Ghulaamon kee purdard hai ye kahaanee
Posted on: December 17, 2024
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#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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Today’s song is from the movie “Gulnar-1950” which was directed by Harbans for ‘Girdhar Bahaar Productions’. This movie made its debut on the blog on 07.03.2023 wherein I had presented a song from this movie. The cast of this movie included Geeta Bali, Salim Raza, Farida, Kamal, Kuckoo, Smriti Rekha, Safi, Begum Parveen, Ramesh Thakur, Deepak, Asha, Nazar and others.
‘Gulnar-1950’ has twelve songs as mentioned in HFGK Vol-II (1941-1950). HFGK mentions the lyricist names for this movie as Tufail Hoshiyarpuri, Mulk Raj Bhakri, and Ehsan Rizvi. HFGK also mentions the same team of the three lyricists as the dialogue writers for this movie. Lyricist’s names for the individual songs have not been mentioned. Music for this movie has also been jointly credited to Hansraj Behl and Qadir Faridi.
Here I would like to reproduce what our senior Shri Sadanand Kamath ji had mentioned while commenting of the first song-post of this movie.
An advertisement the film ‘Gulnar’ (1950) had appeared in April 1946 issue of ‘Film India’ magazine. The film was based on a Egyptian folktale. The film was in the making sometime in mid-1946.
I have a gut feeling that this film may have remained unfinished due to partition effect and got completed n in Mumbai, after partition. The film producer, G A Thakur’s Girdhar Bahar Production was Mumbai-based film production company.My guess is based on the fact that in the film, there are Lahore-based actors, music director, singers and lyricist. For example, actors like Salim Raza, Smriti, Begum Parveen, Fareeda, dancer Rufi (not Safi) were Lahore-based. Similarly, film’s music director, Qadir Fareedi, playback singers, Zeenat Begum and Munawwar Sultana and lyricist and dialogue writer, Tufail Hoshiyarpuri were also Lahore-based. Since the film’s major shooting was scheduled in around Lahore, it made sense to take the actors and other crew members from Lahore.
The film may have been completed in Mumbai after partition by adding Geeta Bali, Kamal Kapoor, Cuckoo (instead of Rufi) etc.
With this background, I feel that songs rendered by Munawwar Sultana and Zeenat Begum in the films may have been composed by Qadir Fareedi. Hansraj Bahl may have got associated with the film when the film’s production shifted to Mumbai. So songs rendered by Meena Kapoor and Shyama Bai in the film may have been composed by Hansraj Bahl.
In context of the above when I am presenting here a song which is sung by Meena Kapoor, I would like to mention that one of the song links mentioned the composer’s name as Hansraj Behl and Qadir Faridi, and the lyricist name as Ehsan Rizvi. I would request knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this movie and its songs.
Let us now listen to this song which has some meaningful poetry in it.
Audio
Song-Ghulaamon kee purdard hai ye kahaanee (Gulnaar)(1950) Singer-Meena Kapoor, Lyrics-Ehsan Rizvi, MD-Hansraj Bahl
Lyrics
ghulaamon kee purdard hai
ye kahaanee
suno ham sunaate hain
aansuon ki zabaanee ee
ghulaamon ki purdard hai
ye kahaanee
likhee thhee naseebon mein aen
dar dar kee thhokar
pade hain qafas mein
laachaar ho kar
rahee shaakh aur
naa rahaa aashiyaanaa aa
haan aan aan
chaman kaa chhootaa hamse
hai aabodaanaa
bahaa hai hamaaraa
lahu ban ke paanee
ghulaamon kee purdard hai
ye kahaanee
hai ye kahaanee
saiyyaad ke zulm
kab tak sahenge
chaman se bhalaa door
kab tak rahenge
rahengee paaon mein
zanjeer kab tak
lagaayegee ye choten
taqdeer kab tak
bikegee baazaaron mein
kab tak jawaanee
ghulaamon kee purdard hai
ye kahaanee
suno ham sunaate hain
aansuon ki zabaanee
ghulaamon kee purdard hai
ye kahaanee
naa aa jeene kaa ab koi saamaan baakee
naa jeene mein koi hai
armaan baakee ee ee
ye ye ye
aahen rahengee
ye ye ye naaley rahenge
ye ye ye barbaad dil aur
afsaane rahenge
yaa ashqon kee
baakee rahegee rawaanee
ghulaamon kee purdard hain
ye kahaanee
hai ye kahaanee
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