Chale hain kahaan sarkaar hamen beqaraar kar ke
Posted on: January 3, 2025
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‘Naache Naagin Baaje Been’ (1960) was produced by Devi Sharma and was directed by Tara Harish. The star cast included Chandrashekhar, Kumkum, K N Singh, Amar, Sunder, Indira Bansal, Parshuram, Agha, Helen, Kamal Mehra, Ratna, Ratan Ghurang, Chandabai etc.
Recently, I watched the film under discussion on one of the video sharing platforms and found the plot of the film to be a hotch-potch one. There are at least two sub-plots around Agha-Helen and Sunder-Indira Bansal in addition to the main plot around Chandrashekhar-Kumkum. The linkages of these sub-plots with the main plot appear to be artificial and sometime with childish comedy. An interesting aspect of this film was that Master Parshuram was the main villain who did not indulge in fights and K N Singh as his son worked as his henchman.
I also feel that the sequencing of a few scenes in the VCD of the film appear to have gone wrong or some in-between scenes have been edited out. For example, in the scene when Chandrashekhar and Kumkum meet for the first time while she is playing the been, they get acquainted with each other. But in one of the subsequent scenes, they are shown as if they are meeting for the first time. I have, therefore, attempted to recapitulate the broad story of the film as under:
Deepak (Chandrashekhar) has come to a village searching for the address of Seth Parshuram (Parshuram). First, he enquired about him from Raja (Agha) who is a carpentar. As soon as he hears the name of Parshuram, Raja drives Deepak out of his workshop. Deepak gets almost the same response about Parshuram from Rani (Kumkum) when she was playing been. She is the devotee of Naag Devta. He is impressed by her bin playing performance. Deepak also gives a try in playing been and Rani is impressed with his performance. This is the beginning of their mutual admiration.
Deepak gets to know the whereabout of Sheth Parshuram from Lallu (K N Singh), his son. Seth Parshuram is a moneylender who had lent money to Kushalchand (Sood), Deepak’s father in the past. Deepak hands over a closed letter from his father to Seth Parshuram. After Deepak has left, Seth Parshuram reads the letter in which Kushalchand has requested him for a loan of Rs.20000/- for the marriage of his daughter, Leela (Ratna) with Udhay Shankar (Kamal Mehra). He also requests that the contents of the letter should not be revealed to Deepak.
Meanwhile, Rani’s closeness to Deepak has become the talk of the village. Lallu tells this to Rani’s brother, Mangaldas (Amar) that Rani and Deepak are in Raja’s house as love birds. However, Rangeeli (Helen) who is in love with Raja, saves the situation. Deepak leaves the village to return to Mumbai not before Rani and hemself taking a vow before Naag Devta that they would be inseparable. Rani is in a sombre mood in the absence of Deepak. Raja takes Rani to Mumbai and visit Deepak’s house where Rani is introduced as a sister of a fictious rich brother to Deepak’s father to lure him to agree for Rani’s marriage with Deepak.
Seth Parshuram pays a surprise visit to Mumbai and meets Deepak’s father. Seeing him, Deepak takes leave of his father in the pretext of leaving Rani to her village lest the secret will be out. Parshuram reveals to Kushalchand that Rani is actually the sister of a poor farmer in his village. However, Kushalchand does not believe him. On return, Seth Parshuram tells Mangaldas that he saw his sister reveling with Deepak in Mumbai. Lallu also tells him that Rani is spending time with Deepak in the village. Mangaldas is furious and he orders Rani not to go out of the house. There is a reason for his anger which he reveals to Rani later that there is curse from Naag Devta on the family that whoever marries her will be biten by a snake and die.
In the meanwhile, while Rani is virtually under ‘house arrest’, Deepak visits her house and meets Mangaldas requesting his approval for her marriage with him. But Mangaldas is unable to agree to his request for the reason of the curse of Naag Devta which he does not share with him. However, after seeing the intense love of Rani with Deepak, Mangaldas agrees for the marriage. Kushalchand is agreeable for the marriage provided Mangaldas gives him Rs,20000/- as dowry to be used for the marriage of his daughter, Leela with Uday Shankar. Mangaldas takes loan of Rs.20000/- from Seth Parshuram against the pledge of his agricultural land.
But there is a new twist in the story. Lallu has been eyeing Rani for the marriage. With the loan taken by Mangaldas, Rani would get married to Deepak. To abort the marriage of Rani with Deepak, first, Lallu arranges through his henchmen to steal Rs.20000 from Mangaldas’s house. Later, Seth Parshuram asks Mangaldas to repay the loan. Otherwise, he would consficate his house and agricultural land. Somehow, Mangaldas is able to repay the loan. Having failed in his ploy to stop the marriage of Rani with Deepak, Lallu forcibly kidnaps Rani and decides to get married to her. However, Deepak rescues Rani from the marriage hall and instead, he gets married to Rani. Lallu with his henchmen corner Deepak during which Lallu tries to fatally stab him. But a snake emerges from nowhere and bites Lallu to his death. All the three couples, Deepak with Rani, Raja with Rangeeli and Uday Shankar with Leela unite.
The only redeeming feature of this film is its eight melodious songs written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and set to music by Chitragupt. Six songs have been covered on the Blog. I am presenting the 7th song, ‘chale hain kahaan sarkaar hamen beqraar ker ke’ rendered by Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar. The song is picturised on Chandrashekhar and Kumkum. The background of the song is that Kumkum and her friends lay a trap of wooden plank with nails on a village road so that when the cars pass through, their tyre would get punctured. Rani and her friends would get opportunity to sell berries to the stranded persons. When Deepak is driving his car on the trapped pathway, he catches Kumkum’s mischief after which the song under discussion follows.
The song is melodious with a catchy tune.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Chale hain kahaan sarkaar hamen beqaraar kar ke (Naache Naagin Baaje Been)(1960) Singers-Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Lyrics-Majrooh Sultanpuri, MD-Chitragupta
Lyrics:
chale hain kahaan
sarkaar hamen beqraar kar ke
chale hain kahaan
sarkaar hamen beqraar kar ke
hamaaree khushee
koi roke hai kyun
taqraar kar ke
hamaaree khushee
koi roke hai kyun
taqraar kar ke
kuchh to bataao
udaaye liye jaatee hai kiskee lagan
kuchh to bataao
udaaye liye jaatee hai kiskee lagan
jaane meree paayal
ki jaane mere nainaa
yaa jaane meraa mann
magar kuchh hamse bhee kaho to sahee
hamaaree khushee
koi roke hai kyun
taqraar kar ke
chale hain kahaan
sarkaar hamen beqraar kar ke
khud kare choree
upar se munh joree
adaa hai kiskee
khud kare choree
upar se munh joree
adaa hai kiskee
mann uljhaana
hamaare peechhe aana
khataa hai kiskee
hameen se huyee galatee
jee suno to sahee
hamaaree khushee
koi roke hai kyun
taqraar kar ke
chale hain kahaan
sarkaar hamen beqraar kar ke
hamaaree khushee
koi roke hai kyun
taqraar kar ke
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