Abba kahe naa ammaa kahe naa
Posted on: March 12, 2025
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Filmistan Studio was formed by Shashadhar Mukherjee, Ashok Kumar, Rai Bahadur Chunnilal and Gyan Mukherjee in 1943 after they left Bombay Talkies due to differences with Devika Rani. She had taken over the charge of the Bombay Talkies after the death of her husband, Himanshu Rai in 1940. ‘Chal Chal Re Naujawaan’ (1944) was Filmistan’s maiden film. Thereafter, Filmistan had produced box office successful films such as ‘Do Bhai’ (1947), ‘Shaheed’ (1948), ‘Shabnam’ (1949). Samaadhi’ (1950) and ‘Sargam’(1950). After the death of Rai Bahadur Chunnilal in 1950, Tolaram Jalan took over the Filmistan while Shashadhar Mukherjee continued as its Creative Head. Post-1950, Filmistan produced successful films like ‘Anarkali’ (1953), ‘Naastik’ (1954), ‘Naagin’ (1954), ‘Munimji’ (1955), ‘Tumsa Nahi Dekha’ (1957), ‘Paying Guest’ (1957) etc.
In 1958, Shashadhar Mukherjee left Filmistan due to differences with Tolaram Jalan and set up Filmalaya Studio. Since then, Filmistan as a film producing company was on a declining trajectory as none of the films released post-1958 gained success as much as during Shashadhar Mukherjee’s leadership. ‘Paayal Ki Jhankaar’ (1968) was the last film produced under the banner of Filmistan after which it stopped film production. However, its studio continues to be available for film and TV serial shootings.
‘Paayal Ki Jhankar’ (1968) was directed by M V Raman. The cast included Kishore Kumar and Jyothi Lakshmi in the lead role supported by Rajshree (South), Rehman, Sulochana Chatterjee, P Kailash, Dhumal, Rajendra, Baby Farida etc. For film’s lead actress, Jyothi Lakshmi this was her first Hindi film, that too in a lead role. Before this, she has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films, first as a dancer and thereafter as lead actor. For director, M V Raman, the offer of this film had come at a time when ‘Jwaala’ (1970) which he had planned as a producer-director in the late 1950s was struck for a long time due to the illness of its lead actor, Madhubala.
The story of the film is as under:
Shyam/Shammi (Kishore Kumar), a painter and a musician, is the son of a wealthy Sita (Sulochana Chatterjee) who owns a couple of cotton mills. Kala (Rajshree) has been staying with Sita ever since her mother, Sita’s close friend, had died. Sita has planned to make Kala her daughter-in-law by marrying her to Shyam. Diwan (Rehman), Sita’s nephew has an eye on Sita’s wealth as well as on Kala. But Shyam is an obstacle for him.
Bored with the city life, Shyam has taken a break and has temporarily shifted to a forest to pursue his hobby of painting and playing musical instruments in a peaceful atmosphere. During a sojourn for finding a suitable location for painting, he comes across a beautiful and mischievous girl, Pammi (Jyothi Lakshmi) who after seeing Shyam, commands her herd of elephants to surround him as a part of her mischief. Shyam makes her to give a pose for his painting. After spending a few days in the forest, Shyam and Pammi like each other’s company. In fact, Shyam calls himself as Shammi to rhyme with Pammi.
In the city, Diwan (Rehman) entrusts his assistant to get rid of Shyam in the forest by shooting him and showing it as an accidental fall from a hill. His assistant with a couple of men go to the forest and shoot Shyam. He falls and the shooter thinks that Shyam is dead. They come back and report to Diwan who is happy with the news. He conveys to Sita that Shyam has been missing from the forest just to buy some time to convey her the ‘sad’ message that Shyam is ‘fallen from the hills and is dead’.
In the forest, Kishore gets injured from the shooting. Pammi tends him to recover from the injury. During this period, both falls in love with each other. Kishore plans to marry Pammi, For this purpose, he leaves for the city to seek his mother’s approval for the marriage with an assurance to Pammi that he would return. Diwan has gone to meet Sita to convey his heart-felt news of Shyam’s ‘death’ when Shyam enters her house and embraces his mother. Diwan changes his track and tell Sita that he is happy that Shyam is safe.
With the arrival of Shyam, Kala is happy under the assumption that she would be daughter-in-law in the house. Shyam is, however, completely unaware of his mother’s decision. Kala tries to impressed Shyam as his wife-in-waiting but Shyam’s response to her is that of a daughter of his mother’s close friend. Kala dances to Shyam’s mandolin music but Shyam sees her as if Pammi is dancing in front of him.
Diwan now plans a different strategy. He arranges a dance competition between Kala and Shalini Kapoor (Rani), a famous dancer during which a deliberate accident is creaed facilitating the abduction of Kala while Shyam becomes unconscious. When Shyam regains consciousness, he has forgotten his past and is not able to recognise anyone.
In the forest, Pammi has been waiting for the return of Shyam for a long time. The abductors of Kala has taken her to the forest to be thrown in the river when Pammi and her friends save Kala by injuring the abductor by their slingshots. Pammi brings Kala to her house and takes care of her to recover from the shock. During her stay, Kala tells Pammi that she is in love with Shyam. Pammi also tells her that she is in love with Shammi.
In the city, Diwan has called Vaidraj (Dhumal) to ensure that Shyam does not recover from amnesia. But Vaidraj suggests to Sita that a dancer wearing heavy anklets (Paayal) should dance in front of Shyam which may bring back his memory since he is a musical minded. In the meanwhile, Diwan orders his henchmen to bring back Kala from the forest as she is roaming free and he can get exposed. They go to the forest but instead of Kala, they abduct Pammi. She is brought to Diwan’s room who is impressed with her beauty. But before he could take advantage, she runs away to Sita’s room. Just then Diwan says that he has brought her to dance with heavy anklets in front of Shyam to regain his memory.
Pammi’s dance is organised during which she dances to the song which Shyam has sung for her during their sojourn in the forest. Shyam regains his memory and meets Pammi in his usual gusto. Diwan hears their conversations which gives him a fuel to create a rift between Shyam and his mother over Pammi. So, Diwan brings backs Kala. She meets Sita who is happy that on the same day, she has got Shyam and Kala to their normal shelves. Kala also meets Pammi and both are very happy to see each other. Kala says that she has come to meet Shyam while Pammi says that she has already met her fiancé, Shammi. Soon both of them realise that Shyam and Shammi are the same person turning into a love triangle.
After knowing the reality, Pammi goes back to forest without informing anyone. When Shyam comes to know about it, he follow Pammi while telling the mother that he always treated Kala as his sister. Diwan is happy with these developments as Shyam will be away from the city leaving him enough leeway for attaining his target. This time, Diwan himself takes his henchmen to forest to kill Shyam. But the city-bred henchmen are no match to fight the forest dwellers with their indigenous method of fighting. Diwan tells his henchmen to burn the entire forest so that people will think that Shyam and others died of natural calamity. However, with wild elephants in Pammi’s command, they sprinkle water drawn from the river through their trunks to control the fire. Rest of the wide elephants drive Diwan and his henchmen to their death. Shyam and Pammi get married in the forest.
The film had six songs including one version song written by Rajendra Krishan (5) and Qamar Jalalabadi (1) which were set to music by C Ramchandra. Two songs have been covered on the Blog. I present the 3rd song, ‘abbaa kahe na ammaa kahe na’ rendered by Kishore Kumar on the words of Rajendra Krishan. It is a typical fast-paced Kishore Kumar song and Jyothi Lakshmi has danced with the same enthusiasm as in perceived his singing. Hence, the song is interesting to watch on the video clip than to listen on the audio clip.
The context of the song is that Shyam (Kishore Kumar) has come to stay in a forested area to pursue his hobby of painting and music in a peaceful atmosphere. A forest girl, Pammi (Jyothi Lakshmi) meets him while he is painting. While learning painting from Shyam, Pammi mischievously asks him as to how many girls he had taught painting and fallen in love. Shyam replies that it is not easy to fall in love when there are elders in his family. He impromptu sings this song as his thoughts on the love in a humourous way.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Abba kahen na amma kahe na (Paayal Ki Jhankaar)(1968) Singer-Kishore Kumar, Lyrics-Rajinder Krishan, MD-C Ramchandra
Lyrics:
abbaa kahe na
ammaa kahe na
daadaa kahe na dekho wo samjhen na
tere mere armaan ham to hain jawaan
hum to hain jawaan
o meree jaan
abbaa kahe na
ammaa kahe na
daadaa kahe na dekho wo samjhen na
tere mere armaan ham to hain jawaan
ham to hain jawaan
o meree jaan
socho zaraa ye to hai din hamaare
ab rokegaa kaun aankhon ke ishaare
hansne ke ye din machalne ke din
abbaa ammaa please please
kah do zaraa haan
tere mere armaan ham to hain jawaan
ham to hain jawaan
o meree jaan
abbaa kahe naa
ammaa kahe naa
daadaa kahe naa dekho wo samjhe naa
tere mere armaan ham to hain jawaan
ham to hain jawaan
o meree jaan
bhool jaao naa tum wo apnaa zamaanaa
buraa thhaa bahut jab ye dil kaa lagaanaa
karnaa muaf jo ham kahen saaf saaf
badal jaao tum bhee ke badlaa ye jahaan
tere mere armaan ham to hain jawaan
ham to hain jawaan
o meree jaan
abbaa kahe na
ammaa kahe na
daadaa kahe na dekho wo samjhen na
tere mere armaan ham to hain jawaan
ham to hain jawaan
o meree jaan
abbaa kahe na
ammaa kahe na
daadaa kahe na dekho wo samjhe na
tere mere armaan ham to hain jawaan
ham to hain jawaan
o meree jaan
4 Responses to "Abba kahe naa ammaa kahe naa"
March 12, 2025 at 12:35 pm
Payal ki Jhankar in 1968 was one of those last movies of C Ramachandra with an effort to comeback with his glory of the fifties along with another movie Rootha Na Karo (1970) which had some very good songs of Rafi , Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar. C Ramachandra was one of the most successful composers of his time until perhaps Paigham , Amardeep and Navrang all of which had excellent music during the late fifties.
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March 12, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Once the muses of Music Directors C Ramchandra and O P Nayyar deserted them, their desires for creativities moved towards extinction.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
March 12, 2025 at 12:34 pm
Thanks for sharing this song… it’s a Hindi version of Cliff Richard song “We say yeah” 1961…
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March 12, 2025 at 12:49 pm
Yes. The song clip from ‘The Young Ones’ (1961)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyVCPIpXn8o
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