Chaandnee hai nainon ka noor
Posted on: June 16, 2025
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#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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“Bombay-1949” was directed by C.R. Bajaj for ‘National Artist, Bombay’. It had Shashikala, Ram Singh, Uday Kumar, Suraiyya Chaudhary, S. Nazeer, Mirza Musharraf, Ratan Gaurang, Rekha, Pittoo, Shanti Madhok, Bhudo Advani, Mukri and others. Geet Kosh lists thirteen songs in this movie. These thirteen songs have been contributed by two lyricist viz. Kamalnayan and C.R. Bajaj. Music for this movie was composed by Mushtaq Hussain, Chetumal, N. Bhattacharya and Raja Miyan.
The singers list for this movie ‘Bombay-1949’ includes Sulochana Kadam, Nakul Malik, Ram Sehgal, and Hariram. Four songs from this movie have been covered on this blog earlier. Today I am presenting the fifth song from this movie here on this blog. This song is a duet song sung by Sulochana Kadam and Hariram. The lyricist’s name is not mentioned in Geet Kosh.
Regarding more information about this movie, here is what our in-house encyclopedia Shri Arunkumar jee has mentioned in his post on the blog. (I have included the text giving information about the movie only from his post).
This film is so obscure that the names associated with this film, from the production House – National Artists, Bombay – to names from other heads like the Director. Music Directors (4 MDs), the Lyricists to its cast members (except Shashikala, Mirza Musharraf and Bhudo Advani) all are almost never heard of and are least known!
The film was directed by C.R. Bajaj, who directed only this one film. The 4 Music Directors were Mushtaq Hussain, Chetumal, N Bhattacharya and Raja Miyan. Heard any name so far ? The Lyricists were Kamalnayan and C.R.Bajaj. Both wrote lyrics only for this film. Coming to the cast of the film, it shows names of Shashikala, Ram Singh, Uday kumar, Suraiyya Chaudhary, Mirza Musharraf, Gaurang, Uday kumar, Rekha, Pittoo, Bhudo Advani etc.etc.
The only familiar name was its Title – Bombay. A cursory look at the book of Film Title Index shows that there were 28 films which had ‘Bombay’ in their titles (and to be fair, 24 films had ‘Mumbai’ in their titles). As a curiosity, I checked the other 3 metro names, but they fared relatively poorly in comparison. There were only two films having ‘Calcutta’ in their titles and only one had Kolkata in its title. Only one film had ‘Madras’ in its title but Chennai has 2 films. India’s capital Delhi fared better with 15 titles and New Delhi in 3 film titles. It would be a Free time exercise to find out about other Towns and Cities. I have done the spade work, so somebody else has to volunteer ! Among the Playback singers, except one name – Sulochana Kadam, other names are unknown to me. They are Nakul Malik, Ram Sehgal and Hariram. Sulochana Kadam has 7 solos and 1 duet in this film.
The lead pair in this film was Shashikala and Ramsingh. At the time of this film, Shashikala was all of 16 years, while Ramsingh was almost double her age with 29 years! This, of course, is no wonder. Ashok kumar, Dharmendra, Shammi Kapoor and others have done this several times. The actor Ram Singh’s name is not very famous or well known, but in his times, he did Hero’s and Villain’s roles in many films.
Let us now listen to this nice duet song … Only the audio of this song is available. Music is composed by Chetumal N Bhattacharya.
Audio
Song-Chaandnee hai nainon ka noor (Bombay)(1949) Singers – Sulochana Kadam , Hariram, Lyricist-Unknown, MD-Chetumal- N. Bhattacharya
Both
Lyrics
chaandnee hai ae ae ae
nainon kaa noor
chaandnee hai ae ae ae
nainon kaa noor
rahen wo kyun
nainon se
nainon se door
nainon se
nainon se door
chaandnee hai ae ae ae
nainon kaa noor
chaandnee hai ae ae ae
nainon kaa noor
saanjh bhaee ee
dhartee par aaye
saanjh bhaee ee
dhartee par aaye
jag mein ras kee
dhaar bahaaye
jag mein ras kee ee
dhaar bahaaye
sapnon kee saugaaten laaye
sapnon kee saugaaten laaye
kare nashe mein choor
chaandnee hai ae ae ae
nainon kaa noor
chaandnee hai ae ae ae
nainon kaa noor
aaj chaandnee hai muskaayee ee ee
jyoon chandaa pe badlee chhaayee
aaj chaandnee hai muskaayee ee ee
jyoon chandaa pe badlee chhaayee
jhoom uthhee hai
daalee daalee
jhoom uthhee hai
daalee daalee
bulbul boley door
chaandnee hai ae ae ae
nainon kaa noor
chaandnee hai ae ae ae
nainon kaa noor
aashaa kadam
badhhaatee jaatee
himmat raah dikhaatee jaatee
aashaa kadam
badhhaatee jaatee
himmat raah dikhaatee jaatee
nainon kee badlee jhar jhar kar
nainon kee badlee jhar jhar kar
jee kee jalan bujhaaye jaatee
jee kee jalan bujhaaye jaatee ee ee
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