Samjhe naa dil kee lagee
Posted on: January 9, 2025
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‘Daal Mein Kaalaa’ (1964) was produced by the character actor, Bipin Gupta and was directed by Satyen Bose. The star cast included Kishore Kumar and Nimmi in lead roles supported by Abhi Bhattacharya, Om Prakash, Bipin Gupta, Agha, Sajjan, Sunder, Shammi, Kammo, Mumtaz Begum, Ashim Kumar, Sulochna Chatterjee, Tuntun, Mohan Choti, Keshto Mukherjee etc. The film belongs to the farcical comedy genre, based on a Bengali story, written by poet and writer, Premendra Mitra who has also directed a few Bengali films.
The shooting of the film commenced sometime in 1958. However, due to differences between the producer and the director, the film was stalled. When the shooting resumed, producer faced financial difficulties. Kishore Kumar financially helped the producer to complete the film. Finally, the film was released on March 31, 1964. (Source: ‘Kishore Kumar – The Ultimate Biography’ (2022) by Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Parthiv Dhar.)
The major part of the comedy in this film comes from mistaken identities. Kishore Kumar and his friend, Agha are scouting for jobs, and Bipin Gupta is waiting to receive an eminent professor Roy for a lecture with the intention of forging an alliance for his daughter, Nimmi. On the other end, theatre manager, Om Prakash is waiting to receive singer for his musical show with Kammo. Due to mistaken identities, Bipin Gupta receives Kishore Kumar assuming to be the Professor Roy while Om Prakash receives Abhi Bhattacharya assuming to be the singer who is actually the professor. This is one of the rare films in which Nimmi has little scope for sad expressions and shedding tears.
The story in detail is as under:
Rai Bahadur Bishambharnath (Bipin Gupta), a widower, stays with his daughter, Manju (Nimmi), the niece, Sheela (Shammi) and a widowed sister, (Mumtaz Begum) in Bengaluru. He has invited Professor Roy (Abhi Bhattacharya) as a Chief Guest at his school’s annual day function. He had made staying arrangement for Professor Roy in his palatial house with an eye on him as a prospective groom for Manju.
Rai Bahadur has a problem in identifying Professor Roy when he goes to the railway station to receive him as he has not seen him earlier. His sister assures him that only a few passengers will get down from first class compartment and he can easily identify Professor Roy by his dress and the scholarly appearance. At the same railway station, the theatre manager, Banke Bihari (Om Prakash) is waiting to receive a popular singer, Natwar Shyam (Sajjan) who is scheduled to sing in a musical programme with Munnibai (Kammo). Banke Bihari has a similar problem in identifying Natwar Shyam as he has never seen him. Since he would be alighting from first class compartment, his assistant says that he can identify the singer.
In Mumbai, two unemployed youth, Rajendra (Kishore Kumar) and his friend, Rajaram (Agha) have gone for job interviews but do not get selected. At the railway station for returning to their rented house. The landlady (Tuntun) has threatened them that if they do not clear the outstanding rent, they will be thrown out of the house. Rajaram suggests that they board an outstation train waiting at the railway station to avoid facing the landlady. They travel without ticket. At one of the intermittent stations, ticket checkers enter their compartment. At the next station, Rajendra and Rajaram get down and enter another compartment which they realise was a first-class compartment. They decide to get down at the next railway station. In the same first-class compartment, Professor Roy is traveling. So also, the singer. Natwar Shyam who is sleeping.
At the next station, Rajendra and Rajaram get down from the first-class compartment and were about to go to another compartment, when Rai Bahadur thinking him to be Professor Roy, garlands Rajendra who was in his interview attire. Rajendra tries to clear the misunderstanding but Rajaram, impressed by a rousing welcome, persuades Rajendra to pretend to be the professor for the time being. They are taken to Rai Bahadur’s house in the car. Rajaram is impressed by the palatial house for staying.
From the same train, Professor Roy gets down from his first class compartment and is looking for someone who has come to receive him. Banke Bihari, mistaking him to be singer, Natwar Shyam, receives him and takes him to their theatre green room in a horse driven cart. Despite Natwar Shyam’s protest which Banke Bihari takes it to be a part of his tantrums, he is almost put under ‘house arrest’. The real Natwar Shyam failed to get down at the station being sozzled in drink. On the musical program day, Natwar Shyam visits the venue to sing. However, he is denied entry as gate-keepers do not recognise him.
There comes an opportunity for Rajendra and Rajaram to escape from their impersonations, but they are not interested now. Rajendra has fallen in love with Manju while Rajaram has captured the heart of Sheela. But soon they get unmasked when on the day of the lecture, Professor Roy is brought to Rai Bahadur’s house by Vinod (Ashim Kumar) who recognised him while Professor Roy was trying to escape from Banke Bihari. Contrary to the expectation, Rai Bahadur does not press charges of impersonation on Rajendra and Rajaram after knowing their problems. They returned to Mumbai and face their landlady who demands the outstanding rent. She allows them to stay on one condition that they would clear their rent dues the next day. To earn money, both Rajendra and Rajaram start street singing.
Rai Bahadur plans for Manju’s marriage with Professor Roy which she reluctantly agrees. But her heart is still with Rajendra which Professor Roy comes to know from Sheela. He decides to help her to get united with Rajendra. First, he writes a letter to Rajendra to join him as his personal driver. But Rajendra suspects that there is something fishy (Daal Mein Kaalaa) about the offer. So, he joins Professor Roy disguising as a Sikh driver, Raju Singh. Professor however recognises him to be Rajendra but keep quite. Second, Professor Roy makes a business plan for Rai Bahadur to set up a sugar factory so that many unemployed youths would get the job. His idea is to get Rajendra employed in the sugar factory. Rai Bahadur agrees. But Manju and Rajendra are still stumbling blocks in his plans. While Manju does not want to go against the wishes of her father, Rajendra, knowing that Rai Bahadur has planned her marriage with Professor Roy, does not want to come in the way of their marriage. Finally, Professor Roy firmly tells Manju that he does not want to get married with a girl whose heart is with Rajendra.
The film ends with an hilarious scene in which Rajendra is chased by the entire family of Rai Bahadur and his servants, Professor Roy and Agha to capture him to agree to marry Manju. Starting the chase on the roads, it ends in a swimming pool in which he jumps. All chasers also jump to follow him in swimming pool where Rai Bahadur unites Manju with Rajendra and Sheela with Rajaram.
The film had eight songs written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan (4) Bharat Vyas (2), Majrooh Sultanpuri (1) and P L Santoshi (1) which were set to music by C Ramchandra. Four songs have been covered on the Blog. I am presenting the 5th song, ‘samjhe naa dil kee lagee’ rendered by Asha Bhosle on the words of Majrooh Sultanpuri. The song is picturised on Kammo when she is making advances to Abhi Bhattacharya. Om Prakash, Sunder, Mohan Choti and Marutirao are seen among others in the picturisation of the song.
The background of the song picturisation is that Professor Roy (Abhi Bhattacharya) has been mistaken for singer, Natwar Shyam and is taken along with his servant, Bhola (Sunder) to the green room of the musical theatre of Banke Bihari (Om Prakash) for the song rehearsal along with Munnibai’s (Kammo) dance. He tries to explain that he is not a singer, but Banke Bihari thinks that he is showing his tantrums. Munnibai props him by saying that it was her dream to get associated with him for the musical programme. Professor Roy is still unwilling to join her. So, she starts singing and dancing.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song- Samjhe na dil kee lagee (Daal Mein Kaala)(1964) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Majrooh Sultanpuri, MD-C Ramchandra
Lyrics (Based on Video Clip):
samjhe naa
samjhe naa dil kee lagee
sajan bade wo hain
balam bade wo hain
sanam bade wo hain
haay jhatkee kalaayee moree
sajan bade wo hain
balam bade wo hain
sanam bade wo hain
apnee banaa ke hamen apnee naa samjhe
apnee banaa ke hamen apnee naa samjhe
dekho anaadee piyaa
kuchh bhee naa samjhe
dekho anaadee piyaa
kuchh bhee naa samjhe
kuchh bhee naa samjhe
kuchh bhee naa samjhe
kaahe unse
kaahe unse nazriyaa ladee
sajan bade wo hain
balam bade wo hain
sanam bade wo hain
samjhe naa dil kee lagee
sajan bade wo hain
balam bade wo hain
sanam bade wo hain
aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
aa aa aa aa aaa
begaane bane huye hain ghar mein aake
begaane bane huye hain ghar mein aake
baithe hain bade bade nainaa jhukaa ke
baithe hain bade bade nainaa jhukaa ke
nainaa jhukaa ke jee
nainaa jhukaa ke
main to unko
main to unko nihaaroon khadee
sajan bade wo hain
balam bade wo hain
sanam bade wo hain
samjhe naa dil kee lagee
sajan bade wo hain
balam bade wo hain
sanam bade wo hain
aaye naheen ke lage phir uthh ke chalne
aaye naheen ke lage phir uthh ke chalne
baithe naheen ke lage pahloo badalne
baithe naheen ke lage pahloo badalne
pahloo badalne
pahloo badalne
dekho kaisee
dekho kaisee ye uljhan padee
sajan bade wo hain
balam bade wo hain
sanam bade wo hain
samjhe naa dil kee lagee
sajan bade wo hain
balam bade wo hain
sanam bade wo hain
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