Hamen chhod ke na jaanaa
Posted on: November 27, 2024
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Today’s song is from the film Pyar ki Baaten-1951.
The year 1951 was a mixed affair. After the end of II WW and especially after our Independence, there was a flood of people with Black money to produce films, earn profits and convert Black money to white money. This caused several films of low quality being made. Some of them tried to make copies of Hollywood films too. Luckily, everything wasn’t that bad and few good films also were made.
AWARA by Raj Kapoor came as a cool breeze in hot times. Everything about it was good, especially the acting and music impressed people. This film was released in Russia as “BROTHIYAGA” . It was sold there for Rs. 50,000, a big amount in those days.
HUM LOG, starring Balraj Sahni and Nutan – as realistic film of the Indian middle class. India has always been a country with the biggest size of middle class in the world.
ALBELA by Bhagwan and C.Ramchandra became an evergreen popular film. This was the high point of Bhagwan’s career, which he could never surpass in his lifetime.
BAAZI from Navketan fulfilled a pact between Dev Anand and Guru Dutt, made during their early careers, while with Prabhat Film co. Both rose high with this film.
DEEDAR – an unusual film of love story, enacted by Dilip Kumar and Nargis.
AANDOLAN made by Filmistan and enacted by Kishore Kumar was an excellent Docu-Commercial film with good content and music by Hemant Kumar for his first Hindi film as a Music Director.
AFSANA – a story of good and bad twins, featuring Ashok Kumar and Veena.
BAHAR – introducing Vyjayantimala, made by AVM with excellent Dances and Songs.
NAUJAWAN – age old story of the rich and the poor and film JAADU – a costume film, of Nalini Jaywant were hit films due to good music.
NAGEENA – a mystery and romance that had Pakistan returned Nasir Khan and a pre-adult Nutan.
Some important events of 1951 were….
1) Launch of ‘Screen’ weekly.
2) S.K.Patil’s report on the film industry.
3) Establishment of the Film Federation of India and Central Board of Censors in Bombay. and
4) First Nepali film ‘ Harishchandra’.
Some other notable films of 1951 were Pyar ki Baaten, Aaram, Actor, Baadal, Bade bhaiya, Bedardi( Nimmi sang her only Hindi Film song in it), Buzdil, Daaman, Dholak, Kali Ghata, Khazana, Madhosh, Malhar, Naadaan, Sagai, Sanam, Shabistan (actor Shyam died on the sets) and Taraana. In addition 18 Mythological films were also made.
PYAR KI BATEN(1951),was a very interesting film.
It was produced and directed by Akhtar Hussain and it had 2 Music directors,2 cinematographers,2 Choreographers,5 Lyricists,3 Story writers,3 Dialogue writers and 3 Screenplay writers.
There were 2 MDs.Bulo c Rani gave music to 4 songs and Khayyam(in the name of Sharmaji) 5 songs.
Asha Bhosle first sang for Khayyam in this film(Hamein chhod ke na jaana).
The story was also interesting.
Prince Badar(Trilok Kapoor) of Halab Kingdom was a vagabond.To improve him,marriage was proposed with Nadira(Nargis),princess of Nakhlistan.She refuses him and sends a doll to him.Enraged,Badar wants to take revenge and sets out as a poor peasant.
Gulnar, step mother of Nadira wants to marry her to her idiot cousin. To get away from this,Nadira runs away with the help of Saki(Pran),the army chief.They stay in an Inn,where Saki proposes marriage to her.By chance,Prince Badar is serving in that Inn.He saves Nadira and brings her to her palace,from where Saki kidnaps her.
The story tells us how Badar rescues her and how they fall for each other, etc.
The cast of the film was Trilok Kapoor, Nargis, Neelam, Neeru,Rasheed Khan, Master Nissar, H.Prakash, Maruti, Nazir, pran, Johnny Walker and many others.
Trilok Kapoor was born at Multan on 3-3-1912 and was educated at Peshawar. He went to Bombay to join his brother. He got his first film CHAR DARVESH-1933. He went to Calcutta and did some films there. He also worked as an assistant to Director Hem Chandra.
Trilok was associated with the activities of the freedom movement from a very young age. His elder sibling had already moved to Calcutta to make a career in films in the latter part of 1920s. The year was 1932. There was a large rally held in Multan, advocating prohibition against liquor. The rally turned violent, resulting in the death of some people. Trilok Kapoor was also at the rally. His father, fearing for his son’s life, wrote to Prithviraj in Calcutta, to desist young Trilok from participation in such violent movements. He also implored him to have his younger brother join him in Calcutta. Under family duress, Trilok left Multan and joined his elder brother in Calcutta in early 1933. It was natural for him to start working in films, under guidance from his elder brother. His first screen appearance is a small role he played alongside his elder brother, in the film ‘Seeta’. He also worked as an assistant to producer-director Hem Chander for some years. He played small roles in about ten films during his stay in Calcutta.
During the late 1930s, Prithviraj migrated to Bombay, and Trilok also moved with him. Immediately on arrival in Bombay, he got associated with Ranjeet Movietone. His career got a fillip when he got associated with Vijay Bhatt. In the 1940s, Vijay Bhatt had become a household name with the release of films based on Ramaayan, viz. ‘Bharat Milap’ (1942) and ‘Ram Rajya’ (1943). The interesting thing to happen was that through these films, Trilok Kapoor got so type cast in the role of Bhagwan Shiv, that well through the 1940s and 1950s, every producer wanted him to play that role only. His pairing with Nirupa Roy in the role of Mata Parvati became a staple feature of religious films in those years. His film ‘Har Har Mahadev’ celebrated a diamond jubilee in Bombay, and golden jubilee in many other centers.
In the 40s and 50s, His patent role was that of Mahadev. Trilok Kapoor was very famous for his portrayal of Shiv ji in Mythological films, in which he paired with Nirupa Roy as his consort-Parvati. He did 7 films in a row for this role and in all those films Nirupa Roy was Parvati. (However, no one could ever beat the divine pair of Ram and Seeta enacted by Shobhana Samarth and Prem Adib in Ram Rajya-1943).
It was rumoured that Trilok Kapoor wore a real snake around his neck during shootings. In the shooting of Har Har Mahadev, Nirupa Roy was scared of the real snake and she could not do any scene with Trilok ji. Finally, he had to remove the real snake and wear an artificial snake for this shooting.
He and Nirupa Roy worked in 18 films together. Nirupa Roy paired with some actors more than others. She acted with Balraj Sahni in 12 films, with P.Jairaj in 16 films and with Ashok Kumar in 21 films. She was Amitabh’s mother in 12 films, overall Mythological films were 50, Mother’s role in 50 films, suffering wife in 30 films and believe it or not, she acted in 8 Stunt films also.
Trilok Kapoor did about 120 films. In a career that lasted a little over five decades, Trilok Kapoor performed in more than 120 films, mostly small roles. Besides the religious films, the high point of his career was his lead appearance opposite Noorjehan in the film ‘Mirza Sahiban’ (1947). His last film was a TV film Akanksha, which was released after his death which took place on 23-9-1988.
As per HFGK, Trilok Kapoor the actor sang 1 solo in Aaj ki Duniya and 5 duets in Raja Rani-42. After this there are no songs on his name. There was another singer with the same name Trilok Kapoor. This caused confusion, but they were two different persons.
Today’s song is sung by Asha Bhosle. This was her First Cabaret song for Khayyam, the Music Director.
Khayyam had started his musical career with the film Heer Ranjha-48 with a pseudonym Sharma ji along with Vermaji (Rehman Verma). Later on for films Parda-49, Biwi-50, and Pyar ki baten–51 also he used the name Sharmaji. It was from the film Footpath-53, he started using his own name khayyam.
The story of his name is interesting. In one of the interviews Khayyam gave to Abhijit Desai in the 80s he narrated his first meeting with the Ranjit Boss Chandulal Shah,thus-
” When I got ‘ Footpath’,everyone knew that I had taken the name ‘Sharmaji’ for films.I had an appointment with Zia Sarhadi and Chandulal Shah,the owner of Ranjit-producers of ‘Footpath. Zia saab had already heard my tunes and he had liked my work.This was only a formal meeting.
Sethji was sitting on a big chair. ”unke woh safed bal aur trademark white coat bhi tha”. As soon as he saw me,he shouted at me loudly
“Asli nam kaya hai ? ” he had known about my name Sharmaji and he had felt it was not good.I knew this.So,when he shouted at me,I shouted even louder than him,” Mohammed Zahoor Khayyam Hashmi”
He liked Khayyam out of my full name, and he shouted double than me
” aaj se khayyam likho”.
The meeting ended there only and I came out wiping my sweat. ”
Now enjoy this 73 year old song….
Song- Hamen chhod ke naa jaana (Pyaar Ki Baaten)(1951) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Khawar Zamaan, MD-Sharma Jee aka Khayyam
Lyrics
hamen chhod ke na jaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
hua dil ka nishaana
dekho mausam hai suhaana
dil tod ke na jaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
hua dil ka nishaana
dekho mausam hai suhaana
dil tod ke na jaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
na ja
tu na tadpa
pyaar kee baaten hon
pyaar kee baaten hon
tu aa
gale lag ja
suhaanee raaten hon
suhaanee raaten hon
mere dil se na jaana
dekho bura hai zamaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
mere dil se na jaana
dekho bura hai zamaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
hua dil ka nishaana
dekho mausam hai suhaana
dil tod ke na jaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
dil mein chhah saat sau armaan liye baithe hon
aath mazooron ka saamaan liye baithe hon
hamen karke begaana
soya pyaar na jagaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
hamen karke begaana
soya pyaar na jagaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
hua dil ka nishaana
dekho mausam hai suhaana
dil tod ke na jaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
ho o
pehchaan gaye
mere gaal hain gulaabi
mere honth hain unaabi(?)
tum jaan gaye
ho o
pehchaan gaye
mere gaal hain gulaabi
mere honth hain unaabi(?)
tum jaan gaye
meree duniya basaana
aankhon aankhon se pilaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
meree duniya basaana
aankhon aankhon se pilaana
hume chhod ke na jaana
hua dil ka nishaana
dekho mausam hai suhaana
dil tod ke na jaana
hamen chhod ke na jaana
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