the search of her father, Sweety befriends Rohit and creates a feeling that she is in love with him. The secret is out when Kishan sees Sweety in his hotel room. To avoid being thrown out of the hotel room, Sweety creates a scene in public that she is the daughter of Kishan who is refusing to acknowledge as such because he has divorced her mother. Kishan’s companion, Swati leaves him when she finds that he has a daughter but continues to stay in the hotel in a different room. Kishan calls for police to get rid of Sweety from his room. However, because Sweety has been crying for long, Kishan feels sorry for her and allows her to stay.
Over a period of time, Kishan and Sweety have developed a sort of father-daughter relationship, both being unaware of the fact that they are father and daughter in real life. In the meanwhile, Rohit continues to accompany Sweety for the search of her father and in this she remains away from Kishan for few days without telling him. When she returns, Kishan is upset with her for not informing him. After some arguments, Kishan orders her to leave his room at the earliest. However, Kishan cools down next morning and promises Sweety to help her in search of her father. At the same time, Sweety’s fake lover affair with Rohit has turned into a real love between them.
In the meanwhile, Taraknath gets to know that Sweety is in Seychelles. He visits Seychelles and forcibly brings her back to India. Kishan and Rohit follows them in Mumbai. When Kishan meets Vinita, he realises that Sweety is his daughter. Taraknath follows up with the wedding of Sweety which he had arranged earlier. However, on the day of wedding, Kishan and Rohit play pranks which result in bridegroom’s family breaking the marriage. Taraknath is now in a pitiable situation. Kishan intervenes and make him understand that he cannot have everything as per his will. Taraknath’s entire family members support Kishan. Finally, Taraknath permits Sweety to marry Rohit.
From the story details, it appears to me that Manohar Shyam Joshi had originally written the story for a soap opera type of a TV serial, going by the many twists. There is a breakdown of logic once the story of the film shifts to Seychelles. Incidentally, it was a afterthought of the director to cover shooting in Seychelles. The film flopped at the box office despite the popularity of its songs.
The film had six songs written by Javed Akhtar and set to music by Rajesh Roshan. The most popular song from the film was ‘ghar se nikalte hi’ for which Javed Akhtar got the Filmfare Award for the Best Lyricist. However, I am presenting a different song, ‘mujhse naaraaz ho to ho jaao’ from the film to appear on the Blog. The song is rendered by Sonu Nigam and is picturised on Anupam Kher and Mayuri Kango.
The background to this song is that Mayuri is upset that Jugal is leaving Seychelles because she has showered her fake love on her for the selfish reason which he is now aware of. But now she is really in love with him. It is at this stage Anupam Kher tells her that there is no point in getting angry with or keeping distance from oneself.
I picked up this song mainly because this has a reminiscence of Madan Mohan’s compositions.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Mujhse naaraaz ho to ho jaao (Papa Kahte Hain)(1996) Singer-Sonu Nigam, Lyrics-Javed Akhtar, MD-Rajesh Roshan
Lyrics:
mujhse naaraaz ho to ho jaao
mujhse naaraaz ho to ho jaao
khud se lekin khafaa khafaa na raho
mujhse tum door jaao to jaao
aap apne se tum judaa naa raho
mujhse naaraaz ho to ho jaao
khud se lekin khafaa khafaa na raho
mujhse naaraaz ho to ho jaao
mujhpe chaahe yakeen karo naa karo
mujhpe chaahe yakeen karo naa karo
tumko khud par magar yakeen rahe
sar pe ho aasmaan yaa ke naa ho
pair ke neeche ye zameen rahe
mujhko tum bewafaa kaho to kaho
mujhko tum bewafaa kaho to kaho
tum magar khud se bewafaa naa raho
mujhse naaraaz ho to ho jaao
aao ik baat main kahoon tumse
aao ik baat main kahoon tumse
jaane phir koi ye kahe naa kahe
tumko apni talaash karni hai
hamsafar koi bhi rahe naa rahe
tumko apne sahaare jeena hai
tumko apne sahaare jeena hai
dhoondhti koi aasraa naa raho
mujhse naaraaz ho to ho jaao
khud se lekin khafaa khafaa naa raho
mujhse tum door jaao to jaao
aap apne se tum judaa naa raho
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