Aankhen meree maikhaana
Posted on: August 26, 2025
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Kamsune/Unsune songs of Asha Bhosle – 45
This song is full of energy & verve and is performed by each and every dancer with full passion and dedication. The song is “Aankhen Meri Maikhana” sung by Asha Bhosle. The song is written by Varma Malik and composed by Sonik Omi. It is from the hugely successful “Saawan Bhadon” released in 1970.
The film is produced under the banner of Deluxe Films, Bombay and is directed by Mohan Sehgal, a director of certain repute from that era. The list of actors is presented as Navin Nischal, Rekha, Shyama, Jaishri Talpade, Agha, Narendra Nath, Iftikhar, Krishan Dhawan, Ranjeet, Chandrima Bhaduri, Sushma, Madhukar, Devi Chand, Pardesi, OP Kohli, Dhruv Kumar, Ajeet Bengali, Mamaji, and Darpan Nille etc.
The films has seven songs, all from the pen of Verma Malik. The music is composed by the duo of Sonik Omi. Two songs of this film are already showcased on our blog. This is the third song to find its place here.
Story:
Vikram is a man from a wealthy family living in Europe. He has a step-sister Dolly and step-mother Sulochana, who are very cunning and greedy and steal Vikram’s money during his absence from India. Vikram decides to come back to India, which interferes with the plans of Sulochana and her allies. Vikram, being naive, trusts Sulochana and Dolly and treats them as their family, but Sulochana pretends to be affectionate to him, as he only is the heir to all the family property and money.
Vikram, on his way home is blocked by some thugs, who are actually the men hired by Sulochana’s brother to kill him. But a village girl Chanda and her friends help him and drive away the thugs. Vikram is attracted to her and her fun loving nature. Both of them fall in love with each other and plan to marry with Chanda’s family’s consent.
But Sulochana is against the marriage and tries to force Vikram to leave her, but Vikam does not obey her. Dolly meets a man named Madan, who introduces himself as a person who makes talented girls into stars through his cultural centre. Dolly, being a dancer wants to be a star and is also attracted towards him. She introduces Madan to her mother who also encourages this relationship. Vikram discovers that Madan is actually a cunning crook who sells girls to foreign countries. He stops Dolly from meeting Madan, but Dolly and Sulochana are against him and Sulochana declares that Dolly will marry Madan, at any cost.
Vikram learns that behind his back, Sulochana has fraudulently acquired properties of the villagers and he decides to return them to their rightful owners.
Sulochana decides to kill him with the help of Madan by planting a bomb in his car, before he heads towards Bangalore. The car explodes as per her plan and everyone including Chanda believes that Vikram is dead. All enemies of Vikram celebrate his death happily until they see Vikram coming back alive. Sulochana believes Vikram is dead for sure and the man is not Vikram. She tries to prove by all means that he is not Vikram.
But Vikram proves that he has escaped merely with some injuries. He brings Chanda and her mother to look after Sulochana and prevent her from running away with the wealth. Sulochana decides to kill the Vikram look-alike by poisoning his milk. She sees him drinking the poisoned milk and lying dead. She takes him to bury, but discovers he has not died as the milk was not actually poisoned. She screams that he cannot be Vikram as she killed him with her own hands.
She confesses that she saw him falling out and burning from the exploded car and had bashed his head. The Vikram look-alike then admits that he is not Vikram, but CID Inspector Vinod. Sulochana realizes the enormity of her confession and commits suicide. Chanda is very disappointed about Vinod acting as Vikram, but Vinod tells her Vikram is not dead really, but survived with injuries, as he was thrown out of his car by a car thief on the way and only the robber was killed by Sulochana. To arrest her and Vikram’s enemies, Vinod, who incidentally resembled Vikram, posed like him to catch them red-handed.
Chanda meets Vikram in hospital and is happy that he is alive. Dolly who has realised her mistake and is quite repentant also unites with her brother. Vinod leaves as his work is done.
While Saawan Bhadon is not an official adaptation, it’s widely acknowledged to be inspired by / loosely based on “Chase a Crooked Shadow” (1958), a British suspense film directed by Michael Anderson.
The tune is light, lilting, and very much in the romantic-youthful style of the early 1970s, with a mix of Westernized orchestration (guitars, trumpets, percussion) and melody.
The rhythm has a carefree swing, giving the song a stylish, urbane feel.
Jayahree T (Talpade) is the dancer and actor who lip syncs to Asha Bhosle’s velvety voice. In addition to her, we can see Navin Nischol, Shyama, Krishan Dhawan, Iftekhar, etc during the song.
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Song-Aankhen meree maikhaana (Saawan Bhaadon)(1970) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyricist-Verma Malik, MD-Sonik Omi
Lyrics:
haan
ankhein meree
maikhaana
maikhaana
maikhaana
pee ke hoja
deewaana
deewaana
deewaana
ankhein meree
maikhaana
maikhaana
maikhaana
pee ke hoja
deewaana
deewaana
deewaana
hai raat raat bhar kee
na jaaye raat
banaa le baat
o jaan-e-jaana
aankhein meree
maikhaana
maikhaana
maikhaana
pee ke hoja
deewaana
deewaana
deewaana
hai raat raat bhar kee
na jaaye raat
banaa le baat
o jaan-e-jaana
ankhein meree
maikhaana
maikhaana
maikhaana
ulfat ke rang
jeene ke dhang
seekho mujh se
ulfat ke rang
jeene ke dhang
seekho mujh se
pee ja aaj nigaahon se
parda daal gunaahon pe
peeja aaj nigaahon se
le thham zara
hui hai sham
utha le jaam
ho jaane jaana
aankhein meree
maikhaana
maikhaana
maikhaana
pee ke hoja
deewaana
deewaana
deewaana
hai raat raat bhar kee
na jaaye raat
banaa le baat
o jaan-e-jaana
aankhein meree
maikhaana
maikhaana
maikhaana
dhadkan kee thhaap
dil ke milaap
laayee main to
dhadkan kee thaap
dil ke milaap
laayee main to
sar ko rakh de seene pe
loot machee phir jeene ke
sar ko rakh de seene pe
bahaane se
sahaara de
nazaara le
o jaan-e-jaana
ankhein meree
maikhaana
maikhaana
maikhaana
pee ke ho ja deewaana
deewaana
deewaana
hai raat raat bhar kee
na jaaye raat banale baat
o jaan-e-jaana
ankhein meree
maikhaana
maikhaana
maikhaana
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