Duniyaa saaree ghoom ke aayee baaboo tere des mein
Posted on: April 6, 2025
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Today’s song is from a controversial film, released at the end of the 1940’s decade – Hanste Aansoo-1950.
First of all the title itself seems to contain contrasting emotions. One smiles when he is happy and one has tears when he is hurt or sad. I feel we get tears when we are sad or hurt of course, but even when a person is too happy he gets tears in his eyes. For example, when a child is away for many years, the mother feels sad and weeps in his memory. But when he comes back after many years and hugs his mother, she gets tears at that time also, with happiness !
About a month back or so, when I was searching for a song on the Blog, I came across a song from this film ” Maine sapna jo dekha hai”, posted on 31-3-2013 by Atul ji. In the write up, he had mentioned that this was the First time in the Hindi films to get an ” A ” Certificate of the Censors. However, he had also clarified that the reason for this was not known. I fell into deep thoughts. I roughly knew the film’s story, but I could not imagine that could be the reason. I ran through the song list in HFGK for this film, but there was no obscene worded song. And if a particular song is objectionable, the Censors just delete that song from the film, and not penalise the whole film for it.
From that day, I started a mission to find out the reasons for “A” certificate to this film. I ran through several books, visited many Blogs which write reviews of old Hindi films and also other materials that were with me, but I ended with a closed door everywhere.
Finally last week I referred a book in my library for something else and suddenly I got the answer to my one month long search for the query in my mind. The book – a hefty 650 page Hard cover fat book titled ‘Golden Era of Film Music 1931 to 1960 ‘ ( Marathi original title….” चित्रपट संगीताचा सुवर्ण काळ १९३१ ते १९६० ” ), by the noted Film Historian, Editor of several Film Magazines and books/articles writer in Marathi/Hindi/English, (Late) Isak Mujawar. Let us first know the film’s story in short….
“This is the story of a Middle class, educated girl Usha (Madhubala), who is a girl of independent thinking and progressive philosophy. Her marriage is fixed with an uneducated but rich boy, Kumar (Motilal), by her father who is a drunkard and a man without normal thinking. her mother is no more. Her father takes a large sum from the middleman and the marriage takes place.
From the day one Kumar, her husband envies her education and modern outlook. They have frequent arguments. Both are unhappy with each other. She gives birth to a son. Now there are more quarrels in the house and one day Usha leaves the house with her son. She starts working in a Factory office. here the co-workers ridicule her.
Luckily, the old age owner of the factory supports her. She starts doing social work for women. Few years have passed. One day she is bestowed with an honour by the Government for her social work and she gets felicitated. She enters her name instead of the father’s name for the child’s school. The school opposes but the Government supports her.
One day, in the market, she meets her husband. She is surprised to know that he is now educated in the night school. He seems to be much improved as a person. He gets emotional seeing his own son. He attempts to meet her often and one day he apologizes for how she was treated. He begs her to return home and give him one chance in life. For the sake of the child, she returns home and everyone is happy !”
The book confirms that this was the First film to get the ‘A’ Certificate, after the Indian Cinematograph Act of 1918 was amended in December 1949. The film was censored in that month itself. The reason for awarding A, as per the book, was “the film was too unrealistic and against Indian culture. It promoted mutiny against the Indian traditions.” It also objected to one song in the film (our today’s song here) for its obscene dancing and filming of a dance with chorus girls. The dance was by Cuckoo Moray. They also objected to the film’s double meaning title. It concluded that the film’s story was Bold and immoral.
Baburao Patel’s Magazine Film India said -“there is nothing objectionable in the film. This act of censors only describes the regressive mentality of the Censor Board members”. Due to all this hangama, the film became popular and the theatres overflowed with the audiences.
Reading all this I was disgusted at how the censor Board thought in those days. Fortunately, more films with such philosophy came and the scene changed completely for the Hindi films. Same year film “Sangram” also got an A certificate. That was of course understandable because it showed – for the first time -that a police officer father (Nawab Kashmiri) shoots his criminal son dead (Ashok Kumar). Later film Shakti-1982, a remake of this film camne but by then, shooting etc had already become common in Hindi films, so no question of an A certificate arose.
Film Hanste Aansoo-1950 was produced and directed by K.B.Lall (born in 1911 at Meerut-U.P. Known for films like Lal Haveli-1944, Lal Dupatta-1948 and Hanste Aansoo-1950 etc. Died on 25-8-1975. He wrote the story as well as the screenplay. Lyricists were Shewan Rizvi and Majrooh Sultanpuri. Music was by Ghulam Mohammad. The cast of the film included Madhubala (17 years), Motilal (40 Years), Gope, Manorama, Jankidas, Mirza Musharraf etc.
During the course of the last 80 odd years, thousands of actors came to work in films. Most of them wanted to become Hero or Heroine, but could not make it. What does it take to become a Hero in a film ? ( Talking only for the period 1931 to 1970 please). Is it the good looks ? Then how come Shaikh Mukhtar became a Hero ? or Ranjan ? High education ? Then how come Master Bhagwan became a Hero ? A God Father ? Then how come Motilal or Surendra became Heroes ? For girls too the same logic applies. In the early era, most Heroines were uneducated like Meena Shorey- who could not even sign her name. All aspirants were not Handsome or beautiful. I sincerely feel, it is neither Talent nor good looks, it is nothing but the Luck Factor, which helps in making a career in films. This explains why good looking, educated, 1 or 2 film’s Heroes could not sustain themselves for long. Similarly, good looking girls like Vijayalaxmi, Bimla Kumari, Krishnakumari,Tabassum, Yashodhara Katju, Shubha Khote, Shashikala etc could not continue beyond 3-4 films as Heroines.
In the 40s era, Manorama was one such actress. ( Interestingly, in the silent era and early Talkie films, there was another actress Manorama- who was an Anglo Indian, Winnie Stewart). She had good education, beautiful Punjabi looks, fine acting, but she could not go beyond 3 films as Heroine and had to contend with side and character roles in all her career. Manorama was born in Lahore on 16-8-1920,as Irene Issac Daniels, from a Punjabi father and Irish mother. She took good looks from the father. While a student, she did some child roles in films from 1926 to 1936 and as an adult, she debuted in Pancholi’s Khazanchi-41. She then acted in Himmat-41, Khandan-42,
Zamindar-42, Poonji-43, Panchhi-44, Patwari-45 in Lahore. Here only she did Heroine’s roles in Khamosh Nigahen, Rehana and Shalimar- all in 1946. After partition, she migrated to India, but she got only side and character roles.
Meanwhile, in 1947, she got married to Rajan Haksar. After coming to India, shortly, their marriage broke. She had one daughter-Roopa from this marriage. Roopa tried her luck in films in 1970, without much success. Then she got married and settled.
Manorama grew in weight. Now she got comic or vampish roles. She did films like Ghar ki izzat, Johari, Hanste aansoo, Ek phool do mali, Shor, karvaan etc etc. In all she acted in 161 films. Her last film was Water-2005. She died on 15-2-2008. She perhaps, had the longest career among actresses-from 1926 to 2005, that is a cool 80 years ! Manorama was a highly respected person in the industry. Neetu Singh, Madhuri Dixit,Ram Mohan, Ekta Kapoor and others were her fans. Her famous films were Jhanak jhanak….,Half ticket,Budtameez,and Seeta aur Geeta.
Today’s song is the main reason for the film getting the “A” certificate. Unfortunately, only the audio is available so we are handicapped to see the reasons. Anyway, enjoy this 75 year old song by Shamshad Begum and Chorus….
Song- Duniyaa saari ghoom ke aayee (Hanste Aansoo)(1950) Singer- Shamshad Begum, Lyricist- Shevan Rizvi, MD- Ghulam Mohammad
Lyrics
Duniyaa saaree
duniyaa saaree ghoom ke aayee
baaboo tere des mein
baaboo
ho baaboo
ho baaboo tere des mein
baaboo
ho baaboo
ho baaboo tere des mein
jiyara doley ho
jiyara doley
jiyara doley raam duhaayee
baaboo tere des mein
baaboo
ho baaboo
ho baaboo tere des mein
baaboo
ho baaboo
ho baaboo tere des mein
Paris aur Yunaan bhee dekha
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
Italy aur Japan bhee dekha
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa
aa aa aa
aa aa
tera Hindustan bhee dekhaa
ho o o o
tera Hindustan bhee dekhaa
aa
ho o o o o
ulfat dekhee
maan bhee dekhaa
aa aaa
ho o
maine bhee
ho o
maine bhee
maine bhee aawaaz lagaayee
baaboo tere des mein
baaboo
ho baaboo
ho baaboo tere des mein
baaboo
ho baaboo
ho baaboo tere des mein
duniyaa saaree
duniyaa saaree ghoom ke aayee
baaboo tere des mein
baaboo
ho baaboo
ho baaboo tere des mein
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