Jeete jee mar jaana dil na kisee se lagaana
Posted on: September 7, 2025
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#the Decade of Forties – 1941 – 1950 #
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Today we add one more song to the tally of singer Sulochana Kadam songs. This song is from the movie ‘Bombay-1949’. This movie ‘Bombay-1949’ had thirteen (13) songs in it. Sulochana Kadam had sung as many as eight (08) songs in this movie including six solo songs.
The movie “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. Five songs from this movie have been covered in the past. Today I am presenting the sixth song from this movie.
This song is a solo song. Kamalnayan is the lyricist. Music is composed by Chetumal who was assisted by N. Bhattacharya.
Here is what our in-house encyclopedia Shri Arunkumar jee had to say about this movie:-
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 very badly in this race. 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 song … Only the audio of this song is available.
Song-Jeete jee mar jaana dil na kisee se lagaana (Bombay)(1949) Singer-Sulochana Kadam, Lyrics-Kamalnayan, MD-Chetumal-N Bhattacharya
Lyrics
jeete jee mar jaanaa aa aa aa
dil naa kisee se lagaanaa
haay raamaa aa
dil naa kisee se lagaanaa
tujh ko ko jab se
apnaa banaayaa aa aa
chhoot gayaa apnon kaa saayaa
vaadaa kar ke tu naheen aayaa aa
vaadaa kar ke tu naheen aayaa aa
sab se huaa hai begaanaa aa aa aa
dil naa kisee se lagaanaa
haay raamaa aa
dil naa kisee se lagaanaa
sukh se sotey
dukhde miley hain
sukh se sotey
dukhde miley hain
phoolon ke badle kaanten khiley hain aen
phoolon ke badle kaante khiley hain aen
jitne khush thhe ae
utney jaley hain
jitne khush thhe
utney jaley hain
behtar hai ae mar jaanaa
behtar hai ae mar jaanaa aa aa
dil naa kisee se lagaanaa
haay raamaa aa
dil naa kisee se lagaanaa
teree nishaanee abhee tak paas hai
jiyungee jab tak
saanson mein saans hai
jiyungee jab tak
saanson mein saans hai
tere sahaare ae
teree aas hai ae
jeete jee mil jaanaa aa
jeete jee mil jaanaa aa aa aa
dil naa kisee se lagaanaa
haay raamaa aa
dil naa kisee se lagaanaa
jeete jee mar jaanaa aa aa aa
dil naa kisee se lagaanaa
haay raamaa aa
dil naa kisee se lagaanaa
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