Dil kho gaya hai mera jaane kahaan
Posted by: Atul on: January 8, 2025
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In the 1960s through 1970s, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium at Worli (Opposite Haji Ali) used to host free-style wrestling bouts. Dara Singh, Randhawa, Tiger Joginder Singh, Saudagar Singh etc among the Indians and some foreign wrestlers like King Kong used to participate in the bouts. Most wrestling bouts used to take place on Saturdays/Sundays and probably one during the weekdays. Large life size cut-outs of the famous wrestlers used to be displayed at the venue as well as some prominent places. In addition, huge posters of wrestling bouts used to be displayed on hand pulled carts (Haathh Gaadi) which will move from one place to other. Thousands of leaflets of advertisement of the wrestling bouts used to be distributed at prominent places like railway stations, bus stands and other crowded places.
I had no opportunity to watch live any of the wrestling matches in the Stadium. But what I had seen from roadside, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium at that time was an open arena with cement concrete steps for spectators to sit. Most of the spectators would be from the lower strata of the society with few front rows being reserved for the affluent class like from the film industry. The bouts would be houseful most of the time.
Judging the overwhelming popularity of the wrestling bouts, a few of the producers of stunt/action films got idea to exploit the popularity of Dara Singh and Randhawa in presenting them in Hindi films, first with cameo appearances. For instance, Dara Singh appeared as a cameo wrestler in a bout with Om Prakash in ‘Pahli Jhalak’ (1954) and also his cameo wrestling bout with Master Bhagwan in ‘Bhakt Raj’ (1960). Later, both Dara Singh and Randhawa did many Hindi films as a lead actor with box office success.
Shankar Khan (1966) was one of those stunt/action films in which there were scenes of free-style wrestling bouts with the bonus of fights and club dances for the front benchers. The film was produced by F M Khan and was directed by Nanabhai Bhatt (Mahesh Bhatt’s father). The cast included Prithviraj Kapoor, Dara Singh, Randhawa, Savita (debut film), Gajanan Jagirdar, Mohan Sheri, Kammo, Rajan Kapoor, Pratima Devi, Paro, Jagdeep, Mohan Choti, Shamli, Dilip Dutt, Nazir Kashmiri etc.
The story of the film is as under:
Birju (Randhawa) has been trained as a wrestler by Ustad Safdar Khan (Prithviraj Kapoor) and he has become Sher-e-Hind. He has gone to London to participate in the World Wrestling Championship. Safdar Khan leaves his village to Mumbai where he stays with his childhood friend, Lala Kedarnath (Gajanan Jagirdar) to get the first-hand information about the progress of his disciple Birju in World Wrestling Championship and to meet him personally in Mumbai after his return from London, However, he gets to know from the news that Birju has lost wrestling championship in his final bout. He later learns that one Verma (Mohan Sherry) who organises wrestling bouts has paid money to Birju to lose the final. Safdar Khan visits the hotel in which Birju is staying and finds him enjoying his drinks with a high society girl, Neeta (Kammo). Disgusted with Birju’s attitude, Safdar Khan leaves Mumbai with a vow that he would visits many villages to select a man to train him as a wrestler to make another Birju.
After scouting many villages all over India and witnessing wrestling bouts to select a wrestler who can be groomed for the championship, Safdar Khan selects Shankar (Dara Singh) and give him a rigorous training as a wrestler. He travels with him to Mumbai for his final training where he arranges some warm-up wrestling bouts for him before his wrestling bouts with Birju for Sher-e-Hind title.
Verma comes to know about Safdar Khan’s grooming Shankar for to win Sher-e-Hindi title. First, he sends his henchmen to decapacitate Shankar. Having failed in this, he plans to sabotage the progress of Shankar’s training by using Seema (Savita) to woo and engage Shankar away from his training schedule. Seema resents this work, but she is helpless as her father has been wrongly framed for a murder and Verma has given him a shelter from the police. Birju has heard the plan of Verma and tries to caution Shankar about his closeness to Seema, but Shankar thinks that Birju is jealous of him because his Ustad Safdar Khan has chosen Shankar over him as his disciple. Shankar continues his liaison with Seema which affects his training schedule with Safdar Khan. Shankar is reprimanded by Safdar Khan for his absence from the training during which he reveals that he has been meeting Seema and he would not meet her in future.
Shankar defeats Birju and wins Sher-e-Hind title. To celebrate the winning of the title, Lala Kedarnath arranges a party in his house during which Seema also attends. Safdar Khan is surprised with her presence as in his view, she was deployed by Verma to affect the readiness of Shankar for the bout. Seema reveals her the true story as to why she was forced to do things against her wishes. Safdar Khan feels sorry for Seema and is worried for her security. Lala Kedarnath suggests that the best security is to get Seema married to Shankar. But Shankar says that he can marry her only after he wins World Wrestling Title scheduled in London.
Meanwhile, Verma gets news of Seema’s probable marriage with Shankar. Once again, he blackmails Seema’s father to brings her to his house so that she could be married to one of his business partners. When Shankar comes to know about the plan, he rescues Seema from Verma after fights with Verma’s henchmen. Verma vows to take a revenge against Shankar.
Shankar is in the wrestling arena fighting with a masked wrestler. Among the crowd is Verma who after witnessing the defeat of the masked wrestler by the hands of Shankar, fires at Shankar which accidentally kills Safadr Khan’s son (Mohan Choti). Shankar chases Verma and during the fight, Verma holding the knife to stab Shankar accidentally gets killed by his own knife. Birju gets united with Safdar Khan who is emotionally affected by the death of his son. However, Shankar consoles his Ustad by telling him that from now onward, he would be his son, and he would be known as Shankar Khan.
‘Shankar Khan’ (1966) had six songs written by B D Mishra (5) and Nawab Arzoo (1) which were set to music by S N Tripathi. Three songs have been covered on the Blog. I am presenting the 4th song, ‘dil kho gayaa hai meraa jaane kahaan’ written by B D Mishra and rendered by Asha Bhosle. It is a club dance song picturised on Kammo. Randhawa, Mohan Sheri and Rajan Kapoor among others can be seen in the picturisation.
Kammo (Kamarjehan) was a dancer and supporting actor who was active in the 1950s and 60s. She was born in Saharanpur, (Uttar Pradesh) on November 28,1938. She was one among four sisters and two brothers. Her father was in army. After his retirement, the family shifted to Mumbai in 1949 and stayed in Mahim. She had a keen interest in Hindi films. One day, a neighbour took Kammo to a shooting where she was introduced to Choreographer, Badriprasad who included her in his dance troop. Initially, she appeared in the films one among the group dancers. However, within two years of her joining his dance troop, Badriprasad gave her opportunity as a solo dancer for the song, ‘jis roz se hamne tera deedaar kiya’ in ‘Sindbad The Sailor’ (1952). In the same year, she did a solo dance (without song) in ‘Raja Harishchandra’ (1952) and a solo dance song, ‘soch samajh kar dil ko lagaana’ from ‘Jaal’ (1952). Her dance skills in these films opened up her career as a dancer in many films.
After working as a supporting actor in Bimal Roy’s ‘Biraj Bahu’ (1954), she started getting supporting roles in addition to as a dancer. During her active film career, Kammo had worked in over 80 films from 1952 to 1977, which included ‘Laila Majnu’ (1953), ‘Adl-E-Jehangir’ (1955), Devdas’ (1955), ‘House No.44’ (1955), ‘Rajhat’ (1956), ‘Apradhi Kaun’ (1957), “Howrah Bridge’ (1958), ‘Phaagun’ (1958), ‘Basant’ (1960), ’Shama’ (1961), ‘Dil Tera Deewaana’ (1962),’Pooja Ke Phool’ (1964), ‘Insaaf’ (1966), ‘Heer Ranjah’ (1970), ‘Bombay To Goa’ (1972) etc. ‘Dhoop Chhaaon’ (1977) was virtually her last film.
It appears that after her marriage, she mostly confined herself as a housewife. Kammo was first married to actor, Balam. After divorce, she remarried Bilal Rehman, owner of Inamdar Furniture in Bandra. She was staying in Pali Hill, Bandra until she passed away on July 27, 2021, at the age of 83.
The background to the song under discussion is that Neeta (Kammo) is a club dancer who works for Verma (Mohan Sherry) in his wrestling bout fixing. Birju (Randhawa) has returned to Mumbai after he lost the final wrestling bout in London. His inner conscious tells him that he has betrayed the thrust of his Ustad by deliberately losing the wrestling bout for money. To cheer up his mood, Verma arranges the dance by Neeta.
A unique feature of this song is the use of the ‘Sanchaari’ format in the second stanza. Sanchaari, in its simplest form. is generally used in the second antara of a song in which before repeating the tune of the first antara, the first two verses in the second antara will have a different tune after which the remaining part of the second antara will follow the tune of the first antara. Sanchaari format was in vogue in Bengal. In Hindi films, this format was used by Salil Chowdhury and S D Burman among others. The idea of using the sanchaari format is to give emphasis on those two lines of the second antara.
Acknowledgement: The information on Kammo is majorly based on Shishir Krishna Sharma’s Blog, ‘Beete Hue Din’, March 20, 2020.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Dil kho gaya hai mera jaane kahaan (Shankar Khan)(1966) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-B D Mishra, MD-S N Tripathi
Lyrics:
dil kho gayaa hai meraa jaane kahaan
dil kho gayaa hai meraa jaane kahaan
jisne liyaa ho mujhe lautaa de
jisne liyaa ho mujhe lautaa de
haay meraa dil
dil kho gayaa hai meraa jaane kahaan
jisne liyaa ho mujhe lautaa de
haay meraa dil
meraa husn phire bechain ishq kaa maaraa
liyaa jisne loot mere dil ko wahee hai meraa pyaaraa
meraa husn phire bechain ishq kaa maaraa
liyaa jisne loot mere dil ko wahi hai meraa pyaaraa
nazron kaa jaal diyaa mujhpe daal
liyaa hai nikaal meraa dil
nazron kaa jaal diyaa mujhpe daal
liyaa hain nikaal meraa dil
haay meraa dil
dil kho gayaa hai meraa jaane kahaan
jisne liyaa ho mujhe lautaa de
haay meraa dil
yaa to mujhe apnee baahon mein le le
yaa to mujhe phir se dil meraa de de
yaa to mujhe apnee baahon mein le le
yaa to mujhe phir se dil meraa de de
dil ko churaa ke naa aankhen churaa
main hoon naazneen kamsin haseen
loongee tujhse chheen teraa dil
main hoon naazneen kamsin haseen
loongee tujhse chheen teraa dil
haay meraa dil
dil kho gayaa hai meraa jaane kahaan
jisne liyaa ho mujhe lautaa de
haay meraa dil
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