Main neend churaa loongee
Posted on: September 8, 2025
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(Asha Bhonsle’s 92nd birthday 8th September 2025)
Today 8th September 2025 is 93rd birthday of legendary singer Asha Bhonsle(born on 08.09.1933). We are all aware of the accomplishments of this voice/ One cannot imagine our HFM (for me Marathi film music too) without her voice. She has been ruling the hearts of music lovers for over seven decades.
That is what I had once written in one of my earlier posts here on Asha Bhonsle and I would love to once again repeat this text and one of the incidences during my travel by air from UAE to India.
Asha Bhonsle has come a long way and immortalized herself in the Hindi Film music with her singing. We have been reading about her initial struggle and competition with other singers including her own sister the great legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. But Asha Bhonsle carved out a special place for her and remains a favourite of many music lovers.
Her popularity keeps increasing and was always increasing in other countries too. And how popular she was in other countries than India, I came to know while I was once travelling in a UAE based airlines from Abu Dhabi to Ahmedabad. In the flight ‘entertainment box’ when I was looking for various Hindi film audios to listen during the travel, I came across a compilation of Asha Bhonsle containing almost fifty songs starting from ‘Mr John ya Baba Khan’ to the very latest song, I think, from ‘Begum Jaan (2017)’. Her introduction was given very aptly mentioning her as the ‘true Queen of Melody’ and her seven decades long career in Bollywood and singing film and non-film songs and songs in many languages too. (I do not remember the exact words now, but it was very well mentioning of her great achievements in that brief intro).
Then there were compilations of other Indian singers too like Mohd Rafi, Yesudas, Shreya Ghoshal, and Lata Mangeshkar. (I think Kishore Kumar’s songs were not there and songs from Yesudas and S.P. Balasubramaniam were in regional languages of India).
But the interesting thing that surprised me was when I read the intro given for Lata Mangeshkar. She was mentioned as the ‘another giant singer in Bollywood and sister of the great Asha Bhonsle’ :). And like other singers (that I mentioned above) the quantity of songs included for Lata Mangeshkar too was around 20-25 songs only.
One can understand my feelings, as an Indian, when I read that intro and the thoughts going through my mind. Well, nothing wrong in that if we see the other point of view, and for us both of them will remain ‘great and immortal’ always forever.
And one easily understands the feelings of listeners if one listens to the many many songs sung by Asha Bhonsle in recent decades too. For instance let us listen to this song from the ‘1989’ movie ‘Jurrat’. What a rocking song and beautiful singing by Asha Bhonsle it is.
“Jurrat-1989” was produced by Rajendra Kumar and it was directed by David Dhawan for Aryan Films. This movie was passed by Censor Board on 12.12.1989. Rajendra Kumar had also wrote the screenplay of this movie. The cast of this movie has Shatrughan Sinha, Kumar Gaurav, Anita Raaj, Amala, Raj Kiran, Aruna Irani, Kiran Kumar, and Amrish Puri. They were supported by Om Shivpuri, Bharat Kapoor, Aakash Khurana, Tinu Anand, Roopesh Kumar, Sudhir Pandey, and others. This movie was written by K.K. Singh. The editing of this movie was done by David Dhawan who was also the director for this movie. This movie has five songs penned by Anand Bakshi and composed to music by Rahul Dev Burman. I have not watched this movie, but from what some characters shown on screen in the beginning of the movie narrates to the audience, this movie seems to be dealing with ‘drug smuggling and drug menace in the society’.
Today’s song is a seduction song picturised on Anita Raj and an inebriated Amrish Puri. Raj Kiran is also there waiting outside for Amrish Puri to pass out.
Anand Bakshi is the lyricist.Music is composed by R.D. Burman. Enjoy this song to end today’s birthday celebrations of Asha Bhonsle.
Video
Audio
Song-Main neend chura loongee (Jurrat)(1989) Singer-Asha Bhonsle, Lyrics-Anand Bakshi, MD-R D Burman
Lyrics
hmm ho o
main neend churaa loongee
main chain udaa loongee
ho main neend churaa loongee ee
main chain udaa loongee
taalaa lagaa ke rakhnaa
chaabhee chhupaa ke rakhnaa
main neend churaa loongee
main chain udaa loongee
ho taalaa lagaa ke rakhnaa
chaabhee chhupaa ke rakhnaa
main neend churaa loongee
main chain udaa aa loongee
khaalee sharaab mein to
itnaa nashaa naheen thhaa aa
khaalee sharaab mein to
itnaa nashaa naheen thhaa aa aa
kehnaa naa baad mein tum
mujhko pataa naheen thhaa
mujhko pataa naheen thhaa
madhosh banaa doongee
main hosh udaa aa loongee
ho madhosh banaa doongee
main hosh udaa aa loongee
ho taalaa lagaa ke rakhnaa
chaabhee chhupaa ke rakhnaa
main neend churaa loongee ee ee
main chain udaa aa loongee
(hic)
(hic)
kuchh ho gayaa tumhein to
meraa na naam rakhnaa aa
hunh hunh aa
kuchh ho gayaa tumhein to
meraa na naam rakhnaa aa
is beqaraar dil ko
haathhon mein thhaam rakhnaa aa
haathhon mein thhaam rakhnaa
main phool banaa loongee ee
zulfon mein lagaa loongee ee
ho main phool banaa loongee ee
zulfon mein lagaa loongee ee
ho taalaa lagaa ke rakhnaa
chaabhee chhupaa ke rakhnaa aa
main neend churaa loongee ee ee
main chain udaa aa loongee ee
(hic)
(hic)
vaadaa karo ye mujhse
vaadaa na tod denaa aa aa
vaadaa karo ye mujhse ae
vaadaa na tod denaa aa aa
koyee bhee cheez apnee
aise naa chhod denaa aa
aise naa chhod denaa aa
chupke se uthhaa loongee
aanchal mein chhupaa loongee ee ee
chupke se uthhaa loongee
aanchal mein chhupaa loongee
ho taalaa lagaa ke rakhnaa
chaabhee chhupaa ke rakhnaa aa
main neend churaa loongee ee ee
main chain udaa aa loongee ee
ho main neend churaa loongee ee ee
main chain udaa aa loongee ee
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