Firaaq mein guzree hamree sagaree umariyaa
Posted on: October 22, 2024
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#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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“Bombay-1949” was directed by C.R. Bajaj for ‘National Artist, Bombay’. It had Shashikala, Ram Singh, Uday Kumar, Suraiyya Chaudhary, S. Nazeer, Mirza Musharraf, Ratan Gaurang, Rekha, Pittoo, Shanti Madhok, Bhudo Advani, Mukri and others.
This movie ‘Bombay-1949’ has as many as thirteen songs contributed by two lyricist viz. Kamalnayan and C.R. Bajaj. Music for this movie was composed by Mushtaq Hussain, Chetumal, N. Bhattacharya and Raja Miyan. The singers list for this movie included Sulochana Kadam, Nakul Malik, Ram Sehgal, and Hariram.
Two songs from this movie have been posted on the blog in the past. Here is what our in-house encyclopedia Shri Arunkumar jee mentioned about this obscure movie in his post on the blog. (I have included the text giving information about the movie only from his post).
This film is so obscure that the names associated with this film, from the production House – National Artists, Bombay – to names from other heads like the Director. Music Directors (4 MDs), the Lyricists to its cast members (except Shashikala, Mirza Musharraf and Bhudo Advani) all are almost never heard of and are least known!
The film was directed by C.R. Bajaj, who directed only this one film. The 4 Music Directors were Mushtaq Hussain, Chetumal, N Bhattacharya and Raja Miyan. Heard any name so far ? The Lyricists were Kamalnayan and C.R.Bajaj. Both wrote lyrics only for this film. Coming to the cast of the film, it shows names of Shashikala, Ram Singh, Uday kumar, Suraiyya Chaudhary, Mirza Musharraf, Gaurang, Uday kumar, Rekha, Pittoo, Bhudo Advani etc.etc.
The only familiar name was its Title – Bombay. A cursory look at the book of Film Title Index shows that there were 28 films which had ‘Bombay’ in their titles (and to be fair, 24 films had ‘Mumbai’ in their titles). As a curiosity, I checked the other 3 metro names, but they fared very badly in this race. There were only two films having ‘Calcutta’ in their titles and only one had Kolkata in its title. Only one film had ‘Madras’ in its title but Chennai has 2 films. India’s capital Delhi fared better with 15 titles and New Delhi in 3 film titles. It would be a Free time exercise to find out about other Towns and Cities. I have done the spade work, so somebody else has to volunteer ! Among the Playback singers, except one name – Sulochana Kadam, other names are unknown to me. They are Nakul Malik, Ram Sehgal and Hariram. Sulochana Kadam has 7 solos and 1 duet in this film.
The lead pair in this film was Shashikala and Ramsingh. At the time of this film, Shashikala was all of 16 years, while Ramsingh was almost double her age with 29 years! This, of course, is no wonder. Ashok kumar, Dharmendra, Shammi Kapoor and others have done this several times. The actor Ram Singh’s name is not very famous or well known, but in his times, he did Hero’s and Villain’s roles in many films.
The song under discussion is the third song from the movie. It sung by Sulochana Kadam. Lyricist for the today’s song is C.R. Bajaj and music is composed by Chetumal- N. Bhattacharya.
I have not been able to note correct words at many places in the today’s song and I would like to request readers with keener ears to provide correct words wherever I have been failed and noted wrong words.
Let us now listen to the today’s song…
Audio
Song-Firaaq mein guzree hamaree sagari umariyaa (Bombay)(1949) Singer-Sulochana Kadam, Lyrics-C R Bajaj, MD-N Bhattacharya
Lyrics
Firaaq mein guzree ee ee ee
hamaree sagaree umariyaa
firaaq mein guzree ee ee ee
hamaree sagaree umariyaa
pal pal tadap tadap
haan aan aan aan
pal pal tadap tadap
chain binaa
haaye ae ae
firaaq mein guzree ee ee ee
hamaree sagree umariyaa
laagee lagan
aisee sajan
ghadi pal chhin
chain na aaye ae ae ae
tum ko diyaa
tan man dhan
tumhre bin
birhaa sataaye ae ae ae
o more raam
jaaye praan
o more raam
jaaye praan
hamree maan
tumhree
haaye ?
pal pal tadap tadap
chain binaa kaate
haaye ae ae
firaaq mein guzree ee ee ee
hamree sagree umariyaa
koyal kook
sunat hook
koyal kook
sunat hook
uthhat
chhatiyaa dhadak
kal na pade
piyaa binaa aa aa
haan aan aa aa aa
piyaa binaa aa aa
o piyaa
piyaa
piyaa
piyaa
karat
pal pal tadap tadap
chain binaa kaate ae
haaye ae ae
firaaq mein guzree ee ee
hamaree sagree umariyaa
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