Jab tum jag mein aaye thhe
Posted on: September 6, 2024
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Another quick and a short one. I mean both the post as well as the song.
Duniya Na Mane (1959) is already yipped on the blog. Readers will be well aware that the film was composed by Madan Mohan. I have covered all songs of Mukesh for the composer in this post.
Mukesh’s first song for Madan Mohan was in the debut film of the composer Aankhen (1950). He had a sad solo and a comic duet with Shamshad Begum. The last song of Mukesh for the composer was in 1974. In 24 years of their association, there are hardly 9 songs as enlisted in the above referred post.
Duniya Na Mane (1959) again had one sad solo and a duet with Lata Mangeshkar.
Though the film is already yipped and also all songs of Mukesh under Madan Mohan’s composition already covered on the blog, there is apparently one short rendition in the said film that I was not aware earlier.
The short rendition of Mukesh starts at 2:02 minutes into the film when the banner of the film Vishwadweep Chitra productions is displayed. It lasts for hardly 16 seconds which is immediately followed by the title song by Manna Dey. This title song by Manna Dey is appearing at the fag end of the film also and is the version covered in the blog here.
The lyrics of the version song sung by Manna Dey while the titles are rolling has different lyrics compared to the background song on Sheikh Mukhtaar later in the film. I request the editors to cover the lyrics of both the versions.
Coming back to the short rendition of Mukesh, the couplets are in fact dohe of Sant Kabir and are self-explanatory. Since the rendition is sans any music, I would not attribute it to Madan Mohan but on other thoughts, since the film is under his composition, he could as well be mentioned.
I shall include this post on my Mukesh-Madan Mohan article in a few days.
So here is Mukesh rendering the well known dohe of Kabir.
16 seconds in all, but what profound meaning it carries.
Song-Jab tum jag mein aaye thhe (Duniya Na Maane)(1959) Singer-Mukesh, Lyrics-Sant Kabir
Lyrics
Jab tum jag mein aaye thhe
jag hansmukh tum roye
aisee karnee kar chalo
tum hansmukh jag roye
5 Responses to "Jab tum jag mein aaye thhe"
September 6, 2024 at 7:09 pm
The actual Kabir doha is as under:
जब तू आया जगत में, लोग हंसे तू रोय।
ऐसी करनी ना करो, पीछे हंसे सब कोय।।
The entire meaning of the second line of the doha changes from that sung by Mukesh. Hence, the doha in the film cannot be attributed to Sant Kabir. Probably, inspired from Kabir doha, Rajendra Krishan wrote for the film.
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September 6, 2024 at 9:37 pm
Sadanand ji,
Thanks for your comment. Before sending the post, I did search on the net and realised that there were multiple versions of the same doha. I should have done more searching.
What you have written seems to be correct translation.
Coming to attributing it to Rajendra Krishan, I beg to defer. I feel the production house itself must have tweaked the doha to suit the rendition by Mukesh as it lasts till the banner lasts on the screen.
Incidentally, the film ends with a very short refrain of the title by Mannada.
I will have to watch titles of other films of the producers, if any, to see if they followed similar pattern.
I feel for the time being, we can say “Inspired by Sant Kabir’s well known doha”.
mahesh
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September 8, 2024 at 10:56 pm
Sadanand ji, Mahesh ji,
This doha by Kabir is a very old friend, right from the school days. In all my encounters, the words of this doha have been what is presented in this clip.
जब तुम आए जगत में, जग हँसे तुम रोये
ऐसी करनी कर चलो, तुम हंसो जग रोये
The version you have posted in the comments is a variation, not just in my opinion, but also as I searched for this on the net. The attribution and mis-attributions that we see on the net are rampant and very misleading.
The words mentioned above are the original words. Rajinder Krishan has not tweaked the original.
Rgds
Sudhir
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September 6, 2024 at 9:43 am
This must be the shortest song (?) in this Blog !
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September 6, 2024 at 11:59 am
Possibly, yes.
Will have to confirm, though.
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