Meri duniyaa ke ghareebo jaago
Posted by: Atul on: July 31, 2024
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Today’s song is from the film ‘Ghar ki Izzat'(1948).
India got Independence in 1947 and there was a huge exchange of people between India and the newly created religion based Pakistan. This affected the film industry in India extensively as the majority of Muslim artistes from all the departments of film making lined up for migration. As soon as the final announcement of Partition was made and the date of Independence was announced, the film industry worked extra time to finish the projects on hand before the migration, causing damage to the quality of films made in 1947 in the latter half. Though this resulted in creating a record number of films made in 1947 (181 in Hindi and 100 in other languages), most films could get a release only in 1948.
It took almost 40 years to cross this record Hindi film number, when 187 films were made in 1985. Contrary to this, the films in other languages recovered almost immediately and more films were made in other languages in 1948 itself than in 1947. When 187 films were made in Hindi in 1985, the number of films in other language was way ahead of Hindi – with 718 films in 1985. This clearly shows that migration of Muslim artistes in Hindi film industry had hit it in a very bad way.
However, since there was always a second line of reserves of talented artistes for almost all categories of film making, it did not take much time for the Indian Film Industry to cope up with the situation and continue its normal activities quickly. This was not so in Pakistan which had a borrowed imported talent and hence after the end of career of these artistes, for lack of basic second line back up, the Pakistan film industry never prospered fully.
Luckily, major and big Muslim stars of Indian film industry in all departments had chosen to stay back, it helped the industry prosper together with their own prosperity. Thus the year 1948 saw a marginal drop and made 149 Hindi films of a variety of genres. However, it was noticed that now the stress was on making films underlining the importance of strengthening social traditions like joint family system, honoring old generation, maintaining values of social life, rising against anti social customs etc. A majority films were woven around these themes.
Today’s film ‘Ghar Ki Izzat’ (1948) also stresses the importance and need of sustaining the joint family tradition. Films like ‘ Shaheed’ and ‘Majboor’ reflected the sacrifice of freedom fighters and exit of the British. Uday Shankar’s Ballet film ‘ Kalpana’ was a novelty. It ran for a Silver Jubilee in Bengal, but elsewhere it was a moderate success. Kedar Sharma’s film ‘Suhaag Raat’ promoted inter-caste love. Raj Kapoor started his RK Films, with film ‘Aag’ depicting the young hope of a brighter India. It’s songs became very popular.
Other musical films were ‘Mela’, ‘Pyar Ki Jeet’, ‘Ziddi , ‘Chunariya’, ‘Anokhi Ada’, family drama ‘Grihasthi’, love story ‘Gopinath’, and comedy film ‘Pagdi’ were other successful films. Music Director Husnlal-Bhagatram and Mohd Rafi brought out a 4-part private song “Bapu Ki Amar Kahani“, after the death of Gandhi ji.
The cast of the film ‘Ghar Ki Izzat’ consisted of Mumtaz Shanti, Jeevan, Dilip Kumar, Manorama, Dixit, Suleiman, Gope, Gulab and others. The film was directed by Ram Daryani. Ram Kamlani, brother of actor Gope sang few songs in this film. The story of this film is….
Seth Chunilal (Dixit) is a rich person. His daughter Radhika (Manorama) has married Chaman (Gope) who is their ‘ghar jamaai‘. He does not work anywhere. Radhika’s mother (Gulab) taunts him every now and then and one day, frustrated Radhika leaves the house along with Chaman. They start an insurance business and prosper in a village nearby. Chunilal’s son Chander (Dilip Kumar) becomes a lawyer. He visits his sister in the village. In same village, lives Roopa (Mumtaz Shanti) with her two brothers (Jeevan and Suleiman).
Chander gets introduced to this family, falls in love with Roopa and they get married. Upon coming to the city home, Chander’s mother starts taunting the new bahu on her poverty. Bahu, being adarsh bhartiya naari tolerates everything, but Chander gets frustrated and starts drinking. Sister Radhika and Chaman bring him to their house.
Chander’s mother and father start repenting and finally they go to Chander and Roopa, beg their pardon and bring them back with honor. They even call Chander and Radhika, but they refuse to come back, as they have prospered now.
So, all is well that ends well.
In the early era, most heroines were uneducated like Meena Shorey – who could not even sign her name. All were not beautiful. I sincerely feel, it is neither talent nor good looks, it is nothing but the ‘luck’ factor, which helps in making a career in films. This explains why good looking, educated 1 or 2 film’s heroes could not sustain themselves for long. Similarly, good looking girls like Vijayalaxmi, Bimla Kumari, Krishnakumari, Tabassum, Yashodhara Katju, Shubha Khote, Shashikala etc could not continue beyond 3-4 films as heroines.
In the 40s era, Manorama was one such actress. She had good education, beautiful Punjabi looks, fine acting, but she could not go beyond 3 films as heroine and had to contend with side and character roles in all her career. Manorama was born in Lahore on 16-8-1920, as Irene Issac Daniels, from Punjabi father and Irish mother. She took her good looks from her father. While a student, she did some child roles in films from 1926 to 1936 and as an adult, she debuted in Pancholi’s ‘Khazanchi’ (1941). She then acted in ‘Himmat’ (1941), ‘Khandan’ (1942), ‘Zamindar’ (1942), ‘Poonji’ (1943), ‘Panchhi’ (1944), and ‘Patwari’ (1945) in Lahore. Here only she did heroine’s roles in ‘Khamosh Nigahen’, ‘Rehana’ and ‘Shalimar’ – all in 1946. After partition, she migrated to India, but she got only side and character roles.
Meanwhile, in 1947, she got married to Rajan Haksar. After coming to India, shortly, their marriage broke. She had one daughter, Roopa from this marriage. Roopa tried her luck in films in 1970, without much success. Then she got married and got settled.
Manorama grew in weight. Now she got comic or vamp roles. She did films like ‘Ghar Ki Izzat’, ‘Johari’, ‘Hanste Aansoo’, ‘Ek Phool Do Mali’, ‘Shor’, ‘Caravan’ etc. In all she acted in 161 films. Her last film was ‘Water’ in 2005. She died on 15-2-2008. She perhaps had one of the longest careers among actresses – from 1926 to 2005, that is a cool 80 years ! Manorama was a highly respected person in the industry. Neetu Singh, Madhuri Dixit, Ram Mohan, Ekta Kapoor and others were her fans. Her famous films were ‘Jhanak Jhanak Paayal Baaje’, ‘Half Ticket’, ‘Budtameez’, and ‘Seeta Aur Geeta’.
Film ‘Ghar Ki Izzat’ has 11 songs, as per HFGK. 9 songs are already covered. Today’s song is the 10th song. It is a video song, sung by Shamshad Begum and chorus. Enjoy….
Song-Meri duniya ke ghareebo jaago (Ghar Ki Izzat)(1948) Singer-Shamshad Begam, Lyrics-I C Kapoor, MD-Pt Govindram
Chorus
Lyrics
jaago
jaago
jaago
meri duniya ke ghareebo jaago
meri duniya ke ghareebo jaago
jaago jaago ke savera hi hua jaata hai
dekho dekho to zara din hi chadha aata hai
jaago jaago ke savera hi hua jaata hai
dekho dekho to zara din hi chadha aata hai
koi loot raha hai ae ae
koi loot raha hai teri mehnat ka khazaana
mehnat ka khazaana
kab tak tumhen dhokhe mein hi rakhega zamaana aa aa aa
duniya badhe jaati hai tum soye huye ho o
kis soch mein kis fikr mein tum khoye huye ho
jaago
jaago
jis raah pe chaahte hain chala lete hain hum ko
jis raah pe chaahte hain chala lete hain hum ko
do chaar sabaz baagh dikha dete hain humko o
kisi dil mein lahoo hai na yahaan kisi mein hai paani
hum pe to nahin aati kabhi aisi jawaani
jaago
jaago
meri duniya ke ghareebo jaago
meri duniya ke ghareebo jaago
mehlon mein jo rehte hain unhen aaj jaga do
aaj jaga do
seene mein hain sau daagh zara khol dikha do
paani mein bhi aa jaate hain ik roz ubaale
ik boond se ban jaate hain rag rag mein kasaale
jaago
jaago
meri duniya ke ghareebo jaago
meri duniya ke ghareebo jaago
jaago
jaago
jaago
jaago
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Hindi script lyrics (Provided by Sudhir)
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जागो
जागो
जागो
मेरी दुनिया के ग़रीबो जागो
मेरी दुनिया के ग़रीबो जागो
जागो जागो के सवेरा ही हुआ जाता है
देखो देखो तो ज़रा दिन ही चढ़ा आता है
जागो जागो के सवेरा ही हुआ जाता है
देखो देखो तो ज़रा दिन ही चढ़ा आता है
कोई लूट रहा है ए ए
कोई लूट रहा है तेरी मेहनत का खज़ाना
मेहनत का खजाना
कब तक तुम्हें धोखे में ही रखेगा ज़माना आ आ
दुनिया बढ़े जाती है तुम सोये हुये हो
किस सोच में किस फिक्र में तुम खोये हुये हो
जागो
जागो
जिस राह पे चाहते हैं चला लेते हैं हमको
जिस राह पे चाहते हैं चला लेते हैं हमको
दो चार सब्ज़ बाग़ दिखा देते हैं हमको ओ ओ
किस दिल में लहू है ना कहाँ किस में है पानी
हम पे तो नहीं आती कभी ऐसी जवानी
जागो
जागो
मेरी दुनिया के ग़रीबो जागो
मेरी दुनिया के ग़रीबो जागो
महलों में जो रहते हैं उन्हें आज जगा दो
आज जगा दो
सीने में हैं सौ दाग़ ज़रा खोल दिखा दो
पानी में भी आ जाते हैं इक रोज़ उबाले
इक बूंद से बन जाते हैं रग रग में कसाले
जागो
जागो
मेरी दुनिया के ग़रीबो जागो
मेरी दुनिया के ग़रीबो जागो
जागो
जागो
जागो
जागो
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