Isaaron ka matbal samajh morey chhailaa
Posted on: April 12, 2024
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Today’s song is from the film Gustakhi Maaf-1969.
Titles of Hindi films generally confuse me, but mostly they disappoint me. A normal cinegoer expects that the title of the film indicates the type of film it is or gives a hint of the film’s story subject or atleast the type/genre of the film. But mostly the titles are misleading. Luckily the hoardings and the posters of the film are more revealing and attractive. They give a closer hint about the film. Here too, what is shown on the hoardings is not seen in the films many times. Why I am saying all this is, because today’s film’s story has absolutely nothing to do with its title, by any angle.
The film is a little complicated story ( based on the Comedy of Errors) of two sisters who are twins and hence lookalikes. They are Asha and Seema, daughters of mr. Gupta, a businessman. Once while crossing a river in a boat, a severe storm capsized the boat. One daughter is with the father and one with the mother. Father somehow survives with the daughter, but the mother is injured and swept away. The other daughter Seema reaches a distant shore, where she is found by Mr. Seth, a widowed rich person. He has no issues. He adopts her and gives her also the name of Asha.
18 years pass. The girls become young. Asha Gupta comes to Darjeeling, with her friends. The other Asha Seth is living in Darjeeling only. There are two artist friends Shankar (Sujit Kumar) and Jai (Sanjeev Kumar). Local Asha falls in love with Sujit and by coincidence Asha Gupta starts loving Jai. After a lot of confusion and misunderstandings because of two similar looking girls with the same names, everything is clear and there is a happy ending. In addition, the mother of Asha who had lost her memory is in hospital at Darjeeling. She also regains memory and the whole family is reunited. THE END !
The film was directed by Raj Kumar Bedi and the film’s cast was Tanuja, Sanjeev Kumar, Sujit Kumar, Ulhas, Indira Bansal, Narbada Shankar, Vithaldas Panchotiya, Gopal Saigal and others. The songs were written by Naqsh Lyallpuri.
Just a few days back, I had talked about Hindu lyricists taking Muslim names, like Qamar Jalalabadi who was actually Omprakash Bhandari. Today’s Lyricist Naqsh Lyallpuri is another such example. He was in reality Jaswant Rai Sharma. Here is what is written about him on the internet site of ‘ The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema’….
Jaswant Rai Sharma (24 February 1928 – 22 January 2017), popularly known by his pen name Naqsh Lyallpuri, was born in Lyallpur (now called Faisalabad and in present-day Pakistan) to a Punjabi-Brahmin family. In 1946 Sharma worked at a publishing house named Hero Publications and later moved to Lahore looking for work. After the Partition of India, the family migrated to Lucknow. Sharma later took on the pen name “Naqsh” – meaning an impression, a mark or a print – and added “Lyallpuri” to it, following the tradition of Urdu poets to associate with their birthplace.
Lyallpuri moved to Mumbai in 1951 and started working at The Times of India as a proofreader. Lyallpuri debuted as a film lyricist with the 1953 film Jaggu, writing the lyrics of “Agar Teri Aankhon Se Aankhein Mila Doon”, rendered by Asha Bhosle and composed by Hansraj Bahl. He worked in the postal department to earn his living. Music director Jaidev introduced him to television serials and asked him to write lyrics for the Hindi television series Shrikant. Lyallpuri went on to write songs for about 50 TV serials along with nearly 40 Punjabi films. Lyallpuri collaborated with various Bollywood music directors, including Madan Mohan, Khayyam, Sapan Jagmohan, Jaidev, Naushad, and Ravindra Jain, and Punjabi music composers like Surinder Kohli, Hansraj Bahl, Ved Sethi, and Husnlal-Bhagatram.
His Filmography….1963: Gul-e-Bakavali, Pyar Ka Bandhan, 1968: Aanchal Ke Phool, 1969: Gustakhi Maaf, Insaaf Ka Mandir, Paun Baran, 1970: Chetna, Gunah Aur Kanoon, Gunahon Ke Raaste, 1971: Kankan De Ohle, 1973: Rocky Mera Naam, 1974: Parinay, 1975: Kaagaz Ki Nao, 1976: Changay Mande Tere Bande, Kasam, 1978: Atyachar, Hazaar Haath, 1979: Kunwara Mama, Til Til Da Lekha, 1980: Sister, 1982: Dil Aakhir Dil Hai (Writer), 1983: Do Madari, 1984: Ek Naya Itihas, 1985: Nain Mile Chain Kahan, Takraar, 1986: Devar Bhabhi, 1987: Jaag Punjabi Shera, 1988: Ghar Aakhir Ghar Hai, Jag Wala Mela, Tapash, 1989: Marhi Da Deeva, 1990: Sounh Menoo Punjab Di.
The music Director was Sapan – Jagmohan. There were only 4 songs in this film. I was surprised. Normally there used to be 6-10 songs in any Hindi film. Curious, I looked at many more other films and I found that nowadays there are fewer songs in the films. I remember, the film ” Trishagni’-1988 had only one song.
These days there may be films without any songs also or songs only in the background. How times have changed ! When the Talkie films started, in its first decade there were average 9 to 10 songs. The record breaking 69 songs in film Indrasabha-1932 is unforgettable.
I wanted to know how the average number of songs in every decade came down. One day I found an analysis done by the famous record collector and music Historian Shri Girdharilal Vishwakarma ji of Jodhpur. Here is what he has presented in a table….
| Decade | Total number of Films in the decade | Total number of songs in the decade | Average number of films /year | Average number of songs /film |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-40 | 931 | 8247 | 93 | 9.0 |
| 1941-50 | 1236 | 11124 | 124 | 8.9 |
| 1951-60 | 1203 | 9624 | 120 | 8.0 |
| 1961-70 | 1007 | 6990 | 100 | 6.9 |
| 1971-80 | 1327 | 8295 | 133 | 6.3 |
| 1981-90 | 1843 | 9558 | 184 | 5.2 |
| 1991-2000 | 1902 | 9059 | 190 | 4.8 |
| 2001-10 | 1967 | 9154 | 197 | 4.7 |
| 2011-2017 | 1475 | 6785 | 227 | 4.6 |
| Total 86.5 years | Total number of movies 12891 | Overall Average songs per decade 6785 | Overall average films/ year 149 | Overall average 6.1 |
You can see yourself how the average number of songs per film has come down. Initially, the craze of film songs was so great that in 1937, when Wadia Movietone released their First songless film- Naujawan, the unsuspecting audience was very angry and at many places the broke chairs etc. in protest as they felt cheated by the producers of that film by not having any songs ! I only hope that if this diminishing trend continues, the image of India as the producer of only ” Colourful Musical Dramas” will change in coming years !
Film Gustakhi Maaf-1969’s Music Director pair was Sapan-Jagmohan. This Jagmohan is not the NFS singer from Bengal- Jaganmoy Mitra aka Jagmohan Sursagar.
Jagmohan Bakshi of Sapan Jagmohan was born in Murrie in Punjab on 29-7 1929. Love of singing and music brought him to Bombay where he met a similar struggler Sapan Sengupta (born on 17-7-1932 at Sylhet in Bengal). One was from Pakistan -w and the other was from Pakistan -E. They became friends and shared a room in a Goregaon Chawl. They regularly sang in the chorus and had dreams of becoming MDs one day ! This pair was favoured by Naashaad, S D Burman and Salil Chaudhari.
Finally S D Burman gave Jagmohan Bakshi a chance to sing a duet with Asha Bhosle,in the film Taxi Driver-1954. The song became popular-‘ Dekho mane nahi roothi haseena,na jaane kya baat hai’. Still no offers came forth. He sang in Hamlet-54,a duet with Rafi. He sang his final and third trio with Lata and Usha in ‘Piya Milan’-1958. In his lifetime Jagmohan Bakshi sang only these three songs-no solo in them.
Later he formed a pair with Sapan as Sapan-Jagmohan and as MD gave music to their first film-Begaana-1963. This pair gave music to 43 films, mostly B and C grade obscure movies.
Jagmohan Bakshi died on 26-2-1999.
Today’s song is sung by Krishna Kalle and Manna Dey. This is the last and final song of this film, making it YIPPEED !
Song- Isaaron ka matbal samajh morey chhaila (Gustaakhi Maaf)(1969) Singers- Krishna Kalle, Manna Dey, Lyricist- Naqsh Llayalpuri, MD- Sapan-Jagmohan
Lyrics
isaaron ka matbal samajh morey chhaila
isaaro ka matbal samajh more chaila
isaaro ka matbal samajh more chaila
tu mora majnu hai main tori laila
tu mora majnu hai main tori laila
arrey pyaar wich hai kadam pehla pehla
arrey pyaar wich hai kadam pehla pehla
main teri laila
laila nahin majnu
haan haan
main tera majnu te tu meri Laila
main tera majnu te tu meri Laila
ae batiyaan u chaahe na maar
tora isak mori lega jaan
rasiya chahliya
arre yaar mera jab jab roothha
aise lage jaise rab roothha
soniye heeriye
tu naahin jaane torey badey maine liye kitne ilzaam
hmm
arre pyaar wich hai kadam pehla pehla
arre pyaar wich hai kadam pehla pehla
main tera majnu te tu meri Laila
main tera majnu te tu meri Laila
kaahe nayan uljhaa baithhee
raaton kee neend ganwa baithhee
rasiyaa aa
chhaliyaa aa
saanja ke tujhko sula doon main
meethhi si lori ga doon main
aaaa sonja raaj kumaari ee sonja
aan aan
sonja main balhaari ee sonja
sonja raajkumaari sonja sonja
patthar ko mai samjhaaun kaa
more darad ki naahin dawa
rasiyaa aa
chhaliyaa aa
yoon na bigad ke aankhen dikhaa
main to hoon kudiye tera ghulaam
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April 12, 2024 at 8:10 pm
YYIIPPEEEE to “Gustaakhi Maaf”
I think you have commented on “no connection between title & movie” once before also. 😀
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