Karam kar raham kar Parwardigaaraa
Posted by: Atul on: March 22, 2025
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Today’s song is the last song of the film Pehli Nazar-1945. With this song all songs get covered and the film will be YIPPEED !
Film Pehli Nazar -1945 had 10 songs and 9 songs of this film are already discussed here by experts. Almost all possible information has been given here. However, there is always something which can be told about the film, which made Mukesh so popular with his song in it.
Mukesh had come to Bombay to become a singing actor. He acted as a Hero opposite Nalini Jaywant, in the film ‘ Nirdosh’-1942. Film Aadab Arz -1943 saw him as the hero’s friend in the film. He realised, perhaps, to concentrate on singing. In the film Uss Paar-1944, he sang a duet with Kusum. However, the solo song in Pehli Nazar gave him the stamp of a successful playback singer and changed his Luck. The story of how Anil Biswas got the song from him has been told umpteen number of times on various Blogs and Sites on Internet. No point in repeating it here.
The Hero of the film, Motilal was his relative. It was only because of him, he got a chance to sing in this film. Using his prerogative as the film’s Hero, Motilal insisted that only Mukesh will sing songs for him in this film. The producer director, Mazhar Khan had to, reluctantly, agree. In those days, Saigal was the inspiration of young and new singers like Khan Mastana, Mukesh and others. Because of this Mukesh sang the song ‘Dil jalta hai to jalne de’ in Saigal style. For many years people misunderstood that the song was sung by Saigal only. In those days Social media was not there to tom- tom the news.
Pt. Jagannath Prakash was the brother of composer Khemchand Prakash. He was the Guru of not only Mukesh, but also Saigal. Raj Kapoor and Nutan had also learnt from him. After the song of Mukesh was recorded, Motilal, first of all, played it to Pt. Jagannath, without telling him who the singer was. Panditji enjoyed the song very much and repeated the song. Motilal asked him ” How is the song ?” Panditji said ” What to say about Saigal’s song ? Any song by him is the best song !” Motilal told him ” No. The singer is your Chela- Mukesh”. He was stunned and could not believe it at first.
Though Mazhar Khan had agreed for Mukesh, he was not at all happy with his style. He decided to cut off and remove the song from the film before releasing, on the pretext of length adjustment of the film. When Mukesh came to know this, he almost wept. He had believed that this song would make his future successful as a singer. He went to Khan and begged not to remove the song. For whatever reason, Khan decided to first try the song to see the audience response in 2 or 3 smaller towns first. Accordingly the film with the song was released in 3 towns. Mazhar Khan was shocked to see the positive response of the audiences in every town for this song and he decided to keep the song in the film. The rest is history, as they say !
Like Mukesh, even Naseem Akhtar also sang in a film of Mazhar Khan. In her career, she sang for Pt. Amarnath (Nishani-1942), Zande Khan (Pagli-1943), C.Ramchandra (Safar-1946 and Nagma-E-Sahra-1945), Naushad (Shahjahan-1946 and Qimat-1946), Shankar rao Vyas (Mera Geet-1946) etc., but her song ” Unka ishara jaan se pyara” in film Pehli Nazar-1945 was the most famous of all her songs in her career. (The above pieces of information are taken from the book ” Golden Age of film music” by historian Isaq Mujawar.)
All this magic of music was from Anil Biswas, who was in Top Gear in those years. In personal life he went through a bad patch due to his wife-Ashalata aka Mehrunnisa. After their divorce, he led a very unsatisfied life. Anil Biswas, the Bhishma Pitamaha of HFM,was a respected person in the industry.He started from the mid 30s and for the next 25 years or so,he created many everlasting gems in film songs. In Bombay,the Playback was first started by him in the film Mahageet-1937. By the mid 50s his magic started waning and by 1960,he was almost gone from the industry. Initially he did 10-11 films with Sagar,then with Mehboob for National studios and then in Bombay talkies- where his name became immortal with the film Kismet-1943.
He married Ashalata in 1936. Along with her he started variety pictures and they produced films like Laadli-49,Laajawab-50;Badi bahu-51,Hamdard-53 and Bajuband-54. ( a less known fact is-Anil da had made a Guest appearance in the film Hamdard-53 as a barber.) He also acted in the film Mehman-53 (produced by Ashalata),as a Pujari and a song was shot on him. In both cases he did not get any payments. As a Producer he lost heavily, because Ashalata usurped all the money. Frustrated, he gave up everything and separated from her in 1954.
To sustain life, he bought a Truck and did a business of transportation. In addition he also took the contract for a canteen in Mehboob Studios. He failed in both ventures. By now,his relations with Ashalata were soured and sweet links were established with singer Meena Kapoor-25 years younger to him, since 1948 itself. They got married with each other on 19-3-1957. The death of Brother in law and close friend Pannalal Ghosh in 1960 and younger brother Sunil in 1961 as well as his eldest son- Pradeep, broke his heart. He left Bombay and joined A.I.R. at Delhi on 1-3-1963,where he worked upto 27-6-1975. Later he was a consultant for Nehru University for a few years.
Like many filmi couples, Anil da’s married life was also a failure. In Bombay, he used to stay in a huge bungalow, called ” Asha-Pradeep “, on Vincent Road. From Ashalata, he got 3 sons-Pradeep, Amit and Utpal and 1 daughter-Shikha. His son Utpal formed a pair as Amar-Utpal and gave music to few films. The other son Amit established the First Digital Recording Studio in Bombay. Daughter Shikha too got married and settled.
However, hardly anything is known about his eldest son Pradeep, anywhere. Here is some information, hitherto not known much, brought specially for our readers.
Pradeep was a very bright student and always topped in school and college. He passed his entrance exam and the interview, with flying colours for entry to NDA college at Poona, to join armed forces. He excelled even in NDA training. Not only was he very popular there but sang well too. He participated in the music Festival of Khadakwasla NDA and sang 3 songs, winning all prizes. He was also a NDA Topper.
Shri Gopinath Talwalkar, an A.I.R. Programmer at Delhi, used to interview the Toppers of NDA every year. That year Pradeep was the Topper, so he was interviewed. Though the interview was in Hindi, after the recording, Pradeep asked Talwalkar, in pure Marathi, whether his interview had been good. Talwalkar was shocked. Pradeep then explained that he was Anil Biswas’s son and he had learnt Marathi from his actress mother Ashalata. Pradeep knew Hindi, Marathi, English and Gujarati languages.
After completing his NDA training, he was posted as Flight cadet at Jodhpur. He was further promoted and became Pilot Officer in 1957. During one Training flight some altitude problems occurred and his plane crashed at Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad, killing Pradeep instantly. This happened in 1961.
This was also the time of crisis for Anil da. He was struggling to survive. Films were not coming to him. Since he married Meena Kapoor, Lata Mangeshkar-a fast close friend of Ashalata , had gone against him and Meena’s singing career was suppressed. He had already lost Pannalal Ghosh and Sunil-his brother and now Pradeep’s death devastated him and he was literally forced to seek employment with Delhi A.I.R., when the opportunity came. After retirement, till his death on 31-5-2003, he spent his life in total anonymity and as a recluse. So sad for a composer, who was once a fountain of enthusiasm and who was considered Mentor by leading contemporary composers like C.Ramchandra.
Today’s song is sung by Parul Ghosh. Enjoy this 80 year old melodious song, composed by Anil Biswas….
Song-Karam kar raham kar parwardigaaraa (Pehli Nazar)(1945) Singer- Parul Ghosh, Lyricist- Dr. Safdar Aah Sitapuri, MD- Anil Biswas
Lyrics
Karam kar
raham kar Parwardigaara aa
bas ik rahmat ka hai teree sahaaraa aa
bas ik rahmat ka hai teree sahaaraa aa
chhupaa tujhse naheen ahwaal(?) meraa
chhupaa tujhse naheen ahwaal(?) meraa aa aa aa aa
tujhe maaloom hai sab haal meraa
tujhe maaloom hai sab haal meraa
hayaate(?) ishq hai hukm e bezubaanee
hayaate(?) ishq hai hukm e bezubaanee ee ee
chhupaaoon kaise ashqon kee rawaanee
chhupaaoon kaise ashqon kee rawaanee
mujhe barbaad kartaa hai zamaanaa
mujhe barbaad kartaa hai zamaanaa aa aa aa aa
khud apna kah naheen saktee fasaanaa
khud apna kah naheen saktee fasaanaa
karam kar
raham kar Parwardigaara aa
bas ik rahmat ka hai teree sahaaraa
karam kar a a a
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