Kahte hain saare hanste nazaare
Posted on: October 5, 2024
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Geetanjali Pictures of Hemant Kumar had tasted success in the genre of suspense/mystery thriller in ‘Bees Saal Baad’ (1962) and ‘Kohra’ (1964). The banner had also produced ‘Faraar’ (1965), ‘Bibi Aur Makaan’ (1966) and ‘Khamoshi’ (1970) without much success at the box office. After a decade of the box office success of ‘Bees Saal Baad’ (1962), Hemant Kumar tried to repeat the success formula in ‘Bees Saal Pahele’ (1972). He introduced his son, Ritesh Mukherjee (real name: Jayanta Mukherjee, husband of Moushumi Chatterjee) in the lead role.
‘Bees Saal Pehle’ (1972) was produced by Hemant Kumar under his film production banner, Geetanjali Pictures. The film was directed by debutant, Probir Roy who had assisted Biren Nag in ‘Bees Saal Baad’ (1962) and Shakti Samanta in ‘Evening in Paris’ (1967). The main cast included Ritesh Mukherjee, Anupama, Farida Jalal, Ramesh Dev, Vinod Mehra (guest appearance), Abhi Bhattacharya, Lalita Pawar, Padma Khanna, Iftekhar, Sarita, Jagdev Bhambri, Mohan Choti, Paintal, etc.
Only one VCD of the full film is available on-line to watch. However, the quality of the VCD is very bad. Many dialogues in the film are not audible. Those audible are badly synchronised. So, I have watched the film in driblets to get some feel of the story.
Vinod Mehra (in guest appearance) while driving his car on a village road is struck up as the car has developed some problem. Since it is late evening, he visits a nearby depleted bungalow. An old man, probably a Caretaker (Iftikhar) agrees to the request of Vinod Mehra and gives him a shelter in one of the rooms of the Bungalow for a night. As usually happens in Hindi films with the genre of suspense with supernatural events, Vinod Mehra hears, first a screaming voice of a lady followed by her cry. As he gets up, the lady moves in the bungalow with a background song typical of such genre of Hindi films. He desperately calls the Caretaker and reveals what he saw. The caretaker tells him that the bungalow is haunted by the ghost of Geeta who was killed by a local goon while trying to molest her. The Caretaker starts the story, and the film goes into flash-back mode.
20 years back, Choudhary Saab (Abhi Bhattacharya), a wealthy man, stays in a neighbouring place with no one in his family except his nephew, Anand (Ritesh Mukherjee). Choudhary Saab has some health issue which has made him virtually confined to his bed. Anand who has just completed his graduation is in love with Radha (Farida Jalal) and Choudhary Saab has decided to get them married once he hands over his business to Anand.
On a visit to Geeta’s house to inform her of his graduation, Anand comes across a girl, Geeta (Anupama) in distress who has been misled by a rogue passerby while trying to meet her relative, Laxman (Iftikhar). Anand takes her to Laxman where she gets shelter. However, his wife, Madhu (Sarita Khatau) has a different plan for Geeta to use her for her own benefit. She wants Geeta to please Dilip, a local goon. Geeta refuses to his advances. One day, Geeta gets kidnapped by some goons sent by Dilip. The last-minute presence of Anand at the spot thwarts the kidnap attempt and both of them hide in a nearby cave and spend night there to avoid goons.
When Chaudhary Saab comes to know about this incidence, while he appreciates Anand’s helping nature, he is bothered by people talking about this incidence which would be exploited to tarnish the image of the family. He, therefore, tells Anand to get married to Geeta. He also convinces Radha the necessity of Anand getting married to Geeta to save Anand from disrepute. Anand gets married to Geeta.
Having failed in his attempt to woo Geeta, Dilip and Madhu make a deceitful plan to rope in Anand in Dilip’s business as a partner. Initially, Anand gets profit in business deals. However, later on, he comes to know that Dilip is in smuggling business. He withdraws from the partnership with Dilip. As a revenge, Dilip gets Geeta kidnapped and is brought to his house to molest her. Anand gets to know of it and comes to Dilip’s house. In a frenzy moment, Dilip kills Geeta and throw her dead body in a stream near his house in order to evade her presence in the house.
With this incidence, Dilip’s life becomes a hell as he starts getting hallucination of Geeta’s presence in the house. However, his lust for Radha as a means of settling score with Anand does not get diminished. Radha is kidnapped and is brought to the Dilip’s house. Once again, Anand reaches in time to Dilip’s house. A long fight ensues between Dilip and Anand. Finally, Dilip gets the delusion of the presence of Geeta and is frozen with fear. Dilip gets killed by his delusion that the ghost of Geeta has strangled him.
The film ends with Laxman telling Vinod Mehra that Anand and Radha get married and stay in their neighbouring house.
The film was an amateurish attempt to present it as a suspense/mystery thriller. For me, there was no thrilling experience, nor any suspense or mystery while watching the film as the suspense/mystery was unfolded in the starting scene of Vinod Mehra with Iftikhar. The film was more of an action drama with lots of fight scenes. Other than Ramesh Deo, Ritesh Mukherjee, Farida Jalal and Anupama, roles of the rest of the actors listed in the film were akin to their guest appearances.
The film failed miserably on the box office front. After this film, Hemant Kumar did not produce any Hindi film. Ritesh Mukherjee’s career as a lead actor started and ended with this film. He turned producer with his real name, Jayanta Mukherjee with ‘Mazaaq’ (1975), ‘Do Ladke Dono Kadke’ (1979) and a TV Serial, ‘Talaash’ (1992). The director, Probir Roy did not get opportunity to direct any other Hindi films. He went back to his earlier role of assistant director, this time to Basu Chatterjee in ‘Chakravyuha’ (1975).
‘Bees Saal Pehle’ (1972) had 8 songs with one double-version song. All the songs were written by S H Bihari and set to music by Hemant Kumar. Two songs have already been covered in the Blog. I am presenting the 3rd song from the film – ‘kehte hain saare hanste nazaare’ which is rendered by Lata Mangeshkar.
I came to know about the existence of this song very recently. Actually, I had heard its original version song in Bengali – ‘nijhum sandhaye pantha pakhira’ about 5 years back when I had watched the Bangla film, ‘Monihar’ (1965) for writing for the series ‘Hindi Songs in Bangla Films’ for the Blog. The tune of the song sounded familiar to me. Probably, I may have heard the Hindi version of the song many years back. However, at that time, I let it go from my mind as my primary purpose was to see the context of Hindi song which I was covering in my article from ‘Monihar’ (1965). I heard this Bangla song a couple of days back and I felt that I should find out whether this tune has been re-used in Hindi film/non-film song by Hemant Kumar. After browsing through the songs composed by Hemant Kumar in Hindi films, I located the Hindi version of the song in the film under discussion.
The song is picturised on Radha (Farida Jalal) when she finds that Anand (Ritesh Mukherjee) has been facing personal problems ever since he had married Geeta (Anupama) under the circumstances beyond his control despite his love for Radha. Now, he has lost Geeta. Radha sings this song to motivate Anand that happiness and sorrow are part of every individual’s life and they do not stay perpetually with them.
I liked both Bangla and Hindi version of the song so much that I thought I should present this song in a post for the Blog.
Videos of original Bangla song from ‘Monihar’ (1965):
Lata Version:
Hemant Kumar Version:
Hindi movie song
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Kahte hain saare hanste nazaare (Bees Saal Pahle)(1972) Singer-Lata Mangeshkar, Lyrics-S H Bihari, MD-Hemant Kumar
Lyrics
kehte hain saare hanste nazaare
khushiyaan lutaaye chala jaa aa aa aa
gham kaa koi bhi saathhi nahin hai
gham ko bhulaaye chala jaa aa aa aa
kehte hain saare ae ae ae
roz bahaaren
baaghon mein aayengi nahin
roz ghataayen
saawan ki chhaayengi nahin
phir se zamaana ye
aaye ke aaye naa
naghme sunaaye chala jaa aa aa aa aa
kehte hain saare hanste nazaare
khushiyaan lutaaye chala jaa aa aa aa
gham kaa koi bhi saathhi nahin hai
gham ko bhulaaye chala jaa aa aa aa
kehte hain saare ae ae ae
dekh fizaayen
itni suhaani hain yahaan
raat aayegi
leke sitaaron kaa jahaan
jhilmil sitaaron se
ghamgeen raaton ki
mehfil sajaaye chala jaa aa aa aa aa aa
kehte hain saare hanste nazaare
khushiyaan lutaaye chala jaa aa aa aa
gham ka koi bhi saathhi nahin hai
gham ko bhulaaye chala jaa aa aa aa aa
kehte hain saare ae ae ae
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October 12, 2024 at 10:05 pm
Sadanand Sir,
What a fascinating exploration of these songs!
I absolutely agree with you—I’ve watched the Bengali movie Monihar (1965), 3-4 times solely for its beautiful songs. The emotional depth in both the Bengali and Hindi versions is truly captivating.
The Hindi rendition of ‘Kehte Hain Saare Hanste Nazare’ by Lata is equally enchanting.
Thank you for sharing this gem!
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October 13, 2024 at 9:30 am
Gandhi Vadlapatla ji,
Thanks for your comments. I am glad that you liked both the versions of the song.
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